Rebecca Graham

Science journalist 🇵🇸

[Paul Weller @paulwellerHQ]

A few days ago, Dr Hussam Abu Safiyeh said these words to his lawyer: “This is the last time you will see me...they brought me here to kill me. I don't see myself surviving. This is the end”.

This man is a paediatrician.

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[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[roqayah chamseddine @roqchams]

I strongly recommend following the work of several Lebanese colleagues—reporters and writers whose on-the-ground coverage offers a closer, more immediate and intimate understanding of developments as they unfold. Some publish exclusively in Arabic, and I will make an effort to translate and share their reporting whenever possible.

This is not an exhaustive list, and I will continue to update it as I come across others whose work I believe is worth highlighting.
——
@sayedhashem90
@AmalKhalil83
@samerhajali
@radwanmortada (@Almahatta0)
@hasanfakih24
@HadiHtt (@TVFreePalestine)
@Aly_jezzini
@bassemjouny
@ChaabaneHussein (@Legal_Agenda)
@beirutreview25
@Marwa__Osman
@AliRida_SB
@Hasanillaik
@political_aya__
@EyesOnSouth1
@mhmdsweidan
@trhxianl
@ahmadserhann

[Amnesty International USA @amnestyusa]

It’s been 456 days since Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, was arbitrarily detained by Israeli forces.

He’s been held without charge or trial, and has been subjected to ill-treatment.

Israeli authorities must immediately and unconditionally release him and all Palestinians held in arbitrary detention.

Take action: https://t.co/1vnFV1hV4g

#FreeDrHussamAbuSafiya ✊

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

Over the past 29 months the devastating, multilayered impact of Israel’s ongoing genocide has pushed Palestinian women and girls in the occupied Gaza Strip to the brink.

Women in Gaza are being denied the conditions needed to live and to give life safely.

Read more 👇 https://t.co/AD2A0YDJ9o

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Honoured to join The People's Congress For The Hague Group in Amsterdam this weekend.

We must hold Israel accountable for its genocide in Gaza — and help bring about justice for the Palestinian people.

Join us: https://t.co/TnlIgKn5jg

[Cllr Conor Reddy 🇵🇸 @ConorReddy95]

Over 5k have signed the petition I started a little over a day ago calling on @IrelandFootball to boycott games against Israel.

Let's keep the momentum up. Sign, share and make sure to support what @Sport4Palestine are planning to ramp up this campaign

https://t.co/8Mty7cMx1d

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

An Al Jazeera Arabic Investigation reveals how Israel’s systematic use of internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons supplied by the US has left no trace of nearly 3,000 Palestinians it killed during its genocidal war on Gaza.

Read more: https://t.co/m8AfIkPHYv

[Abubaker Abed @AbubakerAbedW]

I am signing this petition to rename the Herzog park to Hind Rajab Park.

Please, everyone, sign it.

https://t.co/GgWmcIE3eD

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

[Dr Juliet Turner @juliet_turner6]

The irony behind all the criticism of my research is that you would struggle to find a topic more fundamental or widely applicable than my DPhil thesis. 🤷🏼‍♀️

To give a few examples, by studying the evolution of cooperation and division of labour, we inform:

• Pure science. All complex life depends on cooperation & division of labour e.g. genes in a genome, cells in an organism. This field helps explain how life transitioned from single cells to complex multicellularity.

• Cancer biology. Cancer is a breakdown of cellular cooperation. The same rules that maintain stable cooperation in superorganismal insects underlie the stability (or collapse) of multicellular systems like our own bodies.

• Tech. Swarm robotics: decentralised control, signalling, efficiency optimisation. All informed by the principles governing insect societies.

• Economics & Sociology. Role specialisation & allocation, why different societal structures evolve, how national/international conflicts get resolved, how cooperation can persist despite incentives to cheat.

Not to mention that insects form the backbone of all terrestrial ecosystems and amount to more than half of all known species, performing countless essential ecological roles.

But yeah, why bother studying ants. 🙄

[Tayab Ali @tayab_ali_]

🚨🚨 This man went into a war zone to save lives with little more than his bare hands.
He’s been relentlessly attacked by Israel and its propaganda ever since.
Now the GMC wants to strip him of his licence to practise.
He risked his life to save others - NOW he needs our help👇

[Ghassan Abu Sitta, Chair of Conflict Medicine AUB @GhassanAbuSitt1]

https://t.co/PspNixdFlB

[The Ditch @wereontheditch]

Serious Guys’ desire for approval has them support anything the neoliberal consensus demands: abolishing neutrality and embracing EU militarisation; financialising the housing market; basing our economy on the tax receipts of a handful of US corporations.

https://t.co/TWs564YB1m

[Ben Cohen @YoBenCohen]

Unilever / Magnum stopped Ben & Jerry’s from creating a flavor for Palestine — so I’m doing it
myself.
I’ve got a watermelon, an empty pint, and I need your help:
Name the flavor or suggest ingredients
Or design the pint packaging
Tag @yobencohen, @MagnumGlobal use #JusticeforPalestine to submit
Use your voice when Ben & Jerry’s can’t — to secure peace, justice, and dignity in Palestine
#FreeBenandJerrys

[Rebecca Graham @RebeccaUCC]

Why Ireland’s Dead Zoo is as much about the living https://t.co/jdyWEktf0Y

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

devastating speech by the UN Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs.

"...death on this scale has a sound and a smell that does not leave you"

"[in the West Bank] recently [Jewish] settlers abducted a 13 year old girl and her three-year-old brother. They were found tied to a tree. Do we also say to them that we did all that we could?"
"Future generations will hold us to account, we should fear that judgement."

[Gaza Notifications @gazanotice]

🚨Dr. Nada Abualrub, an Australian doctor on a medical mission in Gaza, describes the people there: “They are the only FREE ones in the world .”

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

During his recent lecture, Peter Thiel called Greta Thunberg the "Antichrist"—which is wild, because she was just detained on a flotilla delivering aid to the starving people of Gaza, while he sells software used to facilitate a genocide.

I'll let you decide which one is worse.

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

A very special person, a once in a generation mind.

Lucky enough to speak with him on a few occasions.

A wit, way with words and deep understanding and intelligence that seemed to transcend time itself.

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.