Bharat Jayram Venkat
@bharatvenkat.bsky.social
I study climate change, health, and inequality
Associate Professor, UCLA
Institute for Society & Genetics / History /Anthropology
Director, UCLA Heat Lab
bharatvenkat.net
Wrote AT THE LIMITS OF CURE (Duke University Press)
Writing SWELTER (Crown, Picador)
Associate Professor, UCLA
Institute for Society & Genetics / History /Anthropology
Director, UCLA Heat Lab
bharatvenkat.net
Wrote AT THE LIMITS OF CURE (Duke University Press)
Writing SWELTER (Crown, Picador)
Pinned
My new article, "Twilight Shift," on how the global shipping industry drives thermal inequality, commodity fetishism under climate change, and the debilitating heat exposure experienced by warehouse workers and delivery drivers, out now in Limn!
doi.org/10.70312/JXNH
doi.org/10.70312/JXNH
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
TLDR: UC leadership has continued negotiations with a unmistakably fascist regime, and preemptively cut a program to recruit faculty of color, while leaving faculty, staff, & students to fight on their own
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/us/trump-pressure-free-speech-university-of-california-lawsuit.html
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/us/trump-pressure-free-speech-university-of-california-lawsuit.html
Trump Pressure Risks Free Speech at University of California, Judge Warns
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
TLDR: UC leadership has continued negotiations with a unmistakably fascist regime, and preemptively cut a program to recruit faculty of color, while leaving faculty, staff, & students to fight on their own
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/us/trump-pressure-free-speech-university-of-california-lawsuit.html
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/us/trump-pressure-free-speech-university-of-california-lawsuit.html
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We’re hiring!
Our new resume portal is live, and we’re looking for top talent in NYC to help build this administration and deliver on our affordability agenda.
Could that be you? Apply using the link below.
transition2025.com/apply
Our new resume portal is live, and we’re looking for top talent in NYC to help build this administration and deliver on our affordability agenda.
Could that be you? Apply using the link below.
transition2025.com/apply
November 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
We’re hiring!
Our new resume portal is live, and we’re looking for top talent in NYC to help build this administration and deliver on our affordability agenda.
Could that be you? Apply using the link below.
transition2025.com/apply
Our new resume portal is live, and we’re looking for top talent in NYC to help build this administration and deliver on our affordability agenda.
Could that be you? Apply using the link below.
transition2025.com/apply
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DAILY MEMO: Feds Rip Through Election Day, Taking At Least 25, Including Elderly, a Toddler, and Her U.S. Citizen Father
🧵 2 parts
🧵 2 parts
November 5, 2025 at 8:36 AM
DAILY MEMO: Feds Rip Through Election Day, Taking At Least 25, Including Elderly, a Toddler, and Her U.S. Citizen Father
🧵 2 parts
🧵 2 parts
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Damn, I hadn’t actually watched this video until now. The man is out there just talking about “how socialism can shape our future.” Wow.
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio
There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.
Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.
Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
November 5, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Damn, I hadn’t actually watched this video until now. The man is out there just talking about “how socialism can shape our future.” Wow.
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POV you’re still not married and your grandparents just found the nicest boy with a good job they want you to meet
October 29, 2025 at 2:36 AM
POV you’re still not married and your grandparents just found the nicest boy with a good job they want you to meet
jesus my feed on that other site (and some of this one) is just full-on racism now in the wake of that mamdani video. it's really cool that the racists don't have to worry about expressing themselves anymore.
October 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
jesus my feed on that other site (and some of this one) is just full-on racism now in the wake of that mamdani video. it's really cool that the racists don't have to worry about expressing themselves anymore.
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honestly I don't really mind writing the 15 page research summary (though 10 pages would be better for both writing and reviewing). It is, inter alia, a helpful conduit to plan out a project.
What kills me is the extra week(!) filling in tabs in research.gov, and ...
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What kills me is the extra week(!) filling in tabs in research.gov, and ...
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the amount of time we spend trying to raise $$$ for our research is absolutely immense and results in a huge amount of wasted time. BUT there is a limited amount of money, so they have to have some method of distributing it. not sure what the best way to do it is.
October 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
honestly I don't really mind writing the 15 page research summary (though 10 pages would be better for both writing and reviewing). It is, inter alia, a helpful conduit to plan out a project.
What kills me is the extra week(!) filling in tabs in research.gov, and ...
1/
What kills me is the extra week(!) filling in tabs in research.gov, and ...
1/
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On behalf of our 85+ experts, @andrewdessler.com and I submitted a minor update to the experts’ review as a comment on EPA’s proposed repeal of the Endangerment Finding. This version includes a new cover letter that walks through all the science EPA gets wrong.
September 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
On behalf of our 85+ experts, @andrewdessler.com and I submitted a minor update to the experts’ review as a comment on EPA’s proposed repeal of the Endangerment Finding. This version includes a new cover letter that walks through all the science EPA gets wrong.
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Watermelon tastes amazing this summer. It was 92° when these Kern County farm workers were harvesting the melons this day. An average melon weighs 20 lbs. Workers toss them to each other as they put them in the trailer. #WeFeedYou
August 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Watermelon tastes amazing this summer. It was 92° when these Kern County farm workers were harvesting the melons this day. An average melon weighs 20 lbs. Workers toss them to each other as they put them in the trailer. #WeFeedYou
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LA Times: "'It backfired,' said one senior administrator at UCLA, reflecting the sense of whiplash. .... 'Within hours of announcing our settlement, the DOJ was on our back.'
WHO COULD'VE SEEN THIS COMING
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WHO COULD'VE SEEN THIS COMING
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August 4, 2025 at 10:47 PM
LA Times: "'It backfired,' said one senior administrator at UCLA, reflecting the sense of whiplash. .... 'Within hours of announcing our settlement, the DOJ was on our back.'
WHO COULD'VE SEEN THIS COMING
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WHO COULD'VE SEEN THIS COMING
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New in Reuters, on carceral heat:
Venkat supports closing down prisons as a long-term solution.
“If you close a couple of prisons, you save billions of dollars. And those billions can be used to make sure that you climate proof the remainder of carceral facilities,” he said.
tinyurl.com/b74yt7hw
Venkat supports closing down prisons as a long-term solution.
“If you close a couple of prisons, you save billions of dollars. And those billions can be used to make sure that you climate proof the remainder of carceral facilities,” he said.
tinyurl.com/b74yt7hw
Scorching cells
How heat threatens lives in America’s prisons
graphics.thomsonreuters.com
July 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
New in Reuters, on carceral heat:
Venkat supports closing down prisons as a long-term solution.
“If you close a couple of prisons, you save billions of dollars. And those billions can be used to make sure that you climate proof the remainder of carceral facilities,” he said.
tinyurl.com/b74yt7hw
Venkat supports closing down prisons as a long-term solution.
“If you close a couple of prisons, you save billions of dollars. And those billions can be used to make sure that you climate proof the remainder of carceral facilities,” he said.
tinyurl.com/b74yt7hw
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10/ This was a naked attempt by both the Frankel Plaintiffs and UCLA to manipulate the legal system and silence the Jewish faculty and students who were actually in the encampment.
July 29, 2025 at 9:35 PM
10/ This was a naked attempt by both the Frankel Plaintiffs and UCLA to manipulate the legal system and silence the Jewish faculty and students who were actually in the encampment.
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1/ I represent 5 anti-zionist students and faculty challenging the outrageous claim that the Palestine Solidarity Encampment was a "Jew exclusion zone". UCLA refused to defend. Today they agreed to pay millions instead. I can't overstate how dangerous this is. 🧵
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
UCLA to pay $6.45 million to settle suit by Jewish students over pro-Palestinian protests
UCLA agreed to settle a lawsuit by Jewish students who alleged the university aided a 2024 pro-Palestinian encampment, which the lawsuit alleged illegally discriminated against Jewish people.
www.latimes.com
July 29, 2025 at 9:35 PM
1/ I represent 5 anti-zionist students and faculty challenging the outrageous claim that the Palestine Solidarity Encampment was a "Jew exclusion zone". UCLA refused to defend. Today they agreed to pay millions instead. I can't overstate how dangerous this is. 🧵
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Prosecutors will not bring criminal charges against sheriff’s officers who wrestled a Black man out of a car during a traffic stop and punched him multiple times, the local sheriff said Monday.
No charges for Jacksonville officers who punched Black man during arrest
William Anthony McNeil Jr. questioned why he was pulled over and refused to get out of the car. An officer smashed his window and punched him in the face, video shows.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 23, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Prosecutors will not bring criminal charges against sheriff’s officers who wrestled a Black man out of a car during a traffic stop and punched him multiple times, the local sheriff said Monday.
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UNRWA has food for the entire population for over three months — stockpiled and ready also in Al Arish, Egypt.
The supplies are available. The systems are in place.
Open the gates. Let UNRWA deliver.
1 million children are waiting.
The supplies are available. The systems are in place.
Open the gates. Let UNRWA deliver.
1 million children are waiting.
July 19, 2025 at 9:01 AM
UNRWA has food for the entire population for over three months — stockpiled and ready also in Al Arish, Egypt.
The supplies are available. The systems are in place.
Open the gates. Let UNRWA deliver.
1 million children are waiting.
The supplies are available. The systems are in place.
Open the gates. Let UNRWA deliver.
1 million children are waiting.
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The Israeli Authorities are starving civilians in #Gaza.
Among them are 1 million children.
Lift the siege: allow UNRWA to bring in food and medicines.
Among them are 1 million children.
Lift the siege: allow UNRWA to bring in food and medicines.
July 20, 2025 at 6:12 AM
The Israeli Authorities are starving civilians in #Gaza.
Among them are 1 million children.
Lift the siege: allow UNRWA to bring in food and medicines.
Among them are 1 million children.
Lift the siege: allow UNRWA to bring in food and medicines.
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California OSHA inspectors don’t visit worksites even when workers are injured
calmatters.org/politics/202...
calmatters.org/politics/202...
‘Critical weaknesses’ in Cal/OSHA inspections of accidents
Cal/OSHA is so understaffed it doesn’t visit all accident sites, even when workers are injured. A state audit says that can ‘undermine’ safety laws.
calmatters.org
July 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM
California OSHA inspectors don’t visit worksites even when workers are injured
calmatters.org/politics/202...
calmatters.org/politics/202...
really looking forward to our new era of fascist medicine
Untreated "melancholics" clear up in 5 months
Apparently depression will go away in 5 months and medication just shortens that
Apparently depression will go away in 5 months and medication just shortens that
July 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
really looking forward to our new era of fascist medicine
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When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
July 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
Dropping some dog-related wisdom from the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 1937:
July 21, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Dropping some dog-related wisdom from the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 1937:
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Remember more than 80% of US federal career employees work outside of the Washington DC area. EPA is shutting down its scientific research division, which helps keep our air & water safe. It’s overwhelmingly staffed in Cincinnati, Ohio, with ~1000 employees there. The OH & KY Senators don’t care?
July 19, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Remember more than 80% of US federal career employees work outside of the Washington DC area. EPA is shutting down its scientific research division, which helps keep our air & water safe. It’s overwhelmingly staffed in Cincinnati, Ohio, with ~1000 employees there. The OH & KY Senators don’t care?
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A U.S. surgeon trying to have a “peer to peer” consultation with a doctor at a health insurance company who is hiding his identity as her patient gets denied coverage. And it gets worse from there. You have to see it to believe it.
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July 18, 2025 at 12:37 PM
A U.S. surgeon trying to have a “peer to peer” consultation with a doctor at a health insurance company who is hiding his identity as her patient gets denied coverage. And it gets worse from there. You have to see it to believe it.
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These Central Valley farm workers are hard at work harvesting tomatos. This involves a lot of bending, reaching, and carrying heavy loads. This is very hard on the body - especially on days like this day where highs reached 100°. #WeFeedYou
July 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
These Central Valley farm workers are hard at work harvesting tomatos. This involves a lot of bending, reaching, and carrying heavy loads. This is very hard on the body - especially on days like this day where highs reached 100°. #WeFeedYou
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Tragically, the NIH is finding any reason it can to cancel grants, including critical research into the nature and function of mycobacterium tuberculosis. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
Trump officials halt ‘dangerous’ research, overriding NIH career scientists
The Trump administration’s actions on NIH gain-of-function research have raised concerns among scientists, who argue the move could block experiments that are safe and potentially lead to new treatmen...
www.washingtonpost.com
July 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Tragically, the NIH is finding any reason it can to cancel grants, including critical research into the nature and function of mycobacterium tuberculosis. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...