🌍 New Focus Collection in Environmental Research: Health #ERH ⚖️🏥 #EnvironmentalJustice for Narrowing Health Inequality Gaps 🔗 Read more about the collection's scope here: iopscience.iop.org/collections/... 🗓️ Submit by 31 Aug 2026

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The UN's top court in a landmark climate decision says a 'clean, healthy and sustainable environment' is a human right.

🌿 Welcome Kilan C. Ashad Bishop to the #ERH board! As an Interdisciplinary Health Scientist, @kilan.co specialises in health, natural and built environments, and climate change. We're excited to work with her! 🌱 #EnvironmentalResearch #ClimateScience #ClimateMitigation #SustainableHealth

I told him about tariffs.

This is the first Spring Break I’ve taken in years. 10/10. Highly recommend. & thanks to my student and colleagues who reminded me to log off.

Truly, undeniably, & gratefully God’s favorite ✨

Calling research on gender identity “unscientific” and stating “no corrective action is possible here”…this letter should alarm all scientists. The scientific process refers to how you approach answering anything unknown about the natural world around us, not OPINION about the questions asked.

Graduating during the pandemic slowed down my process and is part of why I did two postdocs. Now as a first year faculty, all the federal grants are frozen. I love the work I do but this has all of us questioning how much www.science.org/content/arti...

The AMS is temporarily opening its career services to all who need them, regardless of membership status, and offering dues waivers and meeting registration fee reductions for those impacted by job loss due to changes in the government. Read more: bit.ly/4gRiHAk

We @chronicle.com reported on Friday that applications for F31 diversity fellowships had been withdrawn. Now, multiple scholars tell me their applications have been re-assigned to their original study sections, in a reversal of instructions NIH officials gave reviewers last week. #AcademicSky

i wasn't built to work i was built to dilly dally and eat bottomless fries.

👋🏾 #STEMNoire is now on BlueSky! We’re a research conference & wellness retreat for Black women in STEM, creating space for connection, collaboration, & career growth. Every year, we convene Black women throughout the diaspora to provide resources that drive success & retention in STEM. Thread👇🏽

Black History is American History.

What a month. What a week. What a time.

As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽‍💻

The censorship begins: According to officials, the Trump administration is instructing health agencies including the CDC, FDA, NIH, and HHS to pause all external communications, such as health advisories, weekly scientific reports, updates to websites and social media posts.

Halts preparing my lil NIH grant* 😢

Anyone celebrating the restoration of TikTok — given the way that it has been restored — has lost the plot, completely

I know I’m doing something right when I’m raving about how good smoked trout is and get asked “Did you make it?”

Leading Edge is celebrating a milestone: 100 (actually 102!) new assistant professors!!! 🎉🥳🎊 Learn more about them: www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows/ Applications are now open for the 2025 Leading Edge cohort! (Deadline Feb 3). You do NOT need to be ready for the job market to apply.

It’s weird, isn’t it, that Octavia Butler predicted this. Almost beat for beat. I don’t mean to be woo. And prophecy is above my pay grade & outside my expertise. I’m just saying. 😳

The Los Angeles wildfires are climate disasters compounded, writes @ericholthaus.com - the conditions for a January LA firestorm have never existed until now #climatecrisis #LAfires www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

I attended a Black tech mixer this week where the panel was evangelizing AI as the future of the workforce. At some point, they asked what the audience’s biggest concerns about AI were. There were four options & none of them considered the environment. 🧪

The planets are so bright 😭🥰

Drinking alcohol raises the risk of developing seven types of cancer, according to a new advisory from U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy.

Everybody remember to go get you a library card to help keep them funded

Real life is not like science fiction, where the power usage required for processing rarely, if ever, factors into the plot. I still care very much about the ethics of AI usage but I really think its environmental and infrastructural impact desperately needs more exposure.

Sharp uptick after the end of the COVID Public Health Emergency & its associated eviction moratorium

Blue Ivy joined Beyoncé during her halftime performance of Texas Hold 'Em….iconic 🔥

Happy Winter Solstice! These photos were taken with a pinhole camera I made from a beer can and left out from Summer to Winter Solstice - a 6 month exposure. Bottom line = Winter Solstice. Top line = Summer Solstice. The lines are the Sun moving across the sky w/some reflections. No line = clouds

Things aren’t perfect, but I’m very v grateful for this life I get to live. (+reminder to self: perfection isn’t real.)

People’s lack of consideration is ASTOUNDING.

& that’s a wrap on #AGU24 🧪 The meeting was a bit overwhelming as a first timer, but it was amazing to see such a strong representation of climate & health research! Until next time 🤗

In honor of Nikki Giovanni passing:

Just touched down for my first #AGU! I’ll be presenting Wednesday on how extreme heat impacts quality of life and access to care among people with cancer. Would love to see you there! #AGU24

I'm tired of living through crazy historical moments. I just wanna buy a house and start a family.

Yesterday was such a perfect day ☺️

Intro Time ✨ I’m an Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at University of Miami Rosenstiel School & Director of the Environmental Justice & Health Equity collaborative.

We need to talk more about how heavy qualitative work can be. It’s one thing to conceptualize someone dying from cancer as an event in an equation, it’s entirely different to get a call from someone’s spouse saying that the person you sought to recruit for a study is no longer with us. Deep sigh 😞

I’ll get used to this eventually probably

Since last week, I have been more deeply reckoning with the fact that very little that we do is inconsequential. In that spirit of the choices we make shaping the world we live in for the better, goodbye X, hello BlueSky! Okay, now where are my Black women in STEM? 💜