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Biological anthropologist studying the evolution of human development, pregnancy, life history, & maternal health. she/her

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Screenshot of a quote tweet (aka X post).
The original quoted post includes a photo of a dark-haired boy in a car and says "The Palestinian child Amer Rabea' (14) who was shot dead by the occupation forces at the entrance of Turmusayya village, north Ramallah." 
The quote tweet says "He was a Palestinian-American CHILD from North Jersey. Israel killed an American citizen, but America will do nothing."

Screenshot of a quote tweet (aka X post). The original quoted post includes a photo of a dark-haired boy in a car and says "The Palestinian child Amer Rabea' (14) who was shot dead by the occupation forces at the entrance of Turmusayya village, north Ramallah." The quote tweet says "He was a Palestinian-American CHILD from North Jersey. Israel killed an American citizen, but America will do nothing."

08.04.2025 15:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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What a great think piece on the conservative obsession with suffering and conflict โ€” especially in light of the โ€œwhat doesnโ€™t kill you makes you strongerโ€ logic behind the new tariffs.

08.04.2025 14:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 164    ๐Ÿ” 31    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Trump administration cancels more than a dozen international student visas at University of California, Stanford Amid a national sweep over student visas that has hit colleges across the U.S., the Trump administration on Friday canceled more than a dozen international student visas at the University of Californi...

NEW: The Trump administration swiftly cancelled dozens of international student visas Friday at Stanford and University of California campuses, including UCLA, UC Berkeley and UC San Diego. One UC San Diego student was taken into custody at the border for deportation: www.latimes.com/california/s...

05.04.2025 21:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1086    ๐Ÿ” 744    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 36    ๐Ÿ“Œ 83

the present shortcoming is not that people protesting are cringe it's that there isn't presently a mass commitment to the kind of action that would force regime change.

that isn't a criticism, just an observation. these things take time. and with time all things are possible.

05.04.2025 23:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2711    ๐Ÿ” 424    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 60    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9
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New horrific footage shows that Israel lied through its teeth about its massacre of paramedics and rescue workers.

But still Western media outlets will keep treating Israeli lies as credible.

Accessories to genocide ๐Ÿ‘‡

www.owenjones.news/p/israel-lie...

05.04.2025 19:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 924    ๐Ÿ” 399    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8

When you realize you aren't alone and lots of people are mad, it makes it easier to speak up! Also sometimes you get new ideas.

05.04.2025 19:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 69    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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CHICAGOโ€ฆ

05.04.2025 18:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 49043    ๐Ÿ” 11369    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 859    ๐Ÿ“Œ 703

Good call.

05.04.2025 20:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4336    ๐Ÿ” 2014    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 36    ๐Ÿ“Œ 28

discussing the reality of Trump is hard because despite everything that has happened, if you talk about the reality of what geopolitical order and American politics look like, no one actually believes it

04.04.2025 00:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 408    ๐Ÿ” 42    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Assistant Professor (tenure track) โ€“ Chromatin, Epigenetics - Vancouver, British Columbia (CA) job with The University of British Columbia (UBC) | 12837841 Assistant Professor (tenure track) - Chromatin Regulation, Genetic Regulatory Mechanisms, Epigenetics, Epigenomics

www.nature.com/naturecareer... UBC LSI Job!!

04.04.2025 04:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 32    ๐Ÿ” 36    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
1.    We have decided not to host a single-site in-person conference in Seattle this year. Instead, we will have two in-person sites and a robust online participation option. While we are still working out the details, we will have an in-person conference site in Seattle, another in-person conference site in Vancouver, B.C., and significantly more opportunities for online participation than in years past, as well as opportunities for sessions that virtually bring together folx in the two in-person locations. We emphasize that we want your own safety and comfort to be the primary consideration as you decide whether and how to participate in this yearโ€™s conference. Wherever you live and whatever your citizenship status and/or subject position, we encourage you to carefully consider which of the three participation options (if any) you decide to take up. It is entirely up to you whether you feel safe or willing to cross a border or to travel at all. To help us with our organizational efforts, we will be sending out a very short survey in the coming days. It is imperative that we hear from as many NASSSers as possible both in terms of organizational efforts and to minimize our financial liabilities.

1. We have decided not to host a single-site in-person conference in Seattle this year. Instead, we will have two in-person sites and a robust online participation option. While we are still working out the details, we will have an in-person conference site in Seattle, another in-person conference site in Vancouver, B.C., and significantly more opportunities for online participation than in years past, as well as opportunities for sessions that virtually bring together folx in the two in-person locations. We emphasize that we want your own safety and comfort to be the primary consideration as you decide whether and how to participate in this yearโ€™s conference. Wherever you live and whatever your citizenship status and/or subject position, we encourage you to carefully consider which of the three participation options (if any) you decide to take up. It is entirely up to you whether you feel safe or willing to cross a border or to travel at all. To help us with our organizational efforts, we will be sending out a very short survey in the coming days. It is imperative that we hear from as many NASSSers as possible both in terms of organizational efforts and to minimize our financial liabilities.

In a move that *should* be precedent-setting for other scholarly organizations, the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) announces that this yearโ€™s conference will be held concurrently at sites in the US and Canada and online due to the dangerous US political climate.

04.04.2025 11:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 476    ๐Ÿ” 191    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 24

Regular, non-expert people can maybe be forgiven for thinking we'd get a redux of the first administration. But nobody who fancies themselves a thought leader should have expected that. This was a consistent theme during the election: no guardrails this time.

04.04.2025 12:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 539    ๐Ÿ” 61    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Other fact-based ways to frame these attacks are:
a) part of an ongoing GOP war against higher ed because they view it as a hostile institution
b) an authoritarian breaking any venues of dissent.

Going with the Trump framing is a choice to support the war and give credence to the authoritarian.

03.04.2025 23:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 989    ๐Ÿ” 234    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8

wokeness was keeping the economy afloat. wokeness kept planes in the air. wokeness kept us all safe

04.04.2025 13:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13034    ๐Ÿ” 2169    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 112    ๐Ÿ“Œ 39

True.

Also true that a lot of Americans burned things the last five years. Our militarized police attacked them and I believe there are credible accounts of assassinations.

04.04.2025 13:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1659    ๐Ÿ” 331    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11
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The problem with parenting interventions in the Global South | Aeon Essays Early childhood development interventions in the Global South is a huge industry built on highly questionable assumptions

Excellent critique of childhood development interventions: "The privileged of Global North & South can find solace in the idea they have little responsibility for inequality. If bad childcare & poor brain development are major contributing factors to poverty, then it's parentsโ€™ job to overcome it"

26.03.2025 20:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

this is a good post and "decadence" is a good way to think about a lot of things. true decadence is, eg, thinking you could let an insurrection go unpunished and the country would just keep chugging along nbd

03.04.2025 05:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8907    ๐Ÿ” 2018    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 62    ๐Ÿ“Œ 24

I'm 18. The economy enters a once-in-a-century recession. A Republican president is responsible.

I'm 29. There is once-in-a-century pandemic that leads to a once-in-century-recession. A Republican is responsible.

I'm 35. Tarriffs trigger a once-in-a-century recession. A Republican is responsible.

02.04.2025 21:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15002    ๐Ÿ” 5107    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 210    ๐Ÿ“Œ 222
37 deaths from COVID in the last 6 months

37 deaths from COVID in the last 6 months

87 deaths from the flu this season

87 deaths from the flu this season

Don't know about other cities but in Seattle, this is the first winter since 2020 that fewer people have died of COVID than the flu (it's been a really nasty flu season!)
kingcounty.gov/en/dept/dph/...

31.03.2025 23:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 503    ๐Ÿ” 23    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Living With a Murderer On personal responsibility under the second Trump administration

resnikoff.beehiiv.com/p/living-wit...
Highly recommend this essay and the 1964 Hannah Arendt lecture it references, "Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship"

31.03.2025 17:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Screenshot of the headline of an article from WWNO Public radio on Feb 14, 2025. It says Louisiana Department of Health officially ends all vaccine promotion, events
WWNO - New Orleans Public
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Published February 14, 2025 at 12:18
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Screenshot of the headline of an article from WWNO Public radio on Feb 14, 2025. It says Louisiana Department of Health officially ends all vaccine promotion, events WWNO - New Orleans Public Radio | By Rosemary Westwood f in Published February 14, 2025 at 12:18 PM CST

Screenshot of the headline of an article from WWNO Public radio on March 28, 2025. It says Louisiana Surgeon
General shares vaccine info after 2 babies die from whooping cough
WWNO - New Orleans Public
Radio | By Rosemary
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Published March 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM

Screenshot of the headline of an article from WWNO Public radio on March 28, 2025. It says Louisiana Surgeon General shares vaccine info after 2 babies die from whooping cough WWNO - New Orleans Public Radio | By Rosemary Westwood in Published March 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM

Started/Going. Two infants died of pertussis in Louisiana, where last month the stateโ€™s surgeon general banned health department staff from encouraging vaccination.

31.03.2025 14:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2530    ๐Ÿ” 1216    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 144    ๐Ÿ“Œ 126

When traveling, or otherwise expecting potential encounters with law enforcement:
Locking your phone with a long, strong pin code, turning off biometrics like Face ID is a strong contender for the one change the average person can make to vastly improve their personal digital security situation.

31.03.2025 16:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 52    ๐Ÿ” 22    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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imagine having enough money to where you could part with and donate this much money to sway the entire political ecosystem. pure evil

30.03.2025 21:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6595    ๐Ÿ” 1288    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 254    ๐Ÿ“Œ 121
Excerpt from Rutgers University Senate resolution calling for a Mutual Academic Defense Compact. The excerpt reads:

"BE IT RESOLVED THAT, the Rutgers University Senate urges the President of Rutgers University to formally propose and help establish a Mutual Academic Defense Compact (MADC) among all members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, under this compact, all participating institutions shall commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund. This fund shall be used to provide immediate and strategic support to any member institution under direct political or legal infringement;"

Excerpt from Rutgers University Senate resolution calling for a Mutual Academic Defense Compact. The excerpt reads: "BE IT RESOLVED THAT, the Rutgers University Senate urges the President of Rutgers University to formally propose and help establish a Mutual Academic Defense Compact (MADC) among all members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, under this compact, all participating institutions shall commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund. This fund shall be used to provide immediate and strategic support to any member institution under direct political or legal infringement;"

This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.

30.03.2025 14:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4741    ๐Ÿ” 1548    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 67    ๐Ÿ“Œ 272

There is this really interesting phenomenon that happens in science communication where the updating of ideas is see as breaking the trust in science rather than a commitment to being accurate

30.03.2025 22:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 630    ๐Ÿ” 96    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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This is the text of the email just sent to hundreds of international students telling them that their visas have been revoked due to activism or social media posts.

29.03.2025 14:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3854    ๐Ÿ” 1534    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 149    ๐Ÿ“Œ 354

"While much of the discourse surrounding college campuses has revolved around Ivy League colleges, virtually all the cases Zeteo reviewed occurred at state schools across the country."

30.03.2025 18:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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SCOOP: ICE Revoking Studentsโ€™ Immigration Statuses Without Their or the Universityโ€™s Knowledge โ€œNever seen something like this,โ€ say university officials about the secret targeting of Middle Eastern students.

"SCOOP: ICE Revoking Studentsโ€™ Immigration Statuses Without Their or the Universityโ€™s Knowledge"

โ€œNever seen something like this,โ€ say university officials about the secret targeting of Middle Eastern students.

@premthakker.bsky.social latest shocking exclusive for Zeteo:

30.03.2025 17:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2029    ๐Ÿ” 782    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 72    ๐Ÿ“Œ 35

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