The Royal Society, home of science and reason

Our Comms team used to be made up of researchers who had some communications training, now it's made up of those who did media studies. The woke level has rocketed!

What's frustrating about this is that the royal society and other national academies have been resisting well to calls for cancelled awards to 'transphobes'. Disappointed by this but realistically it'll be someone in the comms team. Best thing is to email/tweet their president Adrian smith or ceo julia maxton.

A great reply on his personal Twitter account:

"No vitriol here!
Hopefully it'll encourage more middle age white guys to come out publically as NB.

It'll put the kids right off ☺️"

LOL!

As an aside, what does it mean if someone lists their pronouns as he/they? It kind of makes sense to have he/him/his or they/them/theirs, but what is he/they?

I assume it means he'd like to be called 'they' but won't throw a strop if people call him 'he'.

Oh that's a mighty fine ratio. Even the Twitterverse is getting fed up with it all.

I like the comment about the possible typo in 'professor of crop science'.

I may change my user name.

😂

My favourite comment on his second Twatter post;

"Would you still be non binary if you didn't tell anyone?"

So he is a gay man. He doesn't explain why being in a same sex marriage for 15 years also makes him non binary. Is he therefore a non binary male? Calls himself queer too even though growing up that word must have been used only in a negative way. If this had been a post celebrating a gay scientist he wouldn't have got the comments.
Maybe he wants the RS to ask the gender identity question to new recruits so they can get a new poster person.

I don't think they knows what 'vitriol' means. It seems they thinks it means 'not receiving fawning adulation as expected'.

As an aside, what does it mean if someone lists their pronouns as he/they? It kind of makes sense to have he/him/his or they/them/theirs, but what is he/they?

Definitely love the comments. Looks like RS Twitter followers like facts. Whodda thought it eh?

I don’t think it’s going quite the way he hoped…

We have ‘sexual identities’ now? Someone is just making 💩 up for the sake of it…

In the last paragraph he suggests that the Royal Society could ".. ask the incoming fellows to voluntarily disclose their sexual and gender identities" as a way to foster change in the science sector.

Ugh.

Hold on, that's a gay man who's done really well (good on him), he doesn't talk about being non binary in the blog.

He could at least explain it, scientifically like.

So he grew up in the LGB community then. They don’t have all this new fangled stuff when he was young. I am about the same age and spent my formative years in gay clubs and bars.

Bless, he’s trying to be ‘down with the youth’ is he?

Having read the article itself, I wonder if the non-binary bit is just a way to shoehorn in a tweet relevant for Non-Binary Awareness Day.

He says he grew up as LGBTQ+ (what, all of of them? Must have been exhausting) which turns out to mean gay man, married to a husband for the past 15 years, and hasn't experienced harassment outside his professional life for 30 years. The non-binary bit is recent but he doesn't explain what it means. Identifies strongly as 'queer'.

In the last paragraph he suggests that the Royal Society could ".. ask the incoming fellows to voluntarily disclose their sexual and gender identities" as a way to foster change in the science sector.

I feel sorry for the fella. ‘They’ (one person) probably gets talked into being ‘the face of’ (come on Fred, it will be great. Being gay just ain’t enough these days, we need something special. They’ll all love you!’) and just getting a load of 🙄🤪🤣

or maybe ‘they’ volunteered - but you’d think/hope that someone who cares would have said ‘no don’t do it! It makes you look a right dingbat’. If that had been my brother I’d’ve told him in no uncertain terms.

Wow, I don't think I saw one positive reply.

But this is not the first time, if I remember correctly, that the RS has promoted gender ideology. Although I think they had more support before, I wonder if people are beginning to see it for what it really is.

I was on a coach trip with people of the older generation recently. One of them pointed out a bi-plane from the window. Someone else responded "how do you know it's not non-binary?" Raucous laughter.

IT'S BOLLOCKS.

Yes. Very astute - thank you!

The comments are superb. Thanks, Giles, for helping expose this ideology as the nonsensical BS that it is. PS: are you REALLY a scientist?

Those comments have really cheered me up.