Kanchana N Ruwanpura
@knr21-cam.bsky.social
Feminist. Professor. Sri Lanka. Scotland. Sweden.
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As it's Christmas... a welcome friend awaits on the postbox at Boot, Eskdale in Cumbria. #PostboxSaturday
December 21, 2024 at 8:24 AM
As it's Christmas... a welcome friend awaits on the postbox at Boot, Eskdale in Cumbria. #PostboxSaturday
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A Happy Winter Solstice to you all. Time to celebrate It’s the shortest day of the year and from tomorrow the days get longer, enjoy your extra minute of daylight
a happy winter solstice greeting card with a tree
ALT: a happy winter solstice greeting card with a tree
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December 21, 2024 at 8:55 AM
A Happy Winter Solstice to you all. Time to celebrate It’s the shortest day of the year and from tomorrow the days get longer, enjoy your extra minute of daylight
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I felt this…besides…it’s Saturday…
December 21, 2024 at 8:16 PM
I felt this…besides…it’s Saturday…
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!!!! you encounter this creature. what do you do
December 21, 2024 at 8:31 PM
!!!! you encounter this creature. what do you do
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Good morning-let’s hope for more days like this ….taken on the banks of Loch Lomond
December 21, 2024 at 6:02 AM
Good morning-let’s hope for more days like this ….taken on the banks of Loch Lomond
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THIS makes me think
December 21, 2024 at 7:18 PM
THIS makes me think
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Check out this starter pack on people and journals that have dealth with financialization, assetization and the colonization of the lifeworld by finance at large in their work. Leave me a note if you want to join.
go.bsky.app/BAvY9c9
go.bsky.app/BAvY9c9
November 16, 2024 at 4:05 PM
Check out this starter pack on people and journals that have dealth with financialization, assetization and the colonization of the lifeworld by finance at large in their work. Leave me a note if you want to join.
go.bsky.app/BAvY9c9
go.bsky.app/BAvY9c9
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The latest publication from the group, led by talented early career researchers Carmen Petitjean and Xin Yang @xinyang6699.bsky.social on the performance of BOADICEA/CanRisk for breast cancer risk prediction in UKBiobank out now in JNCI.
Paper: doi.org/10.1093/jnci...
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Paper: doi.org/10.1093/jnci...
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Latest study on evaluating the multifactorial BOADICEA model, implemented in CanRisk (www.canrisk.org), for predicting 10-year breast cancer risks in the prospective #UKBiobank cohort, from our @antonis02.bsky.social group, published in JNCI
doi.org/10.1093/jnci...
@crukcamcentre.bsky.social
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@crukcamcentre.bsky.social
Evaluating the performance of the BOADICEA model in predicting 10-year breast cancer risks in UK Biobank
AbstractBackground. The BOADICEA model predicts breast cancer risk using cancer family history, epidemiological and genetic data. We evaluated its validity
doi.org
December 16, 2024 at 8:07 PM
The latest publication from the group, led by talented early career researchers Carmen Petitjean and Xin Yang @xinyang6699.bsky.social on the performance of BOADICEA/CanRisk for breast cancer risk prediction in UKBiobank out now in JNCI.
Paper: doi.org/10.1093/jnci...
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Paper: doi.org/10.1093/jnci...
🧵👇
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My recent work on Economics of the #CommonGood offers a reframing of economics to focus as much on the ‘how’ as the ‘what’.
I recently organised an event at the Vatican to discuss this approach with PM Mia Mottley & @pontifexeng.bsky.social
Watch the full film here: youtu.be/Ev3SOKNNtF
I recently organised an event at the Vatican to discuss this approach with PM Mia Mottley & @pontifexeng.bsky.social
Watch the full film here: youtu.be/Ev3SOKNNtF
December 16, 2024 at 7:13 PM
My recent work on Economics of the #CommonGood offers a reframing of economics to focus as much on the ‘how’ as the ‘what’.
I recently organised an event at the Vatican to discuss this approach with PM Mia Mottley & @pontifexeng.bsky.social
Watch the full film here: youtu.be/Ev3SOKNNtF
I recently organised an event at the Vatican to discuss this approach with PM Mia Mottley & @pontifexeng.bsky.social
Watch the full film here: youtu.be/Ev3SOKNNtF
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Congratulations Oxfam GB for the new discussion paper on regional feminist perspectives on moving beyond GDP, with inputs from Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. So important to have these perspectives from the Global South!
#degrowth
#postgrowth
#GlobalSouth
#degrowth
#postgrowth
#GlobalSouth
Beyond GDP: A compendium of regional feminist perspectives - Oxfam Policy & Practice
In this publication, leading feminist thinkers from Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, share perspectives on why we must move beyond gross domestic ...
policy-practice.oxfam.org
December 16, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Congratulations Oxfam GB for the new discussion paper on regional feminist perspectives on moving beyond GDP, with inputs from Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. So important to have these perspectives from the Global South!
#degrowth
#postgrowth
#GlobalSouth
#degrowth
#postgrowth
#GlobalSouth
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A few days to go for PhD students and postdocs interested in the geography of economic ideas to apply for workshop travel stipends. This invitational workshop will be hosted at UBC, June 2025. Funded by EPA: Economy & Space
blogs.ubc.ca/peck/researc...
blogs.ubc.ca/peck/researc...
Ideational geographies workshop
blogs.ubc.ca
December 16, 2024 at 10:11 PM
A few days to go for PhD students and postdocs interested in the geography of economic ideas to apply for workshop travel stipends. This invitational workshop will be hosted at UBC, June 2025. Funded by EPA: Economy & Space
blogs.ubc.ca/peck/researc...
blogs.ubc.ca/peck/researc...
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I'm reading it. I'm teaching it. Let's read it together
December 14, 2024 at 4:40 AM
I'm reading it. I'm teaching it. Let's read it together
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I didn’t think it was possible to be more disappointed in Labour than I already was but here we are.
Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators.
More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live):
1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇
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More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live):
1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇
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December 17, 2024 at 10:52 PM
I didn’t think it was possible to be more disappointed in Labour than I already was but here we are.
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"Go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow...You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something."
~Kurt Vonnegut
~Kurt Vonnegut
December 18, 2024 at 7:56 AM
"Go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow...You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something."
~Kurt Vonnegut
~Kurt Vonnegut
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when your plan is to get BlackRock to rebuild Britain, even the FT is to your left.
December 19, 2024 at 1:49 PM
when your plan is to get BlackRock to rebuild Britain, even the FT is to your left.
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In awe of Gisèle Pelicot.
Thinking of her and all survivors today.
Thinking of her and all survivors today.
December 19, 2024 at 11:59 AM
In awe of Gisèle Pelicot.
Thinking of her and all survivors today.
Thinking of her and all survivors today.
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Learning Disobedience in African Studies...Excellent talk by Keynote by Patricia Daley. You may also wanna check out the rich archive of the Cluster "AfricaMultiple" on youtube (www.youtube.com/@africamulti...). #geosky #geo #geography #socialtheory #afripolsky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=36mR...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=36mR...
Annual Cluster Conference "Spatialities": Keynote - Patricia Daley
YouTube video by Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence
www.youtube.com
December 19, 2024 at 4:13 PM
Learning Disobedience in African Studies...Excellent talk by Keynote by Patricia Daley. You may also wanna check out the rich archive of the Cluster "AfricaMultiple" on youtube (www.youtube.com/@africamulti...). #geosky #geo #geography #socialtheory #afripolsky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=36mR...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=36mR...
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
—Sylvia Plath—
—Sylvia Plath—
December 19, 2024 at 5:20 PM
I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
—Sylvia Plath—
—Sylvia Plath—
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She looked us all in the face.
Gisèle Pelicot has allowed us all to shout out loud: she did it, and we can do it. Gisèle Pelicot is us | Judith Godrèche
The denial of Gisèle’s humanity by her rapists is the denial of violence done to every woman. At her side, we can now look the world in the eye, says actor Judith Godrèche
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2024 at 2:46 AM
She looked us all in the face.
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I stand with the thousands of Teamsters workers across the country who are striking over Amazon's refusal to bargain.
Amazon had $15B in profits last quarter. Don't tell me they can't afford to bargain a fair contract.
Amazon had $15B in profits last quarter. Don't tell me they can't afford to bargain a fair contract.
Teamsters Union Launches 'Largest Strike Against Amazon in US History' | Common Dreams
The Teamsters launched "the largest strike against Amazon in U.S. history" on Thursday morning to protest the e-commerce giant's unlawful refusal to bargain with organized drivers and warehouse…
www.commondreams.org
December 20, 2024 at 12:01 AM
I stand with the thousands of Teamsters workers across the country who are striking over Amazon's refusal to bargain.
Amazon had $15B in profits last quarter. Don't tell me they can't afford to bargain a fair contract.
Amazon had $15B in profits last quarter. Don't tell me they can't afford to bargain a fair contract.
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Elon Musk is a clown, a descendant of racist white people that colonized South Africa. If you drive his cars, buy his garbage, you are part of the problem. All of us need to mock his dumbass early and often.
The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a *child cancer research center* with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.
December 19, 2024 at 11:20 PM
Elon Musk is a clown, a descendant of racist white people that colonized South Africa. If you drive his cars, buy his garbage, you are part of the problem. All of us need to mock his dumbass early and often.
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And so it continues. Musk could bankroll the entire European far-right to power and not see a dent in his fortunes. We have birthed a monster.
US billionaire Elon Musk, set to join President-elect Donald Trump's administration, waded into Germany's election campaign, calling the far-right Alternative for Germany the country's savior reut.rs/3P9k5TD
Elon Musk gives nod to German far-right party as election looms
U.S. billionaire Elon Musk, set to join President-elect Donald Trump's administration as an outside adviser, waded into Germany's election campaign on Friday, calling the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) the country's saviour.
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December 20, 2024 at 12:53 PM
And so it continues. Musk could bankroll the entire European far-right to power and not see a dent in his fortunes. We have birthed a monster.
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Join us!
📌 Join us on January 7th at @soasuni.bsky.social for a talk by Professor Sari Hanafi, chaired by Gilbert Achcar.
📍SOAS, Khalili Lecture Theatre & Zoom
📅 January 7th at 5pm GMT
Info and registration➡️: shorturl.at/BVKaa
@naomihossain.bsky.social @laurahammond.bsky.social @carlosoya.bsky.social
📍SOAS, Khalili Lecture Theatre & Zoom
📅 January 7th at 5pm GMT
Info and registration➡️: shorturl.at/BVKaa
@naomihossain.bsky.social @laurahammond.bsky.social @carlosoya.bsky.social
December 21, 2024 at 11:48 AM
Join us!
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I swear...this talk was given BEFORE the Musk takeover of DOGE/valley takeover of the White House.
December 21, 2024 at 4:06 PM
I swear...this talk was given BEFORE the Musk takeover of DOGE/valley takeover of the White House.
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Had the chance to teach the Banker Ladies film earlier this semester. Students loved thinking about mutualist and grassroots forms of community finance. Thrilled there is now this wonderful book! Congrats @carolinehossein.bsky.social #solidarityeconomy #communityfinance
Caroline Shenaz H. on LinkedIn: #solidarity #feminist #utpress
My new book 2024 The Banker Ladies is on the #Solidarity Economy and its out.
Historian and Prof Afua Cooper, PhD wrote the Foreword - so grounded and…
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December 19, 2024 at 11:26 PM
Had the chance to teach the Banker Ladies film earlier this semester. Students loved thinking about mutualist and grassroots forms of community finance. Thrilled there is now this wonderful book! Congrats @carolinehossein.bsky.social #solidarityeconomy #communityfinance