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Aniket Alam @aniketalam.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Really nice interview with Gauhar Raza on science and it's struggles with religious fundamentalisms in a country like India youtu.be/OPLFh1A-HCE?...

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Are We 🇮🇳 Indians Scientific? | Nope ft. Gauhar Raza | Episode 001

YouTube video by Kunal Kamra

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Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

It’s a bit sad that so many more Americans will have debates about the propriety of a group chat about bombing Yemen than about, well, bombing Yemen

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Aniket Alam @aniketalam.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

The level of incompetence and hubris is something else. But what really got me were the emojis: these guys are basically playing video games.

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Aniket Alam @aniketalam.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

As expected Grok AI has no guardrails, like its owner. What you will read here is, frankly, quite frightening; straight out of Black Mirror! www.vox.com/future-perfe...

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The AI that apparently wants Elon Musk to die

X wanted Grok to tell it straight. They didn’t like the result.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... For more—and to sign— go to saynotoethniccleansing.org

Jewish people say NO to ethnic cleansing

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Amanda Lanzillo @amandazillo.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Besides being callous and idiotic, this is perhaps the most historically illiterate argument I’ve ever seen. Has this man never encountered a single book, or just like… an older person?

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Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

This is the exciting paper drop. New aDNA science out of Dublin. Matrilineal descent systems demonstrated for Late Iron Age Dorset. Building on the work of Mel Giles (2012) who first spotted the potential for it in the archaeology of Middle Iron Age Yorkshire. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain - Nature

An analysis of ancient mitochondrial and nuclear DNA shows evidence of matrilocal communities in Iron Age Britain.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 23/12/2024

This Palestinian girl comforted her little brother, despite being injured herself, after a recent Israeli airstrike in Nuseirat, central Gaza.

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Y Disassembler @loomdoop.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I don't know why the SF Chronicle avoids mentioning specifics at all. But the "violation of workplace conduct policy" alluded to here was a social media post promoting fundraising for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which offended some racists. She was fired for supporting the UN.

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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

It is more than an accusation. Israel's top officials boasted that this is precisely what they were doing. They confessed joyously. Period. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

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Israel accused of act of genocide over restriction of Gaza water supply

Human Rights Watch says Israeli forces have acted deliberately to cut availability of clean water

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christine 🇵🇸 @spaceneedlesgf.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

i think countries that are going to arrest netanyahu should stop announcing it and instead they should invite him to speak or something and when he arrives put a fucking bag over his head

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Camelia Dewan PhD @cameliadewan.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

After seven years of rejections and revisions, my article "Affective assemblages of kinship and single mothers’ labour migration from a ‘climate hotspot’" is now published with the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... OA: Please check it out!

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The Himālaya Dispatch @himdispatch.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

'Nan Shan, Tibetan Frontier', Nicholas Roerich, 1936.

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The Himālaya Dispatch @himdispatch.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

The mountain Ama Dablam, with mani stones in the foreground.

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The Himālaya Dispatch @himdispatch.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Somewhere in Upper Mustang, Nepal. Photographed by J.F. Meyer.

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Aditya Shrikrishna @gradwolf.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Actually a problem I have with Bluesky

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THE BOO! GIRL @the-book-girl.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Who is #Luigi Mangione? He is a reader with 295 books listed on Goodreads. He holds a Master’s & Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of PA. He was the valedictorian at Gilman School in Baltimore. Worked on machine learning, robotics w/ projects on GitHub. An anti-capitalist.

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe. ~ Frantz Fanon

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Shay Stewart-Bouley @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

It's not the Robin Hood story folks wanted but attractive, well-heeled young guy who had back surgery, unrelenting pain to the point of impacting his mental health. He withdraws from his peeps, eventually goes to a dark place, and eventually takes it out on insurance CEO. Still relatable.

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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 09/12/2024

Counterpoint: Do

Headline from a rich person who writes: "Don't replace the culture war with the class war"

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 09/12/2024

We've created a Starter Pack of #History societies and groups working to support promote our disciple and historians, in higher education and related professions go.bsky.app/68FsvjY Mainly UK but also international, with selected societies from related humanities subjects. Please share #Skystorians

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Aniket Alam @aniketalam.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Important point... Human planted trees (and forests) are almost always an ecological disaster. What we need to do is remove our intrusive presence and nature will bloom, literally.

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

You will do readings where no one shows up. You will set up at events and sell no books. Rejection will show up in your inbox again and again. You will say “I wrote a book!” and folks will stay quiet or say “Cool!” and then not buy it. It’s all good. Part of the gig. KEEP AT IT.

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Nandini Oza @nandinioza.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

#Oral #History methodology differs from other #Research : Interviewing Chaganbhai Kevat in 2008 and once again in 2024, 16 years later. Before the Sardar Sarovar Dam was built and after many years of its completion.

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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Sednaya was once so hidden that the only reconstruction of what it looked like used acoustic mapping from survivor testimonies. We spent 4 years trying to shed light on contemporaneous conditions, and it haunted me we couldn't do more. To see it open & inmates walking free... my god.

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Remi Kanazi @remikanazi.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I’ll always root on a prison being torn down, people returning home, and loved ones embracing after being split apart for years. What tomorrow brings, I don’t know, but it’s still today.

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

A photo I posted of graffiti in Syria in 2014. "One day the war will be over and I will return to my poem" I hope they will return to their poem

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Karthik @beastoftraal.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Is it mere coincidence that we are seeing three instances (via news) of Google Maps misleading people in just the last two weeks?

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

The news coming out of Syria is amazing. Especially the release of the disappeared from Assad’s horrific prisons. And for those of you a bit “hmm, keep a hold of nurse” right now: the Assad regime - Bashar & his father Hafez - was pure evil. It is a thrill just to put that sentence in past tense.

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Nedal Al-Amari @nedalalamari.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I’m not a Syrian refugee anymore. I’m Syrian. Just Syrian.

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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

if i were the NYPD i would try releasing some facts about the shooter that do not make him sound awesome

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Aniket Alam @aniketalam.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Unlikely that the US will be able to substantively reduce its foreign aid giveaways, as its global power depends on precisely that. It's a great idea and one which we all should support. The US imperialism

DOGE advisor Ron Paul saying the US will end all foreign aid

Table of top countries receiving US foreign aid

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𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒂 𝑯𝒊𝒋𝒂𝒛𝒊 🇵🇸🫒𝑰𝒏 𝑮𝒂𝒛𝒂 @monahijazi.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

No flour, no bread, no pampers, no food, no electricity, no water, no houses, no clothes, no cures, no tikiats, no aid. Nothing. Tell us how we live?

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Andrew Wyatt @andrewwyatt.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Happy to see a chapter (co-authored with John Echeverri-Gent and Aseema Sinha) on Narendra Modi's economic record published. Many other informative chapters too. It is Open Access as well. www.jstor.org/stable/10.39...

The book cover art shows a queue of voters holding up their ID cards.

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Leila Molana-Allen @leilama.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

World Central Kitchen volunteers have been hit again, by an #Israel’i airstrike in #Gaza today. One of the only orgs successfully getting food to thousands of starving Palestinians is now pausing ops while they investigate what happened & figure out how to protect their staff under these conditions.

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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Heart shattering to learn an Israeli drone has targeted and assassinated Mahmoud Almadhoun, one of the founders and chefs behind the Gaza Soup Kitchen. What started as four pots and essential ingredients in Bait Lahia had grown into a remarkable effort to feed 3,000 people daily.

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 30/11/2024

Most celebrated use cases for AI (personalized learning, medical care, etc.) only make sense in scenarios of absolutely bloodthirsty austerity, in which public investment in the common good is completely decimated. When you notice that, you realize that these interests are intertwined.

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