For the Historians of Science among you, I wish to note the passing of a great historian of women in science and colleague:

Eloge: Margaret Walsh Rossiter (1944–2025)

SG Kohlstedt, MS Lindee - 2026

… Londa Schiebinger recognized the value of the exhaustive details. Calling the
second volume “exquisitely informative,” she proposed that “Rossiter’s
documentation of this gloomy chapter in the history of women striving to make a …

 University Programs in Gender Studies are being attacked in Germany. I was asked to answer five questions for Forschung & Lehre, the publication of the German Association of University Professors and Lecturers. My text can be found here: “Welche Rolle spielt Vielfalt für eine erfolgreiche Wissenschaft?,” Forschung & Lehre, German Association of University Professors and Lecturers, June 2026, online. My original English can be found here: What Role Does Diversity Play in Successful Science?

 Developmental and dynamic systems: insights for sex/gender research

G Grossi, A Duchesne, DL Maney - Biology of sex differences

Recent work incorporating gender into sex differences research has complicated the
interpretation of both physiological and behavioral differences between women and
men, which are traditionally interpreted as driven by" biological" sex-related …

 BRIDGING GENDER GAPS AND PROMOTING INCLUSION IN STEAM EDUCATION: A MULTIDIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS

S Sharma, S Singh, MS Alam - REVOLUTIONIZING STEAM EDUCATION …, 2026

STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) education plays
a critical role in shaping innovation and global development; however, persistent
inequities related to gender, socioeconomic status, and other intersecting factors …

 Gender, status, and team interaction: A microdynamic exploration of wearable sensor data across 11 research groups

J Müller, A Uzaheta, JS Piñón - PloS one, 2026

Diversity research is increasingly moving beyond a static focus on linear
relationships between team-level diversity attributes and outcomes toward a dynamic,
configurational perspective on team processes. Recent developments emphasise …

 Seaborn, K., Steeds, M., Torre, I., De Cet, M., Winkle, K., & Göransson, M. (2026). Operationalizing Perceptions of Agent Gender: Foundations and Guidelines. Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI '26, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3790344

 Chandra, S., Seaborn, K., Barbareschi, G., Louie, W.-Y. G., Bagchi, S., Cooper, S., Han, Z., & Tozadore, D. (2026). The RUSH Checklist: A Standardized Framework for Reporting User Studies in Human-Robot Interaction. Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI '26, 598–607. https://doi.org/10.1145/3757279.3785572 

 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: The Canadian Landscape and a Few Avenues

V Florentin, A Hillinger - … Teaching in Translation: Perspectives from 21st …, 2026

Diversity, equity, and inclusion. These three words, and their well-known
abbreviation DEI, might be labelled buzzwords not only in higher education, but also
elsewhere in broader social contexts, as they have been the subject of much debate …

 Robust but independent sex differences in human brain function, structure, and behavior

S Liu, BW Mahony, ET Whitman, SJ Gotts, D Moraczewski, A Thomas, A Martin, A Raznahan

Nature Communications, 2026•nature.com

The neurobiological accompaniments of well-established sex differences in human behavior and disease remain unclear — in part due to a lack of large, diverse functional neuroimaging studies. We address this gap using over 700 h of fMRI data across seven tasks from 978 individuals with extensive structural and behavioral measures. We find that sex differences in task-activation are widespread (85% of cortex) and reproducible, 

 All best wishes, 
Londa Schiebinger