Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

There is no better time than this Black History Month to join members of our Education Team to learn more about the legacy of Black Excellence in Canada.

Join Nadiya Ali and Fosia Duale Virtue

For a webinar this Thursday

On the breath and importance of Black Muslim achievement throughout Canadian history.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/legacy-and-excellence-of-black-muslims-tickets-531807018107

| #BlackMuslimHistory #BlackMuslimExcellence #BlackMuslims #BlackMuslimahs #Canada #BlackHistoryMonth #CanadianHistory #Muslims #CanadianMuslims #NCCM

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Elon Musk hasn't ruined anyone. They've all ruined themselves by cavorting with him, a white supremacist, and by following all of his white supremacist rules.

Planetary scientists are puzzled by the presence of a ring around a distant #KuiperBelt object. Scientists reported this week the discovery of the ring around #Quaoar, an object a little less than half the diameter of #Pluto orbiting beyond #Neptune. The ring appears to be uneven, varying in width from a few kilometers to a few hundred kilometers.

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Anyway, now that a ton of journalists are flocking back to Mastodon... you should read my article about how all your articles about Mastodon "slumping" were bullshit. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/08/lazy-reporters-claiming-fediverse-is-slumping-despite-massive-increase-in-usage/

OLD THREAD REPOST: A brief history of the practice of "sex verification" in sport.

This thread will mention anti-intersex discrimination, FGM practices and body shaming.

The story of sex verification in sport begins with the original Olympic games in Ancient Greece. Let us take you back to around 400BC, and a woman named Kallipateira...

Having been assembled by many people over nearly 40 years, the #GNU Project is working to create a freedom-respecting operating system for everyone: https://www.gnu.org/gnu/about-gnu.html

Today is the feast day of Gennadius and Nicephorus, monks of Vazheozersk, Vologda https://cromwell-intl.com/russian/grammar.html?s=mb #travel #history

Just being falsely arrested will likely cause you to lose your job, and can prevent you from applying for a new one.

The mother of your child will likely need to apply for public assistance while you are locked up. The state will give her financial assistance... and then bill you.😮

You will rack up debt to the state *while you are in jail!*. You will be in "child support arrears."

The ability to genetically change bacteria is the key to researching the #microbial world. #Genome editing - i.e. processing the genome such as #DNA - is essential in order to develop new #antibiotics and to use #bacteria as miniature factories for the sustainable production of #chemicals, materials and therapeutics.
#CRISPR #RNA #Biology #Science #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/02/bio02092304.html

We will announce two PhD positions in mid-Feb through the Centre for Interdisciplinary Mathematics. Both projects concern manipulating proteins using strong electric fields and will be hosted by the Biochemistry programme at my dept and the Dept of Physics.

Now, we need good candidates with a good biophysics background (loosely defined). Please get in touch if you want to know more and please make potential candidates aware of the opportunity.

Black dads are *more* involved in both early childhood activities like bathing and diapering, and school aged activities. From the CDC:

A larger percentage of Black dads
(41%) had helped their coresidential children with homework every day in
the last 4 weeks compared with
white (28%) dads.

Only 30% of white dads take their own kids to activities every day, vs 42% of Black dads.

71% of white dads talk with their kids about their day, vs 79% of Black dads.

Etc, etc.

@scotsoma we've made it too dangerous for kids to play in the streets, too dangerous for people to cycle, apparently now also too dangerous for pedestrians to not be dressed in high viz at all times? Kids, pedestrians, and cyclists are not causing the problem here.

Ron DeSantis is a person who exercises authoritarian control over society and seeks to impose his ideology and will upon the people they rule. Fascism is a political ideology that is characterized by extreme nationalism, militarism, and a focus on national unity, strength, and order, often at the expense of individual freedoms and rights.

In a fascist regime, the leader typically holds all power and authority, and there is little to no room for dissent or opposition. The government is often centralized and controls many aspects of citizens' lives, including the economy, media, and education. Propaganda and manipulation of information are also common in fascist regimes, as the leader and the ruling party seek to control the narrative and maintain his grip on power.

Fascism is widely considered to be a harmful and dangerous political ideology and has been responsible for numerous human rights abuses, wars, and acts of genocide throughout history.

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More than 90% of people who arrive in the EU irregularly turn to smugglers to facilitate part of their journey.

We want to enhance EU cooperation to defeat criminal networks.

It's time to protect the lives of refugees.

Read our proposals on #EUMigration:

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EPPGroup/status/1623637837211107328

Two UK PhD studentships in public health research:

🔹 “The impact of nature-based citizen science interventions on mental health and wellbeing: An interdisciplinary mixed-methods study”

🔹 “Learning from the COVID-19 pandemic to create a national narrative and build support for population-level behaviour change to achieve Net Zero sooner”

For more info, please see: https://sphr.nihr.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/NIHR-SPHR-Studentships-2023-advert_guidance.pdf

For questions about these two projects, please contact milica.vasiljevic@durham.ac.uk

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Senior Twitter employees admit under oath that Twitter made exceptions to its racism policies to accomodate racist tweets by Trump, even going so far as to change their polices to avoid having to enforce them on Trump's tweets.

I don't watch football myself, but for those of you who do, @sjvn has it all scoped-out, and he spends way too much time watching TV, so he'll have it down: How to watch the Super Bowl 2023: Your best streaming bets https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/home-entertainment/how-to-watch-the-super-bowl/