Shoba Ramanadhan

Shoba, Davine, and Bella in front of a rainbow-colored slide that says "social justice, harm reduction, liberation..."

A highlight of my new intro #qualitative research course @hsph.harvard.edu was bringing in two fabulous collaborators - Davine Holness and Bella de Sa. They lost me a bit when they talked about loving coding, but at least we all agreed on the beauty of #participatory, justice-focused research.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

Dean Baccarelli in academic regalia speaks at a podium during the 2025 Convocation ceremony, with a joyful crowd of graduates on a screen in the background. The podium bears the Harvard Chan School emblem.

Convocation ceremony at Harvard Chan School with students in caps and gowns seated, listening to Dean Baccarelli visible on large screens in a large arena.

Harvard Chan faculty members in traditional regalia, seated onstage during the Convocation ceremony, clapping and smiling.

Muhammad Jawad Noon, MPH ‘25, addresses his fellow graduates in the Class of 2025 during the Convocation ceremony.

Pure joy! 🤩 That’s how we all felt yesterday as we celebrated the amazing achievements of the @hsph.harvard.edu Class of 2025.

Graduation 2025: Award winners | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Each year, awards are presented to graduating students, faculty, and staff.

Each year, awards are presented to graduating students, as well as faculty and staff, at Harvard Chan School. Today, we celebrated the many achievements of this year's award winners at a ceremony in the Kresge building.

View the full list of awards and winners:

Remember my grandfather's wisdom: we are not those who see darkness, we are those who map constellations. And when future generations ask, "Who helped us find our way home when the skies went dark?" Let the answer… be us. Muhammad Jawad Noon, Student Speaker, Harvard Chan School Class of 2025 Convocation

Muhammad Jawad Noon, MPH '25, addressed his fellow graduates in the Class of 2025.

Watch Convocation live and learn more about Harvard Chan School graduation celebrations at hsph.me/graduation

#HarvardChan25

In addition to gutting Medicaid and SNAP, the House Reconciliation bill takes aim at the clean energy boom 🔋🌱

Slashing clean energy tax credits = slashing jobs in your own district 💼⚡️

Let’s see how that plays out 👀

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“They’re trying to kidnap someone” On the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts.

@billshaner.bsky.social reports from the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I Ask Percy How I Should Live My Life by Mary Oliver Love, love, love, says Percy. And run as fast as you can along the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust. Then, go to sleep. Give up your body heat, your beating heart. Then, trust. From Red Bird Beacon Press, 2008.

Then, trust.

'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …

20 ARMED men bust into your home. They claim they’ve got a search warrant.

They make you stand in the rain w/your 3 daughters in their underwear.

They seize your phones, laptops, your cash life savings.

The suspects listed on the warrant? They don’t live there anymore.

kfor.com/news/local/w...

New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago:

—Pioneering cancer researcher;
—*Arrested* at airport in Boston;
—Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana;
—"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research.

Read it.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat The defense secretary sent sensitive information about strikes in Yemen to an encrypted group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said.

BREAKING NYT:

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed information about forthcoming strikes in Yemen on March 15 in a private Signal group chat that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer, according to four people with knowledge of the chat.

We just wanted to keep you all updated estimates are now approaching 4 million. Incredible job pulling this off on a holiday weekend! It was tough to get accurate counts today because small towns showed up in force. Some states had record-breaking turnout we didn’t expect this includes

This is our moment in history to stand.

Protesters in Chicago are marching!

Let’s go!!!

Comfort breeds complacency protest sign held by UAW member

“Respect existance or expect resistance” sign held by UAW member

Union members gathered for the “Hands Off” protest in Elizabethtown, Ky

Group of protestors

Elizabethtown, Ky had over 200 protestors!! Our first protest here!!!

ONE IF BY LAND

TWO IF BY D.C.

the north end church in boston

it’s 250 years today

@northendpage.bsky.social

Not the same indeed.

Americans are entitled to and should demand better than this from the President of the United States.

Delighted to be there and congrats to committee members Sabra L. Katz-Wise, Jarvis Chen, Aaliyah El-Amin, and Sari Reisner + The Winning Team!

Congrats to the amazing Dr. (!!!!) Kieran Todd, who defended their @hsph.harvard.edu dissertation yesterday! Beautiful example of place-based, justice-driven, intersectional work. How many folks can share results of Latent Class Analysis and Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis at one shot?

Per source, NIH has been instructed to hold off from issuing ALL awards to Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Brown, and Northwestern (including med schools)

Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants

Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants

the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever

they aren’t going into universities’ endowments

they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research

“So this is my radical proposal for universities: …Spend your endowments. Accept more, not fewer students. Open up your campuses and expand your reach not by buying real estate but by bringing education to communities. Create a base.
Become a movement.”

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