There are 7 MPOX referral centers East Avenue Med Center Jose Reyes Jose Rodriguez PGH Quirino Memorial RITM San Lazaro These centers have dermatologists. More centers will be added as the need arises.

Wow. Researchers planted 8,500 trees in a 4-mile study area, took blood, urine, nail samples from people living within this area and found people's levels of C-reactive protein, a blood marker for strokes & heart attacks was 13% lower than controls, similar to regular exercise

Drug war poster boy Espenido confirms there are kill orders, quota, and reward system for cops in drug war. Explosive, as we may say, but this is the same cop who led the Ozamiz ops that killed 16. He also believes in killings. My latest:

At #DSA2024 Muthanna Saari from University of Sussex proposed a different perspective of an ordinary cash transfer programme, away from a state-based intervention: zakat as a wealth redistribution mechanism. This and other insights here ⤵️ buff.ly/3AqwVIY

“… we found no published evidence that open/FAIR data creates societal impact.”

Police Lieutenant Colonel Jovie Espenido, who used to be the drug war's poster boy, claims there were kill orders, quotas, and rewards for anti-drug operations. rappler.com/newsbreak/in-d…

LOOK: Today, on National Press Freedom Day, rights advocates rallied behind Altermidya after it filed a letter of complaint to the Commission on Human Rights, prompting the commission to undertake an investigation into the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology for denying

Filipinos will soon get a chance to view the Murillo Velarde 1734 Map as it finds its permanent home in the National Library of the Philippines. The 300-year-old map was used by PH in securing its 2016 arbitration victory against China. Paige Javier reports. #DatelinePhilippines

SALAMAT SA LABAN! 🇵🇭 Para archer Agustina Bantiloc exits the Paris Paralympics after falling to world No. 3 Jane Karla Gogel of Brazil in the 1/16 elimination of the women's individual compound open. Bantiloc is the first Filipino para archer to compete in the Paralympics.

#EntengPH intensifies but decelerates. Not good. Longer period of rainfall and flood risk exposure to those of us in its path.

Indian occupation in Kashmir disallows political mapping of the region by its people. State manufactured Maps, in this context, imagine violent change— retell a history, distort the present, and force dreams of an offensive future. The Contrapuntal thecontrapuntal.com/kashmir-mappin…

discipline and habit-formation, there’s really no other way. Use early mornings, late nights, lunch hours, weekends at home. Organize your reading into coherent longterm projects. Distrust your impulse to put the book down. Fight through the resistance like you’re at the gym.

The kitten will REPORT to Larry the Cat.

#TodayInHistory On this day in 2020, the DENR started pouring ”white sand” on a 500-meter stretch of the bay’s naturally gray shoreline in Manila, near the Baywalk strip along Roxas Boulevard. READ: inq.news/dolomite2020

NOW: The Human Rights Violations Victims Memorial Commission reveals it is the University of the Philippines (UP) that is delaying the construction of the planned martial law museum. It has yet to finish relocating and demolishing the structures on the 1.4 hectares it gave to

JUST IN: #EntengPH intensifies into a Severe Tropical Storm, according to PAGASA-DOST. It now packs winds of 95 kph with gusts up to 115 kph and is moving west northwestward at 10 kph. At 3:00 p.m. Tuesday, Enteng was located 165 km west northwest of Laoag City, Ilocos Norte.

Bagyo + lindol Pluvial flood (from rainfall) + fluvial flood (from rivers/streams) Landslide + baha Our "new" normal has long been multihazard disasters. We need to prepare accordingly to prevent primary & also secondary disasters: when disaster response results in more disasters

Reminder! Registration for our 6th International Conference: "Conflicts in Space – Spatial Conflicts" opens on September 12. With keynotes by Atsuro Morita, Arjun Appadurai and Teresa Koloma Beck! 🗓️10/11 Oct. 📍TU Berlin Find the program here: sfb1265.de/veranstaltunge…