📢'The World Is Your Oyster' is for those who are born in global north countries--don't experience visa bureaucracy & emotional burden that non-white global south scholars do. Citizenship is a privilege that we need to recognize in the academe. 1/n nature.com/articles/d4158…

Biden now faces a challenge to curtail Israel's over-reach in the current conflict. But Netanyahu is aware of Biden's compromised position having failed to back a ceasefire at the right time. So Israel is leveraging the US election year to call his bluff. cnn.com/2024/05/09/mid…

Pretty astonishing how effective a relatively small group of students have been at exploiting the fears and weakness of university administrations to cripple so many campuses in such a short time

"By far the greater part of violence that humans have inflicted on each other is not the work of criminals or the mentally deranged, but of normal, respectable citizens in the service of the collective ego. One can go so far as to say that on this planet *normal" equals insane."

God is not love. Love is God! Romantic love is also not real love because it is a love based on something: wanting/longing. Pure love is unconditional. Do not be fooled.

“It’s amazing. The young women right now that are playing and singing and writing authentically is blowing my mind because, 15 or 20 years ago, I really worried that everything was just dance routines and lip syncing and boobs and lips. - Sheryl Crow 👌🏾💯 bbc.com/news/articles/…

Believe it or not, these are not Chris Mason and Laura Kuenssberg, and I believe neither are being investigated in the latest Conservatives inside-job gambling allegations. But of course, the BBC News (UK) mobile app presents the images as if... Good job! bbc.com/news/articles/…

Coming Soon… Citizenship Privilege Harms #Science, by Dr Mayank Chugh (he/him), PhD, a Life Sciences/#STEM #Researcher at Harvard Medical School, an Early Career Advisor at eLife - the journal, and an active member of Harvard Medical Postdoc Association (HMPA) and nationalpostdoc. #Immigration #Visa #Africa

Huge congratulations to Diane Abbott MP, who takes up the mantle as Mother of the House – the longest-standing woman MP. Diane is a trailblazer, first elected in 1987, and we look forward to working with her in her new position.

Ashley Ruba, PhD "All the data were already collected" this is just like those interviews with people that bought their first house at 22 and they're like "all it took was hard work, perseverance, and a $400K loan from my parents"

Congratulations to the Mother of the House, re-elected for the 10th time to represent the people of Hackney North & Stoke Newington 👸🏾 With 264 women elected last night, Diane Abbott becomes the longest serving woman MP in the most representative Parliament in history.

Congratulations - Diane Abbott - Jeremy Corbyn - Sian Berry - Adrian Ramsay - Carla Denyer - Ellie Chowns With you, there's reassurance that equity, justice and fairness will continue to be proclaimed in UK Parliament And thank you, Caroline Lucas.

We wish all Quaker MPs elected yesterday courage for the future. We uphold them in these difficult times as they work for a more just, peaceful and equitable world. Steff Aquarone MP Ruth Cadbury Carla Denyer Josh Fenton-Glynn MP Catherine West Yuan Yang ⚖️🙏❤️ #quakervoices

The Rwanda policy being scrapped is very welcome decision - but the task of rebuilding our asylum system to meet the challenges of this century is immense. The The Church of England will keep calling for an effective system that treats people with dignity, prevents dangerous

Imane Khelif is a victim of dogwhistle transohobia and hatred towards intersex people even though she isn't characterised as either. Angela Carini knows exactly what she was doing. Her apology is probably part of that aim. It is awful! #Olympics2024Paris cnn.com/2024/08/02/spo…

"It might sound blunt, it might sound callous, but it’s always been my opinion that the least important person at a funeral is the dead one." - Rich Spalding 👍🏾👌🏾🙌🏾 metro.co.uk/2024/08/21/nev…

Major academic publishers' revenue and what they pay authors and reviewers: Revenue: Elsevier: $3.9 billion Springer Nature: $2 billion Taylor & Francis: $800M Wiley: $1.8 billion They pay: Academic authors: $0 Peer reviewers: $0

I got real personal on a podcast! Really grateful to Godwyns Onwuchekwa 💅 and the eLife Community team for turning my rambling into what I was trying to say, haha. open.spotify.com/episode/7Kh6ei…

Good to learn about Society Publishers' Coalition just now at #ALPSP2024. Their model of organising and supportive Society Publishers portrays an effective collective.