Scientist, science communicator, public health & climate justice advocate
Biology PhD from Cambridge
WHO Fides member, Grist 50 Fixer, Creative Change alum
New Yorker/Aussie
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Scientist, science communicator, public health & climate justice advocate
Biology PhD from Cambridge
WHO Fides member, Grist 50 Fixer, Creative Change alum
New Yorker/Aussie
Opinions my own
This picture will always be iconic. RIP Margaret Hamilton who wrote the software that successfully guided NASA’s Apollo missions through the moon.
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New York Governor Kathy Hochul has declared a statewide disaster emergency due to the measles outbreak. This was avoidable.
Chicago rn
Mayor Zohran Mamdani held hands Curtis Sliwa as they got their flu shots 😂
Who is this team??? #LGY
Now that Man City have been found guilty of cheating… congrats Ted Lasso, you are now a Premier League champion!
The bald eagle struggling is so on point 😭
Happy to report the UN has fantastic indoor air quality! But I did get questioned by multiple security guards about why I was wearing a mask. I told them we were attending meetings about preventing pandemics 🤷🏻♂️
There were a few of us wearing high quality masks including one of the lead organizers, Dr. Bronwyn King!
Just casually bumping into @who.int Director General @drtedros.who.int at the UN. No more pandemics!
Joining global advocates for clean air at the UN today! ✊
Of course one of the best science fiction directors of all time understands the science of airborne virus transmission! Steven Spielberg is wearing a high quality mask during the California COVID surge.
New pin unlocked 📌 Happy Climate and UNGA week y’all!
Giving an external committee power to veto research funding because it doesn’t align to a political agenda will not only harm science, it is a threat to democracy.
Ok fine, Zohran did not fix everything
Background on the lobbying:
It's official: The EPA has repealed a rule that would have directly saved thousands of lives by limiting fossil fuel emissions from power plants. Industry lobbyists successfully pushed for this repeal using surging demand from data centers as justification. The government chose AI over human lives.
Trump curse strikes again