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Laura Díaz, MPH

@lauramardiaz.bsky.social
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PhD Candidate, Env Health Sciences, UC Berkeley | ED, Educator Collective for #EJ | ACEs, mitochondria, community liberation, YPAR

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Laura Díaz, MPH @lauramardiaz.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The closer the work picks at the real underlying oppression, the more unsafe the environment becomes. This is not a new phenomenon….
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Laura Díaz, MPH @lauramardiaz.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
📣 New publication!!! I’m thrilled to share our publication of the first chapter from my dissertation: Adverse Childhood Experiences, Mitochondrial DNA Copy Number and Atopic Disease In Children doi.org/10.1016/j.ps... #aces #atopic #mitochondria #adversity (abstract made w/ BioRender.com)
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S. L. Brown @seansthoughts.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
You're Not Dear you I know you feel alone In a world where darkness is home They need you to feel out to sea That no one will hear you scream You are not alone in the dark You are the flames starting spark Light comes from you cause you care When you shine "they" get scared #poem #poetry #mountain
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Laura Díaz, MPH @lauramardiaz.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Grateful to @ucberkeleyissi.bsky.social for recognizing our anti-racist and youth-driven #environmentaljustice work. It was such an honor to share space with bold scholars radically reimagining research that serves the most vulnerable.
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Institute for the Study of Societal Issues @ucberkeleyissi.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
In February, university administrators stripped the artwork from the Multicultural Community Center (MCC). To those who support the MCC, the changes amount to a whitewashing of the center. In this article, AARC affiliates are quoted providing historical context. www.berkeleyside.org/2026/04/22/m...
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UC Berkeley strips all political art from trailblazing multicultural center
Even a poster of Martin Luther King was yanked from Cal's Multicultural Community Center. Student organizations are banned from hosting events.
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Institute for the Study of Societal Issues @ucberkeleyissi.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Join us to celebrate social change as we honor the 2023 - 2026 recipients of the FOUNDATIONS FOR CHANGE: Thomas I. Yamashita Prize and KIDS FIRST: David L. Kirp Prize! bit.ly/ISSIAwards
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Institute for the Study of Societal Issues @ucberkeleyissi.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
ISSI grad student Laura Diaz co-authored a letter to the editor in the Journal of Agromedicine that discusses how the authors of a previous article in the same journal failed to frame the discussion around issues of environmental injustice. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/AXDEV...
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Towards a Community-Driven Framework to Promote Justice for Agricultural Workers
Published in Journal of Agromedicine (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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Agents of Change @agentschangeej.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Our fellows are doing the most (affectionate) 🏅 No medals — but the way they're out here changing environmental health research? they should have some. Meet the agents of change doing Olympic-level work 🧵👇
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Laura Díaz, MPH @lauramardiaz.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
New Publication‼️ We need to talk about community-engaged research… Towards a Community-Driven Framework to Promote Justice for Agricultural Workers Co-author @pelonquin.bsky.social Full article: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/AXDEV... #environmentaljustice #communityengagedresearch #EJ
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Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
The nice things we could have if folks weren’t so committed to white supremacy.
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Laura Díaz, MPH @lauramardiaz.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
stop platforming problematic and harmful academics engaging with community. Their behavior/actions/research is a practice of epistemic violence. Spend the time to support and amplify URM researchers who carefully practice holistic community-engaged research.
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Rachael Barrett @rachael10.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
A colleague recommended paying attention to and reading Attiah. I did, I do. Passing along the recommendation. As she writes: "Institutions may cancel me, but my pen and my teaching will not be silenced. If anything, my voice will be sharper now." Relentless forward momentum.
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The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
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Laura Díaz, MPH @lauramardiaz.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
I am thrilled to share our publication in Environmental Justice (Journal)-  “Transforming the University into a Public Good for Environmental Justice Action: Our Experience from a Decolonial and Latinx Community–Academic Partnership”. liebertpub.com/doi/epdf/10.10… #EJ
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Institute for the Study of Societal Issues @ucberkeleyissi.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
ISSI is proud to announce the recipients of this year’s FOUNDATIONS FOR CHANGE: Thomas I. Yamashita Prize: ‪@lauramardiaz.bsky.social‬ from ‪@berkeleypublichlth.bsky.social‬ & Clara Pérez Medina from ‪@ucbgeography.bsky.social‬. Learn about their social change scholarship on our home page!
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Laura Díaz, MPH @lauramardiaz.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Our org, Educator Collective for Environmental Justice, will be co-sponsoring the workshop. Please share with educators! AND Samrat Pathania (co-director of our org) will be speaking on decarbonization and our on-going EJ/decarb Educator cohort! #professionaldevelopment #ej
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Laura Díaz, MPH @lauramardiaz.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
I am eternally grateful those academics who have encouraged my own academic free thought and expression. And as we embark on these dangerous times, I will continue to support fellow liberatory practitioners. #freedomepistemologies
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Laura Díaz, MPH @lauramardiaz.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Radio silence for supporting PhD students - with our academic future most certainly uncertain (more likely impossible at this point).
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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
If you’re tired of complicit academic organizations/conferences and want to organize and fight alongside concrete struggles, check out the Decolonial Conference, which emerged from a People’s Assembly. www.decolonialconference.org
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Decolonial Conference | Join to Organize & Fight for Liberation
Engage with activists, movements, and politically committed scholars at the Decolonial Conference. Register now to challenge oppression and support liberation movements.
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Laura Díaz, MPH @lauramardiaz.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
I'm grateful to have been awarded the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues Thomas I. Yamashita Prize! They award a "person whose work transforms the existing social landscape - often in subtle and previously unappreciated ways - and serves as a bridge between the academy and the community.”
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Chrystal Starbird @drstarbird.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Normally, I use my social media to highlight inequities in academia but right now, it all feels like one huge mess. I do want to point out though that some people (many of them trainees) are suffering doubly or triply so in the current funding environment, and we should not lose sight of that.
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Laura Díaz, MPH @lauramardiaz.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Grateful that our team is presenting on Environmental Justice and Climate Resistance at the We the Future Conference tomorrow! We will continue to build power within the #EJ movement. Unafraid, empowered, moving progress towards more just environments. wethefuture.santarosa.edu/conference-s...
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Laura Díaz, MPH @lauramardiaz.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Interesting what **some** (not all) academics/ institutions will stand up for— and what they will stay silent for.
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 21/03/2025
First-generation students have unique needs, which can be amplified when they enter graduate programmes. A Comment article in Nature Reviews Psychology argues that faculty members need to be aware of the needs of this population and how to support them. go.nature.com/3FkQDs1 #Academicsky 🧪
Faculty members should always assume there are first-generation students in their classrooms, because there almost always are.
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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
An inspiring article on courageous community college leaders who are *publicly* organizing and standing up against DEI attacks.. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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Grassroots college leader group resists anti-DEI legislation
Education for All, a grassroots network of mostly community college leaders, is spreading strategies for how to resist anti-DEI bills and rhetoric.
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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
White academics, if you REALLY want to disrupt academia and dismantle the imbalances that exist within it, start taking Black, Brown, Indigenous, queer/trans, and disabled scholars' work seriously. Fly us out for interviews. Cite us. Pay us for talks. Treat us like colleagues.
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Tim Booth @bytimbooth.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Good morning from NBA All-Star Friday where former Wazzu standout Jaylen Wells had some custom shoes made in honor of his former D-II school Sonoma State for the events of this weekend.
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Gabriel Rodríguez Lemus, Jr. @grodriguezlemus.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
GULF OF MEXICO GULF OF MEXICO GULF OF MEXICO GULF OF MEXICO GULF OF MEXICO GULF OF MEXICO
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Laura Díaz, MPH @lauramardiaz.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Expecting a school of public health program to prioritize student wellbeing while training shouldn’t be radical.
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Environmental Health News @ehnewsroom.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
NEW: Why funding for the environmental justice movement must be anti-racist. "We must prioritize minority-serving institutions, BIPOC-led organizations and researchers to lead environmental justice efforts." @lauramardiaz.bsky.social @agentschangeej.bsky.social www.ehn.org/environmenta...
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Op-ed: Why funding for the environmental justice movement must be anti-racist
We must prioritize minority-serving institutions, BIPOC-led organizations and researchers to lead environmental justice efforts.
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Laura Díaz, MPH @lauramardiaz.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
And yet, the actual structural, procedural and pedagogical changes necessary to address the root cause will never be put in place. And faculty will scoff this off as a rite of passage, enabling the academic training hazing…
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
When people ask me why I don't care about my h-index, citations, etc., I point out that racism means that's a losing game. Cause this ain't just in economics. www.nber.org/papers/w33150
Screenshot of the article. Title: The Color of Ideas: Racial Dynamics and Citations in Economics. Authors: Marlene Koffi, Roland Pongou, and Leonard Wantchekon. NBER Working Paper No. 33150. Published November 2024. JEL No. A14, I23, J15. Abstract reads: This paper investigates the existence of racial disparities in the dissemination of ideas using the paper citation network in economics. Exploiting a comprehensive dataset of over 330,000 publications from 1950 to 2021, combined with manually collected data from the CVs of thousands of economists, we document that papers authored by non-White scholars (Black, Hispanic, or Asian) receive 5.1% to 9.6% fewer citations than those authored by White scholars. The citation gap remains or even amplifies with increasing author seniority and conventional quality indicators and is especially pronounced for Black authors. Moreover, papers authored by non-White scholars are less likely to serve as citation bridges and are less often cited by highly cited papers as measured by the centrality indexes, limiting both their direct and indirect influence. Our analysis indicates that this disparity is not attributable to differences in research quality, author ability, or visibility. Rather, it is largely driven by homophily in citation patterns and racial clusters in networks, where scholars tend to cite authors from their racial group. These findings can be rationalized by a simple theoretical model where citation costs and peer-review preferences influence citation behavior. Then, we provide suggestive evidence that reducing information friction—thereby lowering the cost of citing—could reduce the racial citation gap by up to 50%. Finally, using natural language processing, we highlight the complementarity across racial groups in research and discuss potential losses from racial barriers to idea diffusion.
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Aalayna Green @aalayna23.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Hot off the press✨ 📣 A coalition of trans- and interdisciplinary #HWC professionals have come together to pose the idea of constellations of coexistence We are advocating for HWC mitigation strategies that are grounded in local and global connected realities
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing. They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays. The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k. www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...
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Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants said they had housing.
Participants in Denver's basic-income program reported having more-secure housing, though results were similar in the trial and control groups.
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Gabriel Rodríguez Lemus, Jr. @grodriguezlemus.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Want to join of a community of Latinx/a/o Scholars broadly throughout academia? Please reply to this post if you want to be added!! Shout out to @larrylafountain.bsky.social for bringing us together! go.bsky.app/NrJs1Hr
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Laura Díaz, MPH @lauramardiaz.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
It was a privilege to talk w/Brian Bienkowski on the @agentsofchangeEJ.bsky.social and @EHNewsroom.bsky.social podcast about growing up in an #EJ community and how that has shaped my research. www.ehn.org/social-and-e...
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