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Dr Ruby (she/her)

@paperwhispers.bsky.social
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Mango eating, sunshine loving, data research and question asker. Immigrant.

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Lovette 🏳️‍🌈 @lovettejallow.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Today’s post isn’t just history. It’s a correction. #StockholmSyndrome was never about “falling in love” with captors. It was about how #Sweden, its police, its politicians, even Olof Palme betrayed its own survivors to protect itself. Survival was pathologized to cover up state failure. 1/2 🧵
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Hannah Robbins (they/them) @drhannahrobbins.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Just had a doorstep chat with the local Labour team and told them Keir had lost my support before the general election because of the party’s stance on various equalities legislation. And that I couldn’t renew a vote for local Labour given the ongoing attack on trans rights.
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Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Have a listen, you will learn!
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School! Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101. Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Columbia Canceled My Course on Race and Media. I'm Going to Teach It Anyway.
This is not a time for media literacy or historical knowledge to be held hostage by institutions bending the knee to authoritarianism.
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The Battle for Higher Ed 👉🏾 “Becoming Unloved & Dangerous: Black University Life in the Age of Palestine Protest” w/ Dr. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, April 23 @ 6pm EDT. Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
The Battle for Higher Ed, “Becoming Unloved & Dangerous: Black University Life in the Age of Palestine Protest” w/ Dr. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, April 23 @ 6pm EDT. 

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_h-X-qKPXTBOgNoVglI0kwQ#/registration
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Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
This, especially the last point.
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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Read preprints. Cite preprints. Email people and tell them you loved their preprint. Email people you hated their preprint. Embrace preprints, preprints are good.
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Beronda L. Montgomery @berondam.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Coming soon... January 2026
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When Trees Testify: Reckoning with Black History Through the Science and Wisdom of Plants
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Vindhya Buthpitiya @vindi-b.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
🙃 Lobbying led UK universities to adopt US-style security during Gaza protests, emails reveal: UK students faced excessive disciplinary measures as a result of heavy-handed strategy, reports claim www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Lobbying led UK universities to adopt US-style security during Gaza protests, emails reveal
UK students faced excessive disciplinary measures as a result of heavy-handed strategy, reports claim
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Su-ming Khoo @sumingkhoo.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Crushing account of what's happening in UK #HE. The most awful part is that nothing in this unbelievable account is unbelievable, reminding us about what has been normalised right across and beyond the UK
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Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Something people in UK need to wake up to is how racism affects whether or not you get a job, whether you will be promoted and how long you will stay promoted.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Fraser Nelson blocked me on Twitter because he wrote an article about how the UK is the best place to be Black so I sent him a picture of the all white Spectator staff in LONDON and asked if this was you he said “I hire on ability” LOOOOOL
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Educator @drannlopez.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Join the CLD for this important conversation
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 21/02/2025
My latest column for @newscientist.com is about how categories are made by humans, whether we are talking about how to organize stellar types or human sex identity. With special mention to @benneholwerda.bsky.social and one of his students OBAFGKM :-) 🧪🔭 www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
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How does astronomy fit into astrophysics – and does it matter?
We need to think more carefully about how we categorise the universe, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
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Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
So in the UK would psychology be considered a STEM subject? Anyone know?
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Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @heydrdukes.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Our #MINDS post-bacc program is accepting applications til March 1st! ✨ ✅ two-years full-time PAID research ✅ $41,000 annual salary +benefits ✅ personalized grad school prep & cohort of peers ✅ $1,500 to relocate + $1,500 in prof dev funds ✅ dedicated mentors + more! z.umn.edu/minds Please share ✨
A group selfie of the 2024-25 cohort of MINDS post-baccalaureate scholars and their program director at the 2024 ABRCMS conference. This diverse group of historically marginalized scholars are all dressed up in conference attire and smiling widely for the photo.
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Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I have given up here...
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Carlos Azevedo @carlosazevedo.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Returning to their homes—to their land.
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Miriam IRL @miriam.blacksky.app · 22/01/2025
✨ soft life ✨ The radical choice to embrace calm over chaos, rest over resistance, and serenity over stress. Slow down. Breathe deeply. Move with intention.
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Sudanese women fleeing civil war face rape and abuse in Libya
The BBC hears about horrific violence five women experienced in Libya after fleeing war-torn Sudan.
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Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
If you are or know of any UK Black women profs promoted in Sept 24 to date, please let me know. This is for our Black women professors list!
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11/01/2025
Fanta was created so coke could sell soda in nazi Germany around a trade embargo. IBM sold the machines that were used to track and tabulate holocaust victims. Henry Ford inspired Hitler. Big business has always collaborated with fascism. Today's businesses are bastards who are no different.
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Erin Cunningham @erinmcunningham.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
A peer-reviewed study published in The Lancet estimates more than 64,000 deaths in Gaza due to traumatic injury between Oct. 7, 2023 and June 30, 2024 — a figure 41% higher than the Gaza Health Ministry’s official count. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Gaza war toll likely significantly undercounts deaths, says study
An official Palestinian tally of direct deaths in the Israel-Hamas war likely undercounted the number of casualties by 41% through the middle of 2024 as the Gaza Strip's healthcare infrastructure unravelled, according to the study.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Luxembourg can afford a pension more than 5x the UK, even Spain is nearly 3x. The problem is greed. Luxembourg £5202 Spain £2709 Belgium £2698 Liechtenstein £2148 Switzerland £2148 Iceland £1894 Denmark £1651 France £1564 Cyprus £1507 Bulgaria £1486 UK £958
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Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
A 26 year old nurse has been breaking the bones of premature Black babies. www.msn.com/en-us/health...
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Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
It has only taken over a decade but my cat finally slept in one of the four cat beds that I bought for her instead of sleeping in a random cardboard box. I noted her love for cardboard boxes and decided to place a cat bed on top of a different cardboard box and suddenly the bed box combo is king.
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Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Adulting is being sensible, making a food plan, stocking your fridge and cooking the food in it. I did all but the last step, and ordered nandos for dinner. Maybe adulting will find me next year.
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Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Musk and Vivek have been calling white right people irrevocably stupid and lazy for the past week. Now the white right want Musk and Vivek deported. Leopard face something something
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Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Friends who came over with me from twitter - how are the blue skies treating you? I am struggling, are you?
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
International #EpidemicPreparednessDay There is no epidemic preparedness until we make sure Global South countries have access to lifesaving vaccines & medicines www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Science should save all, not just some
Discussions around global equity and justice in science typically emphasize the lack of diversity in the editorial boards of scientific journals, inequities in authorship, “parachute research,” domina...
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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
One of my highlights this year! Best launch ever with the most amazing people
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Woke up to the best news ever. My book is officially the Number 1 Top release in the category of Political and Protest Poetry. Wouldn’t have been possible without you all 🎉📚
Screenshot of my book on the Amazon marketplace in the US showcasing how it is the Top New Release in the Category of Political and Protest poetry
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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
“We acknowledge that we should have been clearer” comes the apology 45 days late “and that the use of the footage here was intended to illustrate the general disorder, and are happy to correct the record.” Unlike the Christ child We were not born yesterday.
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BBC issues correction over Israel football violence in Amsterdam – after 45 days
THE BBC has finally issued a correction after it showed a video of Israeli football supporters attacking Dutch locals when reporting that Israeli…
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Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
The kids got a tumbling mat and now my husband and I are being put through a gymnastics routine.
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Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
This app is not just not fun. Maybe my social media days are coming to an end.
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Really?
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Part of fighting back is being both intentional, accurate, and forceful with our language. So anti-woke, anti-DEI efforts and activists? Especially when those efforts result in demonstrably lower numbers of qualified Black people the ranks? Start calling these folks pro-segregation.
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Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
FEMINIST GIANT Daily Dose: 42 www.feministgiant.com/p/daily-dose...
Text: A feminist revolution targets patriarchy in the State, Street, and the Home because it recognizes that there is no liberation without sexual liberation, without gender liberation, without queer liberation. A feminist revolution dares to imagine liberation from the militarism of the State and from its echo in the conservatism of the Street and the Home.
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Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Halep playing in qualifying?
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Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Universities becoming de facto govt and police surveillance units is just so disturbing. Academic freedom is being eroded.
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Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Look at Ireland, doing the thing.
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Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
The fact that we don't openly laugh at the US and allow its politics to influence us is so wild to me. They literally do things like this for optics and USians lap it up because a large section of the electorate vote based on who entertains them most.
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
More twists in black plastic utensils story: The study overstated the potential exposure to flame retardants by an order of magnitude because of a math error, and now the whole journal has been de-listed from a science index for not meeting "quality criteria." arstechnica.com/health/2024/...
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Journal that published faulty black plastic study removed from science index
Chemosphere cut from Web of Science, which calculates impact factors.
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Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Omg I just found the detach quote function! Amazing stuff.
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Rachel Honeyghan-Williams, PhD 🐝 @sciwithrach.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
So chuffed to get a mention in Nick's great review of Dragonmeet! 🥰 You'll definitely be seeing more of @scienceandsorcery.bsky.social at cons & expos in the years to come! 🤩
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ethnicitypaygap.bsky.social @ethnicitypaygap.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Here is an early Christmas present. Our 2022 research report. Impact of the Ethnicity Pay Gap on Black Women. ethnicitypaygapcampaign.com/resources-2/ Your welcome 🙂
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RESOURCES – ethnicitypaygapcampaign.com
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Action for Race Equality @are-official.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
‘Racial justice demands collective action.’💬📢 The UN has launched the Second International Decade for People of African Descent in January 2025. A renewed push for racial justice, #equality, and confronting the legacies of #colonialism and enslavement. news.un.org/en/story/202...
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‘Racial justice demands collective action’, says UN rights chief, ushering in new decade for African diaspora
UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk on Tuesday welcomed the proclamation of the Second International Decade for People of African Descent by the UN General Assembly.
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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
My last blog post of 2024 is a reflection on the uses of despair in the neoliberal university. I use a couple of stories, experiences, and arguments to consider the question: How do we deploy hope in response to racial injustice in the midst of despair? folukeafrica.com/what-is-the-...
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What is the use of Hoping while Grieving, Teaching and Researching Racial Injustice in the Neoliberal University?
Breathe in. Breathe out. Hope. The motion tells us we are still alive.
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