Dr. SMK ☻

👩🏻‍⚕️PhD student•Doctor 🩺 Neuro/Regenerative Stem Cell enthusiast🔬💉🧫| 🎓DU‘15•USM‘18• | Wanderlust🗺 ARMY💜🇧🇩

[BUETian @buetian62]

Khilgaon Police Station's Officer-in-Charge Salauddin has shown solidarity with the students' movement and has returned. We, the students, are not vengeful; no one is our enemy. Rather, anyone who joins us in our movement for the country's sake will be warmly welcomed and saluted. We inform the police officers to lay down their arms and stand with the students against tyranny; the nation will respect you even more.

#STEPDOWNFASCISTHASINA #StepDownHasina

[Sami @ZulkarnainSaer]

So far, @ProthomAlo Bangladesh’s newspaper of record, has been able to verify the deaths of 203 protestors during the carnage by Sheikh Hasina’s henchmen. But the total number of fatalities is many times more. I have received reports from trustworthy sources that the police have taken away dead bodies from hospitals along with CCTV footage and death registers, so there is no record of those deaths. (And in places where they have been unable to do so, they are warning the hospital authorities not to mention the fatalities or deny receiving any patient with bullet wounds.) 

The police are burying some of those hijacked dead bodies in Rayer Bazar Intellectuals Graveyard, an expansive but unsought-after cemetery in Dhaka. In this clip, 36 unmarked graves can be seen in that cemetery. Those graves were dug out between Friday late night and Tuesday night. The bodies came from Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital, Dhaka Medical College and Hospital and Mitford Hospital. The graveyard staff are saying that they have never seen so many unidentified corpses in their life (except massive accident/natural disaster).

The lengths this butcher of Bangladesh will go to hide her sins!

FYKI @srpoverty @UNPeacekeeping @RFKHumanRights @hrw @crdefenders @CIVICUSalliance @CIVICUSMonitor @volker_turk @StateDRL @Lacroix_UN @FCDOGovUK @StateDept @usembassydhaka @UKinBangladesh @EUinBangladesh @StateDeptSpox @State_SCA @HumanRightsCtte @MaryLawlorhrds

[Birgitta Schuelke @BirSchuelke]

THREAD: Bangladesh has used at least one UN-marked vehicle to quell student quota protests. We found pictures taken in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, on July 21st showing the UN insignia on an armored personnel carrier.

[Jon Danilowicz @JonFDanilowicz]

As the largest contributor to @UNPeacekeeping , the U.S. must demand accountability for #Bangladesh regarding this blatant abuse of UN resources. @StateDept @State_IO @USUN must send a message to Bangladesh and other PKO contributors. @SenMarkey @SenSchumer @RepMcGovern

[David Bergman @TheDavidBergman]

The #Bangladesh governing party, the Awami League has a United Kingdom wing - the UK Awami League. This UK wing rather than being appalled by what the Awami League government/law enforcing authorities have done in Bangladesh over the last week - killing at least 200 students and protestors using rubber bullets and live fire - are doing everything they can to whitewash the culpability of their party in Bangladesh.

It is frightening. The UK Awami League in their meetings and social media are seeking to exonerate the country's law enforcing authorities from the shooting dead of hundreds of students, protestors and bystanders in cold blood - or denying it ever happened.

The UK AL say absolutely nothing about the 200 police killings but focus instead on subsequent property damage done by the protestors in response to the violent law enforcement response, and then they blame the property damage on political opposition parties, the Bangladesh Nationalist Partie (BNP) and the Jamaat. (Back in Bangladesh this same Bangladesh police force which killed 200 people are now going round arresting hundreds of these opposition leaders and activists to try and scapegoat them, even when they have evidence that they have any responsibility for the property damage.)

For those in the UK, the best way to appreciate what is going on is this: imagine a UK wing of Putin's Russian party, openly seeking to exonerate Putin's repressive and murderous policing in Russia. There would be outrage. The British media would jump all over it. .... The UK Awami League is no different from (if there was such a thing) the UK wing of Putin's Russian party

Now the UK Awami League does not just involve itself in Bangladesh politics, it is also heavily involved in British politics. They are very significant supporters of the Labour party, and in particular have provided crucial campaigning support to Tulip Siddiq MP (who is the niece of the Bangladesh prime minister, the head of the Awami League) to help her win her elections.

Bangladesh has under the Awami League been an authoritarian state for many years - but the Labour party has throughout this time been completely silent about its relationship with the UK Awami League. In the last week however, the brutal natue of the Bangladesh regime has been exposed like never before, and it is time for the Labour party to come clean on where it stands towards the UK Awami League, the Labour party's staunch supporters.

I will be writing more about this in subsequent posts.

[Rupom Razzaque @rupom]

To stay in power, the murderer Sheikh Hasina is killing the protesting students and ordinary people using @UN logo marked armored vehicles and helicopters.

(Photo by: @AFP)

#StepDownHasina #SaveBangladesh

@StateDRL @usembassydhaka @USAmbBangladesh @WhiteleyEU @GerAmbBD @HCSarahCooke @KerryKennedyRFK
@UnderSecStateJ @UnderSecStateP
@AfreenAkhter @JuttaUrpilainen @hrw @amnestysasia @RFKHumanRights
@UNHumanRights @volker_turk @cvoule
@EU_Commission @MaryLawlorhrds
@UKinBangladesh @EUinBangladesh @StateDept @CanHCBangladesh
@AusHCBangladesh @gbahr_bd @shahidul @UNPeacekeeping

[David Bergman @TheDavidBergman]

Bangladeshi Nobel Peace Price winner Muhammad Yunus, who has been subject to an ongoing campaign of harassment and intimidation over many years, published an appeal to the international community over the crisis in the country.

[Steve Hanke @steve_hanke]

Bangladesh’s AUTHORITARIAN PM Sheikh Hasina's idea of FREEDOM OF SPEECH = UNPLUG THE INTERNET.

[Sami @ZulkarnainSaer]

Disturbing images from Dhaka, photographed yesterday in Bangladesh's capital, show a youth lying lifeless in a pool of blood, appearing to have been shot in the head. Security personnel, who might have shot him, roamed callously around the scene.

📷 Mohammad Sayed

[Sultan Mohammed Zakaria @smzakaria]

🚨 URGENT CALL TO ACTION 🚨

Help us bring #SheikhHasina to the International Criminal Court. In July 2024, her regime killed over 200 students and injured thousands in Bangladesh for demanding reforms. The judiciary in 🇧🇩 is corrupt, compromised offering little recourse. [1/3]

[Toby Cadman @tobycadman]

It looks like years of inaction by the #InternationalCommunity in #Bangladesh has created an overwhelming sense of impunity although it seems finally that the #HasinaRegime has overestimated its position. There are always red lines. This, finally, is one. It is a useful reminder to the senior political, military and law enforcement officials that bear individual criminal responsibility that the @IntlCrimCourt is watching closely.

[Sanya Jain - Your Grad Coach @yourgradcoach]

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[Régis Joulia @RegisJoulia]

First trial of staining at a human pulmonary vein ! Really happy to see some mast cells there 🔬🍾
MC (green, avidin), aSMA (purple), CD31 (blue)
#FluorescenceFriday @ImperialNHLI @lloyd_lab

[Oliver Beuthin @OliverBeuthin]

My advice for PhD applicants: don't put all yours eggs in one basket. A potential supervisor led me on for two years. I took the degree he taught on, I developed my protocol with him, the faculty gave him the decision, and he still rejected me.

@AcademicChatter @OpenAcademics

[Dr. Beeblu @beeblu94]

To my medics on a plab journey
Other countries plab can take u apart from uk are;
Plab 1 & Plab 2 - DUBAI
Plab 1 + NZREX - New Zealand
Plab 1 & Plab 2 + work experience in uk - Australia
Plab 1 + PRES level 3 - Ireland

Add more if u know any
Kindly pass d info.
#SundayThoughts

[Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel]

An undergraduate at Caltech just approached me and asked me on a date. I panicked and replied “I’m sorry, I’m old.”

[Dr. SMK ☻ @dr_smk_]

@Shubham_Neuro @Yale @NeurologyYale @YaleMed @PhDVoice @PostdocVoice @AcademicChatter @PhD_Genie @PhDfriendSana @PhDForum @OpenAcademics Congratulations!

[Dr. SMK ☻ @dr_smk_]

Tell that to my labmates

[Gregory Youdan @GregYoudan]

If you are a scientist your friends are scientists, they are not competition; they’re your inspiration. Support them!

#phdchat #AcademicTwitter #ScienceTwitter #AcademicChatter #phdlife

[Dr. SMK ☻ @dr_smk_]

@AnxiousPostdoc @DrMarinaHarris @PhDVoice

[Dr. SMK ☻ @dr_smk_]

All of #phdtwitter is like “take time for your mental health, dont overwork, rest on weekends”
My supervisor just called me in to ask why I dont show up on Saturdays (yes I am there on Sundays).
Work hours on a normal day is 12 hours minimum.
#AcademicTwitter #phdchat