Climate change is real. The warming we’ve observed is entirely human-caused.* Its impacts are serious, including making heat waves, wildfires, hurricanes, droughts and floods more severe and more dangerous.** But there are solutions and we can fix it.*** 💪🌱

It's the same for me. I get severe bronchitis with every respiratory infection, and being able to avoid hacking up a lung a month or two out of the year is amazing. Not to mention doing all my immunocompromised friends a solid.

I got my professional start as an intern at the Ottawa Co. Health Department while an undergrad at Hope College It makes me sad to think of it being gutted. abcnews.go.com/Health/wireSto…

I mean, not trying to take my cheese from me will probably prolong *your* life...

In Our Cellular Clocks, She’s Found a Lifetime of Discoveries quantamagazine.org/in-our-cellula…… Veronique Greenwood knocked it out of the park with her latest Quanta Magazine story.

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MOST READ NEWS this week: From Canaries to Cats: Domestic Animals as Sentinels for Human Exposure Effects ➡️ ow.ly/zewJ50Q8S0M Carrie Arnold

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PSA: Being alarmed about climate change does not equal being an "alarmist." The state of our climate right now is *objectively* alarming. If you are *not* alarmed by it, you are not engaging with reality.

11 clinical trials that will shape medicine in 2024 - from base editing and a vaccine against HIV to AI tools for lung cancer and patient triage. Part of our Year in Review, by Paul Webster and Carrie Arnold nature.com/articles/s4159…

If the new year has made you interested in making quick changes to achieve more stability, these lizards would agree with you. Carrie Arnold reports: quantamagazine.org/evolution-fast…

Did you know people & pigeons have had a 10,000-year fellowship, predating the domestication of all other birds, including chickens & ducks? With such a long, storied history, pigeons have all but wiped out their wild counterparts, Carrie Arnold writes. noemamag.com/wild-pigeon-ch…

Autoimmune disease is the next frontier for CAR T cell therapy. News feature by Carrie Arnold nature.com/articles/s4159…

How dialysis clinics make a killing off deathly-ill patients motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

" One-third of dialysis patients in the United States are Black, but Black patients account for more than half of all involuntary discharges," reports 2022 National Fellow Carrie Arnold Carrie Arnold for Mother Jones. ow.ly/9VQC50S8ClM

“Our immune systems, our synapses, even our placentas & embryos are all driven by viruses.” —Carrie Arnold noemamag.com/viruses-are-us…