Lauren A Fowler 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
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Assistant Prof @UofSC | @UofSC_CHIP | Critical Antiracist Public Health | Body Justice & Queer Health Equity 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | Views my own
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Less than 1% of the US budget.
Liquidating federal health agencies is not about saving money.
Dismissing these workers will dismantle these agencies and cost American lives and our economy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/h...
Liquidating federal health agencies is not about saving money.
Dismissing these workers will dismantle these agencies and cost American lives and our economy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/h...
Federal Health Workers Make Up Less Than 1% of Agency Spending
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggests that laying off thousands of federal workers would tame a massive budget. But nearly all of the agency’s money goes to hospitals, doctors and nursing ho...
www.nytimes.com
April 1, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Less than 1% of the US budget.
Liquidating federal health agencies is not about saving money.
Dismissing these workers will dismantle these agencies and cost American lives and our economy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/h...
Liquidating federal health agencies is not about saving money.
Dismissing these workers will dismantle these agencies and cost American lives and our economy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/h...
Reposted by Lauren A Fowler 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
I sincerely think that universities should suspend their productivity standards for scientists and ask them instead to hold town halls in schools, public libraries, museums, shopping malls, and anywhere else and communicate what is being lost with the collapse of the research ecosystem.
“The ecosystem of research and the creation of new knowledge in universities has been so powerful for American prosperity, American freedom, American ingenuity. To have that disrupted by government overreach is a disaster for this country.” —Wesleyan University President Michael Roth on
@msnbc.com
@msnbc.com
March 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I sincerely think that universities should suspend their productivity standards for scientists and ask them instead to hold town halls in schools, public libraries, museums, shopping malls, and anywhere else and communicate what is being lost with the collapse of the research ecosystem.
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Glad to see that Universities are banding together to fight for their indirects. 💰
They could have done the same to fight for DEI programs, but they chose not to.
They could have done the same to fight for DEI programs, but they chose not to.
February 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Glad to see that Universities are banding together to fight for their indirects. 💰
They could have done the same to fight for DEI programs, but they chose not to.
They could have done the same to fight for DEI programs, but they chose not to.
I am seeking PhD students and postdocs to work with me on weight stigma, disordered eating prevention, and LGBTQ+ health equity research. Competitive pay, tuition coverage, flex work options. If you know folks who might be interested, please tell them to reach out! Formal posting to come.
December 10, 2024 at 4:46 PM
I am seeking PhD students and postdocs to work with me on weight stigma, disordered eating prevention, and LGBTQ+ health equity research. Competitive pay, tuition coverage, flex work options. If you know folks who might be interested, please tell them to reach out! Formal posting to come.
To those I know that voted for Trump: If you're interested in trying to do better, to unlearn our society's biases, to support, listen, and learn from marginalized communities, please reach out. I have already had good discussions with people & hope for more. I also learn through these convos 1/n
November 16, 2024 at 4:48 AM
To those I know that voted for Trump: If you're interested in trying to do better, to unlearn our society's biases, to support, listen, and learn from marginalized communities, please reach out. I have already had good discussions with people & hope for more. I also learn through these convos 1/n