Dr. Ufuoma 🛰🌍

Postdoc | Prev. PhD @MIT | Satellite Data + Environmental Justice + Prisons | Stanford’18 MechE | She/Her

[Dr. Ufuoma 🛰🌍 @ItsUfuoma]

🚨🚨🚨I’m thrilled to announce the launch of the Toxic Prisons Mapping Project, Beta - a participatory research initiative to map the environmental hazards faced by prisons, jails, and detention centers. See https://t.co/2L2pJBe52b & 🧵 below

[Dr. Ufuoma 🛰🌍 @ItsUfuoma]

Hey friends (whoever is left). I don’t use this account much anymore but I’m on the cloud app as @doctorufu ➡️ follow me there for updates

[Dr. Ufuoma 🛰🌍 @ItsUfuoma]

@ashjcarpenter Congratulations Ashley!

[Isi Breen @isaiah_bb]

You can’t use the words “clean” or “runoff” or “pollution” when writing reports at the USDA now.

[Qondi @QondiNtini]

This is just about the most heartbreaking thing you will read today

Kiah should still be a shining light in this world

[Bakari Sellers @Bakari_Sellers]

All those black folk jumping around with Donald Trump cheesing yesterday while the @USDA suspended the 1890 Scholars program.

It’s full tuition for students from rural and underserved communities that study Agriculture.

@SenatorTimScott @ByronDonalds @WesleyHuntTX @JohnJamesMI
HBCUs affected:

[Taylor Goldenstein 🌴 @taygoldenstein]

Staggering details from this story:

- After TX banned abortion, rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they lost their pregnancies in the 2nd trimester

- The rate of maternal deaths in TX rose 33% btwn 2019 + 2023 even as national rate fell by 7.5%

[Michael A. Taffe @effatma]

I am recruiting for postdoctoral and technician positions at UCSD. If anyone with relevant skills/interests has lost funding due to the anti-DEI jihad or the NIH purge, I’m open to discussion of ways we can try to help out.

[Julie Margetta Morgan @jmargetta]

In just the week before Trump took power, CFPB:
- ordered Equifax to pay $15M
- ordered a major auto lender to return $10M to customers
- ordered CashApp to refund $120M to customers
- sued Capital One for cheating people out of interest payments

This week it's closed.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

America built on the backs of Black people... For those who didn't get the message. Kendrick is a true poet.

[Agents of Change @AgentschangeEJ]

READ: @timisneat, assistant professor at @csuci, writes about putting communities at the heart of plastic pollution initiatives in our latest essay with @EHNewsroom. Read it here: https://t.co/2MznlPFlk9

[Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @EnviroDGI]

Less than three days after CEJST was taken offline, EDGI and fellow members of Public Environmental Data Partners (PEDP) stood up an unofficial but functional copy, restoring public access.

https://t.co/rzlgdCps2e

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Attn: @Target we are done!!!

Black folks, do not spend a dime here. Do not spend money where you will not be hired—or where they will not carry your products.

Target is spitting in your face!

[Fadel Adib @fadeladib]

One of the most important skills I teach my students&postdocs is how to communicate their research. Last week at NSF, I gave a keynote to (mostly) junior faculty on how to pitch their work. The talk resonated with many folks, so I'm sharing it publicly: https://t.co/CpK88NfbPK

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

got $5?

here’s a document full of gofundmes for Black families that have been displaced in la. it’s ordered by which fundraisers still need the most support and is updated hourly. pick one and donate

https://t.co/KXiLp3IM1d

[Kamau Franklin @kamaufranklin]

This country is a hellscape: Imprisoned teenage boys & young men 18 to 24 are being used to battle the wildfires. 95% are Black, Latino, or Filipino; earn between $2.20 & $4 per hour, plus an additional $1 an hour when they’re actively fighting fires
https://t.co/FKOI4l3G5v

[Jesse Ferrell @WeatherMatrix]

Pretty incredible before-and-during satellite shots from the California fires. This is Altadena. Credit Google/MAXAR. #cawx

[bluebear73 @bluebear731]

#PalisadesFire from a flight arriving into LAX

[Environmental Health News @EHNewsroom]

NEW: "Toxic prisons teach us that environmental justice needs abolition."

Prisons, jails and detention centers are placed in locations where environmental hazards such as toxic landfills, floods and extreme heat are the norm.

https://t.co/MYocSnU7IT

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Massive snowball fight in DC right now