RT @TRyanGregory@twitter.com
Was a pleasure to work on an opinion piece with the amazing @jvipondmd@twitter.com and @lisa_iannattone@twitter.com
about this important issue.
excellent rounds by Will Herrington on EMPAKIDNEY at the UK Kidney symposium
Benefit across GFR categories, including below 20!
Anyone… and I mean ANYONE want to hire my #Canadian wife in the United States? We’ll go anywhere.
I need to get back home, and as quickly as possible.
A green card application for us could take 12-20 months. A work visa would be ideal. She is Master’s level educated, works in #Banking w/ #Tech and #ProjectManagement experience.
I am chronically ill and need help asap.
Boosts appreciated.
Great to see that the Ottawa Public Library has 28 CO2 monitors that people can check out and borrow to verify ventilation in various spaces they visit. If you live in Ottawa these are now available if you want to try one out ( https://cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-library-carbon-dioxide-detectors-borrow-1.6678651 ).
Climate policy that relies on a shift to #ElectricCars risks entrenching existing inequities. Among MANY reasons to conclude that “better cars” alone won’t get us where we need to be, and in fact create/continue many issues & challenges. Fewer cars, less driving, more choices & better cities are all badly needed.
https://theconversation.com/climate-policy-that-relies-on-a-shift-to-electric-cars-risks-entrenching-existing-inequities-160856
#cars #ElectricVehicles #cities #urbanism #ClimateCrisis
Today Ontario New Democrats #MaritStiles and I joined #CrystalQuartz, a drag artist who has been targeted by hate groups, to show love and support for 2SLGBTQ+ Ontarians. Thank you #Hamilton for the groundswell of love you showed her — ensuring a full house of allies turned out. #OnPoli #lgbt #lgbtq #2SLGBTQIA #ndp #Ontario #drag
“Using data from 35 million traffic stops, we show that the probability that a stopped driver is Black increases by 5.74% after a Trump rally. The effect is immediate, specific to Black drivers, [lasting], and is not justified by changes in driver behavior.” Study: Grosjean et Al (2022), The Quarterly Journal of Economics:
https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/qje/qjac037/6710386?login=false #economics #policing #massincarceration #stochasticterrorism #racialprofiling #hatespeech
The Case for Mask Mandates - why we should #BringBackMasks - by @Billius27@twitter.com https://billius27.substack.com/p/the-case-for-mask-mandates
The comments and QTs inciting more harassment are alarming.
Drag story time isn't new - it existed long before my teen was born. There are definitely adults today who had a drag queen read to them in a library as kids.
What's new is a reactionary climate targeting LGBTQ ppl.
RT @CTVNews@twitter.com
'I don’t deserve to be harassed': Guelph drag queen's all-ages shows threatened https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/i-don-t-deserve-to-be-harassed-guelph-drag-queen-s-all-ages-shows-threatened-1.6187000
#CovidIsNotOver #COVID19 #CovidIsntOver #Health
Hard, not impossible, but hard to find the words for this:
Nurses don't want to be COVID 'heroes' and 'angels' — they want better conditions, study finds
#COVID19Aus @auscovid19
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-10/nurses-want-better-conditions-not-hero-labels-study-finds/101748056
MILAN has approved a £200 million plan to create a new 750km network of bike paths linking 80% of the city to bike paths, & connect the city to surrounding areas. The goal is to achieve a 20% modal shift to biking by 2035.
Strategy & leadership.
https://road.cc/content/news/milan-confirms-new-bike-network-289375
#milan #cities #urbanism #BikeLanes #cars
#Twitter sued for disproportionately firing female workers after Musk buyout
"The proposed class action, which was was filed late on Wednesday in San Francisco federal court, said that after Twitter was taken over by Musk, the world’s richest person, it laid off 57% of its female workers compared with 47% of men."
"The gender disparity was more stark for engineering roles, where 63% of women lost their jobs compared to 48% of men, according to the new lawsuit."
Ontario has expanded Paxlovid eligibility without adequately announcing it today.
Please communicate this expanded eligibility to anyone near or dear to whom this applies.
(Had CMOH Kieran Moore not been hiding, this would have been communicated more effectively today.)
H/T @niagaragal1
Do you REALLY want to know how your city could transform public transit virtually overnight to dramatically increase ridership? The answer is to change car lanes to dedicated bus-only lanes so buses won’t be stuck in car traffic, & run more buses more frequently on those lanes. You SHOULD INVEST more in transit to get those additional buses, but in the immediate term, reallocate near-empty buses from low density, low ridership areas to run them often on the bus-only lanes. #cities #publictransit
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 editor-in-chief of #CJKHD (@CanJKHD on the birdsite, not here yet) an #OpenAccess kidney journal with #PublishingPolicy:
#SupportiveReview (#Kindness, #KidneyKindness) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20543581221080327
https://theconversation.com/peer-review-can-this-critical-step-in-the-publication-of-science-research-be-kinder-182142
#PortableReview (was your hard work rejected by a journal with IF>=4? Submit clean, redline, point-by-point response-to-reviews, and tell us which journal and undertake that you responded to all reviews received)
https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/canadian-journal-of-kidney-health-and-disease/journal202590#aims-and-scope
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