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wobblybabadook.bsky.social
Pediatric Palliative Care, Adolescent Mental Health, Climate Change Displacement , and Mobility Justice @ UChicago 👩🏻‍🌾🧶
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JUST IN: The Census Bureau's #2030Census Advisory Committee has been terminated by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who oversees the bureau, Arturo Vargas, the committee's chair, confirms to @npr.org. I've reached out to the press offices of the bureau and the Commerce Department for comment...

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On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...

submitted 17 days ago • 479 comments

It’s time

submitted 24 days ago • 41 comments

If it's hitting UIUC already, it's crushing other places. @econroy.bsky.social the lag will catch up real soon like.

submitted 25 days ago • 29 comments

Now that DOGE has entered FEMA, I’d like to say something about the importance of alerts and warnings. FEMA has a group called IPAWS, the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System, which is responsible for making sure you get warnings though all sorts of devices, basically for free. 1/

submitted 27 days ago • 23 comments

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

submitted 32 days ago • 232 comments

This effectively ends all nsf-funded disaster research.

submitted 29 days ago • 5 comments

Power outages frequently occur alongside extreme weather events or natural disasters such as wildfires. Research shows that health risks such as gastrointestinal illness & heart attacks also increase. UW SPH's Joan Casey share some things to consider during power outages #PublicHealth

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I so clearly remember learning about various insurance issues in grad school (over a decade ago) & being like “hey? It kinda seems like we’re headed towards a situation where insurance kind of collapses & then won’t that collapse the real estate market & then…” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

How my friends see me when I start venting abt how the LA wildfire could cause more disease outbreaks and why we need to talk more abt mobility injustices

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Good fucking luck finding accurate disaster information.

submitted 57 days ago • 4 comments

Made some dark chocolate shortbread cookies for the department party 😋 ( and candied cranberries w/ turbinado sugar)

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Me: I should work on my project tonight Also me: spent last 4 hours on the Stardew Valley board game (Mentally, I’m super excited about my new projects; physically, I’m so done with 2024🤦🏻‍♀️)

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

My first national survey study is finally all set and ready to go live👀👀👀

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Great comments on the H5N1 study from my colleagues at @scripps.edu showing that a single change at HA 226 plays a key role in host receptor switching. Worth pointing out that we have already seen this mutation in "the wild" - the human case in BC as Dr. Hensley explained: bsky.app/profile/scot...

submitted 90 days ago • 2 comments

We’re entering flu season with bird flu raging among US dairy cattle: ~third of CA herds infected. The danger is flu viruses have a trick: they can swap segments —one farmworker co-infected by human and avian flu— to cause pandemics. We may get lucky. I hope so. 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/o...

submitted 96 days ago • 15 comments

1/ Influenza wastewater activity levels are currently low across the US, aside from conspicuous areas in CA where #H5N1 is spreading in dairy cows. A deeper dive into the Wastewater Scan data paints a very concerning picture and should add to our sense of urgency.

submitted 99 days ago • 27 comments

Something I can look forward to in 2025

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

🥹🥹

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

Trying to convince our IRB that my study qualifies as exempt 😬😬 🤞🏻🤞🏻

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Never have I ever thought I will hear abt Dr. Oz again in this way

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

Vaccines aren't just lifesaving, they're a basic human right. We must continue doing whatever it takes to protect children around the world from measles and other preventable diseases.

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

first things first, my super judgmental and talkative child 🐈‍⬛

submitted 108 days ago • 1 comment