Sarah Katz-Lavigne, PhD - Free 🇵🇸

John Donnison, BBC News, paraphrased

Last week, doctors in what's left of al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City had to perform a Caesarian section on a nine-months-pregnant woman who'd had her head blown off. They managed to save the baby.

🚨 Oxfam and over 100+ humanitarian organizations, incl.
@savethechildren.org, @amnesty.org, @msfincanada.bsky.social & @careintuk.bsky.social, sound the alarm: let aid into #Gaza.

Read our joint statement👉 oxf.am/4o2lY4J

IOB working paper 2025.04 "Faire face aux risques : Les risques et la précarité dans les mines artisanales et à petite échelle en République démocratique du Congo" by Sara Geenen & Sarah Katz-Lavigne

💡 Nouveau IOB Working Paper (2025.04) par Sara Geenen & @sarahgeokl.bsky.social:
"Faire face aux risques: les risques et la précarité dans les mines artisanales et à petite échelle en #RDCongo"
🔗 Read more: medialibrary.uantwerpen.be/files/2137/0...
#DRC #RDC #DRCongo #ArtisanalMining

Another year, another @uantwerpen.be university team in the Antwerp 10 Miles in April, which is sponsored by TWO (2) oil companies. I thought the university was supposed to be "climate neutral" by 2030 and "fossil free" by 2050 - but is fielding a team at a fossil fuel PR event in a climate crisis??

Rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest | Montréal recule sur son projet de piétonnisation Montréal recule sur son projet de piétonnisation de la rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest et maintiendra pour l’instant la circulation automobile sur l’ensemble de la rue. Un comité de travail sera néanmoins ...

Montréal recule sur la piétonnisation de Sainte-Catherine Ouest et maintiendra pour l’instant la circulation automobile sur l’ensemble de la rue. Un comité de travail sera néanmoins mis sur pied avec les commerçants afin de tester graduellement l’arrivée d’une rue piétonne.

IOB Working Paper 2025.03

📚 Nouveau IOB Working Paper par @sarahgeokl.bsky.social, Sara Geenen & Hadassah Arian:

Certaines initiatives pour assainir les mines de #cobalt en #RDC restent discrètes. Les entreprises s'invisibilisent pour éviter les "risques" perçus.

🔗 medialibrary.uantwerpen.be/files/2137/7...
#DRC #RDCongo

Another year, another @uantwerpen.be university team in the Antwerp 10 Miles in April, which is sponsored by TWO (2) oil companies. I thought the university was supposed to be "climate neutral" by 2030 and "fossil free" by 2050 - but is fielding a team at a fossil fuel PR event in a climate crisis??

Momodou Taal, the Black Cornell University student targeted by ICE for protesting against Israel’s genocidal assault against Palestinians, has announced he is leaving America.

x.com/MomodouTaal/...

Réforme du régime forestier | Non à une répétition de l’erreur boréale ! Les nombreux cosignataires de cette lettre estiment que la réforme que prépare la ministre Blanchette Vézina met en péril une richesse essentielle, nos forêts

Une très belle lettre. Non à une répétition de l'érreur boréale @coalitionavenirquebec.org !!!

www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/opi...

Map of the United States displaying hydrogen ion wet deposition levels from measurements taken in 1985 by the Central Analytical Laboratory. The map uses a color gradient from green (low deposition) to red (high deposition) to show varying levels of H+ deposition (kg/ha). The highest deposition levels are concentrated in the northeastern U.S., while the western U.S. has the lowest levels. Black dots indicate measurement locations. The map is sourced from the National Atmospheric Deposition Program/National Trends Network

Map showing hydrogen ion wet deposition measurements across the United States and parts of Canada, indicating values in kg/ha for 2022. The color gradient represents different concentration levels, with a scale on the right. Sites not pictured are listed at the bottom. The map is mostly green, indicating that H+ deposition is no longer a environment issue that it once was.

Another dataset I like is from the National Atmospheric Deposition Program, which has maps of the US that show we fixed the acid rain problem by implementing stricter emission controls on power plants.

nadp.slh.wisc.edu/maps-data/nt...

👏 Great news!

🇫🇷 Today French MPs voted to #BanPFAS from consumer products like clothing and cosmetics.

Over 140,000 citizens called on their MPs to back the ban & this is a huge win for the protection of people’s health & environment in France.

More in our news story: buff.ly/4bb9Vfb

Let’s end the age of plastic! - Greenpeace International I support a strong Global Plastics Treaty that cuts plastic production so that we can finally turn off the tap and end the age of plastic - for our communities, our country, and our planet. Join me

I support a strong Global Plastics Treaty that cuts plastic production so that we can finally turn off the tap and end the age of plastic - for our communities, our country, and our planet. Join me act.gp/42PXUdg

Thank you so much for the kind words, Jana!! All the best!

Wow, Eric, congratulations! That's so impressive. Definitely let me know what you end up deciding! Both sound like solid options :) And it sounds like a very interesting project, we should connect on these related themes.

Thanks, Judith! That means a lot :) Looking forward to chatting more.

Thanks so much!

Thanks for the kind words! Hope you are well

Thanks, Saumya! Hope the PhD is going well!

Thanks, Mariam! Hope you are doing well!

Thanks, Duncan :) Hope all is well with you.

Thank you so much for your interest! Actually across the border, in Utrecht. I will definitely be sharing more here in the coming months!

I am incredibly honoured to have been offered an #MSCA postdoctoral fellowship for my research project GenderedMinerals, which considers European Union critical raw materials policy through an ecological feminist lens, working with the fantastic @dianavelaalmeida.bsky.social. More details to come...

We can tell the truth about pregnancy without scaring women to death – in fact, it’s vital that we do | Emily Oster Many women have no idea about the potential complications until they happen. Without discussion there is no treatment or prevention, says author Emily Oster

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Alvaro Barrington at the Tate Britain - absolutely gorgeous exhibit.

www.bbc.com/arts/arts-in...

"He reveals his process in creating his art to reflect his Caribbean heritage and family memories, from the strength of women in his life to the broader themes of resilience and survival.""

Hilarious, Dazzling, Triumphant: All I Want for Christmas Is Books | The Tyee Gather round! It’s The Tyee’s annual holiday reads list. Please share your own picks.

Huge miigwech, thanks to @thetyee.ca for including Winipek and so many other great books on this year’s Holiday Reads list! thetyee.ca/Culture/2024...

Concordia University hired Israeli security firms to suppress pro-Palestinian student protests.

Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)

projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

Un rapport d’Amnesty International qualifie la guerre en cours à Gaza de « génocide » Dans un document de 300 pages, fruit de neuf mois d’enquête, l’ONG de défense des droits de l’homme estime que la destruction de l’enclave palestinienne, qui a fait près de 45 000 morts, est le résult...

« C’est comme si c’était la fin du monde. On doit protéger nos enfants des insectes, de la chaleur, et il n’y a pas d’eau propre, pas de toilettes, et pendant ce temps, les bombardements se poursuivent. On a l’impression d’être des sous-humains. »

www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

You seem to have misunderstood.

A reduction from 8 billion to 2 billion would have zero impact on the climate - the richest 80 million humans cause more greenhouse gas emissions than the poorest 5 billion humans.