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🔗 Record levels of heat-related deaths in 2023 due to climate crisis, report finds

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Heat-related deaths, food insecurity and the spread of infectious diseases caused by the climate crisis have reached record levels, according to a landmark report.

The Lancet Countdown’s ninth report on health and the climate breakdown reveals that people across the world face unprecedented threats to their health from the rapidly changing climate.

🔗 Exceptional racism at the dawn of scientific psychiatry in Brazil: the curious case of Juliano Moreira

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Juliano Moreira may have been a case of ‘exceptional racism’, which is a disguised, perhaps refined form of structural racism. We propose to call ‘exceptional racism’ the strategy of socially and institutionally praising outstanding people (persons who are exceptions, extraordinary personalities) from oppressed groups as a way of denying or covering up racism on ideological and political grounds. Such strategies imply an overt, often disproportional, overvaluation of talents as exceptions.

🔗 Academic psychiatry is everyone's business

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Research-active clinical organisations are shown to deliver better outcomes and better care, with improved staff recruitment and retention and enhanced morale.6 Instinctively, these are the places we seek out when we need treatment for ourselves or our loved ones. Some psychiatric and mental health services have begun to incorporate protected research and/or education time into job plans, recognising that this is advantageous for enhancing clinical care and training, recruitment and retention.

🔗 مرصد شيرين

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مرصد شيرين هو جهد تطوعي بحت من صحفيين زملاء للشهيدة الصحفية شيرين أبو عاقلة، بهدف استكمال عملها الذي قدمت حياتها في سبيله في توثيق وفضح جرائم الاحتلال الاسرائيلي بحق الشعب الفلسطيني، ونقل الحقائق حول ما يجري في فلسطين للعالم، ولتصل رسالة الصحفيين الفلسطينيين للاحتلال بأن قتل شرين لم ولن يوقف الصوت الفلسطيني أو يمنعه أن يصل للعالم، وأن اسم شيرين سيبقى حياً في قلوب الفلسطينيين.

🔗 Gaza Memorial

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The goal of The Memorial is to collect the names of the martyrs in the voices of the world, so pronounce them as best you can but most of all just be yourself.