People will always find ways to have an abortion, all bans do is entrench inequality in access
Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026
Claire Pierson
A new Guttmacher report: Current abortion numbers remain stable nationally, with shifts in where abortions occurred. In states without total bans, abortions declined slightly from 1,049,000 to 1,036,000. In states with total bans, telehealth provision continued to increase from 74,000 to 91,000.
How you know you're working in the proper sciency part of the university
A flagship journal in my field uses AI in the editorial process!
Yes, & they even give this vacuous (described below) feedback when they reject papers. I tried pushing back and was told I'm being emotional (sexism red flag) because I can't deal with rejection (lemme laugh for a few minutes).
Claire Pierson
Claire Pierson
Claire Pierson
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
The family of the Belfast stabbing victim have released a statement saying - like the family of Henry Nowak last week - that the attack should not be used to "divide people or fuel hostility"
They condemned disorder and praised the "valuable contribution" by migrants
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@clairehanna.bsky.social : "Last week, in a very high profile case, the murder of Natalie McNally, the judge.. talked about a frenzied knife attack, he talked about wounds so bad the cause of death was unable to to be determined. There were no riots over the perpetrator of that brutal crime"
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Some reading and viewing for Nakba Day: our Interventions series on the Palestinian genocide antipodeonline.org/2024/03/01/i... and the 2024 Antipode RGS-IBG Lecture—“Where is Palestine? Singapore on the Med, Spaceships, and the Mount of Olives” antipodeonline.org/2024/08/14/2...