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Env. Epidemiology + EM at Stanford • MPH Environmental Health at UMSPH, UMSEAS Graham Scholar. catch me reading and writing about food and water security, emerging infectious diseases, agricultural econ, emergency management, and corn 🌽
Just got a tip from a guy at the FAA. You'll never believe who is still getting new government contracts while all the contracts at the Department of Education and USAID and other agencies are being nuked from orbit.
Anyone else with MOHELA whose student loan payment for this month hasn’t processed…? Mine has been ‘processing’ for six business days. Normally it pulls next day. I’m anxious about Musk and his teenage goonies.
Well. I did it. I submitted my book on the history of how the US government has removed Indigenous children from their families. From colonization to removal to boarding schools to today. For middle schoolers.
I think it's the first book of its kind. I can't believe I got to do it.
James Harvey III, Tuskegee airman, leader of the team that won the US military's first aerial gunnery competition for combat aviators. AKA, Top Gun. James Harvey is a handsome Black man in WW2 uniform with an indomitableble look of calm confidence.
Tom Cruise in an aviation suit and Rayban aviator sunglasses from Top Gun.
Hey, while we're talking about erasing history:
In 1949 the US military held its first Aeriel Gunnery Competition, later known as "Top Gun."
The best of the best competed in dogfighting and other skills. The team that won, was the 332nd: The Tuskegee airmen.
So they refused to announce a winner🤡
I would get a wet carpet cleaner, do a steam clean, then dry vacuum, set up an air filter, and wipe down all her toys / surfaces that can collect dust, wash linens and blankies from the playroom including drapes
Batdog is correct, I would test areas these areas anyway as the swabs are inexpensive and easy to use. If negative, it seems like you’ve identified the source. I would encapsulate plus the measures you described, and in the longer term you can do professional remediation once your ready.
Just replied with questions 💕
The question is, did the previous owners of the house use that same lead based paint anywhere else in the home. Did you have the tester swab anywhere else in the home? Exit and entry doors, bedroom doorways, floor molding, windowsills etc
1/🚨New chapter in Handbook of Regional & Urban Economics: Spatial Environmental Economics
🌍 How do spatial forces affect the environment? How does enviro shape spatial outcomes?
Thread, chapter explore this nascent subfield via stylized acts, models, building blocks for rsrch. w Clare Balboni.
Just a girl and her stuffed sardine
As far as I can tell, there has been no resistance to any of these changes inside any agency. They only win if you don’t fight back. One way we can fight is by doing more than ever to recruit, support, train, and promote our URM students and colleagues. They want us to abandon each other. Don’t.
It’s getting windier, wetter, wilder, hotter, harsher, drier, and less predictable out there
And more expensive
Globally, climate damage to infrastructure, agriculture, health and economic productivity is set to cost $3.1 trillion/year by 2050
With a cascade of bad outcomes⬇️
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I genuinely do not agree that cruelty is the point. Power is the point. Fascism is the point.
These people have real, identifiable goals and it’s not Richard III shit. It’s Macbeth and King Claudius shit.
NEW
The UK has rejected an application by farmers to use a bee-killing pesticide on sugar beet in England
This is a big deal
For the past four years in a row, the last government approved emergency use of the neonicotinoid
Will likely delight conservationists, infuriate farmers
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It's hard to overstate the disruption this causes.
As the northern latitudes warm, ice is melting and vegetation is growing more abundant.
But instead of absorbing more carbon, the region is becoming a source of heat-trapping gas, a new study shows.
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“Not a single line in any one of the studies raises anything but warnings for agriculture about the prospect of re-starting open-pit coal mining at Grassy Mountain, in the municipal district of Ranchland.”
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Heads up for the Weather Community!
You can now find NOAA (@noaa.gov), NOAA Climate (@climate.noaa.gov) & NWS HQ (@nws.noaa.gov; still being set up) on Bluesky!
Non-native grasses and eucalyptus trees were brought to California centuries ago for agriculture and landscaping, but they’ve changed the state’s natural fire dynamics.
Enhanced surveillance is going to be critical for preparedness with H5N1. Yet again we have another child with no clear bird exposure which raises questions about unknown transmission in urban areas. Sigh.
My cousins in southern Mississippi right in the gulf are getting 2-4 inches of snow right now, school is cancelled for the rest of the week!
Deleting my account on the other place today, absolute crock they’re trying to push. It was so intentional
And in other happier news, here are my kitties to brighten your day a little bit.
Finally made it over here to blue sky from the bad place. This week is heavy, there’s a lot of uncertainty for many of us in the field, but I know our dedication to safeguarding the health of our planet and the people on it is unwavering. We’re still here doing the work, and we won’t quit.