For a long time I've refused to name the abusive people and institute where I did my first postdoc. However, it's clear that issues are still on going there and senior management continue to not take action.

The Babraham Institute left me clinically depressed (& on antidepressants) for over a year. Working there may very well have ended my ambitions of being a PI, has certainly resulted in 1.5 valuable years wasted and now rules me out of many ECR grants. I also can't attend certain conferences

RT @[email protected]

Nancy Pelosi is 82. She just led House Democrats to an unexpectedly good midterms outcome. Media’s first question is when she’ll retire.

Mitch McConnell is 80. He just led Senate Republicans to a humiliating defeat. Not one question about when he’ll step aside.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/KaivanShroff/status/1591867981377974272

- Fetterman flipped Pennsylvania with a pro-worker platform

- Nebraska raised the minimum wage

- 4 states banned forced prison labor

- D.C. abolished the sub-minimum tipped wage

- Illinois guaranteed the right to collective bargaining

The midterms were HUGE for worker power.

So we have been taking a fairly laid back approach to the Fediverse thus far and have not posted too much but don't interpret that as us not being interested.

What we have seen so far we love!

The work that people like @Gargron and others before him have done (such as @cwebber with ActivityPub) is so, so important, both in terms of levelling the field (so that social media is not entirely controlled by large companies) and also in making a better and kinder again place to interact.

RT @[email protected]

Don't overlook this: At least 4 of the 5 swing states that decided 2020 won't have election-denying governors or secretaries of state. It may soon be 5. That's a huge step toward averting a 2024 crisis. Voters put MAGA authoritarianism on the defensive.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/09/gop-loss-midterms-kevin-mccarthy-trump-kari-lake/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/1590406338131070982

Elon Musk is bringing at least 50 engineers from Tesla to Twitter. Most have little to no experience designing social networks and use an entirely different programming language altogether, report says.

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tesla-engineers-twitter-no-experience-designing-social-networks-2022-11

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tesla-engineers-twitter-no-experience-designing-social-networks-2022-11

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