faustosterling

faustosterling, 2 days ago to menopause

menopause results in females increasing their opportunity for intergenerational help by increasing their lifespan overlap with their grandoffspring and offspring without increasing their reproductive overlap with their daughters.
#menopause #whales #evolution

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07159-9https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07159-9

faustosterling, 6 days ago to random

"DEI in STEMM is an element of its excellence. It encompasses issues beyond race and ethnicity, including those of gender, disability, and other aspects of identity that have historically been used to constrict opportunities. STEMM should ideally benefit all of society."

#STEM #DEI

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp4397#:~:text=To%20push%20back%20against%20the,culture%20of%20inclusion%20and%20respect.

faustosterling, 14 days ago to random

My experience as an African researcher trying to travel to a conference in a wealthy country is not an isolated one. Of 10 invited speakers from low & middle income countries only 4 got visas"

#blackinstem
#racisminscience
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00892-1

faustosterling, 15 days ago to evolution

I'm going to catch us up on some interesting science for a couple of days. A break from the daily horror show.
"Survival of the nicest: have we got evolution the wrong way round?
How humans, animals and even single-celled organisms cooperate to survive suggests there’s more to life than just competition, argues a cheering study of evolutionary biology."
#cooperation #evolution
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00999-5

faustosterling, 28 days ago to maine

Let's hear it for #Maine #transrights

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/maine-signs-trans-and-abortion-sanctuary?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=994764&post_id=143906201&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=1smcrn&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

faustosterling, 29 days ago to Women

Fifty years ago, a group of women from the villages of the Western Himalayas sparked Chipko, a green movement that remains relevant in the age of climate change.
#women #activism #environmentalism

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00895-y#:~:text=The%20Chipko%20movement%20gave%20rise,the%20country's%20environment1%E2%80%933.

faustosterling, 1 month ago to Anthropology

"Since the 19th century, scientists at the Smithsonian Institution have obtained, studied, and stored more than 30,000 human remains, one of the largest such collections in the United States." A LOT of stolen bodies. #bioethics #anthropology

https://www.science.org/content/article/smithsonian-task-force-pushes-speedy-repatriation-30-000-human-remains#:~:text=The%20Smithsonian%20already%20has%20a,extend%20to%20all%20human%20remains.

faustosterling, 1 month ago to random

#jobopportunity https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job/University-assistant-(praedoc)/1053687401/

faustosterling, 2 months ago to random

Office For Civil Rights Declares Investigation Into Owasso Public Schools Over Nex Benedict
The United States Department of Education Office For Civil Rights has opened an investigation into potential Title II and Title IX violations over the death of transgender teen, Nex Benedict.

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/office-for-civil-rights-declares?utm_campaign=email-post&r=1smcrn&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

faustosterling, 2 months ago to random

This is totally horrifying to me. What is wrong with us as a culture?

Stop sending human remains to the Moon

The Peregrine lander was due to deposit several people’s ashes on the Moon. The Navajo Nation is calling for broader discussion.

#moon #humanremains

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00106-8

faustosterling, 2 months ago to evolution

This is open access!
"The evosystem can become a centerpiece for a redefined evolutionary science, that is, evolutionary studies, that apprehends through a single framework the variety of evolutionary processes that lie at various scales."
#evolution #evosystem

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/bies.202300169

faustosterling, 3 months ago to random

"House Bill 156 would define gender affirming care to be "not in the best interest" of youth in the state. The bill affects guardianships, custody fights, and child protective services.?

Everything has been leading up to this and it is horrendous! #psarentalrights #transrights https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/wyoming-bill-could-take-trans-kids?utm_campaign=email-post&r=1smcrn&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

faustosterling, 3 months ago to random

And on the other hand. Not good.
#transrights

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/florida-misrepresenting-gender-on?utm_campaign=email-post&r=1smcrn&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

faustosterling, 3 months ago to history

Pretty clear that it was a racist hit job. But here's one of the smoking guns.

#blacksky #blackinstem #histsci

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/31/rightwing-activist-christopher-rufo-ties-scientific-racism-journal?CMP=GTUS_email

faustosterling, 3 months ago to random

#transrights keep on protesting. Sometimes it works.

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/bill-removing-trans-civil-rights?utm_campaign=email-post&r=1smcrn&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

faustosterling, 3 months ago to random

#womeninscience

https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.adk4874

faustosterling, 4 months ago to random

I'm changing it up a little with an article on how some bats do "it" without intromission. The erect male organ in this species is 22% of its body length. So best to keep it outside.
#bats #cloaca #nointromission
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03565-7

faustosterling, 4 months ago to maine

Hopeful news from #Maine balanced by crap news from #Utah.

#transRights

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/maine-could-become-the-15th-state?utm_campaign=email-post&r=1smcrn&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/utah-advances-criminal-trans-bathroom?utm_campaign=email-post&r=1smcrn&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

faustosterling, 4 months ago to wildlife

I wish I could do micronaps... https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adh0771 #wildlife #birds

faustosterling, 4 months ago to random

From https://www.erininthemorning.com/ " anti-trans bills are coming very fast . nearly 180 on the tracker tonight, a kind of bill that is proliferating : the end of all legal recognition of transgender people. One even updates the definition of marriage, their eventual goal of overturning Obergefell. "

faustosterling, 4 months ago to science

#science #academia #womeninscience Sexual Harasser has to leave the country to get a new start. That's probably a fit punishment.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adm9504#:~:text=David%20Sabatini%2C%20the%20high%2Dflying,of%20the%20Czech%20Academy%20of

faustosterling, 4 months ago to random

The transgender "explosion" may not be that impressive

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/no-social-contagion-gender-transition?utm_campaign=email-post&r=1smcrn&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

#transrights #queerandtransstudies

faustosterling, 5 months ago to random

Israel’s attacks on health care workers and facilities in Gaza are unprecedented.

#gaza #healthcareworkers #healthcare

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-war-on-hospitals/?utm_source=Boston+Review+Email+Subscribers&utm_campaign=073dc4830f-newsletter_12_20_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_2cb428c5ad-073dc4830f-40988573&mc_cid=073dc4830f&mc_eid=6e7afc665c

faustosterling, 5 months ago to random

#transrights #rightwingagenda

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/2023-2024-anti-trans-legislation?utm_campaign=email-post&r=1smcrn&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email