The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.
They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.
The 66-year-old woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor of medicine with 16,000 citations on Google Scholar
Goals
It's not just that just about everything I've ever published is in this particular database and used without my permission. It's that everything I've ever published was used without my permission to develop such a shitty, flawed and fundamentally useless tool. I deserve compensation for THAT itself.
As Congress mulls significant cuts to Medicaid, Native American tribes are bracing for potentially devastating financial fallout. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
A group of Native American tribes and students is suing the Trump administration to reverse its recent firing of federal workers at Native schools that they said has severely lowered their quality of education.
Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.
The racial wealth gap is the largest of the economic disparities between Black and white Americans, with a white-to-Black per capita wealth ratio of 6 to 1. It is also among the most persistent. In this article, we construct the first continuous series on white-to-Black per capita wealth ratios from 1860 to 2020, drawing on historical census data, early state tax records, and historical waves of the Survey of Consumer Finances, among other sources. Incorporating these data into a parsimonious model of wealth accumulation for each racial group, we document the role played by initial conditions, income growth, savings behavior, and capital returns in the evolution of the gap. Given vastly different starting conditions under slavery, racial wealth convergence would remain a distant scenario, even if wealth-accumulating conditions had been equal across the two groups since Emancipation. Relative to this equal-conditions benchmark, we find that observed convergence has followed an even slower path over the past 150 years, with convergence stalling after 1950. Since the 1980s, the wealth gap has widened again as capital gains have predominantly benefited white households, and convergence via income growth and savings has come to a halt
TLDR: The paper I'm teaching tomorrow finds that the shadow of enslavement is SO LONG that there's NO level of saving, education, capital gains, wealth tax, or income redistribution that closes the racial wealth gap.
Only one thing closes the gap: REPARATIONS.
academic.oup.com/qje/article-...
A 1st year in my PhD program is going through a difficult time. Her father is on hospice care, and we want to make sure they can focus on their time together without financial worries. We're raising funds for her family, and I'd be deeply grateful for help sharing this GoFundMe.
gofund.me/201612e9
Trump's DOJ has erased a report from its website that lays out its own recommendations for tackling violence against Indigenous women www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...
I love making a significant scientific discovery and running blindly through the crowded halls of my early twentieth century university with a bundle of loose papers in my outstretched arms
ICYMI: a post about why the firings at NIH this weekend devastated cancer research. And other biomedical research too.
Building a science lab is like building a new company: it takes years to put together the right team. Many lab groups are now broken.
altnih4science.subst...
WaPo quote: “A Washington Post review of Kennedy's public appearances found he also promoted these centers as particularly beneficial for Black youth. "Every Black kid is now just standard put on Adderall, on SSRIs, benzos which are known to induce violence and those kids are going to have a chance to go somewhere and get re-parented, to live in a community where there'll be no cellphones, no screens. You'll actually have to talk to people," Kennedy said in a June 2024 episode of the 19Keys online show”
Even the most disturbing RFK Jr. headline always manages to have a detail inside creepier than you could have imagined. I’m sorry, did you just say Black kids should have a chance to get “re-parented”???? Gift link wapo.st/4hW2xGI
I don’t think I’d ever be able to fully do it justice to convey how severely IHS is underfunded. 850 people let go is going to be a travesty for reservations and tribal communities. Communities like mine. Blood is on this administration’s hands. A treaty violation and manufactured crisis.
If you are one of the #CDC #HHS #FDA #NIH employees who have learned today that your employment is being abruptly ended, we want to hear from you. @altcdc.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/f...
Our two papers on abortion bans and fertility/infant mortality are now out.
In 14 states w/ abortion bans, fertility increased 1.7% and infant mortality increased 6%.
Key takeaway is that these impacts were disproportionately felt among those w/ greatest structural disadvantages.
Links below.
Together with more than 45 other organizations, ASA signed a public statement reaffirming our commitment to academic freedom, stable research funding, and policies grounded in scientific evidence. unitedsciencealliance.org
Ugh this is really making me want to troll the daily emails I get where someone asks me to chair a conference about biochemistry in Japan
Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”
Grateful to the @americanbar.bsky.social for this strong and important statement. Lawyers must stand firm for the rule of law and democracy.
www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
Despite the roots of this holiday, l always appreciate the spirit of being thankful. Gratitude is good medicine.
With that, I'm thrilled to share I accepted an assistant professor of sociology position at University of Illinois! I'm so fortunate to join an amazing dept. My cup runs over.
#sociology
@maggieecjones.bsky.social, in “The Intergenerational Legacy of Indian Residential Schools,” uses the Aboriginal Peoples Survey to “explore the colonial roots of educational disparities” & the transmission of human capital among the Indigenous peoples in Canada. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
Follow my bestie Kiana Wilkins for Indigenous healthcare research (and dog pics)
🙏🏼 hayu masi 🙏🏼
the other place started to scare me. Anyways, here’s a photo of my dog Disco to start my feed 🪩🤍🐩
