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Louisa Holmes @docholmes.bsky.social · 6d

The Billionaire Oligarchs and Corporations Profiting from ICE’s Deportation Machine
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Network diagram showing the many corporations and CEOs directly profiting from ICE's deportation campaign

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 9d

Newsletter: This is The Case Against Generative AI, a comprehensive analysis of a financial collapse built on myths I’ll dispel, the markets’ unhealthy obsession with NVIDIA's growth, and the fact that there is not enough money in the world to fund OpenAI.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

The Case Against Generative AI

Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 wo...

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Louisa Holmes @docholmes.bsky.social · 28d

New pub with my fabulous colleagues! #geosky #academicsky 🛟

Emily Rosenman @emilyrosenman.bsky.social · 28d

New financial visualization with Ruth Buck and @docholmes.bsky.social: Financial structures and family ties: disentangling Purdue Pharma’s corporate ownership structure and the Sackler family wealth www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Financial structures and family ties: disentangling Purdue Pharma’s corporate ownership structure and the Sackler family wealth

US pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma’s aggressive marketing of its opioid medication, OxyContin, played a significant role in creating the ongoing US opioid epidemic. Using information recently ...

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Louisa Holmes @docholmes.bsky.social · Sep 3

Penn State Geography invites prospective grad students to an upcoming online info session about our graduate degree programs on Thursday, October 23rd from 12:00pm-1:00pm EDT. Register to participate: tinyurl.com/psugeoinfo.
#academicsky #geosky 🛟 #gradschool #gis #research #urban #pennstate #aag

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Louisa Holmes @docholmes.bsky.social · Jul 29

Soliciting paper submissions for a special issue in Spatial Demography (Springer Nature) on #climate and #health! More info here: link.springer.com/collections/....
🛟📈📉🧪 #geosky #AcademicSky #gis #spatial #population #popsky #demography #healthequity #climatechange #sustainability #weather #medsky

Access research journals, articles, books and more | SpringerLink

Providing access to millions of research articles and chapters from Science, Technology and Medicine, and Humanities and Social Sciences

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Louisa Holmes @docholmes.bsky.social · May 14

New pub with my amazing colleague and the grad students in my most recent seminar on the corporate drug trade.
#geosky #academicsky 🛟
@ssripennstate.bsky.social @pop.psu.edu @pennstategeography.bsky.social

Emily Rosenman @emilyrosenman.bsky.social · May 14

First Bluesky post, sharing some work in a new direction (health plus econ geog!) with my amazing colleague @docholmes.bsky.social and many @pennstategeography.bsky.social grad students. Pre-proofs here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

From Dealer to Doctor: A Case Study Examining How Purdue Pharma Sought to Leverage Racial Health Disparities to Attenuate Flagging OxyContin Sales

The objective of this study is to demonstrate ways in which Purdue Pharma and their primary consultant, McKinsey & Company, sought to leverage existin…

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Louisa Holmes @docholmes.bsky.social · Mar 3

The TSET Health Promotion Research Center (HPRC) at Oklahoma University Health Sci Center is seeking applications for a postdoctoral research fellowship in cancer health equity! Application review begins in March.
🛟 🩺📊 #medsky #academicsky
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Health Promotion Research Center (HPRC) > Home

The TSET Health Promotion Research Center offers free help to quit tobacco.

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Louisa Holmes @docholmes.bsky.social · Feb 12

Penn State Geography GENIUS workshop - May 2025! 3-day workshop for undergrads who identify as racially underrepresented to be mentored in applying to grad school. App DEADLINE: Feb 15! More info: www.geog.psu.edu/geniusworkshop
#geosky #geography #sociology 📉 #demography #academicsky #gradschool 🛟🧪

Geography Education Networking Initiative for Underrepresented Scholars | Penn State Department of Geography

The Geography Education Networking Initiative for Underrepresented Scholars (GENIUS) is a three-day workshop for rising third- and fourth-year students who identify as part of a racially underrepresen...

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Louisa Holmes @docholmes.bsky.social · Sep 26

Penn State Geography (www.geog.psu.edu) invites those interested in applying to our grad programs to an upcoming info session! Register at tinyurl.com/psugeoginfo
#geosky #urbanism #sustainability #climate #demography #academia #environment #gis #publichealth 🛟 #FeministSky

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Louisa Holmes @docholmes.bsky.social · Jun 24

New paper out - Digital geographies of care...https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S1353-8292(24)00124-2
🛟 🩺📊 #geosky #academicsky

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Louisa Holmes @docholmes.bsky.social · May 4

#tenured 😌🙏🏻

🛟 #geosky #academicsky #demography

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Louisa Holmes @docholmes.bsky.social · Mar 18

New pub, led by our recent PhD grad, Lucas Elliott
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🛟🩺📊 #urban #transport

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