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Tayyaba Jiwani

@radkinase.bsky.social

molecular biologist now researching the politics of genomics | editor @jamhoor.org

30 Followers  |  64 Following  |  3 Posts  |  Joined: 20.02.2025  |  1.4553

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Dismantling the Cancer Industrial Complex β€’ SftP Magazine In Hasan’s telling, cancer is a disease of capitalism. It is not just that the disease symbolises the growth-addicted, violently expansionist, and self-destructive nature of capitalism. Instead, Metas...

Reviewed @cannafis.bsky.social's hard-hitting book on the politics of cancer for Science for the People. It lays out how rising cancer rates are closely linked to the neoliberal transformation of society, from cancer science to medicine and industry

magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/online/the-c...

02.09.2025 14:22 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Together with the Mehrgarh Research Institute, we're hosting a Public Writing Workshop for Baloch youth.

Learn to write on politics & literature β€” and share Balochistan’s stories with the world.

Pitch-Write-Publish

Register Now
Google form link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

27.08.2025 16:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Once revolutionary, Bangladesh’s student-led party now courts dubious allies. What does this say about β€œpost-ideological” politics?

An excerpt from Nijjor Manush’s new book Inquilab Zindabad?: www.jamhoor.org/read/militan...

27.08.2025 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

This is an important read: "In the immediate future, the best way for academics to respond is to get organised, both through trade unions and other affinity groups (for instance, federal employees and migrants)."

22.03.2025 02:57 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

a conversation across disciplinary and geographical divides on race and colonialism in/through the #genome.
Many thanks to all the participants!

21.03.2025 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Friends in upstate New York: I'd love to see you at my talk next week at Cornell: events.cornell.edu/event/theory...

Or at Syracuse: www.maxwell.syr.edu/events/2025/...

20.03.2025 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Frontiers | Genetic ancestry and the colonial legacies of race in genomics: a cross-disciplinary dialogue

Great discussion on genetics, biogeography and race in relation to colonalism. I wish it was a podcast too..

What I missed was a consideration of religion as a possibly racialized marker. (see the next post)

www.frontiersin.org/journals/gen...

13.03.2025 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Join us (virtually) for this conversation between @jamhoor.org editors @cannafis.bsky.social and @radkinase.bsky.social, hosted by @haymarketbooks.org.

11.03.2025 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I'm doing a virtual book talk hosted by @haymarketbooks.org and will be in conversation with fellow @jamhoor.org editor, @scienceforthepeople.org.web.brid.gy member and brilliant scientist/activist @radkinase.bsky.social!!
Thursday, 3/20, 5pm. RSVP here to tune in - tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

11.03.2025 12:44 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

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