I am finally cleared to return to normal activities!🏃🏻‍♀️ It’ll take about 2 months to regain the fitness I lost from bed rest 😞 And I still can’t see well, so apologies for awkward moments in the hallway—I swear I’m not ignoring you 😉

PANEL DISCUSSION: Southasia’s youthquakes - on #GenZprotests in #Nepal, #Bangladesh and #lka. Co-hosted by @romangtm.bsky.social and Harsh Mander. Sign up to register: bit.ly/4nI9Vsr

*please share widely* My department (Second Language Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa) is hiring a corpus linguist who conducts research on second languages. Great place to teach (2/2 load) and do research! See link for more details: go.hawaii.edu/mGc

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

These away kits are giving me pause this season

I despise the infiltration of huge LED screens into schools, hospitals, and conferences. Not every institution needs to look like Times Square

Why is Liverpool wearing Celtics uniforms

"several international orgs, including Gates Foundation and Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, had offered to buy or accept a donation of the contraceptives. The government would have incurred no costs or might have even been able to recoup taxpayer funds under those scenarios."

Hopeful that the situation in Nepal can end with positive change. No comment on the situation in the US.

After anti-corruption #GenZprotests and a deadly uprising forced the prime minister and government to resign, #Nepal searches for a new politics that can jettison its failed establishment. Commentary by Himal EIC @romangtm.bsky.social

If you are still on the bad place, consider following Pranaya Rana @inkthink. For English coverage, the Kantipur building was set on fire, but Kathmandu Post reporters are still posting via social media.

The Nepal unrest forced me back onto the bad place where the Nepali journalists are, and I'm only now realizing the extent to which journalists, average folks, and even tourists are at risk. During the People's War, I was always safe. I would not be if I were in Kathmandu right now.

Probably one of the best explainers I've read so far on the protests in Nepal in English here from @globalvoices.org Well worth a read.

Police opened fire on #GenZprotests against corruption and a social-media ban, leaving 19 dead in the deadliest day of protest in Nepal’s history. Writes Pranay Rana

Nepal’s government signaled late Monday that it would retreat from a ban on some of the world’s biggest social media platforms that helped set off the unrest. The protests, which were also fueled by anger over corruption, were the most widespread in Nepal’s recent history.

"We are shocked by the killings and injury of protesters in Nepal today and urge a prompt and transparent investigation."

Nepal's Gen-Z protest turns deadly

Nepal police open fire on crowd protesting social media ban, killing at least 17 people

If the Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox is trying to make Americans never go to Italy, it's working?

Hit by tariffs, garment giants in India turn to Nepal

This is a great time to watch this @pulitzercenter.org documentary on why “doctors and parents in Samoa blame influential vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his associates for bolstering anti-vax sentiment” pulitzercenter.org/blog/explori...

Bringing Back Blue Books.

Listened to my first audiobook ever. Sula, read aloud by no other than Toni Morrison herself. Worth listening to even if you've already read it.

Retinal detachment. Didn’t see that coming.

“You will have 1-2 weeks of face-down bed rest.” I was unaware this torture existed.

Brightsp@ce LMS is not designed for in-person classes. Convince me I'm wrong. I would love to be wrong.

Because I love teaching tools and pedagogy, I was low key excited about the potential of our new LMS, Brightsp@ce. Unfortunately that excitement dissipated pretty quickly as I learned the structure

Highly anticipated news about the future of DHS

Some good news for now.

The U.S. government intends to incinerate $9.7 million in already-purchased birth control in Belgium after USAID was shut down

A professor had a $2.4 million grant to study Black maternal health. Then Trump was elected

Hawai’i state employees just ordered to go home (or evacuate to higher ground)

Tsunami warning issued for Hawai‘i

Cleaning out my university office bc termite infestation, and look at the history I am throwing away #Nepal

some of our youth club soccer teams practice here 😔

In non-lab fields, faculty typically help MA/PhD students develop solo projects that aren't part of the faculty member's research, and that the faculty won't be a coauthor on. Faculty in non-lab fields also typically increase their advising load post-tenure, limiting their own time for research. 2/

E komo mai 🌺 स्वागत छ 🙏🏼

Anyway, if you're interested in learning and growing: CPR (meaning cardiopulmonary resuscitation) saves lives, and Freedom House was essential to making pre-hospital emergency care accessible to underserved & disinvested Black communities in Pittsburgh, PA pbs.org/show/freedom...

Good morning from O'ahu

Fulbright Board Resigns After Accusing Trump Aides of Political Interference

Art in the making

Excited to be in conversation with these scholars at tomorrow's panel on #ReproductiveHealth and #GlobalHealth goals at #AASinAsia2025

Escape to the Country, by Sarah Besky & Yojak Tamang Part of the Climate's Interiors issue of Limn #Himalaya #Tourism

Decades of support for underrepresented students in Hawaiʻi and the Pacific has been shut down due to federal budget cuts

During the rollout of the COVID vaccines, the lack of testing - combined with a raft of misinformation - led many pregnant women to not get vaccinated. @propublica.org wrote this in 2022, but it's just as relevant now with RFK Jr's CDC changing recommendations for the vaccine.

I was the only woman at our faculty meetings for the Spring semester. Glad that's done.

🎙️📚 “Hundreds and thousands of languages are probably are spoken in mountainous areas, but as far as I gather, linguists believe that it is only the Rai people who have developed this up-down locative tense.” A conversation with Thomas Bell:

People always say the most quotable quotes right after you stop the voice recorder #anthropology

I'm giving a talk on helicopter rescue for obstetric emergencies on Friday, then a talk on c-sections on Wednesday, and the chance of me not mixing up the two talks is nil #Nepal #maternalhealth #MedAnthro

The Arrangements. Have you seen it? #Micronesians in #Hawai'i