Sandra López-Rocha

Intercultural Learning Specialist at UWaterloo. Into cultural anthropology, IC competencies development & anti-racism. Love my family & cats. Views my own.

[Sandra López-Rocha @SandraYLR1]

I absolutely love that service to Mexicans includes several indigenous languages. So proud to see this developing ♥️

[IMME @IME_SRE]

📢¡Qué no se te pase!

Este sábado 9 de julio 🗓️ habrá #JornadaSabatina en tu consulado 🇲🇽. Llama ☎️o ingresa 🧑‍💻 a #MiConsulado para agendar tu cita.
@jaime_vbt
👉 RECUERDA: ahora su servicio está disponible en #otomí, #zapoteco y #náhuatl.

[Weird Science @weird_sci]

A woodpecker's tongue is so long that it wraps around its skull to protect its brain while hitting a tree or other hard surfaces.

[Toronto Star @TorontoStar]

An “exodus” of staff from hospitals will worsen unless the Ontario government tackles a growing problem of violence and attacks against their mostly female workers by hiring more employees, the Canadian Union of Public Employees says. https://t.co/6SppmXV6nf

[Sandra López-Rocha @SandraYLR1]

@TerribleMaps America is a continent. The USA is a country

[Abhay @AbhaySinghKr]

The 3 minute Egyptian film "L'altra par" won the award for best short film at the #Venicefilmfestival. The director is 20 years old. https://t.co/j5GKGyIXoB ☝The film describes how #people isolate themselves in #technology and lose #human coexistence.

[Meagan Fitzpatrick @fitz_meagan]

NEW: Ontario bought 11 million rapid-antigen COVID tests to send home with students before the winter break. Each student will get a box of 5 tests to do over the holiday (This is voluntary). This is part of the province's winter testing strategy, they say

[Hanna Torsh @HannaTorsh]

How can reality tv shape the way we see race? In our new article, Ingrid Piller @MQLinguistics, @LauraSKh at @UTSLaw and I explore who gets to be the hero and the villian on a longstanding and ever popular Australian tv show. https://t.co/pmB0T0Qo8c

[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

💡BEST. VIDEO. ALL. YEAR. Please share with friends how the mRNA vaccine works to fight the coronavirus.

📌NOTA BENE—The mRNA never interacts with your DNA 🧬. #vaccinate

(Special thanks to the Vaccine Makers Project @vaccinemakers of @ChildrensPhila). #COVID19

[HISTORY @HISTORY]

In the mid-19th century, delivering messages by ship across the Atlantic could take 10 days. The first transatlantic telegraph cable, laid in 1858, could deliver messages in hours. It was a triumph that promised to revolutionize world-wide communication. https://t.co/so14OreP3f

[Sandra López-Rocha @SandraYLR1]

Fairies weren't always cute -- they used to drink human blood and kidnap children https://t.co/mP8VDM7H0m via @ConversationUK

[The Dodo @dodo]

This man was sentenced to life in prison - watch how an 'aggressive' dog changed everything 💙

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

Lovely way of putting the earth’s atmosphere into perspective. Source: https://t.co/ioTeJYWczD

[University of Waterloo @UWaterloo]

Researchers at the @UWCheritonCS have applied machine learning to identify tumour-specific antigens, which could help make personalized cancer vaccines practically feasible and more accurate.

Read this story: https://t.co/eDbdXfcfUR

[Cultural Mentor @CultureMentorTV]

Actually, forget teaching Critical Race Theory. Just use this contemporary example of ignorance to teach children about the abhorrence of the systems that infect our government institutions. It speaks for itself.

[The Layman's Linguist @LaymansLinguist]

In regards to weight units:

<PONDO> originally just meant "weight" while <LIBRA> meant "a pound." Thus <LIBRA PONDO> was "one pound of weight," eventually simplified to just <PONDO>.

That's why "pounds (weight)" is abbreviated <LBS>, and why the zodiac for #Libra is a scale!

[Tech Burrito @TechBurritoUno]

The best way to rescue those stuck on a mountain? A Jet suit 😲👏

RT via @UNILADTECH

[Universal Curiosity @UniverCurious]

There's a spacecraft cemetery at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean

RT via @TechInsider

[Jonah Blank (join me at @jonahblank.bsky.social) @JonahBlank]

#Anthropology note:
Oral history of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) says that the colossal moa "walked" from the inland quarries to the coast. Western scientists have scoffed-- but not provided a proven alternate theory.

Perhaps they did indeed "walk":

[Language on the Move @Lg_on_the_Move]

Translation and interpreting are often rendered invisible

Example: #interpreter was literally erased from this photo of meeting between Iran's Rouhani and Malaysia' Mahathir in media coverage #xl8

https://t.co/RIcNpy38t2