Tayyaba Jiwani
radkinase.bsky.social
Tayyaba Jiwani
@radkinase.bsky.social
molecular biologist now researching the politics of genomics | editor @jamhoor.org
Reviewed @cannafis.bsky.social's hard-hitting book on the politics of cancer for Science for the People. It lays out how rising cancer rates are closely linked to the neoliberal transformation of society, from cancer science to medicine and industry

magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/online/the-c...
Dismantling the Cancer Industrial Complex • SftP Magazine
In Hasan’s telling, cancer is a disease of capitalism. It is not just that the disease symbolises the growth-addicted, violently expansionist, and self-destructive nature of capitalism. Instead, Metas...
magazine.scienceforthepeople.org
September 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Together with the Mehrgarh Research Institute, we're hosting a Public Writing Workshop for Baloch youth.

Learn to write on politics & literature — and share Balochistan’s stories with the world.

Pitch-Write-Publish

Register Now
Google form link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
August 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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📣 NEW RELEASE📣

Once revolutionary, Bangladesh’s student-led party now courts dubious allies. What does this say about “post-ideological” politics?

An excerpt from Nijjor Manush’s new book Inquilab Zindabad?: www.jamhoor.org/read/militan...
August 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This is an important read: "In the immediate future, the best way for academics to respond is to get organised, both through trade unions and other affinity groups (for instance, federal employees and migrants)."
I wrote a short post for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social reflecting on the parallel crises of US and UK higher ed, and why the politics of academic labour are important: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
blogs.lse.ac.uk
March 22, 2025 at 2:57 AM
a conversation across disciplinary and geographical divides on race and colonialism in/through the #genome.
Many thanks to all the participants!
Out now: our conversation about Genetic Ancestry and the Colonial Legacies of Race. Thanks to Ernesto Schwartz-Marin for facilitating the discussion.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/gen...
Frontiers | Genetic ancestry and the colonial legacies of race in genomics: a cross-disciplinary dialogue
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March 21, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Friends in upstate New York: I'd love to see you at my talk next week at Cornell: events.cornell.edu/event/theory...

Or at Syracuse: www.maxwell.syr.edu/events/2025/...
March 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Great discussion on genetics, biogeography and race in relation to colonalism. I wish it was a podcast too..

What I missed was a consideration of religion as a possibly racialized marker. (see the next post)

www.frontiersin.org/journals/gen...
Frontiers | Genetic ancestry and the colonial legacies of race in genomics: a cross-disciplinary dialogue
www.frontiersin.org
March 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Join us (virtually) for this conversation between @jamhoor.org editors @cannafis.bsky.social and @radkinase.bsky.social, hosted by @haymarketbooks.org.
I'm doing a virtual book talk hosted by @haymarketbooks.org and will be in conversation with fellow @jamhoor.org editor, @scienceforthepeople.org.web.brid.gy member and brilliant scientist/activist @radkinase.bsky.social!!
Thursday, 3/20, 5pm. RSVP here to tune in - tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
March 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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I'm doing a virtual book talk hosted by @haymarketbooks.org and will be in conversation with fellow @jamhoor.org editor, @scienceforthepeople.org.web.brid.gy member and brilliant scientist/activist @radkinase.bsky.social!!
Thursday, 3/20, 5pm. RSVP here to tune in - tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
March 11, 2025 at 12:44 PM