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Pieter
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LGBTQIA+/genderqueer (they/he) neurodiverse (ADHD) geochemist, mineralogist and amateur artist. Opinions are my own!
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annehealthcare.bsky.social
We are sickened by NHS Sussex's investigation into WellBN GP Practice—a bullying tactic against clinicians providing legal, lifesaving care to trans young people.

Families are traumatised. Read our statement in full here: anne.health/anne-health-...
November 7, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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eageo.bsky.social
🌟 Join or renew your EAG membership at: buff.ly/KGocbP0

Benefits include:
Reduced fees @ conferences like #Goldschmidt
Publications: including print issues of #Elements, Geochemical Perspectives
ECRs: funding via the sponsored student & early career programs

Don't miss out, join or renew today!
November 3, 2025 at 7:50 AM
p-bots.bsky.social
The EAG is looking for enthusiastic and motivated volunteers for the committees: Communications, Council Nominations, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Training & Outreach Committee and Award Nominations. Anyone working in geochemistry can apply.

Deadline: 31 December

www.eag.org/application-...
Volunteer, plus EAG logo.
October 25, 2025 at 8:57 AM
p-bots.bsky.social
@eageo.bsky.social, we're looking for you to join committees. There are many, I would especially like to recommend the dei committee, though it might be biased as i am the co-chair 😁🤔.. www.linkedin.com/posts/europe...
#geochemistry | European Association of Geochemistry
Get involved & volunteer for an EAG Committee 💪 The EAG is looking for enthusiastic & motivated volunteers for the following: Communications, Council Nominations, DEI, Award Nominations, Training & O...
www.linkedin.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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sophiemolly.co.uk
Say it loud!!! Say it clear!!! Refugees are welcome here!!!
September 14, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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goldschmidt-confer.bsky.social
New on the EAG Blog "Uncover the Hidden Histories of Scientists at Goldschmidt 2025" by Sri Budhi Utami: buff.ly/r0YIgUb
Join the DEI Lunchtime Workshop 
📅 Thurs July 10, 13:00
📍 South Hall 1A
“Hidden histories - Towards equity, diversity & inclusion in geosciences”
@sbutami.bsky.social
Uncover the Hidden Histories of Scientists at Goldschmidt 2025 - EAG Blog
Under-representation remain a chronic problem in science, and geochemistry is no exception. Scientists from under-represented groups often become lost in the noise of history due to neglect and/or…
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July 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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goodlawproject.org
We brought to the Supreme Court the voices it cruelly excluded. goodlawproject.org/the-supreme-...
The Supreme Court refused to listen to trans voices. We brought them to the Supreme Court. | Good Law Project
Munroe Bergdorf, Nadia Almada, India Willoughby and Victoria McCloud said what they would have said if the judges had let them speak, and told us what it’s like to live in the hostile world this judgm...
goodlawproject.org
May 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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emanemz.bsky.social
When your kids heart is completely broken and there is nothing you can do 😞.
Emily in a blue and white football kit, hair in a plait playing with a football. Statement off Emily’s Instagram account.
May 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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chris-noone.bsky.social
Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
May 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
I keep thinking about this.
bkjwordplay.bsky.social Brian Keith Jackson @bkjwordplay.bsky.social · Mar 27
So, basically anybody can get a plastic badge and start abducting people off the street, which basically means more Black, Brown, and Indigenous women, citizens, are about to go missing, because no one really cares about them.
March 27, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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erininthemorning.com
I can't watch this and say nothing. The arrest of people lawfully here because of things they have said is nothing short of creating a new class of political prisoners.

Then sweeping them away to Louisiana to evade the rule of law is atrocious.

We cannot stay silent.
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Mar 26
A different angle showing the kidnapping of Runeysa Ozturk by U.S. secret police in Massachusetts.

(via Daniel Boguslaw on Twitter) x.com/DRBoguslaw/s...
March 27, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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leastactionhero.bsky.social
einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter:

(1) your haters are trash
(2) you’re a baller, a true queen
(3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️
Prague, 23 November 1911 Highly esteemed Mrs. Curie, Do not laugh at me for writing you without having anything sensible to say. But I am so enraged by the base manner in which the public is presently daring to concern itself with you!? that I absolutely must give vent to this feeling. However, I am convinced that you consistently despise this rabble, whether it obsequiously lavishes respect on you or whether it attempts to satiate its lust for sensationalism! I am impelled to tell you how much I have come to admire your intellect, your drive, and your honesty, and that I consider myself lucky to have made your personal acquaintance in Brussels. Anyone who does not number among these reptiles is certainly happy, now as before, that we have such personages among us as you, and Langevin(3) too, real people with whom one feels privileged to be in contact. If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don't read that hogwash, but rather leave it to the reptile for whom i
June 27, 2024 at 2:17 PM
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rigb.org
The secret's out! 🚀

The 2025 Christmas Lectures, supported by CGI, will be presented by Dr Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock, and will be about outer space and all the scientific wonders beyond planet Earth.

We can't wait until December! Find out more: rigb.org/christmas-lectures
March 14, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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seismatters.bsky.social
🌍 We need more young people (and adults, quite frankly) to learn about climate change, so I was very happy to sign this open letter to the Secretary of State for Education in the UK.

✍🏿 If you feel the same, please read and sign the letter, as well as reading more about this issue here 🔽
March 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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morganhphillips.bsky.social
Open letter to Bridget Phillipson with a stellar list of signatories:

www.tes.com/magazine/new....

You can sign it too, follow the link to the letter from the article to find the form.
Ministers urged to ensure climate change is taught across curriculum
Experts say teachers want more professional development support to teach climate change and sustainability
www.tes.com
February 27, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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esqueer.net
I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence.

This is a campaign of eradication.

www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...
"A screenshot of an NBC News article headline. The headline reads: 'Texas bill would make identifying as transgender a felony punishable by jail.' Below the headline, a subtext states: 'The bill, while unlikely to pass, highlights the increasing extremism of legislation targeting trans people, especially in Texas, in recent years.' The NBC News logo is visible at the top, along with a navigation bar that includes a 'WATCH' button and a user profile icon."
March 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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t0nyyates.bsky.social
Telegraph reports that Ukraine membership of the Single Market would boost its economy. Irony is dead. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
EU preparing to give Ukraine access to Single Market in peace deal
Access would give economic boost to war-torn country – on its path to bloc membership
www.telegraph.co.uk
March 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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juejuebeans.bsky.social
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Take a good look at what you’ve become..
March 8, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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melodyannross.bsky.social
Reposting again for absolutely no reason whatsoever
ijayas.bsky.social Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · Apr 5
A study on what many of us already know: over 75% of internal service work in academia is done by women. The bit that gets me:”The male associate professors in particular made it clear that they actively engaged in evasiveness and did not want to participate if it was not positive for their careers”
Women end up doing the academic housework
kifinfo.no
March 7, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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sophiemolly.co.uk
Labour Councillor Laurie Burton must apologise to me in writing for calling me a man. It has been determined by the Monitoring Officer at Southend On Sea City Council.

I expect it to be sincere and brought to me in a timely manner.

This is a victory for trans people. Pass it on!! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️
I consider that an informal resolution is a proportionate outcome for Complaint 2 which can be resolved by the Subject Councillor making an apology to you in writing and being required to attend social media training with a specific focus on responses to posts made by others so as to increase their awareness of the dangers and pitfalls that this presents to those in public office. There is no right of appeal against my decision, as Monitoring Officer, to resolve the matter by informal resolution. However, you do have the right to refer the matter to the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman. The Ombudsman does not offer a right of appeal against a council's decision on member conduct complaints, but they can consider if there was fault in the way the council considered the complaint. Please see Complaints about Standards and Member Conduct - Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman. The Complaints process and the details of any consideration of complaints are confidential and you are kindly asked not to disclose the contents of this letter, save for the purpose of advice. A copy of this decision letter has been sent to Councillor Burton. Yours sincerely Susan Zeiss Director Legal Services and Monitoring Officer
March 8, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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adrianaguatame.bsky.social
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
March 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
Scientists who are actively against fascism because fascism is bad, not just because sometimes it hurts scientists, are my people
March 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM