Leda Tortora

Marie-Curie ESR at @NETHATE_ITN, PhD candidate at @tcddublin.

Forensic Psychology & Neuroscience | New Technologies & Online Hate | Peace & Reconciliation

[𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗻𝘆🫧💚 @beyoncegarden]

the way she CLEARED him effortlessly here will forever have me gagged😭

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

I’m taking a break from my mental health to focus on my academic work

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

Dads

1.

[Dr Daisy Dixon @daisyldixon]

highly educated women in 5 years time:

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

I apologise for the delayed response to your email, I have enormous personal flaws that I refuse to work on

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Every academic needs three types of friend:

1) Friend who critiques your work with brutal honesty

2) Friend who drinks with you to recover from brutally honest critiques of your work

3) Friend with no knowledge of, or interest in, your work

[Tobias Rothmund @TobiasRothmund]

This is likely the end of research based on online surveys. It will be interesting to see how panel providers want to protect their business model.

[Ana Mostarac @anammostarac]

I’m on a train and men are sitting in seats while women stand or sit on the floor.

The declining birth rate isn’t a mystery.

[J @BigJamzLdn]

Saddest thing about barely anyone wanting kids is some of the best people I know aren’t having them whilst some superdemons are having 7.

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Me: “My draft is almost ready”

The draft:

[Poonam Soni @CodeByPoonam]

Google just dropped MASSIVE AI upgrades.

This will change the way we use technology forever.

Here're Top 11 updates from Google you don't want to miss:

[Leda Tortora @LedaTortora]

https://t.co/4MCMQ1gFsx Not too bad I'd say!

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Likely raped to death.
A doctor. A stellar surgeon. The embodiment of Palestinian ethics.
Likely raped to death.

The racism of Western media who are not covering this, and Western politicians who are not denouncing this, together with the thousand other testimonies and allegations of rape and other forms of mistreatment and torture that Palestinians have suffered in Israeli jails, is absolutely sickening.

[Signs Journal @SignsJournal]

#NWSA2024: Check out our latest call for papers on "Feminism, Antifeminism, and The Mobilization of Regret."

https://t.co/hQoEMDGhhV

[Charles J. Moore @charles270]

This morning on my hike, a stranger said “I saw some deer over there” and all I could think about was this

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

every academic you meet is fighting their own battle. Make it worse by asking them how the writing is going

[Petra Molnar (@petramolnar.com on BlueSky🦋) @_PMolnar]

New - and ever more crucial report - on carceral AI, a growing class of algorithmic and data-driven practices designed to police, incarcerate, surveil, and control people.

Recommendations, report, and beautiful artwork too!

https://t.co/Ih14eBcEfV Spearheaded by @dasha_pruss

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Academics will organise a workshop hosted in the global north, attended by the global north, and citing the global north, and call it "connecting with the global south"

[Azam Jangravi | اعظم جنگروی @azijangravi]

1/When I protested against mandatory hijab, after the security forces arrested me, my family was pressured to declare me mentally ill, the Islamic republic of Iran even taking me to a forensic doctor. One of my relatives came to see me in prison and shared the situation.

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

Update:
The authorities in Iran are now claiming that a young woman, who courageously removed her clothes in protest against harassment by the morality, police at her university, suffers from psychological illness and has been admitted to a mental health hospital.

This accusation of mental instability is a familiar tactic by the Islamic Republic.

In 2014, when I launched the My Stealthy Freedom campaign against compulsory hijab, the regime used similar lies against me, claiming I had a mental breakdown, undressed myself on the London subway and was raped by three men.

This is how they attempt to undermine those who resist their oppression.

One student who witnessed the entire incident says:
“On Saturday, November 2, we saw the university’s security and Basij forces trying to forcibly drag a female student into the security room, under the pretext of her not wearing a proper hijab. She resisted, and in the struggle, her hoodie was pulled off, leaving her with only her undergarments underneath. Shocked, the security officers let her go, after which, in a moment of rage, she removed her pants and threw them at the officers.”

This eyewitness account directly contradicts the regime’s narrative and shows the extent of brutality Iranian women face for the most basic acts of defiance.

This woman has been forcibly hospitalized under psychiatric supervision—marking the start of torture and, soon after, the cycle of forced confessions.

I believe her life is now in serious danger. I urge international media, human rights organizations, and the international community to support her before is too late.

Let’s be her voice.