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Tom Green (they/he)
@animalsexpert.bsky.social
St Andrews -PhD Student- studying homosexual behaviour in non human animals - trans 🏳️‍⚧️ and disabled
Nine days until top surgery!!!!!
a green curtain is hanging on a red curtain in a room .
ALT: a green curtain is hanging on a red curtain in a room .
media.tenor.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Decided to sing tubthumpin at karaoke tonight- how many times will I have to be knocked down and get back up again for you to realise you’re never gonna keep me down? Because I forgot how to breathe
January 31, 2026 at 12:29 AM
What do you mean I still have work to do
January 27, 2026 at 3:30 PM
I can cook again? And clean? In the same day?!?
Just submitted my thesis! Can’t wait to rediscover my personality
January 9, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Just submitted my thesis! Can’t wait to rediscover my personality
January 8, 2026 at 11:54 AM
My New Year’s resolution is to Become A Bug. Don’t ask me how. I’m a scientist, I’ll figure something out
December 31, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I know I am three weeks away from finishing my PhD. But. What if I quit and started a bakery instead.
December 30, 2025 at 2:22 PM
New DnD campaign idea: take a bag of devouring to the great pacific garbage patch
November 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Published by Michael Bailey
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"Cefiderocol-resistant Pseudomonas osteomyelitis" 👻👻
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"Developed new species concept"
October 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
If you say things like “ah well you know how females are” or “oh females always do this” I want you to know that I have judged you and found you lacking
I know I’m a biologist working in reproductive behaviours but sometimes? Sometimes I just need to spend 24 hours without hearing the word “female”. (This is specifically directed at people who say “female” when talking about humans, particularly when they mean to say “woman”)
October 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I know I’m a biologist working in reproductive behaviours but sometimes? Sometimes I just need to spend 24 hours without hearing the word “female”. (This is specifically directed at people who say “female” when talking about humans, particularly when they mean to say “woman”)
October 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
There is a certain irony about NERC putting out a funding call entitled “AI for environmental science”
October 3, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.
September 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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"A queer feminist approach ... would not frame chemically-poisoned frogs as pitiable freaks of nature, as well-intentioned scientific and media coverage tends to do."
The Queer Lives of Frogs
What frogs teach us about sex, science, and why biology is messier than we think.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
September 11, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Nothing like writing a PhD thesis to make a man feel both incredibly smart and also incredibly inept at the same time
September 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Hello I have just discovered that the people who made the spider gripper robots are based at the same uni that made the rice purity test
August 8, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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#Genotype and social environment influence female–female interactions in a non-social insect @animalsexpert.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #ProcB #OpenAccess
July 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Did you know that bisexual flowers are perfect? Botanists do.

My latest pin celebrates the fact that 90% of flowering plants have individual flowers with both male and female parts. Botanists call these 'bisexual' or 'perfect' flowers. Please share!
www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
July 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The day my first scientific article is published is also the day I adopt my first dog- if you excuse me I shall be vibrating with joy over in the corner
July 23, 2025 at 7:48 AM
I’m adopting a dog in the next few weeks and I can’t believe I’m expected to work instead of lay on the floor and think about Booster
July 10, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Our #study finds that #male #dominance isn't the norm among #primates, and starts to unravel what shapes flexibility in intersexual power

paper (OA) https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2500405122

press release https://www.mpg.de/24986976/0630-evan-beyond-the-alpha-male-150495-x?c=2249
July 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Submitting to a format-agnostic journal is all fun and games until revised manuscripts have to be submitted in publication-ready format and you have 60 days to reformat and also do revisions
July 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I did my first ever stand up set yesterday and it was amazing- Bright Club is such a great opportunity to do fun science communication
June 25, 2025 at 9:52 AM
I’m doing my first ever stand up set tonight! Come see if you’re around :)
I am doing standup!!! About how I have slowly eroded my ability to be normal by doing a PhD in s-e-x
June 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM