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PhD candidate @KentLawSchool, LLM (Harvard). Working and writing on transitional justice, feminism, ethnicity, and impacts of (armed) conflicts. Visiting Lecturer (Criminal Law) Birkbeck, University of London. Mother and wife.
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submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

What upsets me the most is that some so-called parents are willing to allow their utter political stupidity ruin their child's life.

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

Hey #academicsky - I have this big collection of US political comics from the 90s. It's a treasure trove of cultural history, but no libraries here in Australia interested. Looking for suggestions or people who want it. Will ship it to wherever. Share, DM or reply with leads please? Thanks!

submitted 13 hours ago • 9 comments

Join us at this discussion webinar on Monday! Details below. I’ll be speaking about my new book, climate change and links to ongoing epidemic injustice. #ClimateColoniality #geosky

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

A rather battered VR wallbox at St Johns station in Deptford. #PostboxSaturday

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submitted 19 hours ago • 47 comments

Literacy is activism. Reading is a political act. Books are tools for liberation.

submitted 1 day ago • 95 comments

Julie's Caesar had a God complex. On 15 March 44 B.C.E, about 40 senators stabbed Caesar to death. Interesting points from history.

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

A short PhD advice dialogue PhD reseacher: "Can you recommend a book about the university life." Me: "Lord of the Flies." PhD researcher: "Really?" Me: "It focuses on a group of academics in a Faculty and their disastrous attempt to govern themselves."

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

He nails it.

submitted 1 day ago • 1529 comments

Heard a song from the 80s reference a "long distance call" and it occurred to me that this is a concept that no longer holds any emotional currency whatsoever

submitted 1 day ago • 1366 comments

Ever bought a designer leather bag with a logo stamped into it? Or maybe you've admired embossed patterns on belts or wallets? Over 1200 years ago, the Anglo-Saxons did the same thing—with a bit more beastly flair!

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And who they didn't like

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So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

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Any recent PhD (2023 or later) aerosol scientists out there interested in studying airborne transmission of respiratory infections? My group is looking for a postdoc to work on human challenge studies with influenza virus at Emory University. Full description at drive.google.com/file/d/1HzJZ...

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Opposition to presidential tyranny does NOT look like giving the finger to the Trump tower. Please take lessons from Sri Lanka 2022, South Korea 2024, and Syria 2024. Or better yet, get experts from our countries who can teach you how to democratize and civilize your nation.

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"Babbling, bumbling, band of baboons"

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"He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit.[] In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump." coming42.livejournal.com/479179.html

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More Benin Bronzes going home

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Dreaming of Spring

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Publish or perish got changed into get cited a lot or perish. And in publishing circles, only but a few get cited a lot, it is a winner takes all industry. The stakes are against all new aspiring scholars.

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Loved the following piece on restaurants and food. A jovial and agreeable read for the morning. "And food should always, always, be served on plates. Not on slates. Not on garden trowels. Not on planks. On plates." www.theguardian.com/food/2025/fe...

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I'm delighted to be speaking at Treadwell's Books in London on 20 March about Pagan revivals through history. www.treadwells-london.com/events-1/pag...

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

We will be hosting a bi-monthly online reading group on intersectionality. The first session is on 08 March (Saturday) from 11.00 a.m. to 12.30p.m. Anyone interested in joining, please send me a message. We will only be taking 4 more people.

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Saw someone here saying that a particular man is the owner of a reptilian hemi penis. I then went down a rabbit hole of learning about snake and lizard reproduction. Please clap.

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European Parliament member 👇🏽

submitted 4 days ago • 924 comments

Internet is a place where one without an advanced education can self teach/learn. AI or language learning models are NOT the way to do it. Read a page of Britannica. Enrol for a free online course given by a university. Don't believe the praise even "good" billionaires like Cuban gives to AI.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

My least favourite kind of scholarship in the world is the kind which is focused on showing off how 'clever' the author is rather than answering the question

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

My seven year old daughter is like this. She wants to adopt slugs who are unloved. She's a good friend to marginalised kids in school, and she becomes happy by even seeing a tiny flower in the grass.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I (Justin) am now officially unemployed. So if you would like a guest on your podcast to talk about libraries, intellectual property, publishing, or anything related to that, feel free to DM or email librarypunkpod at gmail dot com

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

So O is 0 and Ø is Ø? Got it.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Ribbit! CWG reader Walter Crain sculpted this frog with leftover snow over the weekend in Falls Church, Virginia.

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

We see your tiny Hedge Hog (so precious) and we raise you... miniature Galileo!

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

Similarly, it's been hard for me to explain to my daughter when she was little that b d p q are 4 different letters.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Winter in the city ❄️ #london #photography

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Kinda magical

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Hey, @msnbc.com. Why do you allow your readers to share articles on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and most other major platforms — but NOT Bluesky? Asking for nearly 32 million users.

submitted 5 days ago • 890 comments

Want to tell the CSU Board of Trustees what you think of the plan to spend almost $17m on ChatGPT (& who knows what on other AI programs) so the CSU can become an AI-powered university? Check out this petition & please share! chng.it/hYYGGwbzJh

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HOLY ZIFT FIRST NEW ROYAL TOMB FOUND IN EGYPT SINCE KING TUT THIS IS HUGE www.cbsnews.com/news/egypt-d...

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

Sometimes you find something in a house that just hits you with nostalgia like a smack in the head. Sometimes literally.

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments