Rainbow Research: Contribute to our Pride Month Blog Series!

To celebrate Pride Month in June, we are relaunching our Rainbow Research blog series! This series aims to promote the visibility and inclusion of ecologists and evolutionary biologists from the LGBTQIA+ community. Each post will be connected to a theme represented by one of the colours shown in the Progress Pride Flag:  Posts can link to any of these themes, whether it connects to your … Continue reading Rainbow Research: Contribute to our Pride Month Blog Series!

Pride Month 2024: Kelsey Byers

Happy Pride Month! Join the British Ecological Society in this annual, global celebration as we share stories from STEM researchers who belong to the LGBTQ+ community.  This post is by Kelsey Byers (any/all pronouns), an evolutionary chemical ecology researcher studying floral scent and pollination at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, UK.  [author note: I use the term ‘queer’ repeatedly in this post to refer … Continue reading Pride Month 2024: Kelsey Byers