Cindi SturtzSreetharan

I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me. I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.

This is incredibly important. If you read one thing this week: marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...

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Selective development goals: examining Japan’s SDG implementation gaps Abstract. In this article, we consider how efforts by the Japanese government and private sector to make the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals

Japan elected a record 42 women to the Upper House—a step forward for gender representation.

But our article shows how visible progress in some areas can coexist with deeper patterns of inequality.

@takadanobaba.bsky.social, @clsturtz.bsky.social, Charles Crabtree
academic.oup.com/ssjj/article...

Wait he actually wrote in Uganda???

One of the things about historical research is you encounter the fact that children used to die at heart-breaking rates. The cemeteries are full of tombs with zero to eleven year life spans. The correspondence mentions child death on a regular basis.

Children died often.

Q&A: Orr v. Trump | American Civil Liberties Union

Hey everyone,

The ACLU has released a FULL FAQ over the recent transgender passport decision (and the Trump admin dragging its feet on complying).

Please read this if you want to know anything about updating your passport and of or when you should pull the trigger.

www.aclu.org/trumps-assau...

Excited to share our edited volume out today free/open access! Sex & Gender:Toward transforming scientific practice brings together perspectives from 40 interdisciplinary scholars on pressing issues including the weaponization of gender & sex impacting us all today. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

So excited to share this OA book Sex and Gender: Toward Transforming Scientific Practice edited by @zacharydubois.bsky.social and colleagues (includes chapters by @awutich.bsky.social and Alex Brewis and many others you won’t want to miss! : link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Webinar on Responding to NSF Grant Terminations Join the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS) on Friday, May 9th, at 2:00 PM ET for an informative webinar on responding to NSF grant terminations. We will discuss the rules, procedures and available options for grantees who have had their grant terminated.

🧪 If you had your NSF grant terminated, I'd *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar.

Friday May 9 at 2-3 pm ET

Will talk about both the appeals process, in addition to allowable closeout costs. Share widely.

Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Be sure to listen the Terri gross interview Coog. It’s great!

DEADLINE EXTENDED! Apply for the KCC-Japan Education Exchange Graduate Fellowship through Monday, April 14, 2025. One $30,000 fellowship for doctoral research in Japan will be awarded. See the website for more details: www.kccjee.org/graduate-fel...

Biological truth? WTF? (Part 1) On sex, gender, men, women, identity, ideology, science and truth

I've started to take apart the first EO on Sex and Gender. I'm doing it in easy-to-digest bites. Here's part 1. open.substack.com/pub/sterling...
#transrights #feministsky #lgbtSTem #transSTEM #womeninscience

大阪城周りのイチョウが見頃で走ってて気持ちよかった

This is all the Russians have been able to take in almost a year, at the cost of about 1500 men A DAY.

You heard that right, 1500 PER DAY

Meet the Ideologue of the “Post-Constitutional” Right Russell Vought, one of the architects behind Project 2025, believes there is nothing left to conserve. He desires revolution – and to burn down the system

Meet the Ideologue of the “Post-Constitutional” Right

Russell Vought, one of the architects behind Project 2025, believes there is nothing left to conserve. He desires revolution – and to burn down the system.

Some thoughts from my new piece:

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Photograph of a book titled "the end of college football: on the human cost of an All-American game." By Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva. The book has a black cover with white and red letters. It is sitting on a wooden table.

Hey, look what arrived in the mail! In this 🔥 book, @nkalamb.bsky.social & @derekcrim.bsky.social tap into the best traditions of ethnography & provide a powerful, accessible indictment of the wider system of NCAA football. A must read for the thinking sports fan. Via @uncpress.bsky.social

Here's some numbers just in case anyone needs them. I know it doesn't feel like it but there's so much to live for. Reach out if you need it.

Trans lifeline 1-877-565-8860

Trevor project 1-866-488-7386

SAGE elder hotline 1-877-360-5428

"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting.

Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC

A flyer with a pastel rainbow background and a small progress pride flag in each corner. At the top, in large white letters with a pink border, it says Call for LGBTQIA+ Survey Participants! The body of the flyer says, If you meet the following requirements, please consider taking my five minute survey on queer identity terms. No identifying information will be collected, and your responses will inform my MA thesis research in language, gender, and sexuality at Michigan State University. You must be 18 +, a native speaker of American English, and identify as a member of the LGBTQIA+ community! Scan here or visit this link to take the survey! A picture of a QR code and the link follow. At the bottom, it say Questions? Contact survey creator Emily Duggan at: duggane1@msu.edu.

If you're...
1) 18 or older,
2) native speaker of American English, &
3) a member of the LGBTQIA+ community (broadly construed),

take a few minutes to do Emily Duggan's MA thesis survey on the social meanings of queer identity terms! (shared on her request)

msu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Nancy Mace has introduced a federal bathroom ban which would ban trans people from bathrooms in DCA and Dulles airports, national park bathrooms, museum bathrooms, and all federal building bathrooms.

@takadanobaba.bsky.social

"Our Arabic program is half a millennium old but couldn't withstand the corporatization of the contemporary university because it isn't nuclear engineering"

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Welcome to bluesky

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500 Queer Scientists Visibility Campaign A visibility campaign to highlight the accomplishments and lives of LGBTQAI+ people working in science, technology, engineering, and math.

There is also 500queerscientists.com

Please watch, though, for the students' decorated caps. At my institution many upped their game! It was awesome. (Sadly I have no photos . . . )

LGBTQ Ph.D. graduates will soon be counted in key U.S. survey It’s “very long overdue,” one scientist says

This is excellent news:

www.science.org/content/arti...

Awesome, thank you.