Valerie Stull

interdisciplinary environmental health scientist / climate + health / food security & sovereignty / director @_MIGHTi_ / social justice advocate / poet

[Johan Rockström @jrockstrom]

No, COP28 will not enable us to hold the 1.5°C limit, but yes, the result is a pivotal land-mark. It makes clear to finance, business and societies that we are now finally - 8 years behind Paris schedule - at the beginning of the end of the fossil-fuel driven world economy (1/4).

[Jeff Tomberlin @FliesFacility]

Great postdoc opportunity with #bsf with @_vstull_ and Sarah Adcock

https://t.co/HnfABFMez0

[Paul Novosad @paulnovosad]

📣 New working paper on residential segregation in India. We’ve been working for 5 years on this.

8 facts about residential segregation in India, from new administrative data. The situation is not great 🧵 1/N

[NPR @NPR]

This often fatal sleeping sickness found in many African countries is painful and lengthy to treat. But a single oral dose proved incredibly effective in a clinical trial, raising hopes of eradication. https://t.co/K2i6mZZUqY

[Valerie Stull @_vstull_]

Great listen on the power of fungi! https://t.co/xWhOoiTBUS

[KayLee Steiner, PhD @steinerkaylee]

You know you’re a scientist about to travel when…

[Vijay Limaye, PhD @vlimaye]

I'm excited to join @NhClimate on Thu 6/9 at 6p ET for a discussion on our @NRDC research to shed light on the enormous & growing health-related financial burdens of climate change.

➡️Register: https://t.co/Y5dxY0P7qS

More great climate & health talks: https://t.co/vMkor512Oc

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

Eileen Myles 🍞:

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

"It / isn’t ever / delicate / to live."

Kay Ryan:

[PHD Comics @PHDcomics]

Interdisciplinary

[Jonathan Mingle @jonmingle]

When it comes to air pollution's impact on human health, yeah - it's generally much, much worse than you think.

[Vijay Limaye, PhD @vlimaye]

I've got a commentary out today in @OneEarth_CP on 3 ways to reduce the inequitable health & financial burdens of climate change:
1⃣cutting climate pollution = clean air & better health
2⃣adaptation protects people
3⃣social investments cut financial harms

https://t.co/9ooYn3Hlst

[Valerie Stull @_vstull_]

Reading for today: https://t.co/hwDYyqtJiV

[Valerie Stull @_vstull_]

@Andrea_HicksPhD @Fulbright_Eire @UL Congrats !!!

[Vijay Limaye, PhD @vlimaye]

Our work to estimate future heat-related mortality in the eastern US was cited in today's new @IPCC_CH climate report on escalating & deadly hazards around the world

Here's blog w/our main findings & study is here:
https://t.co/MNwdsSaoMl

@jonathanpatz @tracey_holloway @_vargo

[Vijay Limaye, PhD @vlimaye]

Just as @IPCC_CH sounds the alarm on the intensifying toll of climate change, the US Supreme Court to consider a landmark case--with a livable future at stake.

Now's the moment to reaffirm EPA's role & response to the worsening climate crisis: https://t.co/RHnjEekGhD via @nrdc

[Vijay Limaye, PhD @vlimaye]

Today I declined an invite to join a journal's editorial board - crucial function yet unpaid, w/benefits:
✨Community building
✨Raising one's profile
✨Networking

The journal fee to publish papers=$2600+

🛑Let's not further enable a broken, greedy system built on free labor 🙅‍♂️

[MIGHTi @_MIGHTi_]

Incredible postdoc available at Tufts: "Sustainable Sources of Protein (crickets!) in the Prevention of Chronic Disease." Work with the Vitamins & Carcinogenesis Team & the Nutrition and Genomics Team. See details here.

[Jamie Alexander @jabeckx]

CLIMATE NEWS: Today we @ProjectDrawdown placed a full-page ad in @nytimes to relay three critical climate messages:

🌱Humanity has the solutions to the climate crisis
🌏Bold federal policy will help accelerate these solutions now
❗️Leading businesses want Congress to ACT NOW