I've launched the updated Environmental and Climate Justice Syllabus! A few notes on the new syllabus! 1/3 just-environments.org/the-syllabus

Suspended from ceiling, Sacred Cod oversees Massachusetts House chamber:

Social media behaviors and symptoms of anxiety and depression. A four-wave cohort study from age 10–16 years. - ScienceDirect Yet another study showing no effect of social media on adolescent depression or anxiety. And this is a particularly good study. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The US military’s position reveals the absurdity of contending that the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits race-conscious admissions at Harvard but not at West Point. bit.ly/3rcf0Bm

Good morning. 🌅 Start your day with Georgia O'Keeffe's Morning Sky (1916) from the collection.

This is a big day!! 🔥🔥🔥 Two big boxes of #SeeingOthers arrived earlier today. ✌️julia cheiffetz One Signal Publishers Simon & Schuster Margo Beth Fleming: You are the best !! Thanks so much for the smooth production process. Stay tuned for the official launch on 09/12/23

Meta-Analysis: Trigger warnings don’t help people emotionally prepare for distressing material, or lead them to avoid it – the two things they’re intended to do. Their main effect seems to be to make people more anxious about encountering the material. doi.org/10.1177/216770…

Pennsylvanians living near fracking wells face higher risk for childhood cancer, low birth weights and asthma attacks - EHN ehn.org/living-near-fr…

Sleeping Mud Maid', living sculpture created by UK artist Sue Hill (and collaborative partner Pete) at The Lost Gardens of Heligan, Cornwall, UK #WomensArt

For those teaching undergrad courses in health & inequality (or even have class meetings devoted to the topic), I highly recommend this book. Written so clearly & accessibility while still going deep on content. The descriptions of complex embodiment processes are phenomenal.

'Is it raining where you are? ' by contemporary UK printmaker Sarah Morgan #WomensArt

11 months after his release from the concentration camps, Viktor Frankl gave a set of lectures on moving beyond optimism and pessimism to find life's deepest source of meaning. They were lost for decades, never before published in English—and now they are: themarginalian.org/2020/05/17/yes…

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” -James Baldwin

This is a picture I took of Louise Glück receiving her Nobel medal in her backyard during Covid. It was such a great moment for lyric poetry--restrained yet emotional--being elevated to the world stage. I took the picture from her back porch.

How much more evidence do people need to recognize that private equity is terrible for healthcare? This is sickening.

An exploration of the mythologies around AI and how they shape discourse on it in education from the amazing and prolific @lfurze (who is mostly on LinkedIn). leonfurze.com/2023/10/18/myt…

Psychiatrist Dr Karen Norberg, of National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, spent a year #crocheting an atomically correct replica of the human #brain #womensart

WOW!! Doctor Kristin Lyerly is so fed up with MAGA taking away women’s rights that she’s RUNNING for Congress in Wisconsin. She’d be the ONLY pro-choice OBGYN in Congress. Watch this and share it everywhere! #HandsOffMyReproCare