Stella

In between of Psychology & Gender Studies | Current roles: policy researcher on civic space — resource mobilizer on safeguarding — a tame daughter

[TxtdariUGM @Txtdariiugm]

Yang belum tau, dia ini dosen Fisipol UGM sekaligus direktur di lembaga riset Celios. Namanya Mas Media. S2 dan S3 dari The University of Manchester. Omongannya tajem, kritis, dan selalu based on data. Tentu tidak disukai kaum-kaum boikot UI dan UGM.

[Stella @stellaveiro]

Kata gw mah orang paling ga mau repotin orang lain itulah yang paling ngerepotin se-ngerepotin-repotinnya repot.

Ada alasan kenapa manusia adalah makhluk sosial: karena ngerepotin.

[DaVinci @BiancoDavinci]

Japanese high school teacher Hirotaka Hamasaki draws amazing blackboard art for his students, then erases it to show the beauty of letting go.

[Iman Zanatul Haeri @zanatul_91]

BESOK SIDANG DI MK MENDENGARKAN KETERANGAN PRESIDEN DAN DPR. GUGATAN NO 55 TERHADAP MBG DALAM UU APBN 2026.

Selasa, 14 April 2026.
Pukul 10.30 WIB.

MOHON DOANYA,

@penduduk_lokal_ jangan lupa kacamata item.

guys kalau mau kirim martabak dan kopi, bolehlah ke alamat MK. Satpamnya ramah-ramah kok.

[Stella @stellaveiro]

Musuh utama penerapan GEDSI (gender equality, disability, and social inclusion) di projek2 pembangunan cuma satu: sumber daya.

Anggaran, tenaga, political will, dan waktu.

[Stella @stellaveiro]

Motherhood and macro economy analysis 💕

[Josh Wood @J_K_Wood]

@AFpost I broke down the study and what it means for American families here 👇🏻

[Stella @stellaveiro]

Postingan ini sebagai pertanda bahwa tahun kuda api benar sudah berlangsung!!!

🐎🔥

[🤠 @heavensbvnny]

When dating a woman whose job involves a lot of thinking and decision-making, aim to make your time together as relaxing as possible. Take the initiative by choosing the restaurant and handling the transportation. She probably doesn't want to make more decisions. Instead of asking about work, focus on creating a chill, enjoyable experience. The goal is to offer a break from her demanding routine.

[Stella @stellaveiro]

Sometimes all the kindness and thoughtfulness felt too much I think I don't deserve it.

Yet I always grateful, I forgot what I wish for.

Thank you. Thank you #34

[Stella @stellaveiro]

Hopefully no one uses this finding to demand more on women to breast milk as much as she can.

A mother always has an option to choose what she wants.

This is an awesome finding, though.

[GP Q @argosaki]

BREASTMILK
She thought she was studying milk.
What she uncovered was a conversation.

In 2008, evolutionary anthropologist Katie Hinde was working in a primate research lab in California, analyzing breast milk from rhesus macaque mothers. She had hundreds of samples and thousands of data points. Everything looked ordinary—until one pattern refused to go away.

Mothers raising sons produced milk richer in fat and protein.
Mothers raising daughters produced a larger volume with different nutrient balances.

It was consistent. Repeatable. And deeply uncomfortable for the scientific consensus.

Colleagues suggested error. Noise. Statistical coincidence.
But Katie trusted the data.

And the data pointed to a radical idea.

Milk is not just nutrition.
It is information.

For decades, biology treated breast milk as simple fuel. Calories in. Growth out. But if milk were only calories, why would it change depending on the sex of the baby?

Katie kept digging.

Across more than 250 mothers and over 700 sampling events, the story grew more complex. Younger, first-time mothers produced milk with fewer calories but significantly higher levels of cortisol—the stress hormone.

The babies who drank it grew faster.
They were also more alert, more cautious, more anxious.

Milk wasn’t just building bodies.
It was shaping behavior.

Then came the discovery that changed everything.

When a baby nurses, microscopic amounts of saliva flow back into the breast. That saliva carries biological signals about the infant’s immune system. If the baby is getting sick, the mother’s body detects it.

Within hours, the milk changes.

White blood cells surge.
Macrophages multiply.
Targeted antibodies appear.

When the baby recovers, the milk returns to baseline.

This was not coincidence.
It was call and response.

A biological dialogue refined over millions of years. Invisible—until someone thought to listen.

As Katie reviewed existing research, she noticed something unsettling. There were twice as many scientific studies on erectile dysfunction as on breast milk composition.

The first food every human consumes.
The substance that shaped our species.
Largely ignored.

So she did something bold.

She launched a blog with a deliberately provocative name: Mammals Suck Milk.
It exploded. Over a million readers in its first year. Parents. Doctors. Scientists. People asking questions research had skipped.

The discoveries kept coming.

Milk changes by time of day.
Foremilk differs from hindmilk.
Human milk contains over 200 oligosaccharides babies can’t digest—because they exist to feed beneficial gut bacteria.
Every mother’s milk is biologically unique.

In 2017, Katie brought this work to a TED stage. In 2020, it reached a global audience through Netflix’s Babies. Today, at Arizona State University’s Comparative Lactation Lab, she continues reshaping how medicine understands infant development, neonatal care, formula design, and public health.

The implications are staggering.

Milk has been evolving for more than 200 million years—longer than dinosaurs walked the Earth. What we once dismissed as simple nourishment is one of the most sophisticated communication systems biology has ever produced.

Katie Hinde didn’t just study milk.
She revealed that nourishment is intelligence.
A living, responsive system shaping who we become before we ever speak.

All because one scientist refused to accept that half the story was “measurement error.”

Sometimes the biggest revolutions begin by listening to what everyone else ignores.

[Stella @stellaveiro]

"Merawat imajinasi secara bersama2 penting."

"Terhubung dengan orang, dengan tempat berpijak terdengar sederhana sekaligus radikal."

🥲 para penyihir favoritku

[Dosen Pembimbing @Dospemz]

Mau tau seberapa besar jurang ketimpangan di Indonesia?

Bayangin ada 100 potong ayam goreng KFC buat 100 orang.
Idealnya, satu orang dapat satu potong.

Tapi di Indonesia:

- 1 orang ambil 50 potong buat dia sendiri
- 9 orang berikutnya masing masing dapat 2 potong
- 40 orang berikutnya harus berbagi 18 potong, per orang bahkan kurang dari setengah potong
- sementara 12 potong ayam sisanya harus diperebutkan 50 orang terakhir, masing-masing cuma dapat suwiran daging yang nempel tulang atau bahkan cuma kebagian tulang yang tercecer.

[Stella @stellaveiro]

IMHO, nothing beats the bravery of an Asian-born-Catholic woman who has decided to annul one's marriage.

I deeply respect and amazed with her agency 💖

[Stella @stellaveiro]

Yea, apocalypse please coming ASAP.

The real one.

Not the kind of living as a *NI 🥲

[IG: DedySoelistijan™ @DedySoelistijan]

Indonesian Millennials living through Suharto’s regime, 2 economic recessions, East Timor genocide, Aceh & Papua conflict, Jogja & West Sumatra earthquake, 2 Bali bombing, Aceh & Palu’s Tsunami, a global pandemic, Mul’s regime, continues with the incompetence Prab’s government, Sumatra National disaster, jobs replaced by AI, and possibly WW3 before hitting 43

[Stella @stellaveiro]

Satu hari satu kebagongan

[Tom Wright @TomWrightAsia]

Meet Ibrahim Arief. A top-tier Indonesian engineer involved with some of the nation's best-known tech unicorns. Now he's under arrest, awaiting trial in a politicized case that's deeply hurting Indonesia's reputation. His story is distressing. 1/6

[Stella @stellaveiro]

Kumpulan Budak Setan, by Intan Paramaditha, Ugoran Prasad, and Eka Kurniawan.

New year book unlocked.

[Stella @stellaveiro]

Penting sekali panduan ini. Terima kasih @Dospemz

[Dosen Pembimbing @Dospemz]

Panduan Singkat Penyampaian Kritik di Ruang Digital

1. Hindari menyerang individu, fokus pada kebijakan.
❌ “Pejabat ini tidak kompeten.”
✅ “Kebijakan ini menunjukkan kelemahan dalam perencanaan dan eksekusi"

2. Hindari tuduhan langsung.
❌ “Mereka sengaja merugikan rakyat.”
✅ “Menurut penilaian saya, kebijakan ini berpotensi berdampak merugikan.”

3. Hindari bahasa merendahkan.
❌ “Keputusan tolol.”
✅ “Keputusan ini kurang berbasis kajian yang memadai.”

4. Hindari ajakan provokatif atau mobilisasi emosional.
❌ “Lawan sekarang.”
✅ “Perlu pengawasan publik dan diskusi yang lebih serius.”

5. Hindari klaim faktual dan penyebutan nama tanpa rujukan.
❌ “Institusi A selalu gagal mengelola kebijakan ini.”
✅ “Menurut laporan media Tempo, implementasi kebijakan ini.. "

6. Hindari kritik yang mengarah ke SARA.
❌ “Golongan X memang selalu jadi sumber masalah.”
✅ “Praktik tertentu dalam kasus ini menimbulkan persoalan serius.”

Tetaplah bersuara, meski tak senyaman sebelumnya.

[Stella @stellaveiro]

Nah!