Dr. Jessica van Loben Sels

CDC fellow at USVI; PhD in Pathology; Oxcam alum, University of Cambridge/NIAID; virology, immunology, epidemiology 🧬🦠💉 (all opinions are my own)

[Temet McMichael, PhD @Temet_Mc]

@elonmusk @JeffDean @Farzad_MD Yeah but LLS (the EIS lab counterpart), who are essential to every response, were cut. Plus EIS is still currently threatened by your budget cutting proposals. Stop haphazardly cutting essential components of systems that keep AMERICA safe

[AP Climate @AP_Climate]

In a little more than five years – sometime in early 2029 – the world will likely be unable to stay below the internationally agreed temperature limit for global warming if it continues to burn fossil fuels at its current rate, a new study says. https://t.co/on4YHrxO19

[AP Climate @AP_Climate]

Even with carbon emissions cuts, a key part of Antarctica is doomed to slow collapse, study says. https://t.co/HygTNc3SR1

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Sea-level rise: West Antarctic ice shelf melt 'unavoidable' https://t.co/KPPhIVqC01

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

People think Americans are gun nuts, but what they really are is bottled water nuts. Here's a look at America's bottled water problem. #LongStoryShort

[AP Climate @AP_Climate]

The toll of heat deaths in the Phoenix area soars after the hottest summer on record. https://t.co/7y2g1sXAja

[AP Climate @AP_Climate]

Scientists count huge melts in many protective Antarctic ice shelves. Trillions of tons of ice lost. 28 different ice shelves have lost more than half their ice since 1997.
https://t.co/o6U6YukzUs

[AP Climate @AP_Climate]

The bad buzz on pollinators,coffee and climate change. A new study finds warming and land use changes have cut bee and other pollinator populations 61% with future risk to tropical crops.
https://t.co/RlFH3IBrf0

[AP Climate @AP_Climate]

AP PHOTOS: In the warming Alps, Austria’s melting glaciers are in their final decades. https://t.co/nPPrI9sdhc

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

We are in a climate emergency.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

The best barometer of rising inequality in America is no longer income, it is life itself.

Wealth inequality in America is growing, but The Post found that the death gap — the difference in life expectancy between affluent and impoverished communities — has been widening many times faster. https://t.co/fZi3icWPRJ

[TIME @TIME]

Pope Francis shamed and challenged world leaders to commit to binding targets to slow climate change before it’s too late, warning that God’s increasingly warming creation is fast reaching a “point of no return" https://t.co/ouZdrkPiOq

[The Associated Press @AP]

Pope Francis is shaming and challenging world leaders to take action to slow climate change before it’s too late. The pope calls for binding, verifiable climate targets at the next UN meeting and warns a warming world is nearing a 'point of no return.' https://t.co/WEgwmO3mkD

[TIME @TIME]

Thousands of fish have also died, as the region grapples with a severe drought https://t.co/5ldEmC7mxG

[The New York Times @nytimes]

The Friday storm in New York City started out earlier in the week as an unremarkable weather system. Then it joined forces with another low-pressure weather system. “Where they converged is where the heavy rain occurred,” a meteorologist said. https://t.co/zALz7wjN1J

[The New York Times @nytimes]

The Biden administration will prohibit drilling in 13 million acres of pristine wilderness in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska and cancel all drilling leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, it announced on Wednesday. https://t.co/fDbX4HGaRh

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

As coronavirus cases rise, masks are returning to some American classrooms — and school administrators say they are not eager to relive the bitter political debates over whether masks and vaccination are common sense or an abridgment of freedom. https://t.co/i5GoY8wzwU

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

The vast majority of young adults and single adults experiencing homelessness in the District remained unhoused last year despite an infusion of vouchers meant to address a problem that is surging in the region, according to data. https://t.co/cfPWw8aAR6

[MS NOW @MSNOWNews]

While human beings will have to make some adaptations to climate change, @DrKateMarvel explains why the "we'll just adapt to it" crowd really misses the point about the magnitude of the problem. https://t.co/0RuK3TH9u9

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Burning mangrove trees for a living: 'I'd quit tomorrow if I could' https://t.co/qEvbSQ4Osv