Audra Mitchell

Elon Musk posted about race almost every day in January Many social media posts by Tesla CEO on his platform are indiscernible from those of white supremacists, say experts

Hmm... if your posts are "indiscernible from those of white supremacists", then maybe you just ARE a white supremacist? #bleedingobvious www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Ahead of ISA 2026, join us to organise for academic boycott for Palestine! Tues 3rd Feb online 🍉
#BDSatISA #FreePalestine #NoConferencingAsUsual
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Gaza war leads to 41% fall in births prompting allegations of reproductive violence Israel’s war in Gaza has caused high numbers of maternal and neonatal deaths, say two reports

"Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group"-UN Convention Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of #Genocide, art. 2 (d). And no 'intentionality' puritans, pls - there is no denying that these outcomes were foreseen and designed. #Gaza
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Glad to hear you got out - have been worried! Hope you're doing ok.

This point is too often getting lost in discourses that frame Denmark as a 'protector' of Greenland in the face of US imperial threats

Phil is a dedicated advocate for abolition and against fascism, who, like so many Americans, are facing unreal levels of housing insecurity. Please donate if you have capacity.

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Humans made fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought, discovery in Suffolk suggests Groundbreaking find makes compelling case that humans were lighting fires much earlier than originally believed

Surely in 2025 it is possible for journalists to do better than smearing dirt on the faces and hair of ambiguously but obviously racialized people in order to represent white fantasies of 'ancient humans' www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

And yes, there is a joy in knowing obscure references. But to me, the bigger issue is the work that it takes to find those references and put them together in ways that create new insight. Too many colleagues do not seem to recognize this as academic work

Yep, multiple times personally, and I've seen it done by colleagues to other colleagues many times as well. It's very easy to tell because usually the author in question has put things together in a way that is very unlikely to have emerged from their own research process

Taking ideas, arguments or lines of thought and passing them off as one's own without citation is plagiarism, plain and simple. As an author and reviewer, I'm seeing a particular kind of… | ... Taking ideas, arguments or lines of thought and passing them off as one's own without citation is plagiarism, plain and simple. As an author and reviewer, I'm seeing a particular kind of shadow-plag...

Longer thoughts on this www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

‘Yellow line’ that divides Gaza under Trump plan is ‘new border’ for Israel, says military chief Eyal Zamir said Israel would hold on to current positions, giving it control of more than half of the territory

Some 'ceasefire'. This was the plan all along. Settler colonial genocide in action
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Sorry that happened to you.

Hey #academicsky: friendly reminder that taking the exact ideas or sources, or the exact way someone puts together ideas or sources from someone else's work and framing them as your own is plagiarism. Ideas are what we theorists make in the lab, through long hours of work and years of honing.

‘Cultivate resistance’: policy paper lays bare Trump support for Europe’s far right Text signed by president seems to echo ‘great replacement’ theory, saying Europe faces ‘civilisational erasure’

Between today's destructive CDC panel and the unabashed embrace of white supremacist conspiracy theory (see article) can anyone seriously deny that this is a #eugenicist regime?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"The beliefs RFK Jr. espouses kill people. These beliefs have already killed people"
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

Alice Wong was Crips for eSims for Gaza, and Everything to Us by Jane Shi and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

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Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.

Letter of Support for Professor Farhana Sultana As scholars within and beyond academia, we write in solidarity with academic freedom of expression with our colleague, Dr. Farhana Sultana, an internationally recognized scholar and tenured Full Profe...

Prof. Farhana Sultana is a path-breaking scholar of political ecology who has been placed on leave by Syracuse University for a post made on her personal SMs in a context of cascading political repression. Pls sign this letter calling for her immediate reinstatement
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He's wonderful! Thank you for sharing this vid

Also, guys, I feel like we had this discussion back in 2013 (and the decades preceding it). A wee bit of homework may be in order

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Autism should not be seen as single condition with one cause, say scientists Those diagnosed as small children typically have distinct genetic profile from those diagnosed later, study finds

Holy shit, it's almost like they're saying Autistic people are diverse! Glad to see journos are still calling on Uta Frith and that ilk to provide highly technical terms like 'ragbag' to describe the diversity of our communities.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

100% this. Autistic people (and Autistic communities and cultures) exist in ways that scramble all lines of class, race, gender and disability. Very threatening to a lot of forms of power.

All human traits have genetic sources. I'm saying that the traits associated with Autism do not need to be ferreted out for the purpose of eradicating them.

Good for you