...large-scale irrigation/water engineering in dry land
early law code - Hammurabi
optics and experimental science
glassmaking & decorative arts
coffee
and so much more.
In case your history books and schooling did not tell you.
In case all you know from this region is the war your leaders create.
BTW, "Middle East" is a colonial term.
It's just West Asia.
Middle East relative to whom you ask? The British Empire.
And that particular region of West Asia - including Mesopotamian, Levantine, Arabian, Persian, etc - gave the World it's first civilisations, writing, the wheel, algebra, ...
If you’re working on:
- longitudinal designs (developmental timing + tempo)
- neuroimaging
- mechanisms of adaptation (resilience, recalibration, mismatch, stress acceleration)
- within-person dynamics, heterogeneity, person-specific change
...this could be a great home for your next paper!
We’re looking for work that moves beyond “adversity → outcome” snapshots and interrogates time: timing, chronicity, sequencing, sensitive periods, recovery, and adaptation/resilience processes – and how these dynamics shape neurodevelopmental trajectories.
‼️Call for Papers for a Special Issue in Brain and Environment‼️
🧠 Temporal Dynamics Linking Adversity, Adaptation, and Neurodevelopment
🗓️Abstract deadline: 15 April 2026
🗓️Submission deadline: 16 October 2026
Guest Editors @abrieant.bsky.social & Myself!
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
As long as the elite own media, they can control the opinions of just enough of the population to keep them in power, and keep the majority fighting among themselves about issues they construct to blind us from the real problems.
I learned this when I watched the movie Antz as an 8 year old.
No journal will take this commentary I wrote In October so fuck it, here it is on medium.
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The peer review process is very odd.
Sometimes both authors and reviewers have clearly used ChatGPT a lot, meaning it's just chatty talking to chatty.
Sometimes it is just 1 reviewer with 10 comments and then 1 comment from reviewer 2. Hardly a diligent process.
Sometimes it's just inexperienced ECRs reviewing, sometimes it's just dinosaurs.
Sometimes it's just people with weird hang-ups that care more about how you talk to them than the quality of your response to their concerns.
💥New preprint💥
Here, we related body mass index, waist circumference, blood pressure, resting heart rate, haemoglobin A1c, and high density lipoprotein cholesterol to global cortical thickness and surface area, and to white matter fractional anisotropy and mean diffusivity.
ABCD 6.0.
'Watch Palestinian journalist Saleh Jafarawi sing “We Will Stay Here” in a heartfelt tribute to Gaza. The footage captures his commitment to documenting life in #Gaza & his deep connection to the people & their struggle.'
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#FreePalestine #Israel #Palestine #WorldNews
In today's U.K., you are an "activist" for spreading hate and racism but a "supporter of terrorism" for protesting for Palestine.
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My feedback to flux.
I'm not interested in anonymity. And this is my feedback to all institutions, all international conferences, and universities.
But I don't care about my neck, and I won't only speak out in solidarity when it's easy, or doesn't cost.
Christina Pagel ended with tips on "what sustains us" and 3 things were: social support, solidarity, and community.
I hope we can extend these to our Arab community and end the silence.
8/8
Betrayed that my Arab life is worth less than all of yours. Or so it seems.
Disappointed I have to write this, being an early career researcher, and an Arab, that has to risk my career and put my neck on the line instead of those less personally affected with permanent positions.
7/8
As an Arab, I'm not surprised. In a post 9/11 world I've been physically & verbally assaulted since I was younger than ABCD kids, spat on, profiled, interrogated at airports, travel banned, + more, without ever getting this community solidarity. But I still feel disappointed. And betrayed.
6/8
In the last two years I've felt incredibly isolated, lonely, and frankly, heartbroken.
The scientific community I knew to show solidarity during key political moments, whether it be for the LGBTQ community, BLM, Trump, or Ukraine, suddenly lost it's voice in the wake of genocide in Palestine.
5/8
After 4 months of sleeping in a cage under a table - an illusion my parents needed to feel I was safe from dropping bombs - my parents fled to Jordan where we stayed for 6 months as refugees. And when I was 10 months old, I became an immigrant in Norway.
What's it got to do with Palestine?
4/8
I was born in Iraq in 91' during the golf war only days after the worst bombing by Operation Desert Storm. This meant my mom had me in a dark building with no electricity or gas or running water, scared to death I wouldn't make it.
3/8
