Tom Green (they/he)
@animalsexpert.bsky.social
St Andrews -PhD Student- studying homosexual behaviour in non human animals - trans 🏳️⚧️ and disabled
New DnD campaign idea: take a bag of devouring to the great pacific garbage patch
November 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
New DnD campaign idea: take a bag of devouring to the great pacific garbage patch
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" 👻👻
"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"
"Developed new species concept"
October 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Published by Michael Bailey
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
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 6:43 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”)
There is a certain irony about NERC putting out a funding call entitled “AI for environmental science”
October 3, 2025 at 8:26 AM
There is a certain irony about NERC putting out a funding call entitled “AI for environmental science”
Reposted by Tom Green (they/he)
hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.
Trump threatens to shut down US government unless Democrats agree to ban all trans health care
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/trans-care-ban-government-shutdown/?utm_content=1759153201&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/trans-care-ban-government-shutdown/?utm_content=1759153201&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
Trump threatens to shut down US government unless all trans health care is banned
The US government's looming shutdown hinges on anti-trans measures after Donald Trump refused to speak to Democrats unless they were passed.
www.thepinknews.com
September 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.
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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
"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."
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
Nothing like writing a PhD thesis to make a man feel both incredibly smart and also incredibly inept at the same time
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
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
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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
#Genotype and social environment influence female–female interactions in a non-social insect @animalsexpert.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #ProcB #OpenAccess
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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...
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
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...
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...
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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 did my first ever stand up set yesterday and it was amazing- Bright Club is such a great opportunity to do fun science communication
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
I’m doing my first ever stand up set tonight! Come see if you’re around :)
This is so cool and I love it but I did literally spend the last two days making phylogenies without this and so I’m maybe a little sad 🙃
🦆 My new R package {avilistr} is live on CRAN! 🎉
The first unified global bird taxonomy (11,131 species) is now accessible to #rstats users. I built it this weekend after Cornell Lab's AviList release last week!
🪿 Blog: www.dalyanalytics.com/blog/avilist...
💻 GitHub: github.com/dalyanalytic...
The first unified global bird taxonomy (11,131 species) is now accessible to #rstats users. I built it this weekend after Cornell Lab's AviList release last week!
🪿 Blog: www.dalyanalytics.com/blog/avilist...
💻 GitHub: github.com/dalyanalytic...
Introducing {avilistr}: The AviList Global Bird Taxonomy is Now Available in R | Daly Analytics
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology announced the release of AviList — the first unified global bird taxonomy. Today, I'm excited to share that this groundbreaking dataset is now available to R users thro...
www.dalyanalytics.com
June 20, 2025 at 5:44 PM
This is so cool and I love it but I did literally spend the last two days making phylogenies without this and so I’m maybe a little sad 🙃
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If you think these are pretty but you're not trans and you're worried you shouldn't wear them, just go for it. You have permission. Enjoy the pretty fern and have fun confusing the transphobes. Wear it as a reminder to be an active ally. canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4312... #SciArt
June 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
If you think these are pretty but you're not trans and you're worried you shouldn't wear them, just go for it. You have permission. Enjoy the pretty fern and have fun confusing the transphobes. Wear it as a reminder to be an active ally. canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4312... #SciArt
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We're looking for disabled or neurodivergent STEM role models!
Especially in engineering but all fields welcome.
Let’s show that STEM is for everyone.
Apply: forms.gle/eHzFwm9G779y...
📩 [email protected]
#DisabledInSTEM #NeurodivergentVoices #STEMStories
Especially in engineering but all fields welcome.
Let’s show that STEM is for everyone.
Apply: forms.gle/eHzFwm9G779y...
📩 [email protected]
#DisabledInSTEM #NeurodivergentVoices #STEMStories
June 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
We're looking for disabled or neurodivergent STEM role models!
Especially in engineering but all fields welcome.
Let’s show that STEM is for everyone.
Apply: forms.gle/eHzFwm9G779y...
📩 [email protected]
#DisabledInSTEM #NeurodivergentVoices #STEMStories
Especially in engineering but all fields welcome.
Let’s show that STEM is for everyone.
Apply: forms.gle/eHzFwm9G779y...
📩 [email protected]
#DisabledInSTEM #NeurodivergentVoices #STEMStories
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We're halfway through Pride so now seems a good time to drop a pin that people have been requesting: something for allies.
The thing is though, I'm not interested in selling a traditional ally pin that allows just anyone to claim they're on our side, so lets talk about that 🧵
canopyrobin.etsy.com
The thing is though, I'm not interested in selling a traditional ally pin that allows just anyone to claim they're on our side, so lets talk about that 🧵
canopyrobin.etsy.com
June 17, 2025 at 8:14 AM
We're halfway through Pride so now seems a good time to drop a pin that people have been requesting: something for allies.
The thing is though, I'm not interested in selling a traditional ally pin that allows just anyone to claim they're on our side, so lets talk about that 🧵
canopyrobin.etsy.com
The thing is though, I'm not interested in selling a traditional ally pin that allows just anyone to claim they're on our side, so lets talk about that 🧵
canopyrobin.etsy.com
What is common knowledge in your field, but. shocks outsiders?
Most birds don’t have p*nises - the ones that do are “inflated” lymphatically rather than with blood like in mammals
Most birds don’t have p*nises - the ones that do are “inflated” lymphatically rather than with blood like in mammals
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
The ocean produces a huge chunk of the world's oxygen a lot from a class of cyanobacteria called prochlorococcus
The ocean produces a huge chunk of the world's oxygen a lot from a class of cyanobacteria called prochlorococcus
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
Food systems are the #2 contributor to climate change, the #1 driver of deforestation, the #1 driver of biodiversity loss on land, and the #1 user of freshwater.
(It follows that food systems contain many solutions to these problems.)
Food systems are the #2 contributor to climate change, the #1 driver of deforestation, the #1 driver of biodiversity loss on land, and the #1 user of freshwater.
(It follows that food systems contain many solutions to these problems.)
June 17, 2025 at 7:22 AM
What is common knowledge in your field, but. shocks outsiders?
Most birds don’t have p*nises - the ones that do are “inflated” lymphatically rather than with blood like in mammals
Most birds don’t have p*nises - the ones that do are “inflated” lymphatically rather than with blood like in mammals
Just did a for loop in R on my second try and I’m finally feeling like I actually might be earning my PhD
June 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Just did a for loop in R on my second try and I’m finally feeling like I actually might be earning my PhD
I am doing standup!!! About how I have slowly eroded my ability to be normal by doing a PhD in s-e-x
June 16, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I am doing standup!!! About how I have slowly eroded my ability to be normal by doing a PhD in s-e-x