🔬📚 Thank you to the amazing 🪐Dr Sheila Kanani🪐 Threads @saturnsheila for visiting #woolwichlibrary Your insights and knowledge have inspired us all. Looking forward to reading your books in our library 🌍🪐🌖⭐️ #ScienceAuthor Royal Borough of Greenwich Libraries Connected The Reading Agency

In response to JK Rowling's shocking, derogatory and offensive tweet showing a top 10 list of the worst trans women she could find (and one she dislikes), I've decided to post a similar post about 10 brilliant and inspirational transgender women! This might be long.

This took me a second...🤯

A study on what many of us already know: over 75% of internal service work in academia is done by women. “We were surprised by how brazenly the male researchers described their priorities, for example that they actively didn’t respond to emails”

kifinfo.no/en/2024/03/wom…

I believe I’ll be joining Yalda Hakim on this special programme, along with my great friend RadioKate 🧑🏾‍🚀🥰🙌🏽

A total solar eclipse will be dazzling people on 8 April in what's been described as 'our planet's greatest spectacle.'

Join Yalda Hakim for a special programme called Total Eclipse Live from 7pm to watch the event unfold.

📅 8 April
⏰ 7pm – 10pm
📺 trib.al/NJ70lwb

Are there any literary agents out there who are open to queries from UK authors who only write children’s nonfiction (but are willing to explore fiction in the future)? Asking on behalf of a writer of colour who is struggling to navigate the industry and its many barriers.

Come and hear me speak, take part and get your book signed Royal Greenwich Libraries next week! Free to attend 🪼🪐 🌈 🧑🏾‍🚀

Congratulations all bestselling authors! John Patrick Green Louie Stowell #DavidMckee Gareth Conway Rob Biddulph Jane Clarke 🪐Dr Sheila Kanani🪐 Threads @saturnsheila Liz Kay Illustration Jennifer Killick Rosie Jones Alex Falase-Koya Faridah Tọlá Okogwu

Natalie 🦇 You can now have a certificate to acknowledge the life of the baby. It might not be something you want to do, but it is new legislation that not many people are aware of, so i thought I'd share to give you the option. gov.uk/request-baby-l…

UPDATED: Which 2024 #Oscars nominees have called for a #CeasefireNOW ?

— A thread 🧵

The first fast of #Ramadan is drawing to a close. And millions the world over will be breaking their fasts with a date...

DID YOU KNOW? In Islam, dates are a symbol of generosity & the sharing of blessings. And link us right back to Prophet Abraham...

#DidYouKnowRamadan 🕯

BBC Dad content

Today is the 7th anniversary of the BBC Dad blooper.

So here it is again, with some recent family pictures in the thread below.

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It’s Mother’s Day in the UK. If you are able please donate to UNFPA for all those mothers and babies in Gaza 💜 unfpa.org/donate/Gaza

Rashmi Sirdeshpande If there was a consistency in 'no politics' from many accounts, publishers, poets, authors etc, I'd say 'fair enough', but the stark difference in their solidarity posts 2022 vs 2024 is shocking. What values do they really have? It's almost too dark to dig deeper.

So happy that there are such awesome hijab-girl characters to choose from these days, so a hijabified Matilda or Mary Poppins is not required! (Although I do love a good hat!)
It was between Saffiyah (👇🏽) and Aaliyah (FIGHT BACK) this year & I don’t like wearing uniform soo…

So N ended up choosing not to be 'School's Cancelled, Scientist Anisha' but went with 'Show Stopper, Behind the Scenes Anisha'.

So grateful for S. Asian representation in children's books.

Serena Patel Gabrielle Kent Emma McCann

#WorldBookDay

Remembering this story teller from Gaza today as I read to various classes.

This is the power of storytelling. The power to help you heal and to lose yourself, to forget where you are and enter a new world.

Reading is a superpower.

#Wor
#Wor ldBookDay2024

This!