I #VioletAffleck. She wears an N95 everywhere in public, she is right, & she is a force to contend with. Wicked smart, 19 years old, & she is already a great leader!

#ClimateChange #Wildfire #Covid19 #CovidIsNotOver #LongCovid #BirdFlu #FEMA #ExtremeWeather #WindStorms #MECFS #DisabilityJustice #FollowTheScience #CleanAir #FarUVC #PublicHealth #BeProactive #Pacing #WearAnN95

A Chronically Ill Earth: COVID Organizing as a Model Climate Response in Los Angeles

https://yaleglobalhealthreview.com/2025/05/18/a-chronically-ill-earth-covid-organizing-as-a-model-climate-response-in-los-angeles/

#Trump administration refers #Maine to #DOJ over #TransgenderAthletes

by Brooke Migdon - 04/11/25

"The Department of Education on Friday referred a #TitleIX investigation into Maine schools to the #JusticeDepartment after the state failed to reach a resolution with the Trump administration over a finding that it violated federal anti-discrimination law by allowing transgender students to participate in girls’ sports.

" 'The Department has given Maine every opportunity to come into compliance with Title IX, but the state’s leaders have stubbornly refused to do so, choosing instead to prioritize an extremist ideological agenda [sic] over their students’ safety, privacy, and dignity,' said Craig Trainor, acting assistant Education secretary for [WHAT A JOKE] civil rights.

"The Education Department in its announcement said it will also initiate administrative proceedings to determine whether to terminate federal #K12 education funding for Maine’s state education department, including formula and discretionary grants.

"'The Maine Department of Education will now have to defend its discriminatory practices before a Department administrative law judge and in a federal court against the Justice Department,' Trainor said. 'Governor [Janet] Mills would have done well to adhere to the wisdom embedded in the old idiom — be careful what you wish for. Now she will see the Trump Administration in court.'

"Both the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which recently began investigating schools and states that allow transgender athletes to compete in girls’ sports, said in March that Maine had violated Title IX, the federal civil rights law against sex discrimination that the Trump White House says prohibits trans athletes from competing on girls’ and women’s teams."

Read more:
https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5245248-maine-transgender-athletes-doj-hhs-education-department-trump-mills/

#TransgenderRights #FollowTheScience #Transphobia #TransErasure #ProtectTransYouth #MaineResists #TrumpIsABully #SeeYouInCourt #AbortionRights? #WomensRights? #ArrestingMiscarryingWomen? #TrumpDoesntGiveAShitAboutWomen

Almost all scientific studies end with a call for more nuance and attention to complexity. From an inner-science point of view, I totally understand this, but as a communication strategy and politically, it's counterproductive.

In many cases, say around climate change mitigation and adaptation, we know enough to know what to do. But calling for more research makes it seem that the situation is far less clear than it actually is.

#FollowTheScience is really not helpful.

We hear a lot (well, the people who actually #followthescience anyways) about how #COVID infection is associated with a lowering of #IQ among people. For any flaws in using this metric to assess intellectual capability, it raises the question whether #EQ is similarly decreased. Both quotients can be assumed to be derived from brain function, so it stands to reason there may be a similar trend. In the 2010's, I recall EQ was very popular in the press, seems like we never hear about it now.

Just thinking about all the smarmy shitlibs and centrists cheering on more #fracking as part of their #campaignofjoy, lashing out at Greens and Progressives for insisting our elected leadership can do better. Methane has about 28x as much warming potential as CO2, for those who #followthescience.

https://weatherishappening.network/@WEATHERISHAPPENING/113209735480295494

…because when eating or speaking those nasty bugs know they better stand down! #followthescience

@vowe Komplex, im dicken Buch sind es nicht 3, keine Könige und nicht heilig. Eher so die Wissenschaftrsedaktion auf Recherchereise. #followsthestar ehm #followthescience Vom Baum reden wir gar nicht.

#followthescience and go #nuclear

Professionelle Problembestauner
sind auch Teil des Problems.

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/im-so-sorry-for-psychologys-loss

> It is actually a terrifying fact that you can reveal whole swaths of a scientific field to be fraudulent and it doesn't make a difference.

@drahardja Thanks for sharing. Appreciate all who continue to wear protective masks at work and in other indoor settings as well as leadership from healthcare professionals like Dr. Sara Cody and her colleagues.

#Covid19
#CovidIsNotOver
#CovidIsAirborne
#FollowTheScience

File under Shooting Oneself in the Foot
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01709-3
>Data torturing, cherry-picking, P-hacking and the invention of tools such as ChatGPT — when it comes to assisting the spread of disinformation science is its own worst enemy, argues a new book.

#FollowTheScience #FollowTheScienceBackToItsLair
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/it-matters-who-does-science