LGBTQ+ STEM @UCL
@LGBTQ_STEMatUCL
Network for #LGBTQ+ staff and students working in STEM @UCL 🏳️🌈 we love a good acronym 🏳️🌈 Message us to join [email protected] ⬇️
Hi! We're a new network for LGBTQ+ staffs and students working in STEM at UCL. 🏳️🌈🔬🧬⚙️📊🏳️🌈 We aim to provide a platform to disseminate and enable meaningful connections! 1/
Queering Science: A view from the bench 29 Nov 4:30pm-6pm @qUCL_research Drs Max Liboiron and Alex Bond will discuss theorizing and practicing queering science from two different but overlapping perspectives. ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-a…
Really honoured to be named UCL’s Research Technical Professional of the Year! Grateful for the recognition 😊 ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/jul/…
Great news: our critical appraisal of the Cass Review is now available as a pre-print. In it, we demonstrate that the Cass Report's application of evidence-based medicine to gender affirming care for children and young people is deeply flawed. Read here: osf.io/preprints/osf/…
Hugely deserved and you’re sorely missed ❤️
Congrats to our recent PhD graduate Dr @JaviBautista_ who received the @UCLIoN EDI Beaconing Award 2024 for his commitment to promoting inclusivity across the @UCL community & beyond, especially through founding & chairing @LGBTQ_STEMatUCL! Read more: ucl.ac.uk/ion/news/2024/…
Congrats to our recent PhD graduate Dr @JaviBautista_ who received the @UCLIoN EDI Beaconing Award 2024 for his commitment to promoting inclusivity across the @UCL community & beyond, especially through founding & chairing @LGBTQ_STEMatUCL! Read more: ucl.ac.uk/ion/news/2024/…
What a brilliant summary by @micro_mario of the @OUTinSTEM Q&A event that @oSTEM_bham @unibirmingham invited Mario, @DrTrapezio, Fiona Connor & myself to.
Congrats to our recent PhD graduate Dr @JaviBautista_ who received the @UCLIoN EDI Beaconing Award 2024 for his commitment to promoting inclusivity across the @UCL community & beyond, especially through founding & chairing @LGBTQ_STEMatUCL! Read more: ucl.ac.uk/ion/news/2024/…
"Stone Butch Blues and Pillow Princesses: On Queer Hardness, Softness, and Crip of Colour Critique" my upcoming Feb 5 @ 12:30 GMT virtual talk for the Center for Gender Studies at @Cambridge_Uni @CambridgeGender eventbrite.co.uk/e/stone-butch-…
We are hiring! The University of Birmingham is hiring an Assistant Professor in Geometry and Mathematical Physics. Please apply to join our research group or let interested parties know! mathjobs.org/jobs/list/24109
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️So much love to our trans and nonbinary student community at @ucl 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌈 #LGBwiththeT @UCLout @qUCL_research @UCLLGBT @LGBTQ_STEMatUCL studentsunionucl.org/articles/being…
Applications for @STEM4Brit close on Monday 27 November! Open to all early-career research scientists, engineers, technologists and mathematicians! ➡️ stemforbritain.org.uk
For #TransAwarenessWeek, head to our blog as Dr Clara Barker reflects on the intersection of science, identity, and the influence of anti-science rhetoric on both: royalsociety.org/blog/2022/11/c… @ClaraMBarker
We’re delighted to announce @ClaraMBarker as the new IOP Inclusion and Diversity Representative. Dr Barker says: “I look forward to working with different groups who share a passion for physics but feel they cannot achieve their maximum potential. (1/2) iop.org/about/news/dr-…
Scientist friends please sign and share!
We have over 1300 signatures to our open letter and they are still coming. You have until 12 NOON TUESDAY to sign our letter standing up for EDI in science and telling the UK government they do not speak for scientists in their 'anti-woke' rhetoric Sign at hull.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/edi_in_science
Sexual minorities, suicide and self-harm: new research in England deepens our understanding nationalelfservice.net/?p=176130
😀 Award winning! 🌈 Thanks to everyone who supported the LGBTQ+ STEM Conference 2023: speakers, poster presenters, delegates & @uclmaps for the funding Special thanks to @ClaraMBarker for being our fab keynote speaker
Congratulations to the winners of @uclmaps Embedding #EDI into #Education Poster Prize Competition! Read more about the winning projects: ucl.ac.uk/mathematical-p… @MathematicsUCL @DrTrapezio @LGBTQ_STEMatUCL @ES_UCL @astro__will @AbbieBrayPhys @UCLEqualities #diversity #stem
LGBT is the acronym the media tends to use to represent the queer community, but queer Britons themselves are more likely to use LGBTQ+ LGBTQ+ 29% LGBTQ 13% Combined: 42% LGBT 21% LGBT+ 8% Combined: 29% LGBTQIA+ 11% LGBTQIA 2% Combined: 13% yougov.co.uk/topics/society…
We are presenting a poster ‘Celebrating Diversity at the London LGBTQ+ STEM Conference 2023’ at Embedding EDI in Education event organised by @uclmaps