Valerie Stull
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interdisciplinary environmental health scientist / climate + health / food security & sovereignty / director @_MIGHTi_ / social justice advocate / poet
Joined November 2012
No, COP28 will not enable us to hold the 1.5°C limit, but yes, the result is a pivotal land-mark. It makes clear to finance, business and societies that we are now finally - 8 years behind Paris schedule - at the beginning of the end of the fossil-fuel driven world economy (1/4).
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📣 New working paper on residential segregation in India. We’ve been working for 5 years on this. 8 facts about residential segregation in India, from new administrative data. The situation is not great 🧵 1/N
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This often fatal sleeping sickness found in many African countries is painful and lengthy to treat. But a single oral dose proved incredibly effective in a clinical trial, raising hopes of eradication.
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You know you’re a scientist about to travel when…
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I'm excited to join @NhClimate on Thu 6/9 at 6p ET for a discussion on our @NRDC research to shed light on the enormous & growing health-related financial burdens of climate change. ➡️Register: https://t.co/Y5dxY0P7qS More great climate & health talks: https://t.co/vMkor512Oc
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When it comes to air pollution's impact on human health, yeah - it's generally much, much worse than you think.
In Opinion “Air pollution is a lot deadlier than we previously understood,” writes Binyamin Appelbaum. And studies show “that the concentrations of air pollution currently permitted by federal policy are still far too high.”
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I've got a commentary out today in @OneEarth_CP on 3 ways to reduce the inequitable health & financial burdens of climate change: 1⃣cutting climate pollution = clean air & better health 2⃣adaptation protects people 3⃣social investments cut financial harms https://t.co/9ooYn3Hlst
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Our work to estimate future heat-related mortality in the eastern US was cited in today's new @IPCC_CH climate report on escalating & deadly hazards around the world Here's blog w/our main findings & study is here: https://t.co/MNwdsSaoMl
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Our new research study quantifying the major public health consequences of climate change-driven warmer summers across the eastern US, out today. #ClimateChangesHealth
https://t.co/wkHJfgDtDe via @nrdc @nrdc_climate @NelsonInstitute @SAGE_UWMadison @UWPopHealthSci
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Just as @IPCC_CH sounds the alarm on the intensifying toll of climate change, the US Supreme Court to consider a landmark case--with a livable future at stake. Now's the moment to reaffirm EPA's role & response to the worsening climate crisis: https://t.co/RHnjEekGhD via @nrdc
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Today I declined an invite to join a journal's editorial board - crucial function yet unpaid, w/benefits: ✨Community building ✨Raising one's profile ✨Networking The journal fee to publish papers=$2600+ 🛑Let's not further enable a broken, greedy system built on free labor 🙅♂️
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Incredible postdoc available at Tufts: "Sustainable Sources of Protein (crickets!) in the Prevention of Chronic Disease." Work with the Vitamins & Carcinogenesis Team & the Nutrition and Genomics Team. See details here.
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CLIMATE NEWS: Today we @ProjectDrawdown placed a full-page ad in @nytimes to relay three critical climate messages: 🌱Humanity has the solutions to the climate crisis 🌏Bold federal policy will help accelerate these solutions now ❗️Leading businesses want Congress to ACT NOW
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On the cusp of winter, under the pollution of a hunter’s moon, I see, for once, no bird, but a cross; no wing but a brace to bear what must be borne. —Donika Kelly https://t.co/wA5pNLwsFD
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On the cusp of winter, under the pollution
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