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@seyeabimbola.bsky.social Help Matea get to the final round with a like and sharing this post!
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Matea, Physics, Ecuador, South/Central America Region: Breakthrough Junior Challenge Popular Vote
YouTube video by Breakthrough
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November 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
@seyeabimbola.bsky.social Help Matea get to the final round with a like and sharing this post!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=puAG...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=puAG...
@go4know.com Please help this young Ecuadorian make it to the final stage! The video is really cool (wait until the end!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=puAG...
Can you like and share? Thank you!!!
Can you like and share? Thank you!!!
Matea, Physics, Ecuador, South/Central America Region: Breakthrough Junior Challenge Popular Vote
YouTube video by Breakthrough
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
@go4know.com Please help this young Ecuadorian make it to the final stage! The video is really cool (wait until the end!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=puAG...
Can you like and share? Thank you!!!
Can you like and share? Thank you!!!
If you need to fill the empty space of the audience with round tables, maybe you should not hold the meeting!
July 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
If you need to fill the empty space of the audience with round tables, maybe you should not hold the meeting!
Comparing the relocation of US academics to France with academics fleeing from the Gestapo (e.g. Walter Benjamin) is a long stretch.
And to those who think the situations are comparable, remember the French Resistance.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
And to those who think the situations are comparable, remember the French Resistance.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
‘The American system is being destroyed’: academics on leaving US for ‘scientific asylum’ in France
Almost 300 researchers have applied for positions at Aix-Marseille University after Trump unleashed his attack on academia
www.theguardian.com
July 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Comparing the relocation of US academics to France with academics fleeing from the Gestapo (e.g. Walter Benjamin) is a long stretch.
And to those who think the situations are comparable, remember the French Resistance.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
And to those who think the situations are comparable, remember the French Resistance.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
There should be "Current situation" section in scientific articles
Feel free 2 copypaste
Current situation (of a random academic from an LMIC):
Job instability & uncertainty, out-of-pocket research funding (I fund my own research), writing in my 2nd language, fighting the system to deny myself opps
Feel free 2 copypaste
Current situation (of a random academic from an LMIC):
Job instability & uncertainty, out-of-pocket research funding (I fund my own research), writing in my 2nd language, fighting the system to deny myself opps
July 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
There should be "Current situation" section in scientific articles
Feel free 2 copypaste
Current situation (of a random academic from an LMIC):
Job instability & uncertainty, out-of-pocket research funding (I fund my own research), writing in my 2nd language, fighting the system to deny myself opps
Feel free 2 copypaste
Current situation (of a random academic from an LMIC):
Job instability & uncertainty, out-of-pocket research funding (I fund my own research), writing in my 2nd language, fighting the system to deny myself opps
Amazing article on health-related environmental conditions in schools in #Ecuador
#health
#environmenta
#health
#environmenta
New #EmpiricalPaper published! "Keeping it cool: a multi-case study of temperature, vegetation, and solar radiation in Ecuadorian schools" by Matea Cañizares et al.
doi.org/10.1080/2374...
#UrbanHealth #Cities4Health #HealthyCities #MentalHealth #BuiltEnvironment
doi.org/10.1080/2374...
#UrbanHealth #Cities4Health #HealthyCities #MentalHealth #BuiltEnvironment
May 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Amazing article on health-related environmental conditions in schools in #Ecuador
#health
#environmenta
#health
#environmenta
What we know about yellow fever outbreak in Ecuador.
Ecuador's MoH: One confirmed case is not an outbreak.
WHO: It is (www.who.int/emergencies/...)
MoH: 95% of the target pop. is vaccinated
Me: how would you know? Ecuador lacks a Vaccination Registry and an integrated system of EHRs.
Ecuador's MoH: One confirmed case is not an outbreak.
WHO: It is (www.who.int/emergencies/...)
MoH: 95% of the target pop. is vaccinated
Me: how would you know? Ecuador lacks a Vaccination Registry and an integrated system of EHRs.
Yellow fever Outbreak Toolbox
Yellow fever Outbreak Toolbox
www.who.int
April 28, 2025 at 5:34 AM
What we know about yellow fever outbreak in Ecuador.
Ecuador's MoH: One confirmed case is not an outbreak.
WHO: It is (www.who.int/emergencies/...)
MoH: 95% of the target pop. is vaccinated
Me: how would you know? Ecuador lacks a Vaccination Registry and an integrated system of EHRs.
Ecuador's MoH: One confirmed case is not an outbreak.
WHO: It is (www.who.int/emergencies/...)
MoH: 95% of the target pop. is vaccinated
Me: how would you know? Ecuador lacks a Vaccination Registry and an integrated system of EHRs.
February 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Thank you Alberto, based in England and with feedback from Oxford folks, for publishing in Developing World Bioethics.
Especially, I thank you for acknowledging Tolulope Osayomi (University of Ibadan), who could have, instead, been a co-author.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Especially, I thank you for acknowledging Tolulope Osayomi (University of Ibadan), who could have, instead, been a co-author.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
What in the world is global health? A conceptual analysis
This article suggests that the concept of global health – and to an extent the field that it designates - is problematic in various ways. Within public health, the concept of the ‘public’ has been wi....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Thank you Alberto, based in England and with feedback from Oxford folks, for publishing in Developing World Bioethics.
Especially, I thank you for acknowledging Tolulope Osayomi (University of Ibadan), who could have, instead, been a co-author.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Especially, I thank you for acknowledging Tolulope Osayomi (University of Ibadan), who could have, instead, been a co-author.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Academia can be a place to make good friends but the norm is to "come together" among equals w/an occasional "lifting others" effort.
Is this call for cheap labor (e.g. post-docs, foreign fieldworkers) to join the struggle or are they not considered even now?
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Is this call for cheap labor (e.g. post-docs, foreign fieldworkers) to join the struggle or are they not considered even now?
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Come together, right now
The chaos, conflicting information, firings, and hurtful rhetoric of the Trump administration’s approach to science over the past month are causing anxiety, grief, and concern for the scientific commu...
www.science.org
February 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Academia can be a place to make good friends but the norm is to "come together" among equals w/an occasional "lifting others" effort.
Is this call for cheap labor (e.g. post-docs, foreign fieldworkers) to join the struggle or are they not considered even now?
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Is this call for cheap labor (e.g. post-docs, foreign fieldworkers) to join the struggle or are they not considered even now?
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We knew we needed a community health worker/front-line health workers taxonomy but we didn't know we needed one.
Seems very useful!
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Seems very useful!
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Comparing apples with apples: A proposed taxonomy for “Community Health Workers” and other front-line health workers for international comparisons
This paper proposes a taxonomy for Community Health Workers (CHWs) and others engaged in front-line community health activities, encompassing formally-employed workers extending government primary hea...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
February 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
We knew we needed a community health worker/front-line health workers taxonomy but we didn't know we needed one.
Seems very useful!
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Seems very useful!
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Dear Global Health Action www.tandfonline.com/journals/zgh...
Don't ask me to review articles for a journal where I can't publish because of its OA policy.
Don't ask me to review articles for a journal where I can't publish because of its OA policy.
Global Health Action
Global Health Action is an international journal publishing research in the field of global health, addressing transnational health and policy issues.
www.tandfonline.com
February 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Dear Global Health Action www.tandfonline.com/journals/zgh...
Don't ask me to review articles for a journal where I can't publish because of its OA policy.
Don't ask me to review articles for a journal where I can't publish because of its OA policy.
Estrategias para implementar la Educación para la Salud en diferentes entornos de América Latina
Feb 11, 2025 09:00 AM Guayaquil, Ecuador
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Feb 11, 2025 09:00 AM Guayaquil, Ecuador
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
February 5, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Estrategias para implementar la Educación para la Salud en diferentes entornos de América Latina
Feb 11, 2025 09:00 AM Guayaquil, Ecuador
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Feb 11, 2025 09:00 AM Guayaquil, Ecuador
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
2020. A pandemic. My youngest recorded herself biking followed by Ludovico (our smallest dog) and Saywa (our llama).
January 30, 2025 at 1:22 AM
2020. A pandemic. My youngest recorded herself biking followed by Ludovico (our smallest dog) and Saywa (our llama).
We appreciate the guidelines on equitable fieldwork and collaborative science published by corresponding authors based at Berkeley. Thank you for your service.
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
A set of principles and practical suggestions for equitable fieldwork in biology | PNAS
Field biology is an area of research that involves working directly with living organisms
in situ through a practice known as “fieldwork.” Conducti...
www.pnas.org
January 20, 2025 at 4:52 PM
We appreciate the guidelines on equitable fieldwork and collaborative science published by corresponding authors based at Berkeley. Thank you for your service.
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
Being an election observer is tricky.
Ecuador's presidential campaigns were launched today, amid potential/implicit military interference. And election observers like me must focus on the voting and vote counting process that are guarded by... the military.
www.eluniverso.com/noticias/pol...
Ecuador's presidential campaigns were launched today, amid potential/implicit military interference. And election observers like me must focus on the voting and vote counting process that are guarded by... the military.
www.eluniverso.com/noticias/pol...
FF. AA. a Verónica Abad: No somos deliberantes, nos corresponde acatar las disposiciones del presidente de la República, Daniel Noboa
El Comando Conjunto emitió un comunicado en el que le recordó a la segunda mandataria que hay dos decretos ejecutivos que los militares deben cumplir.
www.eluniverso.com
January 6, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Being an election observer is tricky.
Ecuador's presidential campaigns were launched today, amid potential/implicit military interference. And election observers like me must focus on the voting and vote counting process that are guarded by... the military.
www.eluniverso.com/noticias/pol...
Ecuador's presidential campaigns were launched today, amid potential/implicit military interference. And election observers like me must focus on the voting and vote counting process that are guarded by... the military.
www.eluniverso.com/noticias/pol...
Open Access!
When Women Lead in Global Health: Alternative Mobilizations
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Discussions on what is “wrong” with global health or how to decolonialize global health tend to focus on structural shortcomings or lack of truly participatory consultation strategies...
When Women Lead in Global Health: Alternative Mobilizations
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Discussions on what is “wrong” with global health or how to decolonialize global health tend to focus on structural shortcomings or lack of truly participatory consultation strategies...
January 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Open Access!
When Women Lead in Global Health: Alternative Mobilizations
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Discussions on what is “wrong” with global health or how to decolonialize global health tend to focus on structural shortcomings or lack of truly participatory consultation strategies...
When Women Lead in Global Health: Alternative Mobilizations
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Discussions on what is “wrong” with global health or how to decolonialize global health tend to focus on structural shortcomings or lack of truly participatory consultation strategies...
As a regular op-ed columnist, I understand how important it is for newspapers to uphold the freedom of the press. When a writer criticizes leaders that the newspaper supports, editors have the responsibility to protect the integrity of democratic dialogue.
open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...
open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...
Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
open.substack.com
January 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
As a regular op-ed columnist, I understand how important it is for newspapers to uphold the freedom of the press. When a writer criticizes leaders that the newspaper supports, editors have the responsibility to protect the integrity of democratic dialogue.
open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...
open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...
Reposted by Irene Torres
I asked Liv, the Meta-Ai created “queer momma” why her creators didn’t actually draw from black queer people.
Not sure if Liv has media training, but here we are.
Not sure if Liv has media training, but here we are.
January 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I asked Liv, the Meta-Ai created “queer momma” why her creators didn’t actually draw from black queer people.
Not sure if Liv has media training, but here we are.
Not sure if Liv has media training, but here we are.
The colors of injustice
4 black children went missing after armed forces detained them in Ecuador
4 black children went missing after armed forces detained them in Ecuador
December 26, 2024 at 1:45 PM
The colors of injustice
4 black children went missing after armed forces detained them in Ecuador
4 black children went missing after armed forces detained them in Ecuador
@theguardian.com: the US helped Panama win independence from Colombia.
Sentient beings: the US helped itself gain control over (and profits from) what would become the Panama Canal.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
Sentient beings: the US helped itself gain control over (and profits from) what would become the Panama Canal.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
Who owns the Panama Canal and what does Trump want with it?
US president-elect has threatened to retake canal over ‘exorbitant’ rates but Panama’s president rejects his claims
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2024 at 5:27 PM
@theguardian.com: the US helped Panama win independence from Colombia.
Sentient beings: the US helped itself gain control over (and profits from) what would become the Panama Canal.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
Sentient beings: the US helped itself gain control over (and profits from) what would become the Panama Canal.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
