Rooney’s old account @girls_can@qoto.org

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

I hope to get to Black history soon, but I'm still working through white US history. There's so much of it!

Q: Why are Black people in the US so much more likely to die in traffic accidents than white people? Are Black folk more likely to drive under the influence of alcohol or drugs (DUI)? Is it street racing? Are y'all just bad drivers?

A: Hmm. I'm stumped! No one knows the answer to why this happens! Just kidding. It's racism. It's always racism.

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#BlackMastodon

Old school public health officials haven't come to grips with the reality of highly transmissible airborne viruses.

They keep creating bad policies because they are stubbornly locked to outdated models of harm reduction.

"You do you" doesn't work when we all share the air we breathe.

#COVID #PublicHealth

Until the US is safely walkable or bikeable, people will continue to buy urban tanks in self-defense.

Since my kids were three years old, they've known to raise their hand as high as they can and wave it around whenever they hear a car engine start.

Some strangers smile and wave back when they see my kids do this. They think it's cute! But it's not really that cute.

This is my badass homie chico on the ranch in Central Oregon ❤️ you know i love him bc I’m smiling 😂 i never smile in pics

Toronto turns its back on the homeless | The Star

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/2023/02/10/toronto-turns-its-back-on-the-homeless.html

A groundbreaking decision!

Denmark and Sweden’s move to offer women and girls from Afghanistan automatic recognition as refugees should serve as a model for other refugee-receiving countries.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/02/09/denmark-sweden-offer-protection-all-women-girls-afghanistan

The inside of a cello looks like a place where something whimsically unspeakable happened in a Guillermo del Toro movie

Paper in @Nature maps the global extent of natural #wetland loss. Net loss of 21% of global wetland area since 1700 is lower than previous estimates. U.S. is estimated to have lost 40% of its wetlands & accounts for more than 15% of all global losses. http://bit.ly/3RLnx7e

AWESOME.

I noticed @MoriartyLab has just recently arrived on Mastodon!

Welcome!

Her work is IMO the Last Credible Source of Canadian quantitative #COVID #risk analysis.

If there is another or better source for Canadian analysis (other than Our World In Data), I don't know it.

She is co-lead of the #COVID19 Resources Canada web site.

Here's the hazard page area I spend so much time staring at:
https://covid19resources.ca/covid-hazard-index/

And the excess mortality tracker: https://covid19resources.ca/public/excess-mortality-tracker/

And @battlingbeaver tells me I should have introduced myself before I just jump in and start posting.

Sorry! I'm Tara. I'm an infectious diseases researcher and Associate Prof at the University of Toronto, and I'm the lead of COVID-19 Resources Canada.

We do the Canadian COVID Forecast, Canadian COVID data reporting, the Canadian Excess Mortality Tracker, and of course, COVID Conversation Zoom sessions supported by me and other volunteer scientists.

It's great to be here at last!

😍14 Valentine's quotes for scientists❤️

8/14
The sweetest molecule that wants to hug you and never let go.

Check out all 14 here💘
http://thestrugglingscientists.com/valentine

#academia #phdlife #phdchat #science #xp #AcademicChatter #phdvoice

“Picture a 100-yard dash where you’ve given the car a 90-yard head start. That’s kind of where you are. Even if your transportation goal is balance, by definition you have to prioritize the other travel modes to let them just catch up.” One of my fav interviews, with @Streetsblog on the mythology of “balancing” travel modes. It’s code for a slightly better status quo.
https://denver.streetsblog.org/2017/02/09/brent-toderian-dont-balance-modes-prioritize-walking-biking-and-transit/

If you're trying to convince your Canadian friends to get set up on Mastodon but they don't know where to start, pass along the link to this listing of Canadian instances: #topoli #onpoli #cdnpoli

https://mastodonserver.ca/

Tell your friends what you like about them. Notice good things about people and point it out to them. It is powerful. Do it regularly.

People don't know what they are good at. You have to tell them.

“We just need a picture to send to your grandmother and then you can take it off.”

Roughly 40% of all mammal species are rodents.

Yet, a huge number of rodent species are on the brink of extinction.

It is likely that we have already lost many species which we never even knew existed.

https://theconversation.com/in-defence-of-rodents-why-healthy-ecosystems-need-them-196406