Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri
@rishie.bsky.social
feminist #abortion & reproductive (in)justice researcher, tennis fan, likes tea. co-runs @abortionbookclub.bsky.social. Lecturer in Global Health & Social Medicine @kings-sga.bsky.social.
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Legal/scholars who work with legal archives: how do I find specific cases? For e.g., @wellcomecollection.bsky.social archives say Rex v. Blain is in the public domain. But where do I find/search for the case file/transcript? Maybe @ruthfletcher.bsky.social @sandraduffy.bsky.social know?
November 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Legal/scholars who work with legal archives: how do I find specific cases? For e.g., @wellcomecollection.bsky.social archives say Rex v. Blain is in the public domain. But where do I find/search for the case file/transcript? Maybe @ruthfletcher.bsky.social @sandraduffy.bsky.social know?
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As #India transforms into a hub for artificial intelligence, the datacentre boom is creating a toxic hell and ruining the health of its people.
“Amazon is using the shiny thing of AI to distract from the fact that it’s building a dirty energy empire."
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
“Amazon is using the shiny thing of AI to distract from the fact that it’s building a dirty energy empire."
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘It’s hell for us here’: Mumbai families suffer as datacentres keep the city hooked on coal
As Mumbai sees increased energy demand from new datacenters, particularly from Amazon, the filthiest neighbourhood in one of India’s largest cities must keep its major coal plants
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:34 AM
As #India transforms into a hub for artificial intelligence, the datacentre boom is creating a toxic hell and ruining the health of its people.
“Amazon is using the shiny thing of AI to distract from the fact that it’s building a dirty energy empire."
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
“Amazon is using the shiny thing of AI to distract from the fact that it’s building a dirty energy empire."
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
this is so deeply upsetting to read, for many reasons. the takeaway isn’t jus ‘prosecute influencers’ but why there is such deep distrust of medicine and obstetric care- we know the rates of obstetric violence are horrifying, maternal mortality & morbidity is shocking; & so deeply racialised. 1/
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
this is so deeply upsetting to read, for many reasons. the takeaway isn’t jus ‘prosecute influencers’ but why there is such deep distrust of medicine and obstetric care- we know the rates of obstetric violence are horrifying, maternal mortality & morbidity is shocking; & so deeply racialised. 1/
This week in Critical Bioethics, we asked "What kids of ethics in a pandemic?" - apart from the moral frameworks ("no egalitarians in a pandemic" - really?), we reflected on ungrievability, necropolitics too. A student asked "what evidence did they draw on?" I've just sent them the inquiry report.
BREAKING: UK Government chaos and a failure to take Covid-19 seriously cost 23,000 lives.
Former prime minister Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic” culture in Number 10 and regularly changed his mind, a public inquiry has concluded
Former prime minister Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic” culture in Number 10 and regularly changed his mind, a public inquiry has concluded
November 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This week in Critical Bioethics, we asked "What kids of ethics in a pandemic?" - apart from the moral frameworks ("no egalitarians in a pandemic" - really?), we reflected on ungrievability, necropolitics too. A student asked "what evidence did they draw on?" I've just sent them the inquiry report.
I can kind of understand JMDP, but not Kuz - 4 GS overall (2 singles, 2 doubles), especially when Roddick is there with his single slam (whom I really like!). I also don't get Nestor getting rejected THREE times -EIGHT majors AND an Olympic gold. What do they base this on?!
News:
Roger Federer was voted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame, but the other two nominees in the recent player category—Svetlana Kuznetsova and Juan Martin del Potro—did not clear the 75% threshold for induction.
Mary Carillo was voted in as a contributor.
Roger Federer was voted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame, but the other two nominees in the recent player category—Svetlana Kuznetsova and Juan Martin del Potro—did not clear the 75% threshold for induction.
Mary Carillo was voted in as a contributor.
November 19, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I can kind of understand JMDP, but not Kuz - 4 GS overall (2 singles, 2 doubles), especially when Roddick is there with his single slam (whom I really like!). I also don't get Nestor getting rejected THREE times -EIGHT majors AND an Olympic gold. What do they base this on?!
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I love this thread - including photos of lesbians organizing at Beijing in 1995!
In my book I look at this lesbian advocacy as it relates to the movement for women's peacebuilding globally.
Check it out here, and message me if you have any trouble accessing it. academic.oup.com/book/61612/c...
In my book I look at this lesbian advocacy as it relates to the movement for women's peacebuilding globally.
Check it out here, and message me if you have any trouble accessing it. academic.oup.com/book/61612/c...
November 19, 2025 at 8:01 AM
I love this thread - including photos of lesbians organizing at Beijing in 1995!
In my book I look at this lesbian advocacy as it relates to the movement for women's peacebuilding globally.
Check it out here, and message me if you have any trouble accessing it. academic.oup.com/book/61612/c...
In my book I look at this lesbian advocacy as it relates to the movement for women's peacebuilding globally.
Check it out here, and message me if you have any trouble accessing it. academic.oup.com/book/61612/c...
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Given it’s taking 7, 8 up to 23 years to make some determinations this actually had me laughing out loud in the absolute certainty this this is undeliverable on every level. It’s a broken policy on inception. The bureaucracy alone is unworkable.
It will also mean people's refugee status will be reviewed every 2 and half years. If this policy was in place now, that would mean the Home Office having at least another 67k decisions to process over the next year (the number of initial decision grants made between April 2023 and March 2024)
Shabana Mahmood has vowed to end Britain’s “golden ticket” for asylum seekers by forcing people arriving illegally to wait 20 years before they can apply for permanent settlement
November 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Given it’s taking 7, 8 up to 23 years to make some determinations this actually had me laughing out loud in the absolute certainty this this is undeliverable on every level. It’s a broken policy on inception. The bureaucracy alone is unworkable.
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🚨 1st-ever WHO Infertility guidelines out 28 Nov
Join us for the launch of the WHO guideline for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of infertility — the first to set global standards for equitable, evidence-based fertility care.
🗓️ 28 Nov | 13:00 CET
💻 Register: bit.ly/4oBilmd
#SRHR
Join us for the launch of the WHO guideline for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of infertility — the first to set global standards for equitable, evidence-based fertility care.
🗓️ 28 Nov | 13:00 CET
💻 Register: bit.ly/4oBilmd
#SRHR
November 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
🚨 1st-ever WHO Infertility guidelines out 28 Nov
Join us for the launch of the WHO guideline for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of infertility — the first to set global standards for equitable, evidence-based fertility care.
🗓️ 28 Nov | 13:00 CET
💻 Register: bit.ly/4oBilmd
#SRHR
Join us for the launch of the WHO guideline for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of infertility — the first to set global standards for equitable, evidence-based fertility care.
🗓️ 28 Nov | 13:00 CET
💻 Register: bit.ly/4oBilmd
#SRHR
this really made me laugh (not the sewage in waterways!) and is the most British way to protest that I’ve heard in a while
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Not so Golden Brown: DJ plays 24-hours of No 2s in Lake District sewage protest
Radio host uses chart songs that didn’t quite make top spot to highlight issue of Windermere pollution
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:54 AM
this really made me laugh (not the sewage in waterways!) and is the most British way to protest that I’ve heard in a while
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‼️New Publication‼️ Precarity and Pills in a Pandemic: online #abortion care-seeking in Poland.
How did COVID-19 shape abortion care-seeking in Poland?
The pandemic deepened existing precarities and structural violence, reshaping abortion decision-making.
1/
doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
How did COVID-19 shape abortion care-seeking in Poland?
The pandemic deepened existing precarities and structural violence, reshaping abortion decision-making.
1/
doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
Redirecting
doi.org
November 12, 2025 at 10:56 AM
‼️New Publication‼️ Precarity and Pills in a Pandemic: online #abortion care-seeking in Poland.
How did COVID-19 shape abortion care-seeking in Poland?
The pandemic deepened existing precarities and structural violence, reshaping abortion decision-making.
1/
doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
How did COVID-19 shape abortion care-seeking in Poland?
The pandemic deepened existing precarities and structural violence, reshaping abortion decision-making.
1/
doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
interesting @podsavetheuk.crooked.com epon abortion in the UK- Lisa was great!- but I’d suggest that perhaps imaginations/knowledges of fighting back is actually from non-US contexts like Argentina, or y’know, Ireland! The most radical abortion work is not happening in the US. 😕
November 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
interesting @podsavetheuk.crooked.com epon abortion in the UK- Lisa was great!- but I’d suggest that perhaps imaginations/knowledges of fighting back is actually from non-US contexts like Argentina, or y’know, Ireland! The most radical abortion work is not happening in the US. 😕
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In Oct 2023, an FOI revealed an actual wait at my nearest clinic (Exeter) of 17yrs & 3mos, a fact that stunned everyone I told. In one year, that's grown to THIRTY-ONE YEARS.
NOT bcos referral rates are ballooning, as the MSM claims, but bcos at last count, each clinician only did 1.6 new appts pcm
NOT bcos referral rates are ballooning, as the MSM claims, but bcos at last count, each clinician only did 1.6 new appts pcm
Revealed waiting times of all GICs in UK: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get an appointment, and some will never receive care
Some people in Scotland will never get gender clinic appointment on 224-year waitlist
Revealed waiting times of all GICs in UK: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get an appointment, and some will never receive care
www.wearequeeraf.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM
In Oct 2023, an FOI revealed an actual wait at my nearest clinic (Exeter) of 17yrs & 3mos, a fact that stunned everyone I told. In one year, that's grown to THIRTY-ONE YEARS.
NOT bcos referral rates are ballooning, as the MSM claims, but bcos at last count, each clinician only did 1.6 new appts pcm
NOT bcos referral rates are ballooning, as the MSM claims, but bcos at last count, each clinician only did 1.6 new appts pcm
I love when bus driver uncle sees me at the zebra crossing and nods at me, and waits at the bus stop for me to catch up. 🥹
November 5, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I love when bus driver uncle sees me at the zebra crossing and nods at me, and waits at the bus stop for me to catch up. 🥹
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The government has announced yet another proposed anti-protest law: a new criminal offence of protesting outside the home of someone in public office "where their intention is to influence them in their role or an aspect of their private life", with a maximum sentence of 6 months’ imprisonment.
November 5, 2025 at 6:57 AM
The government has announced yet another proposed anti-protest law: a new criminal offence of protesting outside the home of someone in public office "where their intention is to influence them in their role or an aspect of their private life", with a maximum sentence of 6 months’ imprisonment.
Has anyone ever volunteered as an independent visitor?
November 4, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Has anyone ever volunteered as an independent visitor?
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The Mannheim Centre at the LSE is holding a PhD symposium in May '26. The details are here lse.ac.uk/social-polic... and I would encourage all interested PhD students to apply. Should be a great, great event
Mannheim Centre for Criminology | PhD Symposium 2026
The LSE’s Mannheim Centre for Criminology is pleased to announce the inaugural PhD Symposium taking place 18-19 May 2026
lse.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 11:02 AM
The Mannheim Centre at the LSE is holding a PhD symposium in May '26. The details are here lse.ac.uk/social-polic... and I would encourage all interested PhD students to apply. Should be a great, great event
even when they’re stripped of titles, they’re still propped up with our tax monies.
grow up already, it’s been time for a @republiccampaign.bsky.social for aeons already
grow up already, it’s been time for a @republiccampaign.bsky.social for aeons already
October 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
even when they’re stripped of titles, they’re still propped up with our tax monies.
grow up already, it’s been time for a @republiccampaign.bsky.social for aeons already
grow up already, it’s been time for a @republiccampaign.bsky.social for aeons already
organised as part of the Reproduction Research Group in the Dept. of Global Health & Social Medicine @kings-sga.bsky.social, we're delighted to celebrate the work of Drs Vacarezza, @cordyf.bsky.social, Chaparro-Buitrago. Come join us in person or online! www.outsavvy.com/event/31065/...
October 30, 2025 at 9:24 AM
organised as part of the Reproduction Research Group in the Dept. of Global Health & Social Medicine @kings-sga.bsky.social, we're delighted to celebrate the work of Drs Vacarezza, @cordyf.bsky.social, Chaparro-Buitrago. Come join us in person or online! www.outsavvy.com/event/31065/...
What does it mean to speak of joyful passions in an era of reactionary politics? 'in conversation' w/ leading feminist & reproductive justice scholars on messy, magical, political feminist activism in Latin America. 10th Nov, 1830-1930 GMT: www.outsavvy.com/event/31065/... @kings-sga.bsky.social
In Conversation: Feminist Joys, Magic Pills, and Decolonial Praxis in Latin America. Tickets - London - OutSavvy
What does it mean to speak of joyful passions in an era when reactionary politics thrive on resentment? How do feminist movements across Latin America navigate these tensions while fighting for reprod...
www.outsavvy.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:21 AM
What does it mean to speak of joyful passions in an era of reactionary politics? 'in conversation' w/ leading feminist & reproductive justice scholars on messy, magical, political feminist activism in Latin America. 10th Nov, 1830-1930 GMT: www.outsavvy.com/event/31065/... @kings-sga.bsky.social
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Here are two "I can't believe these are free" online stats texts books that cover both underlying principles and practical applications in R that I regularly refer to.
Learning Statistics with R
learningstatisticswithr.com
Doing Meta-Analysis with R bookdown.org/MathiasHarre...
Learning Statistics with R
learningstatisticswithr.com
Doing Meta-Analysis with R bookdown.org/MathiasHarre...
October 17, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Here are two "I can't believe these are free" online stats texts books that cover both underlying principles and practical applications in R that I regularly refer to.
Learning Statistics with R
learningstatisticswithr.com
Doing Meta-Analysis with R bookdown.org/MathiasHarre...
Learning Statistics with R
learningstatisticswithr.com
Doing Meta-Analysis with R bookdown.org/MathiasHarre...
I tend to write really detailed feedback for student assessments - this is obviously extremely time intensive, & i'm often told students don't *want* that much feedback. my marking load has also increased so... any tips on how to write more conscise but still useful feedback?
October 16, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I tend to write really detailed feedback for student assessments - this is obviously extremely time intensive, & i'm often told students don't *want* that much feedback. my marking load has also increased so... any tips on how to write more conscise but still useful feedback?
is it my algorithm glitching by sending me karva chauth stuff or is it a lot more folks putting it on social media?
October 12, 2025 at 7:17 AM
is it my algorithm glitching by sending me karva chauth stuff or is it a lot more folks putting it on social media?
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Today, the counterprotesters have started giving out leaflets.
This is because yesterday they managed to talk someone out of going to FiLiA, and they felt that leaflets could communicate such messages more effectively.
They have also started giving out stickers promoting trans joy.
This is because yesterday they managed to talk someone out of going to FiLiA, and they felt that leaflets could communicate such messages more effectively.
They have also started giving out stickers promoting trans joy.
October 11, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Today, the counterprotesters have started giving out leaflets.
This is because yesterday they managed to talk someone out of going to FiLiA, and they felt that leaflets could communicate such messages more effectively.
They have also started giving out stickers promoting trans joy.
This is because yesterday they managed to talk someone out of going to FiLiA, and they felt that leaflets could communicate such messages more effectively.
They have also started giving out stickers promoting trans joy.
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Really not good at all that the Christian Right feels emboldened enough to parade in Soho in paramilitary uniforms. www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/10/k...
Evangelical 'King's Army' group disrupts traffic in historic LGBTQ+ London district
A right-wing, evangelical group calling itself the King's Army blocked traffic on Old Compton Street in Soho while chanting anti-LGBTQ+ slogans.
www.thepinknews.com
October 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Really not good at all that the Christian Right feels emboldened enough to parade in Soho in paramilitary uniforms. www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/10/k...