Ramy Kim

Public Health, EJ, Equity, Place, Open Data, Open Science, DIYBio, Care Not Cages // own views & sporadic activity

[Ramy Kim @ramymik]

Yeee, our work @OpenInsulin, @CountrCultrLabs & other rad friends in #communitybio were featured in this well-written! non-sensationalist! @NewYorker piece on #diybio

https://t.co/0xse06Gb24

[Ramy Kim @ramymik]

Danielle Boyer’s keynote on their work @steamconnection⁩ is energizing! Talking about self-determination & data sovereignty for Indigenous Peoples & saving endangered languages for future generations— all thru STEAM. #ohs2024 ⁦@ohsummit⁩ ⁦@danielleboyerr⁩

[Sabreen /صبرىن @dakhterakhter]

Bag the babies with one hand while you hand-drip in their pressors with the other. Figure out how to keep the ones with translucent skins warm without an incubator. Keep whatever extra fingers and toes you have on their pulses to make sure they’re still alive. In the darkness, +

[Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières @MSF_canada]

"We're on the fourth floor, there's a sniper who attacked four patients inside the hospital. One of them has a gunshot wound directly in his neck, and he is a quadriplegic [patient], and the other one [was shot] in the abdomen." #Gaza

Dr Mohammed Obeid in Al-Shifa hospital.

[Ramy Kim @ramymik]

@AROCBayArea @daeshikjr

[Jaime Omar Yassin @hyphy_republic]

Organizers are calling for more people to come out now. Theres about 50 protesters who have been out here since 6am, protesters calling attention to US military support for Israel's war crimes, US military ship departing today to bring arms/equip to Israel https://t.co/J1sCB4FMmw

[Jamil Dakwar @jdakwar]

ACLU to 650 college and university leaders: Reject calls to investigate, disband, or penalize pro-Palestinian student groups for exercising their free speech rights. https://t.co/bow8O5lmlY

[Miquel Ramos 🥘 @Miquel_R]

Expulsan a varios neonazis de las protestas propalestinas en EEUU.

Identifican a varios activistas neonazis enmascarados en algunas protestas y los manifestantes se les encaran al grito de “Nazis Go Home,” y “¡enseñad la cara, malditos cobardes!”.

https://t.co/WtEdvpLBrx

[BreakThrough News @BTnewsroom]

BREAKING: Belgian transport unions will stop all weapons shipments to Israel.

"While a genocide is underway in Palestine, workers at various airports in Belgium see weapons leaving for a war zone. Loading and unloading these weapons helps provide organizations with the ability to kill innocent people."

[Oren Ziv @OrenZiv_]

Now in Tel Aviv first protest against the war

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

This isn’t getting mainstream attention, but it’s one of the most important things happening on earth right now

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

This is not a war “between Hamas and Israel” this is a World War waged on the Palestinian People by superpowers and media machines and giant corporations and reactionaries.

[The Debt Collective 🟥 @StrikeDebt]

NEWS: Morehouse College—an HBCU in Georgia—took every dime of debt they had in collections and transferred it to us.

Today, we're announced that we've canceled all of it.

Now, nearly 3,000 people—mostly Black men—can access transcripts and move on with their lives.

[World Health Organization (WHO) @WHO]

Evacuation orders by Israel to hospitals in northern Gaza are a death sentence for the sick and injured

As the @UN's agency responsible for public health, the World Health Organization (WHO) strongly condemns Israel's repeated orders for the evacuation of 22 hospitals treating more than 2000 inpatients in northern Gaza. The forced evacuation of patients and health workers will further worsen the current humanitarian and public health catastrophe.

The lives of many critically ill and fragile patients hang in the balance: those in intensive care or who rely on life support; patients undergoing hemodialysis; newborns in incubators; women with complications of pregnancy, and others all face imminent deterioration of their condition or death if they are forced to move and are cut off from life-saving medical attention while being evacuated.

Health facilities in northern Gaza continue to receive an influx of injured patients and are struggling to operate beyond maximum capacity. Some patients are being treated in corridors and outdoors in surrounding streets due to a lack of hospital beds.

Forcing more than 2000 patients to relocate to southern Gaza, where health facilities are already running at maximum capacity and unable to absorb a dramatic rise in the number patients, could be tantamount to a death sentence.

Hospital directors and health workers are now facing an agonizing choice: abandon critically ill patients amid a bombing campaign, put their own lives at risk while remaining on site to treat patients, or endanger their patients’ lives while attempting to transport them to facilities that have no capacity to receive them.

Overwhelmingly, caregivers have chosen to stay behind and honor their oaths as health professionals to “do no harm,” rather than risk moving their critically ill patients during evacuations. Health workers should never have to make such impossible choices.

Additionally, tens of thousands of displaced people in northern Gaza are seeking refuge in open spaces in or around hospitals, treating them as havens from violence as well as to protect the facilities from potential attacks. Their lives, too, are at risk when health facilities are bombed.

There are verified reports of deaths of health care workers and destruction of health facilities, which denies civilians the basic human right of life-saving health care and is prohibited under International Humanitarian Law.

WHO calls for Israel to immediately reverse evacuation orders to hospitals in northern Gaza, and calls for the protection of health facilities, health workers, patients, and civilians.

WHO also reiterates its calls for the immediate and safe delivery of medical supplies, fuel, clean water, food, and other humanitarian aid into Gaza through the Rafah crossing, where life-saving assistance, including WHO health supplies that arrived earlier today, is currently awaiting entry.

[The Debt Collective 🟥 @StrikeDebt]

JUST IN: The Supreme Court just struck down student debt relief—an attack on working people and debtors.

This isn't the end of our fight to cancel all student debt.

Join our response call today at 3PM ET.
https://t.co/aIE5QftdyB

[wells @ fanime (staff) @WellsLucasSanto]

hey i've been busy doing research on how race, specifically the pan-asian identity, has been formalized politically by/in the us, did i miss any more tremendously disappointing news about how our government handles cases about race today

[Hood Biologist, PhD @Hood_Biologist]

#MutualAidRequest

I'm a neurodivergent Black QT scientist dealing w/ unemployment. My bank acct isn’t negative thanks to folks who donated. I still need $2500 to pay bills, moving expenses, food & Rx.

Donate:
Cashapp: $ShayAkil
Venmo: @ ShayAkil
Paypal: https://t.co/daqKbfI78v

[East Bay Yesterday @ebyesterday]

There's a reason why every book about Oakland thanks Dorothy Lazard. Here's a conversation with my favorite (former) @oaklibrary librarian https://t.co/XOAbEQmxPI

[Ella Baker Center @ellabakercenter]

Urge @cagovernor @gavinnewsom to REJECT the $360.6 Million funding request for the San Quentin 'Rehabilitation Center' & move forward with at least 5 more prison closures by 2027.

☎️Call & 📩email the Governor with @CURBprisons toolkit: https://t.co/NROqgKO2iF

#CloseCAPrisons

[Ramy Kim @ramymik]

Will add more resources to thread if isn’t redundant info … feel free to add your own resources/strategies/questions here — signed, perma-New Yorker & friendly MPH

[Ramy Kim @ramymik]

Highly recommend upgrading to N95 or elastomeric for better seal. I’m getting reports from friends that are having (even dermal) symptoms from exposure. Esp in drafty pre-war apartments, you may want to wear one inside. Sorry east coasters & Canadians who are still dealing w this

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

NEW YORKERS, you can get free N95 masks TODAY at these MTA locations:

Grand Central
Penn Station
Fulton Center
Port Authority (Main Concourse)
Jamaica Station
Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park
Roberto Clemente State Park

https://t.co/dqyjXBKxiw

[Ramy Kim @ramymik]

And if air purifiers are hard to come by: there’s the fairly straightforward DIY option of Corsi-Rosenthal box:

[Night Shift MD @MonkeyMindQuiet]

@MarkHarrisNYC A Corsi-Rosenthal box is amazingly efficacious at both increasing ventilation and filtration indoors. The CR box has been extensively tested/proven/reusable. Use them now then save for next time. If you’re able to consider making a few for elderly neighbors. You Tube can help.