Does any other race have this conversation repeatedly w/ their loved ones? I know he is tired of having to reassure me. Every single time I hear of another case of #Murder by way of #PoliceBrutality it strikes me w/ a level of fear I can not explain. I don’t want another hashtag.

🔊#BlackinEnvironment week (19 April - 23 April) is here!!! Follow Black In Environment to learn about Black excellence in environmental fields! Mon, #BlackEnvironRollCall Tues, #BlackPlanet Wed, #WeAreAllEnvironmentalists Thurs, #BlackToTheLand Fri, #BlackToTheFuture

Congrats to DePaul Biological Sciences student Simone Rhodes on delivering a great M.S thesis presentation today, “Effects of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBS) on Mood and Motivation Behaviors in Adolescent Rats.”

Again and again. Chronic disinvestment in infrastructure & governmental indifference continue to sicken communities of color. Water is life. #JacksonWaterCrisis

Meet Biology faculty and Graduate Students! Our first seminar series of the year is a department-wide in-person and virtual Meet & Greet, happening on Friday September 16th, 2:00pm CDT. It will be held in McGowan S105 or on zoom, link available upon request.

Another in our paper series on nontargetted analysis of prenatal/maternal exposome: Disparities in chemical exposures among pregnant women and neonates by by socioeconomic and demographic characteristics. Led by Dana Goin - sciencedirect.com/science/articl… UC San Francisco @rmfrosch Dimitri Abrahamsson

Wow. 😧 If y’all read *one* thing today, might I suggest this new article in NEJM? “The belief that Black people have denser bones, more muscle, or thicker skin led radiologists and technicians to use higher radiation exposure during x-ray procedures.” nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Folks interested in education research (any discipline), check out this workshop at DePaul. peerinstitute.org/peer-chicago-2… Mary Bridget, one of the facilitators, is a colleague from physics who studies physics education research. College of Science and Health

NEW: income inequality in US & UK is so wide that while the richest are very well off, the poorest have a worse standard of living than the poorest in countries like Slovenia ft.com/content/ef2654… Essentially, US & UK are poor societies with some very rich people. A thread:

Puerto Rico never recovered from the devastation of Hurricane Maria (2017). Now, the island is completely flooded and without electricity again. Please DO NOT DONATE to the Red Cross or FEMA. Instead, send support to trusted local organizations [THREAD]:

There's been a growing movement of health equity detractors pushing back against the antiracist policies & practices medicine needs most. In my latest in Boston Globe Ideas I argue how antiracism in medical training is key to improving our healthcare system. bostonglobe.com/2022/09/09/opi…

.NIH Women's Health and FDAWomen developed “Bench to Bedside: Integrating Sex and Gender to Improve Human Health” to explore sex- and gender-related differences in key disease areas. Register for this free e-learning course here: bit.ly/3nYzNTK.