Settler, N95 Mask, vaxxed for everything I can (with all available doses), #vegetarian, #VisualDisability: #NAION = Non-arteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy
Background image: Photo of “Horseshoe”(U-shaped) waterfall (the big one) at Niagara Falls, at night. Falling water and spray are lit up in blue and yellow (Ukrainian flag colours).
Avatar: Drawing of a Vireo olivaceus, a small, yellowish songbird, perched on a branch, beak partly open, as if in song.
| Location: | Treaty lands, Turtle Island (Ontario, Canada, North America) |
| I support: | Ukraine, true reconciliation w/indigenous peoples, proactive #PublicHealth, #accessibility / #a11y), universal livable income & all universal human rights, science, biodiversity, stopping climate disaster - phase-out #fossilfuel. |
| #CitizenScience: | iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/people/1802404, eBird, Merlin Bird ID app: Sound ID feature recognizes birds by songs, calls! |
| Pronouns: he/him or they/them | #TransRightsAreHumanRighs #ally |
Costa Rica restored its forests and switched to renewable energy — what can the world learn from it?
https://www.theverge.com/24146299/costa-rica-forest-restoration-renewable-energy-lessons
#Deforestation
#Reforestation
#RenewableEnergy
#ClimateChange
#IndigenousRights
#Biodiversity
#GoodNews
#CostaRica
A study published April 25, in the journal Science provides the strongest evidence to date that not only is nature conservation successful, but that scaling conservation interventions up would be transformational for halting and reversing biodiversity loss—a crisis that can lead to ecosystem collapses and a planet less able to support life—and reducing the effects of climate change.
Don't water down climate action! - Let you MP know! A campaign by the Ontario Clean Air Alliance
www.cleanairalliance.org/cer2/
every woman in academia needs to stop and read this 2021 profile of Katalin Karikó. it’s enraging and inspiring all at once.
and every man should read it for a very simple reason:
🗣 THIS IS WHAT A REAL GENIUS LOOKS LIKE
not Jobs.
not Musk.
not Zuckerberg.
not 99.99% of the Silicon Valley conartists calling themselves geniuses.
no.
it’s this middle-aged mother who works at a lab.
❝ Messenger RNA vaccine pioneer Katalin Karikó shares her long journey
https://www.statnews.com/2021/07/19/katalin-kariko-messenger-rna-vaccine-pioneer/
California's right-to-repair law on governor's desk | Boing Boing
https://boingboing.net/2023/09/13/californias-right-to-repair-law-on-governors-desk.html
I will join Andrew Pinsent on @CFRAOttawa on Sunday at 9:35 AM to talk about the ongoing global pandemic.
Listen live online: https://www.iheartradio.ca/580-cfra/shows/cfra-live-1.10214495
My latest: Equitable pandemic response is essential | The Kingston Whig Standard
https://thewhig.com/opinion/equitable-pandemic-response-is-essential
I called the Ministry of Education today and got a person! I was very polite but told her I’d keep calling until Lecce makes an announcement that he will NOT out kids to their parents. I made sure to say that it was child abuse and that kids could lose their homes.
If you want to call too, here are the digits! (I’ve been calling the Ministry office) #ONPoli
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
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Geoffrey P. Johnston
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Monica Rooney