ev nichols

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just a kid from akron | biology phd | science researcher, writer, educator | postdoc at ucla studying spinal cord development | ap giannini fellow | writes at queersciencelab.beehiiv.com | she/they 🏳️‍⚧️

Viewpoint. Science does not exist in a vacuum, but interfaces with the broader world in ways that are not always overt but are becoming increasingly complex. This includes new transformative technologies, digital disruption, and emerging/growing global issues that require integration of diverse perspectives (e.g. social, environmental, economic). Options for how we communicate, discuss and debate topics relevant to the broader scientific community and other stakeholders (e.g. government, industry, the public) have diversified in recent years and will continue to do so. More traditional approaches focused on publishing peer–reviewed papers in professional journals are largely unidirectional and somewhat static – i.e. passive rather than actively promoting useful discussion and debate beyond the specifics of the science, and in fact generally don’t actively seek to engage across domain boundaries. Viewpoint articles are topical editorials linked to an online curated platform to enable scientists and others to engage transparently in dialogue around issues raised in the editorials.
“I am a transvestist, trans-sexualist, transmutation; These are the medical terms describing my Medical Condition. However! to the uninformed; such as the self-righteous they call me Bad; the smug call me Evil; and the so-called Wise call me Sick; these are terms or similar such terms that are applied to me — that is of course if the language is kept clean; but what difference does it make to me what anyone thinks or says about me; particularly in such a matter whereby they may not be familiar with my aspect of Human Endeavor.” [emphasis original]
Who can I talk to? I f you have questions, concerns, or complaints, you can contact the Principal Investigator J. Michael Bailey at AYAGDOS@gmail.com. This research has been reviewed and approved by two Institutional Review Boards (“IRB”), the Northwestern IRB and the BRANY IRB. An IRB is a committee that protects the rights of people who participate in research studies. You may contact the Northwestern IRB by phone at 1 (312) 503- 9338 or by email at irb@northwestern.edu if: • Your questions, concerns, or complaints are not being answered by the research team. • You cannot reach the research team. • You want to talk to someone besides the research team. • You have questions about your rights as a research participant. • You want to get information or provide input about this research.
From: J <jeevacation@gmail.com> To: Robert Trivers <[REDACTED]> Subject: Re: Phone call Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2019 11:30:11 +0000 -- i can call you today if you like. my recollection is that we sat together . [highlight added] I thought that you might want to focus on transgender biology . people would be interestsesd and i would fund. [highlight end] I am a true beileiver in your talents. my understanding and of course it could be incorrect. was that honor killing work was detrimental for you. as was the knee hip ratio in sprinters etc.. little public interest where the genetics of exceptional and transgender would be helpful. I m always o f the view that i should do no harm. and said I wouldnt give you drugs. if you asked because it was bad for you. giving you money for subjects that would be in my strong view detrimental to your future. creates a problem. you said you would get back to me and then told me that chapman had offered you work. In my view. you were telling me that others would support your honor killing etc. you then asked about the markets and i said sit tight. we can talk at anytime
chart header reads: Fields Under Fire. Some research fields have been heavily affected by grant terminations implemented by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) under President Donald Trump. More than half of the active, NIH-funded projects about gender and sexual minorities (LGBT+) have been cancelled. chart #1 shows that 50.6% of grants containing the terms "LGBT/LGBTQ/LGBTQ+" in the title or abstract were terminated. chart #2 shows that 45.8% of grants containing the term "transgender" in the title or abstract were terminated. chart #3 shows that 45.5% of grants containing the term "vaccine hesitancy" in the title or abstract were terminated. chart #4 shows that 3.4% of grants containing the terms "HIV" or "AIDS" in the title or abstract were terminated.
From: "jeffrey E." <jeevacation@gmail.com> To: trivers <[REDACTED]> Subject: Re: all the best Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 20:56:18 +0000 will do details to follow . glad to help On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 4:46 PM, <[REDACTED]> wrote: >ill try to help no one knows how to pick up my spirits better than you the joke is that if getting a Fellowship requires unanimous approval by a committee you can count me out - whenever ten or more are gathered in my name, at least two hate my guts BTW i do believe i have figured out the whole mess of honor killing, am now working on the detailed solution and will then find a venue - i am tempted to use a non-academic one likewise, i am getting to the end of Itranssexuality'—need again only to choose venue and adjust style—have had a lot of fun with the attraction of the new morph(s)—have your cake and eat it too—a woman with a dick—i.e. if you as a heterosexual male and have a minor desire to suck a dick then what better organism to do it with than a transsexual? 'she' will smell like a woman, be softer and more hairless like a woman and may, to some degree, actually resemble one morphologically—leaving the dick for you to enjoy in a feminine setting now back to numbers as you would say you have been generous to a fault and i am most grateful—your recent giftsits untouched in my Foundation (-10%) one way that might make sense is if you made the one-year contract a repeated one, 20 or 30 a year—yes it is pro forma that i actually benefit your Foundation but it does set up a modus annual gift which can support me for, say, the next two years after this one, at which point i should have finished the proposed topics and perhaps more here is wishing you all the best at whatever you are up to including making more money
[text from steve long to rachel sheridan] 2/21/2025 8:34:04 AM This resolution is worded only one time about minors in the introduction. The word minors needs to be inserted ANYWHERE the resolution mentions Gender Affirming care. Paragraphs 7,8,9,10 Otherwise it implies all gender affirming treatment in my opinion???
Messages - Douglas Wetmore [to Nicole Sheridan] 2/21/2025 8:03:49 PM UVA Comms in full spin mode
texts from douglas wetmore to nicole sheridan 2/21/2025 9:16:33 AM Ego and pride are terrible 2/21/2025 9:16:58 AM Read a Shakespeare play sometime!
Messages - Bert Ellis [sent to Rachel Sheridan] 2/21/2025 12:11:26PM We are having a celebratory lunch at the White Spot.
typed poem titled "REVOLUTIONARY LETTER #63": check Science: whose interest does it serve? whose need to perpetrate mechanical dead (exploitable) universe instead of living cosmos? whose dream those hierarchies: planets & stars blindly obeying fixed laws, as they desire us, too, to stay in place whose interest to postulate man’s recent blind “descent” from “unthinking” animals our pitiable geocentric isolation: lone voice in the stars what point in this cosmology but to drain hope of contact or change /oppressing us w/“reason”
While compelled segregation is generally impermissible, failing to maintain sex-separated athletic competitions and intimate spaces can also violate federal law. Federally funded institutions that allow males, including those self-identifying as "women," to access single-sex spaces designed for females-such as bathrooms, showers, locker rooms, or dormitories-undermine the privacy, safety, and equal opportunity of women and girls. Likewise, permitting males to compete in women's athletic events almost invariably denies women equal opportunity by eroding competitive fairness. These policies risk creating a hostile environment under Title VII, particularly where they compromise women's privacy safety, or professional standing, and can violate Title IX by denying women access to the full scope of sex-based protections in education. To ensure compliance with federal law and to safeguard the rights of women and girls, organizations should affirm sex-based boundaries rooted in biological differences.
While compelled segregation is generally impermissible, failing to maintain sex-separated athletic competitions and intimate spaces can also violate federal law. Federally funded institutions that allow males, including those self-identifying as "women," to access single-sex spaces designed for females-such as bathrooms, showers, locker rooms, or dormitories-undermine the privacy, safety, and equal opportunity of women and girls. Likewise, permitting males to compete in women's athletic events almost invariably denies women equal opportunity by eroding competitive fairness. These policies risk creating a hostile environment under Title VII, particularly where they compromise women's privacy safety, or professional standing, and can violate Title IX by denying women access to the full scope of sex-based protections in education. To ensure compliance with federal law and to safeguard the rights of women and girls, organizations should affirm sex-based boundaries rooted in biological differences.
"The ugly things that have grown up in medicine are the result of the ugliness and falsity of society as a whole, of our American preoccupation with success and making money, of our concentration of effort on the production of things rather than their use for a fuller human life. These things are not the fault of the individual physician; and neither can they be remedied by him. So long as the American people are permeated with the spirit of 'I'm going to get mine, no matter how,' just so long will that attitude filter into all the professions." Dr. Alan L. Hart
Researchers whose findings have cast doubt on a competitive advantage for transgender women athletes appear to have been excluded from an International Olympic Committee working group tasked with creating a new policy on female participation. That includes the authors of a 2024 study funded by the IOC that found transgender athletes might actually be at a competitive disadvantage, and urged caution in imposing participation bans. “I was not included. I’ll let you extrapolate as to why,” one of the researchers told USA TODAY Sports in an email confirming they were not part of the IOC’s Protection of the Female Category Working Group and had not been asked to participate.
The more than 7,300-word proposal outlines a three-year agreement that calls on UCLA to: Make five years of payments — $200,000 annually — and set up a $172,000 fund for people with claims of civil rights violations. Ensure foreign students who are “anti-Western” will not be admitted. Pay for all costs of the settlement, including the fee for an outside monitor. Annually release demographic data for hires as well as students who have applied or have been admitted, broken down by “race, color, grade point average, and performance on standardized tests.” Make a public statement declaring that transgender people’s identities are no longer recognized. End gender-affirming care for minors at medical facilities. Give the government access to “all UCLA staff, employees, facilities, documents, and data related to the agreement” not protected by attorney-client privilege.
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“What I will say is President Trump has very ambitious hopes for the CDC right now,” Kennedy said on the Fox News show “Fox & Friends.” “CDC has problems. We saw the misinformation coming out of Covid, they got the testing wrong, they got the social distancing, the masks, the school closures that have done so much harm to the American people. “Today, on the CDC’s website right now, they list the 10 top advances, the 10 greatest advances in medical science and one of them is abortion, another is fluoridation, and another is vaccines. So we need to look at the priorities of the agency.
Researchers inside and outside the agency “shall not use NIH funds to request, collect, or disseminate information related to gender,” states the version of the policy seen by The Chronicle, which could change. However, data on sex can be gathered — provided that the used definitions of sex reflect the Trump administration’s view that there are only two sexes, female and male, and they are determined at birth and unchangeable.
(i) Discretionary awards must, where applicable, demonstrably advance the President’s policy priorities. (ii) Discretionary awards shall not be used to fund, promote, encourage, subsidize, or facilitate: (A) racial preferences or other forms of racial discrimination by the grant recipient, including activities where race or intentional proxies for race will be used as a selection criterion for employment or program participation; (B) denial by the grant recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic; (C) illegal immigration; or (D) any other initiatives that compromise public safety or promote anti-American values.
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"In addition to not being aware of their own negativity bias, most people don’t know much about these particular scientific fields. So if the faux “expert” begins talking about furin cleavage sites or 80 percent desistance, the average person is likely to take these technical-sounding arguments at face value, since they cannot determine the veracity of these claims themselves. As a result, both editors and audiences may come away feeling like they learned a lot from the author when, in reality, they were spoon-fed a one-sided rendition of the story."
"The Court declines to address whether Bostock’s reasoning reaches beyond the Title VII context—unlike the employment discrimination at issue in Bostock, changing a minor’s sex or transgender status does not alter the application of SB1. If a transgender boy seeks testosterone to treat gender dysphoria, SB1 prevents a healthcare provider from administering it to him. If his biological sex were changed from female to male, SB1 would still not permit him the hormones he seeks because he would lack a qualifying diagnosis."
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Advocates say giving ICE’s Enforcement and Removals office, which oversees deportations, the ability to DNA-test families would pave the way for the administration to separate children from the adults who care for them. Last week, Senator Jon Ossoff, a Georgia Democrat, wrote a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem outlining what he called “grave concerns” over recent incidents in which children were separated from their primary caregivers.
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