In The Atlantic, we call on President Donald J. Trump to 1) require vaccination for police, jail, ICE, & prison staff 2) release thousands whose continued incarceration serves no one & harms everyone Public safety should be about we the people, not reckless police unions. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

There's still time to sign up for Advanced R and Intensive R for Epidemiologists! Advanced: reg.learningstream.com/reg/event_page… Intensive: reg.learningstream.com/reg/event_page…

I'm once again teaching intro, intensive, and advanced R for epidemiologists this summer with episummer@columbia! There's still time to sign up! Advanced: reg.learningstream.com/reg/event_page… Intensive: reg.learningstream.com/reg/event_page…

"ChatGPT, write me an essay about NYC in the style of an 8th grade book report"

The Ezra-Abundance discourse was a centrist co-optation of the Green New Deal's original abundance politics. Now Zohran is taking it back for the left. Not sure why so many people are surprised... #Abundance: welcome home.

Half of Vienna lives in lovely, subsidized homes. Rents are low. And these buildings fight climate change. Meet green social housing: climate policy you can touch. NPR's great new story & Climate & Community Institute's new research show how it works in Vienna, could work here 🧵

To bomb Iran the US deployed 7 B2 bombers—each cost $2.1B to build. They used 14 huge “bunker busters,” a model that cost $500 million to develop. The US invested ~ $15 billion in this attack—almost 50% more than it invested in affordable housing construction this year.

Mamdani's victory will be the biggest election win for climate populism since AOC beat Crowley in 2018. With AOC, the GND promised good green jobs. Mamdani's Green Abundance for the Many is all about making the good life affordable. Climate politics have fundamentally changed.

Just going to leave this here 😈

Centrists are so out of touch! They can make all the Soviet jokes they want, but 66% of New Yorkers want municipal grocery stores to lower costs.

"Mamdani’s insurgent campaign...is not just one of left economic populism; it’s also a winning vision for green economic populism. He has offered a vision for winning meaningful climate action that this country desperately needs" - Batul Hassan Climate & Community Institute jacobin.com/2025/06/mamdan…

I'm thrilled to share that I'm joining SUNY Downstate School of Public Health (SPH) as Associate Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences! I'm grateful to my mentors, colleagues, and collaborators and excited to join a public institution committed to health equity in Brooklyn and beyond.

Andrew Cuomo is more responsible for a homeless crisis than probably any other person in NYS. He zero right to call for "moral clarity". This tweet is abhorrent and undermines what makes rent stabilization work

This is a must-read, haunting piece by Nadine Apelian Dobbs zeteo.com/p/finding-my-g…

I've been carefully reading all the studies RFK Jr relied on in his press conference on autism and Tylenol last week and posting detailed reviews of them all. Today, I looked at a study from Harvard evaluating acetaminophen in pregnancy using a large, high-quality cohort study.

Ellie doing incredible work here. I'd be embarrassed to show my face in public if I was the senior author of this paper.