Happy Pride🏳️🌈! Welcome to the ✨Scientibs Times✨!
Let's march on!
Earlier this June, a tweet by aspiring evolutionary biologist Felipe Javier Berrios (pronouns he/him, they/them), calling for queer scientists to introduce themselves just in time for Pride month gave us the opportunity to know more about other LGBTQI people from all over the world. They are practically everywhere, from the Philippines to Puerto Rico to Bahamas, and they specialize in various fields of science, from emergency medicine, to physics, to shark and ray movement.
It's important to know though that even if Pride month is almost over, a number of initiatives and platforms out there constantly highlight the work and experiences of queer scientists.
Here are some of them, which have greatly inspired us to also contribute to the endeavor of making LGBTQI people in science more visible:
Queer Scientists PH
https://twitter.com/QueerSciencePH
500 queer scientists
https://500queerscientists.com/
Pride in STEM
Two groups of Pinoy scientists and science communicators also wrote book chapters for the recently-published book by Bristol University Press titled "Queering Science Communication" about viewing science communication in the Philippines using queer lens. The authors included John Noel Viaña, Mario Carlo Severo, Miguel Barretto-Garcia, Paul James Magtaan, Jason Tan Liwag, Roemel Jeusep Bueno, Christer de Silva, and one of your Scientibs, Shai, as well as Jay S. Fidelino, Rey Audie S. Escosio, Almira B. Ocampo, and Nikki Santos-Ocampo.
The team behind Scientibs Times is excited to bring you more than just a newsletter. We want to share narratives, valuable information and insights about queers in science and science communication, tips about communicating science in different platforms, stories about and for queer scientists, science communicators and aspiring ones.
Join us as we embark on this exciting journey of exploration and discovery, inclusion, and empowerment.
Padayon, mga mumsh.
-Purple and Shai
Disclaimer: “Mumsh” is used as a gender-neutral term of endearment for everyone
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