Vena Joseph

Multidisciplinary researcher and artist. Global health, planetary health, complexity science | Tweets in English, Creole and French

[Vena Joseph @venajozef]

passages intéressants sur les conditions d'émergence du vaudou haïtien extrait du livre de Gérard Barthélémy "Créoles - Bossales: Conflit en Haïti"

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island & New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative.

The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Bradbury, Huxley and all the great dystopian writers knew this and tried to warn us. It's easy to make a population dumber if you drown them in a sea of information.

[Vena Joseph @venajozef]

"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."
from @nplusonemag https://t.co/XCgAqPhY3C

[La loi de ma bouche @laloidemabouche]

Voilà qui a le mérite de dire les termes.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

New research published by the Lancet finds that economic sanctions imposed by the USA and EU are associated with more than 500,000 deaths per year since 1970, five times more than deaths by war. https://t.co/PnqmgMwwZW

[The Irish Times @IrishTimes]

Sally Rooney: Capitalism is driving the destruction of our planet. We have to think outside – and against – the framework of our current political system https://t.co/RiELFNJ0rH

[Vena Joseph @venajozef]

@Leao_pel I love this so much!

[Liam McCoy, MD MSc @LiamGMcCoy]

The internet has been progressively diluted with AI-generated slop. Are medical records headed for the same fate?

🧵 I just published a perspective in @NEJM with @AdamRodmanMD and Arjun Manrai on why rushing AI into medical documentation could be a mistake.

[Vena Joseph @venajozef]

lots of the discourse on Haiti belongs in the trash, but this one is a good, in-depth analysis of where we are and what brought us there, with some nice historical perspectives
https://t.co/lhDFFUECnd

[Vena Joseph @venajozef]

Phenomenal World sent out a very timely newsletter today about coups, post-neoliberalism, lithium industrialization, and Bolivia. Some interesting papers are linked.
https://t.co/kTnvrwETvg

[Dina D. Pomeranz 🟣 @DinaPomeranz]

Cash transfers to poor people *reduce* their expenditures in temptation goods such as alcohol and tobacco.

Possibly the reason is that poverty leads to stress and anxiety, which increases people's tendency to use such substances.

[Le Nouvelliste @nouvelliste]

Dominique Dupuy lève la voix pour Haïti à l'Unesco 

A l’occasion de la 219e session du Conseil exécutif de l’Unesco, la déléguée permanente d’Haïti auprès de cet organe, l’ambassadeur Dominique Dupuy, a dépeint la grave crise sécuritaire et politique du pays. Madame Dupuy, dans un discours émouvant, a évoqué une « capitale qui se transforme en tombeau béant ». Nous partageons ci-après l’intégralité du discours.