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Dr Madina she/her @drmadina.bsky.social · 23d

🗣️ Happening tomorrow!

Join us to help shape the future of @blackinimmuno.bsky.social and connect with the community

blackinimmuno.bsky.social @blackinimmuno.bsky.social · Sep 8

Hello Bluesky, we’ve finally migrated and look forward to connecting with everyone here!

We’re also having a Town Hall next week. Please register here and share with anyone who may want to reconnect or learn more about our group:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Heather Caslin @heathercaslin.bsky.social · Sep 8

From the Black in Immuno board: we’re excited to reconnect and meet new friends here!

Please follow and share our page with anyone who may be interested in our work.

blackinimmuno.bsky.social @blackinimmuno.bsky.social · Sep 8

Hello Bluesky, we’ve finally migrated and look forward to connecting with everyone here!

We’re also having a Town Hall next week. Please register here and share with anyone who may want to reconnect or learn more about our group:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Dr Madina she/her @drmadina.bsky.social · Sep 10

Follow @blackinimmuno.bsky.social to get updates on our group!

And join us on 18th Sept to shape the future of our community 👩🏾‍🔬

blackinimmuno.bsky.social @blackinimmuno.bsky.social · Sep 8

Hello Bluesky, we’ve finally migrated and look forward to connecting with everyone here!

We’re also having a Town Hall next week. Please register here and share with anyone who may want to reconnect or learn more about our group:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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blackinimmuno.bsky.social @blackinimmuno.bsky.social · Sep 8

Hello Bluesky, we’ve finally migrated and look forward to connecting with everyone here!

We’re also having a Town Hall next week. Please register here and share with anyone who may want to reconnect or learn more about our group:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · Aug 6

You don't have to sit around waiting for things to get better amid a sea of bad news! Making the world better takes effort from each of us, and sometimes that can be as little as supporting those working hard to support others, like Spark Space. Kick in $5 or $10: chuffed.org/project/spar...

🇵🇸 Gaza Needs Your Support: Help Build a Lifeline for Students and Remote Workers!

In Gaza, war has destroyed homes, blocked roads, and left countless people without work. Yet, amidst the rubble, hope remains. Students and remote workers face daily struggles—power outages, broken in...

chuffed.org

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · Aug 2

“This paper unpacks the concept of citation politics and its role in sustaining epistemic hierarchies within scholarly communities.”

osf.io/qjecy_v2

Figure 1. Mechanisms of power and privilege operating in citational practice and their effects on six individuals with different intersecting identities.

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · May 19

Hello hello 👋🏾 share if you can see this.

This young dad is struggling to keep his kids in Gz & his son in Egypt fed. Don’t feel hopeless in the face of this - every 5 / share helps.

Last check, we’ve only gotten 49/250 in a WEEK. We're matching 250.

Help Ahmad's children survive

I'm helping my friend, Ahmad Alsideek, raise funds to help his family survive.

chuffed.org

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Dr Madina she/her @drmadina.bsky.social · May 15

I use it! But I don't think I'm considered young anymore 😂

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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · May 12

One month countdown until this hot thing is out there in the world.

Available to preorder now:

🇬🇧 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/rainbow-t...

🇺🇸 www.bloomsbury.com/us/rainbow-t...

#books #newbooks #LGBTQ #gender #sexuality #queer #gay #DEI #data #tech #law #politics

Rainbow Trap

Rainbow Trap reveals how the fight for LGBTQ equalities in the UK is shaped – and constrained – by the classifications we encounter every day.Looking across six…

www.bloomsbury.com

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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · May 12

Have you ever felt like the available gender, sex and sexuality boxes don't fully capture your experiences, hopes and desires?

Welcome to a Rainbow Trap 🌈

👮 💘 🎥 ✈️ 🏃‍♂️ 💼

A stack of Rainbow Trap books, against a dark blue background.

Contents page that reads:

Acronyms

Introduction: Queer cogs in a broken system

Hate crimes: Safety, protection and the police

Dating apps: Technology and the curation of desire

Culture: Outness in the film and television industry

Borders: Truth, sameness and the politics of evidence

Health and fitness: Markers of difference and the body

Business: Queer workers and money matters

Conclusion: After inclusion

Acknowledgements

Bibliography

Index

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · May 3

8 hours to go 🚨 we have stagnated again while SO close to the goal.

Most of us just paid our taxes which are funding bombardment, famine, & more. We owe it to these families. Secure them flour & other essentials. They are out of food.

574/700. chuffed.org/project/save...

A tan square graphic. In the background is a photo of tents among the rubble and ruins of buildings in Jabalia, Gaza. The image is gradually faded towards the text. Title: Urgent help for medical case in Jabalia, Gaza. Text: “The situation in northern Gaza has become extremely dangerous and evacuation orders are approaching. A small team is aiding a handful of devastated families who have no one else to turn to. A member of one of these families has been living with a severe injury for 18 months, now especially vulnerable due to starvation. With your help, the team will provide urgent financial assistance to this person & their family for essential needs. Be their hope: https://tiny.cc/SaveJabaliaFamilies. Faster option: PP: divyamper, note “J””

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Vaishnavi @mvaish06.bsky.social · May 1

Happy May Day!
On this labour day, we write about labour of community healthcare workers in South Asia, India's ASHAs, Nepal's FCHVs and Pakistan's LHWs, and their struggles to get recognized.
@plosglobalpublichealth.org @madhupai.bsky.social @plos.org
speakingofmedicine.plos.org/2025/04/30/r...

Recognizing the Labour Behind Care—The Fight for Dignity and Rights Among South Asia’s Community Healthcare Workers

As we mark the Labour Day—a day meant to honor the contributions and struggles of workers—we urge the recognition of CHWs not just as "heroes", but as workers.

speakingofmedicine.plos.org

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Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · Apr 26

Time is of the essence and we need to fight the EHRC interim guidance before it becomes statutory and Parliament make it law.

Don’t just shout about it, write to them. Also tell the media, if you can get them to care. I’ve posted this on Instagram.

Speak to your unions and staff networks at work

hello venues, LGBTQ+ clubs and organisations, workplaces and pals

Social posts and posters are nice, but we need you to write to the EHRC and tell them their new guidance (see next slides) doesn't work for you

They can't tell people how to run a gay or lesbian club. And they can't make you be toilet cops. Please tell them it doesn't work for you. A quick email or phone call will help a lot.

From the EHRC interim guidance:

In workplaces and services that are open to the public:
• trans women (biological men) should not be permitted to use the women's facilities and trans men (biological women) should not be permitted to use the men's facilities, as this will mean that they are no longer single-sex facilities and must be open to all users of the opposite sex
• in some circumstances the law also allows trans women (biological men) not to be permitted to use the men's facilities, and trans men (biological woman) not to be permitted to use the women's facilities

From Phoenix: If we pass too well, we aren't allowed in either gendered toilet or changing room. It's not fair to segregate us, never mind the impact on disabled people if abled trans people use their facilities

From the EHRC interim guidance:

Membership of an association of 25 or more people can be limited to men only or women only and can be limited to people who each have two protected characteristics. It can be, for example, for gay men only or lesbian women only. A women-only or lesbian-only association should not admit trans women (biological men), and a men-only or gay men-only association should not admit trans men (biological women).

From Phoenix:
If you run a gay or lesbian club, night, bar, sauna, reading group, walking group etc - the EHRC say you have to exclude trans people or include cishets. Freedom of association is under threat

Time is of the essence. They're going to make this guidance statutory and Parliament will make that law soon. We will try to help with template letters etc, but your initial objections should be logged NOW.

We love you, you need to speak up.

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BSonblast @bsonblast.bsky.social · Apr 6

Update from AlAbbasiya Community Kitchen, which provides meals to hundreds of families in Omdurman daily. They've had to start a new contribution page: chuffed.org/project/1267...

If you can, please consider contributing. They are keeping hundreds of families from starving.

#KeepEyesOnSudan

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Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · Apr 24

Link here if you need access:
rdcu.be/ei9gY

Eugenics is on the rise again: human geneticists must take a stand | Nature

Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics. Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics.

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Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · Apr 24

I wrote about how we must stand and fight against the threat of eugenics.

Fueled by white nationalism and scientific racism, these beliefs are factually wrong and ethically abhorrent.

This fight includes supporting efforts to diversify our workforce & science. To stop now would be a deep betrayal.

Eugenics is on the rise again: human geneticists must take a stand

Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics.

www.nature.com

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Ellie Armstrong @ellietheelement.bsky.social · Apr 24

Excitingly, have had a second #STS & #SciEd paper published this week at CSSE - this one on the subversive potential of zines in space science education 🚀 📖 - rdcu.be/eiQbR

Riot strrrs: zines as alternative public pedagogies in space science education

rdcu.be

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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · Apr 21

Want to contact your MP about the Supreme Court ruling? @transsolidarity.bsky.social has created an MP letter template to help get you started docs.google.com/document/d/1... 🙂💪

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Dr Madina she/her @drmadina.bsky.social · Apr 21

Font looks normal from my end, but not sure what it's *meant* to look like

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Dr Madina she/her @drmadina.bsky.social · Apr 21

Thank you for sharing! It's helpful to see some examples

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Dr Madina she/her @drmadina.bsky.social · Apr 21

That would be lovely, I'll message you!

Dr Madina she/her @drmadina.bsky.social · Apr 21

I guess I was just interested in hearing about people's experiences and whether they thought it was worth the effort?

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Dr Madina she/her @drmadina.bsky.social · Apr 21

That is very helpful to know 😅 I'm also thinking maybe a full website is too much, I just want a place to put the various projects I've worked on (that isn't LinkedIn)

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Dr Madina she/her @drmadina.bsky.social · Apr 21

Hi friends, has anyone built a website for their professional profile who would be willing to share any advice?

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