Today’s post isn’t just history. It’s a correction.
#StockholmSyndrome was never about “falling in love” with captors. It was about how #Sweden, its police, its politicians, even Olof Palme betrayed its own survivors to protect itself.
Survival was pathologized to cover up state failure.
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Just had a doorstep chat with the local Labour team and told them Keir had lost my support before the general election because of the party’s stance on various equalities legislation. And that I couldn’t renew a vote for local Labour given the ongoing attack on trans rights.
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This, especially the last point.
Read preprints. Cite preprints. Email people and tell them you loved their preprint. Email people you hated their preprint. Embrace preprints, preprints are good.
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🙃 Lobbying led UK universities to adopt US-style security during Gaza protests, emails reveal: UK students faced excessive disciplinary measures as a result of heavy-handed strategy, reports claim www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Crushing account of what's happening in UK #HE. The most awful part is that nothing in this unbelievable account is unbelievable, reminding us about what has been normalised right across and beyond the UK
Something people in UK need to wake up to is how racism affects whether or not you get a job, whether you will be promoted and how long you will stay promoted.
Fraser Nelson blocked me on Twitter because he wrote an article about how the UK is the best place to be Black so I sent him a picture of the all white Spectator staff in LONDON and asked if this was you he said “I hire on ability” LOOOOOL
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My latest column for @newscientist.com is about how categories are made by humans, whether we are talking about how to organize stellar types or human sex identity.
With special mention to @benneholwerda.bsky.social and one of his students OBAFGKM :-) 🧪🔭
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
Lol it is helpful!
So in the UK would psychology be considered a STEM subject? Anyone know?
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But do actual conversations happen? It feels so anti-social here
It is so dull, no dialogue, no fun.
I have given up here...
Returning to their homes—to their land.
✨ soft life ✨
The radical choice to embrace calm over chaos, rest over resistance, and serenity over stress.
Slow down. Breathe deeply. Move with intention.
If you are or know of any UK Black women profs promoted in Sept 24 to date, please let me know. This is for our Black women professors list!
Fanta was created so coke could sell soda in nazi Germany around a trade embargo. IBM sold the machines that were used to track and tabulate holocaust victims. Henry Ford inspired Hitler. Big business has always collaborated with fascism. Today's businesses are bastards who are no different.
A peer-reviewed study published in The Lancet estimates more than 64,000 deaths in Gaza due to traumatic injury between Oct. 7, 2023 and June 30, 2024 — a figure 41% higher than the Gaza Health Ministry’s official count. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Luxembourg can afford a pension more than 5x the UK, even Spain is nearly 3x.
The problem is greed.
Luxembourg £5202
Spain £2709
Belgium £2698
Liechtenstein £2148
Switzerland £2148
Iceland £1894
Denmark £1651
France £1564
Cyprus £1507
Bulgaria £1486
UK £958
I know...
Exactly this!
A 26 year old nurse has been breaking the bones of premature Black babies.
www.msn.com/en-us/health...
