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Immunologist working in translational medical research. PhD in respiratory immunology + zebrafish models. Co-founder of Black In Immuno. Editor of 'The Black PhD Experience' Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Views my own Linktr.ee/drmadina

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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 10/04/2026
Genocide continues, but SO DO WE. The siege is tightening in Gaza and our inattention is failing them. Unless. Unless. Here's one link that supports dozens of families. Priorities are FOOD, healthcare, shelter. Click "weekly" if you can: chuffed.org/project/hope...
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Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
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Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
If you're in London in February and want to get your geek on with me: "This presentation outlines the rocky efforts of 2 Indigenous researchers to collaborate through an extremely relational form of Western knowledge: statistics." www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
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Counting across worlds (or, how to love a zero)
This presentation outlines the rocky efforts of two Indigenous researchers to collaborate across incommensurability through an extremely relational form of Western knowledge: statistics.
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Dr Madina she/her @drmadina.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
🗣️ Happening tomorrow! Join us to help shape the future of @blackinimmuno.bsky.social and connect with the community
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Heather Caslin @heathercaslin.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
From the Black in Immuno board: we’re excited to reconnect and meet new friends here! Please follow and share our page with anyone who may be interested in our work.
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Dr Madina she/her @drmadina.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Follow @blackinimmuno.bsky.social to get updates on our group! And join us on 18th Sept to shape the future of our community 👩🏾‍🔬
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blackinimmuno.bsky.social @blackinimmuno.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Hello Bluesky, we’ve finally migrated and look forward to connecting with everyone here! We’re also having a Town Hall next week. Please register here and share with anyone who may want to reconnect or learn more about our group: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Yellow and white font on black background with our logo and white and yellow hexagons for interest. Text reads “Black in Immuno Town Hall ‘25. Join us for a town hall to catch up on the present and future of Black in Immuno. We’d love to get input from everyone on how we can best serve the community. Please register for access to the meeting- even if you can’t attend register anyway. We’ll send out a summary of the meeting and ask for further input.”
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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 06/08/2025
You don't have to sit around waiting for things to get better amid a sea of bad news! Making the world better takes effort from each of us, and sometimes that can be as little as supporting those working hard to support others, like Spark Space. Kick in $5 or $10: chuffed.org/project/spar...
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🇵🇸 Gaza Needs Your Support: Help Build a Lifeline for Students and Remote Workers!
In Gaza, war has destroyed homes, blocked roads, and left countless people without work. Yet, amidst the rubble, hope remains. Students and remote workers face daily struggles—power outages, broken in...
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
“This paper unpacks the concept of citation politics and its role in sustaining epistemic hierarchies within scholarly communities.” osf.io/qjecy_v2
Figure 1. Mechanisms of power and privilege operating in citational practice and their effects on six individuals with different intersecting identities.
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 19/05/2025
Hello hello 👋🏾 share if you can see this. This young dad is struggling to keep his kids in Gz & his son in Egypt fed. Don’t feel hopeless in the face of this - every 5 / share helps. Last check, we’ve only gotten 49/250 in a WEEK. We're matching 250.
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Help Ahmad's children survive
I'm helping my friend, Ahmad Alsideek, raise funds to help his family survive.
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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
One month countdown until this hot thing is out there in the world. Available to preorder now: 🇬🇧 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/rainbow-t... 🇺🇸 www.bloomsbury.com/us/rainbow-t... #books #newbooks #LGBTQ #gender #sexuality #queer #gay #DEI #data #tech #law #politics
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Rainbow Trap
Rainbow Trap reveals how the fight for LGBTQ equalities in the UK is shaped – and constrained – by the classifications we encounter every day.Looking across six…
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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Have you ever felt like the available gender, sex and sexuality boxes don't fully capture your experiences, hopes and desires? Welcome to a Rainbow Trap 🌈 👮 💘 🎥 ✈️ 🏃‍♂️ 💼
A stack of Rainbow Trap books, against a dark blue background.Contents page that reads:

Acronyms

Introduction: Queer cogs in a broken system

Hate crimes: Safety, protection and the police

Dating apps: Technology and the curation of desire

Culture: Outness in the film and television industry

Borders: Truth, sameness and the politics of evidence

Health and fitness: Markers of difference and the body

Business: Queer workers and money matters 

Conclusion: After inclusion

Acknowledgements

Bibliography

Index
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 03/05/2025
8 hours to go 🚨 we have stagnated again while SO close to the goal. Most of us just paid our taxes which are funding bombardment, famine, & more. We owe it to these families. Secure them flour & other essentials. They are out of food. 574/700. chuffed.org/project/save...
A tan square graphic. In the background is a photo of tents among the rubble and ruins of buildings in Jabalia, Gaza. The image is gradually faded towards the text. Title: Urgent help for medical case in Jabalia, Gaza. Text: “The situation in northern Gaza has become extremely dangerous and evacuation orders are approaching. A small team is aiding a handful of devastated families who have no one else to turn to. A member of one of these families has been living with a severe injury for 18 months, now especially vulnerable due to starvation. With your help, the team will provide urgent financial assistance to this person & their family for essential needs. Be their hope: https://tiny.cc/SaveJabaliaFamilies. Faster option: PP: divyamper, note “J””
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Vaishnavi @mvaish06.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Happy May Day! On this labour day, we write about labour of community healthcare workers in South Asia, India's ASHAs, Nepal's FCHVs and Pakistan's LHWs, and their struggles to get recognized. @plosglobalpublichealth.org @madhupai.bsky.social @plos.org speakingofmedicine.plos.org/2025/04/30/r...
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Recognizing the Labour Behind Care—The Fight for Dignity and Rights Among South Asia’s Community Healthcare Workers
As we mark the Labour Day—a day meant to honor the contributions and struggles of workers—we urge the recognition of CHWs not just as "heroes", but as workers.
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Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 26/04/2025
Time is of the essence and we need to fight the EHRC interim guidance before it becomes statutory and Parliament make it law. Don’t just shout about it, write to them. Also tell the media, if you can get them to care. I’ve posted this on Instagram. Speak to your unions and staff networks at work
hello venues, LGBTQ+ clubs and organisations, workplaces and pals

Social posts and posters are nice, but we need you to write to the EHRC and tell them their new guidance (see next slides) doesn't work for you

They can't tell people how to run a gay or lesbian club. And they can't make you be toilet cops. Please tell them it doesn't work for you. A quick email or phone call will help a lot.From the EHRC interim guidance:

In workplaces and services that are open to the public:
• trans women (biological men) should not be permitted to use the women's facilities and trans men (biological women) should not be permitted to use the men's facilities, as this will mean that they are no longer single-sex facilities and must be open to all users of the opposite sex
• in some circumstances the law also allows trans women (biological men) not to be permitted to use the men's facilities, and trans men (biological woman) not to be permitted to use the women's facilities

From Phoenix: If we pass too well, we aren't allowed in either gendered toilet or changing room. It's not fair to segregate us, never mind the impact on disabled people if abled trans people use their facilitiesFrom the EHRC interim guidance:

Membership of an association of 25 or more people can be limited to men only or women only and can be limited to people who each have two protected characteristics. It can be, for example, for gay men only or lesbian women only. A women-only or lesbian-only association should not admit trans women (biological men), and a men-only or gay men-only association should not admit trans men (biological women).

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If you run a gay or lesbian club, night, bar, sauna, reading group, walking group etc - the EHRC say you have to exclude trans people or include cishets. Freedom of association is under threatTime is of the essence. They're going to make this guidance statutory and Parliament will make that law soon. We will try to help with template letters etc, but your initial objections should be logged NOW.

We love you, you need to speak up.
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BSonblast @bsonblast.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Update from AlAbbasiya Community Kitchen, which provides meals to hundreds of families in Omdurman daily. They've had to start a new contribution page: chuffed.org/project/1267... If you can, please consider contributing. They are keeping hundreds of families from starving. #KeepEyesOnSudan
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Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Link here if you need access: rdcu.be/ei9gY
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Eugenics is on the rise again: human geneticists must take a stand | Nature
Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics. Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics.
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Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I wrote about how we must stand and fight against the threat of eugenics. Fueled by white nationalism and scientific racism, these beliefs are factually wrong and ethically abhorrent. This fight includes supporting efforts to diversify our workforce & science. To stop now would be a deep betrayal.
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Eugenics is on the rise again: human geneticists must take a stand
Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics.
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Ellie Armstrong @ellietheelement.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Excitingly, have had a second #STS & #SciEd paper published this week at CSSE - this one on the subversive potential of zines in space science education 🚀 📖 - rdcu.be/eiQbR
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Riot strrrs: zines as alternative public pedagogies in space science education
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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Want to contact your MP about the Supreme Court ruling? @transsolidarity.bsky.social has created an MP letter template to help get you started docs.google.com/document/d/1... 🙂💪
Pink and white text on black background. Reads: unite for trans rights. Outraged by the Supreme Court ruling? Take action and encourage others to do the same. Contact your local MP. You can call or write. There are templates in our bio. Has the Trans Solidarity Alliance logo
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Dr Madina she/her @drmadina.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Hi friends, has anyone built a website for their professional profile who would be willing to share any advice?
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 19/04/2025
No support in 4 weeks but things have gotten worse, with the team paying out of pocket to keep things running. This is not a business. It’s a lifeline for families to get income through remote jobs (which don’t stop under b-mbing). Chip in & share: chuffed.org/project/spar...
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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 19/04/2025
Want to help the organizers of Spark Space provide students, remote workers, and others with the internet and electricity they need to learn, work, and support their families? Share and donate if you can to keep this space running: chuffed.org/project/spar...
A yellow-gold square graphic. In the center is a circular photo of several people working at remote workstations with laptops and chargers. They’re in a building with lights, outlets, and cupboards. The image has an orange glow behind it. Around the image is the title, Spark Space, Gaza, decorated with illustrated plugs. The text below says, “We aim to create a safe, fully-equipped workspace with reliable electricity and fast internet, offering students and freelancers in Gaza the environment they need to continue their journey despite the hardships.” Below is the link https://chuffed.org/project/spark-space-gaza.
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Dr Madina she/her @drmadina.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Came across a familiar friendly face in an old issue of the Imperial magazine @dgaboriau.bsky.social Lovely to see the FILM facility team being celebrated! I have very fond memories and huge gratitude for the guidance they gave me during my PhD 🔬 #microscopy
Magazine page with a photo of the scientist Dr David Gaboriau in a white lab coat standing next to a large microscope. He is quoted as saying "Sitting alongside Imperial scientists as they make their discoveries is like seeing a work of art for the first time".
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NPR @npr.org · 16/04/2025
All 27 scientists at this CDC lab were told their duties were "unnecessary," and now viral outbreak investigations have been halted.
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In the middle of a hepatitis outbreak, U.S. shutters the one CDC lab that could help
All 27 scientists at this CDC lab were told their duties were "unnecessary," and now viral outbreak investigations have been halted
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Tess Stenson-Childs @tessstenson.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
No trans people were consulted on this decision that only affects trans people. In fact trans people were actively barred from consulting on this decision that only affects trans people. But transphobic bigots? Oh they got consulted for days. Fucking grim. I'm absolutely fuming.
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Switchboard - LGBTQIA+ Support Line @switchboard.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
We know today may feel especially heavy for our trans and non-binary siblings. If you’re feeling overwhelmed or affected by the UK Supreme Court’s decision, please know you’re not alone. We’re here for you every day from 10am to 10pm. #TransRights #Trans #NonBinary #SupremeCourt #Gender
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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK. Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽 www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...
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Palestinian Scholarship
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 14/04/2025
For 72 hours we’re addressing a major health emergency🚨 ➡️ You’ve helped these families in Jabalia with food, medicine, & more. The team now plans to fuel a truck to remove waste which is a SERIOUS health hazard for these vulnerable folks. ➡️ 40/700 chuffed.org/project/save...
A tan square graphic. In the background is a photo of tents among the rubble and ruins of buildings in Jabalia, Gaza. The image is gradually faded towards the text. Title: Urgent waste removal in Jabalia, Gaza. Text: “The situation in northern Gaza has become extremely dangerous and evacuation orders are approaching. A small team is aiding a handful of devastated families who have no one else to turn to. The health situation in the area is dangerous due to the widespread presence of insects and rodents caused by the accumulation of waste, which will lead to diseases. With your help, the team will fuel a garbage truck to help remove waste. Be their hope: https://tiny.cc/SaveJabaliaFamilies. Faster option: PP: divyamper, note “J””
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Obviously things have got dramatically worse in the US recently, and I don't want to diminish that, but I've been at *so many* conferences in the UK on topics like empire, humanitarianism and development where multiple speakers from the Global South have been denied visas or held at the border
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 08/04/2025
Please share - we have a modest goal to keep this family fed, which isn’t a hopeless task 👋🏾 Akram is doing his very best to help his young sisters & brother and their mom survive mass starvation, bombardment, and displacement. It’s our duty—even €5.
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Donate to Help the Abdelwahed family evacuate Gaza, organized by Akram Abdelwahed
Hello, my name is Akram. I am 29 years old and from Gaza. After my father's … Akram Abdelwahed needs your support for Help the Abdelwahed family evacuate Gaza
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Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Disabled people have spoken of their anger, frustration and fear – and sense of betrayal by the Labour government – over plans to cut billions of pounds from disability benefits, as they protested outside Downing Street yesterday.
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DPAC says ‘this is just the start’, after protest over ‘vile and cruel’ benefit cuts outside Downing Street
Disabled people have spoken of their anger, frustration and fear – and sense of betrayal by the Labour government – over plans to cut billions of pounds from disability benefits, as they protested …
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Action for Global Health @afghnetwork.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
🔔 REMINDER: we're seeking a consultant to deliver our 'Determinants and Root Causes' report. ⤵️
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Palestine Solidarity Campaign @pscupdates.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
🚨Tell Wes Streeting - Palantir out of our NHS! Palantir enables Israel’s genocide and apartheid against Palestinians, yet it’s been given a HUGE contract to create a platform to manage NHS patient data. Tell Wes Streeting to cancel the contract: palestinecampaign.eaction.online/palantirnhs (1/7)
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 19/03/2025
I’m posting this every 4 hours due to urgency 🚨 a friend has been supporting families in Jabalia with mutual aid & needs your help now more than ever! PP (preferred for speed): divyamper, note "J" Chuffed: chuffed.org/project/save... Accountability: tiny.cc/JP-Accountab...
A tan square graphic. In the background is a photo of tents among the rubble and ruins of buildings in Jabalia, Gaza. The image is gradually faded towards the text. Title: Save devastated families in Jabalia, Gaza. Text: This mutual aid campaign is dedicated to a small group of devastated families in Jabalia, northern Gaza who have no one else to turn to. With your help, we will provide: 1. Weekly food parcels. 2. Clean water. 3. Direct financial support to help families afford essential needs like medicine and clothing. Be their hope: https://tiny.cc/SaveJabaliaFamilies. Faster option: PP: divyamper, note “J”
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 19/03/2025
Israel attacked at dawn on Tuesday, as forcibly displaced Palestinians across Gaza were sleeping, killing at least 436 people in 100 simultaneous air attacks across the enclave. How Israel's deadly attack happened aje.io/xn31an
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 01/03/2025
Academics, boost this initiative that gives university students a FREE, safe place to connect to their university classes remotely! These are not only overseas degrees but degrees STILL BEING RUN by Palestinian university committees from Gaza & WB—despite the physical loss of universities in Gaza!
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Sarah Cosgriff 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇭 @acescicomm.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Alongside the above I also offer science communication and public engagement training. I am now looking to book more work. If my work interests you, you can see more information and contact me via my website: www.sarahcosgriff.com
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Sarah Cosgriff is a consultant and trainer specialising in science communication, public engagement, equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI). She is also an asexual activist and is passionate about LGBT...
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 26/02/2025
A challenge for Ramadan ‼️ today’s drive is to keep the lights on at this community workspace offering free internet & electricity for students. They’ve asked us to raise £550 by Saturday to keep operating. A modest ask in 3 days - I believe in us!💡 chuffed.org/project/spark-space-gaza
A yellow-gold square graphic. In the center is a circular photo of several people working at remote workstations with laptops and chargers. They’re in a building with lights, outlets, and cupboards. The image has an orange glow behind it. Around the image is the title, Spark Space, Gaza, decorated with illustrated plugs. The text below says, “We aim to create a safe, fully-equipped workspace with reliable electricity and fast internet, offering students and freelancers in Gaza the environment they need to continue their journey despite the hardships.” Below is the link https://chuffed.org/project/spark-space-gaza.
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Red Medicine @medicinered.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
As Labour push through their assisted suicide bill, Ellen Clifford explains the threats this legislation poses to disabled people, as well as where it sits in a broader history of oppression. EPISODE 74: THE ASSISTED SUICIDE BILL w/ Ellen Clifford LINK BELOW!
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Dr Alfredo Carpineti @drcarpineti.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
This is a brilliant idea by @shaunoboyle.bsky.social. If you had some resources, talks, videos, art do get in touch with me or @prideinstem.bsky.social and we can work something!
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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Good. ✊🏼
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African history students awarded compensation after master’s axed
University of Chichester had suspended recruitment to its history of Africa and the African diaspora MRes
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Alexis Dennis @acdennis.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I’ve heard great things about Deborah carr’s textbook - art and science of social research
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Dr Madina she/her @drmadina.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
#AcademicSky #MedSky #ScienceSky #STS
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Dr Madina she/her @drmadina.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I'm looking for recommendations for texts/resources providing an intro to social science methods - can anyone help? Bonus if they focus on social justice, health/medicine, or science and technology studies 🙌🏾
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 18/02/2025
The occupation is STILL blocking entry of aid, including temp housing. Given this scarcity, we have an opportunity to make a huge difference for this family in need of shelter, essential goods, & access to electricity. We’re matching the next €300! tiny.cc/HelpMohamed
A rectangular graphic with a keffiyeh pattern on the right and text on the left, with a line drawing of a poppy in the background. The graphic is titled “Matches for Mohamed” in black on green. Underneath says “Mohamed's family needs our support with basic needs & shelter. We are matching the next €300 - give for 2x the impact and help this family survive! tiny.cc/HelpMohamed.”
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Bloomsbury Politics & Area Studies @bloomsburypol.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
ICYMI: listen to @medicinered.bsky.social podcast with author @georgesevers.bsky.social 🎧 The author of 'Radical Acts' provides a history of the political and social movements that emerged to respond to the harms of HIV/AIDS in England. 📕 bit.ly/4gABbpv 🎙️ bit.ly/49nWM1M #HIV #AIDS #LGBTQ #Protest
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Radical Acts
Drawing on activist campaign literature and materials, broadcast media, and new oral history interviews, Severs reconstructs and discusses the overlooked world…
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Xine Yao PhD (she/they) @xineyaophd.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Honoured to have @reproutopia.bsky.social deliver our annual qUCL/GFRN lecture! March 7 ‘The Feminism of Fools: When Real Feminists do Fascism' Respondents @galarexer.bsky.social Victoria Mangan, Emrah Karakus #feminism #lgbtq
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Dr Madina she/her @drmadina.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
With the recent announcement of plans to demolish Grenfell tower (and the lack of consultation with the community), it is ever important to understand how this massacre was enabled in the first place. Red Medicine always do a solid job of unpacking the ways our political economy shapes health.
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