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Ubaka Ogbogu

@ubakaogbogu.bsky.social
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Professor. Member, RSC College. Posting about law, health, science policy, politics, antiracism, sports, fashion, culture. #BlackLivesMatter. he/him

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Ubaka Ogbogu @ubakaogbogu.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/b...
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This Masterpiece Is the Novel of the Decade, if Not the Century
Marlon James’s story of gay experience and murderous homophobia in Jamaica is a maximalist’s banquet — and the Booker Prize winner’s finest book yet.
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Ubaka Ogbogu @ubakaogbogu.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Wow. This better not disappoint when my copy arrives next week. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/b...
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This Masterpiece Is the Novel of the Decade, if Not the Century
Marlon James’s story of gay experience and murderous homophobia in Jamaica is a maximalist’s banquet — and the Booker Prize winner’s finest book yet.
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Ubaka Ogbogu @ubakaogbogu.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/s...
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Can This New Enzyme Turn Back the Clock in Bodily Tissues?
In a recent study, scientists devised a way of reversing the buildup of compounds that lead to some age-related diseases.
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Ubaka Ogbogu @ubakaogbogu.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
My latest piece, on how China is on the cutting-edge in regulating intervention-based biomedical technologies and therapies. Free to read and share: www.cell.com/stem-cell-re...
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Closing the gap? China’s new regulation on biomedical technologies
This paper discusses China’s State Council Order No. 818, effective May 1, 2026, which establishes a statutory framework for biomedical technologies at the cellular and molecular levels. The framework...
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Ubaka Ogbogu @ubakaogbogu.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
In hand. No better feeling for an academic.
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Ubaka Ogbogu @ubakaogbogu.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I am on administrative leave starting January 1, 2026. I'll be doing some travelling and writing (I hope) about health politics and emerging biotechnologies. Some creative writing too (poems, short stories). Follow me on Substack to read: substack.com/@thenaijalorian
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Ubaka Ogbogu | Substack
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Ubaka Ogbogu @ubakaogbogu.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
A student sent me photos she took in my class to memorialize some things I said while teaching. I can't even remember saying these things lol.
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Ubaka Ogbogu @ubakaogbogu.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Open letter to Prime Minister Carney from 412 Canadian academics, lawyers, former ambassadors, ministers, public servants, and civil society leaders, urging immediate action to stop the genocide being carried out by Israel against the Palestinian people. www.alexneve.ca/blog/prime-m...
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Christiana Essie Sagay @christianasagay.com · 03/06/2025
Edmonton welcomed me last week at the #RILS conference, and the camaraderie was palpable! Thanks to the organizers for creating space & @ubakaogbogu.bsky.social for hosting. My piece “Two Sides of a Coin: Are a Coin” offered a metaphorical exploration of migration as currency & border as method.
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Ubaka Ogbogu @ubakaogbogu.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
These are my comments presented earlier today at a conference on airborne transmission and what to do about it. 🧵
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Ubaka Ogbogu @ubakaogbogu.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
In this piece, Violet Affleck has incisively captured the bind social progressives created for themselves with COVID: failing to live up to the actions their own ideals demand. yaleglobalhealthreview.com/2025/05/18/a... 🧵
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A Chronically Ill Earth: COVID Organizing as a Model Climate Response in Los Angeles
BY VIOLET AFFLECK I spent the January fires in Los Angeles arguing with my mother in a hotel room. She was shell-shocked, astonished at the scale of destruction in the neighborhood where she raised…
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Ubaka Ogbogu @ubakaogbogu.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
So I read Carney's platform. 🧵 Leans progressive with commitments to public health care, pharmacare, dental care, mental health funding, and universal childcare. Defends reproductive rights, boosts youth supports, & promises green and Indigenous-led infrastructure investments.
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Ubaka Ogbogu @ubakaogbogu.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
healthydebate.ca/2025/04/topi...
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The simple metal box that could change the world - Healthy Debate
This quiet, repairable metal air cleaner is an inexpensive long-term disease prevention tool for public spaces.
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Ubaka Ogbogu @ubakaogbogu.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
The Gen X Career Meltdown www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The Gen X Career Meltdown (Gift Article)
Just when they should be at their peak, experienced workers in creative fields find that their skills are all but obsolete.
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Ubaka Ogbogu @ubakaogbogu.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Fantastic news. www.ualberta.ca/en/law/about...
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Faculty of Law launches Black Student Life page
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Ubaka Ogbogu @ubakaogbogu.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
The real story behind why @ualberta.bsky.social got rid of EDI. thegatewayonline.ca/2025/01/u-of...
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U of A caves to misinformation, renames EDI office - The Gateway
This change and its timing doesn’t exactly inspire a lot of optimism that the U of A is truly working towards EDI or even ACB.
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Ubaka Ogbogu @ubakaogbogu.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
www.ubyssey.ca/news/people-...
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Over 150 people sign open letters in solidarity with racialized UBC law professors, call on UBC Allard dean to commit to EDI
More than 150 racialized legal academics and allies signed two open letters calling on UBC’s Peter A. Allard School of Law to implement equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) practices.
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Ubaka Ogbogu @ubakaogbogu.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
My 10th grader is locked in 😲
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Ubaka Ogbogu @ubakaogbogu.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Thanks to the 100+ who signed the open letter to @AllardUBC Dean Pindell. Appreciate the solidarity. Still no acknowledgement from him. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Open Letter - Dean Pindell.docx
Please fill out this Google Form if you would like your name to be added to the letter. Signatures welcome from supporters outside the racialized legal academic community. Thank you! Dean Ngai Pindell...
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Ubaka Ogbogu @ubakaogbogu.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Systemic racism will rebound again and again. The only permanent fix will be systemic changes - quick and reactive gains are soon lost or become unsustainable. That's what we are seeing now - a rebound to same same.
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Ubaka Ogbogu @ubakaogbogu.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
A moment of silence for the corner lot people.
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Ubaka Ogbogu @ubakaogbogu.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
LETS GO
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Ubaka Ogbogu @ubakaogbogu.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
What brings a person to a place is not as important as what keeps them there.
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Ubaka Ogbogu @ubakaogbogu.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Over 90 legal scholars, students, professionals, and community members have signed the open letter urging Dean Pindell of UBC Allard Law to address systemic discrimination outlined in The Walrus. Still no response or acknowledgment. Silence isn't leadership. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Open Letter - Dean Pindell.docx
Please fill out this Google Form if you would like your name to be added to the letter. Signatures welcome from supporters outside the racialized legal academic community. Thank you! Dean Ngai Pindell...
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Ubaka Ogbogu @ubakaogbogu.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Be wary of those who profess ignorance confidently. And challenge them at all times.
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Ubaka Ogbogu @ubakaogbogu.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
📢 Racialized legal academics across Canada stand in solidarity with those who shared their stories in The Walrus article on systemic inequities at @AllardLaw . Read our open letter to Dean Pindell and join us by adding your signature. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Open Letter - Dean Pindell.docx
Please fill out this Google Form if you would like your name to be added to the letter. Thank you! Dean Ngai Pindell Peter A. Allard School of Law University of British Columbia Dear Dean Pindell, We,...
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Ubaka Ogbogu @ubakaogbogu.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
This is irresponsible and utterly unethical if true.
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Ubaka Ogbogu @ubakaogbogu.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Albertans seeing American posts about Trump's cabinet picks.
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a man standing in front of a car with the words " it 's just gonna get worse from here " on the bottom
ALT: a man standing in front of a car with the words " it 's just gonna get worse from here " on the bottom
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Ubaka Ogbogu @ubakaogbogu.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
A must read. I have my story about the Allard School of Law at UBC, but it pales in comparison to the experiences of racialized colleagues and friends who work there, as this Walrus piece lays out. It is a damning indictment of institutional EDI - all smoke no substance. thewalrus.ca/an-elite-law...
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An Elite Law School Promised Reforms, Then Made Inclusion Impossible | The Walrus
Racialized professors say they were underpaid, bullied, and ignored at UBC
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Ubaka Ogbogu @ubakaogbogu.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
What feeds are you subscribed to? I'd appreciate some suggestions for my interests: healthcare, public health, law, science, fashion, politics, Black life, culture, and COVID-cautious subculture.
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Ubaka Ogbogu @ubakaogbogu.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Thank you new followers! I'll post here a lot more regularly. Just need to get organized and learn how this app works!
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Ubaka Ogbogu @ubakaogbogu.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
I'm starting to see why people hate the @CBC. The blatant disregard for truth on what happened in Amsterdam is grating. I'm going to get news from elsewhere for now.
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Ubaka Ogbogu @ubakaogbogu.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
I'm going to spend my social media time here tonight because that other app is a cesspool today.
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Ubaka Ogbogu @ubakaogbogu.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
Go vote. regina.ctvnews.ca/new-polls-sh...
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New polls show Sask. NDP leading over Sask. Party ahead of election day
A pair of new pre-election polls indicate that the Saskatchewan NDP has a slight lead ahead of election day.
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Ubaka Ogbogu @ubakaogbogu.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
The thing commentaries about #BCElections2024 outcome seem to miss is that those who voted cons actually admire what governments in AB, SK, ON, etc. are doing. They would gladly vote against their own interests to "own the libs". Conservatism is largely about what you hate.
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Ubaka Ogbogu @ubakaogbogu.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
First post, just to say hello.
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