With another semester ending, here's your annual reminder that teaching evaluations systemically disadvantage women. Even when controlling for grades and other factors, students (esp. males) consistently give female professors lower scores. This can have serious ramifications.🧵

Para los jóvenes de mi generación, vivir con una familia era una de las experiencias más enriquecedoras para acercarse a la cultura de otro país.

Esta semana, gracias a esta carta publicada por el The Irish Times con la complicidad de Simon Harris TD, me ha venido a la memoria el…

Volunteers are the backbone of the RNLI and in Clifden lifeboat station we are recruiting for volunteers in all roles to assist in our life saving work.

There are lots of ways you can get involved; as shore crew, lifeboat crew, launching authority or as station management.

Let's be clear: There's no 'postdoc shortage'. There are PLENTY of PhDs interested in academia. There's a shortage of respect & compensation for postdocs.

Academics and their puppeteers are simply realizing that their archaic expectations about peoples' labor are unsustainable.

Your job will require you to regularly loan the organization money through travel expenses and the purchasing of essential supplies. In return, our accounting office will create a discouragingly complex process for you to get your money back, and then treat you with suspicion.

And of course, this x.com/dglaucomflecke…

I’m seeing some “free market” simps defending Nature’s 12k open access fees. Guess it’s time to bring this back around.

Want to change the system? Post preprints and only post preprints - don't submit to journals, don't subscribe to journals, don't read journals - only hire and fund people based on their preprints.

Ditto for universities.

Manuel Guerrero, arrested in #Qatar for being gay, has run out of #HIV medication.

National AIDS Trust and Terrence Higgins Trust have written to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and the Public Prosecutor of Qatar urging them to ensure that Manuel can receive the medical attention and treatment he needs.

Academia: 'what do you want?'

Academics: 'a permanent job'

Academia: *creates Resilience and Wellness in an Age of Impermanence Officer*

Gideon Levy: 'I'm not sure an investigation is needed. What do you think you will find out... the name of the commander who gave the order? Who cares. Its the policy...'

Presenter: 'I suppose the investigation would establish whether it was a mistake'

'How can it be a mistake?'

Can Irish newspapers follow suit please? Irish Independent The Irish Times

Here is tomorrow's (4/4/24) front-page from The Independent:

Richard Madeley, 'This execution, which is what it was effectively. This execution of seven aid workers'

'Feels like some sort of watershed this morning, doesn't it? Because this time yesterday, as the news was breaking, the general assumption was before the details came…

Chef José Andrés said the 7 aid workers killed by an Israeli airstrike were 'targeted deliberately,' and he believes the conflict in Gaza is 'not a war against terrorism anymore' and instead, it's a 'war against humanity itself.' Israel blamed the strike on 'misidentification.'

Today we publish a video with outviews from the “Community Perspectives on Guidelines and Programming Recommendations for Better Inclusion of Inadequately Served Groups”, #SCOPE meeting (Warsaw, 17 October 2023)

🔻Get the full video here: youtu.be/OwgMYiz9yAM

What is #CORE ?

COmmunity REsponse to End Inequalities is a 3 year project uniting 24 partner from 16 EU member states.

Our goal is to reduce inequalities in the HIV, TB and viral hepatitis responses.

#COmmunityREsponse #CORE ActionEU
#EU4Health #HealthUnion

If confirmed an Irish citizen has been killed, serious consideration must be given to cutting diplomatic ties with Israel Simon Harris TD Micheál Martin

BREAKING: Today, we witness the total ISraeli destruction of the most important, 700 beds specialty hospital in Gaza, Al Shifa Medical Complex. It was established 78 years ago during the British Mandate, the name Shifa meaning 'The House of Healing'; now turned into a 'House of…