hannah tello, phd
@hannah-jean.bsky.social
health data scientist | health behavior psychologist | unapologetic community advocate in Lowell, MA | Mt. Holyoke & UMass alum | ✊🏼All data to the people ✊🏼
There are a handful of experiences that reveal a person’s truest character, for better or worse Caring for an elderly parent is turning out to be one of the most heartbreaking & enraging ones on that list
An unknown relative of mine started a scrapbook in 1940. It contains articles from a Boston newspaper by a single columnist who was writing about travel in Europe. Flipping through is an eerie trip from interesting notes on Scandinavian diets to increasingly distressed columns about Hitler
National park staff were banned from participating in our local Women’s Leadership Breakfast (because DEI) Who would’ve thought that the party that won on the bogeyman of trans people erasing women would be the very same leopards to eat terfs’ faces?
Information isn’t the antidote to misinformation. Patience isn’t the antidote to violence. And decorum is not the antidote to fascists
Democrats obsession with decorum is going to get us all killed
Hysterical Trump Can’t Control His Emotions During Embarassing Outburst; Vance Also There for Some Reason
The moms from my son’s birth group (“October 2011 Mamas”) have left FaceBook in favor of Discord so we can message more securely about political organizing You know shits getting real when the BabyCenter message boards are generating resistance groups
There are many extemely experienced fed employees now out of work I know you are all used to working at the Big Scale fed level- But there are so many amazing community level orgs & agencies & NPOs doing work aligned with your expertise- I hope we all find each other. There’s good work to do 💙
And no, it’s nor poverty. Research has shown over and over and over that wealth does not protect Black women & infants from inequities BUT even if it DID, we should never accept a system that accepts excess death of mothers & babies as a matter of course for capitalism
Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA@arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 2y agoThis is a rather telling statement. Nearly a third of women in Louisiana are Black. www.businessinsider.com/gop-senator-...
Elon must’ve defunded whoever was supposed to cut the refs a check
Sharing this lesson from 2021: If you’re overwhelmed, look local. Connect local We learned during Covid: decades of investing local paid off. Neighborhoods were activated. There was no single solution; there were dozens of different ones Find your local www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021...
Perspective | We found a way to vaccinate way more people: All it took was a block party
Want to vaccinate more people? Meet them where they are. And make it fun.
washingtonpost.com
One of the students helping with our Community Health Needs Assessment (which identifies loca health inequities & needs) asked me if it would be a good idea to not list her name in the acknowledgments “just in case” 💔 So that’s how the students are doing these days
Over-responding or complying in advance to threats & directives that are not directed at you will not protect you - but it will harm the people & communities you are trying to serve.
For the last year, we’ve been working with a group of Cambodian elders who’ve help us design & implement community programming Listening to their perspectives on the current US political landscape, as survivors of genocide themselves, is … indescribably horrifying
The demographic most likely to roofie you now has access to your grandmas social security information.
Katie Drummond@katie-drummond.bsky.social · 2y agoNEW: WIRED has identified six young men, all between the ages of 19-24, who have negligible experience but are now playing critical roles in Elon Musk's takeover of the U.S. government. From @telliotter.bsky.social @zoeschiffer.bsky.social @timmarchman.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
Anyone who has ever looked at the data knows that each of these young men is a perfect fit for the profile of someone likely to commit mass violence And so, here they are, doing just that
WIRED@wired.com · 2y agoNEW: Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.
For anyone needing a CDC dataset: it may be in one of the nearly 3000 csv files archived here: archive.org/details/2025...
CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 : Centers for Disease Control and Prevention : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
An archive of all CDC datasets uploaded to https://data.cdc.gov/browse before January 28th, 2025. Excludes corrupt datasets and data not publicly accessible.
archive.org
When you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.
Joel Mittleman@joeljm.bsky.social · 2y agoThe CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey has monitored the wellbeing of America’s high school students since 1991. Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens. As of this morning, it’s gone.
Reminding all data folks: check your download history, too. I was able to saving 5 now-erased datasets because I had previously downloaded them for older projects. Now saved
I seriously underestimated the number of eggs the typical household consumes honestly
This week I scheduled all my meetings for projects I really enjoy to my earliest time slot. It’s working. The joy I felt coming out of a meeting on a project to help local multilingual community members become doulas kept me out of existential dread til nearly 3pm
Access primary & preventative care is already on the edge of a cliff The chaos invoked around Medicaid payments is already rippling thru providers who were already hesitant Rescinded, not rescinded, locked out, not locked out: doesn’t matter The damage is spidering like a crack in a windshield
“Don’t believe what you see & experience firsthand” Local hospitals & federally qualified health centers here are *already reporting* missed payments & launching contingency plans The WH is L Y I N G
Mia Ives-Rublee@seemiaroll.bsky.social · 2y agoStatement by White House Pres Sec on #Medicaid
“Calm down, alarmists, it doesn’t affect Medicaid” Meanwhile, in Massachusetts:
