Earlier this semester, the Yoder Lab PI joined Ellen Jarosz and Heidi Schumacher on their podcast Remnants of Resistance to discuss the genetics of same-sex attraction and our understanding of queer idenities. Jaroz is the head of Special Collections and Archives at CSUN’s University Library, and Schumacher teaches in CSUN’s Queer Studies — they’ve produced the…
Last May I was invited to Washington, DC, for a symposium and workshop hosted by Northwestern University’s Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing. Presenters in the symposium and participants in the workshop worked together to sum up the state of knowledge about lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and otherwise queer folks’ experiences in…
Queer scientists who don’t feel able to openly express their minority identities in the workplace pay a cost in research productivity, according to results of a new Queer in STEM study, which is now online at PLOS ONE. This new paper, coauthored by Joey Nelson and Allison Mattheis, presents analysis of responses to the Queer…
