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MSCA Research Fellow @rug.nlโ€ฌ PhD โ€ช@soebristol.bsky.socialโ€ฌ Working on justice-oriented science education. she/her/ella

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Submit an abstract to our panel titled, 'Public Pedagogies of Science and Technoscience' that @betzabetorres-o.bsky.social and I are hosting at 4S this year in Toronto, 7-10 October. The full panel description is attached below. Link to submit: lnkd.in/gi8N2wZR

05.03.2026 16:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ“ขEducation International condemns the illegal interception and detention of members of the Global #SumudFlotilla in international waters by Israel.

We extend our solidarity to all the members of the flotilla and call for their immediate release.โ˜ฎ๏ธ

03.10.2025 07:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Genocide has been committed by Israel.

Parties to the Genocide Convention were warned of plausibility in Jan 2024. They attacked those warning.

Now itโ€™s too late to stop a genocide. Now itโ€™s about trying to stop it getting ever worse.

Uniting for Peace Resolution needed this GA.

BDS. Protest

16.09.2025 07:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 24 ๐Ÿ” 15 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Lovely to cacth up with you Emily, see you soon maybe in the other hemisphere! ๐Ÿฅฐ (and let's keep our inbox moving with ideas and checking ins ๐Ÿ’Œ)

02.09.2025 13:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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How can Israel engineer a famine in Gaza in the 21st century? UN chief Antonio Guterres says famine in Gaza is โ€˜a moral indictment and a failure of humanity itselfโ€™.

If anyone is still not convinced #Israel is committing #genocide in #Gaza, I urge that person to watch this @aljazeera.com report and reconsider. The facts are on the table for anyone to see. This is not a "war". This is the deliberate attempt to destroy a people.

www.aljazeera.com/video/inside...

24.08.2025 07:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 14 ๐Ÿ” 7 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A Levels 

โ€œFree Palestine.โ€
Says the pupil who 
has A Level results. 

Genocide was the subject.
Gaza is the lesson. 
Complicity was the test. 

The pupil interviewed
by the BBC
Aced it. 
No deficit in critical ability
in that oral exam.

A Levels โ€œFree Palestine.โ€ Says the pupil who has A Level results. Genocide was the subject. Gaza is the lesson. Complicity was the test. The pupil interviewed by the BBC Aced it. No deficit in critical ability in that oral exam.

A Levels

15.08.2025 07:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 18 ๐Ÿ” 9 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

auuuchh

15.07.2025 14:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Gente simpรกtica por acรก, veรกmonos en Copenhagen in a SEEDS meet up? ๐Ÿ’Œ

14.07.2025 15:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
UNESCO Chair supports Francesca Albanese The UNESCO Chair unequivocally condemns the targeted and punitive measures imposed by the United States government against Francesca Albanese.

Our Statement in support of Francesca Albanese

We call upon academic institutions, governments & civil society actors around the world to publicly repudiate these unjustified sanctions & to uphold the independence & legitimacy of the UN human rights system. @uofgunescorila.bsky.social

12.07.2025 08:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 79 ๐Ÿ” 41 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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The world's most famous medical NGO concludes Israel is committing genocide.

It joins a consensus of genocide scholars, including in Israel, and NGOs like Amnesty International.

No politician or journalist can claim "I did not know at the time!" to evade future justice.

10.07.2025 21:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 2594 ๐Ÿ” 1124 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 41 ๐Ÿ“Œ 46
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Congratulations to this year's Newer Researcher Award winners @betzabetorres-o.bsky.social, @jesspilgrimbrown.bsky.social, and Yabing Liu! Learn more about their projects on our website: srhe.ac.uk/research/lat...

03.07.2025 11:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

also maybe some Subcomandante Marcos poems and short stories if you could read spanish?

24.06.2025 15:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Not a short thing, but I would say the intro of the English version of Pedagogia de la autonomia (Freire) is good because even though I am absolutely against the fact that they called it Pedagogy of Freedom in English (instead of autonomy), the translator gives some good issues to think with..

24.06.2025 14:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And...international solidarity is powerful in times of oppression โค๏ธโ€๐Ÿฉน๐Ÿ‰

08.06.2025 09:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Network Conference 2025 | Climate-Uni.com Climate-Uni.com | Network Conference 2025: Higher Education and the Climate Crisis | Transforming Universities for a Changing Climate. Network lead 2025 UFPA, Brazil.

Climate-U conference open for submissions!

5-8 Nov in Belรฉm (Brazil) and online. Event is free of charge.

Submissions welcome on all aspects of HE and the climate crisis (individual paper, symposium, workshop or artistic)

www.climate-uni.com/network-conf...

28.05.2025 16:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Marie Skล‚odowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowship granted for the project: Pedagogies for the Imagination Dr. Betzabe Torres Olave has been awarded a Marie Skล‚odowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship, with a perfect score of 100% (!), for the project with...

Things happen, and I will be moving to the Netherlands in 3 months.
Receiving all the Dutch-related stuff advice here (and "goodbyes catch-ups" in the UK, although I will be here now and then).

www.rug.nl/news/2025/02...

28.05.2025 12:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
BAICE Presidential Workshop Series Anti-Racism and Reparations: perspectives from Comparative and International Education

I'm hosting a free online workshop series on Anti-Racism and Reparations in Education.

Please join us!
10am UK time: June 11, June 18 and July 2.

Details and registration: baice.ac.uk/baice-presid...

Please help spread the word to academic/education folx! ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿพ

27.05.2025 21:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 6 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

World leaders can make as many statements as they like opposing Israel's actions in Gaza.

Until they end the sale of weapons to Israel, they remain complicit in the mass murder of Palestinians.

Stop arming genocide, now.

20.05.2025 10:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 2741 ๐Ÿ” 926 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 30 ๐Ÿ“Œ 38

My piece in โฆโ€ชNationalโ€ฌโฉ today on ten stages of genocide and on genocide denial. It is imperative that food and medicine enter Gaza. The consequences are already catastrophic

www.thenational.scot/news/world/2...

13.05.2025 06:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 21 ๐Ÿ” 11 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Plan Z: From Lab Coats To Handcuffs
Plan Z: From Lab Coats To Handcuffs YouTube video by Voice Media

This excellent short (23 min) film explain why some scientists have been compelled to take direct action in an effort to get governments to respond to the climate crisis. Please watch and share.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNvk...

07.05.2025 19:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 50 ๐Ÿ” 29 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Nobel Prize Museum | Fighting Disease Fighting Disease

"In the film Life Invisible, directed by Bettina Perut and Ivรกn Osnovikoff, we travel to the the Atacama Desert of Chile, where researcher Cristina Dorador is searching for new treatments to fight infectious diseases" @nobelprize.bsky.social

nobelprizemuseum.se/en/fighting-...

06.05.2025 18:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 13 ๐Ÿ” 10 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Global Laboratories of Repression, Global Visions of Liberation Join us for a webinar with Dr. Alexander Aviรฑa (Arizona State University) on "Ayotzinapa and Palestine: Global Laboratories of Repression

Our next Anti-Genocide University event is next Friday

"Global Laboratories of Repression, Global Visions of Liberation"

Alexander_Avina
โ€“ with William A. Booth

9 May, 5-6:30pm (UK time), online

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/global-lab...

02.05.2025 16:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 14 ๐Ÿ” 6 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

congrats! ๐Ÿ˜, looking forward to reading it๐Ÿค“

01.05.2025 09:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Higher Education, Inequality and Students as Political Actors

Excited about this event!

Weโ€™re hosting an event for PhDs & ECRs. Join us for a workshop on inequalities in HE & student political participation with Prof Agnรจs van Zanten and Prof @rachelbrooks.bsky.social ๐ŸŒŸ. Donโ€™t miss it!

@britsoci.bsky.social
@education.ox.ac.uk

tinyurl.com/4een2w3e

30.04.2025 13:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐ŸŽ“ Weโ€™re researching undergraduate students' perspectives on the distribution of higher education opportunities, and weโ€™re looking for participants!
If you are studying a social science degree at Oxford University, contact us to take part! โœจ

Please share with anyone who might be interested!

28.04.2025 16:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We proposes three pedagogies to cultivate such critical imagination, relying on Weil's idea of attention: a)to think beyond the self, b)to adopt a planet-centred orientation to education transcending human-centred approaches; and c)to trouble dominant spatial and temporal scales of thinking

28.04.2025 14:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Critical Imagination for Transformative Agency: Pedagogies for Science Teacher Education This paper theorizes transformative agency and its potential to promote justice-oriented science teacher education. We argue that science education often acts as a disimagination machine, constrainin...

Some ideas around critical imagination and its role in transformative agency for science teacher education (thinking with #Freire and #Weil ๐Ÿฅฐ)

@scienceed-wiley.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

28.04.2025 13:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

100% to this, to build trust in the sciences, we also need to make them relevant in dialogues across disciplines, rather than continuing with the myth of strongly insulated spaces.

25.04.2025 08:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

and still a reality in science and science ed communities, sadly, but we will keep pushing to open the box to the wonders of other disciplines (rather than thinking that the sciences can do it all), and your work is amazing for that.

25.04.2025 08:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0