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Rajalakshmi Nadadur, PhD
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Community-Led Solutions Researcher | Itinerant Academic | Global Community and Youth Resilience @structuralinstitute.org
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royalhistsoc.org
The second Starter Pack includes #History societies and associations working internationally beyond the UK and Ireland go.bsky.app/9T5F1Qc.

Please share, and let us know recommendations for both the UK & Ireland and RoW packs so we can further develop these lists. Thank you. #skystorians
March 23, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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royalhistsoc.org
Our third Starter Pack for historians lists institutes and research centres based in the UK and Republic of Ireland go.bsky.app/RbfRrhm

This now includes over 90 centres with BlueSky accounts. We also welcome recommendations for additions to this pack.

#skystorians
March 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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patrickleary.bsky.social
In honor of women’s history month, the biographical database Orlando is open access. Wish I’d found out sooner, but good to know. view.updates.cambridge.org?qs=02674e9ef...
Cambridge University Press
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March 23, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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royalhistsoc.org
Since joining BlueSky we've been building a Starter Pack to highlight the work of fellow historical societies and associations.

We've now reached our 150 limit, so have divided the list into 2 packs: the first covers societies in the UK and Republic of Ireland go.bsky.app/AZaYQDd ...

#skystorians
March 23, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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liasciortino.bsky.social
Navigating a Troubled Funding Landscape for Development in Southeast Asia: Panel Talk

📅 18 March 2025
🕗 5:30- 7:00 pm
📍 SEA Junction, 4th floor, BACC

Please read ➡️https://seajunction.org/event/navigating-a-troubled-funding-landscape-for-development/

#funding #USAID #civilsociety #southeastasia
March 14, 2025 at 1:44 AM
drnadadur.bsky.social
This IS the norm.
March 13, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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pbhellawell.bsky.social
PASSAGE is recruiting for two fixed-term posts to join me working on 18thC records of enslavement
1) Collections Researcher (Transatlantic Slavery) shorturl.at/aZwqn
2) Project Cataloguer (Transatlantic Slavery) shorturl.at/6aSpz
If you have questions, please let me know & please circulate widely!
Collections Researcher (Transatlantic Slavery) at The National Archives
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March 11, 2025 at 11:31 AM
drnadadur.bsky.social
I wish I could repost this more than once.
apihtawikosisan.bsky.social âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · Mar 10
As with so many things - if white ppl had listened to and (this is the crucial part) believed BIPOC experiences of oppression, none of the current state of affairs would be a surprise. More importantly, had white ppl refused to enact or enable that oppression we'd all be safer.
March 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
drnadadur.bsky.social
Can confirm, having gone through the process recently myself. Folks, if you don’t know much about these processes, seriously, get to know and talk to someone who is experiencing it. It’s incredibly frustrating to listen to conversations by folks who have no idea what it entails.
March 10, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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theguardian.com
The Guardian view on Modi redrawing India’s electoral map: deepening a dangerous north-south divide| Editorial
The Guardian view on Modi redrawing India’s electoral map: deepening a dangerous north-south divide| Editorial
Editorial: The Hindu nationalist prime minister’s push could shift power northward to his political advantage but risks escalating political tensions
www.theguardian.com
March 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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physiciandemocracy.medsky.social
Stand Up for Science
Burlington, Vermont
I do my own research. Literally
March 8, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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medievaljay.bsky.social
If we lived in a world that was half just, this would be the official leader of the Democratic Party.
briantylercohen.bsky.social Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · Mar 7
@aoc.bsky.social: "Listen, if your representative is not doing a town hall, give me a ring... I'll say it right here, right now: if a deep red Republican district wants to have an honest conversation, even if it's with someone they disagree with, I'm willing to do that."
March 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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aclu.org
BREAKING: In response to our lawsuit, the National Endowment for the Arts will no longer force grant applicants to certify that they won't promote "gender ideology."

This is a big step toward defeating the NEA's unconstitutional censorship.
March 7, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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thetattooedprof.bsky.social
This is it, right here. They have always hated us, and your compliance only increases their contempt for you.
atrexler.com Andrew Trexler @atrexler.com · Mar 7
A key takeaway from Columbia should be that compliance does not buy safety. Unis are viewing the admin's attack on higher ed as a prisoner's dilemma (best strategy: comply), leading to a collectively worse outcome. The only way out is collective action, & unlike true PD, unis can coordinate action.
March 8, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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robwdavis.bsky.social
Great job alert: ProPublica is hiring a computational journalist, "someone who will use technology and data to identify and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach."

Salary: $120K-$140K
Remote: ✅

Come join us!
Computational Journalist
New York, New York, United States
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March 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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erininthemorning.com
1. Today, powerful speeches from trans representatives in Montana SJ Howell and Zooey Zephyr flipped 29 Republicans, killing anti-trans bills.

While some Dems like Newsom abandon trans people, these reps show the power of representation.

Watch their speech.

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Powerful Speeches From Trans Dems Flip 29 Republicans, Anti-Trans Bills Die In Montana
Transgender Reps Zooey Zephyr and SJ Howell delivered powerful speeches on the Montana House floor on Thursday. Republicans defected en masse to join them in voting against anti-trans bills.
www.erininthemorning.com
March 7, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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adrianaguatame.bsky.social
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
March 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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glittergremlei.bsky.social
You know what I think the worst part of this might be??? That the “fighters” we’re supposed to “choose” from in this headass meme are largely WOC who the party doesn’t ACTUALLY BACK UP in any fights. AOC is in a unique position as resented token for the party’s left AND WOC and that’s it.
March 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
drnadadur.bsky.social
Me, this morning.
March 6, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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prchovanec.bsky.social
An entire US agency was abolished this weekend without congressional authorization.
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · Feb 3
The main office of the US Agency for International Development in Washington was unexpectedly closed Monday and workers were emailed shortly after midnight that they should not come in, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.
USAID workers at Washington HQ told to stay home on Monday in unexpected, early-morning email | CNN Politics
The main office of the US Agency for International Development in Washington was unexpectedly closed Monday and workers were emailed shortly after midnight that they should not come in, according to m...
www.cnn.com
February 3, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
Me: Oh no that trolley is going to run us over!

Guy tied up on the track next to me who somehow thinks he's actually the guy holding the lever: Lol cry more 😂
January 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
drnadadur.bsky.social
Some things never change. For instance, UK universities decimating education, restructuring and running unis like businesses. Same story 10 years ago when I was part of UK academia. Join @ucu.org.uk.
vindi-b.bsky.social Vindhya Buthpitiya @vindi-b.bsky.social · Feb 1
Quarter of leading UK universities cutting staff due to budget shortfalls: Up to 10,000 redundancies or job losses feared as institutes undergo restructuring www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Quarter of leading UK universities cutting staff due to budget shortfalls
Up to 10,000 redundancies or job losses feared as institutes undergo restructuring
www.theguardian.com
February 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM