Utility safety concerns about plug-in solar panels prompted 5 states to delay votes on enabling legislation. Germany has 1.2 million balcony solar panels registered with no safety problems reported. Here's my @npr.org story: www.npr.org/2026/03/12/n...
It's crawfish season and Louisiana's crawfish processing plants are at a standstill because there is no migrant labor www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/new...
And by the way? This is why people talk to 'AI' about their medical shit or use Luxury Surveillant Wearables: Patients feel like they can't get a doctor who Actually Fucking Listens to them or understands their actual concerns, so they pull toward the thing that seems like—SEEMS LIKE— it does. Sucks
"She said that she knows the city is capable of doing more, because she sees it operating efficiently during Mardi Gras. 'The government period. They need to do better,' Claudette Smith said. 'They need to do better.'"
Yep. The city can get its shit together to host events, but not for residents.
The quick succession of water main breaks in New Orleans and the boil water advisories that have resulted from them have put a financial strain on already cash-strapped families and households in the city. More @veritenews.org. veritenews.org/2026/03/10/b...
Not only am I now the first tenured Latina law prof at Tulane, I am also its first full Latina law prof.
And there will be more, I promise.
[stares in exhausted New Orleanian]
There’s a place to report it on the S&WB website. No map but the form is easy to use. I reported one today.
www.swbno.org/Form/ReportA...
Listen, the resource guide is only awesome because we update it regularly, and we can only update it regularly with the help of a whole bunch of y’all. This spring, we’re starting the update calls on Friday, March 27. We’ll be at it from 10-4, at the beautiful @imaginewaterworks Imagination Farm. Join us! RSVP: bit . ly/ callathonrsvp
Cover of the New Orleans Community Resource Guide for Resistance & Renewal
Listen, the resource guide is only awesome bc we update it regularly, and we can only update it regularly with the help of a whole bunch of y’all.
We’re starting the update calls on Friday, March 27. We’ll be at it from 10-4, at beautiful @imaginewaterworks.org
RSVP:
bit . ly/ callathonrsvp
*Raises hand* I wrote an article about this very thing happening in the 1920s.
Antonovich, Jacqueline. “White Coats, White Hoods: The Medical Politics of the Ku Klux Klan in 1920s America.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 94, no. 4 (Winter 2020): 439-469.
This response is the most New Orleans answer ever - he processes the question as if it's running water.
"Do you have water in your house?"
"I don't think .... Oh standing water? Yeah."
Whatever the city of New Orleans does to prevent total infrastructure collapse during Mardi Gras they should do that all year
One point I might've added to this little diatribe is that a scene is built on friendship, as in you participate with YOUR FRIENDS to design flyers, book shows, make zines with, etc. We share our skillset to make it happen. AI *kills* this and will make "the scene" a very lonely, unfulfilling place.
great. linkrot for things like US physical activity guidelines.
Press freedom nonprofit expands legal initiative to Louisiana
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is adding four new states, including Louisiana and Mississippi, to its local legal initiative, which provides attorneys for journalists to consult.
@caraocobock.bsky.social
Me!
Congrats!!!
I guess owning a huge chunk of a Hawaiian island, a California compound, two Lake Tahoe estates, and a yacht fleet wasn't enough property for the billionaire.
Shame we can't fund things like environmental protections, healthcare for all, and quality public education by taxing the rich or something.
Zuckerberg just spent more on a house by the beach in Miami (~$170 million) that will surely fall into the sea w/in our lifetimes than the gov. of Louisiana budgeted for the Dept of Environmental Quality for FY 2026 (~$156 million).
LDEQ is supposed to monitor air & water quality in a petrostate.
Human biology happens in a world saturated with metals, pesticides, and industrial chemicals. This toolkit paper makes a powerful case: if we want to truly understand human biology, we must measure the pollutants moving through people’s bodies. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
As we note in our commentary, reducing ADEs “will require interdisciplinary collaborations and novel approaches to unravel the accumulation of factors that create sexed and gendered health disparities” - we hope to see continued development in these areas in the future!
So happy that my work with the @genderscilab.bsky.social on sex and gender in Adverse Drug Events is wrapping up with this last (planned) paper, out this year in Women's Health Issues.
Check out the explainer video (linked in the thread quoted below, but also here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCym...)
We’re excited to announce our latest video explainer, which summarizes our work to date on gender and sex disparities in Adverse Drug Events (ADEs) www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCym...
Thinking about newsletter topics - I think I'm going to write about loss again, or more specifically about the we find ourselves in right now, where we fought so hard against disinformation on youth gender affirming care, but the disinformation won, and what you do with that/where you go from there.
The one thing I do not want is more emails, but I would be ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTED to get an email because someone wants a copy of something I’ve done and/or to hear someone has read and thought about something I’ve done.
If you ever want to read a paper for free and can't find it otherwise, email the lead author and politely ask for a copy. You will not be bothering the person. You will in fact make their whole entire day. I have had scientists get so excited I asked they sent me everything they ever published.
Suggesting my book group read The Intermediaries by @bschillace.brandyschillace.com as our next read (seems particularly relevant, unfortunately, these days), and they immediately put The Framed Women of Ardemore House on the list as the follow up.
So I guess we'll get a lil nonfiction + fiction 😎
Assuming those buckets aren't full of poop, I think it's a great photo.
I grew up inland in the Southeast, I don't understand at all where I'm allowed to Beach and just always assume that I'm not allowed unless something clearly states "public beach."
But now I live in Swamp, so that's not really an issue.
