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Betzabé Torres Olave 🍉

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MSCA Research Fellow @rug.nl‬ PhD ‪@soebristol.bsky.social‬ Working on justice-oriented science education. she/her/ella

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Betzabé Torres Olave 🍉 @betzabetorres-o.bsky.social · Apr 28

Some ideas around critical imagination and its role in transformative agency for science teacher education (thinking with #Freire and #Weil 🥰)

@scienceed-wiley.bsky.social

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Critical Imagination for Transformative Agency: Pedagogies for Science Teacher Education

This paper theorizes transformative agency and its potential to promote justice-oriented science teacher education. We argue that science education often acts as a disimagination machine, constrainin...

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Education International @eduinternational.bsky.social · 5d

📢Education International condemns the illegal interception and detention of members of the Global #SumudFlotilla in international waters by Israel.

We extend our solidarity to all the members of the flotilla and call for their immediate release.☮️

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doctor of softboyology @vea.bsky.social · 15d

“From the Politics of Affect to the Politics of Being Affected By/With Others: A Commentary on the Special Issue” by Lucy Avraamidou @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social and Betzabe Torres Olave @betzabetorres-o.bsky.social https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sce.70019

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 22d

Genocide has been committed by Israel.

Parties to the Genocide Convention were warned of plausibility in Jan 2024. They attacked those warning.

Now it’s too late to stop a genocide. Now it’s about trying to stop it getting ever worse.

Uniting for Peace Resolution needed this GA.

BDS. Protest

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22d

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry

Commission’s 72-page legal analysis cites examples including scale of killings, aid blockages and forced displacement * Middle East crisis – live updates A UN commission of inquiry concluded on Tuesday that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza and that top Israeli officials including the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had incited these acts. It cited examples of the scale of the killings, aid blockages, forced displacement and the destruction of a fertility clinic to back up its genocide finding, adding its voice to rights groups and others that have reached the same conclusion. Continue reading...

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Betzabé Torres Olave 🍉 @betzabetorres-o.bsky.social · Sep 2

Lovely to cacth up with you Emily, see you soon maybe in the other hemisphere! 🥰 (and let's keep our inbox moving with ideas and checking ins 💌)

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Petter Hellström @nphellstrom.bsky.social · Aug 24

If anyone is still not convinced #Israel is committing #genocide in #Gaza, I urge that person to watch this @aljazeera.com report and reconsider. The facts are on the table for anyone to see. This is not a "war". This is the deliberate attempt to destroy a people.

www.aljazeera.com/video/inside...

How can Israel engineer a famine in Gaza in the 21st century?

UN chief Antonio Guterres says famine in Gaza is ‘a moral indictment and a failure of humanity itself’.

www.aljazeera.com

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · Aug 15

A Levels

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Betzabé Torres Olave 🍉 @betzabetorres-o.bsky.social · Jul 15

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Betzabé Torres Olave 🍉 @betzabetorres-o.bsky.social · Jul 14

Gente simpática por acá, veámonos en Copenhagen in a SEEDS meet up? 💌

SEEDS-Science Educators for Equity, Diversity, Social Justice @seeds4equity.bsky.social · Jul 14

Hi SEEDS family! We are organizing a social meetup at ESERA for SEEDS members on 8.28. It will be a chance to chat and connect with other comrades and gente simpatica. We hope to see you there. For more info and to register login to your SEEDs account: seeds4equity.org/Sys/Login?Re...

Science Educators for Equity, Diversity, and Social Justice - Authorization required

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · Jul 12

Our Statement in support of Francesca Albanese

We call upon academic institutions, governments & civil society actors around the world to publicly repudiate these unjustified sanctions & to uphold the independence & legitimacy of the UN human rights system. @uofgunescorila.bsky.social

UNESCO Chair supports Francesca Albanese

The UNESCO Chair unequivocally condemns the targeted and punitive measures imposed by the United States government against Francesca Albanese.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · Jul 10

The world's most famous medical NGO concludes Israel is committing genocide.

It joins a consensus of genocide scholars, including in Israel, and NGOs like Amnesty International.

No politician or journalist can claim "I did not know at the time!" to evade future justice.

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Society for Research into Higher Education @srhe.bsky.social · Jul 3

Congratulations to this year's Newer Researcher Award winners @betzabetorres-o.bsky.social, @jesspilgrimbrown.bsky.social, and Yabing Liu! Learn more about their projects on our website: srhe.ac.uk/research/lat...

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Betzabé Torres Olave 🍉 @betzabetorres-o.bsky.social · Jun 24

also maybe some Subcomandante Marcos poems and short stories if you could read spanish?

Betzabé Torres Olave 🍉 @betzabetorres-o.bsky.social · Jun 24

Not a short thing, but I would say the intro of the English version of Pedagogia de la autonomia (Freire) is good because even though I am absolutely against the fact that they called it Pedagogy of Freedom in English (instead of autonomy), the translator gives some good issues to think with..

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Jun 9

Imagine, just imagine, the response from the West if the Iranian government, in international waters, had rammed and then boarded a European ship, filled with European citizens, and taken them captive.

But it's Israel, so it's all good. Our citizens don't matter.

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Betzabé Torres Olave 🍉 @betzabetorres-o.bsky.social · Jun 8

And...international solidarity is powerful in times of oppression ❤️‍🩹🍉

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Tristan McCowan @mccowan.bsky.social · May 28

Climate-U conference open for submissions!

5-8 Nov in Belém (Brazil) and online. Event is free of charge.

Submissions welcome on all aspects of HE and the climate crisis (individual paper, symposium, workshop or artistic)

www.climate-uni.com/network-conf...

Network Conference 2025 | Climate-Uni.com

Climate-Uni.com | Network Conference 2025: Higher Education and the Climate Crisis | Transforming Universities for a Changing Climate. Network lead 2025 UFPA, Brazil.

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Betzabé Torres Olave 🍉 @betzabetorres-o.bsky.social · May 28

Things happen, and I will be moving to the Netherlands in 3 months.
Receiving all the Dutch-related stuff advice here (and "goodbyes catch-ups" in the UK, although I will be here now and then).

www.rug.nl/news/2025/02...

Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowship granted for the project: Pedagogies for the Imagination

Dr. Betzabe Torres Olave has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship, with a perfect score of 100% (!), for the project with...

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Arathi Sriprakash @arathings.bsky.social · May 27

I'm hosting a free online workshop series on Anti-Racism and Reparations in Education.

Please join us!
10am UK time: June 11, June 18 and July 2.

Details and registration: baice.ac.uk/baice-presid...

Please help spread the word to academic/education folx! 🙌🏾

BAICE Presidential Workshop Series

Anti-Racism and Reparations: perspectives from Comparative and International Education

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · May 20

World leaders can make as many statements as they like opposing Israel's actions in Gaza.

Until they end the sale of weapons to Israel, they remain complicit in the mass murder of Palestinians.

Stop arming genocide, now.

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · May 13

My piece in ⁦‪National‬⁩ today on ten stages of genocide and on genocide denial. It is imperative that food and medicine enter Gaza. The consequences are already catastrophic

www.thenational.scot/news/world/2...

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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · May 7

This excellent short (23 min) film explain why some scientists have been compelled to take direct action in an effort to get governments to respond to the climate crisis. Please watch and share.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNvk...

Plan Z: From Lab Coats To Handcuffs

YouTube video by Voice Media

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Cristina Dorador @criordor.bsky.social · May 6

"In the film Life Invisible, directed by Bettina Perut and Iván Osnovikoff, we travel to the the Atacama Desert of Chile, where researcher Cristina Dorador is searching for new treatments to fight infectious diseases" @nobelprize.bsky.social

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Nobel Prize Museum | Fighting Disease

Fighting Disease

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Tom Western @tomwestern.bsky.social · May 2

Our next Anti-Genocide University event is next Friday

"Global Laboratories of Repression, Global Visions of Liberation"

Alexander_Avina
– with William A. Booth

9 May, 5-6:30pm (UK time), online

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/global-lab...

Global Laboratories of Repression, Global Visions of Liberation

Join us for a webinar with Dr. Alexander Aviña (Arizona State University) on "Ayotzinapa and Palestine: Global Laboratories of Repression

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Betzabé Torres Olave 🍉 @betzabetorres-o.bsky.social · May 1

congrats! 😍, looking forward to reading it🤓

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Paulina Rodríguez Anaiz @paulinarodriguez.bsky.social · Apr 30

Excited about this event!

We’re hosting an event for PhDs & ECRs. Join us for a workshop on inequalities in HE & student political participation with Prof Agnès van Zanten and Prof @rachelbrooks.bsky.social 🌟. Don’t miss it!

@britsoci.bsky.social
@education.ox.ac.uk

tinyurl.com/4een2w3e

Higher Education, Inequality and Students as Political Actors

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