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Evi Numen

@evinumen.bsky.social

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Medical Heritage Museum Curator at TCD, queer #deathpositive artist, childfree cat-lady, in Dublin, Ireland. Aspiring sociologist at UCD writing on death, mortality, & display. 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 🐈‍⬛🪶📚📷💀🎨 https://www.evi-numen.com/ www.thanatography.com Views, my own.

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Evi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 15h

Spoiler: drink water instead.

Diet Drinks Harder on the Liver Than Sugary Drinks?

Both sugar-sweetened and diet drinks raise the risk for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, with artificial sweeteners linked to an even greater risk.

www.medscape.com

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Andrew Copson @andrewcopson.bsky.social · 16h

Another critical moment for the assisted dying bill, the most intensely scrutinised legislation this Parliament has ever seen. What's clear is the status quo is unworkable. It leads to unnecessary suffering, painful suicides, and people forced to flee their country for control over their deaths.

Assisted Dying Bill ‘most intensely scrutinised legislation’ – Select Committee begins

The House of Lords Select Committee on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill will hold two oral evidence sessions this week. It has been reported that the committee is weighted against assisted...

humanists.uk

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Evi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 1d

This is the most pertinent and recent media piece I'm finding: www.washingtonblade.com/2025/06/20/t...
Others are a few years old.

The forgotten struggle: LGBTQ refugees and asylum seekers in South Sudan

June 20 is World Refugee Day

www.washingtonblade.com

Evi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 1d

thank you!

Evi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 1d

There seems to be very little in terms of media coverage of their particular struggle that's quite complicated because of bigotry on the ground.

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Evi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 1d

@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social @bschillace.brandyschillace.com
maybe you know someone to look into this and spread some awareness? More info at @girlpowers.bsky.social

Evi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 1d

Do I know anyone (who knows anyone) who writes for a big press outlet on LBGTQIA human rights issues, especially worldwide? I'm trying to draw attention to the plight of a group of people in South Sudan who are facing grave danger and additional barriers to aid because of their identity.

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Humanist Society Scotland @humanistsociety.bsky.social · 1d

Last weekend, around seven million Americans joined the nationwide “No Kings” protests, calling out Trump.

Why does this matter for Scotland? Because US-style Christian nationalism is creeping into our country too, and we all have a duty to call it out. Here are some of our favourite No Kings signs

Sign that says I caught the woke mind virus and all I got was empathy and critical thinking skills

Sign saying the only royalty I want to see in this country is drag queens

sign saying if you're not ANTIFAscist you're PROFAscist, end ICE raids and military occupation of our cities

Picture of an orange butterfly with the caption 'the only orange monarch we want'

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Evi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 1d

Good to see BABAO's efforts to track and curb trade acknowledged! @babao2025meeting.bsky.social

Trading human remains: why bones should not become a commodity

The uneasy afterlife of human remains.

theconversation.com

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sarabourke.bsky.social @sarabourke.bsky.social · 1d

As an old (but not conservative) person, I totally endorse this. Despite everything, if the Conolly vote does not come out, Humphries will win. So get out there and keep encouraging others to. The "she has it in the bag" narrative is designed to make Connolly voters stay home. Don't fall for it.

Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 2d

With 72 hours to go until #Aras25 polling opens, a reminder - old, conservative people vote.
If you want something different to what they want, you need to do the same, and tell everyone you know to do it too.
Make a plan to vote.
Make sure others do too.
Then go vote.
Nothing else matters.

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Cackling O'Brien, Chief Witch-gineer 🔵 @radobrien.myatproto.social · 24d

ok this breakdown of AI writing indicators is incredible. Huge shout-out to the Wikipedia community for this

Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 22d

“What they’re trying to do is quietly end it, essentially slashing and killing DACA in front of us, one case at a time, one individual at a time.” interc.pt/4pTFsJU

A photo of Catalina "Xochitl" Santiago, who has spent more than 50 days in immigration detention in El Paso, Texas, overlaid with the headline, "The Trump Administration Is Arguing It Can Hold Dreamers Indefinitely," and the DEK, "Immigration experts warn the Trump administration is trying to keep a DACA recipient in detention so her protected status expires."

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 22d

The hematologist Oswald H. Robertson pioneered the idea of "blood banks" in WWI by packing glass jars of citrated blood from universal donors in an ice-filled chest that he had constructed from ammunition cases. He convinced countless others to donate blood during the war.

A blue-grey box with a Red Cross on it, which reads: "BLOOD TRANSFUSION SET."

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Sep 15

🩷💛 Check out @olivia.science ‘s CAIL website, with beautiful posters, video/podcast, papers and more! 🤩 olivia.science/ai

Colorful poster with text “Have you considered NOT using AI”, and a QR code going to our preprint “Against the Uncritical Adoption of ‘AI’ technologies”

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Evi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 25d

Nah, that doesn't cut it, this is all Trump's nonsense.

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Evi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 25d

I can't with the escalator hissy fit, how is this real life?? 😆

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 25d

As a scientist with three biology degrees from a top 50 global university & a post grad in statistics, I approve this message as factual. Love this T - T as in the truth. Sex is a continuum or spectrum, not binary. We need to challenge the Eugenicists every time.

Davis Bickford @davis.social · 25d

Sporting my super cool shirt from @sarahmackattack.bsky.social —design by @franzanth.bsky.social 😁

Selfie of me wearing a black T-shirt that says “biology is bigger than binaries.” It has a design with a fish, bee, and flower.

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Evi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 28d

Wow.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTf2...

Trump Blames Autism on Tylenol While Americans Prep for the Rapture on TikTok | The Daily Show

YouTube video by The Daily Show

www.youtube.com

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 28d

AI regurgitation is the new smoking

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Evi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 28d

That headline reads like Simon Harris is attacking the flotilla...

Evi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · 28d

Apropos of hearing PhD students casually referring to using Ai to "brainstorm" or to do copy editing. You are killing your brain. Copy editing is an exercise. It makes you a better writer and a better thinker. And don't get me started on 'brainstorming with Ai'...🤦‍♀️
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing?

The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher education.

www.newyorker.com

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 28d

On Weds 22 October, we visit historians at the University of Suffolk and Suffolk Archives, to discuss partnership working.

Our Ipswich visit includes a guest public lecture by Tim Grady (Chester) and a reception to meet fellow historians and RHS members bit.ly/4medzcd All are welcome #Skystorians

Britain and the Memory of the Two World Wars

A public lecture as part of the Royal Historical Society's visit to historians at the University of Suffolk, with Professor Tim Grady

bit.ly

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BABAO 2025 Annual Conference @babao2025meeting.bsky.social · Sep 20

3.27 — Our session on ‘The state of our bones: mortuary practices, taphonomy, and the conundrum of commingling’ continues now (6B); where Catherine Roberts et al. are ‘Testing the waters: The effect of deposition environment on dental diagenesis’ 🌊🦷🔬 #BABAO2025

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · Sep 20

Any journalist who signs is no longer a serious journalist. "Access" isn't everything.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Sep 19

“.. Those who refuse to sign the new policy will be stripped of or denied permanent credentials to cover the Pentagon.”

@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Evi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · Sep 20

What the hell, @ucddublin.bsky.social?
electronicintifada.net/blogs/david-...

University College Dublin teams up again with Israel's Technion

Irish authorities are under an obligation to act against genocide.

electronicintifada.net