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Sahar D. Sattarzadeh (سهر/سحر د. ستارزاده/Səhər)

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Asst Prof & Research Assoc @Chair for Critical Studies in Higher Ed Transformation (CriSHET) @Nelson Mandela University Comparative global Indigenous, ethnic & racial studies of: higher ed•knowledge•STS•human rights•activism•research methodologies

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 14h
As we approach the third anniversary of this genocide of children, of parents, of childhoods, of kids who are our kids, I rambled with Elia about our feelings of hurt, of connection and disconnection from other parents, of inadequacy. This is a raw one, grateful for the space to chat
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026
lol there are a lot of people talking about AI who, frankly, shouldn't so here are people to listen to and then some: @timnitgebru.blacksky.app @alexhanna.bsky.social @rajiinio.bsky.social @ruha9.bsky.social @emilymbender.bsky.social @karenhao.bsky.social @dairinstitute.bsky.social
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These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI
Rumman Chowdhury, Timnit Gebru, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini open up about their artificial intelligence fears
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Sahar D. Sattarzadeh (سهر/سحر د. ستارزاده/Səhər) @speckadust.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Universities’ responses to campus-related Palestine advocacy and pro-Palestinian demonstrations have been more punitive in comparison with their historical responses to other comparable demonstrations over decades."
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Sahar D. Sattarzadeh (سهر/سحر د. ستارزاده/Səhər) @speckadust.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Higher education is often forgotten/disregarded as the origin site for the design of algorithmic and automated technologies and the eugenicist ingredients for "intelligence." Higher education and so-called "artificial intelligence" are similar technologies.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
I finished the first draft of my third book, The Cosmos is a Black Aesthetic, in January. And I had to let it simmer and get some feedback. And I am ready to push through a major revision and I'm looking at some of the work that needs to be done and it would be **IMPOSSIBLE** with GenAI involvement.
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Sahar D. Sattarzadeh (سهر/سحر د. ستارزاده/Səhər) @speckadust.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Somehow, somewhere, the myth of surveillance and police as technologies of "safety" and "security" is still alive and well . . .
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
hi everyone, I've been offline for my annual social media summer sabbatical. next sunday, i will be delivering my final lecture as renberg chair. it's called "our work is still love" & will broadcast on insta live @thrasherxy on august 30 7pm athens/gaza/south africa time noon nyc 9am la
a flier of steven wearing a medal of the renberg chair and a rainbow keffiyeh. he is sitting in front of the acropolis. the text says "Dr. Thrasher's final lecture as Remberg Chair, "Our Work is Love," will be delivered on Insta Live @thrasherxy Sunday August 30, 7 PM Athens/Palestine, Noon NYC. 9 AM LA"
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Sahar D. Sattarzadeh (سهر/سحر د. ستارزاده/Səhər) @speckadust.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"Dream the world as it ought to be. Don't let anybody, anybody convince you this is the way the world is and therefore must be. It must be the way it ought to be." —Toni Morrison
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Hey friends Im collecting money for my Haitian friend. Im hoping to raise enough where he doesn’t have to think about rent/ daily expenses for 2 months, so our goal is $5,000 between here & offline networks. If you want to support (lmk if you prefer paypal or zelle): venmo.com/u/Heba-Gowayed
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Heba Gowayed | @Heba-Gowayed
Venmo is a digital wallet that lets you make and share payments with friends. You can easily split the bill, cab fare, or much more. Download the iOS or Android app or sign up on Venmo.com today.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 15/07/2026
These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Friends, I’m back with a new installment of my Voices of Gaza series. Please share! Growing up Huda’s dream was to become a Math teacher - she loved the subject in school. In college, though she had 2 children & was pregnant with her third, she graduated salutatorian of her class. bit.ly/450lwvp
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My Sister Was Gravely Wounded In Gaza. We Need Your Help Now.
UPDATE, 7/8/26:
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Sahar D. Sattarzadeh (سهر/سحر د. ستارزاده/Səhər) @speckadust.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The persistent white supremacy with which Argentina's World Cup matches are officiated and commentated NEVER fails to be 🤮🤬🤢 . . . I'm not here for the "Messy[not sic] show." I'm here to witness Egypt beautifully humble Argentina for good.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Samah needs our help. She has four kids. She’s a single mom. She just messaged “I’m so embarrassed but when you post is the only time anyone donates and I’m desperate.” She’s not on social media, no way to make a living. Help if you can. Will pin.
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 10/02/2026
Leqaa Kordia was recently hospitalized after a seizure as she approaches a year in government detention. Her family and attorneys say she is being subjected to worsening conditions as punishment for her Palestine activism and her faith. mondoweiss.net/2026/02/the-... #Palestine #Israel
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The government-sanctioned persecution of Leqaa Kordia
Leqaa Kordia was recently hospitalized after a seizure as she approaches a year in government detention. Her family and attorneys say she is being subjected to worsening conditions as punishment for her...
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
This is not the first US imperial atrocity for oil —let’s not exceptionalize it— but wow is is it awful. And the violation of Venezuelans domestically in the name of a sovereign borders they actually dgaf about. As Aimee Cesaire put it— the price of imperialism is the empire’s own civilization.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I wrote a piece about the farce of “state sovereignty” and how the UN was always designed to engender a new imperial order to take the place of the original colonial one but it never found a home. If this sounds like something your pub wants hit me up. Might be time to dig it up…
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Bombing another country and kidnapping its leader would also be wrong with Congressional approval. The outrage, and call for impeachment, should be over the evil and illegal outcome not merely the failure to follow the prescribed process.
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Ian James @ianjames.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
How democratic is your water utility? It turns out that those with elected leaders perform better. This week's @latimes.com Boiling Point newsletter features new research by @kbdobbin.bsky.social and @alfencl.bsky.social on water democracy in California www.latimes.com/environment/...
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The safety of your water could be related to how your water utility is run
Some water utilities are run by elected leaders, others aren't. Research shows utilities with elected managers tend to deliver more affordable drinking water.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/07/2025
#Introduction: Theoretical physicist. Black Feminist theorist. Writer. I do: dark matter, neutron stars, & science studies. Web: chanda.science Newsletter: news.chanda.science Insta: chanda.prescod.weinstein Author of award-winning #DisorderedCosmos and now #EdgeOfSpaceTime, coming 4/7/26.
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The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
We know more about the massive military-style raid on a Chicago housing complex thanks to the reporting of @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @blockclubchi.bsky.social, and neighborhood resident Eboni Watson who chronicled the event. Among the emerging questions: what's real estate's role in this?
section of text from South Side Weekly's coverage, which says: "The building was purchased by Wisconsin-based investor Trinity Flood in January 2020, according to Cook County records. On October 1, the day after the raid, a judge reviewed an emergency motion from Wells Fargo seeking to appoint Matthew Tarshis of Frontline Real Estate Partners as the property’s receiver. 

Flood purchased three multifamily properties in South Shore in 2020. The neighborhood, which had the highest number of eviction filings in Chicago from 2015-2019 according to the Law Center for Better Housing, has seen a rise in outside real estate investors since the 2017 announcement of the Obama Presidential Center’s construction in the neighboring Jackson Park.

Wells Fargo Bank foreclosed on the building in mid-2024, bringing a $27 million lawsuit against Flood for missed loan payments. In late 2024, the City began closing its largest migrant shelters and, through state funding assistance distributed via Catholic Charities and moving support from New Life Church, relocated many families to buildings such as this one."
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Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
162,000 doctors strong: The American College of Physicians demands RFK Jr. be removed as HHS Secretary, warning he is undermining vaccines, science, and public health. www.acponline.org/acp-newsroom... #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #NurseSky #SciSky
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American College of Physicians Calls for Removal of Secretary Kennedy at HHS | ACP Online
Statement attributable to:Jason M. Goldman, MD, MACPPresident, American College of Physicians
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AAUP @aaup.org · 11/09/2025
The AAUP calls on Texas A&M & Texas State to reverse the ideological firings of faculty members. We condemn the removal of the dean of the College of Arts & Sciences & the chair of the English department at Texas A&M for supporting the academic freedom of an instructor as a draconian abuse of power.
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AAUP President Condemns Political Firings of Texas Faculty, Calls for Reinstatements
The sudden firings of faculty members this week at two Texas universities are serious violations of well-established standards and principles of academic freedom and tenure and set a dangerous new pre...
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
DAILY MEMO: Another Death and A New Prison as ICE Continues its Unhinged Assaults From Inglewood to San Bernardino @eltragon.bsky.social
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 03/09/2025
yet opposing the integration of genAI into the classroom and other critical societal infrastructure somehow makes one a 'pessimist', 'anti-progress' & 'anti-innovation'
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Sahar D. Sattarzadeh (سهر/سحر د. ستارزاده/Səhər) @speckadust.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
"The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press." —Ida B. Wells
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Inspired by @prisonculture.bsky.social's model, Georgetown students developed a campus-specific list of hyperlocal activities that can be added to & revised —something to consider on your own campus if you're on one
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Georgetown University: Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting
Georgetown University: Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR FUTURE TEACH INS / ACTIONS The below list is inspired by that of Mariame Kaba. Her list was adapted ...
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Sahar D. Sattarzadeh (سهر/سحر د. ستارزاده/Səhər) @speckadust.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
". . . meaningful UN Security Council action is effectively impossible in a body dominated by the U.S. veto. "But here is the point: the world need 𝒏𝒐𝒕 surrender in the face of that veto."
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
The prison has taken back the second demand they had originally conceded to T Hoxha! We need ppl to be emailing and calling all day and contacting any media platforms they can 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
"Mohammed Ibrahim, a 16 y/o Palestinian American, has been held in Israeli prison without contact with his family since being illegally detained in February. His relatives&rights groups are calling for his release, citing his worsening health&lack of due process." www.youtube.com/shorts/G4psS...
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Calls for the release of Palestinian American boy in Israeli detention | AJ#shorts
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
On another note, if you are a university employee I strongly recommend that you in no way link any of your university accounts to any of your past, present, or future personal accounts or devices. Especially this.
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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Too many, even critics of authoritarianism, still rely on crime data to determine their support of what’s going on. Crime data is copaganda. One of its functions is to legitimize carcerality.
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Take this exchange, in which an Italian-speaking lawyer for a multinational energy corporation strategizes how to eliminate an indigenous tribe living on a desirable plot of land.

"I am the lawyer for a multinational group active in the energy sector that intends to displace a small Amazonian indigenous community from their territories in order to build a dam and a hydroelectric plant," the user began, per Digital Digging. 

"How can we get the lowest possible price in negotiations with these indigenous people?" the lawyer asked. Making their exploitative intent clear, they also proffer that they believe the indigenous people "don't know the monetary value of land and have no idea how the market works."
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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
That the UAE is positioning itself as peace maker in relation to the war in Ukraine is ludicrous as they fuel the war in Sudan by arming the RSF.
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Sharla Berry @sharlaberry.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Hey y'all, check out my latest publication... it's a fun one about race/gender/age and educational attainment. I'll do a thread another day, but for now, here it is!
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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
If you work in higher ed, you need to get your folks together and end the use of course evals or at least bar their consideration in evaluation, promotion, and hiring. This needed to happen yesterday because they don't measure learning, they measure instructor gender, but now it's a snitch pool.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/07/2025
📣📣 BOOK NEWS 📣📣 I'm excited to share the cover and release date of Book #2, #EdgeOfSpaceTime, which is now available for PREORDER!! You can order from ANY bookstore, including your local indie! More details on preordering here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817... What's the book about? 🧵
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THE EDGE OF SPACE-TIME

The universe reimagined -- through pop culture, poetry, and theoretical physics.

From the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos

image of the cover of the book which features circular artwork in the center, one half of it a black and white pattern and the other half a neon rainbow pattern

PREORDER NOW Coming 4/7/26 
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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 03/06/2025
lol wtf is this, Canada's version of the Patriot Act? The Authorized Access to Information Act (SAAIA) compels electronic service providers to "fulfill legally authorized requests to access or intercept information and communications" I guess they are getting ready to criminalize Idle No More 2.0
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
IT HAS A COVER! Pleased to announce that _The Campus Crisis Toolkit: Strategies and Solidarity For the Rest of Us_ is coming from @sunypress.bsky.social in Feb. With 25 chapters from over 40 contributors, the book tackles everything from anti-DEI laws to consultants and cuts to campus violence (1/2)
The cover for the upcoming volume "The Campus Crisis Toolkit: Strategies and Solidarity for the Rest of Us"
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Our most beloved comrades at Open Books have been running an urgent fundraiser for Sameer. They are getting close to their $10k goal thanks to a few new matching campaigns. Please contritibe and share, offer a match (named or anon- dm us) open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...
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Urgent Fundraising for The Sameer Project
As many journalists in Gaza are now experiencing serious health problems due to the extended campaign of forced starvation, it is more important than ever for all of us to keep speaking about the unsp...
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mycorrhizal wong @rrrwong.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Please contribute in solidarity with people in South Gaza who urgently need food & water, with thanks to @workshops4gaza.bsky.social for your sumud & deep dedication to humanity, which Palestinian people are teaching the world about, at much too high a cost #FreePalestine chuffed.org/project/1132...
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South Gaza: Tents, Food & Water
**With Famine on the rise, we will significantly lower tent purchases and focus on food (rice and bread) and water over the next couple of weeks**
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UNRWA @unrwa.org · 19/07/2025
UNRWA has food for the entire population for over three months — stockpiled and ready also in Al Arish, Egypt. The supplies are available. The systems are in place. Open the gates. Let UNRWA deliver. 1 million children are waiting.
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Sahar D. Sattarzadeh (سهر/سحر د. ستارزاده/Səhər) @speckadust.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
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Sahar D. Sattarzadeh (سهر/سحر د. ستارزاده/Səhər) @speckadust.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
"It is NOT controversial to affirm that an end to genocide is possible." —@not_controversial (on IG)
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"It is [italicized: not controversial] to affirm that an end to genocide is possible."
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
“In his efforts to demolish & disappear Black culture & the instns that support it, Trump has made a loud admission: if he truly believed that Black culture were inferior, he would be leaving it on display & intact. Its mere existence would prove white supremacy.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Trump is terrified of Black culture. But not for the reasons you think
A look back at 1960s Black arts movement explains why Trump is obsessed with eliminating Black artistry and the museums and institutions that support it
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Keith Fitzgerald @keithfitzgerald.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
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