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Gadfly Stratton, Ph.D. @inclusivescience.ca · 6h

a man in a hat is sitting in a crowd and says boo this man boo !

Alt: Scene from Half Baked: Man points forward and yells "Boo this man! Boo!", taking his hat off and throwing it.

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Gadfly Stratton, Ph.D. @inclusivescience.ca · 6h

Shame, @mark-carney.bsky.social. Shame. Shame. Shame.

Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 6h

Trump complained about “transgender for everybody” to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who has a trans kid.

Carney said nothing.

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Donald Trump mocks transgender people in Oval Office meeting with Canadian PM, whose child is nonbinary

Mark Carney sat silently as the U.S. president went on an anti-trans diatribe.

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Jo Latimore @jolatimore.bsky.social · 6h

Great opportunity for lake communities in Michigan to get money for signs, outreach materials, outreach events, etc., to help prevent the spread of aquatic invasive species.

MSU Extension Center for Lakes and Streams @msue-lakes-streams.bsky.social · 7h

💰 For our sixth season, our Clean Boats, Clean Waters program has funding to support aquatic invasive species outreach projects in Michigan - check out our mini-grants program! The applications are due January 30.

www.canr.msu.edu/clean_boats_...

People observe a boat cleaning station. Text reads "Invasive Species Grants Available for 2026! The Clean Boats, Clean Waters grant program is for organizations dedicated to protecting Michigan's water for aquatic invasive species. Grants can be used for boat launch signage, marketing and radio ads, brochures and merchandise, educational booths & events. Visit micbcw.com."

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Katie O'Reilly @drkatfish.bsky.social · 1d

New episode of the Teach Me About the Great Lakes podcast is out! I joined a couple other invasive species folks to talk about the new-ish aquatic invasive species in the #GreatLakes region we think people should know about www.teachmeaboutthegreatlakes.com/113

Teach Me About the Great Lakes | Spoiler Alert: This is Not Fine

What are the aquatic invasive species that Great Lakes experts wish you knew more about? Megan and Carolyn discuss with TMATGL all-stars El Lower, Katie O'Reilly, and Brian Roth.Links:Past episodes...

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El Lower @helloellower.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks to @invasivesnet.bsky.social and all of our fantastic coauthors and collaborators for getting the peer-reviewed version of this report out the door — the Invasive Species Language Workshop was such a cool interdisciplinary meeting of the minds!

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El Lower @helloellower.bsky.social · 1d

✨New publication alert✨: “Recommendations from the Sea Grant-Led Invasive Species Language Workshop” — a report on the workshop I organized in DC last year!

#BiologicalInvasions #InvasiveSpecies 🧪

www.reabic.net/journals/mbi...

Message frames and metaphors are commonly used within science communication to discuss complex topics, including invasive species. While these communication tools are undoubtedly helpful, the ecological process of invasion juxtaposed with the use of militaristic and nativist language can have unintended consequences that are counterproductive to management efforts. Species naming conventions are likewise complex, with some species bearing names that may reinforce xenophobic concepts or contain racial slurs. Despite the known need, there have been limited national efforts to develop better and more inclusive guidelines for invasive species communication...

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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 2d

Hello to @moderation.bsky.app
I would like to file a complant of blatant bigotry against your
@moderation.bsky.app for discrimation against disabled ppl.

You have declared that a fully clothed person with a prosthetic leg and eye to somehow be "Adult Content"

Disability isn't "Adult content"

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I could name a few but for disability reason and the Halloween season I am m going with In / Spectre

It’s got a very weird but cool metaplot with one of the coolest “action” scene culminations and it’s so openly & fearlessly blunt about disability … especially the reality of Kotoko‘s prosthetics.

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 1d

As I get into the sexual selection and sexual dimorphism part of my evolution module, a reminder:

In Northern Cardinals, the males are bright red. The females are a brown/gray, with orange beaks.

So if you see two bright red birds snuggling together on wrapping paper or a card: they're gay.

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Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social · 1d

A Rutgers professor has been forced to flee the country for his safety, after targeting by a far-right student group that was *checks notes* claiming they felt unsafe.

I'm horrified.
I'm angry.

A short 🧵 #AcademicFreedom #Rutgers #violence #antifa

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

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Gadfly Stratton, Ph.D. @inclusivescience.ca · 1d

two men are sitting in a chair talking to each other while one of them holds a piece of paper .

Alt: Scene fron Seinfeld: Jerry is imitating his girlfriend saying "Jerry... I don't know sometimes" in a derpy voice while his friend George nods and says the line along with him.

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Environmental Information: Use and Influence (Dalhousie Univ.) @eiui.bsky.social · 2d

Global efforts to stem #biodiversity loss have failed repeatedly. Drawing on the IPBES Transformative Change Assessment Report, @annelarigauderie.bsky.social et al. explain why past efforts failed, outline 5 key strategies to address this issue, & highlight roles for everyone doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Title, authors’ names, and first page of a perspective paper about biodiversity loss and the IPBES Transformative Change Assessment

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Gadfly Stratton, Ph.D. @inclusivescience.ca · 1d

I'm glad I didn't see this during the election, because running for office while trans in a not very trans accepting place was pretty nerve wracking. But yeah, my name is Gadfly Stratton, so that's who I ran as. How whimsical! 🤡

kit spooks 👻 @kitsparks.bsky.social · Nov 18

looking up provincial election candidates and the Greens are running someone straight-up named Gadfly???

a box in a table reading “Gadfly Stratton”, official agent Bill Matheson

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 4d

This is what “common sense” looks like! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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andytheg 13h
My ID says my name is Andrew.
Nobody calls me Andrew, everyone calls me Andy because I introduce myself as Andy and ask people to call me Andy.
Nobody says, "ok but your name is Andrew, I'm not calling you Andy"
This is a post about supporting trans people

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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 5d

DRINK WATER FROM THE SKULLS OF YOUR ENEMIES! IF YOU HAVE CRUSHED THEIR SKULLS, USE A GLASS.

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 7d

"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

Rest in Peace, Jane Goodall 🙏🏻

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 7d

Last week I posted about attending the book launch for "Queer and In Care" but what I didn't mention specifically is that this new book is entirely open access and free to download! This is a really beautiful book. Please take a look! books.ugp.rug.nl/ugp/catalog/...

Cover of "Queer and In Care" featuring a young person surrounded by rainbows and flowers.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 7d

Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.

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Gadfly Stratton, Ph.D. @inclusivescience.ca · 14d

Another new paper out! 😱🧑‍🔬

"Recommendations from the Sea Grant-Led Invasive Species Language Workshop" out now, open access, in Management of Biological Invasions! @invasivesnet.bsky.social

www.reabic.net/journals/mbi...

#BiologicalInvasions 🧪

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Gadfly Stratton, Ph.D. @inclusivescience.ca · 22d

Hot off the press! 🧑‍🔬🧪

"Making aquatic sciences more diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible: Perspectives on how individuals can take action in their professional practice"

authors.elsevier.com/c/1lnYH1MRgT...

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Image of title page for the article "Making aquatic sciences more diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible: Perspectives on how individuals can take action in their professional practice", available from the Journal of Great Lakes Research.

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Gadfly Stratton, Ph.D. @inclusivescience.ca · 7d

Omg that sucks! I think the only thing worse for me than being unemployed is seeing all the other science folks who do have jobs also lose theirs and join me. I hope it all works out and you end up somewhere great! If you ever want to use the new free time to collab on something, I'm around! 🙃

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Gadfly Stratton, Ph.D. @inclusivescience.ca · 7d

I am so very tired of folks who desperately need to believe that human diversity is a disease to be cured. Neither my transness nor my autism require a "cure" (which would likely just be folks like me never being born, let's be honest), and just saying that shouldn't be the low bar for "activism".

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 7d

Of course people with autism who can speak for themselves and advocate for how they're treated are labeled activists. The mothers leading orgs pushing the manufactured controversy are profiled as parents rather than activists.

This is the same exact framing they used against trans people.

Alt text: A screenshot of a New York Times article excerpt about autism and the neurodiversity movement. The text explains that autistic activists reframed autism as differences rather than a disease needing a cure. A highlighted section reads: “Activists called out what they saw as punitive therapies that tried to eliminate behaviors like fidgeting or avoiding eye contact, which they argued had little to do with their well-being and more to do with the discomfort of people around them.” The article also notes the rallying cry “Nothing about us without us” as autistic people demanded involvement in care decisions. A sidebar box in the middle of the page shows unrelated breaking news about the Trump administration and a government shutdown.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 7d

Alejandra does an incredible job here breaking down how the NYT presents itself yet again as neutrally documenting a “controversy” in a way that legitimizes bad faith actors, all while following a very familiar playbook. This is how epistemological violence gets laundered as “just asking questions”

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 7d

It then uses the same narrative framing of a one very rare diagnosis becoming much more common after diagnostic changes.

Text explains that autism first became a formal diagnosis in the 1980 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). At that time, it was used to identify toddlers who had severe language deficits, did not speak, or could not form social attachments. Most diagnosed children had an IQ below 70 and often engaged in self-destructive or aggressive behaviors, though some could recall facts with clarity. The manual described autism as “very rare.” It also shares Alison Singer’s personal experience in 1999, noticing her daughter Jodie behaved differently in a Mommy and Me class—lining up toys by size and color, and struggling with language.

Titled “A Unified ‘Spectrum.’” It describes how, after autism entered the DSM, clinicians observed children who didn’t meet strict requirements but showed similar traits, leading to the idea of autism as a “spectrum.” In 1994, the DSM broadened criteria, applying diagnosis to more people and adding Asperger’s syndrome as a related category. Asperger’s applied to children with social difficulties, repetitive behaviors, and narrow interests, but who could speak and typically had average or above-average intelligence.

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Gadfly Stratton, Ph.D. @inclusivescience.ca · 7d

I kind of like it as it means I can easily find clothes I like again.

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Gadfly Stratton, Ph.D. @inclusivescience.ca · 7d

Oh, the creator is on some TERF blocklists. LOL.

So I was too trans for them. Good.

a close up of a man 's face with the word david on the bottom left

Alt: J.K. Simmons as John Jonah Jameson, throwing back his head and laughing.

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Gadfly Stratton, Ph.D. @inclusivescience.ca · 7d

I just saw with Clearsky that I am on some blocklist called "Drama" for "Engaging in drama, usually angry politics".

Is that me? Am I the drama?

Was I too gay for them?

two cartoon characters are holding rainbow flags in front of a group of people

Alt: Scene from the Simpsons. Two guys in matching red short-shorts are marching down the street twirling rainbow flags around while folks from town watch from the sidewalk. (One guy has a moustache, and the other an earring, so you know they're SuperGayTM!)

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