I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind: www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

Alice was a mentor, a friend and one of the people who I credit with helping me find my voice. She gave me the strength to embrace my disabilities and use my skills as a writer to help others. My life is forever changed because of her. I will have more to say once I’ve processed 💔

Folks - check out this new review, led by the amazing @ericamhartmann.bsky.social: Ten questions concerning indoor dust.

Wonderful discussions Lived experiences #ThreeAgesOfChild #HealthCREATION @drguddisingh.bsky.social @michaelmarmot.bsky.social 🌐 Built environment professions can be involved too in this conversation What role can they play in shaping kids lives? #HealthySchool #HealthyHomes #GreeningCities

Thank you to my co-chairs @josephestiglitz.bsky.social and the former First Lady of Namibia Monica Geingos, as well as UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima, for the last two years on the Global Council on Inequality, AIDS and Pandemics.

🎙️ It’s here! Three Ages of Child airs today on @BBCRadio4. Real voices. Real stories. What health really means in the UK today. Listen & join the conversation. 💛 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #ThreeAgesOfChild #BBCSounds #HealthEquity

Still time to sign up for our free webinar for World Ventilate Day 2025. We’ll be introducing new research networks and discussing how to deliver better ventilation and IAQ for everyone. 7th Nov 12-1pm, sign up at www.eventbrite.com/e/world-vent...

May still have time to sign up for the free webinar for World Ventilate Day 2025. Introducing new research networks and discussing how to deliver better ventilation and IAQ for everyone. 7th Nov 12-1pm, sign up: @cathnoakes.bsky.social @nisreenalwan.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/world-vent...

“Sudan's Death Toll Could Exceed Gaza’s. Here’s Everything You Need to Know” Important convo on the genocide there from me/Zeteo, with 2 Sudan experts who offer actual solutions to stop the fighting & put pressure on outside actors like the UAE & Saudi:

Really great results in this early phase 1 trial of a nasal vaccine (mucosal vaccine) for avian flu- great to see evidence of strong immune memory and robust antibody response

Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.

15 years ago, I said every social media founder should be forced to use and live with the default settings of their platforms. Now I would say that the AI founders should have their tools pointed at their families for a year before they can deploy them elsewhere.

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

Image 1: @sickandtiredaus.bsky.social at @saferairproject.bsky.social conference. Image 2: Parliament House CO2 reading on AirSpot CO2 Map. Image 3: CO2 reading at The Shine Dome, Canberra, Making the Invisible, Visible Campaign. Image 4: Safer Air Project Conference

1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose. Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵

"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another." 🗣️📢 www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

Share far and wide! 🇦🇺 Australia is looking into future-proofing their air. 💨 Why aren't others?

🇦🇺 Academy of Science #IndoorAir #IAQ The science of indoor air & Pathways to improve Indoor Air Quality In Australia November 2025 Report www.science.org.au/supporting-s...

NEW: Children faced more risk of rare heart problems after Covid-19 infection than they did after taking the Pfizer/BioNTech mRNA vaccine, a big three-year study of under-18s in England has found. Important evidence for debates over vaccine safety, particularly in the US. www.ft.com/content/231d...

You can't see DLD. #DevLangDis radld.org

👋 University of OXFORD #AIpollution bsky.app/profile/iris...

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

This man is clearly deranged

A new study concludes that the construction industry alone will blow through the carbon budget ceilings even if every other source of emissions were reduced to zero. " If current trends continue, the sector can exceed the 2°C per annum carbon budget earliest by 2040.”

'COVID-19 still causing a lot of serious illness. This study showed that 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccines were effective, especially against severe outcomes, although their effectiveness waned over time. Thus, it is beneficial to have an annual COVID-19 vaccination.' www.news-medical.net/news/2025102...

Air pollution linked to increased risk of breast cancer A long-term U.S. study suggests that women living in areas with higher air pollution, particularly places with heavy traffic emissions, face an increased risk of developing breast cancer. airqualitynews.com/health/air-p...

Hey nerds! I’m in Mt Kisco today giving a talk on the public health and climate harms of natural gas and got a tour inside the guts of the village’s public, fast, EV charging system which includes an array of batteries to store rooftop solar collected from the top of the courthouse and cop shop. 1/3

Farage: epic grifter

This is real: www.quora.com/Why-do-Brits...

This @royalsociety.org report has not received nearly the attention it deserves. Key finding: "most current approaches to economic assessments of impacts of #climate change do not reflect the severity of consequences that are suggested by the latest physical climate science & evidence on impacts" 😬

I thought this was metaphorical hyperbole but, alas, no. The Department of Energy is selling off more than 40,000 pounds of weapons-grade plutonium from the Cold War arsenal to nuclear reactor startups. All of which I’m sure will be thoroughly vetted and monitored by…their former board member.

NHS COVID-19 vaccine policy: 🤦'If eligible, COVID-19 vaccination will give you protection from serious COVID illness over winter'. ✅ 75 and over ✅ Immunosuppressed ❌ Everyone else - even if your doctor recommends it. 🤷That’s not public health. 🤦That’s exclusion. 💉 ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2025/06/26/w...

It’s the FINAL week of #SafeAir4All 💨 You can still help us fight for clean, safe air in healthcare. Every story, every CO₂ reading, every voice counts 💙 👉 shh-uk.org/making-th...#SafeAir4All #SafeAir4All #SHHUK #CleanAir #HealthcareSafety #PublicHealth #longcovid

🧵 New research highlights the urgent need to understand post-exertional malaise (PEM) in #LongCovid. 🔗 Research summary: shh-uk.org/?p=34794 🔗 Full study: nature.com/articles/...#LongCovid #LongCovidResearch #PEM #MECFS

The Department for Education chose legally enforced in-person attendance over mass fatalities ...during a pandemic! The consequences were all too real for those in high-risk families. vm.tiktok.com/ZNdcyfcd3/

"Clean air is just as important as healthy school lunches and safe playground equipment." "Clean air needs an evangelist... Chair, we ask you to be that evangelist!" "This could end up being the most important thing the inquiry recommends for public health." 7/

Could a “smoke alarm” for airborne contaminants monitor and improve the quality of the air indoors? (Where Americans spend 90 percent of their time!) An interdisciplinary research team led by @linseymarr.bsky.social will create such a system that could cut respiratory illnesses by 25 percent. 👏

💨💨💨💨 BRAVE research project Bioaerosol Risk Assessment interVention Engineering 'has a goal of reducing respiratory illnesses, such as cold, flu, and asthma symptoms, by 25 percent with its own innovative clean-air version of a fire suppression system. '

Healthy indoor air is a proven prescription for public health that can help fortify our buildings and enhance people’s health, protecting against respiratory diseases and illnesses, cardiovascular disease and cognitive decline. resources.wellcertified.com/press-releas...

Trump is destroying a core piece of US #WomensHistory. Of course 19thnews.org/2025/10/east...

📰 Unlocked article if needed: archive.is/EvNvP ✍🏼 Sign AI open letter here: openletter.earth/open-letter-... 🤔 Resources on my perspective here: olivia.science/ai 📚 Read position piece below: bsky.app/profile/oliv...

> Among the signatories is Luc Steels, "the father of AI in Belgium." And he's not the only Belgian scientist supporting the resistance to "so-called 'AI' technologies." Apache spoke with Steels and co. "Universities encouraging students to use ChatGPT? I'm stunned" apache.be/2025/10/23/a...

I am close to tears; they listened and made an english version apache.be/2025/10/24/b... @apache.be you rule 🖤

cannot believe on some level I & my colleagues have turned the tide on this, but also it was in some senses inevitable as why not! Humans can do anything; we still have a way to go however of course, but: banning AI in the classroom should be as uncontroversial as banning calculators in early maths

I want every child in London to breathe clean air in their school. St Mary’s Primary in Battersea is one of more than 200 schools receiving an air quality filter as part of my new initiative. Brilliant to see first-hand how they’re helping to protect young Londoners' health.

CVF💙💜💗's Closing Statement ⚠️SAFETY - Schools must be made safe. 👩‍🏫SUPPORT - Children must be given appropriate support to continue their education at home. 🛡️STATUS - Clinical Vulnerability must be recognised as a distinct group in the Equality Act. 1/ @adamwagner1.bsky.social KC

⚠️SAFETY "There is good evidence that many schools can be made safer for Clinically Vulnerable children and those in Clinically Vulnerable families. In fact, for all children." Ventilation is uncontroversial! 2/

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"How can we make schools safer?" Prof @cathnoakes.bsky.social said "Better ventilated environments provide a heathier environment for children and adults. They help you mitigate against disease [and] other respiratory conditions... They create better quality learning environments." 3/