Pamoja Communications
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Health, gender and international development with a focus on communications and research uptake.
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Celebrating Joseph Kimani, a champion for social justice and human rights. With 25+ years alongside Slum Dwellers, he shows us that change starts with connection. Josephâs becoming a dad again soon! Read more about his inspiring journey. đ
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Lia Pas
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For
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini
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this is your daily reminder that reading books is the most powerful act of resistance in a fascist society that thrives on the normalisation of ignorance and anti-intellectualism.
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Carl Quintanilla
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Thatâs seven.
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While public awareness of menopause has greatly improved recently, there has been a rapid expansion in private companies and individuals providing menopause education, especially on social media
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Millions exploited by âmenopause gold rushâ amid lack of reliable information, say UK experts
Womenâs health academics at UCL call for national education programme to combat misinformation and unregulated advice
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/oct/20/millions-exploited-by-menopause-gold-rush-amid-lack-of-reliable-information-say-experts
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt
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The Westminster chatteratiâs perception of Birmingham is so utterly deranged by this point Iâm actually sitting here laughing The way people are talking about it youâd think it was some dystopia from the Hunger Games or something Go outside, touch grass, come to Birmingham - youâll be fine đ
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Tiana, who wants young people to be involved as the political system is reformed, said: âWe donât really feel included in the decisions and in everything thatâs been going on. He has been listening mainly, but never really consulting us about our ideas.â
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âGen Z gave us the victoryâ: how young protesters toppled Madagascarâs leader
There is jubilation in Place du 13 Mai in the capital but concern about armyâs intentions after military takeover
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/17/gen-z-victory-young-protesters-toppled-madagascar-leader
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1234_5 đŻâ˝ ⤠đŽđ¤
5 days ago
If you are a self described fan of Rage Against The Machine in the year 2025 and have not figured out that they were deeply hostile to U.S government policy in general and law enforcement in particular, the odds of you ever figuring anything out approaches-zero.
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy
5 days ago
Crazy to think that 5 years in, some people still think âasymptomatic = not contagious.â Itâs been known since early 2020 that people without symptoms can spread COVID very efficiently.đŚ đˇ
#COVIDisNotOVER
#CleanAir
#MaskUp
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Mounting evidence of interference to bias the answers that
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www.theverge.com/news/798388/...
#FightFacism
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NEW RESOURCE đ.The genocide in Gaza demands moral clarity. Australasian medical institutions must speak up against atrocities and support healthcare workers. Silence risks complicity. Ethics require action, not just words.
tinyurl.com/52ncty49
#HealthAdvocacy
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Xi directs quashing of Chinese feminists even as he praises advances at womenâs conference
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Xi directs quashing of Chinese feminists even as he praises advances at womenâs conference
Chinese president is behind patriarchal turn in politics with activists silenced for âpromoting gender antagonismâ
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/15/xi-directs-quashing-of-chinese-feminists-even-as-he-praises-advances-at-womens-conference
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Drawing on data from more than 100 countries, WHO found that drug-resistant infections have risen significantly in recent years, representing a third of all infections in some regions
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âAs new infections outpace new drugs, are we sleepwalking into a global health disaster?â | Dr Manica Balasegaram
Much of the political momentum around the antimicrobial resistance crisis has dissipated, but a new report shows the danger to our health has not
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/oct/14/tipping-point-drug-resistant-bacteria-health-antimicrobial-resistance-report
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âAn unseen side of Black Britainâ: memories of 1980s Bradford â in pictures
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âAn unseen side of Black Britainâ: memories of 1980s Bradford â in pictures
Pinball, boomboxes and vintage cars! Victor Wedderburnâs photographs capture the joys â and struggles â of the era for the cityâs immigrant communities
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/oct/14/an-unseen-side-of-black-britain-memories-of-1980s-bradford-in-pictures
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Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. đď¸
10 days ago
Reviewer 2 felt differently.
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Michael J. Kramer
10 days ago
Why are there so few (none?) news stories about individual ICE agents themselves? Who they are, what motivates them, any moral dilemmas they face? Why arenât protesters trying to get some to speak out?
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Nurse Birdy.
11 days ago
How many healthcare workers have Long Covid đ¤ I wonder?
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Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record
11 days ago
Also: if you work for ICE, even if youâre not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, youâre part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.
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Andrew Lawrence
11 days ago
every single tech idea is like âsoon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employersâ spreadsheetsâ
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John Pavlovitz
11 days ago
Good people need to start outing their ICE family members, neighbors, and community members. They need to be made into pariahs in the places decent Americans gather.
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Gaia Vince
11 days ago
I have no idea what is the story behind the Portland frogs but I am very much enjoying the elevation of frogs to superheroes!
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Overseas aid which could help to stabilise countries most at risk from the climate crisis and avoid some of the impacts warned about, has been slashed.
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy
10 days ago
This isnât fearmongering â itâs reality. Hospital-acquired COVID can delay care or cost you your health â even your life. Infection control measures â masks, ventilation, testing, and staff/patient protections â should be standard care in every healthcare setting. Source:
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Celebrating Joseph Kimani, a champion for social justice and human rights. With 25+ years alongside Slum Dwellers, he shows us that change starts with connection. Josephâs becoming a dad again soon! Read more about his inspiring journey. đ
pamojacommunications.co.uk/joseph-kimani/
#CommunityPower
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Erin Biba
13 days ago
Itâs interesting being the only person masking anymore because Iâve essentially taken my invisible disability and made it visible. So people all stare at me and whisper to each other. I now experience the world as a visibly disabled person and itâs informative. My strategy is direct eye contact LOL
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God
13 days ago
Thou shalt not shoot pastors in the head with smoke bombs. I shouldnât have to say this.
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Erin Biba
13 days ago
Great so now weâre like two steps away from saying Jews cause autism
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Christopher Webb
13 days ago
Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesnât need your support, just your silence.
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Sham Jaff
14 days ago
Itâs a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.
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Erin Biba
14 days ago
As a fact checker, Iâve had writers berate me so intensely over suggesting they make changes to *factual errors* in their pieces that I have been *reduced to tears* and yâall my name is not on this story Iâm literally here to SAVE YOU from public humiliation and lawsuits.
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Earlier this month, an investigation called Boy Wasted revealed that, for the last decade, two people were crushed, ripped, or burned to death in the recycling sector in Turkey every month.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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UK plastic waste exports to developing countries rose 84% in a year, data shows
Campaigners say increase in exports mostly to Malaysia and Indonesia is âunethical and irresponsible waste imperialismâ
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/08/uk-plastic-waste-exports-to-developing-countries-rose-84-in-a-year-data-shows
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Aida A. Hozic
15 days ago
The developing world that could not afford green transition is doing it; the world that had all the money and alleged industrial policies for greening is back to fossil fuels and militarization.
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Melanie DâArrigo
15 days ago
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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We are on a journey to ânatural childbirthâ where pain relief is denied and motherhood is martyrdom.
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Shane O'Mara
16 days ago
co-pilot summaries of emails. a useless solution in search of a non-existent problem. awful. and pointless. and witless (bc co-pilot doesn't understand context).
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l-L_-p
16 days ago
ÂŤâIn YorĂšbĂĄ culture,twins occupy a position of profound spiritual and social importanceâ[âŚ]The ère ĂŹbejĂŹ are a material embodiment of a unique spiritual, cultural and artistic tradition among YorĂšbĂĄ people, who have one of the worldâs highest birth rates of twinsÂť
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Seeing double: the wooden carvings that celebrate the YorĂšbĂĄâs unique connection to twins
The ĂbejĂŹ Project is resurrecting interest in the traditional art of the YorĂšbĂĄ people, who have one of the highest rates of twin births in the world
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/oct/06/twin-carvings-yoruba-ere-ibej-statuettes-nigerian?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1759723537
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Tristin Amezcua-Hogan
16 days ago
My primary care doctor has a page on the officeâs official website dedicated to the virtues of ranked choice voting and reminding you of the next election.
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The decision to focus on recycling rather than reductions in consumption has deadly consequences for people in low- and middle-income countries
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Fast-fashion recycling: how âthe castoff capital of the worldâ is making Indian factory workers sick
Reports of lung disease, skin conditions and even cancer are rising in Panipat, which recycles 1 million tonnes of textile waste a year
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/oct/07/indian-factory-workers-fast-fashion-recycling-panipat-discarded-clothing
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dag
19 days ago
This letter is worth reading carefully.
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism
19 days ago
"We can support autistic kids in joyous, obsessive, atypical play. We can support them in play that NTs might not recognize as 'play' at all. And we can back off and let autistic kids be autistic kids." -Julia Bascom
@juststimming.bsky.social
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About âFunctional Playâ
When I was a child, I had severe deficiencies or delays in functional play skills, particularly with imaginative and cooperative play. (Or, thatâs how a psychologist would put it.) I was taugâŚ
https://juststimming.wordpress.com/2021/12/20/about-functional-play/
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Chuncheng Liu
19 days ago
I want to apologize to all the professors i secretly cursed for not responding to my emails and to apologize to everyone whose emails i'm not responding to but jesus why are there so many emails and people and things and we're in the middle of so many layers of crisis
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Marlena Graves MDiv, PhD
19 days ago
âIt is far more difficult to speak truth to power when you enjoy the trappings of power. When you are sipping the kingâs wine, and enjoying the kingâs food, you are much less likely to stand up to the king when you must do so.â - Jared Alcantara via Bible study small group tonight
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Astonishingly cruel aid cuts begin to bite with a rise in malnourished children in parts of Kenya. Brace yourselves for more of these types of stories
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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1/3 of children malnourished in Kenyaâs second-largest region as aid cuts kick in
Exclusive: Data from Save the Children reveals a devastating climate-driven food crisis is hitting the countryâs northwest
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/food-hunger-aid-climate-kenya-b2837309.html
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"We are purposely misled to quantify and encode what injustices exist and are experienced. Do we need more data and research to âinformâ us of the traumas we experience at the hands of violent systems and oppressive institutions?"
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When research becomes predatory
Reflections on inequity and injustice throughout the research pipeline
https://uxdesign.cc/when-research-becomes-predatory-7a464c0d2b4e
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It was great to be an author on this brief that looks at the earthquake response in
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22 days ago
Sums up this most dismal moment.
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ReBUILD for Resilience
23 days ago
TOMORROW... Would you like to learn about the practicalities of working in film for health systems research? If you are at the CREATE 2025 conference in South Africa you can - join our workshop Details...
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The outlook for women's rights and health in the US - and by extension for many other women around the world - looks grimmer and grimmer
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Kennedy targets popular abortion pill | The Observer
US drug agency will review the most widely used abortion medication, mifepristone
https://observer.co.uk/news/international/article/kennedy-targets-popular-abortion-pill
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Last Monday, the Taliban started shutting down Afghanistanâs fibre-optic internet across the northern provinces. Cutting internet not only prevents girls from learning online, but also severs their last connection to the outside world.
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âIt kept our spirits aliveâ: Talibanâs internet blackout leaves girls in despair
Many Afghan women and girls can no longer communicate or study online after the internet is cut off in 12 provinces
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/sep/23/taliban-afghanistan-internet-shutdown-women-girls-education-hope
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Brent Toderian
25 days ago
âTrumpâs U.N. speech was a textbook example of whatâs come to be known in science communication circles as the âgish gallop,â wherein anti-science promoters attempt to overwhelm you with a fire hose of plausible-sounding but fundamentally false claims and talking points.â â
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Iâm a climate scientist. Trumpâs U.N. address is a fire hose of misinformation
OPINION: âWhat Trump is really doing is advancing a plan laid down years ago by plutocrats and polluters. And making a mockery of our country as he does so,â Michael E. Mann writes.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/trump-climate-change-un-21067184.php
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