Melina Platas
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Thank you, @Sarah_Brierley1 I'm really looking forward to it! twitter.com/Sarah_Brierley…
We (@melinaplatas @omerfyalcin and myself) are looking for nominations for the best conference paper award. Just need 1) paper title and authors, 2) conference it was presented at, and 3) some way to read the paper (e.g. pdf, link). Self nominations are very encouraged. Email us! twitter.com/PolNetworks/st…
Retweeted by Melina Platas Looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join @jandrewharris @vanderwindt and myself @NYUAD_SocialSci. Plan to focus on climate in SSA but open to your ideas - half time on collaborative research, half time on your own work. 3 year position based in Abu Dhabi apply.interfolio.com/101345
Today we got rid of the gas guzzling Pajero. It was Gwiza's idea, and she is right. I love her so much.
Many thanks to our *outstanding* research team in Uganda led by @Anthony10241388 without whom our contribution to this work would not have been possible. You can read the full paper here: nature.com/articles/s4159… twitter.com/SaadOmer3/stat…
Hate mail to my coauthor in reaction to our article on family history and attitudes towards immigrants/immigration in the US. Less surprising than it should be but still depressing and alarming. twitter.com/ClaireAdida/st…
Sprinters Christine Mboma & Beatrice Masilingi from Namibia, banned from the Olympic 400-metre dash because they've a “natural high testosterone level.” They’re the latest African women to be banned from track events cos they don’t fit World Athletics definition of womanhood 1/2
Retweeted by Melina Platas This is a hill I will absolutely die on. Rage. twitter.com/KarenAttiah/st…
In these trying times, the Association of Anaesthesiologists of Uganda has designed a dashboard that shows which ICU beds are available with daily updates. We pray this offers some relief. @UgandaMediaCent @kasujja @TheUMAofficial @AnesthesiaUg #UoT anesthesiaug.org/kampala-covid-…
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After working with women in markets for almost 4years, I'd have said that I have seen it all but I was yet to see what happens when these women are sleeping in the markets. So with all the women in me, I packed a bag and went to the market so I could tell this story
Retweeted by Melina Platas Update on the #HealthWorkerFundUg
As of 6pm on Sunday 27th June, we have received
980,000 via MTN
401,389 via Airtel Money
1,381,389 Total
We are extremely grateful to each one of you who has spread the word, contributed and reached out to support the cause in any way.
Retweeted by Melina Platas 3 prizes for 3 lucky trivia Friday winners! All you have to do is answer correctly as many questions as you can, in the shortest time possible. Only the first attempt counts per person.
𝗧𝗲𝗿𝗺𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘁#CivicEdUG��#TriviaFridayit.co/UUbAeZQgSo
Retweeted by Melina Platas Update through June of sequencing shows what I have suspected -- #DeltaVariant likely responsible for many of the #COVID19 cases in recent surge in #Uganda twitter.com/mlcotten13/sta…
Right on cue… #DeltaVariant has arrived in the low #Vaccination states of America 🇺🇸 and setting off sharp increases i#COVID1919 cases again. If only epidemiologists had been trying to warn… prP
Retweeted by Melina Platas Given the sheer volume of individual experiences with the current restrictions it seems almost urgent that @KagutaMuseveni review and clarify the directives so people don’t die because they cannot reach hospitals or relatives or even medicine & food.
Retweeted by Melina Platas We love you, papi. Happy Father's Day! Thankful for @Opiaiya and all the other papas out there raising beautiful queens and kings.
⚠️Confirmed—#DeltaVariant is by far the *most contagious** variant found to date, with a transmissibility that is ~2x faster than older strain. #P1 is 2nd fastest, says @WHO study.🧵
#B1171#Alphaha—29% faster
#B13513#Betaeta—25%#P1�#Gammaamma—38#B161721#DeltaDelta#COVID19VYhvNF
Retweeted by Melina Platas If you can't send food but can donate cash, here are numbers to donate to the @Estar_K team. They also promise to account for every cent. twitter.com/Estar_K/status…
Retweeted by Melina Platas Here is a google document; if you can receive food for your areas, fill out your details so people can donate.
docs.google.com/document/d/1kj… twitter.com/JackyKemigisa/…
Retweeted by Melina Platas Organisations or individuals near schools and town places, and you are willing to organise the drop-off, kindly drop a phone number and how people in your areas can donate food. twitter.com/JackyKemigisa/…
Retweeted by Melina Platas If you are an individual/organisation working in different communities (with the ability to receive/distribute food)
Please reply to this tweet with the area, contacts and any other information.
Jacky has kindly offered to document this for access to all who wish to help.
Asante. twitter.com/JackyKemigisa/…
Retweeted by Melina Platas Devastating. Also the tip of the iceberg. So many health workers falling sick on the front lines in #Uganda #COVID19 twitter.com/waiswap/status…
Also, if I may add, setting the terms and conditions of access through writing scholarships that dictate the form, substance, and even language of participation. twitter.com/MissChisomo/st…
Congratulations, Rusho!
But you are putting us all to shame. Enough already! :) twitter.com/Rushongoza/sta…
B.1.525 is the Eta variant, first observed in Nigeria. Currently considered a VOI (variant of interest). You can read more about classifications here: cdc.gov/coronavirus/20…
The vaccine is a lifeline, but do not assume it fully protects you and others.
The AstraZeneca vaccine being used in #Uganda is effective against this variant, but possibly less so. One study found 33% effectiveness after one dose and 60% after 2 doses (pre-print, not yet through peer review) khub.net/documents/1359…
Small samples but seems clear there are changes in the patterns of variants circulating in #Uganda. B.1.617.2 is the Delta variant, first observed in India. Research suggests this variant is more infectious, possibly higher likelihood of serious illness. gov.uk/government/new… twitter.com/mlcotten13/sta…
What stood out here is “2 years”. Friends and family are losing loved ones tomorrow. Rage? Exhaustion? Resignation? I don’t even know what to feel. twitter.com/KarinBBC/statu…
This image is circulating all over the place but let's give credit where it is due. This is Miria Matembe's book, "The Struggle for Freedom and Democracy Betrayed." Here is the next page: twitter.com/AndrewOmara8/s…
Large increase in Ugandans heading for work in the Gulf, especially Saudi Arabia. According to EEMIS, average wage of jobs currently advertised in SA is equivalent to US$260/Ushs900k, almost all domestic worker positions. Avg. for UAE is US$440/Ushs1.5m.
monitor.co.ug/uganda/busines…
Much more to say about working conditions. I'll save this for separate post.
I call this one "Revisions to Chapter 2, rather less minor than initially imagined."
Take all the time you need to get through the whole thing. twitter.com/pmwesige/statu…
Oops! The post was supposed to feature her drawing, not Attenborough....
Gwiza says protect wildlife!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🦍🐆🐙🦑🐍🦖🐳🐅🐫🦧🐎🦜🦚🐩🐆🐠🐡🐟🐬🐳
Inspired by A netflix.com/ae-en/title/80…ps://t.co/WyC10fbGiinstagram.com/p/CPcoAGoMKkqQ…ps://t.co/8OIrUiLXwk
New paper in @NatureEcoEvo providing practical ideas (a beginning, not a checklist, as the authors say) on how to break free of "exclusionary Western approaches to knowing and doing ecology". Several can be applied far beyond ecology. twitter.com/Jess_Auerbach/…
Nyiragongo is no joke. It’s arguably one of the most dangerous volcanoes on the entire continent, and a nightmare for those in the DRC and neighbouring Rwanda.
A brief thread... 1/x twitter.com/Melaniegouby/s…
Retweeted by Melina Platas Congratulations to the @NYUAbuDhabi class of 2021! youtu.be/B1_M5iDNFbc We are so proud of you. Indeed we are not strangers and the door (virtual or otherwise) is always open!
"This hegemonic notion [Western epistemic tradition] of knowledge production has generated discursive scientific practices and has set up interpretive frames that make it difficult to think outside of these frames. But this is not all." Read on...
"We cannot lose sight of the political economy of knowledge production in the contemporary world of higher education and pretend to decolonize either the university or knowledge itself for that matter." @AchilleMbembe1 on decolonizing knowledge wiser.wits.ac.za/system/files/A…
I wonder how Afrobarometer respondents think about “models of development”. What even is the US model of development? What the US is going/has gone through or what they think others should do (which varies by administration). Not the same thing at all. @qataharraymond @lukusem twitter.com/theelephantinf…
How a group of Nigerian journalists are digitising thousands of old newspapers.
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/risj-review/ho…
Retweeted by Melina Platas A: Mama, why do people buy stuff?
Me: Well...
A: And why was buying invented? To raise money?
She's wise, this one.
#thoughtsbyAmandla
At least I got more right than wrong 😅 How well do you know Uganda? Test your knowledge here:opinionstage.com/the-citizen-re…2#TriviaFridayy#CivicEdUGG via@CitizenReportUGG
Was it necessary to post the graphic photo though? twitter.com/UgandaRedCross…
May 5 is the Nat'l Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls. This day amplifies the crisis of violence against Indigenous women. More than 4 in 5 of us have experienced violence in our lives. I'm one. See allmyrelationspodcast.com for a new episode #MMIWG
Retweeted by Melina Platas Scholarships that require people from category X to study something "relevant" to category X make me uncomfortable. I don't think this is the way to "increase diversity" if that is the goal, however well intended. e.g. kcl.ac.uk/study/funding/… but there are others
The University of Niger was renamed for Prof. Moumouni in the 1990s.
The book is, once again, terribly difficult to access without a university library account.
amazon.com/Education-Afri…
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He (like many) was a strong advocate of instruction in African languages rather than European ones.
"...how and why will the weapon that so effectively served colonialism in its obscurantist policy be transformed into an instrument of progress?"
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