This isn't good, folks.
I'm not worried about H5N1 transmission to humans (yet) but the Dept. of Agriculture pathetic lack of transparency, how long it took for the genomes to be released, lack of testing asymptomatic cattle......
All detracts from 'confidence'

We've been wondering how well the current XBB.1.5 booster shots hold up vs JN.1 and its FLiRT variant descendants like KP.3. The answer: not well.

Oh My God 🧡💙

THIS TEAM!!!! #NoQuitInNY 😭🔵🟠

The fact that people are more willing to wear a mask in zoos to protect animals, but not in hospitals to protect patients shows how badly governments and public health departments are failing.

As many as 1.2 billion people could be displaced globally by 2050 due to climate change and natural disasters. “Each of these statistics is a man, woman, or child whose life has been destroyed, who has lost home, family, and friends.'

Me for Vox: vox.com/climate/241330…

I don't want to be 'at the top.' I want a job that gives me health insurance and a livable income, and that doesn't take away my quality of life with hours-long commutes that completely drain me as a chronically ill person.

Can we retire the “if you only said this, people would act on climate” genre?

First, lots of people *are* acting.

Second, different audiences are motivated by different messages at different moments.

Searching for magic words is often a distraction from doing the work.

Speaking out while working for a #university ?

Some tips to protect your career— cuz neither tenure nor the union will be enough.

(1) Put a copy of every file & email you care about your *own* computer or cloud. Do not leave anything valuable solely on university computing.

One of our favorite chants at Occupy Wall Street with a General Strike was:

'Occupy will never die,
Evict us, we multiply!'

Good succinct summary of the microplastic mess. Recent evidence of presence in arteries, clots, and GI tract and correlation with adverse health outcomes
nature.com/articles/s4159… Nature Medicine

Reminder: One of the best ways of preventing the next pandemic is to stop being in denial about the one that is ongoing.

'I don't have to choose between my values and my desire for connection.” Clean Air Club still cares about COVID—and wants safer concerts. Learn how their Chicago-based organizing work helped create a global wave of clean air initiatives for artists. tnvge.co/dbLwGYk

Yesterday, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health changed policies to prevent students from handing out fliers 'about political campaigns or world events.' Clearly in response to fliers asking Harvard to divest. Ironically, the school's slogan is 'powerful ideas for a healthier world'

What has gone wrong is that the UK is in active denial that COVID is not over, and is causing long-term mass sickness.

British doctors to be stripped of their power to sign people off sick from work. This is what happens when class/political interests, from the left to the right, quietly collude to end a pandemic without the virus that caused the pandemic actually going away