Accessibility and inclusivity at EGU

Yes, Nature is transgender too! Between fish, fluidity and finding myself as a trans marine biologist

Micah Reismann June 18, 2026

In the author's words: "an action shot of myself in my happy place." Photo credit: Edith Franz

The journey to a Ph.D. is never smooth sailing, plenty who have dared to tackle it will agree. But what if this strenuous, maybe even torturous, endeavor is the easiest part of your life? Welcome to my journey, which I am calling “Transitioning during your PhD”. Let’s start with a quick backstory. My doctoral journey started in 2024 and I was early in my transition. I came out to my friends and fa ...[Read More]

Allyship is a choice: A letter from small town Brazil to the world on how my allyship is action

Fernanda Matos June 17, 2026

Photo by Norbu GYACHUNG. Source: Unsplash

I thought a lot about how to write this piece because it is not easy to think of myself as an ally to my queer friends. This is only because it is, to me, completely unfathomable that we, in this century, in 2026, still need to be allies. Honestly, there is convenience in moving on with our lives, turning a blind eye to injustice, and even questioning the mere existence of campaigns like the pride ...[Read More]

Pride month in the era of DEI rollbacks: Reflections on resilience, and why pride was a riot after all

Asmae Ourkiya June 12, 2026

Photo by Nik. Source: Unsplash

Pride month arrives this year against a backdrop of institutional irony. In the United States, federal research funding has been thoroughly weaponised and forced a massive scientific brain drain across the Atlantic. In Europe, a multi-million-euro effort to capture that exiled talent is underway, even as Europe’s own domestic politics fracture along the exact same ideological fault lines. Fo ...[Read More]

AI in science: the ethical experiment we didn’t design

Lucia Perez-Diaz May 8, 2026

Credit: Drew Hemment (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

Artificial Intelligence, and its rapid incursion into the (geo)sciences, was already impossible to ignore at last year’s EGU General Assembly. (you can read my reflections then in this blog post) This year, unsurprisingly, it felt equally present. On Thursday, I attended the Great Debate on “The ethics of using AI in Geosciences: opportunities and risks”, a discussion spanning everything from scie ...[Read More]