Long-term Exposure to #Ambient PM2.5 and #KidneyFunction in Urban #Indian Adults #VisualAbstract by Carlo Trinidad https://www.kireports.org/article/S2468-0249(26)02925-6/fulltext
Catherine Clase
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Professor of medicine, kidney doc, epidemiologist, editor, mask researcher and advocate (airborne) @docshumanity.bsky.social Opinions my own https://www.doctorshumanity.org/petition https://maskevidence.org
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Living Donor Kidney Transplantation in California: 2010-2024 bit.ly/3QL7Uk6 (OPEN ACCESS)
A sadde thinge that we have to worke arounde alwayes ys that the quiet, steadye, patient labor and kyndenesse required to holde up the worlde and keepe us all goinge ys nevir a newes item. Unshowye, ordinarye, hard-won skill at the job you must do for othirs to get on. The greatest honor ys there.
Heat pumps are helping more Americans cool & heat their homes efficiently — in the first quarter of this year alone, sales beat fossil fuel furnaces by 32%. Read more via @grist.org ⬇️ grist.org/energy/the-u...
The US may be hitting a tipping point for heat pumps
In the first quarter of this year, heat pump sales beat fossil fuel furnaces by 32 percent. Here's what makes the appliance so powerful.
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As we recall the trauma caused by COVID in 2020, we should not forget COVID continues to harm. Many still suffer from Long COVID, people who mask are often harassed, and we haven’t scaled clean air infrastructure. If we truly acknowledge past harms, we should be working to create a better future.
The research I do relies on the bound volumes of the bylaws and minutes of the City of Ottawa, dating back over a century. I’ve spent hours in the Main Branch Ottawa Room with these books (pictured). Sadly, this resource was recently “discarded” by the library. It’s a loss for local history.
With "surveillance pricing," businesses have finally found something AI can do way, way, *way* better than people: price gouging. 1/
The UK has had rolling heatwaves. Nearly 3,000 are estimated to have been killed by them - so far. Half of England is in drought. Much of the south has had no significant rainfall for 33 days. And there's no sense of how serious this is - at all!! - from those in power?!
“According to the finance ministry’s calculations, the cost to society of trips by car is close to one euro/km. On the other hand, every km travelled by bike yields societal gains of 60 euro cents thanks to the health benefits of cycling, transport efficiency gains, & lower infrastructure spending.”
Copenhagen Cycling Revolution: Lessons for Cities
Close to two-thirds of the city’s residents commute by bike to school or work every day.
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sciencebasedmedicine.org/116333-2/ This👇
The Covid Amnesia Project and the Plot to Erase 2020
It’s up to those of us who experienced the pandemic in the real-world to make sure that what actually happened in 2020 isn’t deliberately erased by sheltered disinformation agents who experienced
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futurism.com/artificial-i... Excuse me while I go cry
AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain
AI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.
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I'm not qualified to judge whether such people are psychopaths. All I can say is that they behave as if they are. From today's Telegraph.
The Costly Cruelty of the Kansas Anti-Trans Driver’s License Law newrepublic.com/arti... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
The Costly Cruelty of the Kansas Anti-Trans Driver’s License Law
A state legislature mired in animus against transgender Kansans has succeeded in its inhumane goals, leaving those affected in a state of confusion and anxiety.
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This story ran 14 months after the pandemic hit NYC www.cnn.com/2021/05/07/u...
Bodies of Covid-19 victims are still stored in refrigerated trucks in NYC | CNN
The bodies of New York City coronavirus victims are still being stored in refrigerated trailers converted into makeshift morgues during the height of the pandemic one year ago, according to the medica...
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They asked for non-healthcare volunteers to help with visitor screening and my job became making families choose who would see their relative on their last day of life, and I usually don’t mention that anymore because I expect people to be dismissive about the circumstances in Spring 2020.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · last wk.Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...
They never measured the air. The filters were run at settings chosen for noise and comfort in communal rooms (low flow). They didn't even calculate room volumes — and no tracer, particle, or bioaerosol data confirms the intervention lowered airborne pathogen concentrations anywhere. 1/
Donna Blackmond@donnablack.bsky.social · last wk.Curious to hear what you think of this Kim @kprather.bsky.social ?
I reminded someone of this the other day, someone who was *living in New York at the time* and He couldn’t remember it The refrigerator trucks outside the hospitals The rationing of ventilators The mass graves All gone
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · last wk.Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...
Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...
‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)
The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.
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Righte now the greatest danger to the future of universityes ys universityes. Remembir the missioun, remembir the studentes, remembir those who have come bifor and will arryve aftir, remembir teachinge and learninge and dialogue. A universitye ys much more than a corporation wearinge a mortarboard.
It’s nice to see everyone’s textual analysis of The Odyssey It’s almost like the humanities give you entertainment, feelings, pleasure, and fun/interesting stuff to talk about, as well as lenses into both past and current society
Thys doth deserve to be reposted and sharid widelye!
Jennifer Kretchmer@dreamwisp.bsky.social · last wk.While we are in this Greek Mythology moment, may I remind you that Emma Thompson is adapting Pat Barker’s take on The Iliad, and she’s struggled to get it made bc the focus on what acts of war against women and survival thereafter actually look like (the core of Barker’s narrative) is too intense.
Yn a worlde where the humanityes are being systematicallye defunded by both the righte and the lefte, the internet ys one big seminar about the meaninge of *The Odyssey.* Ther ys a lesson yn thys somewher. And the lesson ys: funde the humanityes.
Thys doth sounde lyke a joke, but it ys a reallye pointed observacioun about what partes of the ancient poeme are ignored: "There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible." -Emily Wilson, 2026, about *The Odyssey* film
The Thermo Fisher western blot story www.chemistryworld.com/news/thermo-... This looks very bad.
Thermo Fisher antibody data manipulation is a breach of trust, say researchers
Science sleuths say the problem is impacting research progress and Thermo's response falls short
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I'm absolutely devastated for colleagues at Jodrell Bank who found out this morning that funding for the UK's e-MERLIN radio telescope array will be terminated. This is a short-sighted move, to save a tiny fraction of the overall UK science budget. #SaveJodrellBank 🔭🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands
Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 3w ago“What will the Lovell Telescope discover/enable 20 yrs from now? I can’t tell you, and that’s the point. It will either be something extraordinary that none of us can yet predict, or we will defund it and leave Cheshire with a rusting monument to unfulfilled potential and discoveries never made.” 🔭🧪
During the Great Depression, Douglass Crockwell made several paintings for the Works Progress Administration including this work from 1932, which celebrates the industrial workers at the newspaper plant in the town of Glens Falls, New York.
Paris has been praised in recent years for their visionary, progressive city-building, but they don’t get nearly enough credit for just being really pragmatic! Everything they’ve been doing is common sense. They’re moving a lot more people with less space while cleaning the air & cooling the city.
