For justice in science, and science in justice! ✊⚙️
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People's Science Workshop TCD retweeted
This proposal is almost 70% funded:
The State has invested over €70 million in a private company who aim to collect the DNA of 400,000 volunteers.
We want to find out why a private rather than public initiative was funded.
Help us investigate: noteworthy.ie/proposal/priva…
People's Science Workshop TCD retweeted
Our interview with Hilary and Steven Rose is out today! As part of our Science Under Occupation issue, Secretary Katherine Bryant talks to the Roses about their advocacy for Palestinian scientists and their anti-war activism more broadly:
magazine.scienceforthepeople…
People's Science Workshop TCD retweeted
Science in culture and public life, from a progressive standpoint:
Massive Science @massivesci
Lady Science @ladyxscience
SciComm Journal Club @scicomm_jc
People’s Science Workshop TCD @TCDsciworkshop
Piratas Ciencia @piratas_sciencia
This is Not an Atlas @NotanAtlas
"Ireland is an extremely rare case in ceding a national genome project to a private company for private enrichment, rather than returning value back to the taxpayer and public – not private – health initiatives."
irishtimes.com/business/tech…
People's Science Workshop TCD retweeted
First meeting of the TCD PhD Workers Rights Group next week. Please fill in what date suits you best on this doodle poll. Meeting will take place evening time, around 6:30-8pm:
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Take a listen to this cool podcast interview with @sftporg !
pointofinquiry.org/2019/06/m…
People's Science Workshop TCD retweeted
Fair play! Nobel Chemistry Prize winner George P. Smith speaks out about the oppression of Palestinians and why we should support a boycott of Apartheid Israel. fultonsun.com/news/local/sto…
"Treating these infections would be tough anywhere in the world, but in Gaza it is even tougher. With a health system reeling from the effects of more than a decade of Israeli blockade ... MSF is working to provide care that is otherwise unavailable."
msf.org/treating-resistant-i…
"To date, Ireland seems to have adopted an entirely commercial approach to genomic medicine. This approach places at risk the free availability bid genomic data for scientific research that could benefit patients"
irishtimes.com/opinion/irela…
People's Science Workshop TCD retweeted
The growing popularity of using genetic science to address healthcare disparities ignores one big thing: inequality lives in our social and political structures, not our DNA. jacobinmag.com/2019/06/racis…
People's Science Workshop TCD retweeted
Great news from Ireland!! Who is next?
And remember: #ClimateEmergency means leaving fossil fuels in the ground. #ClimateBreakdown #EcologicalBreakdown
Its official.Ireland becomes 2nd country in the world to declare a #ClimateEmergency & Dáil also agreed to endorse all the recommendations of the Oireachtas Climate Action Report .Definitely one of the highlights for me as a @greenparty_ie TD .My children are thrilled.
Great article by one of our members on the worryingly recent history of race science in Ireland and abroad. Make sure to give it a read! trinitynews.ie/2019/04/a-rec…
People's Science Workshop TCD retweeted
Was stunned recently to see some on the left calling for the state to exclude unvaccinated kids from schools and fine parents of those kids.
Let's absolutely defend vaccination when it's attacked, let's also push for greater access to more vaccines
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Good article on the resurgence of race science, long but worthwhile read!
vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/3/…
People's Science Workshop TCD retweeted
Another great meeting of @TCDsciworkshop today! 🔬✊🏽
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Good thread on an alternative to costly, exclusive and inaccessible scientific publication🔬
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People's Science Workshop TCD retweeted
Psst... Richard C Lewontin, co-author of one of the most popular Genetics textbooks around (one we use in TCD) is a revolutionary Marxist 🤙
Here he is at his best, writing on the consequences and ideological underpinnings of fallacious genetic determinism #ScienceForThePeople
"The ideology of the modern competitive market society is then not one of equality of station but one of a natural sorting process aided by universal education in which “intrinsic merit” will be the criterion and source of success." - Richard Lewontin
jacobinmag.com/2017/04/biolo…
"The ideology of the modern competitive market society is then not one of equality of station but one of a natural sorting process aided by universal education in which “intrinsic merit” will be the criterion and source of success." - Richard Lewontin
jacobinmag.com/2017/04/biolo…
People's Science Workshop TCD retweeted
Please read from @GretaThunberg:"Once you have done your homework, you realize that we need new politics. We need a new economics, where everything is based on our rapidly declining and extremely limited carbon budget.
But that is not enough. We need a whole new way of thinking."
Over 1,5 million students on school strike 15/3. We proved that it does matter what you do and that no one is too small to make a difference.
Here is my response to the people who wants us to go back to school:
facebook.com/732846497083173…
#FridayForFuture #SchoolStrike4Climate
In the hands of private companies, even the most liberatory technologies will leave people dying of preventable cancers. It's time to democratise science! ✊🔬 theguardian.com/business/201…
