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Cheryl Peters

@cherylepeters.bsky.social

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Cancer/chronic disease prevention; misinformation & health literacy research. I teach public health & science communication at UBC (partner assistant professor in Population & Public Health) and am a Senior Scientist @ both BCCDC + BC Cancer. Views my own .. more

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Cheryl Peters @cherylepeters.bsky.social · 2d

Delighted to receive this funding to continue our teams’ work on understanding the burden of occupational skin cancer in Canada!

Canadian Cancer Society Research @ccsresearch.bsky.social · 2d

Outdoor workers are 3 times as likely to develop skin cancer as indoor workers. Dr @cherylepeters.bsky.social will use existing data to estimate the rates and costs of skin cancers caused by workplace sun exposure. The goal: to guide national efforts to reduce sun exposure and prevent future cases.

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Canadian Cancer Society Research @ccsresearch.bsky.social · 2d

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 20d

Interesting disclaimer from a group of authors who had been helping develop the latest ROBINS risk of bias tool but jumped ship rather than put their names to the publication researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/46... #episky

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Cheryl Peters @cherylepeters.bsky.social · Aug 30

What a petty and stupid little cunt.

Cheryl Peters @cherylepeters.bsky.social · Aug 29

As an epidemiologist myself, I’m unclear how these computer scientists and economists think they’re using epidemiology to own history??? Kindly don’t, friends.

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Cheryl Peters @cherylepeters.bsky.social · Aug 14

I talk to my computer when using Windows already, it’s just usually to scream at it “what in the fuck are you doing OH MY GOD?!”

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · Jul 31

struggling with an analogy here but imagine NASA posting a meme about how excited they are to return aviation to the pre-jet age

u.s. department of energy post on x praising coal:

"She's an icon
She's a legend
And she is the moment

[sparkly picture of coal]

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · Jul 30

Vinay Prasad just got fired from the FDA because he was utterly unqualified and could not meet the moment. He can now go back to making his little YouTube videos chockablock with misinformation and continue to deceive the public that way.

Vinay Prasad departs the FDA

Vinay Prasad, a top FDA official, is out after less than 3 months on the job.

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Cheryl Peters @cherylepeters.bsky.social · Jul 25

This is great to see from CSA! Public comment period is open.

Barry Hunt @barryhunt008.bsky.social · Jul 25

Good News!

Canadian Standards Association (CSA) has called for universal respirator use in healthcare settings & when performing patient care outside of healthcare settings (eg – in the home) in the latest edition of CSA Z94.4, Selection, use and care of filtering respirators.

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Barry Hunt @barryhunt008.bsky.social · Jul 25

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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · Jul 19

A powerful graph that shows the effectiveness of the HPV vaccine in preventing cancer and saving lives.

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Cheryl Peters @cherylepeters.bsky.social · Jul 19

Not to self-promote but I was involved in the Can-PCC collective on the subcommittee about prevention of PCC and we recommended asymptomatic masking in almost all settings, even with the limited evidence that the “gold standard” RCTs provide: can-pcc.recmap.org/plrs?recomme...

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Cheryl Peters @cherylepeters.bsky.social · Jul 19

Kelly, this sucks very badly. I totally understand orgs wanting to balance risks and harms but citing the propagandist Cochrane review as “unbiased” is actually deeply offensive.

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · Jul 13

Lmao

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The Conversation Canada @ca.theconversation.com · Jul 10

Returning to the office isn’t the answer to Canada’s productivity problem — and it will add pressure to urban housing

Companies are betting on office mandates to fix sluggish productivity, but what workers need most are affordable homes, shorter commutes and real opportunities to grow, not added stress.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · Jul 8

So are all the news outlets saying Zohran Mamdani is using coded antisemitic language and if you read between the lines you can tell how bad he is going to make a big deal about the worlds richest man making a chatbot that advocates for Hitler?

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · Jul 4

I don't think NYT should know peace until they divulge the full chain of decision making that led to the laundering of Nazi propaganda against a leading anti-fascist politician the same day fascism was codified in Congress.

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · Jun 25

trump's first post about mamdani is going to be levels of racism we haven't seen since the 19th century

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Jun 15

Incredible turn out for #NoKingsDay. Thank you to everyone speaking up and taking action. Dissent is patriotic!

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · Jun 11

We feed you.
They hunt us.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · Jun 9

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · Jun 7

ICE agents are chased and forced to leave their neighborhood by LA residents

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Jun 2

Israeli tanks opened fire on thousands of civilians gathered at a distribution site in southern Gaza’s Rafah on Sunday morning, killing at least 31 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office aje.io/xx7980

Israel kills 32 Palestinians seeking food at ‘death trap’ Gaza aid sites

Troops gun down starving crowds, capping deadly first week of operations for controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

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Cheryl Peters @cherylepeters.bsky.social · May 30

This is nice! Researchers often ask (if they do at all) more nuance about gender than sex (which makes sense!) but I appreciate the consideration of sexes outside the binary.

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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · May 29

🧵 Police and governments have manipulated media to create a moral panic around crime in homeless encampments. Now, they’re taking the next step to punish unhoused residents through medical incarceration.

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BC government faces legal challenge as national news media promote forced abstinence

Two long-form articles in national news outlets are promoting the BC government's "secure care" policy the same week that the government faces a pivotal legal challenge on its expansive interpretation...

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Cheryl Peters @cherylepeters.bsky.social · May 28

Jesus Christ, Fauci isn’t a “scientific insider”, he’s a public servant who was doing his job to keep people as safe as he could from infectious diseases using his decades of training and expertise!! Science isn’t some exclusive club with a secret handshake or something.

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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · May 27

I'm going to tell you something the government won't (and I can't believe I'm the one saying this): coronavirus damages the placenta. Women who are infected experience double the baseline rate of stillbirths.

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Cheryl Peters @cherylepeters.bsky.social · May 26

I actually just lost my breath for a second

Cheryl Peters @cherylepeters.bsky.social · May 24

Exactly. Canada Post is not "a company" - it's a public service we all want and need and it cannot nor should not be compared to for-profit companies, especially not the least ethical companies of all time.

Cheryl Peters @cherylepeters.bsky.social · May 11

Yeah I got the flu that fall, it was like, alarmingly bad.