Pride in Polar Research (PiPR)

Happy (belated) Polar Pride Day! 🌈 ❄️

Yesterday the international polar science community celebrated the contributions of our LGBTQ+ colleagues. It is crucial to create welcoming & inclusive environments for everyone.

We stand with the LGBTQ+ community!

Image credit: @polarpride.bsky.social

Happy #PolarPrideDay! 🏳️‍🌈❄️🐧 Pride in Polar Research began in 2018 when a disabled, intersex, trans, queer US–Italian scholar asked others to wear a rainbow pin so they weren’t alone. Now we push for safer, equitable polar science. Join our dedicated advocates by emailing info@prideinpolarresearch.com!

We are setting up informational meetings into the new year with organizations & groups interested in playing a greater role in the movement we've created to uplift #queer professionals in #PolarScience. Please email info@prideinpolarresearch.com to learn more. #PolarPride #DiversityInPolarScience 🏳️‍🌈

And now a broody but beautiful view from Rothera Research Station today - with rainbow colours for #PolarPride2024

Grey haired 29 year old with a polar pride (penguin and polar bear with a rainbow flag) pin on. I’m wearing glasses, a brown jacket and a green top. I have glasses and a moustache.

Map of the Atlantic region, different surface and deep ocean currents, the North atlantic gyres

Today is #PolarPride2024

Part of my time is spent looking at how melting greenland ice impacts polar and sub-polar North Atlantic dynamics/how that impacts the rest of the world!

I do this with mud from a warm period 400,000 years ago. It helps tell us what the world is capable of doing!

Happy #PolarPride all! 🏳️‍🌈 We hope you are finding a way to celebrate today.
#PolarPride2024 #LGBTQSTEMDay

Happy #PolarPride day! Visibility and diversity are so important, and I’m #proud to be in a field that celebrates our community 🏳️‍🌈✨
#PolarPride2024 #PolarPrideDay #LGBTSTEMDay #LGBTQSTEMDay

Nalgene bottle with Polar Pride sticker on it front and centre

Happy Polar Pride day 2024! Having an inclusive Polar community 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🐧🐻‍❄️ is so important and celebrating the contributions that LGBTQIA+ researchers make to polar science is as key now as ever.

The Geography dept at Durham is holding celebrations once again for the Polar community at Durham

Photo credit: Elin VJ/NPI

Photo credit: Elin VJ/NPI

Happy #PolarPrideDay from the Arctic! 🏳️‍🌈 🐻‍❄️🐧 We're celebrating at @NorskPolar and @Framcentre - fantastic seeing enthusiasm and support once again! #PolarPride2024 #DiversityinPolarScience

79° north
#PolarPride #PolarPrideDay #PolarPride2024 #PolarPrideDay2024 #LGBTSTEMDay #LGBTQSTEMDay #DiversityInPolarScience #DiversityInUKPolarScience

A woman faces the camera. She's dressed in a warm winter coat and woolly hat. It's nighttime, and it's snowing.

Happy #PolarPride, a day that spotlights/celebrates 2SLGBTQ+ researchers working on the Antarctic and Arctic! I haven't seen much representation from the social sciences and humanities, so here to say: I'm bi, and I study the history of the Canadian North! #PolarPride2024 #PolarPrideDay 🇦🇶🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🐻‍❄️🐧

In the meantime, our US-based admin team are hopping into bed and look forward to chatting with everyone in the morning! Please feel free to reach us in our DMs or at info@prideinpolarresearch.com. #PolarPrideDay2024 #PolarPride #PolarPride

Please know that we're working on partnering with an org that can help host a bank account so we can order merch like pins where sales will fund a grant scheme for queer polar professionals! (If you're a partner org who'd be interested, please reach out.) #PolarPrideDay2024 #PolarPride #PolarPride

For #PolarPrideDay2024, we'd love to hear your inspiring personal stories about overcoming discrimination in polar-related fields & what it means to you to be a proud #LGBTQIA professional in polar science. (To share anonymously, message us or email us.) #PolarPride #PolarPrideDay

While our core members have been diligently working behind the scenes to uplift marginalized professionals in meaningful ways, we know many of you have been preparing celebrations for #PolarPrideDay2024! We can't wait to share how you're celebrating with our followers! #PolarPride #PolarPrideDay

As a US-based group working with international partners, we are struggling now more than ever to help people facing unprecedented hurdles in their careers because of who they are in an unforgiving sociopolitical climate. This has monopolized time lately. #PolarPride #PolarPrideDay #PolarPrideDay2024

Happy #PolarPrideDay2024! We are grateful that our grassroots efforts are still going strong & this day has special meaning for so many globally! We are a handful of volunteers who, since 2018, have quietly offered advice & resources to polar professionals & asked orgs to prioritize DEI. #PolarPride

Happy #PolarPride and #ArcticPride! Visibility and diversity are so important, and I’m #proud to be in a field that celebrates our community 🏳️‍🌈✨ #PolarPride2023 #LGBTSTEM

Thanks for sharing a code with us! You're the best!

Added "Polar Pride" and "#Polar" (#PolarPride etc.) to the feed to celebrate #PolarPrideDay2023 and @polarpride.bsky.social joining Bluesky! Happy Polar Pride, everyone 🌈

A penguin and a polar bear with pride colours on their bellies inside a circle

Happy #PolarPrideDay2023 ahead of tomorrow!! 🌈🐧🐻‍❄️❄️

UKPN are really excited to see how everyone who is celebrating today and tomorrow comes together to discuss how #diversity in #PolarScience makes our science better.

Feel free to share any celebrations that have taken place on here tomorrow!!

Happy #PolarPrideDay from the Arctic! 🏳️‍🌈 🐻‍❄️🐧 We're celebrating at @NorskPolar and this time the whole @Framcentre - fantastic seeing enthusiasm and support once again! #PolarPride2023 #DiversityinPolarScience

We know the feeling! ❄️🏳️‍🌈

Decorated biscuits and cake balls on a progress pride flag background

Happy International
LGBTQIA + in STEM day and Pride in Polar Research day for tomorrow! We’ve been celebrating by decorating some polar research themed biscuits 🏳️‍🌈🐧🍃❄️

Happy Polar Pride everyone
We need to all support and encourage diversity in all its lovely forms and make Polar fieldwork fully inclusive

We're trying to get a group together to fundraise for some more! Interested in helping us? Learn more: www.PrideInPolarResearch.com. ❄️🏳️‍🌈

A square painting of the Antarctic continent covered in rainbow watercolor splats, with a cute penguin standing on top holding a flag that says Polar Pride. Art by @Icebird.bsky.social

SWAIS2C is celebrating the 4th annual Polar Pride Day and equity and inclusion from pole to pole!

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Map of Barents Sea showing the sea-ice concentration for the first half of November 2023. Colormap is presented in rainbow colors with purple>5%, blue>20%, green>45%, yellow>72%, orange>84%, and red>91%.

The Polar Pride Ice flag 🏳️‍🌈 is waving across the Barents Sea. 

The sea-ice concentration for first two weeks of November 2023 is presented in 🌈 colors.

Not even the colorbar is straight
💜💙💚💛🧡❤
Happy PolarPride

🌈⚒️🐻‍❄️🧪🏳️‍🌈

Cartoon images created by a member of Polar Educators International using AI technology from Bing + DallE-3. A polar bear wearing a rainbow scarf and hat sits on the ice next to penguins and rainbow flags, under a rainbow in a sunny sky with rainbow balloons, birds flying, and a banner that says Polar Pride.

Happy #PolarPrideDay2023! We're excited to launch our bsky & share #PolarPride with new friends!

Can you help us increase our impact to help #LGBTQIA researchers facing marginalization in #PolarScience?

Consider joining our leadership team: prideinpolarresearch.com

#PolarPride2023 #PolarPrideDay