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Thrilled to share that our WISE-Dx project was featured on cbschicago.bsky.social today! We're developing a rapid at-home test for lead in water that gives results in just 30 mins. Helping Chicago tackle its 400k+ lead service lines, one test at a time. link in comments

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Our appreciation to @evanstonroundtable.bsky.social for their coverage of some of the implications of the shortsighted federal research funding cuts. IYCMI: each $1 invested in federal research generates ~$5 in productivity, health, & living standards. evanstonroundtable.com/2025/05/20/t...

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💧New research: Can yes/no responses speed up water insecurity measurement without losing too much detail? IMMANA Fellow @indirabose.bsky.social explores this trade-off using data from 39 countries. 📄Learn more about methods to measure issues with water bit.ly/3HhpaZl #WISEScales #SDG6 #Water

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Last week, Prof. Will Dichtel dropped some serious knowledge about tackling #PFAS contamination in our water systems. His team at NU Chem is doing groundbreaking work on selective PFAS removal materials. Awesome to see folks from Loyola's Getzinger group getting in on the conversation too!

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Earlier this week marked a historic moment as we hosted our first-ever Student Water Jamboree at Northwestern University! 🌊 The event united students from both Evanston and Chicago campuses, with 6 different schools represented.

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I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Evanston IL” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

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👋 Hi Bluesky! Our scoping review of water, sanitation and hygiene in schools is now published in BMJ Global Health Read on if you’re interested in 🧼 #WASH 🤸‍♀️ #AdolescentHealth 🔍 #EvidenceSynthesis 🎨 #dataviz ?? @lshtm-ehg.bsky.social gh.bmj.com/content/10/5...

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💧In our #WorldWaterDay 2025 edition of #RGHISpotlights, the Spotlight is on RGHI-funded researcher @profserayoung.bsky.social and her team, who are building on the groundbreaking Household/Individual Water Insecurity Experiences Scales to develop a #Hygiene Experiences Scale rghi.org/spotlights-s...

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The first paper from my dissertation is now available online! www.frontiersin.org/journals/glo...

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Congratulations to @profserayoung.bsky.social, who accepted the “Champions of Health” Award on behalf of the Water Insecurity Experience (WISE) Scales! Presented by Mexico’s National Institute of Public Health, it honors the Scales’ impact on public health. www.ipr.northwestern.edu/news/2025/ef...

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Congratulations to @bioanthmags.bsky.social on her new paper about authoritative knowledge (AK) & infant feeding! AK has been so helpful for understanding birth practices, it's exciting and innovative of Maggie to apply it to IYCF! w/ @laurenkeenan.bsky.social www.frontiersin.org/journals/glo...

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Here's to Julius Lucks killing it on the @wbez.org's Reset today, laying out the damage that the random ransacking of Dept of Defense grants means for edu, innovation & #water safety. "If you wind the whole thing down, where are the new ideas going to come from?" @buffett.northwestern.edu

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It brings me no pleasure to post today's coverage of the assault on science being wrought by the bonkers federal clowns. This story features damage to my husband's lab. chicago.suntimes.com/education/20...

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One man just wiped out $10 trillion in wealth, is destroying centuries-old legal protections, and seems determined to unravel humanity’s greatest public health achievement. In 3 months. I don’t know how we get out of this. But if we do, one person can never have that kind of power again.

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For those tracking such: "The Supreme Court has previously ruled that the president does not have the power to withhold Clean #Water Act funds appropriated by Congress." Thank you, Environmental Protection Network and Michelle Roos. www.environmentalprotectionnetwork.org/20252801_gov...

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i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people

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Honored to be quoted in this article by @waltonbrett.bsky.social: “If we pull out of WASH investments + water security investments. . . . [w]e’ll be limited to just putting out fires . . . . rather than strengthening their capacity to solve their own problems.” www.circleofblue.org/2025/world/u...

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FEWSnet has gone dark to absolutely no good end.

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Statement from the Ho Chunk Nation

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Conservatives Claim Hitler’s Nazi Allegiance Greatly Exaggerated theonion.com/conserv...

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Gostin and Mason Meier argue that “…the absence of the US [in WHO] will undermine scientific research, health security, and foreign policy.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Can or will we achieve water access & justice within the SDG timeline of 2030? I joined water research colleagues to try to answer this! podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...

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And in the midst of All This, a politician we can be proud of! I have goosebumps listening to Senator Durbin discuss the accomplishments of the Water for the World Act. 🪣🚿🚰 May we continue this kind of leadership. #watersecurity #water #WISEscales

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@asherrosinger.bsky.social is one of my favorite collaborators, and it's been really wonderful to be able to draw on his intimate knowledge of #NHANES data for our #NIH grant. Plus just fun to hang with him! This is a moment w/his group during a visit to @pennstateuniv.bsky.social this fall.

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Twitter? X? Whatever you call it, I’m not spending time w/ that f#$%ery these days. Let’s get connected on social media elsewhere. I’m @ProfSeraYoung here and on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and my pager! (JK)

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