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Contessa Ricci
@contessaricci.bsky.social
PhD | NIH NIMHD postdoc fellow | climate change & maternal health | data nerd 🤓 | ✊🏽🌎🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌲🏝️
@weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social please bring on Ruha Benjamin and have a discussion about how to imagine a different future - spark some exciting discussions about what long term thinking is/could be

youtu.be/1VRCfuKEGdo
RIP… D.E.I. with Ruha Benjamin | What Now? with Trevor Noah Podcast
YouTube video by Trevor Noah
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October 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
DOJ: Greystar to Stop Using Algorithmic Rent-Setting Software

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 woohoo!!

@propublica.org
#polsky #goodnews #housing #affordabilitycrisis
August 12, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Word has become so unhinged after all my scientific writing that these are now my suggestions after misspelling“agriculture”

#academicsky #scisky
June 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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This is awesome!
Yo Seattle—Stuck in a Tesla but don't want it to be quite so obvious? Your friendly neighborhood #teslatakedown is here to help. Come down to Tesla SODO this Sat from 10-12. We'll take your Tesla badges off for free. If you want new ones slapped on, it's BYOB(adges) actionnetwork.org/events/tesla...
Tesla Regret De-Badging Event
Did you buy a Tesla thinking you were doing something good for the world? Maybe you just wanted a cool car. Now, your friends and family don't want to be seen in your car, and strangers on the street ...
actionnetwork.org
April 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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2025 kicked off with a bang.. 🫣 but there's actually some exciting news to share too! Bellingcat has opened up multiple opportunities across various skill sets, backgrounds, and regions! If you know someone who might be interested, help us spread the word by sharing or tagging them below. 👇
March 17, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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ProPublica made a full-length documentary, based on Duaa Eldeib's Pulitzer Prize finalist reporting. The full streaming premiere is March 20, with live filmmaker discussion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-lr...
Before a Breath: America’s Stillbirth Crisis | FULL DOCUMENTARY
YouTube video by ProPublica
www.youtube.com
March 15, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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The unlawful withholding of Inflation Reduction Act grants is causing financial strain to farmers, small businesses, & organizations dedicated to community improvement. We’re representing grant recipients & suing the Trump admin to stop this illegal funding freeze.​
US farmers sue Trump administration for withheld IRA funds
Several U.S. farmers and nonprofits filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Thursday, arguing it is illegally withholding Department of Agriculture grants funded by the Inflation Reduction Act.
www.reuters.com
March 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Just a foreign leader talking about killing US students on US soil
Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett — who headlined an event at Columbia right before Mahmoud Khalil was detained — just joked at a Harvard event that he would give exploding pagers to students protesting his visit
March 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Hundreds now in Federal Plaza, Chicago for the #MarchforScience. It's another cold miserable wet day, but folks are turning out. #standupforscience
March 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
@mariaressa.bsky.social is my new hero 🦸🏽‍♀️

Don’t willingly give up your rights, “this is the strongest you’ll ever be, you will only get weaker from here” ✊🏽

Bought her book “how to stand up to a dictator” - can’t wait

www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa discusses state of U.S. democracy
Nobel Peace Prize laureate and journalist Maria Ressa has long fought for global press freedom. Her book, "How To Stand Up To A Dictator," detailed her experience running the news site Rappler under t...
www.pbs.org
March 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Want to stream our DC event & hear from amazing speakers like Bill Nye, Francis Collins, Atul Gawande, and SO MANY MORE?

Join our livestream at www.twitch.tv/standupforsc..., starting at 12 pm!

#standupforscience2025
March 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Friends marching in #standupforscience2025, please post tons of pictures for some us who can’t be there (jury duty) or the immigrant scientists who feel muzzled from participating.
March 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
And references to all of humanity as “they” 😂
BREAKING: Entire Human Race Flagged By DEI Purge Because of “Homo” in “Homo Sapiens”
March 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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BREAKING: Entire Human Race Flagged By DEI Purge Because of “Homo” in “Homo Sapiens”
March 7, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Assistant Professorship at Trinity College Dublin-- looking for a strong research background in Postcolonial and Global Literatures, with a particular interest in scholars with 'training and expertise in literatures of the Americas': www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD087/a...
Assistant Professor in Postcolonial and Global Literatures at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Assistant Professor in Postcolonial and Global Literatures on jobs.ac.uk!
www.jobs.ac.uk
March 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Thanks to @nature.com for featuring Stand Up for Science! ☀️🧬🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
US science is under threat ― now scientists are fighting back
Researchers are organizing protests and making their voices heard as Trump officials slash funding and lay off federal scientists.
www.nature.com
March 3, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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I DEFINITELY *would* not walk out at your university campus, go to your nearest rally site, or head over to DC on March 7th, wearing a mask...

But hey. This is a free country and we have the 1st amendment to protect our right to protest. Your choice! #standupforscience2025
March 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM