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The crash is beginning in academia.

submitted 7 days ago • 19 comments

Science/academia are under siege. Slashed funding from NIH, NSF, and NASA, etc.—plus loss of Pell Grants—will cripple universities. Next, massive endowment taxes aim to deliver the final blow. Research and education are on the line. Call your representatives. Spread the word. Take action. #scicomm 🧪

submitted 15 days ago • 20 comments

A lesson for us all

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Under fascism, no one is safe. Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc. Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations. Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.

submitted 21 days ago • 358 comments

THIS!!!

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Archiving will be some of the most important work that we can do collectively over the next several years.

submitted 26 days ago • 7 comments

Everyone should read this great thread on the destructive capacity of what Elon and his minions have just captured.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

As we watch all mention of diversity actively get scrubbed from the NIH website in real time it's important to know that, we were not taking over anything, we were just trying to exist. - Only 2% of NIH R01 grants are awarded to Black investigators. The goal is total erasure/elimination.

submitted 29 days ago • 20 comments

From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.

submitted 29 days ago • 166 comments

It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.” University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.

submitted 29 days ago • 4 comments

🚨If you use public data products from the CDC or other US federal agencies 🚨 Download them NOW [This is how I’m spending my Friday]

submitted 29 days ago • 4 comments

Purging vital public data at CDC. How it started (yesterday from wayback machine), how it's going www.cdc.gov/yrbs/index.h...

submitted 29 days ago • 9 comments

Listening to RFK Jr.'s confirmation hearing, obviously, he shouldn't be confirmed in any capacity; however, I want to address the committee's lack of understanding of how much public health isn't individual choices but rather the social determinants of health. #RFKjr #HHS #healthequity #SDoH

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Per an NIH source: “Discussions with colleagues have suggested that if the universities all come together and raise hell about the delays to funding caused by not holding meetings, that might move the needle. From every state. There are well-funded universities in red states that will be impacted.”

submitted 32 days ago • 289 comments

Philly & a Kendrick Super Bowl during black history month. Please prepare to be sick of me…might get Jalen tatted on my ass

submitted 33 days ago • 9 comments

BIRDS BABY!!! #eagles #gobirds

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Always and forever

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

I had a great meeting w/ our health sciences librarian for a project/paper I am working on this year and submitted another paper I've been working on for the last year. Now, if I can find a little more energy to work on this GIS analysis for this other paper, I'll call today a WIN!

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

ON JANUARY 20TH, READ MLK! READ ABOUT THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT! READ ABOUT RECONSTRUCTION! READ ABOUT JIM CROW! You want to do something for the good of history? Do something constructive and learn from the ancestors.

submitted 46 days ago • 9 comments

Martin Luther King wasn’t asking people to do community service. He was asking folks to liberate oppressed peoples.

submitted 47 days ago • 10 comments

A group of retired Black women in Philly gather weekly to sew period pads for girls in Africa. Along the way, they've also built a community here "We believe in each other and have faith in ourselves, and we have faith others are going to support us”

submitted 61 days ago • 74 comments

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. saw an 18.1% increase in homelessness this year, with more than 770,000 people counted as homeless.

submitted 63 days ago • 166 comments

New study finds "strikingly unequal" levels of debt by education, race/ethnicity, and education-by-race/ethnicity among young adults. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39605803/

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

For years, former Black Panthers have feared that the FBI is still keeping tabs on them decades after its notorious COINTELPRO program. Malik Rahim had never been able to prove he was targeted. Now, government docs show he was correct.

submitted 70 days ago • 181 comments

Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and mpox shots

submitted 70 days ago • 127 comments

Planning a cross country move in the middle of a mercury Retrograde and preparing for prospectus was/is foolish, lol. This move has not gone according to plan at all!

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Guess who is officially a PhD Candidate and ABD?!? There’s work to do, but I feel so much gratitude in getting to this point in my academic journey! Next stop, dissertation! #PhDchat #Academia

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

Prospectus update: PowerPoint is finished, now on to practicing!! One week to go! #phdchat #healthequity #academia

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Spent the morning working on a grant application for my art project (more info soon) and working on my prospectus defense slides. I can’t believe I have 9 days left before I present my proposal. These last 3 yrs have been stressful af but I can start to see the finish line! #PhD #HealthEquity

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Outside of being a tired Population Health PhD student, I'm a film photographer. I mostly shoot 35mm film, but I've recently been dabbling with medium format. I've been reflecting on my time in New Orleans, and this is a great shot of Mardi Gras season. #photography IG @narrativesintheframe

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

As a Black scholar studying how anti-Blackness impacts health, I’m deeply concerned about what this upcoming administration means for evidence-based science and research funding. But my ancestors resisted, and so will I. We will keep telling the truth, no matter what. #HealthEquity #BlackAcademia

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

I just FaceTimed with my parents and feel so good about my decision to move closer in proximity to them. I’ve enjoyed New Orleans so much these past 3.5 years but Philly is home. Soon I’ll be ABD and can complete my dissertation anywhere since it’s all secondary data.

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

I sent my dissertation committee my dissertation proposal today! One step closer to ABD!!! #PhDchat #HealthEquity

submitted 102 days ago • 5 comments

Terrific piece summarizing a recent report: Every dollar of NIH research funding doubles in economic returns www.fiercebiotech.com/research/rep...

submitted 104 days ago • 9 comments

I have a B.S. in Social & Behavioral Health, M.S. in Social Policy, & Masters of Public Health (MPH). I’m currently getting my PhD in social, behavioral, and population sciences, in about a month I’ll be ABD! #blacksky

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

All the black people finding each other on this app #blacksky #addtoblacksky

submitted 107 days ago • 720 comments

Hey Bluesky! A little about me, Philly born, NOLA living. 4th-year PhD student exploring anti-Black racism & MCH outcomes. Novice film photographer. Lover of romance books. Cat mom to two wild beasts #HealthEquity #PhDLife

submitted 107 days ago • 1 comment

white supremacy, patriarchy, and unrealistic aspirations for extreme wealth/hoarding are a helluva drug bc folks voted directly against their interests. when looking for voting block scapegoats, leave Black folks tf alone. (IK other things played a role in how we got here)

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments