Now 18 hours left—as someone with lupus, I know that going without consistent food & water leads to organ failure, and Sarah is facing not only that but a COMPLETE lack of treatment. Help her afford medicine. Give/find the Abdelwahed's link here. 0/1000: chuffed.org/project/hope...

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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I’m here to announce that I am on board the scientific vessel Chikyu as a freelance Science Communicator for the IODP3 Expedition 502: Impact of Petit-Spot Magmatism on Subduction seismicity and global geochemical cycle. Help me shape the content of the project with this survey: lnkd.in/e97pPXgk

Please share, 17 hours left ⚠️ Last winter was deadly for children exposed to cold in their tents. Dozens of children died. And almost all of these six families are a) children and b) in tents. Hell with shelter, winter clothes. and blankets. Nothing less than LIFESAVING. 0/1000

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…

chuffed.org

It’s not the “parallels with Nazi Germany” we need to worry about these days but the parallels with the USA. We have our own pound-shop Trump and acolytes and a press that seems to want them to be in charge. They already are in some places. Well done everyone.

Alom Shaha@alomshaha.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Finding it difficult to not believe that Britain is slowly heading down the same road as the USA and that there’s a real chance we end up with our very own white supremacist government here in a few years time.

As EDI roles & projects pop up about getting more POC visitors in heritage/rural/green spaces, I wonder how much effort is put into addressing the racist structures/beliefs/actions of both the institution and the surrounding community? Or are we just another source of untapped market to profit from?

Last week, I had the privilege of seeing Nabihah Iqbal DJ at the Jazz Cafe Festival, and I felt like I was instantly transported through time and space to 1980s India, when disco took it by storm. I imagined an alternate universe, or perhaps it was a past life I was seeing through snippets 💖

What will you do today to sustain Palestinian life? What will you do today to fight for Palestinian life? chuffed.org/project/hope...

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…

chuffed.org

I notice that when I tell people I studied Geology, especially when I travel, one of the first responses I get are “so do you work in mining or oil/gas/energy” which makes me cringe. But even when I was an undergrad, I thought I’d be limited to these jobs, and that almost put me off pursuing it.

Director of al-Shifa hospital Dr. Abu Selmia after 7 months in Israeli jails: “There was little to no food...no water, no toilet...I saw people who were dying there...I was beaten so badly I couldn’t use my legs or walk. No day passes without torture.” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

More than 160 Gazan medics held in Israeli prisons amid reports of torture

Senior doctors claim they were subjected to months of physical abuse, as UN calls for release of those still detained

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#AcademicSky #MedSky #ScienceSky #STS

Dr Madina she/her@drmadina.bsky.social · last yr.

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 🙌🏾

I am so grateful for people like @drmadina.bsky.social, @pokubakes.com, @ellietheelement.bsky.social. Life has tough, painful phases and joyful, rewarding phases. My close friends know it’s been incredibly difficult since March. It felt like wave after waves, I’m tired of making the best of it.

If science doesn’t come with a FREE PALESTINE then fuck your science

@earthsciencewomen.bsky.social know there is a lot going on in the community right now. We are hosting a set of gatherings to provide a safe space to talk, support & reflect, to benefit the wellbeing & mental health of individuals in our community worldwide. Come&join🙂 forms.gle/iTNxok2mFKGi...

Virtual Free Support Gatherings, hosted by the Earth Science Women's Network - February and March 2025

At the Earth Science Women's Network we are aware that there are many stressors on the Earth Sciences community at the moment. We know this may be having a negative impact, and presenting unexpected a...

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Or when middle class folks critique that left/progressive is made of privileged people/young university students/liberal art graduates. Yes, there’s criticism on how middle class left folks do politics but this is erasure of the many grass root, working class approaches politics and community.

Natalia (娜塔莉)@nataliajagielska.bsky.social · last yr.

It drives me mad when financially stable people scoff at the idea of community work and volunteering. "Not unless I get paid" because they coded themselves to think that every interaction they have with the world, has to be monetised. Not everything has to turn profit.

It drives me mad when financially stable people scoff at the idea of community work and volunteering. "Not unless I get paid" because they coded themselves to think that every interaction they have with the world, has to be monetised. Not everything has to turn profit.

Whitney Alese@thereclaimed.bsky.social · last yr.

Resistance isn’t only huge actions. Resistance can be: -Supporting libraries -Serving at a soup kitchen -Sending a few bucks to mutual aid -Donating new/gently used items -Checking in on neighbors -Offering your services pro-bono -Volunteering -Neighborhood cleanups Helping each other is powerful

I wonder how all those institutions that released decolonisation statements are doing? Have they looked into how much they invest into arms, fossil fuel, and mining? How much of their money goes into the oppression of Palestine, Congo, Sudan and indigenous communities around the world?

Hmm, Science and Industry Museum in Manchester has a curator on the Legacies of Enslavement… wonder how it will connect to the profits the Science Museum Group benefits from with the slavery happening in the fossil fuel and mining companies it has accepted sponsorship from.

Begging folks in the UK who are acting as armchair commentators on the US rollback of DEI initiatives actually pay attention to how it’s emboldening your politicians here to be louder about their anti-DEI politics.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · last yr.

“How is that, in the name of inclusion, the word ‘woman’ has been erased from NHS documents?” Wes Streeting writes in his column in the S*n today. “But the NHS has got to stop doing daft nonsense. It is going through the worst crisis in its history. It can’t afford to be distracted by ideologues."

Yes! To be continuously horrified and be paralysed by the growing fascist acts of Trump/US is a failure to see how different forms of oppression (racism, sexism, transphobia, classism, ableism) are connected. This is the time to re-imagine and take action through people power to the world we want.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · last yr.

READ THIS ASAP: “If we continue to be gripped with outrage and stilled by stupefaction by each day’s new proclamation, we will fail to discern what links them. To be gripped by his statements is precisely the aim of their utterance.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Great time to think about how apolitical science is, right?

a woman with curly hair is looking at something

ALT: a woman with curly hair is looking at something

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remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards

QuoProQuid@quoproquid.bsky.social · 2y ago

robert f. kennedy jr. submits his application to harvard university. his application is, in its entirety, a single page with his name "Robert F. Kennedy Jr." he is accepted immediately.

Folks, out of curiosity, if you don’t live with your parents, how often do you talk to them on the phone or visit them? Zero is also a completely valid answer especially if you’ve had to make the decision to cut them off.

I was grateful to be invited by as a guest of the Coney Project for the Erasmus+ funded Codename Seedling Hive Symposium in Belgium. Learnt so much especially how to facilitate connections, collaborations & support. I even managed to create a spontaneous workshop with fellow artists and activists!

I personally think that people need to learn that there are other ways to be political than just voting and we need to divest both from these two party political systems as well as the US-centric attitude. There’s so many grassroots, community approaches to support each other and create change.

Most of us can't imagine what it's like to survive impossible, unlivable situations while also separated from your children. Mai is doing that and more, while also trying to help other families. Let's do right by her and get to 6500 today, we're SO close. tiny.cc/HelpMai

Somewhere between 5,000 - 15,000 homosexual men were sent to the concentration camps. The death rate for these men may have been as high as 60%. The liberation of the concentration camps did not grant liberty to these men, many of them were reimprisoned under buggery laws. #HolocaustRemembranceDay

Ahmed & I speak literally every day and he’s met my family - so I hope you treat this with seriousness & trust. tiny.cc/HelpAhmed

Dr. Divya (offline 🔔)@divyampersaud.com · 2y ago

Tonight’s fund: Ahmed evacuated last year & has a scholarship to a european Master’s program - your support has helped *hugely* with visa/study expenses, & modest support is still needed. Currently at 60/650. We are directly collecting to avoid delays & fees. Give/accountability: tiny.cc/HelpAhmed

Are you looking for public engagement/science communication training? I have availability for bookings from March onwards. I have a list of sessions I offer on my website - please do get in touch if you would like to discuss a bespoke session. www.sarahcosgriff.com/pe-training

After killing at least 24 people in southern Lebanon on Sunday, Israeli forces so far today have shot and killed two people and wounded 17, including a child and a paramedic, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/vq4fki