And if you know anybody based in Newham who is interested in community-based participatory research and mental health and is looking for a new role, please send them my way!

Hugely excited to partner with the @cmhlpindia.bsky.social and Newham Community Project on our new Atmiyata East London project. Thank you to @bartscharity.bsky.social for making this collaboration possible @netshrink.bsky.social @qmulpsychiatry.bsky.social @qmul-wiph.bsky.social

Google Calendar removes Black History Month, Pride and other cultural events

Ranthambore: A haven for majestic tigers! This renowned sanctuary is safeguarded by the conservation efforts of local indigenous communities, including the Meena tribe. Their traditional knowledge and deep ecological understanding play a crucial role in tiger conservation.

Indiasky is still too small, but boosting this, and hoping someone sees this and connects Soumitra to the right people.

On a per gm basis, protein from veg sources is very expensive compared to meat protein. Protein deficiency in childhood leads to adverse physical & intellectual outcomes. Banning meat protein in school meals is just a strategy to keep the poor, poor.

Friends, I need some leads. We need to raise funds (substantial) to expand our youth suicide prevention program from 3 cities to across the country. How do we get CSR funding? A few CSR ppl I spoke to, unfortunately do not have suicide prevention as a priority area for funding!

This one is in spring mode!

"Regression to the mean" is a statistical concept that is so appropriately worded. Equally applicable to societies as to everything else. Just look around you.

"The study is impressive in its scale...cases and deaths dropped by more than 50% and in the Indigenous population the drop was even more dramatic: more than 60%." Nature Medicine study shows the effects of Bolsa Familia strongest in Black and Indigenous populations www.npr.org/sections/goa...

"Overseas tourism is booming around the world, but India is being left behind. India closed its few remaining overseas tourist offices in 2023. The budget for tourism promotion abroad was slashed by two-thirds from 1bn rupees ($12m) that year to just 330m in 2024" :(

Even cats were not spared from the bombing. A kitten sits next to her dead mother 💔🥲

I am tired of these complaints here about GST on private health insurance. GST is not the problem, private health insurance is the real issue. Healthcare is a public good & should be publicly funded & provided. For all. Free at the point of delivery. Not just for CGHS babus.

Oh dear! Yet another example of why techbros should not stray away from their field...

I’ve always been fascinated by how conservatives turned to South Africa in the late 1960s and 1970s to project racist attitudes and fantasies that had become less welcome in polite white society.

So funny to see conservatives battling it out between the "we hate foreigners and want them gone" faction and the "we hate foreigners and want them as indentured servants" faction. Truly an ideological battle for the ages.

Fantastic paper by @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social For your holiday reading list! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Casteism is the same as racism. Probably worse, actually, because it’s a two-in-one.

I knew Mumbai had jackals, but not THESE jackals! Wow!

How Mumbai’s Golden #Jackals Adapt to Survive in the Urban #Wilderness The golden jackals of #Mumbai remain vital to the city’s ecological balance. They act as natural waste managers, controlling prey populations and cleaning up organic debris india.mongabay.com/2024/12/how-...

🍿 There is not enough popcorn in the universe for the main feature playing now

The conversations that Americans have on Twitter are mind-boggling to say the least!

This is the supreme irony of the MAGA schism over H-1Bs. Many workers who stayed at Twitter after Musk’s takeover did so because their status in the US was contingent on their employment. They kept a site running that was then used by MAGA folks to question why they were here in the first place.

Things appear to be going swimmingly over on Twitter. I'd like to point out, however, that Elon illegally overstayed a student visa - he didn't have an H1B. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Sorry for the cross post but Jesus Christ almighty. Good ol’ Sidharth really showed his ass by pointing out that “dehumanizing attacks” only became a problem for him after they were turned on him & his community. The dehumanizing attacks against *gestures wildly* EVERYONE ELSE were just fine tho.

Fascinating essay by @kikumbhar.bsky.social Should be on your weekend reading list. historyprofessor.in/2024/12/24/h...

Young ppl: Outlive Chat is a safe space to find peer support & tools to help manage difficult feelings & thoughts of ending your life. It has many tools that can help you manage your thoughts & feelings in difficult moments. It's free! Pl RT & share chat.outlive.in/landing-page

Love it when bookshops or libraries arrange their books appropriately...

What could Trump have against Panama? Oh.

The continuing stigmatisation of "non-veg" food.

I started my mental health newsletter Sanity in Dec 2020. As a solo writer from the global south, it's a miracle that I've survived 4 years :,) The Sanity community, spanning 50+ countries, is pure magic. Nothing like it exists anywhere else. Join us and see for yourself: www.sanitybytanmoy.com

Canadian MP Charlie Angus: The message I’m hearing from people across Canada is this: they’re not afraid of you. They know you’re a convicted felon. They know that the people you’re bringing in to run your, let’s call it an “organization” rather than a government, are grifters, thieves, and thugs.

yep, this is the standard position at the gurudwara. Nobody is going to means test you, if you want food, go and eat. Thats literally why it's there

If you were in India Sire, the Govt would charge you 18% GST (Goods & Services Tax) on that stuff. They don't care if it is homemade or not.

What does it say that this took me zero time to understand.

After many years, a proper winter morning mist in Pune. Persisting till 8.30 am. Smells very fresh, not smog I think!

The perfect corner doesn’t exi-....

Shiny new digital mental health tools/app/chatbots - many making misleading and unsubstantiated claims and preying on sensitive personal data of users - are helping employers perpetrate a massive con job on employees battered by blood-sucking management. www.welcometothejungle.com/en/articles/...

New statue of Lady Justice in the SC is no longer blindfolded. As a result, she can no longer see Justice.

Not just America

After being in stealth mode from 1947 to the 1990s, the hindutva faction progressively began to exhibit overt penetration of all facets of society, government and media. Over the last decade, the last holdouts, judiciary and the military, have been successfully subjugated too.

Affirmative action isn't a means to education or job. Stop criticizing reservations since the goals of affirmative actions are realized in society.

92% of sewer & septic tank workers are from Dalit and other marginalized castes. Wtf is an "occupation based activity" anyway?

Me, a public health person, just sitting over here reflecting on the fact that the US has experienced a 7% increase in infant mortality post-Dobbs. Like, do you realize what that says about this society from an ethical perspective? That we made policy choices that caused this? #PHEthx

Below is one of our dogs named Elton that my son got for Christmas 2 years ago. He sits there waiting for my son to get home from school each day just like this👇 Somewhere in Madison, Wisconsin right now, a dog is waiting for his child to come home from school too who never will💔 #EndGunViolenceNow

"Every artist owes Suchir Balaji a debt, for confirming what we knew from the inside." - @mollycrabapple.bsky.social

Israel just announced they will close their embassy in Ireland due to "the extreme anti-Israel policies of the Irish government," We will wear this as a badge of honour. We stand on the right side of history 🇮🇪 #Ireland

"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all." -- Arthur C. Clarke, born #OTD 1917