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Dr Alfredo Carpineti @drcarpineti.bsky.social · 1d

Highlight of the trip beyond the Nobels was not dying slipping on ice navigating Stockholm in fancy clothing and meeting the legendary Gävlebocken with @ellietheelement.bsky.social

A selfie of me and Ellie in front of of a giant goat made of hay

A photo of me in tails among the snow in front of Stockholm’s city hall

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Ellie Armstrong @ellietheelement.bsky.social · Jul 27

Are you doing community work with #LGBTQinSTEM folks? @prideinstem.bsky.social have our 2025 Small Grants call open - where we fund UK-based #LGBTQ and community projects of up to £1k! Read more about this here, and apply by the 28th August 🌈

prideinstem.org/2025/07/16/s...

Small Grant Scheme 2025 | Pride in STEM

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Ellie Armstrong @ellietheelement.bsky.social · Jul 24

Are you working with Zines in STS? @drfairytalesci.bsky.social and I are bringing together a special issue "The Remix" (publication 2026) - and we'd love your contribution!!

Read more on PULSE, including instructions for submitting an abstract by 1st August: www.pulse-journal.org/cfp-vol-13-2...

A flat-lay of a collection of zines on a table

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Pride in STEM @prideinstem.bsky.social · Jul 16

Pride in STEM's Small Grant Scheme is officially open for 2025!

This year's theme is Strengthening Queer Community in STEM. If you have ideas for a small project in the United Kingdom that fits this, we would love to support you! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #QueerInSTEM

More info here:

prideinstem.org/2025/07/16/s...

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · Jul 10

This week marks two months of the giving circle 🌹 every week, you’ve helped six families and fifteen more at a displacement camp get food & water, medicine & healthcare, and SO much more.

Let’s do it again this week. Click “weekly” to join the circle. chuffed.org/project/hope...

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

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

7 hours left to keep this family housed. We must seize EVERY chance to keep Palestinians alive as our governments annihilate our siblings in Gaza.

Eviction would expose them to the dangerous heatwave & escalating bombardment. So let's do it. 822/1100 chuffed.org/project/help...

Give 8 Innocent Souls a Chance to Survive the War

We are a Palestinian family from Gaza, made up of 8 members. Before the war, we lived a simple life with dignity. Our father worked hard to provide for us, and we had a home—a place of warmth,…

chuffed.org

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · Jun 27

8 HOURS. I’m running an emergency drive for my friend Mai’s mother, Maha, at risk of being evicted—in the midst of famine, hourly massacres, ground invasion.

Anything helps keep her housed.

STILL 18/1250 AUD ($815 USD) - change currency on the Chuffed form.

Saving lives on the frontline in Palestine - help Maha

My name is Louisa and I'm raising money for my dear friend Maha and her family in Gaza. Here is her story:

chuffed.org

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · Jun 22

There is no use to your fear, hopelessness, or helplessness. There is NO risk in giving to survival funds, in any country. Five dollars isn’t useless in the face of famine.

Six families & a displacement camp, one link, and all of our boldness. Get to it: chuffed.org/project/hope...

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

chuffed.org

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · Jun 22

Mai is my beloved friend. Mai is a single mom who’s been forcibly separated from her children. Mai goes 4-7 days at a time without eating. Mai also has a landlord extorting her for rent.

But you’ve helped. Give/find her individual link here. 413/1700 by Friday: chuffed.org/project/hope...

A square white graphic. On the left is a stylized ink illustration of a kestrel falcon in black on white, without outline just the black marks on its wings and face, drawn from behind. His wings are partly open and his head is turned to the right. In his beak is an anemone poppy in red ink with a green stem. On the right is the title "Keep hope alive: a gaza giving circle" in ink-effect font. The text says "We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We distribute your contributions equally every week for sustainable support." In the bottom right corner in green text is the link tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCircle.

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Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them) @sandyosullivan.bsky.social · Jun 16

The following thread contains 201 open access articles, books, chapters & reports written and led by First Nations’ researchers. We write our own research across all areas. The order is random and ranges across disciplines, because of course it does.
#201FirstNationsArticles

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Imidibaniso (SciCom) @imidibaniso.bsky.social · Jun 10

At our 11th #SciCom Colloquium, Dr @ellietheelement.bsky.social dives into how #Zines open up space science education in unconventional and inclusive ways. Catch the recap: ow.ly/2KXY50W6O5w #Space #Imidibaniso

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Ellie Armstrong @ellietheelement.bsky.social · Jun 10

It was so exciting to talk at @imidibaniso.bsky.social - and the paper that this talk was based on is published now so you can read further if you'd like 🚀 doi.org/10.1007/s114...

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Ellie Armstrong @ellietheelement.bsky.social · May 27

Drop into our session at #PCST this afternoon at 4.15 to think about how shifting the kinds of models we use to develop science communication knowledge shapes the possibility of those activities!

Picture of Ellie's hand holding a zine that reads, in purple, "Reflexive prompt zine: towards socially just science communication"

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · May 22

Hard to get eyes at this hour—please share if you can see this 🌹

This giving circle supports 6 families + a mutual aid project in Gz supporting a dozen more. Current needs are food, water, shelter.

Commit to their survival. 502/750 by Friday 🚨 tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCi...

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · May 20

Today we’re highlighting the Abdelwahed family. Akram is doing his best to feed his five younger siblings & their mama among escalating massacres every hour…help them!

➡️ Click to give or find their individual link🌹This week’s goal: 1237/1500 tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCi...

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

My dear friend, beloved Mai, is a single mom who hasn’t eaten in FOUR days. This is incredibly urgent. We're making a transfer tomorrow. Can we meet this goal in the next day??

Help her eat. We’re matching 420. 155/420 (Chuffed should say 1,060) tinyurl.com/Help-Mai

Help Mai and her family leave Gaza before it’s too late

I'm helping my friend Mai raise funds to help her family survive. All of my transactions to her are listed here for accountability: tiny.cc/Mai-Funds.

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

We & friends in Gz launched a giving circle so they could get steady, DIRECT support to help their families survive.

To work, this project requires boldness—even your boldest 5.

🌹EVERY dollar helps them eat. Last check, 1142/1500 for the week. tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCi...

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · May 16

Today we have "“B is for Baby” / B is for Bitumen" by Elysia French

This post introduces French's recent article in the Mobilizing Museum Minerals issue of Museum & Society edited by @ellietheelement.bsky.social & @camillemarys.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2025/05/16/b...

#envhist #oil #museums

“B is for Baby” / B is for Bitumen.

Elysia French's 2015 research trip to Fort McMurray inspired critical reflection on oil’s visual culture, extractivism, and everyday petro-dependency.

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · May 14

🚨 Many of these families are in the areas covered by today’s—and yesterday’s—forced evacuation orders in northern Gaza 🚨

Help them survive. Every 5 is bold and I hope the folks who can will be bolder.

We send every dollar ASAP, directly. They need us. tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCi...

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

tinyurl.com

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · May 12

If you’re passionate about Spark Space (you should be), I’ve set up a Linktree with two ways to give PLUS a printable flyer PLUS a contact form if you want to partner or sponsor PLUS an accountability sheet showing all transactions to the team.

💡 linktr.ee/sparkworkspace

A yellow-gold square graphic. In the center is a circular photo of several people working at remote workstations with laptops and chargers. They’re in a building with lights, outlets, and cupboards. The image has an orange glow behind it. Around the image is the title, Spark Space, Gaza, decorated with illustrated plugs. The text below says, “We aim to create a safe, fully-equipped workspace with reliable electricity and fast internet, offering students and freelancers in Gaza the environment they need to continue their journey despite the hardships.” Below is the link chuffed.org/project/spark-space-gaza.

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · May 12

Save Spark Space from closing 🚨 the short goal is less than 1 day’s operational costs to host 40+ students daily. Our contributions cover only 35%, the rest from the team’s own money which should go towards feeding themselves.

Let’s do better. Be bold. 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…

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · May 11

Please share 👋🏾 Our new giving circle supports a handful of families & a mutual aid project in Gz so they can get sustained support instead of stagnating for weeks.

🚨Give for 7x impact and help these families eat. And agitate in any other way you can. tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCi...

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

tinyurl.com

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · May 10

Please share 👋🏾 Every 2 hours I’m sharing our new giving circle supporting a handful of families in Gz so they can get sustained support.

This is a way to help them survive. This isn’t hopeless. It’s our duty to reject hopelessness.

Give for 7x impact: tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCi...

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

tinyurl.com

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Dr Chris Noone @chris-noone.bsky.social · May 10

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · May 9

Terrific article by Alex Witze (@alexwitze.bsky.social) on the shameful actions by LPI/USRA to remove community-generated DEI content:

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘Orwellian’: planetary scientists outraged over deletion of research records

Researchers say that a NASA-funded institute is over-interpreting Trump’s anti-DEI order.

www.nature.com

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