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Public Health x Data | Alum
@McGill.ca
@HSPH.harvard.edu
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Kristian G. Andersen
5 days ago
A nice article, highlighting the important work our collaborators in South Africa are doing using wastewater to surveil a bunch of different vaccine preventable diseases (and finding a lot more of them than other reports would make you believe…). 💪🇿🇦
www.nature.com/articles/d44...
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Wastewater surveillance reveals disease trends in South Africa
From COVID-19 to measles, scientists are showing how wastewater surveillance can expose underreported infections and strengthen national health monitoring.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d44148-025-00364-2
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
5 days ago
You all MUST READ this piece by Kaitlyn Greenidge about the power of art to “exist outside of a tech lord’s algorithm.”
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...
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The Artist Who Reminds Us that Another Way Is Possible
The late artist Abigail McGrath cultivated a creative life for herself filled with freedom, joy, and a commitment to beauty. In an age of authoritarianism and algorithms, it’s a kind of life worth pro...
https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-books-music/a69382479/abigail-mcgrath-marthas-vineyard/
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Eric Reinhart
5 days ago
The difference between Boston and New York distilled into two world-class performances:
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
7 days ago
Doctors Without Borders is deeply disappointed to see
#Canada’s
cuts to aid reflected in its reduced pledge to the
#GlobalFund
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Prof Dynarski
7 days ago
“‘He’s an extremely powerful man w/an enormous network of people who have learned from him, been mentored by him. He’s powerful in DC, powerful at Harvard. That counts for a lot, & that explains a lot,’ said Susan Dynarski, a well-known Harvard economist affiliated w/its Grad School of Education.“
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Jack Mirkinson
9 days ago
the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know
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Dominique Baker
9 days ago
"By any consistent standard, if Summers is unfit to work for each of these institutions [from which he resigned], he is equally unfit to teach at our school. Harvard should not be the only institution in America where Summers remains above reproach." 🔥🔥🔥
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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The Professor and the Pedophile | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
Summers should choose the most straightforward path and resign. Should he refuse to, though, the University must cut ties with its former president to the greatest extent possible.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/11/19/barron-bronzini-vender-chiocco-summers-resignation/
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Prof Dynarski
9 days ago
I have been feeling depressed and discouraged that this man has the power and influence he does at my school and in my profession And I am a tenured professor at Harvard! How much more protected can I be? Imagine how STUDENTS feel. Junior faculty. This quote nails it
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no_tag_error
9 days ago
Larry Summers is too icky to be on Open AI's board any longer. But not to keep counseling the undergraduate students at
@harvard.edu
Where are the donors?
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Shower Cat
9 days ago
Being friends with Epstein is not a fireable offense or else Dershowitz would have been gone a long time ago. Thinking women are inferior is not a fireable offense. Developing a romantic relationship with a junior colleague isn’t a fireable offense. But what Summers was *doing* is sexual harassment.
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Kimmer
9 days ago
"Is Larry Summers really one of the elites by which our age will be judged? People are going to want to take a shower after reading the history of our times."
@djrothkopf.bsky.social
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Maya Sen
9 days ago
I spoke with the Boston Globe about the Summers situation TLDR: other professors like myself can no longer trust Summers to perform a key duty of a university professor, which is to advise & mentor students
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/18/m...
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Long a coveted voice, Larry Summers withdraws from a half-dozen groups amid Epstein ties. Harvard’s not among them. - The Boston Globe
Former Harvard president Larry Summers is no longer affiliated with a series of centers and think tanks with which he’s long been involved, officials confirmed Tuesday.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/18/metro/larry-summers-harvard-jeffrey-epstein-commitments/
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Julia Carrie Wong
10 days ago
I spoke to Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, his expulsion from Uganda, his son Zohran, and *that* NYT article.
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Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran, Uganda and forced expulsion: ‘Who is part of the nation and who is not?’
After being expelled from his homeland in 1972, the academic has grappled with questions of political belonging – a major theme of his son’s mayoral campaign
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/nov/18/mahmood-mamdani-father-interview-zohran
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Prof Dynarski
11 days ago
Summers conferred with Epstein frequently about how to extract sexual favors from a Harvard econ grad (AB '04, PhD '09) The grad is from China Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril" Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package
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As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender Jef...
http://bit.ly/3LHpin8
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Yes this us us!!
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public health guy 🦃
12 days ago
ngl, having awareness of everything that's getting wrecked in public health (as well as a good understanding of the implications) is an actual curse
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
13 days ago
At our volunteer appreciation party, I saw the faces of a movement that changed the world. Thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone who knocked on a door, called a friend, put up a sign, or convinced their family this election was worth their time.
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darth™️
15 days ago
a lot of people regretting the 'this shoulda been an email' advice rn lol
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
16 days ago
Aanjalie Roane, MSF Director of Communications, writes in the
@thestar.com
on how Canada’s
#Budget2025
frames a $2.7 billion cut to international assistance as “savings.” For people in crisis, those cuts mean fewer doctors, fewer medicines, less hope.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Canada: If you’re going to cut foreign aid, at least be honest about it
It is a moral failure dressed up as fiscal responsibility. If we take away the abstract language and political doublespeak, Canadians may find the human cost of these cuts too
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/canada-if-you-re-going-to-cut-foreign-aid-at-least-be-honest-about-it/article_ecedf7c0-6f58-4db2-a9e7-e135b607f75b.html
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD
16 days ago
Access to vaccines is not a privilege — it is a human right. In
@statnews.com
today, Stefan Peterson and I write about using a human rights-based approach to deal with vaccine denialism and the return of measles, whooping cough and diphtheria
www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...
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Kids have a right to vaccinations. Let's bring in the lawyers
Children suffering from diseases that should have been consigned to history is a moral failure. Access to vaccines is a human right.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/children-vaccines-measles-whooping-cough-rights-united-nations-conventions/
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Financial Times
17 days ago
Breaking news: Meta’s chief artificial intelligence scientist Yann LeCun, a Turing Award winner who is considered one of the pioneers of modern AI, has told associates he will leave the Silicon Valley group in the coming months.
on.ft.com/4ozjBGl
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Kathleen Bachynski
18 days ago
“Public health experts in Canada are concerned that measles is a harbinger for the return of other diseases, like polio… “Measles is the canary in the coal mine because of its phenomenal transmissibility,” said Dr. Brian Ward, a professor who studies infectious diseases at McGill University”
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How Canada Lost Decades of Progress in Fighting Measles
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/world/canada/canada-measles-what-to-know.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Howard French
18 days ago
A solid read.
www.chronicle.com/article/mahm...
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Mahmood Mamdani Doesn’t Want to Talk About Zohran
The Columbia scholar, and father of the mayor-elect, on politics, academe, and antisemitism.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/mahmood-mamdani-doesnt-want-to-talk-about-zohran
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Howard French
18 days ago
Very sharp argument by the economist, Dani Rodrik:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
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Opinion | This Is What a Good Job Looks Like
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/opinion/good-jobs-policy.html
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Kelly
19 days ago
Did you know that in Canada, if a budget doesn’t pass the government doesn’t shut down? Federal workers aren’t furloughed. Funding for social services doesn’t dry up. Failure to pass a budget triggers an election. It puts the politicians jobs on the line. They get the budget passed.
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Ahhhhh
21 days ago
It can be very radicalizing to even get people to seriously think about the economic system they live in and question possible alternatives
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Jessica Ellis
21 days ago
It’s a good day to look up Rosalind Franklin.
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God
21 days ago
Mamdani isn't Middle Eastern. You racists are too dumb to even racist correctly.
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Peter Sterne
21 days ago
I am very proud of
@cityandstateny.bsky.social
's coverage of Zohran's remarkable campaign. I broke the news he was exploring a run (3 months before he announced). And when he was polling at just 2%, our publisher wrote a prescient column suggesting he could actually win.
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Editor’s note: City & State’s groundbreaking coverage of Zohran Mamdani’s rise
Our magazine will continue to be ahead of the curve reporting on campaigns and elections.
https://www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2025/06/editors-note-city-states-groundbreaking-coverage-zohran-mamdanis-rise/406357/
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
21 days ago
This city belongs to you.
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This City Belongs to You.
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
https://youtu.be/Nf4aPjPu6pk
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Atul Gawande
22 days ago
Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online. It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/the-shutdown-of-usaid-has-already-killed-hundreds-of-thousands
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gamera obscura
23 days ago
“I am Muslim. I am a democratic socialist. And most damning of all, I refuse to apologize for any of this."
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Bill Grueskin
23 days ago
This NYT story about how Mamdani dealt with the opposition by the city's elites fails to mention one particular elite institution: The NYT editorial page, which last June railed against him as "uniquely unsuited to the city’s challenges... lacks political savvy"
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...
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How Zohran Mamdani Beat Back New York’s Elite and Was Elected Mayor
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/nyregion/how-zohran-mamdani-won-nyc-mayor.html
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David_j_roth
23 days ago
I knew that Mamdani had it; he had the people and did the work, and has been the clearest and most lucid in rejecting the untenable current state of things. But the vile, bigoted shit against him was so constant, and I am conditioned to that working better than I want. This feels like an exorcism.
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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD
23 days ago
Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant." SAY. THAT. SHIT!
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Brad Lander
23 days ago
“In this moment of political darkness, New York will be the light.” Congratulations
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
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Dave Itzkoff
23 days ago
“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”
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Aaron Rupar
23 days ago
Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
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Roxane Gay
23 days ago
What an excellent, inspiring speech from Mamdani. I haven’t felt chills like this… ever?
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Karen Attiah
23 days ago
Africans! We won!
#mamdani
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Daniel Aldana Cohen
23 days ago
“Tonight we have stepped from the old into the new.”
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Karly Kingsley
23 days ago
The name is Mamdani
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Marisa Kabas
23 days ago
MAYOR MAMDANI!!!!!
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Wajahat Ali
23 days ago
All you anti Muslim bigots who spread nothing but the most vile hate against Mamdani, I'm here for your meltdowns and tantrums. I'm all the way petty. Your tears are sugar for my chai.
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Chris Hayes
23 days ago
The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
23 days ago
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Kat Abughazaleh
24 days ago
Happy Zohran Day to all who celebrate!!
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Alex Ip 葉清霖
25 days ago
Zohran picked 「卓蘭」("excellent orchid") for his first name and「夸梅」("brilliant plum") for his middle name. The orchid and the plum are among "The Four Noble Ones" in traditional Chinese art, the former symbolizing an indifference to fame and fortune, the latter an indomitable, incorruptible spirit.
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Martin McKee
26 days ago
Starting journey home after trip taking in Rwanda, South Africa, and Mozambique. A reminder, once again, of the sheer complexity of Africa, where health systems are powerfully shaped by unique national histories, something so much health research simply ignores.
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Amanda Mull
26 days ago
The New York City marathon is the absolute best day of the year here. Everybody goes out on the streets to yell and cheer and ring cow bells for thousands of strangers doing something hard. The most immaculate vibes known to man, absolutely never fails.
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