Xiao Wu

What the Air You Breathe May Be Doing to Your Brain

What the Air You Breathe May Be Doing to Your Brain www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/h...

New research on Hurricane evacuation!

Lewy body dementia promotion by air pollutants Evidence links air pollution to dementia, yet its role in Lewy body dementia (LBD) remains unclear. In this work, we showed in a cohort of 56.5 million individuals across the United States that fine p...

Through a huge multidisciplinary collaboration effort, we showed that fine particulate matter (PM2.5) exposure raises Lewy body dementia risk. Mechanistically, we found that PM2.5 exposure led to brain atrophy in mice. Lewy body dementia promotion by air pollutants www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Columbia's Agreement with the Federal Government RISE UP, COLUMBIA TODAY AT 12:17 PM The Columbia administration has finally done what many of us have urged it not to do: it has signed a bad agreement with the federal government to address the government's phony concerns about Columbia. Here is the document. And here, importantly, is President Shipman's letter outlining her view of the document.

Thank you to Rise Up, Columbia for the astute analysis as usual and the footnote shoutout to CUIMC Stands Up!

We’re a group of medical campus faculty & staff firmly against the exchange of our values for grant funds, even as our jobs & careers are at risk.

🔗 open.substack.com/pub/riseupco...

Nature: US senators poised to reject Trump’s proposed massive science cuts Committee gives first hint that policymakers might preserve, rather than slash, funding for US National Science Foundation and other agencies.

DO NOT GIVE UP!

Our advocacy is working.

A key Senate committee has indicated that it will reject Trump’s proposed cuts to science agencies including NASA and the NSF.

Keep speaking up and calling your electeds 🗣️🗣️🗣️

Observing the #extremeheat events in NYC and across the US this week, I’m reminded you that the latest #NIH #grants cuts killed the project I led to improve heat-warning systems, now everyone’s more exposed to severe heat, and everyone's #health is paying the price. Tell your officials this matters.

Updated: Trump administration unfreezes, then refreezes, NIH funding to Columbia University Morning agency email indicating resumption of hundreds of millions in grants is quickly undone

This morning, the National Institutes of Health lifted a pause on funding to Columbia University, according to an internal memo viewed by Science.

A few hours later, the agency refroze money to the school. scim.ag/4n5AW9s

Of course🙂

I can not believe

Is this real?

Our “Defunded Science Fair” was a huge success! Thank you to all who showed up to present. We had such great conversations with alumni on campus for alumni weekend. If you missed it, we hope to host another — stay tuned!

Harvard Alumni Amicus Brief Sign On This is the sign-on form for an amicus curiae ("friend of the court") brief from Harvard alumni. The brief will be filed in support of Harvard, in its lawsuit challenging the U.S. government's unlawf...

Harvard alumni:

Sign on to an amicus curiae brief in support of Harvard lawsuit challenging the US government's unlawful attempt to assert control over core functions at Harvard by withholding more than $2.2b in federal grants for research and related programs.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Now is the time for scientists to stand up against Trump’s repressive agenda | Daniel Malinsky The administration is attacking research, health and the environment. We might seem unlikely activists – but we have a duty to dissent

Very well said: Now is the time for scientists to stand up against Trump’s repressive agenda www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I commented, and you?

With nearly all of Harvard Chan School’s direct federal grants terminated, we are relying on philanthropy to power our research and support our educational programs. Every gift, regardless of size, advances our vision of health, dignity, and justice for every human. Support our work: hsph.me/whygive

Sign In Defense of Shared Governance at Columbia University Initiated May 8, 2025 Dear Members of the Columbia University (faculty, staff, students, and alumni), The Columbia University Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (CU-AAUP) exe...

‼️Action item for Columbia affiliates‼️

We urgently need to stand up for shared governance at Columbia!

Please sign our petition in support of CU-AAUP’s recommendations for moving forward — grounded in democratic values: bit.ly/cu-defend-sh...

‘Soul crushing’: What’s at stake for defunded NYC researchers and their projects? Hundreds of federal grants to NYC-based researchers have been canceled under President Donald Trump, wrecking research projects and upsetting lives.

A woth-reading piece from NYC-based local news, that includes my stories among many others: gothamist.com/news/soul-cr...

The impacts of air pollution on mortality and hospital readmission among Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's disease-related dementias: a national retrospective cohort stud... We provide new evidence that among a susceptible population with previous AD/ADRD-related hospitalisations, annual air pollution exposure since first hospitalisation is associated with risk of readmis...

The impacts of air pollution on mortality and hospital readmission among Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's disease-related dementias: a national retrospective cohort study in the USA - The Lancet Planetary Health www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

We're looking for help growing our Dataverse collection—a data repository to accelerate global climate & health research.

Join us for a Datathon on 1/17!

Learn how to upload data and have fun connecting with fellow data enthusiasts.

Learn more and register: loom.ly/U6lsKoU

on (2): most credible paper i know of (and an exemplar for how to do synthetic-control on large-scale data)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...