How predictable. Presidents of three US evolution and ecology societies (The Society for the Study of Evolution, American Society of Naturalists, and the Society of Systematic Biologists) have written a letter to Trump: Policy: Letter to the US President and Congress on the Scientific Understanding of Sex and Gender. Dear President Trump and Members of…

The shapes of trees – mostly hornbeams – on a damp Sunday morning:

You were MP for a party with a cult-like adherence to a bonkers dogma that decrees children should be pumped full of harmful drugs if they believe they are born in the wrong body. The Green Party have done more than anyone to make the green movement look batshit crazy. https://t.co/b6OU6D9C6z — Darren Johnson (@DarrenJohnson66)…

Jack Delano, March 1943. San Bernardino, California. "A completely overhauled engine being run on the slip track at the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad shops. This is done to break the engine in. Note that due to the greased track, the engine is standing still while the wheels are spinning." [Photo: Shorpy/Jack Delano for…

Sonia Sodha in the Observer on nurse Sandy Peggie and her case against NHS Fife – No woman should be forced to change her clothes in front of a male colleague: Despite the law of the land enshrining that commonsense insight – that employers are obliged to provide separate changing facilities for their male and…

German photographer Lia Darjes, paying homage to the Dutch Golden Age, was inspired for her latest project when she a squirrel jump on her garden table: “Of course, I’d seen this little spectacle a thousand times before, but at the time I was actively looking for my next topic,” Darjes explains on the origins of…

Before and after the so-called “good care” of Hamas. Or, Ohad, Eli. I’m so sorry it took us this long to bring you home. pic.twitter.com/HsEhhgYgi9 — Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) February 8, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Look at the shameful Hamas ritual, with the armed masked men in full fascist ceremonial display, surrounding their starved emaciated exhausted victims:…

Arthur S. Siegel, May 1943. "Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Women workers during lunch hour." [Photo: Shorpy/Arthur S. Siegel for the Office of War Information]

You may be wondering – I think we all are – about King's College London's new Visiting Research Fellow Yasmin Benoit, after her courageous asexual coming-out. Asexuals are, as we now know thanks to Yasmin's eloquent advocacy, a persecuted demographic. So, what contribution has she been making on the academic front? Well… New research suggests…

CANADA: The transgender advisor to the Minister for Women is facing backlash after claiming trans-identified males have no advantages over women in sports. Nathanielle Morin himself once won a women's race, beating the fastest woman by over 5 minutes.https://t.co/5XcOynrson — REDUXX (@ReduxxMag) February 7, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Full story here.