Alexa Tanner

Recent PhD graduate from @ubcires. Studying (un)natural hazards focusing on multi-hazard environments - Community resilience and risk perception research.

[Alexa Tanner @AlexaLTanner]

@AndrewRumbach My feed is, at times, almost exclusively Elon. Wonder why…. 🤣

[Andrew Rumbach @AndrewRumbach]

One of the downsides of leaving academia is the reality that I will have to leave some research ideas behind, or at least leave them dormant. One example I’ve been tinkering with for 15 years…how does loss and grief impacts disaster decision-making? 🧵

[UBC IRES • bsky.app/profile/ires.ubc.ca @ubcires]

Please join us in congratulating:
🌟 @thebatmobike Allison Cutting @EmmaGillies14 @susanna_elsie @cl_mcgregor @simonerwl Colton Stevens @AlexaLTanner Lekha Tlhotlhalemaje and @TayaTriffo! 🌟

We’re proud of our newest cohort of graduates and wish them all well!

[Daniel P. Aldrich urbanists.social/web/@dpaldrich @DanielPAldrich]

New #article from @AlexaLTanner and Chang: A Community Impact Scale for Regional Disaster Planning with Transportation Disruption https://t.co/07xR9Z2we0

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@nursejuliex Couldn’t get pit tickets but will be on floor! Happy to meet up.

[David Moscrop @David_Moscrop]

We are notoriously bad at preparing for disasters. Now we're facing a handful of overlapping massive disasters with new ones on the horizon, including climate change.

It may be time to start doing things differently.

[Alexa Tanner @AlexaLTanner]

@gabrielledrolet We are approaching people’s 3rd birthdays 😨

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@climatewmargs 😢 the whole situation is heart breaking and infuriating.

[Alexa Tanner @AlexaLTanner]

@N_Ulibarri ❤️ I continue my figure skating!

[Birgit Umaigba-Omoruyi @birgitomo]

I really wish Twitter had an audio option to just SCREAM!!!

Hospitals are calling a code orange. Patients are suffering due to a nursing shortage, yet we have Internationally Educated Nurses working at Costco, Canadian Tire, McDonald's, Tim Horton's etc.

You should be livid.

[Alexa Tanner @AlexaLTanner]

@AnimalSmarts @UBC @rccosta0

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@lifelines2021 Do you have an update on the in -person 2022 conference? Omicon has changed things.

[Alexa Tanner @AlexaLTanner]

@Kavaeric Thanks for letting us know! Booked an appointment yesterday evening and am now done.

[Alexa Tanner @AlexaLTanner]

@aMarkzzz @davidcarr333 I’ve been wondering this too. To add to confusion, the booster dose of Moderna is 1/2 the dose of the first two, so has less mrna than Pfizer.

[Alexa Tanner @AlexaLTanner]

@JoshLessard @imgrund @spiritofanu @UKHSA Based on data re. Delta, it would likely be at least Pfizer, if not slightly more

[Velvet Prison Warden @andyferris]

Just look at how messed up things are and then think about what an earthquake would do here in BC.

[Jason Thistlethwaite @jasonthistle]

A federal emergency management agency with resources available across the country is long overdue. Local and provincial govs don’t have the agility or capacity and must request and wait for help while livelihoods are at stake.

[Brent Doberstein @bdoberst]

@AlexaLTanner I think we have to accept that most governments invest in resilience building post disaster. There are too many competing priorities pre-disaster & little incentive for proactive resilience-building. Disasters trigger windows of opportunity- unfortunately not present pre-disaster

[Alexa Tanner @AlexaLTanner]

I’m very sad and frustrated that investment into resilience isn’t being made. The few folks who do the work are wonderful but very understaffed (and dare I say, hiring is looking for a specific type of person who may not appreciate the complexity)

[Alexa Tanner @AlexaLTanner]

@DecisionLab 🤷🏼‍♀️ Spoke to cbc myself today (ahh, growing up) and made it very clear the risk assessments communities have access to aren’t depicting the needs of a changing climate system.