New Health & Place pub alert: “You thrive where you are:” Experiences of neighborhood built environments, mental health and wellbeing among residents of disinvested neighborhoods kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F... @pennstategeography.bsky.social #AcademicSky 🛟 #geosky

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

🚨 ICE is authorized to covertly infiltrate and interact with social media accounts under a new program called "masked engagement," per documents leaked to me: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

Exclusive: ICE Masks Up in More Ways Than One

Feds could be in your group chat

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#AcademicSky #GeoSky - encourage your 3rd & 4th year undergrads who wish to learn more about grad school and the "hidden curriculum" to apply to our GENIUS summer workshop! Applications due 2/15. @pennstategeography.bsky.social www.geog.psu.edu/geniusworkshop

I interviewed over half a dozen ICE and Border Patrol agents who describe an agency that sounds like Reno 911! “I thought federal agents were supposed to be clean cut but some of them pass around a flask as we are watching a suspect,” one told me: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-unloads

ICE Unloads

Immigration officers speak out: “Fuck this.”

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We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights. There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us. This is my favorite guide.

CANVAS Core Curriculum: A Guide to Effective Nonviolent Struggle | ICNC

You may also be interested in: A Guide to Nonviolent Activism (Ekta Parishad)Ekta Parishad is a mass-based peoples’ movement for land rights with an active membership of 250,000 landless poor and is r...

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www.thenation.com/article/acti... Hit them where it hurts them - boycotts can work

Want to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate Collaborators.

ICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping.

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Shocker

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 7mo ago

well well well

Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US. If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.

How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance

Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.

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We’re setting up a national call to discuss the killing and lawlessness by ICE in Minneapolis. We’ll be joined by leaders who will provide concrete next steps for a national response. We hope you can join us: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

Study of over twenty five million people over almost four years finds that COVID vaccines reduced COVID deaths by 74% and increased all-cause deaths by zero. I don’t know how much clearer it can get than that. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality Among Adults in France

This cohort study uses the data from all adults aged 18 to 59 years living in France on November 1, 2021, to evaluate whether there is an association of receipt of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine with long-t...

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When I'm feeling particularly hopeless about the future of professoring as a profession, I try to remind myself: That's what they want. They want us to not want to be professors anymore.

📣 Applications open for GENIUS 2026, a 3-day mentoring workshop at Penn State for rising third- and fourth-year students underrepresented in geography. 🌍 📅 May 27–29. Apply by Feb. 15, 2026: www.geog.psu.edu/geniusworkshop

New publication with my #UCSF colleagues about #cannabis budtenders and their #medical recommendations: doi.org/10.26828/can... @ssripennstate.bsky.social @pennstategeography.bsky.social @pop.psu.edu @ctcre-ucsf.bsky.social 🛟 #geosky #AcademicSky #publichealth

New Cannabis publication! Dispensing Medical Advice: San Francisco Bay Area Budtender Recommendations for Pain and Sleep Relief. @docholmes.bsky.social @ctcre-ucsf.bsky.social @pennstateuniv.bsky.social publications.sciences.ucf.edu/cannabis/ind...

#NoKings State College, PA

the more I read about the promises OpenAI has made, the more disgusted I am. They've promised to deploy 10GW of Broadcom chips *by the end of 2029*, a chip that has yet to tape out, in data centers yet to be planned or funded or the power acquired. We are in a black hole of ethics and good sense.

New publication with my colleagues @melissaboppphd.bsky.social & Mallika Bose on quality park access for disinvested communities doi.org/10.1080/2374... @ssripennstate.bsky.social @pennstategeography.bsky.social #academicsky #geosky 🛟 #urban #health

Hiding access to quality parks: a case study examining ParkservTM and objective park assessment in an under-resourced community

Rates of physical activity participation are lower in economically disadvantaged populations and are linked with chronic disease morbidity and mortality, and these communities often have fewer and/...

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The Billionaire Oligarchs and Corporations Profiting from ICE’s Deportation Machine littlesis.org/news/the-bil... #academicsky

Newsletter: This is The Case Against Generative AI, a comprehensive analysis of a financial collapse built on myths I’ll dispel, the markets’ unhealthy obsession with NVIDIA's growth, and the fact that there is not enough money in the world to fund OpenAI. www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

The Case Against Generative AI

Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 wo...

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New pub with my fabulous colleagues! #geosky #academicsky 🛟

New financial visualization with Ruth Buck and @docholmes.bsky.social: Financial structures and family ties: disentangling Purdue Pharma’s corporate ownership structure and the Sackler family wealth www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Penn State Geography invites prospective grad students to an upcoming online info session about our graduate degree programs on Thursday, October 23rd from 12:00pm-1:00pm EDT. Register to participate: tinyurl.com/psugeoinfo. #academicsky #geosky 🛟 #gradschool #gis #research #urban #pennstate #aag

Soliciting paper submissions for a special issue in Spatial Demography (Springer Nature) on #climate and #health! More info here: link.springer.com/collections/.... 🛟📈📉🧪 #geosky #AcademicSky #gis #spatial #population #popsky #demography #healthequity #climatechange #sustainability #weather #medsky

New pub with my amazing colleague and the grad students in my most recent seminar on the corporate drug trade. #geosky #academicsky 🛟 @ssripennstate.bsky.social @pop.psu.edu @pennstategeography.bsky.social

First Bluesky post, sharing some work in a new direction (health plus econ geog!) with my amazing colleague @docholmes.bsky.social and many @pennstategeography.bsky.social grad students. Pre-proofs here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The TSET Health Promotion Research Center (HPRC) at Oklahoma University Health Sci Center is seeking applications for a postdoctoral research fellowship in cancer health equity! Application review begins in March. 🛟 🩺📊 #medsky #academicsky healthpromotionresearch.org/About/Career...

Penn State Geography GENIUS workshop - May 2025! 3-day workshop for undergrads who identify as racially underrepresented to be mentored in applying to grad school. App DEADLINE: Feb 15! More info: www.geog.psu.edu/geniusworkshop #geosky #geography #sociology 📉 #demography #academicsky #gradschool 🛟🧪

Penn State Geography (www.geog.psu.edu) invites those interested in applying to our grad programs to an upcoming info session! Register at tinyurl.com/psugeoginfo #geosky #urbanism #sustainability #climate #demography #academia #environment #gis #publichealth 🛟 #FeministSky

New paper out - Digital geographies of care...https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S1353-8292(24)00124-2 🛟 🩺📊 #geosky #academicsky

#tenured 😌🙏🏻 🛟 #geosky #academicsky #demography

New pub, led by our recent PhD grad, Lucas Elliott authors.elsevier.com/c/1imUB_oL-v... 🛟🩺📊 #urban #transport