Ariane Blondin

Canadienne. Québécoise. M.A. en communication.
Écoanxieuse.
Unofficial book nerd.

[NRC Canada @NRC_CNRC]

Antimicrobial resistance is a growing global threat, but our researchers are fighting back.

Our innovative technologies could change the way we treat infections and help save lives: https://t.co/HjMcLSjWSP

[Nora Loreto @NoLore]

No we don't. If we opposed the forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza we would --

1. ban arms exports to Israel
2. not cut funding to UNRWA
3. actually ... do something ... to try and stop Israel from their continued campaign of ethnic cleansing.

Let us be clear.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Read this sentence. Then reread it. Then ask yourself how anyone is ok with this level of human suffering.

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

As a clinical health psychologist, I notice that many people are using psychological defense mechanisms to downplay the risk of COVID.

These are my Top 7 examples:

🧵

[Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @DrKarimWafa]

Palestinians should be able to live in Palestine.
Palestinians should be able to live in Palestine.
Palestinians should be able to live in Palestine.
Palestinians should be able to live in Palestine.

[Sam Hersh @SamHersh01]

Tonight in Ottawa. #PermanentCeaseFireNow

[Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @DrKarimWafa]

indigenous people do not bomb their land.

indigenous people do not release toxic chemicals in the air.

indigenous people do not burn ancient tree farms.

colonial settlers do.

[DEACTIVATED @thrasherxy]

Say his name: Abdel Kareem Oudeh. Murdered in an airstrike, he is the 87th (!) journalist killed by US-Israel in just 66 days. By comparison, 63 journalists were killed in the Vietnam War over two decades & 69 in WW II (1939-45). إِنَّا ِلِلَّٰهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ

[Colin Furness MISt PhD MPH @FurnessColin]

An expansive musing thread on mask non-use, which I am now calling "mask akinesia".

Every class I teach, I walk in with my mask and my Aranet4 CO2 detector, to measure air quality. I'm lucky: the rooms I teach in are always below 800ppm and often below 700ppm.

1/20

[Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78]

A relatively new brain imaging technique, called diffusion microstructure imaging=DMI, showed significant alterations in the brain at the microstructural level after Covid, compared to uninfected controls. Research presented at a conference 👇

#LongCovid
https://t.co/dYXo3zc0Mq

[I hate it here. @anxiouscatmom]

"COVID is just like any other respiratory virus".
Common cold: 2 deaths from 2020-2022
RSV: 73 deaths from 2020-2022
Influenza: 1,709 deaths from 2020-2022
COVID-19: 50,062 deaths from 2020-2022 (25,031x cold deaths, 686x RSV deaths, 29x flu deaths)

[I hate it here. @anxiouscatmom]

Statistics Canada has released 2022 mortality data. Despite constant insistence that COVID is over, more Canadians died from COVID-19 in 2022 than in 2020 or 2021 (the "height of the pandemic"). It was the 3rd leading cause of death.
https://t.co/AXXfqImsRF

[MoTaz @motazazaiza9]

On the international day for children around the world
More than 6000 Palestinian children in Gaza got killed in the last 43 days by the Israeli army
Thousands more lost their entire families, parent and loved ones.
Ceasefire now

[Harsha Walia (she/her) @HarshaWalia]

If you watch one thing today, watch this.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Here's a tip: the side that keeps having to come up with justifications and explanations for why it's fine and normal for them to be killing thousands of children and perpetrating ethnic cleansing is probably not the side that's in the right.

[Joy Henderson (she/her) 🇵🇸 @Joyhenderson78]

Indigenous artists are coming out hard with solidarity artwork. 😭❤️

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

This is huge. Belgian transport unions are calling on their members to refuse to handle arms shipments for Israel.

[Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières @MSF_canada]

“There are dead people on the streets. We see people being shot at. We can see injured people. We hear them crying for help, but we cannot do anything. It is too dangerous to go outside”

Update from MSF staff in #Gaza this morning.