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Anita Williams @catanita.bsky.social · 6h

Also families can't live in apartments because those apartments which could be big enough for a family cost several arms and all their legs...

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Anita Williams @catanita.bsky.social · 17h

I feel like I can keep abreast of my topic and papers because I created a curated feed here on bluesky that captures all the posts for the topic.

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ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social · 2d

Will Ferrell as multidrug-resistant bacterial pathogen threats #AMR #MicroSky #IDSky

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

Today marks the two-year anniversary of the horrific October 7 attack.

As we mourn the 1,218 lives lost that day, let us also keep alive the dream of a lasting peace and a better future for all.

Ceasefire now. Every hostage must come home. And a safer world for everyone.

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Anita Williams @catanita.bsky.social · 2d

As a last ditch effort when I can't find the answer on a search engine

Anita Williams @catanita.bsky.social · 2d

He's covering his hand, the one we compared to QEII before she died

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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 2d

Peace plans cannot solely be relied on to address grave abuses in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. 30+ years of escalating repression of Palestinians as "peace processes" played out made that clear.

Trump's plan is no substitute for urgent action in Gaza.

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Anita Williams @catanita.bsky.social · 2d

That's a good point 👍🏼

Anita Williams @catanita.bsky.social · 2d

Considering the casualisation of academia, mounting student debt, scarcity of funding, and rising cost-of-living, payments for named reviews could assist early- and mid-career researchers build credence in their field
Reviews should also count like citation counts
#academicsky #medsky #episky

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Anita Williams @catanita.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting episode from @cmicomms.bsky.social about peer reviewing and the history of peer review.
One concept not discussed in the conversation about paying for reviews is the idea of professional reviewers - people could make a living from reviewing.
#academicsky #academicchatter

CMI Communications @cmicomms.bsky.social · 3d

🎙️ Just published: Communicable E37: 'Peer review is broken'

Hosted by @angelahuttner.bsky.social & @anniejoseph.bsky.social

w/ invited guests: Melinda Baldwin @mbaldwin.bsky.social & Serge Horbach

Listen on Communicable:

#IDSky #Clinmicro #MedSky #peerreview #AI

Communicable E37: 'Peer review is broken'

share.transistor.fm

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Anita Williams @catanita.bsky.social · 3d

I just used your package for my upcoming manuscript, thanks!

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Anita Williams @catanita.bsky.social · 3d

I know it's automated and all, but sending out a re-review reminder on a Friday and expecting us to have reviewed it by Sunday is a joke, right? Especially as the requests come to me in Western Australia after business hours on a Friday.
Make your robots do better editors
#academicchatter

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Anita Williams @catanita.bsky.social · 5d

Umm wtf?! How on earth is that ethical?

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 6d

I love when student journalists break a crazy story, especially about their own school. This one is extraordinarily macabre. www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...

USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel

A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.

www.uscannenbergmedia.com

Anita Williams @catanita.bsky.social · 5d

I finally got to this today, figured out how to get the 'rms' impactPO function to work, and hey what do you know, the magnitude of difference is negligible!
So I'm just going to report my cumulative linked model without relaxing and explain away.
Thanks so much for your help!
#rstats

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Anita Williams @catanita.bsky.social · 5d

It's the drop you've all been waiting for...

AMR People Vol. 3 !

If you're thinking "but wait, I should be in an AMR People Pack", no worries - let me know you want in!

Don't forget Vol 1 and 2!

And the AMR feed that captures all the AMR posts in one place!
bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 6d

Just days after Doctors Without Borders (MSF) announced it had to stop medical work in Gaza City due to Israeli attacks, Israeli forces have killed staff member Omar Hayek & injured 4 others in Deir al Balah.

Staff were wearing MSF vests, waiting for a bus to a field hospital.

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Maternal, Adolescent, Reproductive & Child Health Centre, LSHTM @lshtm-march.bsky.social · 6d

🗣️"Women and children are bearing the brunt of overlapping humanitarian crises."

Maysoon Dahab, Assistant Professor @lshtm.bsky.social, discuses the rapidly escalating humanitarian emergency in #Sudan and its impacts on women & children.

🔗 www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...

@lshtm-crises.bsky.social

“A war on the bodies of women and girls” – reports from Sudan | LSHTM

www.lshtm.ac.uk

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Anita Williams @catanita.bsky.social · 6d

Might help if I share a link

[Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters] Is America Suddenly at War With Venezuela? #globalDispatchesWorldNewsThatMatters

podcastaddict.com/global-dispa...

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Anita Williams @catanita.bsky.social · 7d

An eye opening episode from @markleongoldberg.bsky.social on Global Dispatches podcast
Considering the shitstorm of the news you might have missed the attacks on apparent drug smuggling boats from Venezuela, killing all on board
The US admin is using "war on terror" language to justify their actions

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 7d

Science teachers take note.

Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 8d

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

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Anita Williams @catanita.bsky.social · 7d

Additionally, the plan states that Palestine is not allowed to join any international organisation without Isrl's consent

Nor are they allowed to take any action against Isrl or the US via the ICJ, ICC, or any other tribunal.

Overall the plan is vague, with no defined time points, or guarantees.

Anita Williams @catanita.bsky.social · 7d

The @tldrnews.bsky.social Global channel made a video about the proposed "Gaza Peace Plan".

Apparently Point 9 states that Gaza is to be governed by a technocratic committee overseen by a "Peace Board" which will be chaired by T-rump until the Palestinian Authority completes its "reform program"

Trump’s New Gaza Peace Plan Explained

YouTube video by TLDR News Global

youtu.be

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Anita Williams @catanita.bsky.social · 8d

Outside of research and my moustache cat, I like making things. I took my first carpentry course in 2023, and two years later I made another shelf, this time for my many jars of tea and coffee.

Two pictures of the same woman holding shelves

A set of shelves with jars of tea and coffee next to a kettle

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Anita Williams @catanita.bsky.social · 8d

What if you leveled the factor manually so it appears in the order you want?

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Anita Williams @catanita.bsky.social · 8d

Post cats from a different era (i.e. from before their current size)

Two cats sitting on a cat tower. The cat on the left is a tuxedo cat whilst the cat on the right is all black. The cat tower is yellow.

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