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Seema Yasmin @doctoryasmin.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Find out how the competition to create a polio vaccine forged Soviet-US collaboration at the height of the Cold War. Thank you, Dora, for sharing your expertise!

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It’s Just Dionne @itsjustdionne.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. A better alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform. And before y’all start, you can transfer all your Goodreads data to Storygraph so you literally have no excuse.

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Seema Yasmin @doctoryasmin.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Uplifting sessions at the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents at NCTE in Boston, but also sobering statistics about the supremacy of whiteness in kids publishing.

A cartoon infographic featuring black and brown kids showing that of 3,600 kids books published in 2012, 3% were about African Americans, 1.5% about Latinos, less than 1% about Native Americans and 2% about Asian Americans

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Mia Birdsong @miabirdsong.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Two bookstores owned by Black women have had to close this year because of harassment and threats that made the owners fear for their safety.

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Seema Yasmin @doctoryasmin.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

A spooky love story from DJINNOLOGY appears in Kajal Magazine. Read it here: www.kajalmag.com/djinnology-s...

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Seema Yasmin @doctoryasmin.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Because everything is legitimately doom and gloom, and because the future of science seems uncertain — at best, I’ve started a daily IG series called Science Joy. Each installment showcases a recent scientific advancement to give you (and me) a dopamine boost. A lil antidote to the mess out there 🔬🫀

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Seema Yasmin @doctoryasmin.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Things are scary so it’s a great time to read a scary book (like listening to sad songs when you’re heartbroken, no?) Check out Djinnology, the first ever beastiary from the Muslim world. It’s queer, it’s creepy, and the illustrations are out of this world! www.chroniclebooks.com/products/dji...

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Djinnology

An intriguing and spine-tingling guide to the world of djinn.Lurking in the corner of your living room, perhaps reading this sentence over your shoulder right now, is an often invisible creature that ...

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