Doctors are in dire need of education about the risks. Just 11% of medical schools worldwide incorporate any mention or treatment of air pollution risks in their curricula.
Which is wild considering 99 percent of children worldwide are exposed to air pollution levels above WHO recommended limits.
Doctors — especially of vulnerable patients but also of healthy ones! — need to be talking about this, too.
Okay a quick personal story to add to this. Last summer, I was 9 months pregnant and going to multiple OB appointments a week. We had a number of smoky days in the Seattle area and I was surprised my doctor never brought up mask-wearing as a way to protect myself and my baby.
This. N95’s can save lives from wildfire smoke. The scientific evidence of the damage caused by Particulate matter is clear and terrifying.
We are definitely facing drought as we go into summer in Washington this year. It’s a great time to make sure you’ve planned for masking and air filtration before we get to wildfire season.
For @heatmap.news today, I wrote about this problem and how — given the low snowpack and the bad fire season we're almost certainly in for — breaking through that stigma will be life-or-death. heatmap.news/masks-wildfi...
One of the best ways to protect yourself is by wearing a mask. But in a post-COVID landscape, public health officials face challenges getting folks to put their N95s back on.
This year, somewhere in the ballpark of 25 million Americans will inhale wildfire smoke — "probably the most toxic type of air pollution [they’re] ever exposed to," Brian Moench, the president at Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment, a nonprofit clean-air advocacy group, told me.
okay, I'll say it: johns hopkins is too plural of a name, almost obscenely fecund. there should be just one john or just one hopkin.
Map showing the western United States mean temperature for January to March 2026 relative to a 1991-2020 departure.
Almost the entire Western United States is averaging more than 5°F warmer than the most recent 1991-2020 climate baseline so far in 2026, which is truly remarkable. Off the color scale here!
Graphic from wrcc.dri.edu/my/
Okay well that’s a consensus lol
Can someone tell me what Tana French to start with
a 50-49 vote, folks :((((((( @jeva.bsky.social @heatmap.news heatmap.news/politics/bou...
A split bar chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "Americans are most likely to say T. Rex is their favorite dinosaur, but many don't have a favorite." The chart has the sub-headline: "Which of the following is your favorite dinosaur? (%)." The chart has the note: "Note: "Other" includes responses of archaeopteryx, spinosaurus, plesiosaur, ankylosaurus, allosaurus, parasaurolophus, dilophosaurus, diplodocus, iguanadon, and pachycephalosaurus, as well as responses of "other." We know pterodactyls and plesiosaurs aren't dinosaurs. Opinion about dinosaurs comes from the question, "How much do you like or dislike dinosaurs?""
A shocking new poll result: Many Americans somehow don't have a favorite dinosaur.
And only 6% give the correct answer (triceratops).
Check out YouGov's new polling on Americans and dinosaurs: yougovamerica.substack.com/p/whats-your...
Personally don't recommend these. As the article notes, these properties are typically achieved through PFAS, which can shed carcinogens in your home (which you then inhale) or come out in the wash (polluting waterways for decades). Will try to do a thread on how to treat stains in the wash.
You can make your own coffee order decisions. I believe in you ✨
Another parent said recommended we all use ChatGPT to make sleep schedules for our babies and it’s great because “it validates you.”
We’re in a baby group and it’s crazy how often people casually refer to consulting ChatGPT on extremely basic decisions. One mom said a potential nanny told her during an interview that she wouldn’t work in the house if there were nanny cams and the mom asked ChatGPT if that was a red flag (???)
Would read a book about why people hate thinking so much
Okay CTA. This is a good sign.
We don’t talk enough about the fact that we medically evacuated someone from the International Space Station because they lost the ability to speak and we DON’T KNOW WHY but are almost certain it was “space related”
Math is so crazy
Dad watching the splashdown: Well they’ve improved the coverage since ‘69
Good question! They matter in the obvious ways — leadership, presiding over meetings, setting the agenda — but the District board votes by majority on rates, investment, budgets, policy. The 10-seat Water board and 30-seat district advisory council are still in establishment control.
This is in ARIZONA, folks. Clean energy is popular!
This is amazing. Only property owners could vote, and the climate hawks were wildly outspent
I previously wrote about how data centers complicated this year's acreage-based election — weirdly, maybe to the clean energy crew's benefit heatmap.news/energy/salt-...
Clean energy candidates didn't win the presidency/VP in the Salt River election, but with two flips, they now control the 14-seat board 8-6 (❌=Turning Point endorsement ✅=clean energy candidate)
“Even if you're GUARANTEED to return safe?!??!"
I like being a terrestrial!!! I'm not supposed to be up there!!!
