Working from the train this afternoon ahead of the Cascade Bicycle Club Emerald City Ride with Seattle
-based babeslice Grete Wilt 🚴🏻‍♀️🌲🌲🌲⛰️ bike-train-bike-YEY🚵‍♀️

Important action by ISEE. Pesticides affect humans & the environment, & should be evaluated & controlled. I participated in the last 2 priority meetings for IARC Monographs and we identified many high-priority pesticides. I'm sure IARC will respond positively to this challenge

🌿May is #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth 🌿

At GreenME, we're diving into the therapeutic power of nature🌱
Stay tuned for our inaugural #newsletter next week, packed with insights on how nature impacts mental wellness.

greenme-project.eu/newsletter-reg… Subscribe now!

ChatGPT but for maps.💡Here's a first look at our work on a Smart Mapping Assistant prototype that combines the power of GIS with generative AI. esri.social/Sezi50RixSO

#AIinMapping #GeospatialAI

Large walking and wellbeing behaviour benefits of co-designed sustainable park improvements: A natural experimental study in a UK deprived urban area

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Over the past month, I've either updated or created the following Mapbox dot-density maps to help you explore Census data across the US:

Mapping Immigrant America: personal.tcu.edu/kylewalker/imm…

Educational Attainment in America: personal.tcu.edu/kylewalker/map…

Home Values in America:…

New The Michael Marmot Institute of Health Equity UCL analysis confirms since 2010 central government spending cuts to local authorities were highest in areas with lower life expectancy and more health inequalities, further harming health in these places @MichaeMarmot @UCL bit.ly/LEGAP

3 years later and {osmextract} is strong, v0.5.1 just released 🎉 Lots of goodies in there: docs.ropensci.org/osmextract/ Don't let access to open data be a barrier to your reproducible #DataScience projects 🚀

The 17th Kolokotrones Symposium, 'UK Secure Data Environments: A New Approach to Population-Scale Real World Evidence,” was a success!

Thanks to our speakers for providing valuable insight into the British data model.

Presentations now live on YouTube:
youtu.be/OkK57xqPOoI?si…

Working on another data dictionary today, I am reminded again how important these documents are in the research life cycle. Creating data dictionaries early on creates a roadmap for your entire project, leading to more high quality and usable data.

cghlewis.com/blog/data_dict…

📣 Updates to U.S. EPA’s #AQI for particle #AirPollution take effect next week

Need all 85,194 U.S. Census Bureau Census tract or 242,298 Census block group boundaries for your project with minimal fuss?

Get each in a single line of #rstats or #Python code from the newly-released 2023 Cartographic Boundary shapefiles using the {tigris} or {pygris} packages!…

doi.org/10.2337/dc23-2… Our study on water 🚰 arsenic and incident diabetes in US adults: MESA & SHS Annie Nigra, PhD Ana Navas Acien Qixuan Chen Benjamin Carlos Bostick & Marta Galvez-Fernandez, Melissa Lombard, Pam Factor-Litvak, Amanda Fretts, Steven Shea

We had a look at the newest ~snake oil~ (pardon my French, can't help the vitriol) map of a supposedly global, thrilling, AI driven nanometer tree height map by
Meta and World Resources Inst.

This is what we found, a short thread:

Last year The “Redefining Redlining” art installation brought 100,000 tulips to a vacant Washington Park lot where 21 homes once stood. #chicago

Gulf South Environmental Justice Leaders React to U.S. EPA Clean Power Plant Rules. Dr. Beverly Wright and Dr. Robert D. Bullard urge EPA to address pollution & advocate for renewables: ow.ly/re9I50RpwqX #ClimateAction #EnvironmentalJustice #CleanAir #EnergyJustice

We are hiring! Looking for a postdoc researching the relationship between nature and human health and wellbeing, any disciplinary approach welcome

🗺️Meta, World Resources Inst & Land & Carbon Lab have launched the first #AI -powered, 1-meter resolution global map of tree canopy height🌳

The model & data are made free & available to advance open source monitoring & improve our ability to adapt to #climatechange .

More…

📢 We're excited to release our Diligence Validation and Intercomparison report from the Forest Carbon Planetary Variable, comparing 8 datasets, including NASA/ESA (CCI Biomass), national forest inventories, field plots, and airborne LiDAR. 🌳
#ForestCarbon #science #EOchat

“Finalizing this rule is a critical step to reducing hazardous air pollutant emissions from the power sector.”

CATF's Hayden Hashimoto on U.S. EPA’s final rule updating and strengthening the Mercury & Air Toxics Standards (MATS) for coal-fired power plants. catf.us/2024/04/epa-st…