#Trans and other #queer people often need very different self-defence tactics to cishets.
This is a super useful zine that outlines tactics, advice and practices to respond to threats against you: https://www.silversprocket.net/2021/09/13/a-self-defense-study-guide-for-trans-women-and-gender-non-conforming-nonbinary-amab-folks/
I can't believe nobody here is posting about this being Superb Owl week! This one is Oliver, a Great Horned Owl I once had in my care. #SuperbOwl #Owls
Cyclists are portrayed in debates about bike lanes as younger, athletic people. Berkeley's Commission on Aging recommended against supporting the city's current bike lane project (#Hopkins), apparently thinking bike lanes were not for older people.
And yet, over the past eleven years, the median age of the six cyclists and pedestrians severely injured or killed on Hopkins is 69. Only one of those people was under 50. The oldest was 78.
The stereotypes are wrong.
Here's my new hobby which you #TwitterMigration folks might also want to try.
Watch your Local timeline for people just arriving or making their first post. (It's not stalking. Really.)
And then reply with something like, "Hello and welcome! "
Sometimes that starts a conversation. Sometimes you wind up following each other.
Why do that? Maybe to be as kind as all the wonderful folks who welcomed us here?
So, go ahead. Pay it forward. Make a new friend. It's fun. And, you know, social.
The Today Show produced a very strong show on the link between #covid infection and heart attacks that are present especially in young people. Clear. Share with others who are unaware of this link.
Link to view or click on attached.
https://www.today.com/health/covid-heart-attack-young-people-rcna69903
"How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but we can start right now to gradually change the world!
How wonderful it is that everyone, great and small, can immediately help bring about justice by giving of themselves!”
- Anne Frank, March 26, 1944
https://www.annefrank.org/en/ #history
New Mastodon Links List! 1 Updated Resource and 41 New Listings
Tag me if you find anything interesting, and if you like this #Mastodon #tools list, please give it a boost!
https://researchbuzz.me/2022/11/13/mastodon-tools-part-2-42-resources/
That's a great compilation. I don't know if it's newsy enough for you but our group had put together FAQs and a downloadable template to help people advocating for masks in schools.
>"Nudges, counterintuitive ideas that work and more!"
How about, "Stay home and use video conference instead."
This is an excellent, clear, explanation about making PDF documents accessible. The example is a resume. But the principles here are applicable to any PDF.
https://bootcamp.uxdesign.cc/turn-your-indesign-resume-into-an-accessible-pdf-cd91137ac6
With global sea ice currently at *record low* levels, both poles (#Arctic and #Antarctic) are more than two standard deviations below average (1981-2010)...
More visuals: https://zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-figures/. Data from https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index.
The loneliness of being immunocompromised in the age of COVID-19 https://www.latimes.com/california/newsletter/2023-02-07/the-loneliness-of-being-immunocompromised-in-the-age-of-covid-19-group-therapy #COVID
Lake Powell’s existential crisis is a unique opportunity to save a treasured landscape
#ClimateChange #NativeAmericans #NationalParks
#News #Drought
This supplemental fig from EMPA-KIDNEY is particularly useful to all of us in the US who have to deal with insurance companies : #flozin (SGLT2i) may work even if not on RAS therapy. Caveat emptor applies (85% of participants were on RASi subgroup analysis etc)
#CKD #nephmastodon #cardiomastodon #endomastodon
@Kidney_boy @hswapnil @edgarvlermamd @mike_johansen
Young tawny frogmouths being all bothered by the noisy ravens and kookaburras today. Rare to see them with their eyes open during the day. #birds #birdphotography #naturephotography
January was my first month writing regularly - and this was one of the pieces that I'm most proud of. As a longtime Whovian, I couldn't help but relate my experiences fighting chronic illness to the Doctor's struggle in 'Heaven Sent'. Super dramatic of me I know
But the allegory of it has been in my head for so long, I figured I just had to write about it!
#doctorwho #twelfthdoctor #chronicillness #writing #cfs #ME #mentalhealth #heavensent
@jlthoughts @mpw@mstdn.social
this is exactly my next episode to watch, coincidentally
Thanks for this and very best wishes. Keep punching the wall.
I’m a professor of medicine at McMaster University #MacDeptMed, #McMasterU
Clinically, I work as a #KidneyDoctor (#Nephrology)
I’m an associate member of #HEI (#Epidemiology) at #McMasterU
I’m a member of the Centre of Excellence in Protective Equipment and Materials (#PPE, #N95, #CEPEM) at #McMasterU
My #Research is in #KidneyDisease #KidneyEpi (#CKD, #Potassium, #CKDProgression) and #Masks
I’m a scientific editor with more than 20 years experience.
I’m editor-in-chief of https://maskevidence.org/ which curates evidence on #BetterMasks and #MasksWork For the pandemic, we need #SystemsApproaches because #CovidIsAirborne and #CovidIsNotOver. #DoAllTheThings #ventilation #filtration #PaidSickDays #BringBackMasks #WearAMask #MasksSaveLives #MaskeAuf #MaskUp #MaskMandate #MaskMandateNow #CovidLong #LongCovid I’d like to see #KidneyVerse as the tag to find others with interest in #KidneyHealth and #KidneyDisease. #AskKidney #AskRenal Also trying to be #LGBTQ2 ally, working on #EDI #Equity, interested in #SocialJustice #UrbanPlanning. Treaty 3|Dish with One Spoon, Turtle Island; Hamilton ON Canada. She/her