Heather Randell
@heatherrandell.bsky.social
Assistant professor in the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota. Sociologist/demographer studying the health impacts of climate change and dams, with a focus on Brazil and East Africa.
https://sites.google.com/umn.edu/heatherrandell
https://sites.google.com/umn.edu/heatherrandell
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Good morning epi methods community! Please consider applying for (and spreading the word about) this position here at Minnesota. It's a great place to be! (You can read the whole description and apply here: apply.interfolio.com/179313) #EpiSky
December 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Good morning epi methods community! Please consider applying for (and spreading the word about) this position here at Minnesota. It's a great place to be! (You can read the whole description and apply here: apply.interfolio.com/179313) #EpiSky
This is infuriating. Republicans are incredibly effective at taking down Democrats using every dirty strategy in the book, and (nearly all) Dems have yet to figure out how to counter it.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Gov. Tim Walz abandons reelection campaign amid unrelenting fraud attention, Trump clashes
Gov. Tim Walz was three months into a reelection campaign that has been plagued by criticism over his handling of fraud and political opposition stirred up by President Donald Trump.
www.mprnews.org
January 5, 2026 at 3:07 PM
This is infuriating. Republicans are incredibly effective at taking down Democrats using every dirty strategy in the book, and (nearly all) Dems have yet to figure out how to counter it.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Twin Cities folks—I took my kids to the the Schubert Club Music Museum in St. Paul yesterday and they had a blast. Highly recommend
📯🪕🎺🥁🪈🎹🪗🪇 🎻🪘🎷
📯🪕🎺🥁🪈🎹🪗🪇 🎻🪘🎷
January 4, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Twin Cities folks—I took my kids to the the Schubert Club Music Museum in St. Paul yesterday and they had a blast. Highly recommend
📯🪕🎺🥁🪈🎹🪗🪇 🎻🪘🎷
📯🪕🎺🥁🪈🎹🪗🪇 🎻🪘🎷
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I cannot stress this enough but the internet was a mistake. It could have been many things but we made it this. We are not the people for this kind of power.
www.fox9.com/news/minneso...
www.fox9.com/news/minneso...
Minnesota GOP worked with YouTuber on child care fraud viral video
www.fox9.com
January 4, 2026 at 11:30 PM
I cannot stress this enough but the internet was a mistake. It could have been many things but we made it this. We are not the people for this kind of power.
www.fox9.com/news/minneso...
www.fox9.com/news/minneso...
Coffeeshop reading date with my kid. Excited to start this new book 💚📖🤎
January 4, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Coffeeshop reading date with my kid. Excited to start this new book 💚📖🤎
“Venezuela's oil is heavy and dense, and requires special refineries. Burning any type of oil contributes to climate change, but Venezuela's oil is ‘among the dirtiest oils in the world to produce when it comes to global warming,’ says @paashamahdavi.com”
www.npr.org/2026/01/04/n...
www.npr.org/2026/01/04/n...
Trump wants U.S. oil companies in Venezuela. Here's what to know
President Trump wants more U.S. oil companies to "go in" to Venezuela. But there are economic, historical, and climate reasons that may not be easy. Here's what you need to know about oil in Venezuela...
www.npr.org
January 4, 2026 at 1:25 PM
“Venezuela's oil is heavy and dense, and requires special refineries. Burning any type of oil contributes to climate change, but Venezuela's oil is ‘among the dirtiest oils in the world to produce when it comes to global warming,’ says @paashamahdavi.com”
www.npr.org/2026/01/04/n...
www.npr.org/2026/01/04/n...
End game of climate denialism:
“We’re going to have our very large US oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure, & start making money for the country”
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/b...
“We’re going to have our very large US oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure, & start making money for the country”
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/b...
January 3, 2026 at 7:37 PM
End game of climate denialism:
“We’re going to have our very large US oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure, & start making money for the country”
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/b...
“We’re going to have our very large US oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure, & start making money for the country”
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/b...
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I just want a government that funds healthcare, child care, education, public health and science research. Not a government that funds illegal wars.
January 3, 2026 at 2:53 PM
I just want a government that funds healthcare, child care, education, public health and science research. Not a government that funds illegal wars.
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The media doesn’t talk enough about the fact that ”Let’s Make America Great Again” was Reagan’s 1980 campaign slogan
Nothing this man does is original, at all, including illegal/imperial invasions in Latin America
Nothing this man does is original, at all, including illegal/imperial invasions in Latin America
January 3, 2026 at 1:38 PM
The media doesn’t talk enough about the fact that ”Let’s Make America Great Again” was Reagan’s 1980 campaign slogan
Nothing this man does is original, at all, including illegal/imperial invasions in Latin America
Nothing this man does is original, at all, including illegal/imperial invasions in Latin America
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"Mamdani walks in an older Jewish tradition. Not that of ritzy Upper East Side synagogues, but of so many of our great-grandparents: the socialist sweatshop workers who fought for a better and more beautiful world." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
They tried to smear him as an antisemite – but Mayor Zohran Mamdani walks in a rich Jewish tradition | Molly Crabapple
When I look at Mamdani, I don’t see some radical departure. I see him as an heir to the Yiddish socialism that helped build New York
www.theguardian.com
January 1, 2026 at 11:59 PM
"Mamdani walks in an older Jewish tradition. Not that of ritzy Upper East Side synagogues, but of so many of our great-grandparents: the socialist sweatshop workers who fought for a better and more beautiful world." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
No no no no no.
“Some U.S. tech leaders say A.I. chatbots — which can generate humanlike emails, create class quizzes, analyze data and produce computer code — can be a boon for learning. “
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/t...
“Some U.S. tech leaders say A.I. chatbots — which can generate humanlike emails, create class quizzes, analyze data and produce computer code — can be a boon for learning. “
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/t...
Tech Giants Are Racing to Embed A.I. in Schools Around the Globe
www.nytimes.com
January 2, 2026 at 2:01 PM
No no no no no.
“Some U.S. tech leaders say A.I. chatbots — which can generate humanlike emails, create class quizzes, analyze data and produce computer code — can be a boon for learning. “
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/t...
“Some U.S. tech leaders say A.I. chatbots — which can generate humanlike emails, create class quizzes, analyze data and produce computer code — can be a boon for learning. “
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/t...
Happy New Year! Here’s my 2026 to-read list so far and it is spare. Please send long suggestions for additions—new, old, fiction, non-fiction, memoir—I’ll take it all!
January 1, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Happy New Year! Here’s my 2026 to-read list so far and it is spare. Please send long suggestions for additions—new, old, fiction, non-fiction, memoir—I’ll take it all!
Reposted by Heather Randell
Me on January 1st 2025 vs. me on December 31st 2025. It’s been a long year.
December 31, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Me on January 1st 2025 vs. me on December 31st 2025. It’s been a long year.
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2/ Overall, 40% of Americans say they didn't read any books in 2025. Most of the rest read just a handful. Then there's a small minority of really heavy readers (more on them shortly!):
December 31, 2025 at 3:00 PM
2/ Overall, 40% of Americans say they didn't read any books in 2025. Most of the rest read just a handful. Then there's a small minority of really heavy readers (more on them shortly!):
Watching this doc now—it is a must see. You can watch it on www.kinema.com through tomorrow.
Noam Shuster-Eliassi is a gem and an inspiration.
Noam Shuster-Eliassi is a gem and an inspiration.
By the way Noam shuster's doc "coexistence my ass" is so fucking good. You can rent and stream it off kinema now
December 31, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Watching this doc now—it is a must see. You can watch it on www.kinema.com through tomorrow.
Noam Shuster-Eliassi is a gem and an inspiration.
Noam Shuster-Eliassi is a gem and an inspiration.
So sad. In her New Yorker essay from a month ago, she said she had a year to live. I naively hoped for a medical breakthrough during that time. But alas.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/u...
Tatiana Schlossberg, Kennedy Daughter Who Wrote of Her Cancer, Dies at 35
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:30 PM
So sad. In her New Yorker essay from a month ago, she said she had a year to live. I naively hoped for a medical breakthrough during that time. But alas.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/u...
Solar momentum continues, with or without the US.
“South Africa was the largest destination for Chinese solar, but not the only one. Sierra Leone imported the equivalent of more than half its total current electricity-generating capacity, & Chad, nearly half.”
🎁:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/c...
“South Africa was the largest destination for Chinese solar, but not the only one. Sierra Leone imported the equivalent of more than half its total current electricity-generating capacity, & Chad, nearly half.”
🎁:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/c...
Cheap Solar Is Transforming Lives and Economies Across Africa
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Solar momentum continues, with or without the US.
“South Africa was the largest destination for Chinese solar, but not the only one. Sierra Leone imported the equivalent of more than half its total current electricity-generating capacity, & Chad, nearly half.”
🎁:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/c...
“South Africa was the largest destination for Chinese solar, but not the only one. Sierra Leone imported the equivalent of more than half its total current electricity-generating capacity, & Chad, nearly half.”
🎁:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/c...
January and December on Lake Harriet. Full circle.
2025 was a shit year. For me. For this country. For the world. Here’s hoping for a MUCH better 2026. To health, to peace, to political change, to a more green and just world. A girl can dream, can’t she?
2025 was a shit year. For me. For this country. For the world. Here’s hoping for a MUCH better 2026. To health, to peace, to political change, to a more green and just world. A girl can dream, can’t she?
December 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
January and December on Lake Harriet. Full circle.
2025 was a shit year. For me. For this country. For the world. Here’s hoping for a MUCH better 2026. To health, to peace, to political change, to a more green and just world. A girl can dream, can’t she?
2025 was a shit year. For me. For this country. For the world. Here’s hoping for a MUCH better 2026. To health, to peace, to political change, to a more green and just world. A girl can dream, can’t she?
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Haitham Salem spent 11 months held by Israel without charge and said he endured beatings and abuse.
When he returned to Gaza he discovered that his wife and three children had been killed killed in an Israeli airstrike a month before he came home.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/w...
When he returned to Gaza he discovered that his wife and three children had been killed killed in an Israeli airstrike a month before he came home.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/w...
After Suffering in Israeli Prison, a Gaza Detainee Comes Home to More Pain
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Haitham Salem spent 11 months held by Israel without charge and said he endured beatings and abuse.
When he returned to Gaza he discovered that his wife and three children had been killed killed in an Israeli airstrike a month before he came home.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/w...
When he returned to Gaza he discovered that his wife and three children had been killed killed in an Israeli airstrike a month before he came home.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/w...
The American electorate is truly baffling.
December 29, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The American electorate is truly baffling.
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Journal retracts weed killer study backed by Monsanto, citing ‘serious ethical concerns’ | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Journal retracts weed killer study backed by Monsanto, citing ‘serious ethical concerns’
Highly cited paper was used as evidence that the widely used herbicide Roundup is safe
www.science.org
December 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Journal retracts weed killer study backed by Monsanto, citing ‘serious ethical concerns’ | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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Local, vetted fund for helping families in SE Minneapolis who’ve lost income because of 🧊 activity
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givebutter.com/H6lQkA
Rent Relief for South Minneapolis Families Impacted by Federal Immigration Operations
¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!
givebutter.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Local, vetted fund for helping families in SE Minneapolis who’ve lost income because of 🧊 activity
givebutter.com/H6lQkA
givebutter.com/H6lQkA
We’re charging our EV in rural Minnesota and both times we’ve stopped here there has been a Ford F150 Lightning charging too. I’m fascinated by the Venn diagram of people who want a giant pickup truck and also an EV. I’d love to hear thoughts on this!
December 27, 2025 at 7:20 PM
We’re charging our EV in rural Minnesota and both times we’ve stopped here there has been a Ford F150 Lightning charging too. I’m fascinated by the Venn diagram of people who want a giant pickup truck and also an EV. I’d love to hear thoughts on this!
They are taking every opportunity possible to destroy universities.
College ➡️ Critical thinking skills + A more thorough understanding of the world ➡️ Liberalism + A Population less vulnerable to disinformation
College ➡️ Critical thinking skills + A more thorough understanding of the world ➡️ Liberalism + A Population less vulnerable to disinformation
I had missed this. Perverse even by the standards of the Trump White House. They’re threatening to pull student aid from Brown over the shooting www.nbcboston.com/news/local/t...
Trump administration investigates Brown's security after shooting
The Department of Education said its Office of Federal Student Aid would investigate if Brown University violated the Higher Education Act in connection with the deadly shooting on Dec. 13.
www.nbcboston.com
December 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
They are taking every opportunity possible to destroy universities.
College ➡️ Critical thinking skills + A more thorough understanding of the world ➡️ Liberalism + A Population less vulnerable to disinformation
College ➡️ Critical thinking skills + A more thorough understanding of the world ➡️ Liberalism + A Population less vulnerable to disinformation
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Congrats on the re-found reading time! And thank you for spending a bunch of those minutes with my book 💛
December 26, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Congrats on the re-found reading time! And thank you for spending a bunch of those minutes with my book 💛