Dr Ruby (she/her)
Mango eating, sunshine loving, data research and question asker. Immigrant.
- Reposted by Dr Ruby (she/her)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 🧵
- Reposted by Dr Ruby (she/her)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 & 🎙️
- Reposted by Dr Ruby (she/her)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...
- Reposted by Dr Ruby (she/her)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.
- Reposted by Dr Ruby (she/her)Read preprints. Cite preprints. Email people and tell them you loved their preprint. Email people you hated their preprint. Embrace preprints, preprints are good.
- Reposted by Dr Ruby (she/her)Coming soon... January 2026
- Reposted by Dr Ruby (she/her)🙃 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...
- Reposted by Dr Ruby (she/her)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. voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...
- 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.
- Reposted by Dr Ruby (she/her)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
- Reposted by Dr Ruby (she/her)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 ⬇️ oise-utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
- Reposted by Dr Ruby (she/her)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...
- So in the UK would psychology be considered a STEM subject? Anyone know?
- Reposted by Dr Ruby (she/her)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! z.umn.edu/minds Please share ✨
- I have given up here...
- Reposted by Dr Ruby (she/her)Returning to their homes—to their land.
- Reposted by Dr Ruby (she/her)✨ soft life ✨ 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!
- Reposted by Dr Ruby (she/her)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.
- Reposted by Dr Ruby (she/her)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...
- Reposted by Dr Ruby (she/her)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
- A 26 year old nurse has been breaking the bones of premature Black babies. www.msn.com/en-us/health...
- It has only taken over a decade but my cat finally slept in one of the four cat beds that I bought for her instead of sleeping in a random cardboard box. I noted her love for cardboard boxes and decided to place a cat bed on top of a different cardboard box and suddenly the bed box combo is king.
- Adulting is being sensible, making a food plan, stocking your fridge and cooking the food in it. I did all but the last step, and ordered nandos for dinner. Maybe adulting will find me next year.
- Musk and Vivek have been calling white right people irrevocably stupid and lazy for the past week. Now the white right want Musk and Vivek deported. Leopard face something something
- Friends who came over with me from twitter - how are the blue skies treating you? I am struggling, are you?
- Reposted by Dr Ruby (she/her)International #EpidemicPreparednessDay There is no epidemic preparedness until we make sure Global South countries have access to lifesaving vaccines & medicines www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Dr Ruby (she/her)One of my highlights this year! Best launch ever with the most amazing people
- Recapping 2024 moments… earlier this year I had the pleasure and privilege of hosting/moderating the brilliant @yilinwriter.bsky.social’s launch for THE LANTERN AND THE NIGHT MOTHS, featuring fellow readers @neilaitken.bsky.social & @leataranto.bsky.social, at the Vancouver Public Library! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
- Reposted by Dr Ruby (she/her)Woke up to the best news ever. My book is officially the Number 1 Top release in the category of Political and Protest Poetry. Wouldn’t have been possible without you all 🎉📚
- Reposted by Dr Ruby (she/her)“We acknowledge that we should have been clearer” comes the apology 45 days late “and that the use of the footage here was intended to illustrate the general disorder, and are happy to correct the record.” Unlike the Christ child We were not born yesterday.
- Reposted by Dr Ruby (she/her)[This post could not be retrieved]
- The kids got a tumbling mat and now my husband and I are being put through a gymnastics routine.
- This app is not just not fun. Maybe my social media days are coming to an end.
- Reposted by Dr Ruby (she/her)Really?
- Reposted by Dr Ruby (she/her)Part of fighting back is being both intentional, accurate, and forceful with our language. So anti-woke, anti-DEI efforts and activists? Especially when those efforts result in demonstrably lower numbers of qualified Black people the ranks? Start calling these folks pro-segregation.
- Reposted by Dr Ruby (she/her)FEMINIST GIANT Daily Dose: 42 www.feministgiant.com/p/daily-dose...
- Halep playing in qualifying?
- Universities becoming de facto govt and police surveillance units is just so disturbing. Academic freedom is being eroded.
- Look at Ireland, doing the thing.
- The fact that we don't openly laugh at the US and allow its politics to influence us is so wild to me. They literally do things like this for optics and USians lap it up because a large section of the electorate vote based on who entertains them most.
- Reposted by Dr Ruby (she/her)More twists in black plastic utensils story: The study overstated the potential exposure to flame retardants by an order of magnitude because of a math error, and now the whole journal has been de-listed from a science index for not meeting "quality criteria." arstechnica.com/health/2024/...
- Omg I just found the detach quote function! Amazing stuff.
- Reposted by Dr Ruby (she/her)So chuffed to get a mention in Nick's great review of Dragonmeet! 🥰 You'll definitely be seeing more of @scienceandsorcery.bsky.social at cons & expos in the years to come! 🤩
- My review of this year's Dragonmeet is now live! Read on for my personal highlights from this year's festivities plus ways you can get involved next year and behind the scene insights on the future of Dragonmeet: www.keengamer.com/articles/fea...
- Reposted by Dr Ruby (she/her)Here is an early Christmas present. Our 2022 research report. Impact of the Ethnicity Pay Gap on Black Women. ethnicitypaygapcampaign.com/resources-2/ Your welcome 🙂
- Reposted by Dr Ruby (she/her)‘Racial justice demands collective action.’💬📢 The UN has launched the Second International Decade for People of African Descent in January 2025. A renewed push for racial justice, #equality, and confronting the legacies of #colonialism and enslavement. news.un.org/en/story/202...
- Reposted by Dr Ruby (she/her)My last blog post of 2024 is a reflection on the uses of despair in the neoliberal university. I use a couple of stories, experiences, and arguments to consider the question: How do we deploy hope in response to racial injustice in the midst of despair? folukeafrica.com/what-is-the-...
- **Patients, carers and clinicians with lived experience of sickle cell in the UK** A survey for shaping future sickle cell research if you are happy to participate www.surveymonkey.com/r/sicklecell...
- Reposted by Dr Ruby (she/her)link.springer.com/book/10.1007... The idea was in my head that such a resource had to exist. As a PhD student I didn't comprehend that I'd be the one to write it. It is one of the things I'm most proud of. Every message I get from someone who it has resonated with has made it worth it.
- Reposted by Dr Ruby (she/her)During my PhD I experienced severe anxiety and depression, along with suicide ideation. Thankfully I got help and I'm still here. As a student I went to find a book mental illness and how to cope during a PhD and didn't find one. That's how "Managing Your Mental Health During Your PhD" came to be.
- Sara Sharif being tortured and murdered by her caregivers is going to bother me forever.
- Reposted by Dr Ruby (she/her)Substack choosing Bari Weiss's The Free Press as its official partner for a relaunch tells you everything you need to know about the values of Substack's leadership. I'm begging the writers I love to move their newsletters off Substack. Source: on.substack.com/p/the-new-me...
- Cats are forever adorable in their directness.
- The extent of my memory range is unveiled when the presentations are fire. Most impressive remains @uofgjmsphd.bsky.social and I recall every conference presentation/researcher from quantum physics, vodou, mosquitoes, soil science and more. **If you are a Black PhD student, JMS is what you want!**
- If you are part of of know of a community group that is for or has Black researchers in biomedical science please wave or DM! You do not need to be formalised, just active. This is for the purpose of being added to a list for small grants funding to the group.
- Any names/amplification appreciated @drmadina.bsky.social @hadizakere.bsky.social @kui.bsky.social @olu-gh.bsky.social @skju.bsky.social @shaine.bsky.social @drkuyateh.bsky.social
- People, why did you move here from the bird place but you now never speak?
