Dr. Erin Giglio 🏳️🌈
@eringiglio.bsky.social
UMN postdoc of indeterminate discipline and indiscriminate interests. neurodivergence, disability, decision-making, behavioral states, gender, metabolism, leptin, queerness, computing, sexuality, politics, general yelling. I like dogs a normal amount. she
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Fundamentally, what we need is leadership. But we break with the chorus of most #OpenScience initiatives here and emphasize very strongly that this leadership must come from funders and institutions.
We researchers can support the battle, but we cannot lead the charge. Funders hold the cards.
6/n
We researchers can support the battle, but we cannot lead the charge. Funders hold the cards.
6/n
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Fundamentally, what we need is leadership. But we break with the chorus of most #OpenScience initiatives here and emphasize very strongly that this leadership must come from funders and institutions.
We researchers can support the battle, but we cannot lead the charge. Funders hold the cards.
6/n
We researchers can support the battle, but we cannot lead the charge. Funders hold the cards.
6/n
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We are literally mad about your failure to fight the real dangers.
But there are real dangers out there that must be fought; and energy spent fighting each other is energy lost to that bigger fight.
November 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
We are literally mad about your failure to fight the real dangers.
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Really proud of this one. Our first study on innovative problem-solving in free-ranging small mammals is fresh off the press of Animal Cognition rdcu.be/eOHl3. We looked at what happens with human disturbance in a protected area...without disturbing our most precious collaborators!
November 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Really proud of this one. Our first study on innovative problem-solving in free-ranging small mammals is fresh off the press of Animal Cognition rdcu.be/eOHl3. We looked at what happens with human disturbance in a protected area...without disturbing our most precious collaborators!
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I've said for years that fearmongering about and around autism doesn't just hurt #ActuallyAutistic people: It hurts their parents. It leads them down rabbit holes and expensive "treatments" and if they don't spend on them, they are stigmatized as bad parents.
wapo.st/4oOSpTQ
wapo.st/4oOSpTQ
This mom has three children with autism. She’s spent thousands on false hope.
With three autistic children, a Michigan mother has been lured into spending thousands on unproven and sometimes risky treatments to ease their symptoms.
wapo.st
November 7, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I've said for years that fearmongering about and around autism doesn't just hurt #ActuallyAutistic people: It hurts their parents. It leads them down rabbit holes and expensive "treatments" and if they don't spend on them, they are stigmatized as bad parents.
wapo.st/4oOSpTQ
wapo.st/4oOSpTQ
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A really good thread on adjusting your bsky filter settings, which you might not know are set to be fully on by default!
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
A really good thread on adjusting your bsky filter settings, which you might not know are set to be fully on by default!
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"“Normal” testosterone levels are largely based on studies from high-income populations that do not account for diverse ecological conditions known to influence physiology. This study highlights complex relationships that exist among age, adiposity & testosterone patterns in subsistence populations"
Salivary Testosterone, Age, and Adiposity Associations Among Shuar Males in Amazonian Ecuador Challenge Assumptions of “Normal” Testosterone Patterns
Objectives
Adult male testosterone concentrations in high income countries often decrease with age and adiposity, a pattern typically viewed as “normal.” However, testosterone is expected to be adap.....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:16 AM
"“Normal” testosterone levels are largely based on studies from high-income populations that do not account for diverse ecological conditions known to influence physiology. This study highlights complex relationships that exist among age, adiposity & testosterone patterns in subsistence populations"
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🦇🩸⚰️ Happy Halloween! 🧛🩸🦇
Same-sex sexual behaviours in bats were first documented in 1895! Here's a more recent study: www.italian-journal-of-mammalogy.it/Same-sex-sex...
#Halloween #HappyHalloween #histsci #histbio #STS #GLAM #queer #lgbtq #queernature #PrideInSTEM 🌈🗃️
Same-sex sexual behaviours in bats were first documented in 1895! Here's a more recent study: www.italian-journal-of-mammalogy.it/Same-sex-sex...
#Halloween #HappyHalloween #histsci #histbio #STS #GLAM #queer #lgbtq #queernature #PrideInSTEM 🌈🗃️
October 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM
🦇🩸⚰️ Happy Halloween! 🧛🩸🦇
Same-sex sexual behaviours in bats were first documented in 1895! Here's a more recent study: www.italian-journal-of-mammalogy.it/Same-sex-sex...
#Halloween #HappyHalloween #histsci #histbio #STS #GLAM #queer #lgbtq #queernature #PrideInSTEM 🌈🗃️
Same-sex sexual behaviours in bats were first documented in 1895! Here's a more recent study: www.italian-journal-of-mammalogy.it/Same-sex-sex...
#Halloween #HappyHalloween #histsci #histbio #STS #GLAM #queer #lgbtq #queernature #PrideInSTEM 🌈🗃️
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There is a direct pipeline from the mommy bloggers who got information about autism on Google to the autism mommy wars of the 2000s to Robert F. Kennedy becoming HHS Secretary. For the 25th anniversary of @talkingpointsmemo.com, I chronicle this rise.
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/anti-...
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/anti-...
Anti-Vax Facebook Groups Ushered in Our Current MAHA Nightmare
In 2007, Oprah Winfrey featured Jenny McCarthy, the former Playboy model turned...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:19 PM
There is a direct pipeline from the mommy bloggers who got information about autism on Google to the autism mommy wars of the 2000s to Robert F. Kennedy becoming HHS Secretary. For the 25th anniversary of @talkingpointsmemo.com, I chronicle this rise.
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/anti-...
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/anti-...
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We have zero plans to put AI in LibreOffice, of course. Our focus is privacy and letting you control your data. Some users want AI features and they can get them via optional extensions made by the community – but we won't put it in the app itself.
October 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM
We have zero plans to put AI in LibreOffice, of course. Our focus is privacy and letting you control your data. Some users want AI features and they can get them via optional extensions made by the community – but we won't put it in the app itself.
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Hello advent calendar fans, please consider making a recurring donation to your local food pantry. You will enjoy it even more if you can chip in to help others to get enough food. Even if the government decides to stop being ghoulish, there's still a deep need
Americans brace for food stamps to run out: ‘the greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression’
Nearly 42 million people in danger as federal government shutdown continues and Snap funding to end 1 November
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Nearly 42 million people in danger as federal government shutdown continues and Snap funding to end 1 November
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Americans brace for food stamps to run out: ‘the greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression’
Nearly 42 million people in danger as federal government shutdown continues and Snap funding to end 1 November
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Hello advent calendar fans, please consider making a recurring donation to your local food pantry. You will enjoy it even more if you can chip in to help others to get enough food. Even if the government decides to stop being ghoulish, there's still a deep need
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Is there any data from academia illustrating how short deadlines for things like awards or funding opportunities disadvantage people from groups who tend to take on or are assigned more thankless labor (women), and advantage those who focus more on the work that benefits them (men)?
October 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Is there any data from academia illustrating how short deadlines for things like awards or funding opportunities disadvantage people from groups who tend to take on or are assigned more thankless labor (women), and advantage those who focus more on the work that benefits them (men)?
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The best way to show you don't know shit about Cognition is to force people to work > 40 hours / week
My dudes, you are not going to prove Henry Ford wrong: he sought to turn humans into components of an assembly line, but his own data showed > 40h / week was 🔥💸💸🔥
third-bit.com/2025/01/02/c...
My dudes, you are not going to prove Henry Ford wrong: he sought to turn humans into components of an assembly line, but his own data showed > 40h / week was 🔥💸💸🔥
third-bit.com/2025/01/02/c...
October 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The best way to show you don't know shit about Cognition is to force people to work > 40 hours / week
My dudes, you are not going to prove Henry Ford wrong: he sought to turn humans into components of an assembly line, but his own data showed > 40h / week was 🔥💸💸🔥
third-bit.com/2025/01/02/c...
My dudes, you are not going to prove Henry Ford wrong: he sought to turn humans into components of an assembly line, but his own data showed > 40h / week was 🔥💸💸🔥
third-bit.com/2025/01/02/c...
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The Women of Color in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology community (WOCinEEB; non-binary inclusive) is doing another round of matching for one-on-one mentorship!
You can sign up here: forms.gle/Cfk3Y5CZksSS...
I'm also happy to answer any questions!
#Mentorship #Ecology #EvolutionaryBiology
You can sign up here: forms.gle/Cfk3Y5CZksSS...
I'm also happy to answer any questions!
#Mentorship #Ecology #EvolutionaryBiology
WOC in EEB mentorship sign up form 2025
forms.gle
October 15, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The Women of Color in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology community (WOCinEEB; non-binary inclusive) is doing another round of matching for one-on-one mentorship!
You can sign up here: forms.gle/Cfk3Y5CZksSS...
I'm also happy to answer any questions!
#Mentorship #Ecology #EvolutionaryBiology
You can sign up here: forms.gle/Cfk3Y5CZksSS...
I'm also happy to answer any questions!
#Mentorship #Ecology #EvolutionaryBiology
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Republican support for science paved the way for my career as a biologist. To explain this, I prepared a blog post to accompany a recent Editorial published in @sicbjournals.bsky.social.
integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/h...
integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/h...
October 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Republican support for science paved the way for my career as a biologist. To explain this, I prepared a blog post to accompany a recent Editorial published in @sicbjournals.bsky.social.
integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/h...
integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/h...
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Developmental Biology and Disability.
“Developmental biology is fundamentally beautiful. We are no less beautiful for our variation. Instead, perhaps we are more so. Perhaps we are remarkable. Perhaps we are full of wonder.”
Insightful post by Bethan ⬇️👀
thenode.biologists.com/developmenta...
“Developmental biology is fundamentally beautiful. We are no less beautiful for our variation. Instead, perhaps we are more so. Perhaps we are remarkable. Perhaps we are full of wonder.”
Insightful post by Bethan ⬇️👀
thenode.biologists.com/developmenta...
Developmental Biology and Disability - the Node
Hopeful monsters. Morphospace. Mutation. Natural variation. Mutagenesis screens. Polymorphism. Deformity. Phenotype. Disease. Adaptation. Anomaly.
thenode.biologists.com
October 6, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Developmental Biology and Disability.
“Developmental biology is fundamentally beautiful. We are no less beautiful for our variation. Instead, perhaps we are more so. Perhaps we are remarkable. Perhaps we are full of wonder.”
Insightful post by Bethan ⬇️👀
thenode.biologists.com/developmenta...
“Developmental biology is fundamentally beautiful. We are no less beautiful for our variation. Instead, perhaps we are more so. Perhaps we are remarkable. Perhaps we are full of wonder.”
Insightful post by Bethan ⬇️👀
thenode.biologists.com/developmenta...
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We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.
"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.
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I've shared multiple articles about the ICE raid at 75th & South Shore Drive because no one of them captures everything important:
-simmering tensions over Venezuelan migrants into a Black neighborhood that is the eviction capital of Chicago
-prior deplorable conditions & lack of maintenance
-simmering tensions over Venezuelan migrants into a Black neighborhood that is the eviction capital of Chicago
-prior deplorable conditions & lack of maintenance
October 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I've shared multiple articles about the ICE raid at 75th & South Shore Drive because no one of them captures everything important:
-simmering tensions over Venezuelan migrants into a Black neighborhood that is the eviction capital of Chicago
-prior deplorable conditions & lack of maintenance
-simmering tensions over Venezuelan migrants into a Black neighborhood that is the eviction capital of Chicago
-prior deplorable conditions & lack of maintenance
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“Charlie Kirk did not deserve to be assassinated. But . . .”
This is one of those rare instances where what follows “but” is not terrible—not throat-clearing weasel words—but something glorious.
This is one of those rare instances where what follows “but” is not terrible—not throat-clearing weasel words—but something glorious.
September 15, 2025 at 2:13 AM
“Charlie Kirk did not deserve to be assassinated. But . . .”
This is one of those rare instances where what follows “but” is not terrible—not throat-clearing weasel words—but something glorious.
This is one of those rare instances where what follows “but” is not terrible—not throat-clearing weasel words—but something glorious.
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Where have I been the past couple months? Working on a project that will feature #DisabledInSTEM chemists who pushing the boundaries of their fields! Can't wait for that to go live Monday!
Until then, I invite you to read about 8 disabled scientists who left a lasting mark on modern chemistry. ⬇️
Until then, I invite you to read about 8 disabled scientists who left a lasting mark on modern chemistry. ⬇️
The landscape of life-altering medicines, the ways we “see” molecular structures, and even the periodic table wouldn’t be the same without chemists with disabilities. They’ve been working & innovating since the age of modern chemistry began in the 18th and 19th centuries
cen.acs.org/careers/dive...
cen.acs.org/careers/dive...
8 chemists with disabilities who left their mark on history
Scientists with disabilities ascended to the forefronts of their fields long before labs were accessible and civil rights were codified
cen.acs.org
September 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Where have I been the past couple months? Working on a project that will feature #DisabledInSTEM chemists who pushing the boundaries of their fields! Can't wait for that to go live Monday!
Until then, I invite you to read about 8 disabled scientists who left a lasting mark on modern chemistry. ⬇️
Until then, I invite you to read about 8 disabled scientists who left a lasting mark on modern chemistry. ⬇️
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This is a Melissa Hortman appreciation account for the next 24 hours.
Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman remembered as funny, savvy and 'a true leader'
Friends and colleagues remembered her as grounded, kind and compassionate.
www.pbs.org
September 10, 2025 at 11:39 PM
This is a Melissa Hortman appreciation account for the next 24 hours.
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Priscilla Williams-Till, a cousin of 14-year-old lynching victim Emmett Till, is running for U.S. Senate in Mississippi as a Democrat against incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith.
She says that Hyde-Smith's infamous remark about being "on the front row" at a public hanging helped inspire her to run.
She says that Hyde-Smith's infamous remark about being "on the front row" at a public hanging helped inspire her to run.
Emmett Till’s Cousin Is Running for US Senate in Mississippi
Priscilla Williams-Till, a cousin of Emmett Till, is running for U.S. Senate in Mississippi against incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith.
www.mississippifreepress.org
September 9, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Priscilla Williams-Till, a cousin of 14-year-old lynching victim Emmett Till, is running for U.S. Senate in Mississippi as a Democrat against incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith.
She says that Hyde-Smith's infamous remark about being "on the front row" at a public hanging helped inspire her to run.
She says that Hyde-Smith's infamous remark about being "on the front row" at a public hanging helped inspire her to run.
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While the Trump administration consistently cuts grants focused on autism, Trump is just spreading misinformation around autism and vaccines. As I wrote in my book, Trump has long played footsies with anti-vaxxers going back to his friendship with Bob Wright.
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
Trump shares video highlighting discredited theory linking vaccines to autism
Trump’s post comes just days after Kennedy was grilled by senators, including multiple Republicans, on his stance on vaccines.
www.politico.com
September 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
While the Trump administration consistently cuts grants focused on autism, Trump is just spreading misinformation around autism and vaccines. As I wrote in my book, Trump has long played footsies with anti-vaxxers going back to his friendship with Bob Wright.
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
I still play virtual pet games, and you still routinely do see people crusading against the abuse of simulated animals. It never went away, even though these games have faded in popularity from their peak.
Virtual pet enthusiasts once staged passionate campaigns to stop the abuse of simulated animals, back in the 90s - and as AI is pushed into ever-more aspects of life in 2025, I wonder if we'll see those sentiments return.
My latest newsletter piece:
little-flying-robots.ghost.io/the-virtual-...
My latest newsletter piece:
little-flying-robots.ghost.io/the-virtual-...
The Virtual Pet Games of My 90s Youth and AI Ethics: Some Thoughts
Back in the 1990s and early 2000s, back when I was a mere dweeby child, there existed a tween-driven online social movement against the cruel practice of abusing pets.
This movement was not about the...
little-flying-robots.ghost.io
September 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I still play virtual pet games, and you still routinely do see people crusading against the abuse of simulated animals. It never went away, even though these games have faded in popularity from their peak.
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Thinking these people have to be competent in order to create effects that benefit them is actually a really dangerous conflation
April 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Thinking these people have to be competent in order to create effects that benefit them is actually a really dangerous conflation
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You learn something new every day: apparently rodent thumbs are super cool! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Evolution of thumbnails across Rodentia
The unguis (hoof, claw, or nail) of the first digit (D1, also known as the thumb or pollex) of the tetrapod hand exhibits numerous functional adaptations, but its macroevolutionary association with ec...
www.science.org
September 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
You learn something new every day: apparently rodent thumbs are super cool! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...