“Now That I Am Mama, I Think a Lot”: Asian Immigrant Mothers Navigating Motherhood and Pursuits of Higher Education in Iceland In this article, we employ an intersectional framework to examine immigrant mothers’ experiences navigating motherhood and pursuing higher education. Based on life-story interviews with seven first...

I am proud to co-author this article with Cynthia Trililani and Kristiina Brunila. Congratulations dear Cynthia.
Full article: “Now That I Am Mama, I Think a Lot”: Asian Immigrant Mothers Navigating Motherhood and Pursuits of Higher Education in Iceland www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Trump in excellent cognitive and physical health, says White House doctor Doctors also found Trump has "scaring on the right ear from a gunshot wound", after last July's assassination attempt.

The world begs to differ. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Stop the slaughter of civilians

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

The industrial plagiarism of academic papers by Meta to train their LLM has been revealed by The Atlantic. All academics should search the database & get in touch with journal editors to ask how & why this occurred & what they're going to do to stop it 🔭🧪 www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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Goodbye Amazom Prime

Takk

Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016 Analysis reveals many big producers increased output of fossil fuels and related emissions in seven years after Paris climate deal

57 companies are responsible for 80% of global greenhouse gas emissions since 2016.

These companies include fossil fuel giants like Chevron, Shell, and BP, who have been raking in record profits.

The profits of Big Oil should not be more important than the future of our planet.

Traumatic injury mortality in the Gaza Strip from Oct 7, 2023, to June 30, 2024: a capture–recapture analysis Our findings show an exceptionally high mortality rate in the Gaza Strip during the period studied. These results underscore the urgent need for interventions to prevent further loss of life and illuminate important patterns in the conduct of the war.

Article in the Lancet estimates the number of direct casualties in Gaza up till the summer of 2024 at 64,260. 40% above official estimates.
With excess mortality, the death toll will be in the hundreds of thousands. The question is how many hundreds.

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2024 out with a bang. Reykjavík craziness. Wish you a happy new year

We have a new government: summary of the press conference - RÚV.is The leaders of the ruling parties presented the coalition agreement and the composition of the government during a press conference at Hafnarborg in Hafnarfjörður, which began at 1:00 PM.

New government in Iceland. Seven out of 11 ministers are women and the prime minister the youngest in history of Iceland. We are hopeful and happy to be rid of the conservatives. www.ruv.is/english/2024...

Great paper. Thank you do you and @ginnybraun.bsky.social

This.

#Qualitative #Qualitativesky
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Happiness and Suffering in Conceiving the Desired: Affective Contradictions in the Public Discourses of Female Same-Sex and Cisgender Heterosexual Couples Undergoing Assisted Reproductive Treatments in Iceland This paper examines the construction of emotions and desires in public discourses surrounding assisted reproduction treatments (ART) among female same-sex and cisgender heterosexual couples in Icel...

Proud of our PhD student's 1st article #LGBTQ+

Happiness and Suffering in Conceiving the Desired: Affective Contradictions in the Public Discourses of Female Same-Sex and Cisgender Heterosexual Couples Undergoing Assisted Reproductive Treatments in Iceland www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The 10th eruption in 3 years on Reykjanes peninsula. No one in danger. View from balcony in Reykjavík

I’ve even had some imaginary conversations with you.

Looking for articles for a special issue in NORA. Abstracts due December 1st. Please share #academicSky

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Can you please add me?

Oh this cheered me up.

Trinity College Dublin agrees to divest from Israeli firms after student protest Five-day encampment in university grounds that caused the college major loss of income ended in victory for campaigners

Trinity College Dublin agrees to divest from Israeli firms after student protest

Happy Transgender Day of Visibility and Happy Easter

Just out. An article by @lysislampi.bsky.social and myself on the socio-politics of maternal guilt and shame. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Black female prosecutors like Fani Willis face the unequal burden of both racist and sexist attacks While Donald Trump has used his social media platform to criticize all of his opponents, the former president has made his most controversial attacks against Black female prosecutors.

There is a history of going after black, female prosecutors.

This article was written in August. It is foreboding.

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So proud to be part of this project.

Feminist solidarity and hopeful imaginings in the MeToo movement in Iceland - Annadís Greta Rúdólfsdóttir, Gyða Margrét Pétursdóttir, 2024 In this article, we build on feminist scholarship to narrate how the MeToo movement in Iceland was formed through collective reflexivity and resistance, ultimat...

And we (me and Gyða Margrét Pétursdóttir) proudly present. Feminist solidarity and hopeful imaginings in the MeToo movement in Iceland. Out now online European Journal of Women’s Studies

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