Pro tip: you can basically travel the world by using google maps.

My lab’s 5-year NIH R01 grant, awarded to study gene therapy for hearing loss, was abruptly terminated. I want to share how this action has been incredibly harmful and disruptive, not just to my lab, but to the scientific process itself. 1/15

If you’re baffled as to why they’re murdering health workers in Gaza, it’s because they are the people who will testify in court as to what has been done. They are killing the witnesses. Yes, it’s that cynical. For every hasbara reply I’ll post 10. Keep ‘em comin’!

I need them to harness this rage to stop their men from travelling to impoverished countries for sex tourism.

This book is especially relevant to what we see happening in Africa today.

Apartheid miseducation succeeded Because à young Black man saying we must give policing back to yt ppl is saying A LOT White policemen used to have braais around burning bodies You want *those* people back in power ?

Things are so tough in Malawi right now that people are actually reminiscing about a colonial rule that they never lived under. 😭

Not a single bar of soap has entered Gaza in the past five months. Israel continues to ban the entry of all cleaning supplies. Respiratory and skin diseases are spreading at an alarming rate, especially among children. I don’t understand, how could a toothbrush possibly pose a

I have been receiving an increasing number of review requests. Proper peer review takes time & I simply do not have the capacity right now. The current model of relying on unpaid labour and the goodwill of overstretched researchers is unsustainable. A better model is needed.

JUST IN: South Africa's Caster Semenya has won her case in the European Court of Human Rights.

Children queuing for supplements killed in Israeli strike in Gaza, hospital says bbc.in/44JXtAB

YTs came into Africa and literally rewrote standards of dress. It was no longer deemed “masculine” to wrap their body and waist in fabric, as a way to cool and maneuver freely through the day, therefore pants and nonsensical in the African sun clothing was introduced as “proper”

He was completely wilding with that tweet, but I’ve decided I like the phrase and it should be claimed proudly. You looking extremely African today my brother.

I don’t have anything to say about the ridiculous comment about “extremely African” models holding other to call out than placing the burden on 14 South Sudanese with visibility rather than 1000s of white models means someone has to work harder on his internalised antiblackness.

Good idea.

One of the greatest scams in recent memory…

I think as black people, we underestimate how much and deep anti-blackness is ingrained and conditioned in us and how much we willingly participate in it. In fact we underestimate how often and easy we get to be active agents of anti-blackness.

Am I the only one who prefers to say they have worked in a certain area rather than being called an expert? I am not comfortable with that label at all. Maybe because I believe knowledge is always changing & we are always learning & unlearning. I'm not entirely sure, to be honest

Screaming at this meme 😭🇬🇧🇫🇷

Ya ilero… Mwabulambya, Chitipa