Cat 😺 won the Bird Lottery

The contrast between the number of media requests I got when rich people on a cruise were facing a deadly, but contained outbreak versus now that some of the poorest people in the world are facing a deadly and devastating epidemic is just so so stark and it just really annoys the hell out of me.

Our latest #GlobalHealth #Politics #Podcast convo w Lioba Hirsch on #antiblackness & Global Health is fire! Check it out at podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... @dadakim.bsky.social @ethnography911.bsky.social @thurka149.bsky.social @emendenhall.bsky.social @buciss.bsky.social @busph.bsky.social

Check out the latest #GlobalHealth #Politics #Pocast with Lioba Hirsch podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... @themrise.bsky.social @katharinakrause.bsky.social @thurka149.bsky.social @timschwab.bsky.social @drvyom.bsky.social @jonshaffer.bsky.social @victorroy.bsky.social @victorerikray.bsky.social

Assistant Professor of Sociology job at Rhode Island College! employment.ric.edu/postings/10638

On the latest episode of his @ghpoliticspodcast.bsky.social, CEID faculty @josephharrisbu.bsky.social talks with Dr. Lioba Hirsch from @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social about global health governance and infectious disease response in Africa. spr.ly/63320BBRdbY

Took younger daughter (who wants to be a paleontologist) to a lake near Peterborough last night. We found these Jurassic microfossils-teeny ammonites & crinoid ‘ossicles’-these little rock stars were part of the stems of crinoids/sea lilies-animals with 5 axes of symmetry related to sea urchins 🐚

Buff-tip moths They look like little broken birch twigs! A perfect disguise!

Hope to see you today! @bostonu.bsky.social @budiversity.bsky.social @burbanism.bsky.social @buearth.bsky.social @bostonufitrec.bsky.social @bostonu-gms.bsky.social

In the 24 hours since the Supreme Court's majority ruled to demolish the Voting Rights Act's remaining protections, Louisiana and Tennessee have already signaled that they'll redraw their congressional maps with the clear effect of shutting Black voters out.

In the latest @ghpoliticspodcast.bsky.social episode, I sit down with Dr. Lioba Hirsch, and we talk about her new book from @plutopress.bsky.social, #Antiblackness and #GlobalHealth podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s... @madhupai.bsky.social @ethnography911.bsky.social @seyeabimbola.bsky.social

Today’s Supreme Court ruling guts the Voting Rights Act and turns back the clock on the foundational promise of equality and fairness in our election systems.

We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.

Can you imagine going back to 1776 and telling the Founding Fathers that in 250 years, the King of England would be standing in the United States Capitol lecturing American lawmakers about the importance of democratic norms?

Say it with me now... RFK has not changed his position on vaccines. Politico: RFK Jr. is holding up $600 million in vaccines for poor countries The distributor of the shots said it would cost tens of thousands of lives. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

NASA has unveiled one of the closest images ever captured of Jupiter—and the detail is truly stunning. CREDIT:NASA

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American exceptionalism

Jay Bhattacharya just censored a study that was about to be published cuz it showed the effectiveness of COVID vaccines, contradicting everything that his MAHA movement believes in He pulled it from the journal it was going to be published in (MMWR) But he gets to lecture us on, um, integrity 🙃

An infuriating thing: the men who pushed for mass infection instead of mass vaccination—Bhattacharya & RFK Jr—now run the health system & KILLED the actual technology (mRNA vaccines) that would end the next pandemic rapidly. So they’ve made it MORE likely we’ll need lengthy NPIs in the next pandemic

Jay screamed that he was being “cEnsOrEd!¡” during the pandemic because clinicians, outbreak control experts, virologists, & public health professionals rejected his push for mass infection instead of mass vaccination Now, as the nation’s most powerful scientist, he is censoring vaccine science 🧐

The National Science Foundation which funds a quarter of all basic scientific research in the country is being dismantled.

The Paul Farmer Lectureship and Award for Global Health Equity at @mcgill.ca @mcgillspgh.bsky.social 2026 Call for Nominations www.mcgill.ca/spgh/about-u...

Oh. My. God. Jay Bhattacharya has truly decimated opportunities for early career scientists; I knew it was bad, but I didn’t realize just how bad. What a catastrophic failure of leadership. This thread is truly one of the scariest things I’ve seen in a long time. Jay is dismantling US science 😢

The latest episode of the #GlobalHealth #Politics #Podcast is fire! Come check out our conversations with @katharinakrause.bsky.social and Brooke Bocast at globalhealthpoliticspodcast.buzzsprout.com

Science is good. We should fund it.

I'm not sure how you can be against removing this man from office right now. What will it take? A nuke being dropped? It's too late then. The purpose of impeachment and the 25th Amendment is to prevent that type of thing from happening, not just to react to it.

Glad to see BU reconsider its policies to better align with an institutional commitment to inclusion & Grateful to the community that showed such strong commitment to inclusion & encouraged better & Appreciate leadership working to continuously improve, as we all may

I had the pleasure of participating in a fantastic workshop on #Informality, Sustainable Livelihoods & #UHC in January sponsored by @gdp-center.bsky.social in Nairobi, led by @bostonu.bsky.social colleagues Lawrence Were & Solomon Owusu with experts from around the region www.bu.edu/gdp/2026/03/...

Just a month left to submit your abstracts to the Social Science & Medicine Call for Abstracts for the Special Issue on Polarization and Health Policy in Global Context, edited by @kenworthy.bsky.social & me. Abstracts due April 30. For more information visit www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

The latest ep of @ghpoliticspodcast.bsky.social from @josephharrisbu.bsky.social includes conversations with @katharinakrause.bsky.social & Dr. Brooke Bocast on their respective research, spanning very different forms of health research. spr.ly/63325B6mS1H

Opportunity knocks here in Boston northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...

Check out our latest on the #GlobalHealth #Politics #Podcast w @katharinakrause.bsky.social & Brooke Bocast podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s... @globalhealthberlin.bsky.social @globalhealthde.bsky.social @wzb.bsky.social @unituebingen.bsky.social @ethnography911.bsky.social @emendenhall.bsky.social

Thanks to my friend @drichardsonsoc.bsky.social, I'll be doing a virtual book talk next Wednesday with Indiana University Bloomington. Check out the registration link below!

A new @ghpoliticspodcast.bsky.social episode drops Monday! For now, check out our convo w @repoyedc.bsky.social. A #pharmacist, Dr. Owolewa serves as #ShadowRepresentative to #Congress for #DC. He talks #publichealth & DC #statehood as a candidate for DC Council podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

In solidarity with my colleagues at BU, I've put up a Pride flag in my office window at Northeastern, facing Leon Street. Trans rights are human rights.

Today is #WorldTBDay Yes! We can end TB! In a recent @ghpoliticspodcast.bsky.social ep, @josephharrisbu.bsky.social spoke to John Green, author of Everything Is Tuberculosis, about this disease for which we have a cure, but still kills over a million people a year. spr.ly/63326B6zoJa

World TB Day is a great time to pick up @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social new book "Everything is Tuberculosis"! My review of his book in @thelancet.com 👇🏽 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Federal court finds Columbia University may have acted as government’s instrument to suppress Palestinian advocacy in violation of the First Amendment. YES THEY DID I SAW IT www.cair-ny.org/news/3/19/26...

"Universal health coverage is not merely a technical goal to be achieved; it is primarily a moral imperative for societies that wish to call themselves just." —Pope Leo XIV

A large body of research shows that institutional policies & practices shape LGBTQIA+ health I am really sorry to see this institutional practice & I am heartened so many faculty members are persisting in supporting our LGBTQIA+ community even as they may face personal risk

Millions of Americans are going uninsured following the expiration of ACA subsidies - The Wall Street Journal

New open access book! Case Studies in Global Health: Illuminating Theory and Practice www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

🦠 Six years after WHO declared #COVID19 a global emergency, @josephharrisbu.bsky.social of @bostonu.bsky.social draws upon his research to explain what the pandemic revealed about U.S. public health & international cooperation in our latest No Jargon episode. 🎧 Listen: scholars.org/podcast/what...

Trump has gutted health care and food assistance while funneling billions into a war machine that he’s empowered to kill civilians abroad with no accountability. The cruelty never ends. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-defense-department-iran-hegseth-civilian-casualties

1 week of war = 11 billion $ Next time we hear that there's no money for health, education, science, humanitarian aid, we remember this

Have you checked out our conversation w/ @repoyedc.bsky.social on the @ghpoliticspodcast.bsky.social yet? A #pharmacist, Dr. Owolewa serves as the #ShadowRepresentative to #Congress for the nation's #capital. He talks #publichealth & D.C. #statehood as a candidate for D.C. Council lnkd.in/gJmasNNy

“The purpose [of Impact Counter] was to try to get these numbers in the hands of people that could advocate for a waiver or for stopping the pause and advocacy to make sure that this didn’t happen,” @brookeenichols.bsky.social tells @wgbh.org one year after USAID cuts. spr.ly/63321B6EDh3