Catherine Clase @cmclase@qoto.org

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.

#Berkeley #BikeTooter

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.

#CovidIsNotOver

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

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/

@cmclase

>"Nudges, counterintuitive ideas that work and more!"

How about, "Stay home and use video conference instead."

🇬🇪 Georgia sending disaster response teams to Turkey.
🇬🇪🇹🇷 Today all Georgians are praying for every family who need help, may god protect you.

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.

You've probably heard about the Ohio train derailment and fire by now.

My son was one of the firefighters called in. He spent close to seven hours on scene before even they had to evacuate by EPA order. Vinyl chloride stinks to high heaven, omg. His gear and personal vehicle reek something awful.

He's home and safe but on call to return. They had to abandon the tanker truck in the hot zone because it froze up and had engine trouble. He took the pic below as they left her in place by the tracks. They're hoping the truck isn't a total loss as it's our little town's only tanker.🤞 Everyone is exceptionally grateful there was only property loss though.

As first scenes go, my boy got a doozy, wow.

https://www.wkbn.com/news/local-news/east-palestine-train-derailment/crews-on-scene-of-train-derailment-in-east-palestine

Black and white cats intertwined.
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#catsofmastdn #CatsofMastodon #caturdays

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

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