At #emfcamp I was tasked with sticking together the slides for the lightning talks for ease of speaker changeover. One of the talks had about 150 slides, that's 1 every 2 seconds for a 5 minute talk! Surely a mistake, I thought.

I've just seen the result and it's great, high density, stuff:
https://media.ccc.de/v/emf2024-548-lightning-talks-saturday
http://benguin.co.uk/roads/

Physicist John Tyndall is often credited w discovering the greenhouse effect, which he wrote about in 1859.

But female scientist Eunice Foote published a paper - 3yrs earlier - demonstrating how atmospheric water vapor & CO2 affected solar heating. She theorized that heat trapping gases in Earth’s atmosphere warm its #climate.

Tyndall was widely read. And Foote, being a woman, wasn't even permitted to present her own work.
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/features/happy-200th-birthday-eunice-foote-hidden-climate-science-pioneer #history #science #ClimateChange #HistoryRemix

"January 29 is the Day of Remembrance and Action on Islamophobia.

"Today, we remember the innocent worshippers killed during prayer in 2017 at the Islamic Cultural Centre and reaffirm our commitment to action to counter Islamophobia in our city."

— Mayor of Toronto

| #CityOfToronto #Toronto #TOpoli #Islamophobia #GreenSquareCampaign🟩​

On this day in 1945, Auschwitz was liberated. Today, the world marks International #HolocaustRemembranceDay.

We can say “never again” all we want, but only constant effort to defend universal human rights has a chance of making that ambition a reality.

Sometimes you get a #sunset that just keeps giving. Tonight’s ended up being one of the most colourful sunsets I’ve ever seen.

This is the Salish Sea in Victoria, BC, (Canada) looking toward Port Angeles, Washington.

(this was January, 2023, so I have muted notifications on this post -- but I'm thrilled people love it.)

#photography #nature #colour #ocean #pacific #pnw #bc

Today my team @ProPublica released a news app that will allow you to look up any university, museum or other institution that receives federal money and has the remains of Native American people that they have yet to repatriate.

Here's my alma mater, the University of Florida, clocking in just under the top 10.

You can look up your own here: https://projects.propublica.org/repatriation-nagpra-database/

The Covid bivalent vaccine booster works better than expected.
I've reviewed the cumulative data
https://erictopol.substack.com/p/the-bivalent-vaccine-booster-outperforms

That's in contrast to a
NEJM essay today and 2 lab studies that used a pseudovirus assay without assessing the XBB variants