they are destroying US climate science on purpose, and it hurts my heart. but take it from an MIT-trained nerdass: all most of us need to know is that we have to stop burning stuff stop burning stuff for heat stop burning stuff for make car go stop burning stuff for power we have the tools

Trump administration has already cut 25% of EPA staff, with plans to reach 33% by the end of 2025. This would reduce the agency to staffing levels not seen since the Nixon and Ford administrations. buff.ly/9zeN8p1 ⚒️ 🧪 🌱 🗃️ 🦑

Periodic reminder that public health in Canada, provincially and Federally, was explicitly told about long COVID in 2020. They knew quite a lot. They received frequent high-quality info. And they said nothing to workers or the public.

Canadian COVID Forecast Sep 27 - Oct 10, 2025 CANADA HIGH [increasing] About 1 of every 60 people is infected. Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada: -Infections: 5.8 x higher -Long COVID: 5.7 x higher -Hospitalizations: 9.2 x higher -Deaths: 7.5 x higher

WHN is hosting a Clean Air Panel Discussion on Wednesday, October 8 (10am–12pm EDT | 4pm–6pm CET). Join leading experts Dr. William Bahnfleth, Dr. Jim Rosenthal, Dr. Joe Vipond, and Aaron Collins for an engaging conversation on the importance of clean air, its role in protecting communities, (...)

He could just hang out in his local kindergarten to pass the time. No one GAF about infecting little kids, teachers, or their families.

Efficacy of inhaled nebulised unfractionated heparin to prevent intubation or death in hospitalised patients with COVID-19: an investigator-initiated international meta-trial of randomised clinical studies - eClinicalMedicine www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Just look at the burden of Covid, year long, compared to flu & RSV in NS. The healthcare system acknowledges that the seasonal spikes of flu/RSV are bad for people & the system. What about effectively addressing COVID spread (and the others) w clean air & respies? #nspoli wwater.ca/Nova_Scotia/...

Did ANYONE vote for the federal Liberals last election for them to cut food programs in the far north? Anyone? Bueller?

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The United Nations should relocate #ClimateWeek to Geneva in Switzerland. If you cannot do it for the General Assembly, have the theater here on the Continent.

Yes, given the state of the climate crisis and what I perceived to be Carney's understanding of it, I expected better The climate DGAF about partisan politics. I care about policy, period.

“The entire Okanagan, North Thompson and West Kootenays regions are under air quality warnings.” www.vernonmorningstar.com/local-news/w... - @vernonmorningstar.bsky.social #Barriere #BCWildfire #Castlegar #Clearwater #Kelowna #Penticton #TrailBC #WildfireSmoke #Valemount #VernonBC

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Instead of taxing the rich to feed his Military Industrial Complex, Carney has decided to literally take food out of the mouths of babes.

Yukon-based First Nations education advocacy organization says it ended the rural nutrition program after its Jordan’s Principle funding was cut.

We are a hop, skip, and a jump from "AI says so."

I feel like it would have been both easy and anti-inflammatory to put the word "Incorrectly" after our Glorious Conservative Leader's name in the title, given the data present in the article, but what do I know www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Two recent studies shine a light on the earliest known artistic usages of blue pigment. https://scim.ag/3VDtE0r

Gitxsan hereditary Chief alleges B.C. pipeline approved without proper consultation

"From my reading of the fascist playbook, there is a glaring truth - those who think they can wait on the sidelines as the cages are built will end up in those cages."

"... it is neglect of the highest order to look children in the eyes and say 'we knew how to protect you and we didn't do it.'" Thank you to Violet Affleck for speaking out on behalf of children and young people.

I fear they dont know what fascism is.

"I believe the virus is really the easy part... It is the communications and unnecessary fear that is the hard part." Bonnie Henry, January 26, 2020. OMFG. @mark-ungrin.bsky.social

This is the shit. IRL participatory civil resistance is *the* thing that every anti-Trump leader should be calling for.

National Academies @health.nationalacademies.org Workshop on Personal Protective Equipment for Influenza A (H5N1) in High-Risk Farm Settings happening now at www.nationalacademies.org/event/45411_...

Influenza A virus RNA found in airborne particles from pigs across a range of particle sizes. For reference a 10 micron particle takes ~8 minutes to settle to the ground from a height of 5 feet. That's plenty of time for it to drift around and be inhaled by others.

I'm thrilled to be leading, along with AJ Prussin II, an ARPA-H BREATHE team that will integrate new biosensors, risk assessment software, and engineering controls to bring clean and healthy indoor air to more buildings. arpah.gov/news-and-eve...

This is a really interesting observation that ties in with what a lot of people dealing with #longCOVID (especially kids) are facing, and also the focus on "fixing" the individual in many medical contexts - even when it's often the world they live in that is broken.

WRT the linked thread: NZ schools are reporting a similar pattern. Here's the % of time absent for illness/medical (rolling 4-term/1-year avg), with a baseline of 2019-2022: 4.3%. Out to 2025 Term 2, it is still running at 5.7%, so 33% higher than pre-let-it-rip threadreaderapp.com/thread/19118...

I found out for Ontario that "the Ministry of Health updated the age groups on the I9 bed census data collection forms" so some data in the Ontario Respiratory Virus Tool ( www.publichealthontario.ca/en/Data-and-... ) will be grouped differently starting in September. 🧵1/

Seeing how political and healthcare leadership is so often bullshit; how imagined layers of protection and guardrails and guidance and expertise are utterly not there. The emperor has no clothes and now we are to trust emperor’s autocomplete? Lol no. Never.

Over the past 6 years I have had to learn to trust and rely on my own intelligence and vetting the info appraisal and communication skills of basically anyone I interact with; the government; the healthcare system; etc. I can’t imagine voluntarily giving up that power to AI, especially now.

The review of more than 60 scientific articles showed that microplastics, among other effects, can stimulate the formation of osteoclasts, cells specialized in degrading bone tissue. www.wired.com/story/microp...

Q&A: Understanding the risks of treating women's pain during pregnancy My brilliant friend & colleague Dr. Janine Hutson (MD, PhD) discusses the evidence for treating pregnant people’s pain & the lack of evidence for harm in using acetaminophen when needed

Such a measured, detailed reply from Dr Moriarty. In my observation, Fuhrer has been an ideologically driven, bad-faith actor. Will see what happens. Nothing but respect for Dr Moriarty for her integrity & commitment to rigour & continuous improvement.

Responding to post from @michaelsfuhrer.bsky.social. It might take a few days. @michaelsfuhrer.bsky.social other people post our Forecast on my account for me, and I'm not on social media anymore. If I'd seen these threads earlier I could have helped make your review a bit more accurate.

I'll talk more tomorrow about how we dealt with this problem. But...the main takehome for you is that unless countries doing survey surveillance also did extraordinarily detailed prevalence and testing studies like the UK, then by early 2023 surveys underestimated infections by at least 40%.

I'm also the lead/senior author on the RSC's report on excess mortality in Canada during COVID-19. I am probably the leading national expert on excess mortality in Canada. Excess mortality is why I keep doing this Forecast.

But....related to the ad hominems, I'd like to note that a cursory review of my profile, linked in one of your threads, shows that I was a member of the Royal Society of Canada's COVID-19 Taskforce. I think you're Australian...you'll like know the national importance of Royal Societies.

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my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"

Today I review the second study RFK Jr cited in his autism & Tylenol press conference: acetaminophen in pregnancy from the Nurses' Health Study. You're gonna wanna read this for yourself. open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...

This lethal screwup, specifically - probably the worst medical error in all of history. This is why public health leaders won't talk about the long term impacts of COVID, or how you can prevent it with aerosol-appropriate PPE (respirators like N95s). To protect you, they have to admit a mistake.

Now imagine the sheer magnitude of the conflict of interest held by the people who are supposed to be warning us about this - who also killed an enormous number of people by insisting COVID wasn't airborne, and then tried to minimize *that* lethal screwup by insisting COVID was no longer a big deal.

Buckinghamshire Disability Trust published this page on Covid & cancer. Why isn't public health sharing this? Why don't we have respirators in oncology? buds.org.uk/covid-and-ca...

Really interesting thread Illuminating the long history of anti-vax movement. What finally worked? Government saying "Enough is enough. Your arguments are ridiculous & dangerous. Get vaccinated or we will fine you."

Violet Affleck made headlines this week with a powerful speech at the UN. In it, she discussed the importance of masking in limiting Covid transmission Her speech also gave us insights into how the right-wing/Murdoch media engages with science in the age of Covid Some thoughts

'COVID hospitalisations spike. @ukhsa.bsky.social urging people to book vaccinations'. Meanwhile independent modelling teams demonstrate that maintaining universal COVID vaccine policy yields consistent population benefits, reducing hospitalizations & deaths. www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/health/...

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1