Samaya Nissanke (she/her)

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

if there's a silver lining to the bari weiss stuff it's that being put in charge of cbs news in 2025 is kind of like being named the commander of a french horseback cavalry division in 1917

Opinion | Was Bari Weiss a DEI hire for CBS?

Bari Weiss and JD Vance are very similar figures with very similar skills.

Not to be a pedant but Bari Weiss was a junior editor who occasionally wrote opinion pieces in the opinion section, not a columnist.

the Bari Weiss news is just so depressing

To everyone in Britain's Jewish Community: you are not alone. We will not let hate or those who spread it win. We stand with you.

On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day.

As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.

At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.

Tommy Robinson posted a neo-Nazi blog that accused me and my fellow Jews Jack Straw and Barbara Roche of conspiring to flood the UK with immigrants.

Really depressing but not unsurprising to hear and see commentators across the networks scramble to weaponise the terrible events and loss of life in Manchester yesterday.

Maybe they could give it a day off and actually mourn the victims.

You can also join one of the three report launch events where the team will be sharing their actionable recommendations to improve support for all academic carers. Please come and say hello to me if you’re at the Edinburgh event! 9/end🧵

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A Carers Guide for Institutions 1 Ensure institutional expense policy allows for the reimbursement of care-related costs including dependant and co-carer travel expenses. 2 Update and align institutional financial reimbursement policy with funder T&C’s relating to care-giving costs. 3 Establish institutional policy and disseminate to line managers and expense approvers to avoid inconsistent implementation and support. 4 Provide flexible carers grants for all staff and students with minimal administrative burden to flexibly support ad-hoc care and do not mandate online attendance. 5 Consider the competing demands of meeting sustainability goals and the requirement to support carers (e.g. trains, flight times on weekends). 6 Decouple measures of research impact and esteem from travel opportunities with updated academic guidance. 7 Allow for family-friendly travel accommodation options including booking outside of approved institutional travel providers. 8 Provide a per-diem (a daily allowance) option for complex trips to reduce administrative burden on carers. 9 When hosting an event, ensure risk assessments and insurance policy align to allow access to those under the age of 18.

So today I celebrate the work of @carersinstemm.bsky.social who are calling for systemic changes to funding, policy & culture to support carers in STEM. Funders & employers must listen if they recognise and value the importance of a diverse workforce.👩‍🔬🧪

Read their report 👉 carersinstemm.co.uk 8/9🧵

I’ve been lucky but I’m unusual. Many friends followed the standard advice, only to find that tenure came too late for their biological clock. Others broke under the pressure of trying to balance it all, reluctantly leaving academia for more family friendly careers. 7/9🧵

From 2006. A younger and shell-shocked looking Catherine on a balcony holding a very tiny baby with the mountains of Vancouver in the background. The baby is so new, Catherine still has the pregnant bump.

Conventional wisdom says motherhood should wait for tenure as before you land a permanent post, #academia is just not that family friendly🙁

@carersinstemm.bsky.social are calling for change and to celebrate their new report, a Saturday🧵on parenting & academia! 1/9 👩‍🔬🧪🔭⚛️

ℹ️: carersinstemm.co.uk

Für die deutsche Staatsräson Debatte. Ein israelischer Minister schreibt dass er den britischen Neonazi Tommy Robinson zu Besuch in Israel willkommen heißt. Bezeichnet ihn als Patrioten, Freund mit geteilten Werten. Selbst die meisten radikal rechten Politiker sprechen so nicht über Robinson.

Dame Sarah Mullally has been named the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury, becoming the first woman to hold the Church of England’s most senior clerical position. on.ft.com/3Kywkdg

Jewish London: a celebration in 13 places a very non-impartial, non-comprehensive guide to some stuff I like

took a break from blocking people on social media to write a post about some places in Jewish London that I love:
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...

just because you know. it is nice to think about some lovely parts of my culture and heritage.

Graphic with the headline “London is the greatest city in the world” set against a bright view of the River Thames with the Shard, Tower Bridge and the city skyline. The text celebrates what makes London special: regularly voted the number one city in the world, incredible diversity with over 300 languages spoken, world-class transport, world leader in finance tech and life sciences, best museums and galleries many free to visit, world-leading nightlife, food sport and music for every taste, host to the world’s best sporting events, home to seven Premier League clubs, globally-ranked universities, a city where you can be yourself and love who you love, and a place for everyone.

I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again.

Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐

This workshop aims to develop methodologies for combined data analysis and build a roadmap for advancing the field of cosmology while also utilizing GW insights to tackle key challenges in stellar and extragalactic astrophysics. bit.ly/4nLOWoE @samayanissanke.bsky.social

YouTube video by SaveTheChildren ‘Don’t Mention the Children’ | A poem for the children of Gaza, by Michael Rosen

1/ “Don’t mention the children.
Don’t name the dead children.
The people must not know the names of the dead children.
The names of the children must be hidden.
The children must be nameless.
The children must leave this world having no names.”

Michael Rosen
youtu.be/tENn0dTF2eY?...

Annie Lennox, Vanessa Redgrave y Guy Pearce son algunas de las estrellas que han prestado sus voces para un recital del poema 'Don't mention the Children' de Michael Rosen.
➡️ https://l.euronews.com/h6uJ

Everything you need to know about the UK's largest gig for Gaza The Brian Eno-organised show is set to take place tomorrow and is the UK's largest fundraising concert for Gaza. It will be exclusively livestreamed on YouTube.

The Brian Eno-organised show is set to take place tomorrow and is the UK's largest fundraising concert for Gaza. It will be exclusively livestreamed on YouTube.

Guy Pearce and Annie Lennox join call to end ‘normalised horror’ for children in Gaza Stars read Michael Rosen’s 2014 poem Don’t Mention the Children in film released by Save the Children Guy Pearce, Annie Lennox and Vanessa Redgrave are among the celebrities calling for an end to the “normalised horror” of children being killed in Gaza, as part of new short film. Released by Save the Children and Choose Love, it features the stars reciting the words to a poem by Michael Rosen. Titled Don’t Mention the Children, the poem was written in 2014 in response to a Guardian article about the Israeli government banning a radio advert naming children killed in Gaza. It begins: Continue reading...

Guy Pearce and Annie Lennox join call to end ‘normalised horror’ for children in Gaza

Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

Charlie Kirk hate tweet.

Charlie Kirk treated gratitude like it’s a hate crime.

This woman calling @lbc.co.uk yesterday about Charlie Kirk and “free speech” was brilliant. Vanessa Feltz flummoxed.

Shot, chaser

Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

Elon Musk calls for change of UK government at Tommy Robinson rally Elon Musk spoke with Tommy Robinson via a video link to the thousands of people at Saturday’s ‘unite the kingdom’ rally

Foreign billionaires don’t get to incite violence against Britain.

We cannot stay silent. 1/5

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Appalled by the violent scenes of police being attacked at the Tommy Robinson rally today. Those responsible should face the full force of the law.

These far right thugs do not speak for Britain.

The common sense meaning should make this Elon Musk's "rivers of blood" moment

Though I think he goes further than Enoch Powell in a couple of important ways

Thousands gather for 'Unite the Kingdom' rally and counter protest

you probably should mention it’s a far-right rally in the headline