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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 15h

A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness compiles Francesca Albanese's damning reports on Israel’s conduct in Palestine since October 2023.

The ebook is free to download. We encourage readers to donate to @unrwa.org to support their critical work: www.plutobooks.com/product/a-mo...

Book cover and promotional image for A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness: Reports on Israel’s Genocide in Palestine by Francesca Albanese, edited by Mandy Turner and Lex Takkenberg. The cover features an illustration of two women in red and black dresses holding a white dove against a red background. Text above reads “READ THE REPORTS FOR YOURSELF.” A yellow circle on the right says “FREE EBOOK – Available on plutobooks.com.

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Thy @pronounced-tee.bsky.social · 1d

I remember watching a short YT clip on this story - www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZbl...! It's a pretty wild ride, I really feel for the families affected.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

Harvard ruled as legally liable for theft of body parts from morgue

Families can now sue the university for mishandling human remains donated for research and teaching purposes.

www.aljazeera.com

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INQYR @inqyr.bsky.social · 3d

Are you a researcher working on LGBTQ+ research and experienced recent changes to your funding?

Colleagues at the Population Council are doing a study to better understand the experiences of LGBTQ+ researchers whose funding was paused or cut earlier this year.

Fill in the survey by October 15th 🌈🎓

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Thy @pronounced-tee.bsky.social · 2d

An important and timely article, as it concludes: "Good medicine is guided by the values of the patient, not those of a clinician, politician or commentator. A patient's goal of achieving optimal quality of life as a trans person requires respect."

www.mja.com.au/journal/2025...

Cass Review does not guide care for trans young people

Good medicine is guided by the values of the patient, not those of a clinician, politician or commentator. The Cass Review, lacking expertise and compromised by implicit stigma and misinformation, doe...

www.mja.com.au

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Thy @pronounced-tee.bsky.social · 2d

I always end up voting for the Australian Magpie, and then feeling guilty that I didn't use my democratic voting responsibilities to vote for an endangered species. But vote for the magpie! Our swoopy friend/foe depending on your swoop status.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Australian bird of the year 2025: vote for your favourite #birdoftheyear in the Guardian / BirdLife Australia poll

From little penguins to (very big) cassowaries, every bird has its fans. Vote for your favourite in the 2025 Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll

www.theguardian.com

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 4d

Glasgow Gender Clinic now has a waiting time of 224 years. The average across the UK is now 25 years.

This segregated system isn’t working and is wasting millions. The NHS has been told time and again - informed consent now.

UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 4d

This amazing article from @vic-parsons.bsky.social via @wearequeeraf.com shows the absolute criminal state of trans healthcare in the UK.

Scotland has a 224 year wait for a first appointment. Yes, you read that right.

www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...

Latest waiting times for gender identity clinics in the UK

Revealed waiting times of all GICs in UK: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get an appointment, and some will never receive care

www.wearequeeraf.com

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 6d

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

www.mediaite.com

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 7d

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.

Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:

“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 7d

Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza.

Israel seems to be intercepting right now.

All eyes needed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla

www.youtube.com

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 7d

We should all lead a life as interesting and useful

www.npr.org/2025/10/01/4...

Jane Goodall, legendary primatologist, has died at age 91

Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.

www.npr.org

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Mark Hazelwood @palliativescot.bsky.social · 9d

@drkathrynmannix.bsky.social Edinburgh is famously accessible from the NE of England, & we are always delighted to welcome palliative care people across the border to our conferences. We have a great line up this year, closer & cheaper than London. www.palliativecarescotland.org.uk/content/annu...

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Ian S. Pumpkins @icpetrie.bsky.social · 19d

JOB: Associate or Full, Chair in Transgender Studies, University of Victoria

Appointment in either Sociology or a Humanities department
universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...

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NTEU ACT @nteuact.bsky.social · 20d

The collective work of @nteunion.bsky.social members has saved jobs at the #ANU.
✊✊✊When we fight, we win! ✊ ✊✊
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Breaking: ANU walks back plans for forced redundancies

The Australian National University abandons its plans for forced redundancies as part of its efforts to cut costs.

www.abc.net.au

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Thy @pronounced-tee.bsky.social · 19d

On Monday 22 Sept, I will be on a panel organised by The ANU Disabilities Student Association in collaboration with the ANU Indigenous Department, International Students Department (ISD) and BIPOC Department about Racism in Healthcare.

Come along if you can!

events.humanitix.com/racism-in-he...

Racism in Healthcare Panel

Panel event on Racism in Healthcare! Come along to hear from academics, health professionals and people with lived experiences of racism in healthcare.

events.humanitix.com

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Our ANU @ouranu.bsky.social · Sep 7

“We hope that the unprecedented media, political and public attention to the many cruelties, failures, illogicalities and injustices of “Renew ANU” can serve as an impetus for much-needed sector-wide change.”

CASS People’s Townhall Organisers

www.woroni.com.au/news/the-peo...

WoroniThe People’s Town Hall: staff and students speak back to the ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences change proposal - Woroni

The authors would like to acknowledge that the Australian National University is located on stolen Aboriginal land, the land of the Ngunnawal and the Ngambri people. We acknowledge their elders past a...

www.woroni.com.au

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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · Aug 25

Exciting new post-doc fellow post just announced at University of Edinburgh - working alongside The Love Tank on the new Medicine Without Doctors collaboration.

Closing date 02 Oct 2025.

elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Postdoctoral Fellow LGBTQ

The Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society at the Usher Institute within The University of Edinburgh is looking for a 5-year postdoctoral Fellow to work on the Wellcome funded Discovery Award Medici...

elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com

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Barrie Shannon @barrieshannon.com · Aug 21

The Australian Queer Archives are offering a brand new Research Fellowship - up to $5000 to assist with the expenses of a trip to AQuA to conduct a project on Australian queer history. Applications are due September 1. 🌈🎓

Details are here: queerarchives.org.au/posts/latest...

AQuA Research Fellowship - AQuA

queerarchives.org.au

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Thy @pronounced-tee.bsky.social · Aug 26

I just signed @nteunion.bsky.social's Petition to ANU Council. Open to all to sign, so please do & then share!

www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/pe...

Petition to ANU Council

In support of our petition, we observe that:  • ANU Council has the entire control and management of the University and is required to act in all matters concerning the ANU in the way it thinks w...

www.megaphone.org.au

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Dr Liz Allen @drdemography.com · Aug 26

@nteuact.bsky.social has today launched a petition to ANU Council

🛑 stop all forced redundancies
🛑 stop all Renew ANU change
❌ remove Chancellor Bishop
❌ remove Vice Chancellor Bell

OPEN TO EVERYONE - please sign and share! www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/pe...

Petition ANU Council to remove Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor, stop Renew ANU

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Thy @pronounced-tee.bsky.social · Aug 19

I won't be able to attend but will bump in my circles!

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Rosanna Stevens @wordress.bsky.social · Aug 19

Hey #ANU folks - the Fenner Circle are hosting a panel to organise protecting the Environment Studio at the School of Art and Design - tomorrow (Wed 20 August). Free food, excellent yarns. Please share and go along!!! #Canberra #NgunawalCountry #SaveANU

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · Aug 19

Come and work with us!

Do you believe that research matters? Do you want to use your research skills to drive important public policy debates in Australia?

Apply for our Postdoctoral Research Fellowship!

Applications close Sunday 24 August 2025

Apply here 👉 australiainstitute.org.au/about/jobs/

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Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · Aug 17

Well there you go. Bendigo Writers Festival has been absolutely played, forced to do the dirty work of lobbyists by their sponsor. When these threats come knocking, academic institutions should be doing everything to protect and defend this country’s cultural events, not become Israel’s enforcer.

Pro-Israel group lobbied La Trobe and Bendigo Writers Festival over Palestinian academic's institution

A leaked letter reveals pressure from a pro-Israel group in the lead up to the Festival

www.deepcutnews.com

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Thy @pronounced-tee.bsky.social · Aug 15

Still waiting for them to announce that they're coming to Australia 😭 commiserations from down under

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silas denver 🛸 @sweatermuppet.bsky.social · Aug 14

new stickers + restock!!!

a black and white sticker that reads "my body will change. i will change my body." there is a hand holding a pair of scissors to the left of the text.

a black and white sticker that reads "there is no reproductive freedom without queer liberation."

a black and white sticker that reads "every trans child deserves safety, dignity, and transition." above the text is a hand holding a plant.

a very small black and white sticker that reads "aren't you glad to be a pansy?"

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Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · Aug 14

NEW: More than half a dozen prominent authors have pulled out of the Bendigo Writers Festival after being told to sign a code of conduct that would inhibit criticism of Israel.

www.deepcutnews.com/p/authors-wi...

Authors withdraw from Bendigo Writers Festival over anti-Palestinian 'censorship'

Festival organisers sought compliance with controversial definition of antisemitism that includes criticism of Israel

www.deepcutnews.com

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