Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA

@arrianna-planey.bsky.social

23K followers 1.2K following 6.6K posts

Medical Geographer & Health Services Researcher \ Wife & Mother \ Avid Reader, Foodie, & Gardener \ Cal, UChicago, & UIUC alumna \ Personal account

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · Mar 29

Methodological individualism is antithetical to public health practice. The 'public' is not a mere sum of 'individuals.'

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · Mar 28

CDC ordered staff this week not to release their experts’ assessment that found the risk of catching measles is high in areas near outbreaks where vaccination rates are lagging.

“The decision to vaccinate is a personal one,” a spokesperson said, echoing a line from a recent editorial RFK Jr. wrote

Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · Mar 28

SCOOP: The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations @sheinvestigates.bsky.social

1 59 250

Reposted by Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA

Katiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 8h

Not surprisingly, "work requirements" poll well with lawmakers and the public because there's a naïve assumption that the system is fair. There is also a lack of awareness -- and concern -- about the vulnerable people who slip through the bureaucratic cracks.

Opinion | Medicaid Work Requirements Will Devastate People With Invisible Disabilities

ME/CFS and long COVID patients must qualify as 'medically frail'

link.broadcaster3.medpagetoday.com

2 10 20

Reposted by Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA

Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 8h

Discussing this phenomenon w/ a group of profs. Someone morbidly joked, “& northern profs are fleeing the country.” The next person said…”even if we were all willing & able to abandon this place there are not enough jobs for us globally and the U.S. employs a huge # of international scholars too.”

‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors consider leaving US south

Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics

www.theguardian.com

13 110 400

Reposted by Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA

Spooky action at a distance @mkranz.bsky.social · 8h

“At first glance, Skrmetti and Chiles seem logically inconsistent: Medical uncertainty confers authority here, yet restricts it there. There is, though, an internal consistency: For the Supreme Court, right-wing reactionaries should always win.” There it is, courtesy of @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 11h

SCOTUS signaled at its hearings today it may strike down Colorado's ban on conversion therapy

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/chile...

The Conservative Justices Don't Trust Any Science That Supports LGBTQ Kids

States that want to facilitate discrimination against LGBTQ people have the Court's blessing. States that want to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination do not.

ballsandstrikes.org

3 75 240

Reposted by Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 8h

And the fact that ‘AI’ is envisioned by technofascists as accelerating a eugenicist agenda against the most vulnerable in the world

Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 11h

The eugenics element to ai discourse is the idea that poor people can be replaced by machines; not criticisms of ai.

Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 13h

A someone who has written extensively about the eugenic roots that permeates those who claim to be building so-called artificial general intelligence, I'm here to tell you to please NOT compare criticism against corporations claiming to build a machine god, with eugenics. The audacity.

17 61

Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 8h

"Systems that adjust to increasing lifespans in general with penalties for early withdrawal but fail to reflect subpopulations’ longevity differences are not “actuarialy fair” (Sanchez-Romero et al. 2020) and can function to redistribute wealth from nonwhite to white populations..."

Three Ways of Looking at Black–White Mortality Differences in the United States

Everyone agrees that US Black deaths happen earlier than white deaths on average, but it is surprisingly challenging to find the best ways to summarize, quantify, and compare this gap. This review arg...

www.annualreviews.org

4 8

Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 8h

"On the other hand, precisely because one million additional votes would create a changed electorate, the voting patterns of that electorate cannot be easily estimated from the voting patterns of the electorate in which Black lifespans are cut short." www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Three Ways of Looking at Black–White Mortality Differences in the United States

www.annualreviews.org

1 12 27

Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 9h

"The most recent data show that NPs comprise 47% of all US primary care clinicians and, together with physician assistants/associates (PAs) and certified nurse midwives (CNMs), comprise 52% of primary care clinicians working in community health centers." www.milbank.org/publications...

Investing in Primary Care: The Nurse Practitioner Will See You Now | Milbank Memorial Fund

Decades of research confirms the safety, quality, and effectiveness of care provided by NPs, including care for complex patients, and their acceptance and approval by patients. Yet challenges remain i...

www.milbank.org

4 10

Reposted by Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA

Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 9h

American exceptionalism, Onion edition.

1 21 71

Reposted by Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

110 540 1.6K

Reposted by Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 9h

As the government shutdown continues for a seventh day, many of the nation’s busiest airports are reporting ground delays or temporary closures as many federal employees are furloughed or working without pay.
trib.al/oa7qaug

O'Hare flights delayed as government shutdown hits staffing

As the government shutdown continues for a seventh day, many of the nation's busiest airports are reporting ground delays or temporary closures as many federal employees are furloughed or working without pay.

trib.al

4 27 46

Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 9h

Quote from Adrianna Torres-García, deputy director of Free Migration Project: “Hospitals are taking this opportunity—this anti-immigrant climate—to become a little more bold about not wanting to work with immigrants who don’t have health insurance.” www.typeinvestigations.org/investigatio...

When Hospitals Act Like ICE - Type Investigations

www.typeinvestigations.org

5 12

Reposted by Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 23h

quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods

Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.

14 76 380

Reposted by Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA

ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 1d

And join us for the virtual launch on October 30th at 6:30pm with luminaries Patricia A. Matthew, Debapriya Sarkar, Kyla Wazana Tompkins, and Jennifer Morgan!!! bcrw.barnard.edu/event/the-sw...

The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery, and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean | Barnard Center for Research on Women

Kim Hall in conversation with Patricia A. Matthew, Debapriya Sarkar, Kyla Wazana Tompkins, and Jennifer Morgan; moderated by Tapiwa Gambura

bcrw.barnard.edu

8 13

Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 9h

"In their rush to send patients on their way, hospitals have been known to pressure undocumented patients and their families to consent to transfers back to their home countries. Lawyers and immigrant rights advocates call this practice “medical deportation.”"

When Hospitals Act Like ICE - Type Investigations

www.typeinvestigations.org

1 3 8

Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 9h

"As Soledad hovered near death, she had entered a hidden medical netherworld, one where the failures of our healthcare system meet the cruelties of our immigration system." www.typeinvestigations.org/investigatio...

When Hospitals Act Like ICE - Type Investigations

www.typeinvestigations.org

1 42 82

Reposted by Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA

Bernard E. Harcourt @bernardharcourt.bsky.social · 12h

Beccaria was way ahead of us, back in 1764, when he worried about the brutalizing effects of state violence: How it could transform our ways of thinking and feeling. He was only 25 years old at the time—a Gen Z by our standards today. I just posted an essay here: open.substack.com/pub/bernardh...

3 11

Reposted by Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 13h

I grew up going to Zabar's. So many of my childhood memories center around the best lox in NYC (which is saying something). With Saul Zabar's passing today, the Upper West Side has lost a legend who turned his parent's humble store into a culinary institution.

Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97

www.nytimes.com

130 980 7.5K

Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 12h

Thanks for the update!

Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 12h

😂 this is so very Southern

Joe Vilas @jhv.bsky.social · 12h

A food stall at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park used to sell a hot dog with pork BBQ on top — the "Carolina Q Dog." They wanted a good hot dog, & chose Hebrew National. When Hebrew National found out, they stopped selling to the vendor, so the vendor had to pick another hot dog.

1 10

Reposted by Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA

Use Alt Text not A.I. @carebear2717.bsky.social · 13h

It's the new highways through Black neighborhoods: Data centers

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13h

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush?

Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

wordinblack.com

4 140 240

Reposted by Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA

Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 1d

A sign of the times we live in

India considers introducing nationwide climate-linked insurance scheme

#ClimateCrisis is real

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Exclusive: India considers introducing nationwide climate-linked insurance scheme

India's government has begun early-stage talks with local insurers about designing a nationwide climate-linked insurance programme aimed at simplifying the payout process after extreme weather events such as heatwaves and floods.

www.reuters.com

6 14

Reposted by Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA

Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 13h

Amen.

Shannon Stirone @shannonstirone.bsky.social · 16h

Here’s the thing I wish everyone could hold in their minds about writers—we love em dashes. We use em dashes. We are humans and not AI. We will not be deleting our em dashes just because AI uses them too. We were here first. You can pry my em dashes from my cold dead hands. F*ck AI.

3 3 52

Reposted by Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA

Genie Lauren @moreandagain.social · 13h

Welp.
Nowhere to run

4 2

Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 13h

"Now, almost 80 projects have been saved by a matchmaking service run by Rosenbaum & other former USAID staff, that has found them $110m (£82m) of new funding. The team behind the Project Resource Optimization(Pro) initiative estimates it will benefit 40 million people, including many children <5."

‘We called ourselves the lifeboat crew’: how fired USAID workers launched a rescue project ‘to save as many babies as we can’

After the Trump administration closed the organisation down, a group of former staff secured new funding for almost 80 programmes, benefiting an estimated 40 million people

www.theguardian.com

1 14 26

Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 14h

"As of late January, insurers were already seeking “large premium increases of between 30-50%,” according to Knowledge at Wharton, a journal published by the University of Pennsylvania. Estimates of the insured losses have ranged from $20 to $44.5 billion..."

Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 16h

I co-reported a second feature on what the devastating fires in Los Angeles taught the art insurance industry: www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

What the Los Angeles Wildfires Taught the Art Insurance Industry

After the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles in January 2025, art insurance experts discuss what has and hasn't changed in the industry.

www.artnews.com

4 10