Zinzi Bailey
@zinzinator.bsky.social
Social epidemiologist @ University of Minnesota; Director, Interdisciplinary Research Leaders
#socialepisky #episky #medsky #jamaicansky 🇯🇲 #blacksky *TBTL ten*
#socialepisky #episky #medsky #jamaicansky 🇯🇲 #blacksky *TBTL ten*
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🚨 Our new @alzdemjournals.bsky.social paper on neighborhood disadvantage and dementia in in the Black Women's Health Study (BWHS). Honored to be part of this collaboration @bostonu.bsky.social @rushalzheimers.bsky.social & more
@beyoung40.bsky.social @zinzinator.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/alz....
@beyoung40.bsky.social @zinzinator.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/alz....
Neighborhood disadvantage and the incidence of dementia in US Black women
INTRODUCTION
We investigated the association of neighborhood disadvantage with the incidence of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) in the longitudinal Black Women's Health Study (BWHS).....
doi.org
April 9, 2025 at 1:37 AM
🚨 Our new @alzdemjournals.bsky.social paper on neighborhood disadvantage and dementia in in the Black Women's Health Study (BWHS). Honored to be part of this collaboration @bostonu.bsky.social @rushalzheimers.bsky.social & more
@beyoung40.bsky.social @zinzinator.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/alz....
@beyoung40.bsky.social @zinzinator.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/alz....
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Bad news: the beach that makes you old is real, and I'm sorry to say that it's climate change (h/t @torrelavelle.bsky.social) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Ambient outdoor heat and accelerated epigenetic aging among older adults in the US
Ambient outdoor heat, especially long term, may accelerate epigenetic aging in a diverse national cohort of older adults.
www.science.org
February 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Bad news: the beach that makes you old is real, and I'm sorry to say that it's climate change (h/t @torrelavelle.bsky.social) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt
🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT
🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT
February 26, 2025 at 1:22 AM
House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt
🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT
🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT
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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
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Tell me you're redlining without telling me you're redlining
The US DOT says it's planning to prioritize areas with high marriage & high birth rates for funding.
Our new analysis @urbaninstitute.bsky.social shows this would disproportionately fund:
—Communities with a higher white resident share
—Low-density areas
—High-income areas
—Car-dependent areas
Our new analysis @urbaninstitute.bsky.social shows this would disproportionately fund:
—Communities with a higher white resident share
—Low-density areas
—High-income areas
—Car-dependent areas
DOT’s Plan to Distribute Funding by Birth and Marriage Rates Would Leave Communities Most In Need Behind
If enacted, the new US Department of Transportation memo would prioritize funding to whiter, higher-income, more car-dependent areas over communities of color and people who walk, bike, or take public...
www.urban.org
February 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Tell me you're redlining without telling me you're redlining
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JUST IN: A federal judge in Massachusetts has blocked the Trump administration's rate change to NIH grants.
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February 10, 2025 at 10:25 PM
JUST IN: A federal judge in Massachusetts has blocked the Trump administration's rate change to NIH grants.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Why does the world's richest man want to gut the CFPB?
Because it would shield him from having to follow financial laws to keep customers' money safe — and give him access to confidential records about his competitors.
Follow the money.
Because it would shield him from having to follow financial laws to keep customers' money safe — and give him access to confidential records about his competitors.
Follow the money.
February 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Why does the world's richest man want to gut the CFPB?
Because it would shield him from having to follow financial laws to keep customers' money safe — and give him access to confidential records about his competitors.
Follow the money.
Because it would shield him from having to follow financial laws to keep customers' money safe — and give him access to confidential records about his competitors.
Follow the money.
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The hardest part about public health is that when we succeed, there's no crisis, no epidemic. People carry on with daily life, unaware of a near-miss. We may never know how bad it could have been - because our public health workforce is always taking action to avoid, prevent, and control threats.
February 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The hardest part about public health is that when we succeed, there's no crisis, no epidemic. People carry on with daily life, unaware of a near-miss. We may never know how bad it could have been - because our public health workforce is always taking action to avoid, prevent, and control threats.
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Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.
February 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.
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Every smart person I know is making quiet plans for a bird flu pandemic to spread human to human.
Business folks, medical doctors, public health folks- my network is preparing in big and small ways.
That is a privilege I want all of us to have.
Business folks, medical doctors, public health folks- my network is preparing in big and small ways.
That is a privilege I want all of us to have.
February 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Every smart person I know is making quiet plans for a bird flu pandemic to spread human to human.
Business folks, medical doctors, public health folks- my network is preparing in big and small ways.
That is a privilege I want all of us to have.
Business folks, medical doctors, public health folks- my network is preparing in big and small ways.
That is a privilege I want all of us to have.
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Making sure everyone understands: Afrikaners—Elon Musk’s people—built, enforced, and thrived under the apartheid system they created. Not just “white-ruled segregation”—it was systemic racial oppression to keep the white minority in power.
They don’t deserve refugee status—they were the oppressors!
They don’t deserve refugee status—they were the oppressors!
February 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Making sure everyone understands: Afrikaners—Elon Musk’s people—built, enforced, and thrived under the apartheid system they created. Not just “white-ruled segregation”—it was systemic racial oppression to keep the white minority in power.
They don’t deserve refugee status—they were the oppressors!
They don’t deserve refugee status—they were the oppressors!
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Me, a US based physician, going to Canada’s avian flu website to see what the latest data are.
Because our own scientific communication platforms have been severely compromised or shuttered.
In the year 2025. Never thought I’d see this day.
Anyhoo, link here: www.canada.ca/en/public-he...
Because our own scientific communication platforms have been severely compromised or shuttered.
In the year 2025. Never thought I’d see this day.
Anyhoo, link here: www.canada.ca/en/public-he...
Avian influenza A(H5N1): For health professionals - Canada.ca
Get detailed information on avian influenza for health professionals.
www.canada.ca
February 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Me, a US based physician, going to Canada’s avian flu website to see what the latest data are.
Because our own scientific communication platforms have been severely compromised or shuttered.
In the year 2025. Never thought I’d see this day.
Anyhoo, link here: www.canada.ca/en/public-he...
Because our own scientific communication platforms have been severely compromised or shuttered.
In the year 2025. Never thought I’d see this day.
Anyhoo, link here: www.canada.ca/en/public-he...
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Black anti-fascists argued the Atlantic world’s history of racial violence belied the novelty of intra-European fascism. Speaking at the Second International Writers Congress in 1937, Langston Hughes declared: “We Negroes in America do not have to be told what fascism is in action. We know.”
The Long Shadow of Racial Fascism - Boston Review
A debate is roiling about the aptness of comparing Trump to European fascists. But radical Black thinkers have long argued that racial slavery created its own unique form of American fascism.
www.bostonreview.net
February 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Black anti-fascists argued the Atlantic world’s history of racial violence belied the novelty of intra-European fascism. Speaking at the Second International Writers Congress in 1937, Langston Hughes declared: “We Negroes in America do not have to be told what fascism is in action. We know.”
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Good advice for researchers who talk to news media about NIH funding cuts. No need to explain indirect cost recovery 👇
February 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Good advice for researchers who talk to news media about NIH funding cuts. No need to explain indirect cost recovery 👇
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how it feels logging on today
February 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
how it feels logging on today
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From Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan University: slate.com/life/2025/02...
Dear Fellow College Presidents: We Need to Do More Than Wait This One Out
Why civil society needs university leaders to speak up.
slate.com
February 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
From Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan University: slate.com/life/2025/02...
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Many are asking: “What can I do now?”
Here’s a revised and expanded list of actions you can take, in rough order of importance. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/more-on-what-you-can-do
Here’s a revised and expanded list of actions you can take, in rough order of importance. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/more-on-what-you-can-do
February 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Many are asking: “What can I do now?”
Here’s a revised and expanded list of actions you can take, in rough order of importance. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/more-on-what-you-can-do
Here’s a revised and expanded list of actions you can take, in rough order of importance. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/more-on-what-you-can-do
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"Purging, or hiding, the 'Marxist maniacs and lunatics' in the faculty lounge won’t actually help, because they’re not the real target... the core problem is the modern worldview in which democratic principles of inclusive representation rest on a foundation of rational knowledge creation."
Write as if the truth really matters (opinion)
As both citizens and scholars, now is not the time to withdraw, Philip N. Cohen writes.
www.insidehighered.com
February 8, 2025 at 10:22 PM
"Purging, or hiding, the 'Marxist maniacs and lunatics' in the faculty lounge won’t actually help, because they’re not the real target... the core problem is the modern worldview in which democratic principles of inclusive representation rest on a foundation of rational knowledge creation."
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This was the motto of the civil society movement to resist Bolsonaro’s right wing authoritarianism in Brazil. I learned it from @annagalland.bsky.social and love it. Would love to see American designers do their own interpretations.
February 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
This was the motto of the civil society movement to resist Bolsonaro’s right wing authoritarianism in Brazil. I learned it from @annagalland.bsky.social and love it. Would love to see American designers do their own interpretations.
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Good perspective for this coming week
Here’s @lizneeley.bsky.social’s latest newsletter, documenting the ongoing attacks on science and higher ed, and figuring out what to focus on: buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
Week 3
Figuring out what to focus on now & what to focus on next in science and higher ed
buttondown.com
February 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Good perspective for this coming week
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Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year.
2022: $0
2021: $0
2020: $0
2019: $0
2018: $0
Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.
2022: $0
2021: $0
2020: $0
2019: $0
2018: $0
Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.
February 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year.
2022: $0
2021: $0
2020: $0
2019: $0
2018: $0
Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.
2022: $0
2021: $0
2020: $0
2019: $0
2018: $0
Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.
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Find information on the economic impact the NIH has on your state. bsky.app/profile/stan...
I believe this will give you the graphics for NIH nationally and scroll down the page for individual states. They have a lot of useful information you can find just by poking around on the site. www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/annual-econo...
Annual Economic Report Toolkit - United For Medical Research
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org
February 9, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Find information on the economic impact the NIH has on your state. bsky.app/profile/stan...
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I have a confession
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I was an “overhead cost”.
I was a beaker washer, agar plate pourer, research secretary. I was paid by “overhead cost” fees. Loved it.
Those “overhead cost” jobs allowed this rural kid to become a physician.
Please tag how #OverheadCostJob impact u.
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I was an “overhead cost”.
I was a beaker washer, agar plate pourer, research secretary. I was paid by “overhead cost” fees. Loved it.
Those “overhead cost” jobs allowed this rural kid to become a physician.
Please tag how #OverheadCostJob impact u.
February 9, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I have a confession
.
.
.
I was an “overhead cost”.
I was a beaker washer, agar plate pourer, research secretary. I was paid by “overhead cost” fees. Loved it.
Those “overhead cost” jobs allowed this rural kid to become a physician.
Please tag how #OverheadCostJob impact u.
.
.
.
I was an “overhead cost”.
I was a beaker washer, agar plate pourer, research secretary. I was paid by “overhead cost” fees. Loved it.
Those “overhead cost” jobs allowed this rural kid to become a physician.
Please tag how #OverheadCostJob impact u.
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DOGE plans to slash about as much ($4B) from NIH, and hence from universities and medical centers, as the government gave SpaceX ($3.8B) last year.
It's not about the money and government "waste."
It's never been about the money or government "waste."
www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
It's not about the money and government "waste."
It's never been about the money or government "waste."
www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
Elon Musk wants to cut government spending. Tesla and SpaceX benefit from it
Over the last 16 years, Musk's business deals with the government total nearly $20 billion, according to federal contracting data.
www.usatoday.com
February 8, 2025 at 1:08 PM
DOGE plans to slash about as much ($4B) from NIH, and hence from universities and medical centers, as the government gave SpaceX ($3.8B) last year.
It's not about the money and government "waste."
It's never been about the money or government "waste."
www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
It's not about the money and government "waste."
It's never been about the money or government "waste."
www.usatoday.com/story/money/...