Climate change, women’s livelihoods, Maternal & Child Health and Nutrition in Bangladesh. Asst Prof UIC. Wife, mom. She/her.

Chicago, IL
Joined December 2011
Katie Starkweather retweeted
.@BarackObama: Trump should be on HGTV. He's building a ballroom, paved over the Rose Garden, put a helicopter pad on the South Lawn, and what's up with the gold? He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory!
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Katie Starkweather retweeted
Ten years ago today. In just the last few days: Trump made a deal for the U.S. to buy Russian diesel, an economic lifeline for Putin; he and Elon Musk blamed each other for an order that slowed down Starlink satellite connectivity over Ukraine, hampering the country's defenses during a devastating Russian attack; and Trump waived sanctions on Russia that Congress, led by his late friend Lindsey Graham, had pushed for. Now, Putin has proposed a summit with Trump and Xi to decide Ukraine’s fate for them, bulldoze a century of international cooperation, and frame Russia as an equal to the U.S. and China. We’ll see if Putin’s puppet continues to dance on his strings.
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Katie Starkweather retweeted
“Schitt’s Creek” star Dan Levy is calling out Shane Gillis' #SNL monologue. "I’m speechless that something like that can exist on live national television. And to be perfectly honest, more men need to be standing up in opposition to it because it’s complacency that has created the environment in which women are sexually assaulted and it’s a ‘conversation’ as opposed to a ‘crime.'" variety.com/2026/tv/news/dan…
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Katie Starkweather retweeted
Normalize apologizing and personal growth in politics!
WELKER: Is it safe to say based on what you're saying that you regret making those comments? EL-SAYED: Yeah. If I step on somebody's grief, of course I regret that. I really wish I would've thought about how somebody would've felt hearing that and thought twice
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Katie Starkweather retweeted
Quite the damning report about Texas Tech firing Tony Graystone.
The full complaint sent to Texas Tech athletic director Kirby Hocutt accusing former volleyball head coach Tony Graystone of physical abuse, medical mistreatment and felony battery, six days before his dismissal. Names and emails are redacted due to FERPA laws.
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There are MANY studies - high-quality, peer-reviewed studies - that show no evidence that vaccines cause autism.
BERNIE SANDERS: Vaccines do not cause autism. Do you agree? RFK Jr: As I said, I'm not going into HHS with any preordained-- SANDERS: I asked you a simple question, Bobby RFK Jr: If you show me those studies ... SANDERS: That is a very troubling response
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Katie Starkweather retweeted
Trump cancelled Black History Month and Juneteenth celebrations proving anti-DEI means anti-Black
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If you weren’t clear: a President ordering a Federal health and disease agency to delete pages on its website is a public health crisis.
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Katie Starkweather retweeted
The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more. I'm trying to save them. You can find the deleted docs at CDCGuidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.
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Katie Starkweather retweeted
This was really powerful
Sen. Maggie Hassan, through tears: "I am the proud mother of a 36 years old young man with severe cerebral palsy. And a day does not go by when I don't think about what I did I do when I was pregnant with him that might've caused the hydrocephalus that has so impacted his life. So please do not suggest that anybody in this body of either political party doesn't want to know what the cause of autism is." Powerful.
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Katie Starkweather retweeted
When covering the potential impacts of a RFK Kr confirmation, pls don’t leave out Indian Health Services (the treaty based federal program that provides millions of Native Americans with healthcare). It’s under HHS.
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Exclusive: NSF this week began to search through billions of dollars of grants the agency has already awarded for anything touching on topics that President Donald Trump has criticized. And NSF has blocked grantees and trainees from accessing funds while the review is underway. scim.ag/3Ej1Skf
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This is an EXCELLENT thread about why DEI work/initiatives/programs actually lead to good science!!
A driving assumption behind the admin's proposed restrictions on grants & aid seems to be that any use of "DEI" signals a political agenda that is antithetical to conducting good research. Let's unpack that. Why would DEI language be used in a grant?
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THIS IS INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS AND INACCURATE.
"We should not be giving Black people the same vaccine schedule that's given to Whites, because their immune system is better than ours." ---RFK Jr. So what vaccine schedule should I have received? His answer was dangerous. I will be voting no.
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LISTEN TO ELIZABETH WARREN
Warren: "He can stand there, smile at you and say, 'anybody can vaccinate their kids who wants to,' but he literally could bankrupt the vaccine manufacturers with the power he will have. And since he's got a financial incentive to do that, we cannot trust him in that job."
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Katie Starkweather retweeted
Warren: "He can stand there, smile at you and say, 'anybody can vaccinate their kids who wants to,' but he literally could bankrupt the vaccine manufacturers with the power he will have. And since he's got a financial incentive to do that, we cannot trust him in that job."
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Katie Starkweather retweeted
“It will be much easier to destroy the world’s greatest scientific ecosystem than it will be to try to rebuild it” Scientists are worried about the long-term effects of the Trump administration’s actions go.nature.com/40NZV8d
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Katie Starkweather retweeted
I don't know what RFK Jr. was thinking, but Senator Maggie Hassan came with the receipts like a boss lady. Watch this. 🔥
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