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sarahelazab.bsky.social
سارة
@sarahelazab.bsky.social
assistant professor @ UIUC | critical data studies + HSR + health IT + health equity | 🇪🇬 🐰
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I read a draft of this from @profince.bsky.social a while back, but it's changed for the better in revisions. This is a really useful engagement, critique, and extension of my theory that I'm going to have to cite a bunch. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Extending the Bridge: Racialized Organizations, Inhabited Institutionalism, and Racialization - Jelani Ince, Callie Cleckner, Tim Hallett, 2025
This article extends the nascent bridge between the sociology of race and ethnicity and organizational sociology by fostering a dialogue between the theory of r...
journals.sagepub.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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From a new @thelancet.com article today entitled "Health care in the USA: money has become the mission" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
October 21, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Happy "PROFESSOR!!! CANVAS IS DOWN!!!" day to all academics who celebrate.
October 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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the gutting of the national center for health statistics should be considered its own five alarm fire
Eliminated at NCHS:
❌ Office of Informatics, Governance and Assurance
❌ Office of Information Sevices (communications)
❌ Office of the Director for the Division of Vital Statistics, which is now without all leadership
❌ Planning/Operations in the Division of Healthcare Statistics
October 13, 2025 at 4:21 AM
For several years now, I have been talking about how we need to bring back shame. Shame is indeed Good Actually. Great read!
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 23, 2025 at 7:31 PM
It’s me! I’m the friend! 😂
a reminder from a friend that I printed and keep in my office
September 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Eat. Sleep. Exercise. Nurture the relationships that sustain you. Protect your health. Find joy. Don't mistake any of these for the resistance itself. Joy isn't resistance, neither is rest. But you need to be whole to resist for a lifetime.
September 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
My first month of teaching (and as a professor) felt like drinking out of a fire hose. Now it’s like drinking out of a garden hose which is better, but is still a lot of water.
September 23, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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162,000 doctors strong: The American College of Physicians demands RFK Jr. be removed as HHS Secretary, warning he is undermining vaccines, science, and public health.

www.acponline.org/acp-newsroom...
#BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #NurseSky #SciSky
American College of Physicians Calls for Removal of Secretary Kennedy at HHS | ACP Online
Statement attributable to:Jason M. Goldman, MD, MACPPresident, American College of Physicians
www.acponline.org
September 20, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Exactly. And let’s be clear that when the right came for mostly Black & Brown women & queer professors, the left & universities didn’t protect us. The right used us as targets before they went to CRT, DEI, universities generally & now broader culture. They let us be harmed & now it’s harming them
September 19, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Incredible new paper from @centeronbudget.bsky.social looking into some specific Trump impoundments - where he illegally refuses to carry out our spending laws.
New Data Show Trump Administration’s Illegal, Targeted Withholding of Funds | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Newly released federal data provide evidence of the Trump Administration’s illegal withholding of fiscal year 2025 funding that Congress approved and the President signed into law in March, ahead of a...
www.cbpp.org
September 19, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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This isn't even a slight exaggeration. He is actively working on destroying the US's entire vaccine infrastructure. The HepB vote will be tomorrow, where they will get rid of the birth dose and recommend it at 30 days, dooming a bunch of infants to chronic infection ft. cirrhosis, cancer, and death.
September 18, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Update on this story: As many of us feared, it turns out that Berkeley wasn't the only UC to release personal info on its pro-palestine anti-genocide professors to the justice department, it looks they they all did. Berkeley was just the only one to tell profs they did it.
September 16, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Because politics are theoretical for them. Their lives won’t change much depending on which party is in power.
There is a clutch of pundits who treat the world like it’s an Ivy League seminar course, mostly because that’s the environment in which they emerged. They think debate and white papers are the pinnacle of political action. They fume at anyone who approaches politics in any other way.
September 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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What's happening in Indiana should be a warning for all of higher ed.

IU sanctioned a Professor--who was previously arrested and sanctioned during a campus protest--for allegedly violating the state's "intellectual diversity" law, based on an anonymous complaint.

www.indystar.com/story/news/e...
August 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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this is simply extortion and theft of state monies
August 8, 2025 at 6:42 PM
oh for the love of god.
NEW: In a likely first, security researchers have shown how generative AI agents can be hijacked to cause physical consequences.

They tricked Google's Gemini AI into turning off smart home lights, opening windows, and turning on a boiler.

They hid instructions to the AI in a *calendar invitation*
Hackers Hijacked Google’s Gemini AI With a Poisoned Calendar Invite to Take Over a Smart Home
For likely the first time ever, security researchers have shown how AI can be hacked to create real world havoc, allowing them to turn off lights, open smart shutters, and more.
www.wired.com
August 8, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years.

Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.
Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal
www.whitehouse.gov
August 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
“Every tax dollar the Government spends should improve American lives or advance American interests…Federal grants have funded drag shows in Ecuador, trained doctoral candidates in critical race theory, and developed transgender-sexual-education programs.” - these advance MY American life/interests.
August 8, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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Atlantic: How Many Times Can Science Funding Be Canceled?/

Whether or not Congress cuts NIH’s budget, the Trump administration has devastated its ability to operate.

by Katherine J. Wu

bit.ly/4fucNWT
August 7, 2025 at 12:50 AM
:)
August 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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States are taking the lead on #AI regulation, with all 50 introducing AI-related legislation in 2025. Key focus areas for attempts to add guardrails: government use, healthcare, facial recognition and generative AI. buff.ly/JsS23Lk By @asusarla.bsky.social @michiganstateu.bsky.social
How states are placing guardrails around AI in the absence of strong federal regulation
With a potential ban of state regulation of AI soundly defeated, states are continuing to take the lead on protecting people from the technology’s potential harms – for now.
buff.ly
August 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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always remember
July 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Reflecting with gratitude on an amazing week at #HPRSSI2025 full of connection, learning, and celebration. Honoring our C5 (& some C6) grads was the highlight, surrounded by friends and family. Here’s to their impact and the future of health equity! @rwjf.bsky.social @rwjfclpan.bsky.social
July 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM