Ancestry update: I have managed to find the son my grandmother left in Jamaica when he was 8 and who she never saw or spoke of. My dad only found out about him at her funeral. He is 73, lives in FL. I just spoke to him on the phone, 22 years after her death.

📣 Call for submissions: Holding the Space: Shining a light on Black academics We invite scholars, students and practitioners to contribute to the conference on 15th January 2025 at University of Westminster 📷 Submission deadline: 16th September #blackacademics #BlackTwitter #highered

Great to see Aya Nakamura at #Paris2024

BLACKS WON 🙏🏿🙏🏿 #LoveIsland

Hamas terrorist Ismail Haniyeh has reportedly been killed in Iran tonight. Thoughts and prayers to Harvard University and all its mourning students

Can’t share this often enough #Riots

ChampagneChan🇯🇲 I’m a mentor for an amazing programme called XLP. If you know them personally I think you can refer them here xlp.org.uk/referral.html

Ah damn there’s goes the Scottish exceptionalism to the #UKRiots2024

notting hill carnival 🇯🇲✨🇬🇧 my roots are jamaican. my roots are italian. my roots are egyptian. my roots are kuwaiti. my roots are also firmly in ladbroke grove, london. my roots are also british. have a safe and joyful bank holiday monday 🙏🏽

Didn’t realise everyone like Oasis this much 🤷‍♀️

#Oasis25 what a morning

The suit case my nan used when she came to ingland from Jamaica

Fancy £10k for humanities or social science research? We’ve opened the call for our small research grants. Do share. Awards will be allocated through partial randomisation - awarded randomly between those applications that meet our quality threshold thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-lev…

Happy to have contributed this wherein I explain the significance of PhD supervision and the effects of when it goes wrong, but importantly the significance of when it goes right!

Excited for 2 days of nursing research and sharing some findings from my PhD. #RCNresearch24 RCN Research Forum

My nephew Feyd-Rautha - so much better than Rabban, who was mistreated by the Atreides even the emperor never saw anything like it - my nephew says that they’re giving all the spice away. The atreides are afraid of the fremen. Nobody said that when it was my arrakis, my dune

For my doctoral thesis I explored the lived experiences of masking black autistic girls in UK schools and looked at how racism and ableism work in tandem to influence such experiences and how societal structures and systems marginalise and oppress groups deemed 1/3

Jamaican hard dough bread is Ozempic.

So grateful to join the inaugural Royal Society Career Development Fellowship cohort🙏🏾 My research Newcastle University will explore nervous system regulation of immune system formation 🧑🏾‍💻 hosted by Muzlifah Haniffa in collab w/ UCL paula alexandre Laura Jardine Dave Horsfall Emily Stephenson

Guys!!!! Got my email from the home office 🤭🤭 I’m finally a PERMANENT RESIDENT IN THE UK 🇬🇧 5 years ago, July 2019, I moved to the United Kingdom as a Registered Nurse! 🇳🇬… fully sponsored by the NHS 🥹! FULLY! Flights! Exams, accommodation (3months) all paid for!! One of