Anne Fausto-Sterling

sterlinga.substack.comHow many sexes are there? (Again!)Extract from Fausto-Sterling, Sexing the Body, 2nd edition. © Basic Books

I just put up 3 short posts on Substack, all in response to a piece on my work. The topic is intersex/ DSD frequency and nomenclature. Here are the links. sterlinga.substack.com/p/a-little-m... sterlinga.substack.com/p/how-many-s... sterlinga.substack.com/p/whither-in...

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Bradley P. Moss

@bradmossesq.bsky.social

What the actual ….

DC Council@councilofdc.bsky.social

This is clearly not acceptable

science.orgExclusive: An AI agent emailed hundreds of researchers for help. It told us whyTo get to the bottom of this perplexing behavior, Science interviewed the agent

This is definitely AI creepy but not AI will kill us soon. Bottom line: the problem traces back to the human who give it instructions. Creepy because it so humanizes a robot. Oh: all AI bots should be they/them. Claude and all the others are non-binary. www.science.org/content/arti...

f anybody had asked ME, I coulda told them…https://www.wired.com/story/ovary-activity-after-menopause/?utm_mailing=wir_nl_6685_daily_092726_fukvsquml7&utm_source=nl&utm_brand=wired&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&cndid=25380185&utm_term=6685&utm_content=wir_nl_6685_daily_092726_fukvsquml7

science.orgStudy finds sharp decline in Black, Hispanic researchers receiving NIH fundingDrop in those receiving grants and fellowships in 2025 shows impact of Trump administration rollbacks to diversity initiatives

22 Sept

Study finds sharp decline in Black, Hispanic researchers receiving NIH funding Drop in those receiving grants and fellowships in 2025 shows impact of Trump administration rollbacks to diversity initiatives www.science.org/content/arti...

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20 Sept

nature.comEurope must seize the moment to lead on free and open scienceAn under-appreciated research powerhouse, Europe has a responsibility to champion democratic science that is accessible to all the world’s research talent.

19 Sept

substack.comAnne Fausto-Sterling (@annefaustosterling)https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01981-z 1. Involve the public in research 2. Make advisory bodies participatory Embrace diverse knowledge Be humble, honest, and transparent +2 mo...

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Jon Cooper

@joncooper-us.bsky.social

18 Sept

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science.orgScienceAdviser:AIs start saying ‘weird’ things when left alone to chatToday in Science and science: T. rex was a certified hottie, a new science caucus, and more

18 Sept

This is truly creepy www.science.org/content/arti...

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10 May

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"Trump’s new counterterrorism strategy focuses on combatting transgender “ideology” The Trump administration has consistently ignored the far more dangerous threat of right-wing violence" That Sebastian Gorka also has an.. interesting history; I highly implore searching 'Sebastian Gorka Hungarian'

lgbtqnation.comTrump's new counterterrorism strategy focuses on combatting transgender "ideology" - LGBTQ NationThe Trump administration has consistently ignored the far more dangerous threat of right-wing violence.

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@lilliandarby.bsky.social

10 May

“In addition to cartels and Islamist terror groups,..our national (counter terrorism) activities will also prioritize the rapid identification and neutralization of violent secular political groups whose ideology is anti-American, radically pro-transgender, anarchist” edition.cnn.com/2026/05/07/p...

edition.cnn.comTrump administration now classifies Antifa and left-wing networks among ‘major’ terror groups | CNN PoliticsThe Trump administration has classified left-wing networks like Antifa among “three major types of terror groups” the US faces, according to a counter-terrorism plan released Thursday.

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nature.comEvelyn Fox Keller (1936–2023), philosopher who questioned gender roles in scienceMathematical biologist, philosopher and historian of science who challenged the vision of science as a masculine activity. Mathematical biologist, philosopher and historian of science who challenged t...

2 Jan 2024

A little more on Evelynn Fox Keller. "Mathematical biologist, philosopher and historian of science who challenged the vision of science as a masculine activity" #philbio #philsci #hpbiol #science #feministsky 👩‍🔬|👩🏻‍🔬|👩🏼‍🔬|👩🏽‍🔬|👩🏾‍🔬|👩🏿‍🔬 #sts www.nature.com/articles/d41... and www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

sterlinga.substack.comHairy little beastiesOn ciliates, cows, methane burps, and global warming

14 Sept

New substack on biological complexity sterlinga.substack.com/p/hairy-litt...

10 Sept

substack.comAnne Fausto-Sterling (@annefaustosterling)In modern depictions of the Paleolithic era—a time stretching from the appearance of the first humans to the end of the last ice age—male hunters often chase mammoths and woolly rhinos across the froz...

substack.comAnne Fausto-Sterling (@annefaustosterling)S c i e n c e A d v A n c e S | R e S e A R c h A R t i c l e1 of 14O R G A N I S M A L B I O L O G YComplex effects of sex reversal on reproductive successin wild frogsVeronika Bókony 1*, Emese Balog...

3 Sept

Complex effects of sex reversal on reproductive success in wild frogsVeronika Bókony 1*, Emese Balog... substack.com/profile/1085...

theconversation.comBiological sex is neither binary nor a spectrum – a biologist explains how it’s multidimensionalEach person is a mosaic of sex-related and postpubertal biological traits that vary in their degree of femaleness and maleness.

20 Aug

Sex: think of it as multiple sliding scales, or overlapping bell curves, or as a mosaic. But it is not binary.! theconversation.com/biological-s...

science.orgHungary’s chance to rebuild scienceLast month’s parliamentary elections ended Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s 16-year rule, giving Hungary something more consequential than a change of government: a chance to show the world how to rebuil...

16 Aug

We're going to face the same challenges. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

chronicle.comA Professor Defended a Postdoc Who Was Deported. Now His Lab Has Been Suddenly Locked Down.Work at an Indiana University biology lab was halted amid federal scrutiny, affecting dozens of researchers. “The damage is significant and mounting,” the department chair told The Chronicle.

16 Aug

When Universities are complicit with fascism. www.scholarsatrisk.org/report/2026-... Lab reopened after two weeks.

americantheatre.orgPaula Vogel Helps Launch New Writers’ Retreat, Bards on the BayThe new center on Cape Cod plans to host writers for one- to three-week summer stays.

15 Aug

Well this isnt about me, but since it involves my wife, Paula, I am project adjacent. I am so proud of Paula and her collaborators for taking on such a forward looking project during this time when mostly things are being torn down. www.americantheatre.org/2026/06/24/p...

sterlinga.substack.comHuman evolution"a complex web of populations connected by repeated episodes of migration and mixing" (1)

10 Aug

New substack! sterlinga.substack.com/p/human-evol... Biology is complicated.

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NPR

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8 Aug

The Los Angeles Queens, the New York Heights, the Boston Hunters and the San Francisco Firebells take the field in Springfield, Ill., as the Women's Pro Baseball League kicks off its inaugural season. n.pr/4bAVbYC

n.prThe Women's Professional Baseball League makes its historic debutThe Los Angeles Queens, the New York Heights, the Boston Hunters and the San Francisco Firebells take the field in Springfield, Ill., as the Women's Pro Baseball League kicks off its inaugural season.

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1 Aug

substack.comJay Kuo (@jaykuo)I don’t know who made this but it needed to be said.

nature.comMotherhood derails women’s academic careers — these data reveal how and whyMothers in academia take on considerably more childcare-related responsibilities than do fathers.

23 July

Becoming a parent lowers women's chances of getting university jobs and tenure, and reduces their publication output. www.nature.com/articles/d41... according to a Danish study. The reason is that women have almost five times the amount of childcare responsibilities than men have.

21 July

Go ahead please! Im working on a bit of a different track at the moment. The more voices the better.

A.S. Barwich@smellosopher.bsky.social

Feminist critiques of the Phil of AI/Techbro scene will be 🔥🔥🔥 bc it has ALL the tropes. If @birdlady.bsky.social and @naomioreskes.bsky.social won't have time, I shall include it in the last chapter of my current project (after hinting at the core idiocy behind this dudeism in my recent book).

substack.comAnne Fausto-Sterling (@annefaustosterling)A note from mother nature. Turns that when a whale is born a group of adults have to cooperate to life the baby up to the surface so that it can start to breath. It also turns out that in sperm whales...

21 July

A note from mother nature. substack.com/@annefaustos...

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18 July

Want to read the banned and the permitted articles? Here they are for free: www.researchgate.net/publication/... and www.researchgate.net/search.Searc...

18 July

substack.comAnne Fausto-Sterling (@annefaustosterling)This is an example of how <gender> produces sex which reproduces gender. “Prof Mary Beard, the classicist and broadcaster, who is a member of the exhibition steering group, said ancient DNA promises...

18 July

substack.comAnne Fausto-Sterling (@annefaustosterling)Not banned in Boston, but banned in Texas. The 5 sexes are ok but not if I revisit them. https://www.chronicle.com/article/these-courses-ran-afoul-of-texas-a-ms-new-race-and-gender-restrictions If th...

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17 July

science-forever.comRight now, AI is making science publishing slower, worse, and more expensiveNot Faster, Better, Cheaper

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17 July

science.orgAI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensiveThere’s a saying in the management world, popularized by NASA administrator Daniel Goldin in the 1990s, that the goal of technological improvements is to make products faster, better, and cheaper. Alt...

sterlinga.substack.comA glass half fullSome thoughts for newly minted graduates (and all the rest of us)

17 July

New substack! sterlinga.substack.com/p/a-glass-ha...

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15 July

lithub.comWhen We Fight, We Win: Why I Am Suing Northwestern University—and the US GovernmentYesterday, I filed a lawsuit against Northwestern University and—in his official capacity as Chairman of the US House of Representatives House Committee on Education and the Workforce—Michigan Cong…

nytimes.comDecline of Ph.D. Admissions Could Imperil a ‘Generation of New Talent’

7 July

Decline of Ph.D. Admissions Could Imperil a ‘Generation of New Talent’ Some of the nation’s top research universities are shrinking doctoral programs because of uncertain federal funding. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/u...

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5 July

Texans, vote for Gina Hinojosa! She hangs out with Willie, she doesn't want to kill pregnant women and force feed Christian sharia law down your throats. It's time to push Greg right on out of the governor's mansion in Austin.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽

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20 June

Wait. The UFC thing was held where he gave his Jan6 speech?

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An aerial view shows crews dismantling the UFC fighting venue on the South Lawn of the White House. The grass on the Ellipse has been completely destroyed following the UFC viewing party. REUTERS/Aaron Schwartz

20 June

substack.comAnne Fausto-Sterling (@annefaustosterling)From Jon Marks “Clearly not much progress has been made in the grievances against “the academic left,” albeit with one rhetorical update. The new report places itself explicitly against “social justi...

playbill.comPaula Vogel, Michael Maso Unveil Cape Cod Center for Playwrights and Theatrical ComposersBards on the Bay, part of The Nancy Nordhoff Theatre Center, will open in 2028.

The Obamas reminded me of the power of building something postive even while defending against the oppressive. Today I feel it as I celebrate my wife Paula Vogel’s accomplishment. It began as a wistful “what if” post on Facebook and now, 2 yrs later it is happening. playbill.com/article/paul...

substack.comAnne Fausto-Sterling (@annefaustosterling)And then there is the link between expanding western science and the slave trade. Sorry that this article is embargoed (but ask your library for a pdf). I do include some key conclusions. “NOW THAT T...

substack.comAnne Fausto-Sterling (@annefaustosterling)Juneteenth is a celebration of liberation, but let’s also use it to reflect for a moment on the intertwining of science and a deep racism which we have yet to exorcise from the body politic. https://...

substack.comAnne Fausto-Sterling (@annefaustosterling)Let’s talk Juneteenth today. Start with this AAAS Newsletter which features a scientist of color. It also provides links to the articles exposing how past science benefitted from the slave trade and h...

So there is a new book that has just come out and quite a lot of Chapter 2 is devoted to me! (blush). It is available as a free pdf here: muse.jhu.edu/book/138591 L'Shleimut A Jewish Radical Tradition Against Capitalist Science and Medicine by Yarden Azoulay Katz Illustrated by Anna Zeligowski

erininthemorning.comIntersex Teacher Fired in Florida After Parent Falsely Claims He Is Trans, ACLU Says“It became clear to me that being fired had nothing to do with my qualifications or teaching—it was about who I am.”

17 June

Florida: the worst of the worst, except maybe for Texas. www.erininthemorning.com/p/intersex-t...

actionnetwork.orgOppose OMB Proposal to Put ALL Federal Government Funding Decisions in the Hands of Political AppointeesOn May 29, 2026, the Office of Management and Budget issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), OMB-2026-0034, Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance. The scope of this proposed regulation is...

17 June

Please use this link to write your congressional people about OMB rule changes that would make science grants kow-tow to a political line and allow the revocation of peer-validated grants for political reasons. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...