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Prof Sadie J. Ryan (she/her)

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🌍🔮🌡️☣️🦟🏳️‍🌈 Prof. Medical Geography, Co-Director, Florida Climate Institute, UF, Assoc Director, APPEX, building tools to anticipate climate-health impacts to prepare us for the future! Mum and wife, enjoyer of cheese. Rarely serious. She/her. Queer.

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Prof Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · Nov 13

Ok folks, now more than ever, we need to Be Kind and do Good Science.
This means digging in, producing the evidence, communicating clearly and sincerely, celebrating our collective curiosity, and being mindful of the spaces we are and can be in.

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Prof Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 22h

I'm a web crawler, get it?
Socktober continues...

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Saskia Popescu @saskiapopescu.bsky.social · 1d

Maldives becomes the first country to achieve ‘triple elimination’ of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B

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Prof Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 2d

Creeping into Monday very carefully

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 2d

The WHO has verified the elimination of both measles & rubella in all Pacific Island countries, alongside rubella elimination in Japan. The achievement follows 2 decades of coordinated immunisation campaigns, regional surveillance, and high routine vaccine coverage. buff.ly/EpFb7HK
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Rubella elimination verified in Japan, and measles and rubella elimination verified in Pacific island countries and areas

The World Health Organization (WHO) today announced that the 21 Pacific island countries and areas that are part of the WHO Western Pacific Region have collectively been verified as having eliminated…

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Prof Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 2d

Flying eyeballs?
Things are getting weird.

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

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Prof Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 3d

Stripey Saturday

Prof Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 4d

TGIFrightful!

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 5d

“The uptick in H5N1 activity signals that the avian influenza season is fully under way… Over the last 30 days, highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) has been confirmed in 38 flocks, including 24 commercial flocks and 14 in backyard locations.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

Flurry of H5N1 activity noted in commercial poultry, wild birds

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has noted several new H5N1 outbreaks and detections in commercial poultry flocks, backyard flocks, and wild migrating birds.

www.cidrap.umn.edu

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Prof Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 5d

Wooooooo oooooo ooooo

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A Farmer @afarmerinohio.bsky.social · 6d

Unfortunately, I currently live on land.

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 6d

One thing to remember is that global land temperatures are rising quite a bit faster than overall global surface temperatures averaged over the land and ocean. IPCC (2019) said that land temperatures rose ~75% more than global average temperatures since 1850.

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Prof Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 6d

Meaowednesday.

Cats cats cats cats cats

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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · 7d

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Solar: main source of EU electricity in June with 22%

In the second quarter of 2025, 54.0% of net electricity generated in the EU came from renewable energy sources, an increase from the 52.7% registered in the same quarter of 2024. This increase was mos...

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 7d

Not sure people realize how INSANELY DRAINING data centers will be on our planet.

If you imagine data centers as their own country, they'll rank fourth in global electricity use by 2035 — outranked only by China, India, and the U.S.

Read this in @bloomberg.com👇

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

www.bloomberg.com

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Prof Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 8d

Sparkleskull Tuesday.

Feet with sock, sparkle skulls and pumpkin heads on black

Prof Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 8d

Monday is always a bit of a fright!

Halloween socks on Sadie's feet feature pumpkin heads on grey uppers, and black-orange-grey-white stripes down to the toes.

Prof Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 9d

Sunday, Socktober 5th...

Prof Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 11d

Spider!

Prof Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 12d

TGIF

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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 14d

Chikungunya, dengue, fièvre West Nile : l’Hexagone face à une recrudescence inédite des maladies transmises par les moustiques-tigres

L’implantation du moustique-tigre s’étend à de nouvelles régions françaises, bouleversant la carte des maladies vectorielles et posant de nouveaux défis sanitaires.

www.lemonde.fr

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Prof Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 14d

Why yes it is Socktober time.
Boo!

Sadie feet wearing Halloween socks - black background with orange jack-o'-lantern faces

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Edinburgh Napier University @edinburghnapier.bsky.social · 20d

🪹 | Seabirds that survived recent bird flu outbreaks have continued to reproduce, although overall breeding performance remains notably low, according to a new study.

The study has looked at breeding success in Northern Gannets at two locations during 2023.

🔗 orlo.uk/44CaS

📸 Dave Pressland

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