One day I will talk fully about the year that I’ve had. It’s been a difficult time for our little family unit. We recently took a much needed break on beautiful Galiano Island.
Chenoa
@chenoamatthews.bsky.social
🫎Anishininew–settler (she/her) 👩🏻🏫Assistant Professor (public health) 🎨Beader, reader, runner, skier, sometimes biker 🏔️Unceded Coast Salish territory 🐌Embracing slow 🔍Views my own
Ahhhh I love when the arc of coffee research turns back in favour of coffee lovers. ☕️
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health@hsph.harvard.edu · 2w agoMost adults can safely consume up to 400 mg of caffeine each day—the amount found in up to five eight-ounce cups of coffee—and doing so may have cardiovascular benefits, according to a recent American Heart Association statement published in Circulation.
This is a favourite among my non-academic friends, sharing the latest absurd acronym or backronym that crosses my desk
Saloni@scientificdiscovery.dev · 2w agoThese backronyms need to STOP (Seriously this isn'T funny Or apPropriate)
Panic reading The Iliad so I can read The Odyssey so I can see the movie
Kudos to VCHRI researcher Dr. Chenoa Matthews on joining the UBC School of Population & Public Health as a tenure-track assistant professor. She will continue supporting Indigenous health research that translates into meaningful changes: buff.ly/JTAhfHN @chenoamarie.bsky.social
Odessa, by Gabrielle Sher (2026). An emotionally intense horror story steeped in Jewish folklore. Odessa does it all: culturally interesting—I learned a lot; a horror story that doesn’t hold back—jump scares! guts! gore!; and a cruel but beautiful allegory about what gives life meaning. #BookSky
Decluttering my office and found this quote on a sticky note that I wanted to preserve somewhere: “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” I don’t know who to attribute this quote to, but it seems ubiquitous now
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, Omar El Akkad (2025). “Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.” #BookSky
Chenoa@chenoamatthews.bsky.social · 3w agoI am beyond excited to finally share some big news: I am joining @ubcmedicine.bsky.social in the School of Population and Public Health as an Assistant Professor in September!! 📚 #PublicHealth #EpiSky #Academia #BookSky (I will still mostly post about books on here) spph.ubc.ca/spph-welcome...
I am beyond excited to finally share some big news: I am joining @ubcmedicine.bsky.social in the School of Population and Public Health as an Assistant Professor in September!! 📚 #PublicHealth #EpiSky #Academia #BookSky (I will still mostly post about books on here) spph.ubc.ca/spph-welcome...
SPPH Welcomes New Assistant Professor, Dr. Chenoa Matthews - School of Population and Public Health
We are excited to announce that Dr. Chenoa Matthews will be joining the School of Population and Public Health as an Assistant Professor, tenure-track, on September 1, 2026.
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I haven’t been reading much this month as I have been busy with ✨exciting new things I will share soon✨ but I have a fun pile in front of me ready for summer! In lieu of more #TBR pile book reports, enjoy this photo of my dog’s unbridled joy rolling in the grass.
From the #TBR pile: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (1906). A stunning exposé of the squalor and dangerous working conditions of the Chicago meatpacking industry at the turn of the 20th century. Many parallels remain, 120 years later, in today’s industrial worker conditions under late stage capitalism.
Does engaging with the arts help to slow the aging process? According to this new paper from Fancourt et al the answer is yes! Alas, the paper is actually unsuitable for such claims. Let’s examine by discussing how you'd establish whether arts engagement actually caused future health! 1/18 🧵
Does leisure activity matter for epigenetic ageing? Analyses of arts engagement and physical activity in the UK Household Longitudinal Study
AbstractBackground and Objectives. Over the past decade, ageing clocks have become widely adopted as important tools for understanding biological ageing an
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🦠 Most #Hantavirus #infections are linked to exposure to infected #rodent droppings or #urine — not person-to-person spread. #Microbiology #Virology #PublicHealth #Epidemiology via @pbs.org
Medical epidemiologist explains what to know about the cruise ship hantavirus outbreak
A medical epidemiologist explains what you need to know about the hantavirus virus and how the outbreak is playing out.
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#VaccinesWork. Needed: more equitable access. Study: Substantial increases in cervical cancer inequalities worldwide www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... High income countries could eliminate cervical cancer by 2048 LMICs would decrease disease by only 23%.
Substantial increases in cervical cancer inequalities worldwide without enhanced human papillomavirus vaccination and screening efforts: a global modelling study
Worldwide inequalities in cervical cancer have been projected to increase dramatically without enhanced HPV prevention strategies. Reaching WHO vaccination and screening elimination targets or introdu...
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“the data center fight, with farmers and environmentalists and indigenous and working class people side by side, is an opportunity to grow and catalyze working class power. Fighting data centers is where good AI governance begins, not ends.” — @bcmerchant.bsky.social
The data center rebellion is only the beginning
And it's precisely what democratic governance of AI looks like.
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I needed a button, so kokum goes into her closet and comes back with “grandma Matthews’ button bag” and ladies and gents, this is what 120 years of intergenerational button collecting looks like.
Should doctors speak of their concerns about the mental health of a president? While heads of state are entitled to medical confidentiality, their decisions can have life or death consequences, say @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social and @drdavidnicholl.bsky.social
Should doctors speak of their concerns about the mental health of a president?
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Just finished Yesteryear, by Caro Claire Burke (2026–just released this month, in fact; I feel so hip!) A tradwife influencer wakes up one day in the 1800s in the life she romanticizes online, told from her perspective. Creative, original, and a truly relevant social commentary. #booksky
I took awhile to decide how I feel about this book. Flesh by David Szalay (2025), follows István throughout his life in which he seems to be carried along by luck & chance encounters. I left a rare review on Goodreads - I included a screenshot of in case any of you nerds want to read it :) #Booksky
Feminists began raising the alarm about the manosphere decades ago – and we were ignored. We were told we couldn’t take a joke, and that social media isn’t real life. Now the misogyny of early chatrooms and Gamergate has reached mainstream politics www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Feminists began raising the alarm about the manosphere decades ago – and we were ignored | Laurie Penny
We were told we couldn’t take a joke, and that social media isn’t real life. Now the misogyny of early chatrooms and Gamergate has made its way to the White House, says journalist and feminist activis...
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A nice piece about the work we’ve been doing with our colleagues and friends in Nuxalk territory 🫶🏼🌱 this work, in my humble opinion, is a really good example of “slow research” that is intentional, evolving, and moves at the speed of relationships. #relationalfutures bcgreencare.ca/food-as-medi...
Food as Medicine, Culture, and Connection - Green Care
Bella Coola General Hospital and the Nuxalk Nation are reorienting hospital food services around Indigenous knowledge and community priorities ...
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Grandparents remember what diseases like measles are really like—and want the rest of America to know before it’s too late @gparents4vaccines.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/meet-the-h...
Meet the Horrified Grandparents Fighting for Vaccines
They remember what diseases like measles are really like—and want the rest of America to know before it’s too late.
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What a moving piece. The world needs more people like Donovan, and more teams who are ready and able to carry on this work.
T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦@tryangregory.bsky.social · 4mo agoFrom the #TBR pile: Let Me In by John Ajvide Lindqvist (2010). THIS IS THE SCARIEST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ. So deeply unsettling and nightmare inducing (literally- it gave me nightmares). 10/10 recommend if you’re into that sorta thing. Be warned: no taboos seem to be off limits for this author.
after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...
Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content
“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”
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