Dr Guy Perkins 🧠🌹

Great to win an award for the @fNIRSglossary presentation at #fNIRS2024 2+ years of work w/ 70+ fNIRS researchers from across the globe! 🧠 Most importantly, I introduced "Ay' up me duck" & other phrases to the international community 🦆 Check it out! openfnirs.org/standards/fnir…

Israel is using similar tactics and messaging in its attacks on healthcare facilities in Lebanon to those it used in Gaza, human rights experts warn bmj.com/content/392/bm…

BLIMEY - there will doubtless and rightly be a lot of focus on the limit on overseas donations and the ban on crypto (tick to both) but in some ways might this be the most important paragraph in the Rycroft report on foreign interference in our politics (prompted in part by Russian funding of Farage Party) “Separately, beyond these hostile state threats, I am also cognisant of a potential new threat: an emerging willingness of foreign actors and private citizens, including from allies like the United States, to interfere in, and influence, politics abroad in pursuit of their own agenda.” In other words USA has joined Russia, China, Iran in seeking to subvert our democracy. Time to call them out !!! Perhaps JD Vance could pop in for a chat after his campaign stop in Hungary

Strikes continue across #Lebanon, including overnight airstrikes in Beirut, following further mass displacement orders. To date, over 1 million people – including nearly 370,000 children – have been forced to flee. Humanitarians continue to respond, but needs keep rising.

Canada strongly condemns Israel’s plans to occupy territory in southern Lebanon. Lebanon’s sovereignty & territorial integrity must not be violated. Hezbollah’s attacks on Israel must cease and they must disarm.

Graduates who grew up in deep poverty face a large pay gap a decade into their careers. They earn 13 per cent less than graduates who did not grow up in poverty – equivalent to over £7,590 a year, and larger than the gender pay gap in the UK ⤵️ buff.ly/5VfX2Fi

Lush taking the lead

For the record, the president of the United States is now simultaneously claiming that he has won the war, is currently winning the war, needs help to win the war, and needs no help to win the war. All to destroy the nuclear program he claims to have already destroyed last year.

The evidence is overwhelming: Brexit has been a disaster for London and the UK. Rejoining the EU is now clearly in our national interest. The option to rejoin should be on the ballot at the next General Election. theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

I don’t get it. If Hezbollah had flats in this block (unlikely in central Beirut but not impossible) why did the Israelis give everyone inside an hour to get out — including those they wanted to kill? And if there weren’t any Hezbollah people there, why destroy a building with dozens of civilians in it?

An Israeli airstrike struck an apartment building in central Beirut, on Wednesday. The Israeli army had warned residents to evacuate about an hour before completely flattening it as day broke.

More than one million people across Lebanon are displaced following the Israeli military’s evacuation orders. The Israeli Defense Minister said that hundreds of thousands of Shiite residents of southern Lebanon will not return to their homes until the "safety of [Israel's] northern residents is guaranteed.” Forced displacement is a war crime.

Too many are too afraid to CALL THIS OUT. Hanukkah, Diwali, Vaisakhi, celebrations of all major faiths take place in Trafalgar Square but British Muslims taking part in an open Iftar, are exceptionalised. From a sitting Member of Parliament - this is beyond awful. Where are we heading?

Brexit was “a colossal mistake” and the U.K. should rejoin the EU, Finland's President Alexander Stubb said today. politico.eu/article/finlan…

Spain strongly condemns the announcement by the Israeli authorities that displaced Lebanese citizens will be barred from returning to their homes indefinitely. 🔗 exteriores.gob.es/en/Comunicacio…

After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC. May God bless America.

NEWS: The Trump administration confirmed it bombed a girl’s school in Iran. It's one of the most devastating military errors in decades. Trump lied about it. Pete Hegseth gutted the office preventing civilian casualties. 175 are dead. Most were kids. Hegseth should be fired.

Over the past 29 months the devastating, multilayered impact of Israel’s ongoing genocide has pushed Palestinian women and girls in the occupied Gaza Strip to the brink. Women in Gaza are being denied the conditions needed to live and to give life safely. Read more 👇 amn.st/6011B61WAb

I am literally going to teach this tomorrow in my class on war reporting @SOAS

Breaking News: New video adds to evidence that a U.S. missile likely hit an Iranian school where 175 people, many of them children, were reportedly killed. nyti.ms/4ls4WMr

Reports from #Iran and across the entire #MiddleEast continue to cause deep dismay and raise the fear that the conflict will expand, and that other countries in the region, including dear Lebanon, may once again sink into instability. Let us #PrayTogether for the roar of bombs to cease, weapons to fall silent, and space to open for dialogue, in which people's voices may be heard.