Dr Ruby (she/her)
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Mango eating, sunshine loving, data research and question asker. Immigrant.
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Today’s post isn’t just history. It’s a correction.
#StockholmSyndrome was never about “falling in love” with captors. It was about how #Sweden, its police, its politicians, even Olof Palme betrayed its own survivors to protect itself.
Survival was pathologized to cover up state failure.
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#StockholmSyndrome was never about “falling in love” with captors. It was about how #Sweden, its police, its politicians, even Olof Palme betrayed its own survivors to protect itself.
Survival was pathologized to cover up state failure.
1/2 🧵
April 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Today’s post isn’t just history. It’s a correction.
#StockholmSyndrome was never about “falling in love” with captors. It was about how #Sweden, its police, its politicians, even Olof Palme betrayed its own survivors to protect itself.
Survival was pathologized to cover up state failure.
1/2 🧵
#StockholmSyndrome was never about “falling in love” with captors. It was about how #Sweden, its police, its politicians, even Olof Palme betrayed its own survivors to protect itself.
Survival was pathologized to cover up state failure.
1/2 🧵
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Just had a doorstep chat with the local Labour team and told them Keir had lost my support before the general election because of the party’s stance on various equalities legislation. And that I couldn’t renew a vote for local Labour given the ongoing attack on trans rights.
April 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Just had a doorstep chat with the local Labour team and told them Keir had lost my support before the general election because of the party’s stance on various equalities legislation. And that I couldn’t renew a vote for local Labour given the ongoing attack on trans rights.
Have a listen, you will learn!
Many people are practicing patriarchy in a dress & calling it matriarchy.
After my last post, it became clear: #matriarchy is still being misread. What’s often being performed is #gynarchy a system where women occupy patriarchal roles, reproduce hierarchical power & call it liberation.
Video & 🎙️
After my last post, it became clear: #matriarchy is still being misread. What’s often being performed is #gynarchy a system where women occupy patriarchal roles, reproduce hierarchical power & call it liberation.
Video & 🎙️
Are You Practicing Feminism or Just Gynarchy? | Matriarchy vs Patriarchy Explained
Listen now | Are you practicing feminism—or just patriarchy in reverse?Lovette Jallow breaks down why gynarchy mimics domination, while matriarchy redefines power through responsibility, memory, and c...
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April 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Have a listen, you will learn!
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Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School!
Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101.
Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up!
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Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101.
Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up!
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Columbia Canceled My Course on Race and Media. I'm Going to Teach It Anyway.
This is not a time for media literacy or historical knowledge to be held hostage by institutions bending the knee to authoritarianism.
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April 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School!
Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101.
Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101.
Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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The Battle for Higher Ed 👉🏾 “Becoming Unloved & Dangerous: Black University Life in the Age of Palestine Protest” w/ Dr. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, April 23 @ 6pm EDT. Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
April 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The Battle for Higher Ed 👉🏾 “Becoming Unloved & Dangerous: Black University Life in the Age of Palestine Protest” w/ Dr. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, April 23 @ 6pm EDT. Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
This, especially the last point.
trans women are women
trans men are men
nonbinary people are nonbinary
and keir starmer is an absolute fuck
trans men are men
nonbinary people are nonbinary
and keir starmer is an absolute fuck
April 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
This, especially the last point.
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Read preprints. Cite preprints. Email people and tell them you loved their preprint. Email people you hated their preprint. Embrace preprints, preprints are good.
April 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Read preprints. Cite preprints. Email people and tell them you loved their preprint. Email people you hated their preprint. Embrace preprints, preprints are good.
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Coming soon... January 2026
March 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Coming soon... January 2026
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🙃 Lobbying led UK universities to adopt US-style security during Gaza protests, emails reveal: UK students faced excessive disciplinary measures as a result of heavy-handed strategy, reports claim www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Lobbying led UK universities to adopt US-style security during Gaza protests, emails reveal
UK students faced excessive disciplinary measures as a result of heavy-handed strategy, reports claim
www.theguardian.com
February 22, 2025 at 9:06 AM
🙃 Lobbying led UK universities to adopt US-style security during Gaza protests, emails reveal: UK students faced excessive disciplinary measures as a result of heavy-handed strategy, reports claim www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Crushing account of what's happening in UK #HE. The most awful part is that nothing in this unbelievable account is unbelievable, reminding us about what has been normalised right across and beyond the UK
Read this: it really captures the reality of mass redundancies in the university sector, which will only snowball from here.
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Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University -
Reading Time: 4 minutesBy an anonymous academic. Cover image by Adwitiya Pal On the second day of classes…
voice.cymru
February 22, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Crushing account of what's happening in UK #HE. The most awful part is that nothing in this unbelievable account is unbelievable, reminding us about what has been normalised right across and beyond the UK
Something people in UK need to wake up to is how racism affects whether or not you get a job, whether you will be promoted and how long you will stay promoted.
Fraser Nelson blocked me on Twitter because he wrote an article about how the UK is the best place to be Black so I sent him a picture of the all white Spectator staff in LONDON and asked if this was you he said “I hire on ability” LOOOOOL
February 22, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Something people in UK need to wake up to is how racism affects whether or not you get a job, whether you will be promoted and how long you will stay promoted.
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Fraser Nelson blocked me on Twitter because he wrote an article about how the UK is the best place to be Black so I sent him a picture of the all white Spectator staff in LONDON and asked if this was you he said “I hire on ability” LOOOOOL
February 22, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Fraser Nelson blocked me on Twitter because he wrote an article about how the UK is the best place to be Black so I sent him a picture of the all white Spectator staff in LONDON and asked if this was you he said “I hire on ability” LOOOOOL
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Join the CLD for this important conversation
5 days to go 👀
Centre for Leadership & Diversity presents it's symposium on February 26, 2025@6:30 pm, with a host of esteemed panelists & moderated by CLD's Director @drannlopez.bsky.social @oiseuoft.bsky.social @lhaecomms.bsky.social 👏
Link to register ⬇️
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Centre for Leadership & Diversity presents it's symposium on February 26, 2025@6:30 pm, with a host of esteemed panelists & moderated by CLD's Director @drannlopez.bsky.social @oiseuoft.bsky.social @lhaecomms.bsky.social 👏
Link to register ⬇️
oise-utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
February 22, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Join the CLD for this important conversation
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My latest column for @newscientist.com is about how categories are made by humans, whether we are talking about how to organize stellar types or human sex identity.
With special mention to @benneholwerda.bsky.social and one of his students OBAFGKM :-) 🧪🔭
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
With special mention to @benneholwerda.bsky.social and one of his students OBAFGKM :-) 🧪🔭
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
How does astronomy fit into astrophysics – and does it matter?
We need to think more carefully about how we categorise the universe, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
www.newscientist.com
February 21, 2025 at 12:54 PM
My latest column for @newscientist.com is about how categories are made by humans, whether we are talking about how to organize stellar types or human sex identity.
With special mention to @benneholwerda.bsky.social and one of his students OBAFGKM :-) 🧪🔭
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
With special mention to @benneholwerda.bsky.social and one of his students OBAFGKM :-) 🧪🔭
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
So in the UK would psychology be considered a STEM subject? Anyone know?
February 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
So in the UK would psychology be considered a STEM subject? Anyone know?
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Our #MINDS post-bacc program is accepting applications til March 1st! ✨
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February 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Our #MINDS post-bacc program is accepting applications til March 1st! ✨
✅ two-years full-time PAID research
✅ $41,000 annual salary +benefits
✅ personalized grad school prep & cohort of peers
✅ $1,500 to relocate + $1,500 in prof dev funds
✅ dedicated mentors
+ more!
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✅ two-years full-time PAID research
✅ $41,000 annual salary +benefits
✅ personalized grad school prep & cohort of peers
✅ $1,500 to relocate + $1,500 in prof dev funds
✅ dedicated mentors
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I have given up here...
January 28, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I have given up here...
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Returning to their homes—to their land.
January 27, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Returning to their homes—to their land.
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✨ soft life ✨
The radical choice to embrace calm over chaos, rest over resistance, and serenity over stress.
Slow down. Breathe deeply. Move with intention.
The radical choice to embrace calm over chaos, rest over resistance, and serenity over stress.
Slow down. Breathe deeply. Move with intention.
January 22, 2025 at 1:29 PM
✨ soft life ✨
The radical choice to embrace calm over chaos, rest over resistance, and serenity over stress.
Slow down. Breathe deeply. Move with intention.
The radical choice to embrace calm over chaos, rest over resistance, and serenity over stress.
Slow down. Breathe deeply. Move with intention.
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If you are or know of any UK Black women profs promoted in Sept 24 to date, please let me know. This is for our Black women professors list!
January 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
If you are or know of any UK Black women profs promoted in Sept 24 to date, please let me know. This is for our Black women professors list!
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Fanta was created so coke could sell soda in nazi Germany around a trade embargo. IBM sold the machines that were used to track and tabulate holocaust victims. Henry Ford inspired Hitler. Big business has always collaborated with fascism. Today's businesses are bastards who are no different.
January 11, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Fanta was created so coke could sell soda in nazi Germany around a trade embargo. IBM sold the machines that were used to track and tabulate holocaust victims. Henry Ford inspired Hitler. Big business has always collaborated with fascism. Today's businesses are bastards who are no different.
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A peer-reviewed study published in The Lancet estimates more than 64,000 deaths in Gaza due to traumatic injury between Oct. 7, 2023 and June 30, 2024 — a figure 41% higher than the Gaza Health Ministry’s official count. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Gaza war toll likely significantly undercounts deaths, says study
An official Palestinian tally of direct deaths in the Israel-Hamas war likely undercounted the number of casualties by 41% through the middle of 2024 as the Gaza Strip's healthcare infrastructure unravelled, according to the study.
www.reuters.com
January 10, 2025 at 3:50 AM
A peer-reviewed study published in The Lancet estimates more than 64,000 deaths in Gaza due to traumatic injury between Oct. 7, 2023 and June 30, 2024 — a figure 41% higher than the Gaza Health Ministry’s official count. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Luxembourg can afford a pension more than 5x the UK, even Spain is nearly 3x.
The problem is greed.
Luxembourg £5202
Spain £2709
Belgium £2698
Liechtenstein £2148
Switzerland £2148
Iceland £1894
Denmark £1651
France £1564
Cyprus £1507
Bulgaria £1486
UK £958
The problem is greed.
Luxembourg £5202
Spain £2709
Belgium £2698
Liechtenstein £2148
Switzerland £2148
Iceland £1894
Denmark £1651
France £1564
Cyprus £1507
Bulgaria £1486
UK £958
January 7, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Luxembourg can afford a pension more than 5x the UK, even Spain is nearly 3x.
The problem is greed.
Luxembourg £5202
Spain £2709
Belgium £2698
Liechtenstein £2148
Switzerland £2148
Iceland £1894
Denmark £1651
France £1564
Cyprus £1507
Bulgaria £1486
UK £958
The problem is greed.
Luxembourg £5202
Spain £2709
Belgium £2698
Liechtenstein £2148
Switzerland £2148
Iceland £1894
Denmark £1651
France £1564
Cyprus £1507
Bulgaria £1486
UK £958
A 26 year old nurse has been breaking the bones of premature Black babies.
www.msn.com/en-us/health...
www.msn.com/en-us/health...
MSN
www.msn.com
January 6, 2025 at 12:44 AM
A 26 year old nurse has been breaking the bones of premature Black babies.
www.msn.com/en-us/health...
www.msn.com/en-us/health...