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Prototyping ways to use health-based scientific evidence to support justice movements, surface and socialise non-western epistemologies & create language to articulate the health injustices felt by many racialised and marginalised folx.

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · Mar 25
No Time for Leaders

We have created this zine as a framing that helps guide our work moving forward.

www.thecentriclab.com/stories-prov...
This zine is a provocation, a set of contemplations and principles to frame our response to loss. A time of deep listening and questioning. Setting our Intention. The intention of this document is to declare how we at Centric Lab are going to respond to the loss we are facing. In particular, how are we going to heal when the loss and trauma is on-going and when resources become increasingly unavailable. Introduction. Over the summer of 2024, Centric Lab curated a programme involving doctors and other healthcare professionals. The programme was shaped by Dr. Rhiannon Miharian Osborne and medical student Amit Singh. In one of the lessons, we heard from two Palestinian doctors, who asked us “What happens when the doctors die”? How do you heal your Peoples, how do you survive, how do you live? The group fell silent, none of us quite knew how to answer this question. Palestine is not only facing the loss of their healthcare infrastructure, they have also lost biodiversity, soil biome, water all of which will make it very difficult to cultivate food. Even before this revamping of violence, they were already living the effects of planetary dysregulation; soil is heavily degraded in Gaza, which has deeply affected biodiversity, they also are having much hotter summers and colder winters. To have faced this state violence whilst already living in such precariousness goes far beyond cruelty. We should also contemplate that genocide creates a loss of elders, communities, cultures, epistemologies, knowledges, which leave Peoples without many of their intellectual tools for rebuilding and healing. This of course is deliberate.
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From Health Councils to Healing Hubs

In 2021, Centric Lab leaned into an emerging ontological shift with knowledge production. The result was to set up the Urban Health Council. @impurbanhealth.bsky.social came on board as partners shortly after.

Here's our shared learnings from the past 3 years
November 10, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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"Planetary Dysregulation and Our Mental Health" www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/disa...

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#MentalHealthAwareness #PlanetaryHealth #GlobalHealth #Health #OneHealth #EcoHealth #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #MentalHealth
Planetary Dysregulation and Our Mental Health
An out-of-balance planet leads to adverse mental health outcomes; we can act to avoid both.
www.psychologytoday.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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PUBLISHED TODAY 🚨

Centric Lab are featured in @psychologytoday.com by @ilankelman.bsky.social as he talks about adopting the term 'planetary dysregulation'.

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/disa...
Planetary Dysregulation and Our Mental Health
An out-of-balance planet leads to adverse mental health outcomes; we can act to avoid both.
www.psychologytoday.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Big moment for us at @thecentriclab.com (and me personally) in the publication of this case study in the @citiesxhealth.bsky.social journal.
September 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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New thinking from the Lab 👇
thecentriclab.com Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · Jul 15
A Case for Health Reparations For Communities Affected by Air Pollution.

This work lays out pathways and theories to nurture our communities, create infrastructure for autonomous healing processes, and live through this epoch with dignity.

www.thecentriclab.com/stories-prov...
What are health Reparations? The creation of infrastructure for Peoples who have directly experienced structural violence to autonomously create pathways to repair and fortify community health. We are presenting pathways, philosophies, and strategies for community-led healing to safeguard against air pollution through Health Reparations. The full reporting can be found on our website, under Health Reparations and Air is Kin work.
July 15, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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A Case for Health Reparations For Communities Affected by Air Pollution.

This work lays out pathways and theories to nurture our communities, create infrastructure for autonomous healing processes, and live through this epoch with dignity.

www.thecentriclab.com/stories-prov...
What are health Reparations? The creation of infrastructure for Peoples who have directly experienced structural violence to autonomously create pathways to repair and fortify community health. We are presenting pathways, philosophies, and strategies for community-led healing to safeguard against air pollution through Health Reparations. The full reporting can be found on our website, under Health Reparations and Air is Kin work.
July 15, 2025 at 9:26 AM
thecentriclab.com
No Time for Leaders

We have created this zine as a framing that helps guide our work moving forward.

www.thecentriclab.com/stories-prov...
This zine is a provocation, a set of contemplations and principles to frame our response to loss. A time of deep listening and questioning. Setting our Intention. The intention of this document is to declare how we at Centric Lab are going to respond to the loss we are facing. In particular, how are we going to heal when the loss and trauma is on-going and when resources become increasingly unavailable. Introduction. Over the summer of 2024, Centric Lab curated a programme involving doctors and other healthcare professionals. The programme was shaped by Dr. Rhiannon Miharian Osborne and medical student Amit Singh. In one of the lessons, we heard from two Palestinian doctors, who asked us “What happens when the doctors die”? How do you heal your Peoples, how do you survive, how do you live? The group fell silent, none of us quite knew how to answer this question. Palestine is not only facing the loss of their healthcare infrastructure, they have also lost biodiversity, soil biome, water all of which will make it very difficult to cultivate food. Even before this revamping of violence, they were already living the effects of planetary dysregulation; soil is heavily degraded in Gaza, which has deeply affected biodiversity, they also are having much hotter summers and colder winters. To have faced this state violence whilst already living in such precariousness goes far beyond cruelty. We should also contemplate that genocide creates a loss of elders, communities, cultures, epistemologies, knowledges, which leave Peoples without many of their intellectual tools for rebuilding and healing. This of course is deliberate.
March 25, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Air Pollution and Abolition.

How might we approach this?

Follow this thread to see some of our thinking...
March 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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"Without the credible threat of legal challenge, laws to protect our right to healthy environment will not be enforced and polluters will act with impunity...[for] action on social, environmental & climate justice, then repealing Regulation 15 is a no brainer"
www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2491...
How legal aid reform should work for environmental justice
The Herald has outlined the myriad challenges facing the criminal and civil legal aid system: from a shortage of solicitors, to lengthy delays in…
www.heraldscotland.com
March 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Incredible story of perseverance, shocking it had to happen.

"approximately 90% of Owino Uhuru residents tested positive for lead poisoning in a sample of 800"

Stop the Right to Pollute!
mediafornature.org/2024/12/18/e...
Environmental Justice Triumphs: Supreme Court Holds Polluters Accountable in Owino Uhuru Lead Poisoning Case - Media For Nature
Owino Uhuru residents addressing the media at one of the past demonstrations against devastating effects of lead poisoning as the case for compensation dragged in court. The Supreme Court awarded them...
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March 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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A 🧵 on the first 3 months of our Air is Kin project.

We have identified the following needs and knowledges gaps within the space of environmental justice and clean air advocacy.
March 11, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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"They say, ‘Oh, well, we have fresh water now.’ But, they’re going to have to live for the rest of their lives with the contamination of their bodies. That’s why, in a number of cases, the struggle for environmental justice is a matter of life and death."
insideclimatenews.org/news/2402202...
‘Never Let Anyone Break Your Spirit’: How an Environmental Justice Forefather Is Thinking About Our Current Moment - Inside Climate News
Plus some lessons in perseverance inspired by Martin Luther King, Jr., himself.
insideclimatenews.org
March 7, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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How epistemic injustice in research kills:

This essay (www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...) reminds us: When the excuse for bad research is "‘Nobody could have realised..." we should always respond with "Really – nobody?"

"The other side of a culture of silence and silencing is one of not listening.
"The other side of a culture of silence and silencing is one of not listening. Because, of course, many women do speak up, have always spoken up, and it is not only ‘bad’ men who ignore them. A group of researchers at the University of Cambridge recently reported on a study in Northern India where remotely operated drones were meant to be used to monitor wildlife. They found that the technology was used instead by local government and male villagers to surveil and humiliate women. Some women who worked together in the forest felt so intimidated that they softened the singing they used to deter attacks from predators. One was subsequently killed by a tiger. The lead researcher, who I have no reason to think is anything other than a very good guy, commented: ‘Nobody could have realised that camera traps put in the Indian forest to monitor mammals actually have a profoundly negative impact on the mental health of local women who use these spaces.’ Really – nobody?"
March 1, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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"resilience during recovery is rooted in collective action"
- @1000currents.bsky.social

tcurrents.exposure.co/finding-resi...
Finding Resilience in the Ruins by Thousand Currents on Exposure
By Ayşe Gürsöz, Photographer-in-Residence at Thousand CurrentsIn the early morning of February 6, 2023, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake devastated southern Türkiye and northern Syria, killing over 50,000 p...
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February 28, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Congratulations Nataly! This is incredible, inspiring, and insightful piece of work! It is a reflective essay on the integration of groundbreaking research with Indigenous / Land-Kinned knowledge, with an insightful focus on Bitter Potatos and their deep connection to the Aymara and Quechuan Peoples
allasicanales.bsky.social Nataly Allasi Canales @allasicanales.bsky.social · Feb 27
Proud to be releasing my piece/essay that explores the aspects of my potato research that fascinate me so much. The essay focuses on my time working alongside Indigenous agricultural and botanical experts in the Andean regions of Bolivia and Peru.

Big thanks to @thecentriclab.com for their support
bharathabnair.bsky.social Bharath Nair (ഭരത് നായർ) @bharathabnair.bsky.social · Feb 27
www.healingimaginations.org/imaginations...

Cool piece sharing the Andean cosmovision @allasicanales.bsky.social @thecentriclab.com. A blueprint for us to build a sustainable future 💡.
February 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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allasicanales.bsky.social
Proud to be releasing my piece/essay that explores the aspects of my potato research that fascinate me so much. The essay focuses on my time working alongside Indigenous agricultural and botanical experts in the Andean regions of Bolivia and Peru.

Big thanks to @thecentriclab.com for their support
February 27, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Thanks for the kind words and sharing the piece @bharathabnair.bsky.social ✊🏾
February 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Centric Lab February Newsletter is out 🥳

This month's newsletter leads with the launch of a new piece of work by Nataly Allasi Canales, a Quechua Amazonian evolutionary biologist titled 'Bitter Potato'.

There's also updates on recent conferences, workshops, and more.

mailchi.mp/f4cdc24e336c...
February 27, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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"Microscopic particles emitted from brake pads can be more toxic than those emitted in diesel vehicle exhaust, a study has found."

This is what happens when you focus on emissions and not contaminants.

One is an output, the other an input.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Brake pad dust can be more toxic than exhaust emissions, study says
Research shows move to electric vehicles may not be enough to enable pollution from cars to be eradicated
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Heartwarming to see that the hero image of the @scigallerylon.bsky.social newsletter features someone watching a video from our part of the Vital Signs exhibition 🤗

“This isn’t just an exhibition, it’s a movement” — @londonwithmygirl
January 11, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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toxicsfree.bsky.social IPEN: toxics-free @toxicsfree.bsky.social · Dec 27
It has been suggested that plastic chemicals be regulated only as “chemicals in plastic products.” But toxic plastic chemicals can be released during production, use, and disposal, not only in products. We explain the danger of a “products only” approach: stoppoisonplastic.org/blog/portfol...
December 28, 2024 at 12:18 PM
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"It was in this part of the analysis that they found an association between the particle pollution from the incinerators and PCBs and dioxins in breast milk, although all of the mothers had PCB.."

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Study examines women’s proximity to incinerators and chemical level in breast milk
Researchers find winds affecting emissions from incinerators play role, though diet still thought to be largest factor
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2024 at 8:24 AM
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"a sign of success within movements is when we are able to intervene in the dominant logics of the times and to collectively produce new meanings."

- Robin Maynard in Rehearsals for Living.
December 13, 2024 at 7:37 AM
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UPDATE

Our issues have been resolved and our website and emails are working again. We apologise for not being contactable during this period and that messages will have bounced.

Thanks,
CL ✌🏾
thecentriclab.com Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · Dec 6
We're having domain issues so our website and emails are down for the moment. It's out of our immediate control but we hope to resolve things soon. Please message here if you need to contact us. Thanks
December 10, 2024 at 9:34 AM
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We're having domain issues so our website and emails are down for the moment. It's out of our immediate control but we hope to resolve things soon. Please message here if you need to contact us. Thanks
December 6, 2024 at 7:05 AM