Dr Ruby (she/her)
@paperwhispers.bsky.social
Mango eating, sunshine loving, data research and question asker. Immigrant.
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 🧵
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.
Have a listen, you will learn!
Lovette 🏳️🌈@lovettejallow.bsky.social · last yr.Many people are practicing patriarchy in a dress & calling it matriarchy. After my last post, it became clear: #matriarchy is still being misread. What’s often being performed is #gynarchy a system where women occupy patriarchal roles, reproduce hierarchical power & call it liberation. Video & 🎙️
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...
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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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...
Read preprints. Cite preprints. Email people and tell them you loved their preprint. Email people you hated their preprint. Embrace preprints, preprints are good.
🙃 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...
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
theguardian.com
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
Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 2y agoRead this: it really captures the reality of mass redundancies in the university sector, which will only snowball from here. voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...
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.
Marcus 🏳️🌈🇧🇧@marcusjdl.bsky.social · 2y agoFraser 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
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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Centre for Leadership and Diversity@cldleadership.bsky.social · 2y ago5 days to go 👀 Centre for Leadership & Diversity presents it's symposium on February 26, 2025@6:30 pm, with a host of esteemed panelists & moderated by CLD's Director @drannlopez.bsky.social @oiseuoft.bsky.social @lhaecomms.bsky.social 👏 Link to register ⬇️ oise-utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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...
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
newscientist.com
So in the UK would psychology be considered a STEM subject? Anyone know?
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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!
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.
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...
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.
reuters.com
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
A 26 year old nurse has been breaking the bones of premature Black babies. www.msn.com/en-us/health...
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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.
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.
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
Friends who came over with me from twitter - how are the blue skies treating you? I am struggling, are you?
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/...
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...
science.org
