#deia — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #deia, aggregated by home.social.
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🏳️🌈 Help us make #useR2026 inclusive for everyone! 🇵🇱
We’re looking for volunteers to join our DEIA Team in Warsaw! 🤝
Support areas include:
⚫ Welcoming atmosphere
⚫ Venue & IT accessibility checks
⚫ Stipend setup
⚫ Code of Conduct response🎁 All organizing team members get a FREE conference ticket!
📩 Join us: [email protected]
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Deià in Mallorca used to be a great place, an elegant, rather upmarket sophisticated village set in a steep sided valley. Quiet and a bit old fashioned. Then the obnoxious LLoyd-Webber bought a pad there and did a TV program on it, followed by slagging off the locals who didn't like the nouveau-riche arty types who had noisily invaded the place. This is the church of San Juan Bautista at night.
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Over 5,000 researchers oppose order to share 25 years of national grant applicant data
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2025/11/05/over-5000-researchers-oppose-order-to-share-25-years-of-federal-grant-applicant-data/
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Plus de 5000 chercheurs•euses s’opposent à l’ordre de partager 25 ans de données sur les applicants aux subventions nationales// Article en anglais //
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"The Excellence Dividend"
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/the-excellence-dividend/
"Far from diluting research quality, EDIA [equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility] strengthens it"
"evidence demonstrates that EDIA is not a dilution of excellence but one of its most powerful engines, driving diverse and inclusive teams, producing more innovative ideas, generating higher-impact publications, and ensuring that knowledge serves a broader public."
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Do you need a speaker for your next STEM event? Ai, Robotics, STEM Education? I got you! #Speaker #STEM #STEAM #Robotics #DEIA #AcademicSky #BlackInSTEM #STEMSky #WomenInSTEM #SpeakingEngagement #NoireSTEMinist
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>Proponents hope Senate Bill 1164 will allow for interventions before there is an immediate danger — because by then, it can be too late. Walter Macias said he asked the police in San Antonio for help several times before his brother’s psychosis led him to believe that his home, where he lived with his mother, was a fort defending Earth from aliens. The brother, Fernando, told Walter he was buying an AR-15 to prepare for the invasion.
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>When the police arrived to detain him on a mental health warrant, Fernando opened fire, leading to a 25-hour standoff. Their mother was killed by the state SWAT team in the crossfire, and Fernando was taken to jail, where he lost more than 100 pounds and died after not receiving dialysis for months, according to a wrongful death suit.
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>“This bill would’ve saved my family’s tragedy,” Walter Macias said. He said he’d reached out to authorities periodically for two decades before the incident and that the realization that the law couldn’t do anything had left him feeling helpless.Really? You trust that the same system that murdered your mother and starved your brother would behave differently with this new legislation because... what? Because they have a new excuse for involuntary commitment on top of the ones they already have?
This is nothing more than a pretext to round up people and throw them into concentration camps under the guise of "they don't realize they are ill."
>By 2024, James Caruthers, director of public affairs at the Coalition for the Homeless in Houston and Harris County, had noticed what he called “a groundswell to say mental health and homelessness are almost inseparable … and we have to be a lot more draconian.”
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>Conservative think tanks, like the Cicero Institute and Texas Public Policy Foundation, had begun calling for the nation’s homeless strategy to shift from a focus on housing to a focus on treating mental illness and substance abuse. The Cicero Institute explicitly urged states to amend civil commitment laws “to make it easier to help those who cannot help themselves.”They're not even speaking in coded language here, y'all. This has nothing to do with mental health and everything to do with stopping what works --- housing first --- and starting round-ups.
>A group of psychiatrists, law professors, judges (including one whom Pope Francis had recognized for his work involving involuntary treatment) and others had just spent three years examining the same question. The Model Legal Processes Work Group concluded that states should include anosognosia as part of their commitment criteria, but that such changes would have to be made alongside investments in housing and quality mental health treatment services for the system to work.
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>The bill authored by Zaffirini did not, however, go as far as to add funding for housing or mental health treatment services.Surprise surprise, SB 1164 doesn't do shit for housing *or* treatment (https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/analysis/html/SB01164H.htm). It's purely a mechanism for throwing people away.
>“There are a lot of people in Houston that are praising your work on this. I know that you have worked very closely with HPD and stakeholders that are trying to end homelessness. I know this has been a priority of Mayor Whitmire, our former colleague. So, on behalf of many organizations in Houston, thank you and your team for all the work and your efforts.”
Calling HPD a "stakeholder" in this process is insulting. They're the enforcers tasked with sweeping the homeless.
>Moving forward, he said, the nation would have to make sure that it wasn’t just providing housing.
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>“(We need to make sure) we’re providing for those who have mental illness, those that have addiction. And so I’m very encouraged by what I see here today.”But y'all aren't even providing the housing to start with! What you are building are concentration camps, plain and simple. And folks' classism and disgust for the homeless are making it all possible.
#deia #homelessness #InvoluntaryCommitment #5150 #MentalIllness #txlege #HoustonChronicle #ableism #HoustonTX #Houston #htx #anosognosia #MentalHealth
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>This session, the Senate passed Senate Bill 18, which would cut funding from public libraries that host events in which people “dressed as the opposite gender” read a story or book. Republican legislators have also targeted LGBTQ+ rights in higher education, building on last session’s passage of Senate Bill 17, which prohibited DEI offices and practices and shut down spaces for queer students like the Gender and Sexuality Center at UT-Austin.
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>Now, Thomas said there’s more pressure on students to take the lead. “I’m happy we haven’t given up,” Thomas said. “[But students are] having to take on this extra work to continue providing space for their community.”Perhaps this is the silver lining: the students themselves take on the organizing roles, rather than leaning on faculty and staff. Surely such organizing would be squarely in first amendment territory.
#activism #txlege #trans #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgbtqia+ #education #drag #dei #deia
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Die #Klimakrise trifft #Spanien:
Auf #Mallorca wurde in Teilen der Gemeinde #Deià die #Wasserversorgung eingeschränkt.
Wegen anhaltender #Hitzewelle und ausbleibender #Regenfälle werden montags, mittwochs und freitags Ortsteile vom Netz genommen.
Großverbraucher wie Hotels erhalten kein #Leitungswasser mehr. In der Inselmitte droht bereits die Einstufung als Notstandsgebiet. In Spanien gilt in 12 von 17 Regionen eine #Hitzewarnung.
https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2025-08/extremwetter-spanien-hitzewelle-toter-wassermangel
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Happy 35, ADA! On 7/26/1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law. The ADA prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities, ensuring equal access to employment, public services, and facilities. #ADA35 #DisabilityRights #Accessibility #a11y #DEIA
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“I am hesitant to draw this conclusion — but I have an unflinching obligation to draw it — that this represents racial discrimination and discrimination against America’s #LGBTQ community. That’s what this is. I would be blind not to call it out. My duty is to call it out.“
~ Judge Young, who was appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan in 1985
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I recently made some DEIA Profile Pics for an event. I'm especially happy with how the person wearing a Hijab turned out!
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Where are the #BIPOC folx on Fediverse from? Please LMK and can we be friends☺️ if you’re into #DEIA & #lgbtqia ? 🌈
Greetings from Vancouver #HappyPride 🏳️🌈 (also TIL on Mastodon, limited to 4 choices for polling when using mobile to post).
I wanted to connect with more BIPOC & #inclusive folks so i asked @andypiper where they are. This poll is a result of that earlier convo. I hope to learn about where y’all from!
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In a world full of data, diversity is the code for a beautiful world!
Happy Pride 2025!
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🩷🩵
#Together #StayStrong #DEIA #DSHQ -
Oh boy .. 2/2
".. elimination any funding toward misaligned DEIA initiatives .."
".. allocating more than $7 billion for lunar exploration and introducing $1 billion in new investments for Mars-focused programs, .."
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/president-trumps-fy26-budget-revitalizes-human-space-exploration/
2.5.2025
#DEI #DEIA #LOPG #NASA #Orion #Raumfahrt #SLS #SpaceFlight #USA
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Oh boy .. 1/2
"President Trump’s FY26 Budget Revitalizes Human Space Exploration"
".. SLS .. rocket and Orion capsule will be retired after Artemis III, paving the way for more cost-effective, next-generation commercial systems that will support subsequent NASA lunar missions. The budget also ends the Gateway Program, .."
#DEI #DEIA #LOPG #NASA #Orion #Raumfahrt #SLS #SpaceFlight #USA
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“The three individuals who ran that DEI office in the medical faculty — all of whom are members of racialized minorities — are being replaced by a single person who does not come from such a minority background”
Why are Canadian institutions bending a knee and complying in advance?
https://www.montrealgazette.com/news/article895693.html
#canpoli #uspoli #dei #deia #diversity #equity #inclusion #fascism
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This Is The Stoicism Talk The Navy Banned
#RyanHoliday was forbidden from delivering a talk on #Stoic #Wisdom at The U.S. Naval Academy, because he was going to talk about banning books and erasing history. Now it's available to the whole world. #TheObsticalIsTheWay
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SAA Diversity Committee has drafted a statement regarding nationwide attacks on #DEIA programs and initiatives.
“The solution to collective attacks and uncertainty must be collective action and solidarity. We must provide mutual aid to one another and leverage our individual contributions to meet this moment.”
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I recently made some DEIA profile pics for an event.
I'm especially pleased with how the person wearing a Hijab turned out!
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I think possibly what has given some people such a bad impression of #DEI / #DEIB / #DEIA is that some proponents of it, largely intersecting with social media keyboard warriors, have taken it as a license to act like bullies at work.
DEI is not a pass to bully your coworkers.
I have had someone try to bully me solely because I'm a white guy (and she wrongly assumed heterosexual). She thought this made me fair game to "call me out" for daring to participate in a DEI community. Note that I had said nothing even remotely offensive: she just thought I shouldn't be there.
Her attacking me in direct messages nearly reached the point where I was going to tell her if she wanted to continue the conversation, we could do it with HR present, but I was able to disarm her by telling her we simply weren't going to agree on the subject.
