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simón(e) 🌑@simonedsun.bsky.social · last mo.

Proud of our work through NYC-DSA TRBA that helped make this happen! Trans Solidarity Forever! 🌹🏳️‍⚧️

talia jane@taliajane.bsky.social · last mo.

Mamdani announces $15M for trans healthcare, includes launching a call/text resource support line. Notes city Law Dept filed an amicus brief against subpoenas for medical records. Hospitals suspended care to trans youth following a Trump EO. This seems to try working around that, doesn’t mention it

NEW YORK - Today, Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani announced three major new initiatives to safeguard and expand access to gender-affirming care for youth and adults across New York City. The initiatives represent a proactive $15 million investment at a time of growing uncertainty and escalating attacks from the federal government.
To safeguard access to gender-affirming care, Mayor Mamdani's administration will:
• Establish a direct care access fund for providers of youth gender-affirming care to help ensure that New Yorkers can continue to access medically necessary care.
• Launch a call and text line connecting New Yorkers with care, services, information, resources and support related to gender-affirming care.
• Fund research to identify gaps in health care access and outcomes for transgender and gender non-conforming New Yorkers. As the federal government retreats from supporting this critical research, New York City will invest in better understanding and meeting the needs of LGBTQ+ community.
Earlier this month, the City's Law Department submitted an amicus brief supporting a legal challenge brought on behalf of transgender youth and young adults opposing federal grand jury subpoenas seeking the medical records of patients who have received gender-affirming care. On Wednesday, a federal judge granted the injunction, blocking the U.S. Department of Justice from using subpoenas to access sensitive medical records of transgender patients.
Mayor Mamdani has directed the Law Department to be ready to respond, including potentially litigate, threats to end gender-affirming care for youth and adults from the federal government.

Gare Davis @bishonentype.bsky.social · last mo.

Zohran is launching a direct care access fund for transgender youth in NYC. Happy Pride!

talia jane@taliajane.bsky.social · last mo.

Mamdani announces $15M for trans healthcare, includes launching a call/text resource support line. Notes city Law Dept filed an amicus brief against subpoenas for medical records. Hospitals suspended care to trans youth following a Trump EO. This seems to try working around that, doesn’t mention it

Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · last mo.

NYC is on such a roll. It's beautiful to behold. Not just antifascist but the *antithesis* of fascism.

simón(e) 🌑@simonedsun.bsky.social · last mo.

Solidarity Forever!!!!!!

Julie @julesqs.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Unfortunately this is just incorrect. The clinic does not cost $15 million, the $15 million is completely separate funding that will be used for youth care. A lot of posters on bluesky including @katelynburns.com @erininthemorning.com and @esqueer.net are spreading false alarmism

Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · 2mo ago

For my newsletter today, I wrote about the decisions made by 3 separate left/center left politicians this week that let down trans people and why they are wrong. www.burnsnotice.com/the-list-of-...

Leading Edge Fellows Program @leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We are thrilled to announce the 2026 Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Fellows! 40 remarkable postdocs pursuing transformative research in biological/biomedical sciences. This is the 7th Leading Edge cohort and we are so excited to welcome them! www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows/

Congratulations to the 2026 Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Fellows!
Airi Yoshimoto, Yijun Yang, Alexandra Wells, Simran Virdi, Archana Venkataraman, Emery Usher, Marianna Tannus Ruckert, Wenzhi Song, Kathryn Shelley, Selin Schamiloglu, Julia Peloggia de Castro, Ines Patop, Ruhi Patel, Suranjana Pal, Bernie Simone Owusu Yaw, LaShae Nicholson, Sivapratha Nagappan Chettiar, Dallas Mould, Jessica Moore, Deka Mohamed, Sierra Marable, Annie Ly, Xi (Lucy) Lu, Deirdre Logsdon, Anna Lipkin, Ellen Lesser, Mia Konjikusic, Veronika Kondev, Cayla Jewett, Lucia Ichino, Erin Huiting, Maggie Horst, Isabella Gaeta, Martha Echevarria-Andino, Natasha Claxton, Sarah Cherkaoui, Nikita Bhalerao, Merci Best, Meenakshi Asokan, Alicer Andrew

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 3mo ago

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 3mo ago

Have they claimed the shooter is trans yet?

simón(e) 🌑@simonedsun.bsky.social · 4mo ago

i love her

Image from the NASA Artemis II mission flyby of the Moon. Image is of the dark side of the moon, with sun rays behind the moon, almost as if it is a total solar eclipse from a different perspective.

simón(e) 🌑@simonedsun.bsky.social · 4mo ago

dread is in the air

simón(e) 🌑@simonedsun.bsky.social · 4mo ago

It’s been a long while since I’ve posted on here. Been working on a lot, some of it’s finally bearing fruit! Excited for my latest review! Sex Hormone Control of Neurophysiology & Behavior #neuroskyence 🧠🧪 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Sex Hormone Control of Neurophysiology and Behavior

Sex hormones are a primary source for biological variation throughout the animal kingdom, from morphological characteristics to elaborate courtship displays. These steroids, such as estrogens and andr...

annualreviews.org

Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈@danifroom.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Anti-trans hatred is the very lifeblood of 21st century fascism and we need everyone to wake up to this simple truth before it's too late.

Laura Bassett@lebassett.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I can’t believe there are really people like this

❤️🤍Big🏆Dawn🏆Summer🧡💙@dawnandr0meda.bsky.social · 4mo ago

So Erin Reed blocked me over this one but I’m going to take a few minutes to point out why this “reporting” is so bad and repost a few times to hopefully spread the word. TL;DR Erin either doesn’t understand anything about NYC law or politics or is outright lying about what’s happening here.

Erin Reed
erininthemorning.com • 20h
News from today confirms NYU Langone has still not started care.
Mayor Mamdani has yet to push for enforcement of NYC Human rights law against the hospital, which is in his power.
He has yet to direct H+H to absorb trans youth patients.
He has maintained radio silence.
NYU LANGONE HRALTH
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NYU Langone still silent on NY Attorney General's call to resume transgender care - Washington Square News
NYU Langone Health remains silent three weeks after the New York attorney general's deadline for t...
nyunews.com

❤️🤍Big🏆Dawn🏆Summer🧡💙@dawnandr0meda.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I don’t love that people keep pushing this “Zohran is failing trans people” line about Langone when the reality is that this has already turned into a fight between Tish James and the USDOJ.

simón(e) 🌑@simonedsun.bsky.social · 4mo ago

until i get a “real headshot” random lab selfie will have to do

simón(e) 🌑@simonedsun.bsky.social · 4mo ago

It’s been a long while since I’ve posted on here. Been working on a lot, some of it’s finally bearing fruit! Excited for my latest review! Sex Hormone Control of Neurophysiology & Behavior #neuroskyence 🧠🧪 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Sex Hormone Control of Neurophysiology and Behavior

Sex hormones are a primary source for biological variation throughout the animal kingdom, from morphological characteristics to elaborate courtship displays. These steroids, such as estrogens and andr...

annualreviews.org

Dr. Jey McCreight 🏳️‍⚧️🧬@jeymccreight.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Jeffrey Epstein justified his evil actions with "science" Evolutionary biologists whispering in his ear about how men and women are fundamentally different, and it's "natural" to desire younger women Our field has a duty to explain why this is wrong both scientifically and ethically

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 11mo ago

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

Leading Edge Fellows Program @leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The Leading Edge Fellows gathered this week to celebrate Zara Weinberg, a beloved member of our community. Our 7th cohort of Leading Edge Fellows (2026) will be named in her honor. The Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Cohort application is now open! Due Feb 2. www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/

Candid photo of Zara Weinberg. She has short red hair, bangs and glasses. She is laughing.

simón(e) 🌑@simonedsun.bsky.social · 9mo ago

we can make a better world.

simón(e) 🌑@simonedsun.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Zara was an inspiration. Rest now, @weinberz.witchlab.org We carry on your legacy, a love for biology, SERMs, public transit, academic publishing anarchy… You gifted us with power to speak and be our truth, to be unapologetic in realizing our visions of a better future.

Krisha Aghi, PhD @phdoll.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Zara Weinberg was a brilliant light both in and out of science. She changed the lives of everyone she interacted and loved for the better. Her legacy will live on through all of us and we will fight for a better world on behalf of her memory.

eartha mae @endoeartha.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Zara Weinberg was a brilliant, loving, and beautiful woman. She inspired everyone who she interacted with, and always strived to make the world a better place for everyone. Tho the world is a little less bright today without her, her memory will always be a blessing. She was truly one of the best.

Willow Coyote-Maestas @willowcoyote.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Zara Weinberg passed away earlier this week. She joined my lab earlier this year when her postdoc lab formally closed. She was a brilliant scientist, supportive mentor, dear friend, avid music fan, rabid believer in public transit, open science champion, and above all just an amazing human.

simón(e) 🌑@simonedsun.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I cannot overstate how much my experience of my experimental results is my internal scientist going "WOAH" and my internal transsexual going "DUH."

simón(e) 🌑@simonedsun.bsky.social · 9mo ago

the insanity of simultaneous hope and hopelessness too much and not enough

gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 10mo ago

There are no words for what Miss Major has done for us. Rest easy.

Sydney Bauer@sydney-bauer.com · 10mo ago

Rest in Power Miss Major. We all owe you so much. Thank you for everything.

Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Rest in power, Miss Major. www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died

The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.

advocate.com

simón(e) 🌑@simonedsun.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Beautiful and inspiring work showing how hormones and social context come together! Big behavior and neuroimaging data! I’m in awe 🤩

eartha mae@endoeartha.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Very excited and proud to share my postdoctoral research with @neurrriot.bsky.social looking at the context-specific encoding of social behavior 💃🕺 in hormone-sensitive, large-scale brain networks in mice! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroskyence #compneurosky 🧪 1/12

eartha mae @endoeartha.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Very excited and proud to share my postdoctoral research with @neurrriot.bsky.social looking at the context-specific encoding of social behavior 💃🕺 in hormone-sensitive, large-scale brain networks in mice! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroskyence #compneurosky 🧪 1/12