@bharatvenkat.bsky.social
I study climate change, health, and inequality Associate Professor, UCLA Institute for Society & Genetics / History /Anthropology Director, UCLA Heat Lab bharatvenkat.net Wrote AT THE LIMITS OF CURE (Duke University Press) Writing SWELTER (Crown, Picador)
ICYMI: the paperback edition of THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US is now out.
I wrote a thread earlier this week about the engineered neglect that millions are living under while this administration funnels a billion dollars a day into a war of aggression.
Today the paperback of THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US is out.
It's arriving in a country once again waging war—a country that can spend tens of billions on bombs without blinking, while millions of Americans are one missed paycheck, one rent hike away from homelessness.
Let's take stock of where we are.
How come “How are you going to pay for it?” is never asked about endless war?
The paperback tour for THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US begins this month.
Over the coming weeks, I'll be in conversation with organizers, scholars, and journalists about mounting precarity in America and what it would mean to treat housing as a basic right.
I'd be grateful to see you if I'm in your city.
Our federal government killed a disabled genocide survivor and is covering up for a child rapist. And that is just today’s news. It is just unconscionable to be treating this as normal or acceptable in any way.
www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...
Well, the DOJ has done it: they have filed a lawsuit against the University of California over antisemitism.
The complaint contains some falsehoods. But as someone who teaches and writes about Title VII, I'm equally struck by what the complaint doesn't say.
A few thoughts— 🧵
Grateful to @seattletimes.com for including THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US on its list of March paperbacks to read.
www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
Congratulations to Jen Rose Smith @sprucehen.bsky.social, whose book "Ice Geographies" has been named a co-winner of the On the Brinck Award, given by the University of New Mexico School of Architecture + Planning @unm_saap. bit.ly/4aGYo7K buff.ly/eXBh6OO
That hit piece on LARB smells like tabloid-quality writing. Good institutional stories take time and careful writing. I didn’t finish that LARB hit piece and I won’t.
"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed."
A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends.
Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.
Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps
I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.
It’s always good when the courts recognize what every single other person in the universe understands about the DOE CWG.
A Secret Panel to Question Climate Science Was Unlawful, Judge Rules
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/c...
#goals
I'm hiring 2 postdocs on my Wellcome project "How Did Infectious Diseases Become Wild?: Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975)"
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
King's College
3 years 01/10/26- 30/09/29
Deadline: 01/02/26
shorturl.at/KZ6Vh
"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."
Limn 12 Spotlight Series
Bharat Jayram Venkat examines how global shipping delivers thermal inequality.
Limn 12 - Climate's Interiors.
Out now.
limn.press/article/twil...
@hausfath.bsky.social makes his predictions for 2026 and 2027 temperatures on The Climate Brink. I don’t need any fancy science to tell you that both years gonna be en fuego.
www.theclimatebrink.com/p/my-2026-an...
Climate change will impact sports dramatically -- this is just the beginning of it:
www.espn.com/tennis/story...
"... if we faced the reality of how many Americans are dying from heat, maybe we would have to do hard things like provide access to cooling and tackle the climate crisis” -- Bharat Venkat, director of the UCLA heat lab
WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
TLDR: UC leadership has continued negotiations with a unmistakably fascist regime, and preemptively cut a program to recruit faculty of color, while leaving faculty, staff, & students to fight on their own
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/us/trump-pressure-free-speech-university-of-california-lawsuit.html
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DAILY MEMO: Feds Rip Through Election Day, Taking At Least 25, Including Elderly, a Toddler, and Her U.S. Citizen Father
🧵 2 parts
Damn, I hadn’t actually watched this video until now. The man is out there just talking about “how socialism can shape our future.” Wow.
POV you’re still not married and your grandparents just found the nicest boy with a good job they want you to meet
jesus my feed on that other site (and some of this one) is just full-on racism now in the wake of that mamdani video. it's really cool that the racists don't have to worry about expressing themselves anymore.
