article out today in the LA Times on the LA wildfires and their health impacts citing some of my recent work as well as that of many colleagues. Check it out here: link.latimes.com/view/6891377...

What happens to science under autocracy? The rise of the National Socialist Party in 1930s Germany provides an (admittedly extreme) example. Prior to the early 1930s, scientists at German institutions won a third of Nobels. 10 years later, that number was 5%, and has never recovered.

new paper on the chemical composition of wildfire smoke, how smoke composition changes when structures burn, and the cancer risk associated with historical wildfire smoke exposure in the US. out today in Environmental Science & Technology pubs-acs-org.stanford.idm.oclc.org/doi/10.1021/...