Safety In Numbers
@safetyinnumbers.bsky.social
Pro: Critical thinking, fact-checks & open respectful discourse. Judge me by words/actions, not demographics. (Mask = N95+, no gaps) Formerly of Twitter SafetyinNumbrz
Hundreds of homes were just destroyed by climate change fueled wildfires in BC. Looks like something out of a war movie. No mention from any politicians in Alberta or the federal government. Maybe they should give the victims a I ❤️ AB Oil sticker. 🤬
PCOS has a new name — here is why that actually matters for millions of women's health: www.medicaldaily.com/pcos-new-nam... by Elena Vega. Find out more at canadahealthwatch.ca
PCOS Has a New Name — Here Is Why That Actually Matters for Millions of Women's Health
PCOS now has a new name — PMOS. It was always a misnomer. The real condition is metabolic and hormonal. Here's why the name change matters and what women should know.
medicaldaily.com
Mike Ellis: We don't condone racism, but we at the #UCP are going to interfere in the judicial system, so they don't maintain the established rule of law regarding hate speech or racism. We don't acknowledge any law but those we find personally & ideologically convenient.
The Breakdown AB@thebreakdownab.bsky.social · yesterdayIt appears that Mike Ellis is weighing in on the removal of the racist banner. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
Rand Paul is a liar, and I'm sick of people only partially correcting him.
Very bad news: Insecticide-resistant mosquitos - this is more than an annoyance. Mosquitos kill more humans annually that humans do. They are the deadliest animals in the world. By a large margin. worldostats.com/global-stats...
Deadliest Animals in the World 2026 - WORLDOSTATS
Deadliest animals in the world ranked by annual human deaths. Discover which animals cause the most fatalities globally.
worldostats.com
Philip Gourevitch@pgourevitch.bsky.social · yesterdayBefore stephensi arrived in 2013, Djibouti was on the cusp of declaring malaria eradicated. In 2012, there were just 27 cases. Two years later, cases shot up to nearly 1,700... and in 2020, there was an explosion: more than 70,000 cases. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...
A great feature by @katarinazimmer.bsky.social about review mills, how they emerge and the fallout they leave behind. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
‘A waste of time for all of us’: caught in the crossfire of the peer-review wars
Review mills — researchers who write fake referee reports with coercive citation requests — are setting off a war in academic publishing. What happens to those caught in the middle?
nature.com
Exaggeration of "overdiagnosis" and "overtreatment" is an artefact of inadequate scientific training among medical policy makers. Empire building, excused by misinformation that claims you can translate science into good decisions without the subject-matter expertise required to understand it. 🙄
Trump’s cronies aren’t what broke public health
The structural blind spots that undermine medical progress and how to fix them.
canadahealthwatch.ca
Tatiana Trifan #FBLC@tatianatrifan.bsky.social · yesterdayThe problem has never been overdiagnosis in health care. The problem has always been too few resources for health care that incentivised unethical & unscientific exclusions of people from seeing specialists, from accessing care, support, accommodations. There is too little, not too much health care.
This US resident has insurance and this is the bill he got for a single visit to the ER Canadians, we have so much to lose and nothing to gain from a two-tier system with private insurance like the Alberta gov is pushing
Too Big to Fail@toobigtofail.bsky.social · 2d agoI realize the Europeans have largely gone to bed, but: I got bitten by a dog yesterday and had a bad reaction to it and ended up throwing up all night last night. My wife made me go to the emergency room; I've gotten IV fluids and an abdominal ultrasound. This is what I had to pay. I have insurance.
I posted this on XTwitter. Sharing here in case it's useful to folks: Some resources for USA Covid-safe🦷 covidmeetups.com/en/directory... (search for 'Minnesota') Also👀this practice: edinadentalcare.com/covid-19 Finally, this🎯resource: covidsafeproviders.com/map/
1 in 1,000. 1 in a million. Can you picture the difference? Most of us struggle to make sense of risk when it is presented as a statistic. Both just seem ‘rare’.
Begging you, reporters everywhere: stop using this framing. Anyone anywhere at any time can have an underlying condition. That has only become more true as you decided to join the war on COVID on the side of COVID. People with fallible bodies—all of us—deserve to not shit themselves to death.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d agoBreaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.
Thank you for being you, Bluesky. This is why I'm here, and not wallowing in racist anti-science propaganda on the other site. Bluesky brings receipts and ratios mis/disinfo. It renews my soul like a gentle rain after a heatwave.
Long COVID is "disputed" in the same sense that evolution is "disputed" - i.e. not disputed by anyone with any scientific credibility. Pretending otherwise just happens to be attractive to the Dunning-Kruger brigade whose negligence caused it by allowing COVID to get out of control.
Mark Ungrin@mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 2y agoFrom populists on the right, but also from establishment figures desperate to bury their responsibility, there's an ongoing push to bury the harms of COVID. Long COVID alone costs 7M life-years (QALYs) and on the order of a trillion dollars a year in the OECD. www.oecd-ilibrary.org/social-issue...
Covid is- overwhelmingly- a threat to children. innovationdistrict.childrensnational.org/new-research... Hence why we should vaccinate them now.
New research reveals COVID-19’s long-term impact on kids
(3 min. read)
innovationdistrict.childrensnational.org
A group advocating against data centres has launched trackers for several municipalities on councillors’ support for data centres. Here’s the one for Calgary City Council #yyc #yyccc calgary.stopthedatacentre.ca/election-tra...
Election tracker · Stop the Datacentre
Think there should be rules for AI datacentres? Us too.
calgary.stopthedatacentre.ca
RFK Jr. is the embodiment of the “medical freedom” movement. They don’t want medical freedom. They want freedom from accountability when their actions harm others.
Late 2026 would be a TERRIBLE time to cut wastewater surveillance—and yet, the proposal is to cut it by 80 PERCENT. Let’s write our electeds and let them know we want more, not less funding for this exceedingly valuable public health tool.
Congress Must Fully Fund CDC Wastewater Surveillance Program
The CDC’s National Wastewater Surveillance System remains one of the most valuable public health tools for detecting the increased spread of infectious diseases in the US, such as SARS-CoV-2, measles,...
actionnetwork.org
Knowing how to type is life-changing skill that is woefully underappreciated. I was once suspected of being a 'bot' in a chat, bc I could reply quickly. I explained I could touch-type, and they didn't even know what the word meant. Oof.
Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 3d agoI wonder if students today would be less likely to lean on AI for writing assignments if schools had made sure they could touch-type (at least 60wpm) before having them submit all their assignments online. 1/🧵
The best thing that could come out of this is for people to learn to recognize the patterns of abusers.
"We are rule followers here" is a tough sell when basing your whole govt on "You aren't the boss of me!" while constantly changing the rules to privilege anti-intellectual, xenophobic, grievance-driven bigots. #FireTheUCP #abpoli
The Breakdown AB@thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 3d agoIn Red Deer... Danielle Smith had a hard time convincing members that the Duty to Consult is real. But she did commit to holding a binding referendum on separatism in May or April of 2027 if the separatist question gets support. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
"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.'" - Violet Affleck speech at the United Nations on September 23, 2025 Source: archive.md/0chiK
🚨 After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.
Clean indoor air is helpful against disease all the time, not just episodicly "in a pandemic". We treat drinking water *all the time*, not just during cholera outbreaks. Until we get over this medical/reactive mindset, airborne pandemics will continue. Put engineers in charge of public health!
Prof Christina Pagel@chrischirp.bsky.social · 5d ago2. Clean indoor air: helpful in a pandemic and good for health and learning at all times (and not just in schools but other buildings too) 3. Effective public health measures: testing, contact tracing, support for isolation, communication, etc 10/12
It’s not enough for them just to have won. They also want to be right. And they weren’t right.
🚨🧵by Dr. @harryspoelstra.bsky.social on XTwitter: "🚨110 completely silent SARSCoV2 carriers walked into a hospital, zero symptoms, zero known contacts. Universal PCR screening caught them..." 🧵 threadreaderapp.com/thread/20835... #asymptomaticspread #NosocomialInfections
All 3 are true: 1 Carney is better than Poilievre for Canada. More competent, emotionally mature, better able to defend against Trump. 2 Carney lied & broke promises to Centrists & Progressives, governing as a small-c conservative 3 We chose the better PM, but we must still push back on bad policy
Bean & Sprout's Mom@beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 4d agoBut also, criticizing the Canadian government's policies under Carney is exactly what distinguishes the discourse from US-like divisiveness. The US penchant for team-sporting everything into red-blue is NOT what we need.
22. So with all these facts, folks can hate and rage and blame whomever they want. For me, the blame lies squarely with republicans, slow court schedules, Trump, and the corrupt, bought-and-paid-for, billionaire-captured bullshit supreme court. END/
