Our new Laboratory is finished. The equipment has still not been moved in so enjoy in the view of the empty lab. Thanks to ⁦QUT⁩ for the great support we have received.

It appears that World Health Organization (WHO) is hesitant to acknowledge and apologize for mistakes, a practice that can undermine the trust essential for the success of public health agencies.

20 years ago today NEJM published massive SARS1 outbreak and a perspective on airborne transmission. Have we learned our lesson? Will Precautionary Principle & transparent comms guide us next time? H5N1? Linsey Marr https://www.threads.net/@linseycmarr Kimberly Prather, Ph.D. zeynep tufekci Richard Corsi, PhD, PE (Texas) David Fisman nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Today, the International Energy Agency has started tracking progress of all 10 things that every country in the world committed to at COP28 UAE.

You can't say there's no ambition!?... 🧵
#DecadeofImplementation

Vic Gov is developing their first long-term cat management strategy. The draft is open for consultation until 26 April. The draft downplays the impact feral cats have on the environment. Can you please ask Victorian Government to take stronger action on feral cats?

To make it easy, we've

'Puff cloud'? Embarrassing...

Zero sick days, zero infected cancer patients, zero prematurely killed brain cells, #ZeroCOVID . Some would call it a mystery, I call it #prevention .

RIP dear Ignaz, we got this!

#maskup #CleanAir #COVIDIsAirborne #CancerAwareness #LongCovid

Yesterday, Tanya Plibersek announced she would split the reform of Australia's environmental laws into 3 tranches in the face of pressure from the WA government and the mining and resources industries.

Analysing the announced changes Professor Euan Ritchie 🌏 🌳 🐾 🔥 🎶 Megan Evans and yungenchee.bsky.social

Loving this leadership from Victoria! 👏👏👏reneweconomy.com.au/victoria-bans-…

“Today’s action by EPA is the culmination of decades of work to raise awareness of the global threat to human health and the environment presented by these man-made ‘forever chemicals.” whitehouse.gov/ceq/news-updat…

Dear Peter Mac Cancer Centre

“Patients with glioblastoma may have accelerated disease progression in the first 2 months after Cvd-19 infection”

Any chance of reinstating a mask requirement to protect yr vulnerable patients from unnecessary HAIs that cause “accelerated tumour progression’?

Well it has been weaponised and airborne in every sense (including military)

New Zealand installed cameras on 123 commercial fishing vessels.

All of a sudden this happened to self reporting of the vessels:
- 6.8x more dolphin catches
- 3.5x more albatross interactions
- 46% more discards
mpi.govt.nz/dmsdocument/61…

An expedition to Antarctic waters has discovered that wind drives the formation of colossal rogue waves, and that these unpredictable waves occur more frequently than scientists had previously thought.

go.unimelb.edu.au/jjd8

Twitter is definitely under-performing... I should know the traffic lights are out in Melbourne (why?) and that the power prices are spiking - which power generation is having issues (and know the reasons why). I feel in the dark!!

I'm taking part in the Mother’s Day Classic to help raise funds and awareness to fight breast and ovarian cancers. I’m going to put my foot down on Sunday May 12. Please join me, or donate now and show all women that you’re running, walking etc mothersdayclassic.com.au/s/82562/229513…

Amazing - Belgium has some seriously amazing policies in sustainable public health!

Paid to bike, compliance based IAQ in all public buildings (CO2 required to be displayed and standards need to be met).

'Researchers from the University of Liverpool and the University of Edinburgh have found evidence to say that people with cancer face a higher risk of mortality from COVID-19 compared with those without cancer.'

Study: thelancet.com/journals/lanon…

miragenews.com/covid-poses-gr…

Can we achieve clean air for all?

📢Introducing #OurCommonAir , an independent Commission co-chaired by Helen Clark & Soumya Swaminathan, bringing together 18 powerful voices to catalyse & accelerate global collective action on air pollution.

📽️Watch video: bit.ly/OurCommonAir

SBS has edited its 'fake news' and changed its headline accordingly. Good!

Notably, the original wrong information came from the press release distributed by the Australian Science Media Centre - the same org that promoted Gerrard's dangerous long COVID claims last month