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Research Spotlight with Farah Mawani - Faculty of Health - University of Victoria Farah Mawani’s research is rooted in her lived experience and expertise as a social and psychiatric epidemiologist with more than 20 years of global, national, and local experience in research and sol...

✨Newly minted MSHRBC Scholar Dr. Farah Mawani @farahway.bsky.social was interviewed by the Faculty of Health in their inaugural Research Spotlight Q&A. Learn about her career and current research projects here: tinyurl.com/bddpch6v

We are THRILLED to share this fantastic news! Four IALH Research Fellows were named @healthresearchbc.bsky.social MSHRBC Scholars! Their work is critical for increasing access to safe, equitable healthcare for diverse populations. Congratulations!🎉Read about their research here: tinyurl.com/ypzrwf62

Nurjehan Mawani speaking on panel with Mikes Richardson, Rt. Hon. Joe Clark, & moderator Carol Ann Hilton

“When you take a stand there might be a price to pay, and sometimes you have to pay that price.” Powerful message from my aunt Nurjehan Mawani based on her experience of our community’s inclusive schools challenging structural racism in Kenya @victoriaforum.bsky.social @uvic.ca #VictoriaForum #UViic

I'm very excited to be welcoming my aunt Nurjehan Mawani to my Victoria home for the @victoriaforum.bsky.social. Join me on Aug 24 (rev) to hear her share her experience in global leadership roles including Former Diplomatic Representative, Kyrgyzstan & Afghanistan @akdn.bsky.social #VictoriaForum

This is great! I encourage @uvichealth.bsky.social students to join. I learned so much from journal clubs as a student.

Have you ever had to put "death threats" in the Impacts on Progress of Research section of your grant applications? Peers without lived experience of racism who review our work need to understand the extreme contexts we work in without institutional acknowledgement or support.

A photo of Anas Al-Sharif and his Al Jazeera colleague Mohammad Qrere in their press bullet proof vests looking at their phones. Both are reported killed. Photo credit to Motassem A Dalloul.

BREAKING: One of the most important and prominent reporters on the ground in Gaza has been Anas Al Sharif.

He - and several other Al Jazeera journalists - have just been assassinated by Israelis forces whilst in their press tent in central Gaza.

Speechless.

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

‘Dehumanizing’: Inside the Broadview ICE facility where immigrants sleep on cold concrete An investigation by the Chicago Tribune found that immigration detainees have been held for days at the processing center in west suburban Broadview.

"The sounds of weeping mothers curled on cold concrete floors echoed through the walls at the federal immigration processing center in Broadview, keeping Gladis Chavez awake for most of the night." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/03/d...

NEW: Incredible scenes in Sydney, Australia today as tens of thousands march for Gaza, demanding an end to the genocide.

#MarchForHumanity

(🎥 Ema Franklin)

Thousands of French people held a massive rally and march in Paris, standing against Israel's genocide in Gaza, they chanted "Nous sommes la résistance (We are the resistance)" #FreePalestine #3E

Thank you to my colleague Dr. Roberto De Vogli and his colleagues for this important call to action for scholars and health professionals. It is impossible to stay silent as a human and as a public health scientist. #publichealth #healthequity #humanrights

‘Sheila just went for it’: York University scientist Sheila Colla remembered as a fierce advocate to save wild bees Colla, 43, died Sunday of cancer. She successfully fought for the rusty-patched bumblebee to become the first bee listed as an endangered species in Canada and the U.S.

Please read this beautiful profile of my cherished friend and @yorkuniversity.bsky.social scientist Dr. Sheila Colla @savewildbees.bsky.social in the @thestar.com. www.thestar.com/news/gta/she...

In my grief, I neglected to acknowledge that without me asking, Sheila Colla wrote a powerful letter in support of me getting an Adjunct Professor appointment in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University. I only learned about it from our friend and colleague Sarah Flicker ❤️

When I started researching wild bees, Sheila consistently offered advice. If I needed to vent about academic colleagues, I could count on her for a listening ear (& appropriate amount of justified anger!). When choosing between what is easy & what is right, I often think about what Sheila would do.

Donate to Support Sheila Colla Through Cancer Treatment, organized by Anna Penner There is a good chance that you already know Sheila Colla: she is a brillian… Anna Penner needs your support for Support Sheila Colla Through Cancer Treatment

Sheila was a remarkable friend, colleague, mentor, neighbour, and mother, who gave so much to all of her communities. I looked up to her immensely as a colleague who thought deeply about the way we do science and who we include and uphold. She will be deeply missed. www.gofundme.com/f/support-sh...

Obituary information for Sheila Colla View Sheila Colla's obituary, contribute to their memorial, see their funeral service details, and more.

The conservation science community lost an amazing soul--Dr. Sheila Colla, the leading expert on wild bees and wild-domestic bee interactions in North America. Sheila was a tremendous advocate for nature and environmental justice. 🧪
www.heritagefuneralcentre.ca/obituaries/S...

Donate to Support Sheila Colla Through Cancer Treatment, organized by Anna Penner There is a good chance that you already know Sheila Colla: she is a brillian… Anna Penner needs your support for Support Sheila Colla Through Cancer Treatment

If you can offer any support to them as they deal with the practical and psychological impacts of their unfathomable loss, please contribute and/or share this gofundme gofund.me/b3f4eac5 🙏🏼

And I know that the impact she had on me was just a fraction of the impact she had on the people in her life and so many more beyond them. My heart breaks for all her loved ones, and especially for her husband Mark, and kids Tristan and Rowan.

I feel so fortunate to have met her 9 years ago, when she co-founded East Enders Against Racism in response to white supremacist posters at Stan Wadlow Park in East York. It was healing to have the opportunity to collaborate on such a response to racism in a park and community I grew up in.

That meant the world during the rocky transition when I asked myself daily “What have I done?” She was also the friend who eased my transition to my York postdoc, taking it upon herself to welcome me to the Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change complete with a tour & access to the faculty lounge.

I’m not ready to talk about Dr. Sheila Colla @savewildbees.bsky.social in the past tense. Her presence and voice are so vivid in my mind. She was the friend who stayed in closest touch with me when I moved from Toronto to Victoria, chatting with me as if I had never left.

Alberta is failing on public health.

In week 24 of the year- also known as epidemiological week-, we accounted for 125 of Canada’s 221 new measles cases.

That is more than half.

We have the expertise to do better, but the UCP government is weakening our public health system.

Dr. Rheanna Robinson | Disability needs to be decolonized: How Indigenous knowledges can inform inclusive pedagogies of practice Disability needs to be decolonized: How Indigenous knowledges can inform inclusive pedagogies of practice This lecture is sponsored ...

Listening to Dr. Rheanna Robinson give her @uvic.ca Provost's Distinguished Women Scholars Lecture, "Disability needs to be decolonized: How Indigenous knowledges can inform inclusive pedagogies of practice". Looking forward to learning from her. events.uvic.ca/lti/event/98... #uvic

YouTube video by World Circuit Records Fatoumata Diawara - Wililé - feat. Toumani Diabaté (Official Audio)

Beautiful experience of my day: Listening to this stunning music by Fatoumata Diawara as I write and birds outside joining the chorus. youtu.be/esLp4HfcBSE?... #nowplaying

RFK Jr. threatens to bar government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals The health secretary said the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and The Lancet are in bed with pharma.

Going after medical journals is the next step it seems.

Determining where science can be published limits dissemination and limits transparency

www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

cannot overstate how bad this will be for universities at every level, from the financial (intl students pay $$$), logistical (intl grad students teach many courses), productivity (they also do a bunch of research), to more nebulous but still imp things like making campus life vibrant + diverse

OH on the bus from a racialized young boy to a white young boy sitting beside him: “One thing I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy, aka you, is having to eat okra.” The kids are alright 😅

It pains me to say this, but if you are not a US citizen, you should not attend scientific conferences in the US, visit US institutions, or otherwise travel to our country.

Right now it's not worth the risk.

Hopefully that will change. If it doesn't, science in the US is sunk anyway.