I grew up not far from the Parkes Radio Telescope, and I've been back there multiple times throughout my life. I took this photo when my sister and I brought our kids to see it for the first time. Last year we had a family trip to Siding Spring Observatory for the Anglo-Australian 50th birthday.

In Western Australia, you can see stromatolites that are billions of years old at Lake Thetis, on your way out to the Pinnacles - a desert full of limestone structures that formed around plant roots when the whole area was under the ocean. Try to be there at the golden hour when the sun is setting.

The World Aquatics policy allows trans and intersex women to compete in the women's category if they haven't undergone male puberty and their testosterone levels have been kept low enough, or they are androgen insensitive. resources.fina.org/fina/documen...

Also, this is the summary provided by that paper, which agrees with my previous post.

This comment on X hurts my brain. Do people not know that around 60% of English words have Latin roots, either directly from Roman colonisation, or indirectly via borrowing words from other Romance languages? The English have a looooong tradition of adopting and integrating foreign speech.

I asked ChatGPT to create an expanded version of my bio that explains what the various terms mean. It did really well, in far less time than it would have taken me.

This article covers the current legal challenges to Trump's EO. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

What do you think of this data from a few years back (which is likely worse now)?

Eunice Newton Foote's experiment from 1856.

That's simply not true. This image shows fMRI scans of people who are not trans looking at photos of their bodies, combined with people who are trans looking at photos of themselves morphed into their gender identity...

Here is a comprehensive list of global support organisations for Intersex people. Note how many times and how many ways the term is used. interactadvocates.org/intersex-org...

This is a series of stickers that I helped create at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research some years back. Rubin was featured, of course! These portraits are all by artist Lisa Rye (risachantag), and in theory they're available under a creative commons license.

Transphobes have been wrestling with Grok and getting very frustrated by its consistent support of trans rights and inclusion. I found this comment. Isn't it obvious? There's no such thing as gender ideology; it's a civil rights movement logically and inescapably derived from human rights discourse.