Dr. Cecília Tomori

Corpus Christi careens toward water catastrophe City officials expect to reach a “water emergency” within months and run out of water next year. That would halt jet fuel deliveries to Texas airports, hike gas prices and trigger a local economic dis...

City officials in Corpus Christi, Texas, expect to reach a “water emergency” within months and run out of water next year. That would halt jet fuel deliveries to airports, hike gas prices “and trigger a local economic disaster without precedent.”
www.texastribune.org/2026/03/08/t...

The Trump admin tried to impose by emergency rule-making a new process to essentially erase the existence of the Board of Immigration Appeals, requiring that basically all appeals (which cost $1,000 to file!) be summarily dismissed without any review.

The rule is now (mostly) BLOCKED!

Exhibit 3405 for why we need intro to anthropology/sociology as a requirement for undergrads. We begin anthro 101 with the history of concepts of "race" and untangling it from racism. Would it have given ChatGPT bro a pause? Hope so. More importantly, can prevent the mainstreaming of the b.s. below

“…about the 1873 massacre in Colfax, La., where dozens of Black men were murdered by a mob of former Confederates and Ku Klux Klan members.

ChatGPT had deemed it “D.E.I.” Mr. Fox said he agreed. “Because it focuses on exclusively anti-Black violence, which is a race,” he said.”

Six federal scientists run out by Trump talk about the work left undone | CNN Federal data shows the NIH lost about 4,400 people — more than 20% of its workforce. Scientists say the departures harm the U.S.’ ability to respond to disease outbreaks, develop treatments for chroni...

The number of people employed at the NIH is at its lowest level in at least two decades.

Hear from six scientists run out by Trump and the work they left behind on cancer research, tick-borne diseases, and more.

Me + @k-hought.bsky.social @kffhealthnews.org for @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/03/05/h...

Screenshot from an NIH website reading: "Table 1 shows the number of principal investigators (PIs) applying for or receiving an R01-equivalent grant in FYs 2021 to 2025, disaggregated by career stage. NIH supported 1,423 and 1,144 ESIs in FYs 2024 and 2025, respectively. The decrease seen in FY 2025 may likely be due in part to NIH implementing a requirement to use 50% of its remaining competing Research Project Grant (RPG) funds (starting in June 2025) for full-year funded competing RPGs, which was expected to lead to fewer awards and support fewer researchers overall."

Check this out straight from the NIH website, acknowledging that multiyear funding was likely responsible for a 20% decrease in early stage investigators.

And that it was expected.

A strange approach for someone so committed to the next generation of scientists.

grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

Graph of award probability of R35 and R01 from NIH factbook as a function of review rank percentile. As is apparent, 2025 is a significant departure, with lower award probabilities at all scores <40 and significant departures from norm, where even being in the top 10% is no longer a nearly certain indicator of success. Data source: https://report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/report/302

The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted.

What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards.

Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.

Jay Bhattacharya giving an interview to the Epoch Times chief editor

Here’s the NIH Director giving an interview to the editor of The Epoch Times—a media affiliate of the extreme anti-vaxx Falun Gong movement

The interview is hosted by RFK Jr’s extraordinarily dangerous, extreme anti-vaxx activist group Children’s Health Defense

h/t @angierasmussen.bsky.social

OMG they released the deposition videos where they revealed that these two DOGE bros were just feeding grants into ChatGPT and saying "tell me if this is DEI in less than 120 characters."

www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/d...

co-sign. we watched this unfold in real time. what would be helpful is a) greater focus on structural inequities & more $$ for implementation; b) training the next gen of ph & medicine, nursing & allied sci in social science/history to learn about the political strategies that can undermine or help

exactly. we watched that weaponization unfold in real time.

In January, the inflation rate in a year was expected to be 2.3%

Today, the inflation rate a year from now is expected to be 4.5% — or just about *double* what the forecast said a few weeks ago

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BREAKING: Judge blocks Trump plan set to take effect Monday that would rapidly dismiss many/most? immigration appeals. Judge Randy Moss (Obama/DC) says DOJ has to complete notice-and-comment before such a change. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...

The paradox of inequality that isn’t: rising economic inequality depresses and polarizes citizens’ belief in meritocracy Abstract. This study examines how rising income inequality has been impacting individuals’ belief in merit-based success, using three decades of survey dat

🔍 How does economic inequality impact beliefs in meritocracy?

Using comprehensive survey data from 39 advanced capitalist democracies over more than three decades, Markus Gangl & I examine how rising economic inequality has been shaping citizens' belief in meritocracy.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwag016

U.S. Tomahawk Hit Naval Base Beside Iranian School, Video Shows The evidence contradicts President Trump’s claim that Iran was responsible for a strike at the school that killed 175 people, most of them children.

Breaking News: New video adds to evidence that a U.S. missile likely hit an Iranian school where 175 people, many of them children, were reportedly killed.

Nighttime Breastfeeding: An American Cultural Dilemma | Berghahn Books Independent Publishing since 1994

Compliance with capitalist clock-time is still seen as alignment with "good" moral parenting practices (which are just a code for whiteness + class). If you want to learn more, I wrote a whole chapter about it in my first book. www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Tomori...

Some of these ideas come straight from colonial effort to "civilize" populations & persist in regulating all elements of labor, including reproductive labor. One of my favorite lectures to give!

many of these ideas are still around, and in my research they play a key role in regulating birthing & lactating bodies as well as infants, eg feeding babies "by the clock" which mostly limits feeding & undermines the physiology of lactation.

an important role in regulating labor & imposing extractive regimes. + for my medical/public health friends - the clock played a major role in regulating the body -- both the "unruly" bodies of people in the colonies & racial/ethnic minorities in the metropole, w/ women's bodies as a key target.

Changing the clocks is always a good time to remind people that the entire concept of regulating time by clocks was driven by British colonial efforts to regulate labor practices & extract wealth from the colonies using railways (which required coordination). The clock has continued to play ...

Yikes!! I am so sorry. No good! I imagine that the stressors of the world are at play! Hugs

Parent of an asthmatic kid - was thinking the same!

Wait what?? I am so sorry.

I am so sorry!! Hope you feel better soon. Rest up!!

In first, CIA acknowledges 1953 coup it backed to overthrow leader of Iran was undemocratic While other American officials have made similar remarks in the past, the acknowledgment by the CIA in a podcast about the agency’s history comes as much of its official history of the coup still rema...

I wonder what percentage of Americans knows that the CIA helped overthrow a democracy in Iran in 1953, installing a brutal dictator who tortured and murdered people. Republicans keep citing the 1979 Islamic Revolution as if that was the start of U.S.-Iran hostilities. Go back 26 years earlier.

Bombed a school & then, 30 mins later, bombed it again—ensuring any kids who survived & any rescue workers would be killed

“People were pulling out children’s arms and legs. People were pulling out severed heads”

One of the worst war crimes in modern history.

It was a school—not an IRGC base.

What a scam…

Fuzzy memories and hard facts: An SC accuser's claims against Epstein, Trump examined An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein gave FBI agents true accounts of her time growing up in SC. Claims she made about Donald Trump remain unsubstantiated.

Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

ugh!! why???

March 8, 2026 - Tehran at sunrise today. But the sun is hidden behind a sky filled with smoke. After a night of intensive strikes on oil facilities, thick black clouds now hang over the city, turning morning into something that feels like night.