Jennifer Brass
@jenbrass.bsky.social
Interested in all things NGOs, aid, electricity, energy, development, Kenya, parenting, universities, teaching, climbing, political science, public affairs, African studies, and so on. Professor by day. Duck duck gray duck.
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4 vaccines linked to a lower risk of dementia, according to science www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...
"Vaccines don’t just protect us from infectious diseases or lessen their effects. Some are also associated with a reduced risk for dementia, research shows."
#VaccinesWork!
"Vaccines don’t just protect us from infectious diseases or lessen their effects. Some are also associated with a reduced risk for dementia, research shows."
#VaccinesWork!
4 vaccines linked to a lower risk of dementia, according to science
Some vaccine-preventable diseases are linked to accelerated brain atrophy and increased dementia risk years down the line.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
4 vaccines linked to a lower risk of dementia, according to science www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...
"Vaccines don’t just protect us from infectious diseases or lessen their effects. Some are also associated with a reduced risk for dementia, research shows."
#VaccinesWork!
"Vaccines don’t just protect us from infectious diseases or lessen their effects. Some are also associated with a reduced risk for dementia, research shows."
#VaccinesWork!
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A recent study found that for every $1 invested in the National Weather Service, it produces $73 in value to Americans.
Not only is the NWS a life-saving government resource, it's actually quite efficient.
Not only is the NWS a life-saving government resource, it's actually quite efficient.
June 4, 2025 at 10:45 PM
A recent study found that for every $1 invested in the National Weather Service, it produces $73 in value to Americans.
Not only is the NWS a life-saving government resource, it's actually quite efficient.
Not only is the NWS a life-saving government resource, it's actually quite efficient.
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"We cannot build bananas in America" is an all timer
DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas?
LUTNICK: Generally 10%
DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8%
LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff
DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America
LUTNICK: Generally 10%
DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8%
LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff
DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America
June 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
"We cannot build bananas in America" is an all timer
Interested in #Kenya #GreenEnergyTransitions or how regular #citizens experience #electricity access? Read our Environmental Research Letters paper (coauthors @cgore13.bsky.social Lauren MacLean @aleshaporisky.bsky.social @lizbldwn.bsky.social and Winnie Mitullah): iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Distributional justice and rapid green energy transitions: citizen experiences in Kenya - IOPscience
Distributional justice and rapid green energy transitions: citizen experiences in Kenya, Gore, Christopher D, MacLean, Lauren M, Brass, Jennifer N, Baldwin, Elizabeth, Mitullah, Winnie V, Porisky, Alesha
iopscience.iop.org
June 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Interested in #Kenya #GreenEnergyTransitions or how regular #citizens experience #electricity access? Read our Environmental Research Letters paper (coauthors @cgore13.bsky.social Lauren MacLean @aleshaporisky.bsky.social @lizbldwn.bsky.social and Winnie Mitullah): iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Attention middle school and high school teachers! With colleagues and the support of #SSHRC, I've created a teaching tool for learning about the experience of gaining access to #electricity in #Kenya. Learning docs at @futurumcareers.bsky.social Video coming soon!
futurumcareers.com/how-does-acc...
futurumcareers.com/how-does-acc...
How does access to electricity impact citizens in Kenya? - Futurum
A team of international researchers is investigating the social, economic and political impacts of electricity access in Kenya
futurumcareers.com
May 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Attention middle school and high school teachers! With colleagues and the support of #SSHRC, I've created a teaching tool for learning about the experience of gaining access to #electricity in #Kenya. Learning docs at @futurumcareers.bsky.social Video coming soon!
futurumcareers.com/how-does-acc...
futurumcareers.com/how-does-acc...
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Just to repeat, the White House has provided *no evidence* to back up the President’s claim of widespread fraud in USAID. The evidence it has presented points in precisely the other direction.
www.cgdev.org/blog/white-h...
www.cgdev.org/blog/white-h...
The White House Demonstrates USAID’s Efficiency
The White House issued a press release three days ago apparently designed to justify the ongoing stop-work orders at USAID, alongside pulling agency staff out of the field and locking them out of thei...
www.cgdev.org
February 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Just to repeat, the White House has provided *no evidence* to back up the President’s claim of widespread fraud in USAID. The evidence it has presented points in precisely the other direction.
www.cgdev.org/blog/white-h...
www.cgdev.org/blog/white-h...
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From USAID colleague, with permission to share. It's not just chaos it is devastation and tearing apart of families and communities. Not to talk of systems that kept us safe. This is just one story, multiple this by 10,000.
Is this really making America great?
Is this really making America great?
February 7, 2025 at 11:47 AM
From USAID colleague, with permission to share. It's not just chaos it is devastation and tearing apart of families and communities. Not to talk of systems that kept us safe. This is just one story, multiple this by 10,000.
Is this really making America great?
Is this really making America great?
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There's a lot of confusion about executive orders. POTUS is most confused of all. I clarified things here. open.substack.com/pub/goodpoli...
What executive orders are and aren't
A primer for the Constitutionally confused
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February 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
There's a lot of confusion about executive orders. POTUS is most confused of all. I clarified things here. open.substack.com/pub/goodpoli...
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February 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Save USAID: The Greatest Agency You Never Knew
Again, share this far and wide. Do your part!
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 retweet AND CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES 📱📞☎️📱☎️
vimeo.com/1052680025
Again, share this far and wide. Do your part!
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 retweet AND CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES 📱📞☎️📱☎️
vimeo.com/1052680025
February 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Save USAID: The Greatest Agency You Never Knew
Again, share this far and wide. Do your part!
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 retweet AND CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES 📱📞☎️📱☎️
vimeo.com/1052680025
Again, share this far and wide. Do your part!
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 retweet AND CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES 📱📞☎️📱☎️
vimeo.com/1052680025
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The policy lead for CDC's H5N1 response has abruptly resigned.
Sources tell me CDC's response to the bird flu pandemic has been severely hobbled by the chaos of the past two weeks.
Sources tell me CDC's response to the bird flu pandemic has been severely hobbled by the chaos of the past two weeks.
February 6, 2025 at 3:32 AM
The policy lead for CDC's H5N1 response has abruptly resigned.
Sources tell me CDC's response to the bird flu pandemic has been severely hobbled by the chaos of the past two weeks.
Sources tell me CDC's response to the bird flu pandemic has been severely hobbled by the chaos of the past two weeks.
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Hearing that USAID will be decapitated w the number of people covering Asia reduced to 8 all in DC & those covering Africa down to 12.
There are apparently about 140 people in DC covering Asia & about 1400 in the field in the region. Let's see how we can counter China with 8 people.
There are apparently about 140 people in DC covering Asia & about 1400 in the field in the region. Let's see how we can counter China with 8 people.
February 6, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Hearing that USAID will be decapitated w the number of people covering Asia reduced to 8 all in DC & those covering Africa down to 12.
There are apparently about 140 people in DC covering Asia & about 1400 in the field in the region. Let's see how we can counter China with 8 people.
There are apparently about 140 people in DC covering Asia & about 1400 in the field in the region. Let's see how we can counter China with 8 people.
Comparative Politics folks have been shouting about this for ~10 years. Many of our can and did and do imagine it, because we have been rigorously trained to do so.
One thing we've learned since 1/20 with painful clarity is that our institutions are far more fragile than we could have ever imagined.
February 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Comparative Politics folks have been shouting about this for ~10 years. Many of our can and did and do imagine it, because we have been rigorously trained to do so.
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This is a crisis response app. If a diplomat is in danger, for any reason, this sends their whereabouts to diplomatic security in country and DC
USAID employees overseas are no longer able to access their government security app, which gives them this error code (images provided to me by USAID worker)
February 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This is a crisis response app. If a diplomat is in danger, for any reason, this sends their whereabouts to diplomatic security in country and DC
Worth keeping an eye on... contrarian.substack.com
The Contrarian | Jen Rubin and Norm Eisen | Substack
Unflinching journalism in defense of democracy. Click to read The Contrarian, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
contrarian.substack.com
January 31, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Worth keeping an eye on... contrarian.substack.com
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Paul Krugman, and worth reading. contrarian.substack.com/p/departing-...
Departing the New York Times
I left to stay true to my byline
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January 31, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Paul Krugman, and worth reading. contrarian.substack.com/p/departing-...
Before making decisions, think about whether having done something will matter to you when you're close to dying - whether you will regret doing or not doing it, or whether you likely won't remember it. (Of course we never know for sure when we will die, so I guess "live fully," too.)
people over 30 quote this with some life advice for the rest of us?
January 31, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Before making decisions, think about whether having done something will matter to you when you're close to dying - whether you will regret doing or not doing it, or whether you likely won't remember it. (Of course we never know for sure when we will die, so I guess "live fully," too.)
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It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.”
University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.
University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.
January 31, 2025 at 3:16 AM
It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.”
University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.
University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.
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The most important job for the media over the next two to four years is to attribute all the horrible things happening in the world to Trump’s actions, much like they should connect extreme events to climate change and our abuse of fossil fuels.
January 28, 2025 at 9:58 AM
The most important job for the media over the next two to four years is to attribute all the horrible things happening in the world to Trump’s actions, much like they should connect extreme events to climate change and our abuse of fossil fuels.
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Before you teach today, send a letter to (1) your college/university president, (2) provost, (3) both of your Senators, and (4) your House member
It’s far past time for higher education to see itself as an industry and act like one.
January 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Before you teach today, send a letter to (1) your college/university president, (2) provost, (3) both of your Senators, and (4) your House member
Contact your Senators. Phone is apparently better than writing, but both are better than nothing. www.senate.gov/senators/sen...
U.S. Senate: Contacting U.S. Senators
www.senate.gov
January 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Contact your Senators. Phone is apparently better than writing, but both are better than nothing. www.senate.gov/senators/sen...
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We need to talk more explicitly & directly about how all of this authoritarian nonsense is going to kill people
From a source inside the National Cancer Institute:
“Everyone is scrambling to figure out how we’re supposed to work to serve the public when we can’t engage at all.”
“Everyone is scrambling to figure out how we’re supposed to work to serve the public when we can’t engage at all.”
January 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
We need to talk more explicitly & directly about how all of this authoritarian nonsense is going to kill people
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Announcing in advance that everything will definitely continue to get more expensive monthly. I am sure that won't have any inflationary impacts.
January 27, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Announcing in advance that everything will definitely continue to get more expensive monthly. I am sure that won't have any inflationary impacts.