Kaliris Salas-Ramírez, PhD
@drkysr.bsky.social
Borikua, Neuroscientist, Medical Educator, Community organizer 🇵🇷✊🏾🫶🏾
Broken swing sets? Missing basketball nets? Have no fear, Renew Crew is here. Neighborhood parks are meant for recreation — not frustration. If it’s broken, this crew will fix it. If it’s run-down, they’ll renew it. Renew Crew: Coming soon to a park near you.
Proud to announce that New York City has registered a record 4,200 New Yorkers in our doula care program. Pregnancy and childbirth are life-changing moments. No one should be forced to navigate them alone.
Mayor Mamdani Expands Access to Doula Care Across NYC as Citywide Initiative Surpasses 4,000 People Served
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Let’s talk about Medicare for All. What would it mean for the individual American? ⬇ The day you’re born you get a card that gives you health insurance with no premium, co-pay, or deductible. Doesn’t matter if you get a job, lose a job, turn 26 or 65, get married or divorced — it's there for you.
If Data Centers are so great, why are most of them constructed in secret and involve NDA agreements with government officials. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
Data centers’ ‘oh s--t’ moment
Some industry leaders fear voter backlash is turning into a lasting political crisis.
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Listen to our own brilliant @drkysr.bsky.social explain allll the reasons we need a moratorium on AI.
Kaliris Salas-Ramírez, PhD@drkysr.bsky.social · 2w ago@errollouis.bsky.social and I were able to chat about why we need a moratorium on AI in our schools! It perpetuates racial bias and inhibits learning, not to mention the impact on the planet! It is time for @mayor.nyc.gov to declare a moratorium now! ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...
@errollouis.bsky.social and I were able to chat about why we need a moratorium on AI in our schools! It perpetuates racial bias and inhibits learning, not to mention the impact on the planet! It is time for @mayor.nyc.gov to declare a moratorium now! ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...
Neuroscience expert concerned about use of AI in schools
Watch the full interview here.
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I’m a little tired of people doing mediocre work at the service of kids and not looking at education policies through a racial equity lens or think of nuance. Instead of unpacking the data, it is manipulated to present a false narrative that fits bad practices and harms kids. Just stop.
For the morning crowd...we're now 103 signatures away from 6000! Surely we know 103 people who don't think AI belongs in New York Public Schools, right? @gregpak.net @comixaction.com @climatefamsnyc.bsky.social
AI Moratorium for NYC Schools@aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 2w agoPsst we’re about 120 signatures away from 6000 on our petition calling for a moratorium on AI — help us get to 6001 by Friday? actionnetwork.org/petitions/pl... @gregpak.net @comixaction.com @climatefamsnyc.bsky.social
SCHOOL BOARD SLATE: WON. GOODBYE MOMS FOR LIBERTY. We knocked doors all summer in these districts.
In the past 24 hours, Santa Fe has agreed not to use Amira or i-Ready for young children, and Chicago has agreed not to roll out Gemini to high schoolers. We're so proud of the activists there who have gotten those wins, but we can't help but wonder: when is @mayor.nyc.gov going to protect NYC kids?
US child vaccination rates have plunged since before the pandemic, with kindergarten classrooms in more than 70% of counties now lacking herd immunity against measles.
RFK Jr. & Oz are putting bigoted ideology ahead of medical evidence, using healthcare funding to restrict gender-affirming care. Another example of the Trump admin putting ideology ahead of science to dictate our healthcare - or rather, lack thereof. Article: zurl.co/LdZNW
Opinion | The Trump administration is cutting life-saving care for thousands of teenagers — and calling it ‘protection’
The Trump administration has maintained without evidence for years that providing gender-affirming care for trans youth is harmful to kids.
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NIH grant cuts disproportionately hit minority and female scientists www.nature.com/articles/d41...
NIH grant cuts disproportionately hit minority and female scientists
A survey reveals sharp divides in who bore the brunt of last year’s spree of grant cancellations by the Trump administration.
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On the night in question, Natalie Harp was not sleeping with President Trump. She was posting AI monkey memes of the Obamas from his Truth Social account. Apologize, media! by Steven Cheung
"Marlboro Reds for Teens is 'an experience designed to help teens learn to smoke without a filter, safely encounter the joys of nicotine and tar, and use Marlboros with the savoir-faire befitting a proficient smoker,' Phillip Morris said in a blog post published Tuesday."
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w ago“ChatGPT for Teens is ‘an experience designed to help teens learn, think critically, deepen understanding, and use AI with confidence,’ OpenAI said in a blog post published Tuesday.”
Tapping the sign for a thousandth time—when you effectively make the SAT the primary criteria for admissions, you are ensuring that your college will enroll hardly any working or middle class students, even ones with 90th percentile standardized test scores
Chalkbeat@chalkbeat.org · 2w agoHigher education’s admissions hierarchy is also a spending hierarchy. The students who arrive with the most advantages often receive the most resources.
TRUMP SAYS HIS LIFE WAS BETTER BEFORE HE BECAME PRESIDENT. DUDE, EVERYONE'S LIVES WERE BETTER BEFORE YOU BECAME PRESIDENT.
This NYT article is educational malpractice and fundamentally misunderstands the purpose--and promise--of writing.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3w agoThe extent to which these companies (and the people who represent them) are actively hostile to students cannot be overstated. “Students need to write well enough to have a sense of which A.I. text suggestions to accept and which to reject” is something to articulate if profit is the *only* motive.
Bodycams won’t fix this, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social. Abolish ICE.
Whitney Curry Wimbish@whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 3w agoMore than 140 people have joined the hunger strike at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma, WA, @laresistencianw.bsky.social announced just now. The hunger strikers' only demands are the bare necessities to live: edible food, meals on time, hygiene items and medical care.
You may be seeing University of California admissions discourse in your timeline and I feel the need to point out that out of 6,687 first-year students at Berkeley in Fall 2025, just 117 were Black
If you want to hear more from the brilliant @drkysr.bsky.social, join us tonight! (see previous post)
AI Moratorium for NYC Schools@aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 3w agoIf you read one thing today, make it "Black and Brown Kids Need an AI Moratorium" by our own @drkysr.bsky.social. "There is a powerful myth that if children don’t use AI in schools, our children will be 'left behind.' ...
Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/
My friend and co-conspirator @drkysr.bsky.social knocking it out of the park with this op-ed. 🔥
AI Moratorium for NYC Schools@aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 3w agoIf you read one thing today, make it "Black and Brown Kids Need an AI Moratorium" by our own @drkysr.bsky.social. "There is a powerful myth that if children don’t use AI in schools, our children will be 'left behind.' ...
If you read one thing today, make it "Black and Brown Kids Need an AI Moratorium" by our own @drkysr.bsky.social. "There is a powerful myth that if children don’t use AI in schools, our children will be 'left behind.' ...
Black & Brown kids need an AI moratorium
There is a powerful myth that if children don’t use AI in schools, our children will be “left behind.” That “equity” for students of color means every child should have unlimited access to a chatbot, ...
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Let this be a lesson to all you cartoon villain billionaires out there: Spend millions to crush some fairly low-key high school admissions reform measures, go broke www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/n...
Ronald Lauder, a Billionaire G.O.P. Backer, Closes His Wallet (Gift Article)
Ronald S. Lauder, a major funder of conservative political causes, has not given a single dollar this year to Republicans in his home state, and his super PAC has gone idle.
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NJ: 1️⃣ Analilia Mejia + 2️⃣ Adam Hamawy PA: 3️⃣ Chris Rabb CA: 4️⃣ Mai Vang, 5️⃣ Aisha Wahab, 6️⃣ Randy Villegas—with 7️⃣ Connie Chan + 8️⃣ Angela Gonzales-Torres advancing too NY: 9️⃣ Claire Valdez, 🔟 Darializa Avila Chevalier + 1️⃣1️⃣ Brad Lander CO: 1️⃣2️⃣ Melat Kiros MI: 1️⃣3️⃣ Will Lawrence (+ 1️⃣4️⃣ Donavan McKinney? 🤞)
Friends. This is not difficult. View every big change at NIH through the lens of the regime’s obvious and stated priorities and agendas. Diminishing the role of support letters is, they think, a way to prosecute Red state transfer and blue state punishment.
