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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

Had a brief breakdown while trying to decide what title to give my presentation

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

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St Patrick was wrong for getting rid of the snakes. Doesn’t he know we’re in a biodiversity crisis

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

3 years

@yashatovah @juleskcp This is the prettiest way of saying “I’m here for a good time not for a long time”

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

This is essentially my PhD topic so buckle up pals- Book recs: Biological Exuberance by Bruce Bagemihl Homosexual behaviour in animals: an evolutionary perspective by Volker Sommer and Paul Vasey

Uju Anya

@UjuAnya

2 years

Gonna mute this this and cook Sunday dinner. If anyone has the patience or good will, please post articles and other info on biology here for those actually interested in learning about how natural and prevalent homosexuality is among animals—human and otherwise. Cheers.

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Thomas Green (they/he)

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@IwriteOK

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

Happy #LGBTSTEMDay from your local animal sexologist

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

Can you help me? I'm looking for records of same-sex sexual behaviour in non-human animals (more info below)

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

A sunny day 2 here at @EMPSEB27 I had such a fun time giving my talk!

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

I’ve had to interact with a lot of anti-trans “science” recently as a hazard of my PhD, so I want to just kindly place this article by @JuliaSerano on your timelines

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

Didn’t get to go to the graduation ceremony but I finally got my pic in front of the Trinity Zoology building!

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

Another #TransDayOfVisibility tweet because that’s the point of it all! One year ago today (left) my PhD application was officially accepted at St. Andrews and now, today!, I’m in the most accepting work environment I’ve ever experienced

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

Went to @EMPSEB27 and somehow ended up as co-chair for EMPSEB 28 so I’d say it was a good week

EMPSEB29

@EMPSEB29

2 years

We’re so excited to announce that the next iteration of #EMPSEB will be held in SCOTLAND 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Slàinte Mhath 🍻

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

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New hair is fun to see but horrible to touch

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

People need to make up their minds! am I hopeless with no prospects or do I have a rich homosexual funder?

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

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New! Hair! Day! (Hair and photo creds to @fundathunda )

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

One thing I haven’t seen mentioned about @EMPSEB27 that deserves some praise is the inclusivity! It wasn’t perfect but far beyond any academic context I’ve spent time in since I started my undergrad- everybody was so nice as well and the energy of the group was great

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

Happy Pride Month everyone! This month, instead of tweeting about transphobes and giving them attention, tweet about trans people and the wonderful things they do!

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

Had 12 hours in the lab today and I keep thinking I see crickets on the bus. I close my eyes and I see crickets. The tag on my shirt feels suspiciously like a cricket.

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

3 years

One thing that I love about the #LGBTQSTEMinar22 is the accessibility! Simple things like describing how you look/your background to include everybody a bit more and providing transcripts for talks- it’s a welcoming environment to be in

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

Such a great experience!! Thank you for having me (more information about what to do if you want to send me SSB info soon!)

EMPSEB29

@EMPSEB29

2 years

Sex but no baby? @animalsexpert from @univofstandrews gave us an interesting introduction to their work on same-sex sexual behaviour Please contact Thomas if you have observations of SSB in the species you study!

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

3 years

I got accepted at St. Andrews for a PhD!!!!!!!!

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

6 years

@vagina_museum Roses are red Violets are blue I’ve got four lips What about you?

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

1 year

Slowly collecting pictures of myself in front of genuinely unhinged slides

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

1 year

It's done! 633 chains long and the length of one open plan office

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

Thank god for reference managers because Thomas from two years ago had three different papers about bonobos and decided to save them in his computer as “bonobos”, “bonobos_again”, and “bonobos_again_again”. Really helpful and insightful thank you Thomas

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

In honour of our last trials for the experiment happening today , here are just a few of the memes that I made during the descent to madness

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

Happy disability pride month to everybody except my accommodation, who had an elevator and took it out and put up motivational posters on the stairs instead (did you know that climbing stairs burns twice as many calories as jogging? I am fuelled by the rage of a thousand suns)

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

Sometimes you have a nice day and sometimes you have to read a paper called “What is sexual orientation and do women have one?”

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

She has a hat ❤️

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

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Papers! (This ones by my supervisor and part of the reason I reached out to him about doing a PhD -I give it a 10/10)

Same-sex sexual behavior and evolution - PubMed

Same-sex sexual behavior has been extensively documented in non-human animals. Here we review the contexts in which it has been studied, focusing on case studies that have tested both adaptive and...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

The only reason I’m not going to #ESEB2022 is to throw a rave in the building while literally everybody else is in Prague. Me n the three other people in the office are gonna party and nobody can stop us

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

Everybody meet Bear Gryllus, my new best friend.

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

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The other thing that I want to add here is that animals certainly have sex, raise offspring, pair bond and more with members of the same sex, but the only animals capable of being “gay” or “queer” are humans

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

Once you start making plots in ggplot, it’s impossible to stop. Do I need this plot in both error bar and violin plot formats? Probably not. Will I continue to make more plots? Almost definitely

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

Get yourself an entomologist friend who dyes your hair to look like a ladybird @bugecologist

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

My friend Tim published a paper!

Andy Gardner

@drandygardner

2 years

New paper: "Density-dependent dispersal promotes female-biased sex allocation in viscous populations" ( #OpenAccess ), with Chedhawat Chokechaipaisarn (not on Twitter) #Dispersal #KinSelection #SexRatio @SchoolofBiology @StLeonards_PGs @RSocPublishing #OA

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

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Making disabled people ask for and try to reason for their own access is not accessibility

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

1 year

Happy #TransDayOfVisibility to my fellow trans scientists. This year's #TDOV is more bittersweet as I have just returned from a conference where I was reminded of how uncomfortable being visibly trans can be, but I am still grateful for my friends and community and their support

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

Female-female mounting in a field cricket! No better way to end pride month Credit to @AnaDrago9 for finding it in the endless stack of videos

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

3 years

So this happened today

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

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It’s over for all you bitches now I have pronouns AND blue hair

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

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O'Neill and O'Neill in 2010 firing shots with an iconic introduction

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

Somewhere around 250 videos are done now! Some people ask me what I’ll do with the paper chain when I’m done and tbh my plans change day to day. Today my plan is to set it on fire. I hear crickets in my sleep.

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

3 years

Just watched @rossb_oxford talk about the history of queer zoology with @LinneanSociety and I’m speechless- such a good talk! Learned a whole lot and also got to see people talk about things I’ve been pondering for the last while

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

Sometimes I think my PhD has allowed me great growth in my life and sometimes I become genuinely upset with a cricket that died a decade ago

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

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Young Victorian boy recovers from consumption on the shores of Loch Ness (colourised), 2022

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

Got through 84 🦗videos in the last two weeks- the paper chain has doubled in size! Rough 800 left 😭

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

#IAmABiologist who studies the evolution of same sex sexual behaviour-in crickets 🦗 and at large (some call me a cricket pornographer)

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

Every year, I am forcefully reminded that I have A Problem by Spotify wrapped

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

3 years

I’ve been selected to present at the #TCDPrideInResearch symposium! Thanks to @PRIDEinResearch for running such a great event! Looking forward to seeing what everybody has to say 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

Can’t wait for tomorrow’s LTBT+ coffee hour for queer and queer-friendly people from @SchoolofBiology ! We’ll be in the Centre for Biological Diversity from 10-11 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

If I have to read papers that call animals transphobic slurs then I think I’m allowed to use the word fuck in a scientific paper.

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

Im just saying one of these would make lab work a lot easier

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

Okay okay look- it goes against every scientific bone in my body because the argument is stupid anyway but if anybody tells you “homosexuality is unnatural” just tell them it’s more commonly found in nature than face-to-face (missionary) sex

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

Cool stuff coming up for pride month!

Science & Sorcery

@SciAndSorcery

2 years

What's that? You want more queer content for #PrideMonth ? 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @AnimalSexpert is your friendly local animal sexpert. They have inhaled a greater than normal amount of cricket poo and will be our DM for our 2nd Pride Month show! 📅29 June ⏰7pm BST 📷

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

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If you’re not sending me texts like this don’t bother texting me

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

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2023 is the year of trans rights #trans

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

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Mystery note left on my desk while I was away! I wish I could recognise literally anybody’s handwriting but alas

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

3 years

@TyLKelly @SC_Griffith Good morning #LGBTQSTEMinar2022

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

3 years

Looking forward to attending my first ever #LGBTQSTEMinar22 today and tomorrow! I can’t wait to see what everybody’s up to and learn from fellow queer scientists

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

My fun little trans power move is refusing to remember which one is XX and which one is XY even though I am a biologist who specialises in sexual behaviour

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

✨Things in the CBD that just make sense ✨

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

I didn’t hear a single “this is more of a comment than a question” over the entire week! And when I wanted to join the dance floor we brought a bunch of chairs for people to sit in and dance without having to stand up

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

3 years

Started listening to @JusttheZooofUs yesterday to retain my sanity while watching videos of crickets at 1/4 speed and now my search history is “baby Canadian lynx” and “happy shoebill” so yeah, I’d say it helped

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

Doing my self-assessment for my 9 month report and there is an irresistible urge to answer the question about “support not currently provided” with an essay on university visa policy

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

1 year

R code annotations 2 electric boogaloo

Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

1 year

This is how you annotate R code right?

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

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Dumbassery

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

EMPSEB was genuinely such a valuable experience, especially as a new PhD student- I’d highly recommend applying

EMPSEB29

@EMPSEB29

2 years

🚨 Calling all PhD Students! 🚨 Abstract submissions for the 28th European Meeting for PhD Students in Evolutionary Biology are now OPEN!!! 👇 Don't miss your chance to join us - in Scotland or online! Deadline to apply Jan 23rd 2023! Please share!

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

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God gave me fibromyalgia and autoimmune issues because otherwise I’d be unstoppable. Gotta level the playing field

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

1 year

i will always refuse to pay journals money to access science out of principal but i would absolutely donate money to scihub or another paper-distributer that values the free access to knowledge over taking advantage of researchers for profit

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

@DJWeduwen I knew I was trans when I broke my arm when I was eight years old because girls don’t have bones

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

The first thing I do whenever I go to america is walk into the first Dunkin donuts I see and get an iced coffee- is it good? Never. Exactly how I remember it

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

Cleaning up my desk and finding some really exciting project ideas that I definitely understand and know what I meant when I wrote them down

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

The best part about studying sex is that I get to start all of my presentations with “let’s talk about sex, baby” The worst part about studying sex is “let’s talk about sex” by salt-n-pepa is constantly stuck in my head

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

If you see me and my cane tomorrow (or ever) DONT ❌: ask me what happened or why I need it DO✅: tell me I look super cool and kick ass

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

First set of female-female cricket trials complete! It only took us 3 hours longer than expected @AnaDrago9

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

Just got the list of questions from my first ever @SkypeScientist match and it’s so cute! I’m so excited to chat with them 😊

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

1 year

Broke: "I am living with an under-researched chronic illness" Woke: "There are things occurring in my body that are beyond the current comprehension of mankind"

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

1 year

if you see the paper about SSB in mammals, do not worry. I have seen it. you do not need to send it to me. i promise approximately 7 other people have sent it to me. i am being buried in an avalanche of this paper.

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

I’ve taught my phone a new word

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

These papers are mostly focussed on multiple species, but I have a whole spreadsheet of more specific papers if people are interested Also if ppl don’t have access to any of the papers I linked to, I have PDFs to share

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

Told an undergrad I’m a PhD student today and their immediate response was “do you want to cry?”

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

3 years

Just filed with the state for my name change!

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

Super awesome workshop on Science Visualisation with @HocevarSara at @EMPSEB27 !!

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

One of the best parts about the paper accumulation part of a meta-analysis is learning about all of the journals that exist I just downloaded a paper from the journal “poultry science”

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

My favourite thing about telling people about #FatBearWeek is that, due to my general vibes and character, they never know if it’s about the animal or the subsection of gay man

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

6 years

We accidentally wore the same sweater so now she’s my girlfriend

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

Tag yourself: descriptions of animal same-sex sexual behaviour edition (every one of these is in the title of at least one paper)

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

On this #TransDayOfVisibility I’m going to print out a picture of myself and put it on every desk in the building to be as visible as possible

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

3 years

Thank you to @PRIDEinResearch for hosting such an amazing event! I’m honoured to have presented my research Such a well organised and carried out event- it must have been loads of hard work that’s well payed off

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

3 years

OKAY so when I was like 16 I visited my sister at Georgia Tech and attended a cancer bio class there with one of her friends- years later I’m at the #LGBTQSTEMinar22 and I’m 90% sure the plenary speaker @DrPlattLab was the speaker in that class! Either that or my brain is rotting

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

Most stuff that Vasey writes on animals is good- here’s an oldie but a goodie to start from

Same-Sex Sexual Partner Preference in Hormonally and Neurologically Unmanipulated Animals | Request...

Request PDF | Same-Sex Sexual Partner Preference in Hormonally and Neurologically Unmanipulated Animals | Proximate and ultimate biological theories for understanding sexual behavior predict that...

www.researchgate.net

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

I would like to kindly request that the next time I agree to take on another responsibility that somebody tackle me to the ground

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

Real tired of the toxic masculinity in these crickets

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

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This is another old paper but Anne Innis-Dagg is an icon and I’d die for her

Homosexual behaviour and female‐male mounting in mammals—a first survey

Information from the literature is given on the presence or absence of homosexual behaviour and female-male mounting in 125 species of mammals, both captive and wild. Such behaviour occurs in the...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

2 years

Am I supposed to be packing for my trip? Yes Am I, instead, taking a buzzfeed quiz to find out how many times I’ll get divorced based on my party planning abilities? Also yes (the answer is, apparently, five)

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Thomas Green (they/he)

@AnimalSexpert

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I’m not gonna lie and say I’m not real pissed that Dagmar decided she wanted to murder me and my new friends but I did like the part before she got there