Catherine Clase @cmclase@qoto.org

Lake Powell’s existential crisis is a unique opportunity to save a treasured landscape

https://theconversation.com/as-climate-change-and-overuse-shrink-lake-powell-the-emergent-landscape-is-coming-back-to-life-and-posing-new-challenges-197340

#ClimateChange #NativeAmericans #NationalParks
#News #Drought

#Housing #LateStageCapitalism

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

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7614055/

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!

https://medium.com/@jlthoughts/how-doctor-who-inspires-my-fight-against-chronic-illness-d556461363c1?source=friends_link&sk=69427b1c62e9592dc8fd7dc3ae1c883c

#doctorwho #twelfthdoctor #chronicillness #writing #cfs #ME #mentalhealth #heavensent

Hi all, thanks for having me, I owe you an #introduction! My name is Barbara, I am a journalist/literature graduate turned #scicomm professional turned scicomm #freelancer. I am constantly amazed by everything #particlephysics and hope to find a new home here. 🏡There may be some ecology content, the odd #sourdough toot and occasional dog posts. I toot in EN and DE and will now go in search of a new community and learn the rules. Also: #wittertainment, #space, #darkmatter #wordplay #linguistics

#introduction I'm a retired professor of #medieval #literature. In retirement, I've been writing medieval mystery ebooks: the Matthew Cordwainer series and the Gavin Rownt series, available on Amazon

I published a scoping review recently with my supervisor looking at theory-based messaging campaigns targeting COVID vaccine hesitancy, and we found that only one campaign targeted misinformation as a modifiable determinant of vaccine hesitancy, which is … pretty astounding, given how much we talk about the problem of vaccine misinformation and say we want to mitigate the associated harms — like vaccine hesistancy.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00027642221138274

#WritingCommunity #AdviceWanted

I was a near-daily #writer through my mid 20s, but I slowly let those skills atrophy.

I'd like to start #writing for fun again and/or something worthy of the #substack account I haven't been using.

#INFO How do other #writers get over #anxiety that makes it difficult to make a #FreshStart?

#JoinIn #Reblog #Retoot please

Hello, everyone. Time to update my #introduction. I'm a #biostatistician with a PhD in psychology and I program with #rstats. I've spent most of my career working in #Alzheimer disease research, with brief detours into medical #education and #clinicaltrials data monitoring.

In my spare time, I enjoy #cycling (slowly), #birding (inexpertly), and serving as a board member at EAGLE School.

Do you work in tech? Do you ever wonder what it would be like to organize your workplace?

I am always happy to talk to people - friends, acquaintances, strangers - about what's involved in worker organizing. Also happy to connect people to friends who have organized their workplaces or who work as organizers at unions.

Not everyone with these skills and connections can afford to be so vocal, but I can! I'm self-employed and my boss (me) is super pro union. ;)

So hit me up if you're curious.

Hi new followers, if you’re looking for dry “professional” content, I’m going to disappoint.

Generally, I am grumpy about bigotries and structural harm, words meaning things, and things that seem like thoughtlessness to me.

Sometimes I’m funny, but not as frequently as I shitpost.

Niceness and kindness aren’t the same to me; I aspire to the latter but not the former.

I’m pretty reliably a killjoy (I try to kill the right joy).

If you’re here for a series of peer reviewed lit toots, bummer.

“Starting in January, California will become the first US state to enact a ban on parking minimums, halting their use in areas with public transport in a move that Governor Gavin Newsom called a “win-win” for reducing planet-heating emissions from cars, as well as helping alleviate the lack of affordable housing in a state that has lagged in building new dwellings.” Via @Wired #ThePowerOfParking https://www.wired.com/story/us-cities-are-falling-out-of-love-with-the-parking-lot/

There's a new academic search engine out there called Scinapse.

Tagline: "We're better than Google Scholar. We mean it."

https://www.scinapse.io/

Fun facts about masks:
They're inexpensive compared to getting sick.
They're a minor inconvenience.
They protect you from #COVID19 PLUS other viruses.
If you're ill and don't know, your mask protects people around you.
If more people wore them, we'd not only prevent death and disability, we'd also limit the mutation of COVID.
If you're worried about your privacy, masks also make it more difficult for facial recognition software to track your movement.
#WearAMask - It's a win-win-win-win-win.

thinking about JK Rowling ripping off many other, better books for her series got me remembering just HOW MUCH she stole off the excellent Diana Wynne Jones' Chrestomanci series
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrestomanci

What if #RoeVWade was not overturned last year? A judge in DC is considering the question and says the right is protected under the 13th Amendment outlawing slavery.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/06/supreme-court-abortion-ruling-questioned-by-judge.html

Don't be an ageist prescriber when it comes to #flozins. They work equally well in older v.s. younger individuals for all outcomes (Heart Failure - HHF, Major cardiovascular events - MACE, or composite cardiac/renal -CRC)