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Katie Alcock

@wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social

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Developmental psychologist, gender critical, lefty, the Bay area (the rainy one in England). Views my own and those of the Supreme Court, not my employer.

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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · Jan 31

A few recent papers I'm very proud of:
www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/pu...

Do school and equality education characteristics influence young children’s understanding of sex/gender constancy? - Research Portal | Lancaster University

Find out more about Lancaster University's research activities, view details of publications, outputs and awards and make contact with our researchers.

www.research.lancs.ac.uk

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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 1d

AI doesn't understand childhood or embodiment having never been a child or had a body.

Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 1d

I should try it on Swahili. Newspapers are online and there's a lot of chat on social media (usually hilariously spelled/very colloquial) but not much more than that.

Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 1d

That's superb!

Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 1d

First UG research student meeting of term, some very proactive and some who on the face of it didn't seem that enthusiastic to even come but who have ideas so that's good.
One who didn't understand the difference between correlation and causation though.

a baby is sitting on a couch with his eyes closed and making a face .

ALT: a baby is sitting on a couch with his eyes closed and making a face .

media.tenor.com

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Migration Museum @migrationmuseum.org · 2d

Join us on 13 Oct at Barts North Wing, London to hear from expert speakers about the Windrush generation’s significant contributions to the NHS. #BlackHistoryMonth

This event is held in partnership with Barts Health NHS Trust Archives, Barts Heritage, & Culture Mile BID.

Book here: bit.ly/48fzzQQ

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 4d

Read the letters of the writer and musician Ignatius Sancho (c.1729–1780), the first known Black Briton to vote in a British election, and the first person of African descent known to be given an obituary in the British press: publicdomainreview.org/collection/l... #BlackHistoryMonth

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

US photographer Dorothea Lange documented female shipyard workers- Kaiser shipyard, California, WW2, 1943 #womensart

#BlackHistoryMonth

Monochrome photograph of a young Black women worker, in overalls and with a welder's visor lifted up on her head, sitting in sunlight against a wall

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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 1d

Great thread!

Dr Pete Olusoga @dr-peter-olusoga.bsky.social · 7d

Once again, for #blackhistorymonth I'll be highlighting some of the all time greats from the world of sport and performance in a month-long thread.

Trailblazers, record breakers, game-changers. One every day.

Settle in....

Let's start with...

Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 1d

"More of a comment than a question"

Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 1d

There are Muslims who are Arabic speaking and live in Israel as Israeli citizens.
I posted the other day about the research group I collaborate with: Jews and Muslims, Hebrew and Arabic speaking, all Israeli.

Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 1d

I'm highly aware there are people in Israel who don't think Palestine should exist and vice versa. But it's not Palestine that has both Jews and Muslims able to live peacefully.

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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 1d

My agenda? For people not to pretend that Hamas is a victim, doesn't lie about everything, and isn't a danger to its people. For people to admit they are murderers and stop portraying them as victims.
For people to agree that both Palestine and Israel can exist.

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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 1d

Israel should exist but with different government. Palestine should exist without a mass will to destroy Israel.

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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 1d

The correct phrase is "The Nazis should be removed from power'. Germany is a country. Your example is perfect actually to show you don't understand the point. East Germany was under a police state due to the destruction of Germany.

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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 2d

Was it individually or as a group?

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 2d

Unimprovable headline.

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 2d

Peruvian bishop accused of having 17 lovers exposed by cleaning lady

www.thetimes.com

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 2d

The Chip Shop, painting by Eric Satchwell, 1926-2012 (Salford Museum) #NorthernArt

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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 2d

You can't pretend that nobody on any march has said anything anti Semitic just like you can't pretend nobody with a British flag has said anything islamophobic.

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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 2d

So why are Palestine Action now a proscribed group?
There are plenty of other examples of people attacking synagogues. Are we now going with "attacks on Muslims are terrorism but attacks on synagogues are lunatics"?

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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 2d

Have you been watching the news or are you being deliberately obtuse?

Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 2d

I wasn't an academic then, but I collaborate with academics who were in academic positions (or were PhD students) at that time and if I was asked to work with a South African medical colleague on HIV at that time I would have said yes.
Buying from S. African companies, no.

Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 2d

it was too complicated. And yet students at my Uni are calling for the university to drop all research links with Israeli universities. Quite rightly the management have said no, we believe in academic freedom.

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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 2d

I work with a multi-cultural group at Tel Aviv university and one of the postgrads, who works on Arabic children's language acquisition, was treated hatefully at a US language development conference. My Hebrew speaking colleague didn't go because the last time she travelled to a conference

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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 2d

Is Israel a country set up for Jewish people? YES.
And many UK Jews are dual nationals. So that's not even accurate anyway. Some are even moving there because they feel safer.
Are Israeli Muslims getting shouted at when they go to US conferences for merely being Israeli? Also YES.

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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 2d

Either it's ok to use a chant that's literally about removing Israel from the map or it isn't.
Either British Jews have been attacked or they haven't.

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