If @BirkbeckUoL wants to build its reputation and its credentials in climate science, divesting from #fossilfuels will be the first step towards investing in the future!
#ActNow on the #ClimateCrisis and
@DivestBirkbeck to protect the future of your students.
#VSS2020 kicks off! Please come to my live talk on Tues (11am EDT). Neurocomputational mechanisms of action-outcome prediction in V1 (ID712). W @danieljamesyon, @emilyrthomas27, @samgilbert1, @flodlan, @PeterKokNeuro. Or recorded version here: https://t.co/gkOSDlDum9
Birkbeck students, staff and interested parties, please take a moment to read our response to the ridiculous tweets that @BirkbeckUoL sent out earlier today.
THREAD: We, all of us, find ourselves in disorienting times. We MAY have understood if the comms team felt it important to send out a message of solidarity and support to black students and staff, but this tweet is shameful. It foregrounds the institution, which is complicit 1/5
@samcocklehearne Okay sure - but when the conversation is about the danger of Eric Kaufmann running a MSc on nationalism seems a bit odd for your response to be a defence of nationalism studies. Kind of missing the point?
We are committed to addressing racism and challenging injustice in all that we do, including in our educational programmes, our research, and our other activities.
an update: I am permanently blind in my left eye, and the docs absolutely refuse to let me go back to work for they say six weeks. I’m definitely not allowed to be near smoke or gas.
Usually if I had to stay home I’d spend a lot of time amplifying folk but reading hurts today
Wow. So much support from all over the country + the world! We are overwhelmed with gratitude for everyone who has provided support at this time. Please also consider donating to Reclaim the Block (https://t.co/RfymLGhVc2) + Black Visions Collective (https://t.co/7L4oV1LKtz)