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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

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Join us this Saturday at Aberdeen DIY Pride.

7 JUNE 2025
1pm-4pm
UNION TERRACE GARDENS

Please share 🩷🩷🩷
June 5, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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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
April 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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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
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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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April 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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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
April 24, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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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 ❤️
April 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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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
April 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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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 🧪🌍🌐
February 28, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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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.
February 16, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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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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February 13, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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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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December 9, 2024 at 2:19 AM
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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
December 13, 2024 at 4:00 PM
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Amazing to hear more in depth about helicopter research/parachute science with some colonial context! #ASABWinter2024
@nicolakoyama.bsky.social talking about the “who, what, where” of animal behaviour research @asab.org #ASABWinter2024
December 13, 2024 at 2:20 PM
decolonising sbs member dee gave a wonderful talk today on addressing colonial bias in animal behaviour
a fascinating and really important talk from my colleague @karendeepsidhu.bsky.social on how we can address colonial biases in animal behaviour research at #ASABWinter2024
December 13, 2024 at 3:51 PM
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"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."
December 4, 2024 at 5:36 PM
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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 🧪
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 🌎🍃🔬
December 3, 2024 at 7:06 PM
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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
YouTube video by AJ+
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December 3, 2024 at 6:37 PM
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 🌎🍃🔬
December 3, 2024 at 6:37 PM