Dega Sian Rutherford

Research Environment Team @wellcometrust l PhD researcher @unibirmingham l Strong love for food 🍓🥑🍕🍣 l Pronouns: She/Her

[Dr Addy Adelaine @AddyAdelaine]

1) In 2020, I and 9 other Black women involved in research wrote to @UKRI not to ask for tokenistic representation or quick fixes to systemic and structural inequity, but to ask for meaningful engagement, for subject experts & those with lived experience to co-create change

[Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @DrDionGeorgiou]

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I've tweeted cryptically of late about stuff not being good in our department at the University of Chichester, and with me in that context. So: about three weeks ago I was told out of the blue that our BA in Modern History was being axed and my post placed at risk. (1/12)

[Meral Hussein-Ece @meralhece]

Hugely depressing. The govt have pulled out all the stops to get Tory peers we rarely see & those who abstained before, to vote for children to be detained without time limits. Sickening. What have we become?#IllegalMigrationBill

[Dega Sian Rutherford @Dega_Sian]

@blackinarch @obuarchitecture @BlackInBiophys @BlackinCommnEng @BlkDisHigherEd @black_epi @BlackInPHealth @BlackinToxico @TeamBMWC @BTPipeline @Official_BWEEMS @BlackWomenInOto @BlackinAcademia @BlackInCyberCo1 @Miss_Elasmo @ThePhDHive @BlackInMath @KCLBlackInSTEM

[Dega Sian Rutherford @Dega_Sian]

At Wellcome we understand that the work of providing support to UK Black researchers has predominately been done by Black individuals who set up vital organisations to provide missing support systems that White researchers often benefit from by default.

[Dega Sian Rutherford @Dega_Sian]

To learn more about the project, please check out the background information here: https://t.co/aaXniewYiW

[Wellcome @wellcometrust]

Black researchers in the UK are less likely to be awarded research grants than White researchers.

We want to help change that.

Wellcome’s @faith_uwadiae tells us about a new project to strengthen the support available to Black researchers ⤵️
https://t.co/19tMidlJsv

[Catherine Sloan @cgsloan]

Myself and a friend once did an experiment. She went to the “big name” panels - which were standing room only. I went to the parallel sessions with groups of PhDs, very ECR, or independent scholars -

[Kit Yates @Kit_Yates_Maths]

"A few weeks ago, the New York Times called mask-wearers "the last holdouts". This week, the world's richest people went to great lengths to protect themselves from COVID"
https://t.co/HdpLhBZZ84

[Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby]

So it seems that the UK is leaving @EUI_EU. Negotiations have failed. This morning we received an official letter from the UK Government confirming that the current UK-EUI relationship will end as the interim arrangement closes in December 2022. End of an era.

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

The British Crown legally owns 6.6 billion acres of land across the world. That is a sixth of the earth's surface.

Charles is now the world's largest landowner, but I am sure that has nothing to do with colonialism...

[Ben Meer @SystemSunday]

10 free websites so useful they should come pre-bookmarked on every browser:

[Lina Benabdallah 🎩 @LBenabdallah]

As colleagues are preparing their syllabi for the new semester, I want to start a thread sharing polisci books published during the pandemic (especially by early career scholars) to help promote them. If you can help, DM me the title of your book and I’ll add it to the thread 1/

[Peter Kalmus @ClimateHuman]

I wish everyone on Earth knew how genuinely "off the charts" key planetary trends are right now, and how abnormal and critical it is. Things like atmospheric CO2 fraction, heat extremes on land and ocean, biodiversity loss and extinction rates. All alarms should be going off

[derecka @dereckapurnell]

If this was about babies, there would be universal healthcare. Free education. Free daycare. Southern states would be doing all they can to drop the Black maternal mortality rate. This is about power and control