
Bharat Venkat
@bhar_venkat
Book: AT THE LIMITS OF CURE
(@DukePress, tinyurl.com/ATLOC1)
Associate Prof, UCLA
Institute for Society & Genetics / History / Anthropology/
Director, Heat Lab
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The Brain and Body Lab - UCLA is excited to be hiring a Staff Research Associate for our NIMH-funded Teen Bugs study investigating brain-gut communication in teens. Please send your best people to join our wonderful team! jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/8072



VERY excited to share our new Oppressive Heat paper: Towards a decolonial heat-health nexus We show how heat stress science and policy has been - and is - shaped by colonial and post-colonial interests, from the 19th century to now More here👇: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…



Last year, the US budgeted $12.8B for new affordable housing. This country is now poised to spend $45B on immigrant detention centers. That's nearly *four times* as much on cages as on homes—in the middle of a devastating housing and homelessness crisis. newrepublic.com/article/197619…




And the story about the show written by my student and UCLA Heat Lab's own Marcos Magana!



"We have to go way beyond empathy in terms of how we respond to the truths in this book. The problem of homelessness is not about a lack of empathy. It's about power and who controls access to the basic necessities we all need." Current Affairs on THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US:

