Biology LGBTQ+ Journal Club

It's always a thrill returning to Oxford where I lived, studied, and worked for so long. I'm giving a talk at the stunning new Life and Mind Building . . . 🏳️‍🌈🐵🏳️‍⚧️🧬

#Oxford #QueerBiology #lgbtq @oxfordbiologylgbtq.bsky.social

We are super excited about Ross Brooks’ seminar on Tuesday! Details and sign up information below ⬇️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

More details and sign up: forms.office.com/e/aUYSgGnBxk

We are delighted to announce our upcoming LGBTQ+ seminar given by Dr Ross Brooks who will be talking about his upcoming book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life! 2nd December @ 4pm in the Life and Mind Building, open to all members of Oxford university 🥳🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
@rossb-brighton.bsky.social #QueerBiology

Five steps towards being a trans ally - BES Five steps towards being a trans ally - BES is the largest scientific society for ecologists in Europe. We're working towards a world in which nature and people thrive.

Last year I wrote this for Transgender Awareness Week because of the challenges I've faced in my institution. Sharing it again as this week we celebrate trans identities and remember those who have been targeted for being themselves
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/five-steps-t...

The logo for LGBTQ+STEM Day, with the hashtags below and the date 18 of November, over a rainbow background

Happy International Day of LGBTQIA+ People In STEM!

How are you celebrating it?

#LGBTQSTEMDay #PrideInSTEM

Reverse mounting in birds Reverse mounting has been extensively documented across avian taxa but has not received significant attention from behavioural ecologists or evolutionary biologists. In this review, we focus on the...

Happy Birthday! 🎈 Here's a great article on reverse mounting in birds by the brilliant @daniel-a-villar.bsky.social . . .

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03949370.2024.2366855#d1e115

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rainbowR event: Trans Lived Experiences in Data 🏳️‍⚧️

We are partnering with the
@rssdiversity.bsky.social Celebrating Diversity SIG to host an online event next week. More info below!

📅 19th Nov 17:30–18:30 (GMT)
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Have you read any queer biology papers lately? If you have suggestions for future discussion topics, we'd love to hear them! ⬇️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

An alternative hypothesis for the evolution of same-sex sexual behaviour in animals - Nature Ecology & Evolution The authors hypothesize an ancestral condition of indiscriminate sexual behaviours directed towards all sexes, rather than a state in which different-sex sexual behaviour is a baseline and same-sex se...

Finally, this paper by Monk et al (2019) which presents an alternative hypothesis for the evolution of same-sex sexual behaviour: instead of asking "why" they ask: "why not?" (5/n) @eringiglio.bsky.social @maxlambert.bsky.social @ideaspermatheca.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...

Next up: ants! 🐜Juvé et al (2025) presents an obligately hybridising ant reproductive system which challenges our understanding of biological individuals and species boundaries. (4/n) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our next topic was lichens! In Queer Theory for Lichens, David Griffiths explains how lichens defy heteronormative ideas of reproduction and queer the concept of the biological individual 🌿🍄🦠 (3/n) currents.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cu...

Penguin family values: The nature of planetary environmental reproductve justce Download Citation | Penguin family values: The nature of planetary environmental reproductve justce | In 2005, a nature documentary entitled The March of the Penguins was a surprise hit, winning an Ac...

We started with a classic system in queer biology: penguins! This article by Prof. Noël Sturgeon discusses environmental reproductive justice and the portrayal of penguin sexual behaviours in media from March of the Penguins and Happy Feet to Roy and Silo🐧(2/n) www.researchgate.net/publication/...

LGBTQ+ Journal Club is turning 1! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈To celebrate, here's a bit about what we've been up to over the past year: a thread of interesting papers in queer biology (1/n) ⬇️🧵

@bi1iana.bsky.social

Very happy to take part in @oxfordbiologylgbtq.bsky.social journal club this week!!

Please do come if you are about in Oxford! We will discuss gay penguins and the possiblitiles of what would an inclusive science look like.

In our session this week, we will be joined by the amazing @penguinacho.bsky.social for a discussion on penguin sexuality and the documentary Animal Pride: Nature's Coming Out Story! 🐧💬 #QueerStem #QueerAcademia #GayPenguins

Image credits to @plewin.bsky.social for this lovely beetle cartoon and our logo (and member Bil for the penguin cover image!)

A cartoon of 2 rhinocerous beetles clashing. One beetle is saying "I'm just trying to kiss you!" and the other beetle is saying "I'm just trying to kiss you too!". Above them is text reading LGBTQ+ Journal Club in the colours of the progress pride flag.

Hello bluesky! We are an LGBTQ+ Biology Journal Club at Uni of Oxford 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️. We are interested in topics relevant to queer ecology and amplifying queer voices in academia 🪲🌱.

For those in Oxford, we meet every 2 weeks - get in touch for more details! 🥳