Join us this Saturday at Aberdeen DIY Pride. 7 JUNE 2025 1pm-4pm UNION TERRACE GARDENS Please share 🩷🩷🩷
Decolonising SBS
@decolonisingsbs.bsky.social
A grassroots group founded and led by PhD students aiming to decolonise the University of Aberdeen's School of Biological Sciences
We are sharing this networking event for Black researchers in the UK that is being organised by one of our trustees. It’s an excellent opportunity shorturl.at/MnP82
This is the result of months of work from lots of different people. We are tired of the silence and complicitness from UoA and are calling on our colleagues to sign in solidarity to hold the @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social to account! #transphobia #STEM #Aberdeen tinyurl.com/UoATransphobia
Sign Our Open Letter - Action on Transphobia at the University of Aberdeen
Action on Transphobia at the University of Aberdeen | SIGN HERE On the 17th of May 2024, we wrote the below letter to senior management within our department and university. Our aim was to escalate c...
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as some of you may be aware, we have been dealing with considerable transphobia (among other issues) in our department at the uni of aberdeen. we are sharing this letter publicly to raise awareness and ask for your support. please sign and share 💕🏳️⚧️ tinyurl.com/UoATransphobia #LGBTQinSTEM
tinyurl.com/UoATransphobia ☝️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 im sure many of you are aware of hostility towards #trans staff & students in my department myself & other ECRs have published a desperate call for action on #transphobia from departmental and university management please read, share and SIGN IN SOLIDARITY ❤️
After years of no public commitment from UoA to protect their #trans and #queer students, we have decided to publish this letter in hope for positive change With the Supreme Court ruling in the UK, this is more important than ever If you can, please sign below 👇🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 #PhDSky #LGBTSTEM #QueerInSTEM
Sign Our Open Letter - Action on Transphobia at the University of Aberdeen
Action on Transphobia at the University of Aberdeen | SIGN HERE On the 17th of May 2024, we wrote the below letter to senior management within our department and university. Our aim was to escalate c...
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Jack 🦠@jack-d-barber.bsky.social · last yr.tinyurl.com/UoATransphobia ☝️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 im sure many of you are aware of hostility towards #trans staff & students in my department myself & other ECRs have published a desperate call for action on #transphobia from departmental and university management please read, share and SIGN IN SOLIDARITY ❤️
New LGBTQ+ science resources! Today, we’re excited to share our PRIDE Guidelines for LGBTQ+ inclusive field work at inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/pride. Please share widely and see the thread below for more details 🧪🌍🌐
Funded by #PrideinSTEM, the BES and BES Networks are delighted to launch a series of webinars on developing collaborative solutions to the intersectional barriers faced by minorities in ecology.
Thanks to the more than *1100* members of the scientific community who have signed the letter to insist that the Royal Society remains true to values that we all hold dear but that Musk FRS has ridden roughshod over. Please keep signing & sharing. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values
If you wish to show your support for the letter below regarding apparent inaction by the Royal Society in the face of breaches of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS, please sign below. I invite anyo...
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Great advice here on how to complain to your MP regarding the puberty blocker ban for trans children. This was from a workshop @tacc.org.uk put on this evening which was excellent. The advice also comes with citations for the evidence presented. docs.google.com/document/u/0...
Puberty Blocker Ban letter to MPs
How to write to your MP Check out https://members.parliament.uk/FindYourMP to see who your MP is and to get their email address. You can also use https://www.writetothem.com/ if you’re not including ...
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It was amazing to get to give a talk on colonial legacies in Animal Behaviour, work has been ongoing for a long time behind the scenes, hopefully there will be more to come! #ASABWinter2024 #DecolonisingSBS
decolonising sbs member dee gave a wonderful talk today on addressing colonial bias in animal behaviour
georgia 🏴@blahttodea.bsky.social · 2y agoa fascinating and really important talk from my colleague @karendeepsidhu.bsky.social on how we can address colonial biases in animal behaviour research at #ASABWinter2024
"Anyone who considers themselves a member of the STEMM community is welcome to sign. Please go to: forms.gle/oHqgSPGpiYte..., and provide your name, affiliation, and field of study."
Dr. Brendan Anderson@fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 2y agoAround this time last year @boyswillbebugs.bsky.social, @allomygale.bsky.social, @spissatella.bsky.social, @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social and I published an open letter on supporting transgender persons in STEMM. We have decided to open to additional signatures 🧪⚒️🦑 medium.com/@transrights...
Very proud to be a part of this group at UoA, we will be sharing our activities here and you can also find us on Instagram! Would be great to connect with other #decolonising groups working in the biological sciences as well 🧪
Decolonising SBS@decolonisingsbs.bsky.social · 2y agohello everyone! 👋 we thought we'd post a brief introduction here. we are decolonising SBS - a PhD/postdoc-led group at the university of aberdeen school of biological sciences, working to dismantle coloniality and how it manifests in our research fields, department, and the wider university 🌎🍃🔬
Thank you to the members of @decolonisingsbs.bsky.social for organising a screening of the short documentary by @blackforager.bsky.social & Yara Elmjouie about wild foraging and the racist history of No Trespassing Laws Throughly enjoyed it, and learned something new! #DecolonisingSBS #UoA
The awful TRUTH about “No Trespassing” laws
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hello everyone! 👋 we thought we'd post a brief introduction here. we are decolonising SBS - a PhD/postdoc-led group at the university of aberdeen school of biological sciences, working to dismantle coloniality and how it manifests in our research fields, department, and the wider university 🌎🍃🔬