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It's #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek and @GrandChallenges are spotlighting #UCLMentalHealth funded projects.
In this video, we find out more about Prof @jonroiser and Dr @Bernardi_L's research into how political stressors impact an individual's wellbeing.
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A right-wing Israeli mob came to my family’s home yesterday to search for me, threatening close family members who fled to another town in the middle of the night. I am still getting death threats and had to cancel my flight home. This happened after Israeli media and German politicians absurdly labeled my Berlinale award speech - where I called for equality between Israelis and Palestinians, a ceasefire and an end to apartheid - as ‘antisemitic’. The appalling misuse of this word by Germans, not only to silence Palestinian critics of Israel, but also to silence Israelis like me who support a ceasefire that will end the killing in Gaza and allow the release of the Israeli hostages - empties the word antisemitism of meaning and thus endangers Jews all over the world. As my grandmother was born in a concentration camp in Libya and most of my grandfather’s family was murdered by Germans in the holocaust, I find it particularly outraging that German politicians in 2024 have the audacity to weaponize this term against me in a way that endangered my family. But above all else, this behavior puts Palestinian co-director Basel Adra’s life in danger, who lives under a military occupation surrounded by violent settlements in Masafer Yatta. He is in far greater danger than I am. I’m happy our award winning film, No Other Land, is sparking an important international debate on this issue - and I hope that millions of people watch it when it comes out this year. Sparking a conversation is why we made it. You can have harsh criticism of what me and Basel said on stage without demonizing us. If this is what you’re doing with your guilt for the holocaust - I don’t want your guilt.
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Good etiquette has long dictated that it's best to avoid politics at the dinner table... but it can be hard not to. How do major political events affect our #mentalhealth? We spoke to Prof. @jonroiser & Dr @Bernardi_L buff.ly/wIU7MBE #UCLBrainSciences
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I believe that sharing good news has the power to uplift others, inspire them, and foster more kindness in the world. This is why we are happy to share, during these difficult times, that our mental health & neuroscience proposal to the @wellcometrust has been funded! 🎊
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Looking forward to working more with @jonroiser, Annie Hata, Michelle Craske, @FedeLucantonio, @DrLiamMason, @ritwikniyogi on this endeavor.
Thanks to the @wellcometrust for believing in this project. Watch out for us hiring soon! 👀
@WashU / @ucl / @UCLA
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The educational bookshop is one of the most important cultural institutions in East Jerusalem. This police raid is a disgrace
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Israel's official policy is the expulsion of two million people from their homes and homeland. Will @BoardofDeputies @PhilR_R @JLC_uk @chiefrabbi continue their uncritical support for Israel? Or will they show some moral leadership?
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Many Palestinians to be released in this deal were held by Israel without charge, trial, or the chance to defend themselves. Some were taken over the past year to be used as bargaining chips in negotiations with Hamas. Currently, over 3,000 Palestinians are in this situation.
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.@AlonLeeGreen @sacha_isma @YachadUK @cfpeace @ThePCFF Thanks to everyone who organised & supported the London FoST rally today. Great to hear poetry& testimonies of solidarity & @jerusalemchorus & a reminder of our demands on the UK government #Ceasefire #peacejustice #hope
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TRANSMITTER
Remembering Eleanor Maguire, ‘trailblazer’ of human memory
Maguire, mastermind of the famous London taxi-driver study, broadened the field and championed the importance of spatial representations in memory.
thetransmitter.org/memory/re…
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I wrote an article about my dad's death, and how it affected my views on assisted dying
Free version of the article in the next tweet
Views are my own, not those of the institutions or academies I'm associated with
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🧵1/ Ben-Gvir and Smotrich should be in prison, since they’re not, let’s at least shut down their bank accounts!
We’re launching a campaign to impose personal sanctions on Ben-Gvir and Smotrich, in collaboration with other Israelis living in the UK.
So how will this work?
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We stand in solidarity with the Australian Jewish community after yesterday’s arson attack of the Adass Israel synagogue in Melbourne.
Jews across the world will be shaken by this vicious antisemitic attack.
There’s simply no justification for this.
timesofisrael.com/melbourne-…
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You sound like a drug addict yelling "if you really love me, you'd give me more money to stay high"
Israel is addicted to its apartheid, genocide & crimes against humanity in Gaza.
The best pro-Israeli US lawmakers can do is to cut you off the drugs, not give you more of them!
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Our meeting also passed a motion in support of @omdimbeyachad, an incredible grassroots movement of Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel, working to mobilise Israeli society against the occupation and for peace, equality and social justice.
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With a potential ceasefire in Lebanon closer than ever, I feel great for our Lebanese friends. Meanwhile, Gaza seems farther from a ceasefire, and all Hamas calculations have proven wrong.
Hamas and the "axis of resistance" are our biggest curse after the occupation.
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Take a visit to Jerusalem’s Hebrew University. It’s an interesting place. I guarantee that many of you reading this will be surprised by what you see. Israeli and Palestinian students learning together, sitting in the cafeteria together, hanging out with each other before, after (and probably during) lectures. But you’ll see something else.
You’ll see our youngsters and the Israeli youngsters all wearing the same necklace. It’s a necklace with the map of Israel/Palestine. But if you look carefully, you’ll notice a small difference. The map of Israel on the Israeli necklace includes the Golan Heights. The map of Palestine on the Palestinian necklace doesn’t include the Golan Heights. Both necklaces are made in the same factory in China. They wrap it and brand it differently, but besides that very minor modification, the necklaces are the same.
It's a reminder that the overwhelming majority of Israelis and Palestinians are sane, reasonable people. We have different perspectives on this land. But nothing is unbridgeable. We can sit together, work together, express our differences – display them and be proud of them. And with the right political will, we can work through them.
Do these necklaces indicate that any of these students intend to throw the other side into the sea? Definitely no. Naturally the majority of Israelis and the majority of Palestinians are willing and able to co-exist with each other, and the fact they are studying together proves this. Each side appears extreme but in reality they live and accept co-existence.
Yet they are confused as a result of being held hostage – on both sides – by leaders who confuse them and bombard them with fear and doubt, uncertainty and negativity. Once these leaders depart the political scene, the majority of Israelis and Palestinians will return to their real selves and endorse workable, realistic political horizons. I base this on my personal experience – on what I see and hear all the time, on all the people I speak to daily, on both sides, across the political spectrum. This conflict is not nearly as intractable as many make it out to be.
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IMPORTANT PLS SHARE. It's rumoured the English £9,250 tuition fee cap may be raised this pm for the 1st time in 8yrs, as University's finances are strained. As student finance misunderstandings abound, I've bashed out a few notes to help...
1. Higher tuition fees WON'T change what most pay each year. For most, they're paid for you by the student loans company and you repay afterwards only if you earn over the threshold. The amount you repay each year (9% over the threshold) solely depends on what you earn not on what you borrow.
2. Increasing tuition fees will only see those who clear the loan in full over the 40yrs pay more. That is generally mid-high to higher earning university leavers only, so the cost of increasing them will generally be born by the more affluent. Most lower and middle earning university leavers will simply pay 9% extra tax above the threshold for 40yrs (and higher tuition fees won't change that)
3. The rise is tuition fees is likely to be trivial compared to the changes the last govt made for 2023 starters. 2023 starters had their repayment thresholds dropped to £25,000 (from £27,295/yr) and had the time they had to keep repaying for (unless cleared) extended to 40years from 30years.
So these higher annual repayments for longer, increased by over 50% the amount many graduates will eventually have to pay back for going to university. Yet they were almost stealth changes because people can't intuitively feel the seismic impact.
Changing tuition fees is a more obvious rise, but in reality has far less of an impact on the amount most will repay (though combined with the 2023 changes it does certainly up the cost).
4. The biggest practical problem for students isnt tution fees (even if raised) its the fact maintenace loans aren't big enough. English maintenance loans have not kept pace with inflation. I'd urge the govt to couple the tuition fee loans with bigger living loans - if not it is a real risk to social mobility, with those from the poorest backgrounds likely to be worse affected.
I could write more, but will stop here, hopefully this gives an idea the issues are less straightforward than many feel.