Higher Education and Mental Health in Palestine

In military contexts, the legal status of using Al in lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) is a subject of intense international debate and evolving regulation, but there is currently no comprehensive, legally binding international treaty that universally bans them. •UNODA +1 Google AI output, top result.

It should be illegal.

It’s a weapon of soulless mass destruction and it gets targets wrong.

Killing civilians and children without a shred of remorse.

Today marks what would have been the 85th birthday of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, whose words continue to resonate across generations and borders.

13th March is the date I use to count 6 years. #CovidIsNotOver

In 2020, it was when I cancelled an upcoming gig.

I didn't know when I'd be back to live music. I didn't know just how much music I'd end up playing.

At The Chime Of A City Clock (Nick Drake cover)

Man wearing FFP3 mask in a medieval building with a distinctive timber roof. A dragon is barely visible.

I'm about the right age to be a "longevity influencer", and focus on unusually long life or existence.

Interestingly, the building I am in is OLDER than the word "longevity".

But it's not as old as the word "virus".

Maybe longevity influencers will get around to viruses soon.

I have just submitted this book. Delivered on my birthday to renew my commitment to intellectual integrity. It positions the Genocide in Gaza as an applied linguistics issue, while revisiting the discipline’s commitment to investigating the role of language in real world problems.

Some articles are hard to write. Others are almost impossible to publish. This article combined both challenges.

With gratitude to our editor and reviewers for their solidarity and intellectual integrity.

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Just heard on the radio that a court has ruled anti-Zionist speech as hate speech in Australia.

I don’t know exactly what was said.

Just an FYI.

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Guilt. Shame. Both have their place in pro-social behaviour. Too much is bad. Continuing to do things to worsen these feelings hurts too.

But…

Being completely unshackled from guilt and shame means one can commit horrifying acts without conscience.

What do you think might happen if we keep a pet SARS virus that damages T cells… and let measles loose as well, which damages immune memory…

I don’t know! But I’m so excited to find out! /s

Those giving and supplying the orders are wanted by the ICC but travel the world with impunity in blatant contravention of laws which also should prevent the use of these weapons and mean none of us live with this as a real possibility for ourselves or any others.

Frontiers | Higher Education and Mental Health in Palestine and other conflict zones Since October 2023, higher education in Gaza has been in prolonged crisis. Universities have been damaged or destroyed, hundreds of students and staff have b...

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I’d just like to say again.

Studies re COVID-19 published in 2020 clearly stated that deposition patterns consistent with aerosol spread was happening in hospitals.

They were finding positive samples for RNA in air ducts, on windows, under beds.

They did not match the advice to the findings…

This - I’ve worked alongside so many who have been caught up in the Sinai horror - this was BMJ 2011 but CNN, UNHCR, HRW all have reports and evidence www.bmj.com/content/343/...

On “BBC health check”

Apparently we are “post pandemic” and “health anxious” because we are noticing things like the recent hMPV outbreaks…

1) bugs are behaving differently for various reasons, so we should notice that, &

2) The repetition of saying we have health anxiety can’t be good for us.

So annoying.

I was just putting gloves on to do some washing up when I had to drop everything and take to social media to fight maladaptive brainwashing.

Now I’m hungry and sleepy and the dishes aren’t done. Grrrrrr.

Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

“We found nothing of Saad. Not even a body to bury. That was the hardest part.” Yasmin Mahani speaking about her son

Al Jazeera just released an investigation revealing how US-made bombs vaporized nearly 3,000 Palestinians.

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Several teams at the #WinterOlympics are wearing FFP2, N95 & KN95 masks.

If @teamgbofficial.bsky.social would like any free help, get in touch. 🇬🇧

If you've trained for years and have just one shot, give it your all. #BritPop

Olympian (Gene cover)

Worried about catching a bug in a hospital waiting room? Here's what infectious disease experts say You can lower the risk, but you can't eliminate it. That being said, waiting rooms aren't necessarily riskier than other packed environments.

Waiting rooms aren’t riskier than any other crowded environment…?

I can’t stop laughing.

Of course they are.

You have two groups of people in the waiting room.

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Our March edition…

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Genocide destroys language just as it destroys life and land. It kills thinking and transformational thought. This destruction is everywhere. But the human spirit has to find a way- as it always does.

What now?

Which is what I’ve been saying.

It was a deeply inequitable decision for rich countries with strong health systems and lower HIV/malaria/malnutrition rates to decide to keep a pet SARS virus.

Frankly, it’s just another form of oppression.

(cont) '....abandon the myths of universalism and objectivity, and rethink its modernity-shaped assumptions, re-grounding itself in moral traditions that recognise people as ethical humans formed through responsibility, community and the pursuit of meaningful, virtuous ways of living.'

A brilliant collection of thoughts on what kind of revolution psychology needs in The Psychologist! Impossible to choose from all the amazing insights, but here one of them by M McKeen: 'Psychology must disentangle itself from coloniality/ism and state power, (to be cont)

Here is where to register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/3d440a... 😊

3 sleeps till our webinar for our Frontiers call for papers! We cannot wait to see you all there! 🤓😊

Hospicing Gaza ( غزة ): stunned languaging as poetic cries for a heartbreaking scholarship The article explores the notion of stunned languaging in the construction of poetic cries as a genre of grief in times of unspeakability while witnessing the online streaming of the Gaza Genocide. ...

We invite you again to this urgent yet daunting work which introduces a scholarship of heartbreak through stunned languaging.

The most read piece in Language & Intercultural Communication.

A beginning, a trouble.
A call, a response.
A rethinking

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