ayah bdeir آية بدير
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Founder @littleBits , AI strategy @mozilla , cofounder @daleelthawra , alum @MIT @Medialab . Former @TEDFellow , @ayahbdeir on instagram.
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You know who’s stranded? 1.8mn Palestinians who because of your veto, are fleeing bombings every day, or just waiting for their fate
Last holiday season, hundreds of travelers were stranded for days, some spending Christmas at an airport.
It's unacceptable.
This year, nine major airlines heeded our call and will guarantee free rebooking, meals, and hotels if they're at fault for a travel interruption.
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Silencing all support for Palestine continues. Today
@paulbiggar
who wrote that he can’t sleep thinking about babies in the rubble was fired from the company he founded, while
@talbroda
kept his job (
@OpenAI
head of research) after encouraging the bombing and saying “there is no…
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This is not controversial. Women diplomats are not expected to wear headscarf. She is not being activist. Enough with this cliche headline
Melania Trump refuses to wear headscarf in Saudi Arabia in rejection of strict dress code
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Who tells their story matters. My reflections on the 60 minutes piece about girls in STEM.
#60minutes
#stem
#csforall
#ComputerScience
#WomeninTech
#WomensHistoryMonth
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I’ve decided to start a thread of Israeli soldiers proudly destroying food, property, toys just for fun. Please add your links
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@sama
Absolutely. It all started because showing any empathy for Palestine, or telling their own lived experiences, was equated with being pro-Hamas, or anti-Semitic. Founders, employees, VCs, muslim and arabs of all positions and seniority are afraid to express themselves in any way
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Marcel Ghanem, journalist and media personality is using bullying and intimidation tactics against my family and me.
@sarelwa2et
@MTVEnglishNews
@mtvlebanon
@Marcel_Ghanem
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We
@littleBits
reject gvnmt ban on religion or nationality. I am a Muslim immigrant & came to US to make a difference. Many more like me
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Yesterday this gentleman on twitter broke my heart with his tweet and it launched me on my first tweetstorm. One of the most effective ways to show girls they are more than clever enough to be scientists and leaders is to show them role models doing it. Here goes...
#girlsinstem
Help! My 5 y/o daughter just told me "girls can't be scientists because they're not as clever as boys". Looking for child-friendly resources (not sarcastic memes) that show
#womeninscience
#WomenInSTEM
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What an honor to be on the cover of the magazine that got me started! I first learnt about
@Make
in 2004 and participated with
@littleBits
prototype in the first
@makerfaire
and it was life changing. Also, this ages me!
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@AvivaKlompas
Is food to 2mn people contingent upon hostage release? So you admit it’s a weapon of war
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Four
@TEDFellow
resign, dozens more support in protest over
@BillAckman
and
@bariweiss
being invited to the
@TEDTalks
stage
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@IChotiner
Thank you
@IChotiner
for this stunning piece. Thank you Dr Seema Jilani for your heroic work. I’m sorry that commenters seem to have lost all moral compass and are able to dispute lack of medicine, defend the war and deflect blame
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«When I invented littleBits, I knew, in my gut, that a new generation of building blocks had the potential to change education forever.
I didn’t know is that the world would agree with me. » My last day
@littleBits
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@AvivaKlompas
“Refute our Jewishness and the holocaust being hijacked” don’t manipulate his words by deciding where to end the sentence
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@SpencerGuard
The audacity to say this sentence “The sole reason for civilian deaths in Gaza is Hamas.” Israel claims it is fighting Hamas, and has proceeded to obliterate an entire city and kill 23,000 people. Are you seeing videos of soldiers bragging about killing and torturing civilians?…
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“I am a longtime subscriber and reader of the
@nytimes
. I am writing to let you know that I am cancelling my subscription immediately. The final straw was the immoral, incompetent and biased journalism behind ‘Screams Without Words.’ You’ve lost all credibility
Thank you…
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If we do our job
@littleBits
we’ll make
@ChelseaClinton
’s job harder by having lots of brilliant student inventors to invite to
#CGIU2017
!
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“Over ties with Israeli army”: why do u bury the lede!!!!
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I became a
@TEDFellow
in 2012, it changed my life. Today I quit with
@RocketToLulu
and
@saeedtaji
because I refuse to be associated to genocide apologists
@bariweiss
@BillAckman
.
@TEDTalks
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A story in 3 parts:
April 1: Israel attacks Iranian embassy in Damascus. No condemnation from the US
April 13: Iran retaliates. Iran is accused of starting regional war. Biden reaffirms support for Israel
April 13: a billion of your tax dollars just went to intercept the…
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Wow.
@paulg
shares factual number of deaths on both sides (from AP) and gets pummeled in the comments and accused of anti-semitism. The pro-Israel propaganda machine has lost all reason and moral compass.
A grim month: 31 Israeli and at least 3600 Palestinian children have been killed since October 7.
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A little over 8 years ago, I got an email from the
@themuseumofmodernart
informing me that
@littlebits
was acquired into the museum permanent collection. It was (and remains) one of the proudest moments of my life. ⠀
⠀
“Our first edition Bits will no…
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Long before
#learningtocode
was trendy, this gentleman was espousing the power of creativity when combined with coding. He was also an inspiration for
@littleBits
and a trusted advisor. Congratulations
@mres
on making
@scratch
and getting it to 200 mn users!
@medialab
#ASUGSV2019
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RIP
#seymourpapert
, one of the most influential change makers of our time, father of
#learningthroughplay
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Last month we got cut out of a
@60minutes
episode about
#girlsintech
. Today we launch a $4mn initiative to get every 10 year girl into
#stem
. Because our girls need us to focus on the big goal. Join us.
#snapthegap
@littleBits
@Disney
@snapthegap
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Incredibly powerful.
@paulbiggar
puts himself and career in tech on the line by calling out his investors and mentors and their whitewashing of the genocide in Gaza. If you're in tech, read
I wrote about the genocide in Palestine, and how tech has been silent and complicit.
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@malsaafin
Because now news outlets realize where global opinion is going, and want to say they were on the right side of history
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I was that kid. I took apart VCR players, I spent more time in detention than I did in class, I started a business selling my sisters stuffed animals... at
@littleBits
we love that kid
Everyone knows a “that" kid, and those kids grow up to be Changemakers. For every 100 RTs of this video, we’ll give a Code Kit to a classroom to help at-risk kids! Learn more here
#MakingChangemakers
#littleBits
#STEM
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No big deal, the
@littleBits
droid inventor kit is number 1 seller on Amazon in
#StarWars
toys
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How is it possible this upsets you? ur kids r engaging in science, engineering, problem-solving, being creative, learning as they go, seeing the power of collaboration, healthy competition, making friends, building self esteem, feeding passions. u r not happy about this???
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@AvivaKlompas
Found by who? A former IDF soldier journalist parroting IDF security “reports”?
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This is one of the most important articles to come out about the war on Gaza in the media. Please read
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"We’re creating an environment where kids are teaching kids,”
@zachklein
tells
@TechCrunch
. “That was our mission from day 1, to create a space where kids can develop learning strategies for others, instead of a one-size-fits-all approach to education”
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Tragic loss of creative genius who ignored borders of art, activism, gender, performance.
@flexibleharry
#PrinceRIP
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.
@mmitchell_ai
killed it with her keynote at the
@mozilla
#responsibleAI
challenge. Talking about early days of AI, different biases, and how to think responsibly when building AI
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Now SIX
@TEDFellow
resigned & dozens signed to protest
@TEDTalks
inviting vocal supporters of Israel’s genocide Bari Weiss and Bill Ackman to the stage. ���As of today, there are no Palestinian speakers in the line-up”. See the letter and sign it in support
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I have been watching the news unfold on the border re:
#zerotolerance
policy; I can no longer be silent. I know firsthand the strife of being a refugee. We
@littleBits
are launching a donation program to the
@ACLU
. My statement here
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By 17 less than 11% of girls are interested in
#STEM
. Today we launch
#snapthegap
, not-for-profit initiative aiming to close the gender gap thru engaging 10 yr old girls with hands on learning, mentorship & a peer community.
#equalpayday
#girlsinstem
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Says the person who has turned every single pro Palestinian protest into an antisemitic march, has bullied student organizations for writing open letters and threatened
@BusinessInsider
for accurate reporting.
@BillAckman
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The most sane, informed, logical and inspiring leadership I have seen among all world leaders today. Former prime minister of France
@RnaudBertrand
Another masterful interview on Gaza of Dominique De Villepin, former Prime Minister of France, who IMHO is the best diplomat the West has produced in decades.
Again I believe that his words are so important and so rare among Western leaders today, that I decided to translate it…
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Oh my god. You’re robives! And your name is Rob Ives! I used your mechanisms website all throughout school! You are responsible for so many of my inventions, and lots of early
@littlebits
prototypes. BUT I always read it “robeeve” in french for some reason... :)
Peg Bird. Experiments with peg mechs.
#papertoy
#junkAutomata
#automata
#mechanism
#STEM
#STEMeducation
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@SpencerGuard
@BillAckman
@Newsweek
Shame on you
@SpencerGuard
for the misinfo. As of now 11,500 children died, 19,000 have been orphaned. More than 250 residential buildings were destroyed as well as 17 schools and universities, 16 mosques, three hospitals, three cemeteries, and 150 agricultural greenhouses.…
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and finally my girl crush:
@SimoneGiertz
: an engineer, inventor, creator, TV show host, comedian, and all around inspiring lady that is just killing it with her new kickstarter romantic electronics project
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Live!
@littleBits
is on
@60Minutes
showing how we're closing the
#STEM
#gendergap
. Thrilled to be with
@codeorg
's
@hadip
and
@microsoft
's
@PlutonForEver
& most of all with the young lady inventors from
@MarymountNY
. You are the future changemakers !!!
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They did, you lost the popular vote
Watched protests yesterday but was under the impression that we just had an election! Why didn't these people vote? Celebs hurt cause badly.
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and this
@BlackGirlsCode
, founded by
@6Gems
, a very special non profit that focuses on underserved girls and minorities that has been striking deals and creating creative spaces in Google among others
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Today we launch
@littleBits
classroom. A platform of hundreds of standards and grade-tied lessons, inventions and guided journeys to use littleBits in your class. Come see a preview at booth 950!
#iste19
#iste
.
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Shame on us. We voted for a misogynist incompetent man who gropes rather than 1 of the most hard working and qualified of women of our time
What gender gap? Exit polls show white women voters actually preferred Trump to Clinton.
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Very excited to be speaking at "Constructing Modern Knowledge" today. Thx
@garystager
and star educators!!
#cmk17
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We made a big announcement today!
HUGE news for kids, teachers and schools worldwide!
@Sphero
and
#littleBits
join forces to provide the
#1
STEAM and coding solution for every classroom, living room, and after-school program around the world!
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@andrewrsorkin
As of last month 55% of Americans disapprove of the war in Gaza. Are you ACTUALLY suggesting to retaliate against students expressing their views on the same because of a handful of isolated antisemitic incidents? Never mind violence directed at Arabs and Palestinians?…
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Excited to share this announcement, at
@littleBits
our commitment to education and hands on learning fuels everything we do. Now with
@pearson
we get to up our game, scale out reach and give educators and districts deep support in engaging their students.
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IT'S LIVE and IT'S ALIVE!!!!!
The wait is over! The Droid Inventor Kit is here
#littleBits
#StarWars
#InventorsWanted
#StarWarsLife
#ForceFridayII
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The same terror, the same tears.
#lebanon
and
#paris
back to back terror attacks kill hundreds
@LOrientLeJour
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That's me in the background!!
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Holding 2 thoughts at once. What is happening in Ukraine is horrific. AND. Ukrainians with Molotov cocktails praised as resistance fighters and welcomed in Europe is an unshocking double standard compared to Yemenis, Syrians, Palestinians & other arabs defending their countries
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With
@littleBits
we are making the connection between creativity and technology. Watch Sophia from
@MarymountNY
as she demos her robot that hugs you if you had a bad day. Fun fact, she has a motorized drawer in there to hide your stuff too!
The use of play-based problem solving is one reason for ’s success. At Marymount Girls School in New York, students use tech skills to create robots.
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(Repost) Some privacy concerns going around abt a voter registration campaign by
@KullunaIrada
for the lebanese parliamentary elections. I worked on this with with many tireless volunteers, here are some clarifications:
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Devastating explosion in the port of
#Beirut
. This is a picture by my sister
@daniabdeir
from our balcony. We are all safe. But so many are not. Attack or incompetence or both?
#Lebanon
you don’t deserve this.
Check
@daleelthawra
for ways to help
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A case study in media bias against Palestinians, it’s been decades.
#SheikhJarrah
#SaveSheikhJarrah
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and this. Yours truly, founder of
@littleBits
, an education company with a mission to inspire kids to be inventors and creators, and passionate advocate for getting girls into STEM
@business
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Worth every angry email
.
@littlebits
is taking a PUBLIC stand against the immigration terror created by the Trump administration & donating money. As you visit the vendor hall at
@iste
, ask yourself which other companies have the courage to stand up for kids?
@willrich45
@rec54
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“The infinite creativity of kids is infectious. The resilience of teachers is humbling. And the love from parents is something to aspire to.”
@littleBits
@Sphero
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Fave
#ZahaHadid
quote "when I grew up we would play w math problems just as we would play w pens & paper to draw"
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@paulrubens
Don’t tell half the story. This is a poll that concluded Oct 6th, from
@ezraklein
show
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Let’s go over this again: Don’t stop mentoring. Don’t stop having 1-1 meetings. Don’t stop hiring women. JUST DON’T sexually harass them. That is literally it.
60% of male managers now say they’re uncomfortable mentoring women (cmts )
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So excited to be speaking at
@bit_by_bit_nyc
at Dalton School on "breaking the barrier for girls in tech"
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“A 60 Minutes story about gender equality accidentally proved the persistence of patriarchy”
@qz
cc
@GirlsWhoCode
@reshmasaujani
@littleBits
@60Minutes
#WomensHistoryMonth
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His story is close 2 home RT
@littleBits
From One Muslim Inventor to Another
http://t.co/UTFY1IcoxP
#IStandWithAhmed
http://t.co/WXywv9I2Ti
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Stop by the
@littlebits
store NYC today and invent a clock!
#IStandWithAhmed
http://t.co/bCreudQZlT
http://t.co/qo8DdZQA1i
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“2023 is the deadliest year for Palestinian children says human rights group”, published October 6th
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"Some men" have no idea what they're talking about
Push for gender equality in tech? Some men say it's gone too far.
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"The hottest new sector to disrupt is immigration" My post on the backlash we got from standing up for
#FamiliesBelongTogether
via
@TechCrunch
cc
@littleBits
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Yesterday we announced the launch of
@snap_the_gap
! I went on
@BloombergTV
to talk about it with
@emilychangtv
, check out the interview here
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Female founder friends & I all experienced some degree of this. It’s real. Trust me no1 wants ths kind of attention
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"You Can't Solve The Gender Gap In Tech If You Don't Understand Why It Exists" Opinion from
@reshmasaujani
and I today in light of recent
@60minutes
episode.
#WomensHistoryMonth
#womenintech
#CSforALL
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❤️
Our Icon of the Month is🌟
@ayahbdeir
She is a Lebanese Canadian engineer, inventor and social activist.
She is the CEO and founder of
@littleBits
; a platform of electronic building blocks that impacted both the lives of kids and STEAM education worldwide🌍
#Women
#Coding
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As of this week,
@littleBits
is in 2000
@radioshack
stores, where the
#maker
movement first began!
http://t.co/09ZQ8iTUvw
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If ur in
#AI
& in
#SF
on May 31: The
@mozilla
Responsible AI Challenge event just opened to the public! W/ star speakers
@mmitchell_ai
@GaryMarcus
, workshops 'Bias & Discrimination' & "Responsible ML Development" + founders pitching for $100k in prizes
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When I grow up, I want to be a: detektiv, fashin dizinir, arcade maker, inventer.
@littleBits
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and this: a stunning and talented model
@karliekloss
turned activist that is creating venues for girls to learn how to code
@kodewithklossy
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