GenderSci Lab
@genderscilab.bsky.social
Feminist research lab at Harvard University dedicated to generating concepts, methods, and theories for scientific research on sex and gender.
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New publication with @susanshort.bsky.social in @lancetrh-americ.bsky.social. We analyzed 2025 revisions to womenshealth[dot]gov under the Trump administration -documenting how credible health content was replaced with ideology: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Rewriting women's health: a content analysis of the Trump administration's revisions to womenshealth.gov
In 2025, the Trump administration instituted rapid changes to the data and information available on US government websites. We conducted a content ana…
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October 30, 2025 at 5:54 PM
New publication with @susanshort.bsky.social in @lancetrh-americ.bsky.social. We analyzed 2025 revisions to womenshealth[dot]gov under the Trump administration -documenting how credible health content was replaced with ideology: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Celebrating lab member Madeleine Pape's new article about gender/sex entanglement, structural sexism, and injury through the case of Australian rules football!
Check it out here 🏉 : doi.org/10.1002/ajhb...
Check it out here 🏉 : doi.org/10.1002/ajhb...
Gender/Sex Entanglement, Structural Sexism, and Injury: The Case of Australian Rules Football
This article considers how to approach sporting injury from the perspective of gender/sex entanglement. Taking the case of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries, I explore how the gender differen...
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October 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Celebrating lab member Madeleine Pape's new article about gender/sex entanglement, structural sexism, and injury through the case of Australian rules football!
Check it out here 🏉 : doi.org/10.1002/ajhb...
Check it out here 🏉 : doi.org/10.1002/ajhb...
Find out what researchers in biomedicine, life-science, and further disciplines can learn from understanding the double historicity of concepts and phenomena of sex and gender 💡⚡
Check out lab member Alex Thinius's new paper:
doi.org/10.1007/s105...
Check out lab member Alex Thinius's new paper:
doi.org/10.1007/s105...
The Double Historicity of Sex and Gender - Archives of Sexual Behavior
Archives of Sexual Behavior -
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October 2, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Find out what researchers in biomedicine, life-science, and further disciplines can learn from understanding the double historicity of concepts and phenomena of sex and gender 💡⚡
Check out lab member Alex Thinius's new paper:
doi.org/10.1007/s105...
Check out lab member Alex Thinius's new paper:
doi.org/10.1007/s105...
US executive order 14168 terminated federal funding for much gender-related research. How can scientists speak out against gender-related disinformation efforts?
Learn more in "Combat disinformation about gender research" by Restar, Gamarel, and Operario here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Learn more in "Combat disinformation about gender research" by Restar, Gamarel, and Operario here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Combat disinformation about gender research
US executive order 14168 of 20 January 2025 terminated federal funding for research that examines gender as a scientific and social construct beyond the so-called “immutable biological classification ...
www.science.org
August 31, 2025 at 1:40 PM
US executive order 14168 terminated federal funding for much gender-related research. How can scientists speak out against gender-related disinformation efforts?
Learn more in "Combat disinformation about gender research" by Restar, Gamarel, and Operario here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Learn more in "Combat disinformation about gender research" by Restar, Gamarel, and Operario here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Call for Commentaries: How Many Sexes Are There? How Many Genders Are There? Deadline September 1st!
🔗 You can access the article at this link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🔗 You can access the article at this link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Call for Commentaries: How Many Sexes Are There? How Many Genders Are There? - Archives of Sexual Behavior
Archives of Sexual Behavior -
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August 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Call for Commentaries: How Many Sexes Are There? How Many Genders Are There? Deadline September 1st!
🔗 You can access the article at this link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🔗 You can access the article at this link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Call for Papers! 🚨
Gametic Politics: Eggs, Sperm, and Gender/Sex in the 21st Century
A Workshop for Early-Career Researchers organized by Rene Almeling (@ralmeling.bsky.social) and Sarah Richardson (@profrichardson.bsky.social)
April 16-17, 2026; Yale University, New Haven, CT
Gametic Politics: Eggs, Sperm, and Gender/Sex in the 21st Century
A Workshop for Early-Career Researchers organized by Rene Almeling (@ralmeling.bsky.social) and Sarah Richardson (@profrichardson.bsky.social)
April 16-17, 2026; Yale University, New Haven, CT
Gametic Politics Workshop
Call for papers for social science and humanities scholars studying eggs, sperm, and gender/sex in the 21st century
www.renealmeling.com
August 5, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Call for Papers! 🚨
Gametic Politics: Eggs, Sperm, and Gender/Sex in the 21st Century
A Workshop for Early-Career Researchers organized by Rene Almeling (@ralmeling.bsky.social) and Sarah Richardson (@profrichardson.bsky.social)
April 16-17, 2026; Yale University, New Haven, CT
Gametic Politics: Eggs, Sperm, and Gender/Sex in the 21st Century
A Workshop for Early-Career Researchers organized by Rene Almeling (@ralmeling.bsky.social) and Sarah Richardson (@profrichardson.bsky.social)
April 16-17, 2026; Yale University, New Haven, CT
"Defending research and clinical practice in gender-related areas must be a priority in the face of perilous new attacks on science and academic freedom" - "Gender Under Attack," by GenderSci Lab director Sarah Richardson (@profrichardson.bsky.social) , in today's Lancet.
August 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
"Defending research and clinical practice in gender-related areas must be a priority in the face of perilous new attacks on science and academic freedom" - "Gender Under Attack," by GenderSci Lab director Sarah Richardson (@profrichardson.bsky.social) , in today's Lancet.
Lab member Jamie Marsella (@jrmarsella.bsky.social) explores America’s long legacy of eugenic pronatalism for @teenvogue.com:
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The article: www.teenvogue.com/story/what-i...
Teen Vogue’s Bluesky post:
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July 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Lab member Jamie Marsella (@jrmarsella.bsky.social) explores America’s long legacy of eugenic pronatalism for @teenvogue.com:
Check out...:
The article: www.teenvogue.com/story/what-i...
Teen Vogue’s Bluesky post:
bsky.app/profile/teen...
Jamie's Bluesky quote tweet:
bsky.app/profile/jrma...
Check out...:
The article: www.teenvogue.com/story/what-i...
Teen Vogue’s Bluesky post:
bsky.app/profile/teen...
Jamie's Bluesky quote tweet:
bsky.app/profile/jrma...
GenderSci Lab director Sarah Richardson (@profrichardson.bsky.social) has a new paper out, extending her work on "sex contextualism"!
A GenderSci Lab Blog Q&A about the paper is linked below in the comments.
🔗 Access the new paper here: journals.publishing.umich.edu/ptpbio/artic...
A GenderSci Lab Blog Q&A about the paper is linked below in the comments.
🔗 Access the new paper here: journals.publishing.umich.edu/ptpbio/artic...
Sex and the Riddle of Variability
Scientific research associations, funders, and publishers have recently introduced sex inclusion mandates requiring the use of male and female specimens in preclinical research designs and the analysi...
journals.publishing.umich.edu
July 2, 2025 at 1:36 PM
GenderSci Lab director Sarah Richardson (@profrichardson.bsky.social) has a new paper out, extending her work on "sex contextualism"!
A GenderSci Lab Blog Q&A about the paper is linked below in the comments.
🔗 Access the new paper here: journals.publishing.umich.edu/ptpbio/artic...
A GenderSci Lab Blog Q&A about the paper is linked below in the comments.
🔗 Access the new paper here: journals.publishing.umich.edu/ptpbio/artic...
Resharing with the update that the GenderSci Lab's NSF grant was terminated last week, leaving us with a $500K shortfall. We are seeking both small donors and partners w/ capacity to provide serious bridge funding for our work while Harvard fights for the future of US higher ed and science.
📣 Donate to support the Harvard GenderSci Lab! 📣 If you believe in feminist science, in research that challenges bias, and in training the next generation of feminist scholars — please consider supporting or sharing! Learn more at this link:
www.genderscilab.org/donate
www.genderscilab.org/donate
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May 23, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Resharing with the update that the GenderSci Lab's NSF grant was terminated last week, leaving us with a $500K shortfall. We are seeking both small donors and partners w/ capacity to provide serious bridge funding for our work while Harvard fights for the future of US higher ed and science.
We are excited to share the upcoming release of Seminal, a groundbreaking collection exploring sperm as a lens into the complex intersections of biology, politics, and health. Lab member Marion Boulicault contributed a chapter based on our sperm decline work.
May 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
We are excited to share the upcoming release of Seminal, a groundbreaking collection exploring sperm as a lens into the complex intersections of biology, politics, and health. Lab member Marion Boulicault contributed a chapter based on our sperm decline work.
Join author Agustín Fuentes (@anthrofuentes.bsky.social) in conversation with GenderSci Lab Director Sarah Richardson (@profrichardson.bsky.social) about his new book, Sex is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary.
📍Harvard Book Store
📆 Tuesday May 13, 7 PM
www.harvard.com/event/agust%...
📍Harvard Book Store
📆 Tuesday May 13, 7 PM
www.harvard.com/event/agust%...
May 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Join author Agustín Fuentes (@anthrofuentes.bsky.social) in conversation with GenderSci Lab Director Sarah Richardson (@profrichardson.bsky.social) about his new book, Sex is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary.
📍Harvard Book Store
📆 Tuesday May 13, 7 PM
www.harvard.com/event/agust%...
📍Harvard Book Store
📆 Tuesday May 13, 7 PM
www.harvard.com/event/agust%...
📣 Donate to support the Harvard GenderSci Lab! 📣 If you believe in feminist science, in research that challenges bias, and in training the next generation of feminist scholars — please consider supporting or sharing! Learn more at this link:
www.genderscilab.org/donate
www.genderscilab.org/donate
Donate — GenderSci Lab
www.genderscilab.org
April 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
📣 Donate to support the Harvard GenderSci Lab! 📣 If you believe in feminist science, in research that challenges bias, and in training the next generation of feminist scholars — please consider supporting or sharing! Learn more at this link:
www.genderscilab.org/donate
www.genderscilab.org/donate
🌟Scholars and activists interested in women’s health, femtech, and capitalism.🌟 Our new piece, forthcoming in Signs, introduces the concept of “investment feminism” as a useful way to understand how financialization shapes the conversation around femtech and gender health equity.
tinyurl.com/ffcs67h
tinyurl.com/ffcs67h
Investment Feminism and Women's Health
This essay introduces the term investment feminism to characterize the phenomenon in which financial actors position investment as a powerful lever for advancing gender equity. We offer investment fem...
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April 2, 2025 at 3:53 PM
🌟Scholars and activists interested in women’s health, femtech, and capitalism.🌟 Our new piece, forthcoming in Signs, introduces the concept of “investment feminism” as a useful way to understand how financialization shapes the conversation around femtech and gender health equity.
tinyurl.com/ffcs67h
tinyurl.com/ffcs67h
This powerful excerpt from last week's salon hosted by the Intersectionality Training Institute with Dr. Elle Lett and GenderSci Lab Director Sarah Richardson offers valuable insights on their hopes and dreams for the future of sex and gender science 🌟
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw5T...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw5T...
What is there to be hopeful abut in the science of gender and sex?
YouTube video by Intersectionality Training Institute
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March 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
This powerful excerpt from last week's salon hosted by the Intersectionality Training Institute with Dr. Elle Lett and GenderSci Lab Director Sarah Richardson offers valuable insights on their hopes and dreams for the future of sex and gender science 🌟
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw5T...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw5T...
Join The Intersectionality Training Institute on Thursday, March 12 from 5:00 to 6:30PM EDT for a salon hosted by Dr. Elle Lett featuring GenderSci Lab Director Sarah Richardson on Sex, Gender, Law, Policy & How We Got Here.
Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
March 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Join The Intersectionality Training Institute on Thursday, March 12 from 5:00 to 6:30PM EDT for a salon hosted by Dr. Elle Lett featuring GenderSci Lab Director Sarah Richardson on Sex, Gender, Law, Policy & How We Got Here.
Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Sex Based Medicine: Helpful or Harmful?
Join The Moynihan Center on Thursday, March 13 from 2:00 to 3:30PM EDT for a panel featuring Catherine Clune-Taylor, Anais Hausvater, Sarah Richardson (@profrichardson.bsky.social), and Angela Saini.
Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/sex-based-...
Join The Moynihan Center on Thursday, March 13 from 2:00 to 3:30PM EDT for a panel featuring Catherine Clune-Taylor, Anais Hausvater, Sarah Richardson (@profrichardson.bsky.social), and Angela Saini.
Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/sex-based-...
Sex Based Medicine: Helpful or Harmful?
Join The Moynihan Center for a panel featuring Catherine Clune-Taylor, Anais Hausvater, Sarah Richardson, and Angela Saini.
www.eventbrite.com
March 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Sex Based Medicine: Helpful or Harmful?
Join The Moynihan Center on Thursday, March 13 from 2:00 to 3:30PM EDT for a panel featuring Catherine Clune-Taylor, Anais Hausvater, Sarah Richardson (@profrichardson.bsky.social), and Angela Saini.
Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/sex-based-...
Join The Moynihan Center on Thursday, March 13 from 2:00 to 3:30PM EDT for a panel featuring Catherine Clune-Taylor, Anais Hausvater, Sarah Richardson (@profrichardson.bsky.social), and Angela Saini.
Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/sex-based-...
Reposted by GenderSci Lab
I am a historian and philosopher of science who specializes in scientific constructs of sex. I am available to speak with media, community groups, and legal advocates regarding the EO "DEFENDING WOMEN FROM GENDER IDEOLOGY EXTREMISM AND RESTORING BIOLOGICAL TRUTH TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT."
Sarah S. Richardson
Aramont Professor of the History of Science and Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
scholar.harvard.edu
January 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I am a historian and philosopher of science who specializes in scientific constructs of sex. I am available to speak with media, community groups, and legal advocates regarding the EO "DEFENDING WOMEN FROM GENDER IDEOLOGY EXTREMISM AND RESTORING BIOLOGICAL TRUTH TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT."
Lab members Abbie Higgins, Ben Maldonado, Jamie Marsella, and Sarah Richardson spoke at Harvard Medical School about their recent piece in NEJM 🔗
Sarah Richardson: "There are ethical and social conversations to have about the implications of targeting research to particular categories or groups."
Sarah Richardson: "There are ethical and social conversations to have about the implications of targeting research to particular categories or groups."
January 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Lab members Abbie Higgins, Ben Maldonado, Jamie Marsella, and Sarah Richardson spoke at Harvard Medical School about their recent piece in NEJM 🔗
Sarah Richardson: "There are ethical and social conversations to have about the implications of targeting research to particular categories or groups."
Sarah Richardson: "There are ethical and social conversations to have about the implications of targeting research to particular categories or groups."
Professor Sarah Richardson's virtual keynote on "Sex Contextualism in Practice" at the @humboldtuni.bsky.social colloquium is live!
📹View and share the recording below, which can be used as a companion to our teaching module on sex contextualism, also linked.
rs.cms.hu-berlin.de/ztg-medien/p...
📹View and share the recording below, which can be used as a companion to our teaching module on sex contextualism, also linked.
rs.cms.hu-berlin.de/ztg-medien/p...
rs.cms.hu-berlin.de
December 17, 2024 at 3:12 PM
Professor Sarah Richardson's virtual keynote on "Sex Contextualism in Practice" at the @humboldtuni.bsky.social colloquium is live!
📹View and share the recording below, which can be used as a companion to our teaching module on sex contextualism, also linked.
rs.cms.hu-berlin.de/ztg-medien/p...
📹View and share the recording below, which can be used as a companion to our teaching module on sex contextualism, also linked.
rs.cms.hu-berlin.de/ztg-medien/p...
Are women really more prone to ACL injuries than men? 🤔 Harvard Gazette reports on new GenderSci Lab research challenging the data and the biases behind it.
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news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
Real reason ACL injury rate is higher for women — Harvard Gazette
Key sports science metric fails to account for unequal resources between male and female athletes, finds a new Harvard study.
news.harvard.edu
December 13, 2024 at 2:51 PM
Are women really more prone to ACL injuries than men? 🤔 Harvard Gazette reports on new GenderSci Lab research challenging the data and the biases behind it.
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
New paper about sex eliminativism in Biology and Philosophy from Aja Watkins and our very own Marina DiMarco 🧫
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Sex eliminativism - Biology & Philosophy
The concept of biological sex guides research, clinical practice, science funding policy, and contemporary political discourse. Despite some substantive differences, all existing candidate philosophic...
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December 13, 2024 at 2:40 PM
New paper about sex eliminativism in Biology and Philosophy from Aja Watkins and our very own Marina DiMarco 🧫
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Are women really more prone to ACL injuries than men? 🤔 New GenderSciLab research challenges the data and the biases behind it. Read more in the British Journal of Sports Medicine #SportsScience #ACLInjury
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www.bath.ac.uk/announcement...
Are women really more prone to ACL injuries? New study challenges common claims
New research highlights how gender inequalities in sports could be distorting injury data and calls for more accurate measurements
www.bath.ac.uk
December 9, 2024 at 9:24 PM
Are women really more prone to ACL injuries than men? 🤔 New GenderSciLab research challenges the data and the biases behind it. Read more in the British Journal of Sports Medicine #SportsScience #ACLInjury
www.bath.ac.uk/announcement...
www.bath.ac.uk/announcement...
📣 Have you been hearing about the “crisis of women’s ACL injuries” in the media? A new paper from the GenderSci Lab in the British Journal of Sports Medicine delves into how the gendered realities of women and men’s sports could affect how injury rates are captured ⬇️
bjsm.bmj.com/content/earl...
bjsm.bmj.com/content/earl...
Limitations of athlete-exposures as a construct for comparisons of injury rates by gender/sex: a narrative review
High rates of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries in girls’ and women’s sports have garnered significant attention from researchers, sport organisations and the media. Gender/sex disparities in ...
bjsm.bmj.com
December 5, 2024 at 9:50 PM
📣 Have you been hearing about the “crisis of women’s ACL injuries” in the media? A new paper from the GenderSci Lab in the British Journal of Sports Medicine delves into how the gendered realities of women and men’s sports could affect how injury rates are captured ⬇️
bjsm.bmj.com/content/earl...
bjsm.bmj.com/content/earl...
📣 Symposium 3: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in the Journal
Wednesday Nov 20, 12–2 PM EST
Presented by Harvard Medical School, the Center for the History of Medicine, and New England Journal of Medicine.
Featuring GSL Speakers: Ben Maldonado, Jamie Marsella, Abigail Higgins, & Sarah Richardson.
Wednesday Nov 20, 12–2 PM EST
Presented by Harvard Medical School, the Center for the History of Medicine, and New England Journal of Medicine.
Featuring GSL Speakers: Ben Maldonado, Jamie Marsella, Abigail Higgins, & Sarah Richardson.
November 13, 2024 at 10:11 PM
📣 Symposium 3: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in the Journal
Wednesday Nov 20, 12–2 PM EST
Presented by Harvard Medical School, the Center for the History of Medicine, and New England Journal of Medicine.
Featuring GSL Speakers: Ben Maldonado, Jamie Marsella, Abigail Higgins, & Sarah Richardson.
Wednesday Nov 20, 12–2 PM EST
Presented by Harvard Medical School, the Center for the History of Medicine, and New England Journal of Medicine.
Featuring GSL Speakers: Ben Maldonado, Jamie Marsella, Abigail Higgins, & Sarah Richardson.