Lygia Navarro (she/ella) ♿️ + 🏳️🌈 💜 🏳️⚧️
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indie journalist Signal: Lygia.65 (editor, producer, en ES & EN) cover: Latine, LGBTQ+, health stories +more #DisabilityJustice. disabled. queer. #LongCovid + #ME. lygianavarro.com contributing writer @discojourno.bsky.social & @thesicktimes.bsky.social
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CIDRAP@cidrap.bsky.social · 11mo agoAre you a driven science journalist with a passion for infectious diseases? Join the CIDRAP News team and a great work environment. We are hiring a general-assignment writer/editor and an investigative reporter. Apply today hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/... hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/...
Tell Instar, the private equity company that owns Windmill mushrooms, to recognize the union their workers elected. Sign the petition today and boycott the hell out of Windmill mushrooms! act.seiu.org/a/windmill_i... #BoycottWindmillMushrooms
This amazingly brave LGBTQ+ refugee and her baby arrived in Canada today, and will need lots of financial help to get trauma treatment and settled in. Please donate!!!
Lygia Navarro (she/ella) ♿️ + 🏳️🌈 💜 🏳️⚧️@lygianavarro.com · 12mo agoFriends are helping/sponsoring a trauma-survivor queer Cameroonian refugee moving to Montreal shortly with her child. She has really been through torture fleeing through numerous countries to reach Canada. PLEASE donate if you can.
Lygia Navarro (she/ella) ♿️ + 🏳️🌈 💜 🏳️⚧️@lygianavarro.com · last yr.PLEASE SHARE! I'm reporting on #H5N1 #BirdFlu (#AvianInfluenza #HPAI) for @thesicktimes.bsky.social, & want to talk to farmworkers or people who work with them re impacts of H5N1 on farmworkers. I'm especially interested in hearing re human cases since Feb 2025. Sources can be anonymous! (1/4)
This piece is our first in a series on the impacts of H5N1 on humans — especially Latine farmworkers. If you have professional expertise or hands-on knowledge about any aspect of H5N1 to share with our reporter, please email her at [info at lygianavarro dot com].
The flurry of 70 human infections over the course of 11 months, followed by an abrupt halt, makes scientists wonder how many people may have had H5N1 since February without the public being informed. Read more from @lygianavarro.com: bit.ly/45NqwF8
Friends are helping/sponsoring a trauma-survivor queer Cameroonian refugee moving to Montreal shortly with her child. She has really been through torture fleeing through numerous countries to reach Canada. PLEASE donate if you can.
Donate to Help an LGBTQ Refugee and Her Son Get Started in Canada!, organized by Anne Raeff
Help an LGBTQ refugee and her son get started in Canada! We… Anne Raeff needs your support for Help an LGBTQ Refugee and Her Son Get Started in Canada!
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THURSDAY: Whether you're a current freelancer, considering adding or transitioning to freelancing work, or have an interest in hiring and working w/freelancers, come say hello at the member social hosted by volunteers Jennifer Huber + Ellen Kuwana. Join the August 7 Event: www.nasw.org/events/...
Networking social: Freelancer meetup
Virtual networking social: Freelancer meetup Presented by the NASW Freelance Committee Date: Thursday, August 7 Start time: 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific Event access link: https://www.nasw.org/virtual-events-auditorium (NASW member login required)
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These CA tomato pickers make 86¢ per bucket. The worker runs back to try and make as many buckets as they can. Because of the hot weather they often only work 4 to 5 hours a day, so every bucket counts towards paying their bills. #WeFeedYou
Anyone in So Cal know a solar panel vendor you liked?
This is some of the most exciting observational research into post-viral illness. At the end, @virusesimmunity.bsky.social says that positive results would lead them to try to pursue trials with immunotherapies like FcRn inhibitors, B cell targeting therapies, and IVIg.
Billy Hanlon@bhanlon15.bsky.social · last yr.Solve ME: 'Probing Functional Autoantibodies in Patients with ME/CFS' 'Dr. Akiko Iwasaki (Sterling Professor of Immunobiology and Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale University) is the first recipient of Solve’s ME/CFS Catalyst Award..' www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ar0...
It’s not too late to start masking. You don’t have to do it alone. You won’t be the lone masker. There’s an engaged Covid cautious and disability community who will help you. There’s local mask blocs who provide respirators to those who can’t afford them. Covid is still here, and masks work!
Over 6 months, our Public Health Reporting fellows @tedalcorn.bsky.social, Jamal Jordan, @eleanorklib.bsky.social, @lygianavarro.com & Amanda Seitz explored underreported public health challenges. Watch highlights from their ambitious reporting projects: www.pressclubinstitute.org/event/public...
Video & Highlights: Lessons from our inaugural Public Health Journalism Fellowship cohort - Journalism Institute
As the inaugural Public Health Reporting Fellowship comes to a close, the 2025 cohort will share details from their ambitious reporting projects.
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The amount of people chilling outside during what used to be called summer (now known as "wildfire season" in Canada) just rawdogging heavily polluted air ... not thinking about the future.
Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️🌈@ssteingraber1.bsky.social · last yr.NEW RESEARCH: breathing polluted air in midlife (45-60 yo) can accelerate cognitive aging decades later. Even low levels of pollutants harm memory and processing speed. Your reminder that dementia is projected to triple by midcentury. Also we’re cutting Medicaid. www.newsweek.com/this-age-ran...
This is deeply disturbing but sadly unsurprising. The govt is trying by all means it can to access personal information about those it wants to get rid of -- including threatening and harassing a Latine educator.
Vermont school superintendent detained after trip to Nicaragua
Wilmer Chavarria, the superintendent of the Winooski School District, was held by U.S. Customs and Border Protection while returning to the country after visiting family.
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#DisabilityStudies teaching job in Winnipeg for people with a PhD -- open to all applicants, it seems, but Canadian citizens and permanent residents given priority
Probationary Instructor III in Disability Studies, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and Disability Studies Program
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‘New York Times’ Issues Apology For Reporting Palestinian Deaths
NEW YORK—Claiming that the humanizing of occupied peoples is not what the newspaper stands for, The New York Times issued an apology Tuesday for reporting on Palestinian deaths. “Our thoughtful and ac...
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · last yr.OMG
Marginalized people are at much higher risk of #LongCovid, which is why (at least in my city), I often see BIPOC, working class folks wearing masks more often than the rest of the general public. They know firsthand the threat they face. #MaskUp, folks.
Billy Hanlon@bhanlon15.bsky.social · last yr.Respiratory Therapy: 'Economically Disadvantaged Patients at Greater Risk for Long COVID' 'Patients with financial hardship, food insecurity, less than a college education, and healthcare access challenges were at higher risk for developing long COVID.' respiratory-therapy.com/disorders-di...
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National Press Club Journalism Institute@npcinstitute.bsky.social · last yr.Tomorrow: Hear from our Public Health Reporting fellows @tedalcorn.bsky.social, Jamal Jordan, @eleanorklib.bsky.social, @lygianavarro.com, Amanda Seitz. They'll share a behind-the-scenes look at their ambitious reporting projects and top lessons learned. www.pressclubinstitute.org/event/public...
We have a great MEpedia update for you! - Our articles have been viewed 55+ million times! - We recently created German & Spanish versions of our TEN most popular pages. Check it out: me-pedia.org More info: www.meaction.net/2025/07/22/m... #pwME #MECFS #wiki #myalgicE #longCovid
#JournoRequest Seeking anyone “paying attention to H5N1 on a professional level”—see thread!
Lygia Navarro (she/ella) ♿️ + 🏳️🌈 💜 🏳️⚧️@lygianavarro.com · last yr.PLEASE SHARE! I'm reporting on #H5N1 #BirdFlu (#AvianInfluenza #HPAI) for @thesicktimes.bsky.social, & want to talk to farmworkers or people who work with them re impacts of H5N1 on farmworkers. I'm especially interested in hearing re human cases since Feb 2025. Sources can be anonymous! (1/4)
The UFW can confirm farm workers were critically injured yesterday during chaotic raids in Ventura County, CA. Other workers, including US citizens, remain unaccounted for. UFW staff is on the ground supporting impacted families. Our full statement below. ⬇️ 1/
I'm glad to see @BuzzFeed running educational content about tick- and vector-borne illness like #lyme, but I must disagree with Dr Shapiro, who is quoted in this article, that an infected tick *has* to be on for 24-36 hrs to transmit Lyme Disease. The apple.news/A2smoGgDsQfO... 1/
Tick Experts Are Revealing The 6 Things They'd Never, Ever Do Outdoors, And Everyone Should Really Listen Up — BuzzFeed
Climate change is making tick-borne illnesses more common, which makes tick prevention strategies even more critical.
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PLEASE SHARE! I'm reporting on #H5N1 #BirdFlu (#AvianInfluenza #HPAI) for @thesicktimes.bsky.social, & want to talk to farmworkers or people who work with them re impacts of H5N1 on farmworkers. I'm especially interested in hearing re human cases since Feb 2025. Sources can be anonymous! (1/4)
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My name is Alaa, and I am a mother of three precious children: Musa, who is 12 years old, and my twin daughters, Ella and Ellen, who are 8 years old. Before October 7th, our lives were filled with hop...
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