Cia Eclectica
@ciaeclectica.bsky.social
Nature lover and adventure seeker 🏄
Plant Sciences undergrad at Bristol Uni 🌱
ADHDer 💥
They/She
Plant Sciences undergrad at Bristol Uni 🌱
ADHDer 💥
They/She
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Cia Eclectica
@ciaeclectica.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Hello! Finally decided to end my time on Twitter. I’m 35, doing a Plant Science degree, am a fungi enthusiast, (very) left wing, ADHDer, sci fi fan, meme enjoyer and art lover. Let me know if I should follow you!
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Trans women ARE biologically women and no biased court can stop that basic fact from being true. Sex is a homeostatic property cluster containing an array of primary, secondary, and tertiary sexual characteristics. Trans people can and do change sex
April 16, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Trans women ARE biologically women and no biased court can stop that basic fact from being true. Sex is a homeostatic property cluster containing an array of primary, secondary, and tertiary sexual characteristics. Trans people can and do change sex
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UK SC's definition of 'woman' is a serious affront to decades of labour in queer studies to decouple sex & gender that even WHO recognises. It's a colonial-racial chokehold to safeguard power of TERFs & GCs. Moving forward, all women will have rights curtailed.
www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/16/s...
www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/16/s...
UK Supreme court rules legal definition of a woman excludes trans women
The UK Supreme Court has ruled the legal definition of a woman excludes trans women.
www.thepinknews.com
April 16, 2025 at 9:33 AM
UK SC's definition of 'woman' is a serious affront to decades of labour in queer studies to decouple sex & gender that even WHO recognises. It's a colonial-racial chokehold to safeguard power of TERFs & GCs. Moving forward, all women will have rights curtailed.
www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/16/s...
www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/16/s...
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If I were an ostensibly conservation-minded biotech company whose work was being cynically weaponized by the world’s worst people to undermine a bedrock environmental law & sanction the obliteration of wildlife, I probably wouldn’t advertise it. Or continue down my current course. Or want to exist.
Btw Colossal already has the Interior Secretary's comments about them up on their site
April 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
If I were an ostensibly conservation-minded biotech company whose work was being cynically weaponized by the world’s worst people to undermine a bedrock environmental law & sanction the obliteration of wildlife, I probably wouldn’t advertise it. Or continue down my current course. Or want to exist.
Plants undergo epigenetic changes due to weather conditions and pathogens. Some of these changes get passed down to their offspring via seeds. I wonder how much of a difference it would make to agricultural yields if crop seeds were produced locally to the places they’re going to be grown?
April 11, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Plants undergo epigenetic changes due to weather conditions and pathogens. Some of these changes get passed down to their offspring via seeds. I wonder how much of a difference it would make to agricultural yields if crop seeds were produced locally to the places they’re going to be grown?
Major update, that tiny little Monstera sprout has now grown a full leaf! What a delight!!
March 24, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Major update, that tiny little Monstera sprout has now grown a full leaf! What a delight!!
Well, I wish I’d realised I needed glasses BEFORE getting a month behind on uni work because of how uncomfortable reading had become… but better late than never! Get your eyes checked people 🤓
March 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Well, I wish I’d realised I needed glasses BEFORE getting a month behind on uni work because of how uncomfortable reading had become… but better late than never! Get your eyes checked people 🤓
Quick update, the tiny little leaf has started to separate and the stem has thickened substantially at the node! You go little sprout!
February 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Quick update, the tiny little leaf has started to separate and the stem has thickened substantially at the node! You go little sprout!
My monstera has a new sprout coming! Hopefully I can keep it alive, I’ve heard these new ones can be quite tricky to grow on older plants! #houseplants
January 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
My monstera has a new sprout coming! Hopefully I can keep it alive, I’ve heard these new ones can be quite tricky to grow on older plants! #houseplants
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Cladonia never disappoints.
January 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Cladonia never disappoints.
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How does variation in ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity affect tree growth? What are the knowledge gaps to more fully answering this question?
See my review out today in Fungal Ecology: doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...
See my review out today in Fungal Ecology: doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...
January 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
How does variation in ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity affect tree growth? What are the knowledge gaps to more fully answering this question?
See my review out today in Fungal Ecology: doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...
See my review out today in Fungal Ecology: doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...
A bracket fungi appreciation post #fungifriends
January 24, 2025 at 10:50 PM
A bracket fungi appreciation post #fungifriends
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A Saw-whet owl, perched patiently among the evergreen branches, shows its gentle beauty. This tiny owl looks just stunning in its natural habitat. 🦉
📸 cgwildlifephotography
📸 cgwildlifephotography
January 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM
A Saw-whet owl, perched patiently among the evergreen branches, shows its gentle beauty. This tiny owl looks just stunning in its natural habitat. 🦉
📸 cgwildlifephotography
📸 cgwildlifephotography
As an emetophobic I cannot express how much this would change my life. This virus is like, 90% of my phobia.
January 24, 2025 at 1:49 AM
As an emetophobic I cannot express how much this would change my life. This virus is like, 90% of my phobia.
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Thanks to all for your kind remembrances on this awful day. Words will come later. Only feelings at the moment. Mourn and remember him but don’t forget to celebrate too. We won’t see his like again. The man from another place has gone home. #DavidLynch #TwinPeaks
January 16, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Thanks to all for your kind remembrances on this awful day. Words will come later. Only feelings at the moment. Mourn and remember him but don’t forget to celebrate too. We won’t see his like again. The man from another place has gone home. #DavidLynch #TwinPeaks
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You’ll probably see this screenshot floating around a lot but it really was wonderful to see Lynch put a scene in Twin Peaks: The Return where he has his character literally stare at the camera and say that you should either support trans people or die. I needed to hear that in 2017
January 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
You’ll probably see this screenshot floating around a lot but it really was wonderful to see Lynch put a scene in Twin Peaks: The Return where he has his character literally stare at the camera and say that you should either support trans people or die. I needed to hear that in 2017
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"If a woman fancies that she looks better or feels better in men's clothes, there is no reason why she may not indulge in so harmless a fancy."
The illustrated book of manners: a manual of good behavior and polite accomplishments by R. De Valcourt, 1866.
archive.org/details/illu...
The illustrated book of manners: a manual of good behavior and polite accomplishments by R. De Valcourt, 1866.
archive.org/details/illu...
January 8, 2025 at 11:32 PM
"If a woman fancies that she looks better or feels better in men's clothes, there is no reason why she may not indulge in so harmless a fancy."
The illustrated book of manners: a manual of good behavior and polite accomplishments by R. De Valcourt, 1866.
archive.org/details/illu...
The illustrated book of manners: a manual of good behavior and polite accomplishments by R. De Valcourt, 1866.
archive.org/details/illu...
we all have an emotional support dead famous guy and who he is says a lot about you
December 24, 2024 at 9:26 PM
we all have an emotional support dead famous guy and who he is says a lot about you
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Boris Johnson, Neil Gaiman, Elon Musk, and Greg Wallace - all blaming neurodivergence for bad behaviour. This is utterly disgusting as a trend, and I am very much NOT here for it. The whole lot of them are immoral turds, reaching for anything that excuses the shit actions that they take. HATE.
Huh it’s weird can any highly-attuned pattern-noticers see a pattern forming here? I can’t put my finger on it /don’t want to put any of my fingers anywhere near it
December 9, 2024 at 10:19 AM
Boris Johnson, Neil Gaiman, Elon Musk, and Greg Wallace - all blaming neurodivergence for bad behaviour. This is utterly disgusting as a trend, and I am very much NOT here for it. The whole lot of them are immoral turds, reaching for anything that excuses the shit actions that they take. HATE.
Unprecedented levels of coziness happening in my living room right now
December 6, 2024 at 12:32 PM
Unprecedented levels of coziness happening in my living room right now
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France has just had a review of healthcare for young trans people and it has come out entirely the opposite to Cass. But then again the personnel involved had not been specifically selected to arrive at a politically-required outcome.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
![The most recent international guidelines [12] suggest that GAH should be initiated in transgender adolescents whose gender incongruence has been confirmed according to the criteria outlined in the ICD-11 (Table 1). Additionally, these adolescents should demonstrate sufficient emotional and cognitive maturity to provide informed consent for treatment. Unlike strict age criteria, other factors such as the duration of gender incongruence, medical follow-up history, persistence of transition requests, psychological distress, and the individual's maturity level should be considered when determining the optimal timing for introducing GAH.
In situations where GAH is introduced before Tanner stage 5 (especially when GnRHa has been previously prescribed), suppression can be maintained upon the introduction of GAH to prevent the action of endogenous hormones and the appearance or continued progression of secondary sexual characteristics in the undesired gender.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:d56idxm2oyqwwn2uxnegm2yo/bafkreicxk5xed5no2jm57oz6mzrtrenufehvmqn7ig4cqrgdeuiu52hqwu@jpeg)
December 3, 2024 at 7:34 AM
France has just had a review of healthcare for young trans people and it has come out entirely the opposite to Cass. But then again the personnel involved had not been specifically selected to arrive at a politically-required outcome.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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remember the reason for the season
November 30, 2024 at 12:01 AM
remember the reason for the season
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Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️
So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality?
We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary
#WomeninSTEM
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality?
We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary
#WomeninSTEM
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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November 25, 2024 at 12:38 PM
Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️
So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality?
We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary
#WomeninSTEM
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality?
We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary
#WomeninSTEM
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Are there any plant science (or related fields) starter packs on here? 🪴🌱🧬
#biology #plantscience #ecology #conservation #genomics
#biology #plantscience #ecology #conservation #genomics
November 25, 2024 at 6:22 PM
Are there any plant science (or related fields) starter packs on here? 🪴🌱🧬
#biology #plantscience #ecology #conservation #genomics
#biology #plantscience #ecology #conservation #genomics
Just got the grade back for my first R assignment and I absolutely smashed it 🥳 such a relief as coding and statistics were areas I was SO worried about when I decided to do a biological science degree!
November 25, 2024 at 6:20 PM
Just got the grade back for my first R assignment and I absolutely smashed it 🥳 such a relief as coding and statistics were areas I was SO worried about when I decided to do a biological science degree!