Iva Cheung 🍗
@ivacheung.com
Certified Professional Editor • cookbook indexer • plain language trainer • mental health researcher • adjunct prof • #AngryJellyDonut • #LyricsPrompt prompter • #ParticipateInResearch booster • author, #AfterTheFeast • she/her • www.ivacheung.com
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Iva Cheung 🍗
@ivacheung.com
· Sep 30
After the Feast: A Turkey Leftovers Cookbooklet - Iva Cheung
After a couple decades of editing and indexing cookbooks, I took a stab at writing (a small!) one. After the Feast brings together 25-ish of my favourite ways to use up the leftovers from big turkey d...
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I made a li'l cookbook! *After the Feast* suggests ways to use up leftovers from your big turkey dinners.
The PDF is FREE. If you buy a print copy, $2 will support food security initiatives through the Qajuqturvik Community Food Centre.
Please spread the word! 🍗
ivacheung.com/2025/09/afte...
The PDF is FREE. If you buy a print copy, $2 will support food security initiatives through the Qajuqturvik Community Food Centre.
Please spread the word! 🍗
ivacheung.com/2025/09/afte...
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This is one of the arguments in my forthcoming book where I trace migration and citizenship policy history from the US colonial period to 1888 when voluntary and involuntary migration was going into land already owned and occupied by Native Americans for generations.
January 10, 2026 at 12:09 PM
This is one of the arguments in my forthcoming book where I trace migration and citizenship policy history from the US colonial period to 1888 when voluntary and involuntary migration was going into land already owned and occupied by Native Americans for generations.
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Banning private jets isnt even the moderate position, it's the conciliatory position
World’s richest 1% have already used fair share of emissions for 2026, says Oxfam
World’s richest 1% have already used fair share of emissions for 2026, says Oxfam
Richest 1% took 10 days while wealthiest 0.1% needed just three days to exhaust annual carbon budget, study shows
The world’s richest 1% have used up their fair share of carbon emissions just 10 days into 2026, analysis has found.
Meanwhile, the richest 0.1% took just three days to exhaust their annual carbon budget, according to the research by Oxfam. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2026 at 5:34 AM
Banning private jets isnt even the moderate position, it's the conciliatory position
Any takers?
These cookbooks are still available!
•Phoenix Eats + Drinks
•Oregon Wine + Food
•Brunch King
•Phoenix Eats + Drinks
•Oregon Wine + Food
•Brunch King
It's still super dark & the world feels bleak AF, so let's do something fun: another COOKBOOK GIVEAWAY.
See below 👇 for available cookbooks—some recent, some older. Pay shipping & it's yours. First come, first served (but if I've sent you one before, maybe wait & see if someone else might benefit!)
See below 👇 for available cookbooks—some recent, some older. Pay shipping & it's yours. First come, first served (but if I've sent you one before, maybe wait & see if someone else might benefit!)
January 10, 2026 at 5:26 AM
Any takers?
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A Glimpse of Hope That Alzheimer's Can Be Reversed
A major study suggests a stunning advance in preventing dementia and even restoring memory. A Tyee interview.
thetyee.ca/News/2026/01...
A major study suggests a stunning advance in preventing dementia and even restoring memory. A Tyee interview.
thetyee.ca/News/2026/01...
A Glimpse of Hope That Alzheimer’s Can Be Reversed | The Tyee
A major study suggests a stunning advance in preventing dementia and even restoring memory. A Tyee interview.
thetyee.ca
January 10, 2026 at 3:21 AM
A Glimpse of Hope That Alzheimer's Can Be Reversed
A major study suggests a stunning advance in preventing dementia and even restoring memory. A Tyee interview.
thetyee.ca/News/2026/01...
A major study suggests a stunning advance in preventing dementia and even restoring memory. A Tyee interview.
thetyee.ca/News/2026/01...
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What project is that? Alberta doesn't have an actual project. It barely has the concept of a plan of an inkling of an idea. #cdnpoli #ableg
Alberta’s Smith calls on Carney to speed up major project approvals
Alberta’s Smith calls on Carney to speed up major project approvals
Smith, in a letter to Carney shared on social media Friday, said that two years is too long, considering the recent U.S. capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
www.thestar.com
January 10, 2026 at 1:41 AM
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Canada should do the same
Elon Musk’s X threatened with UK ban over wave of indecent AI images www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Elon Musk’s X threatened with UK ban over wave of indecent AI images
Platform has restricted image creation on the Grok AI tool to paying subscribers, but victims and experts say this does not go far enough
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Canada should do the same
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A few things:
1. Read the room.
2. Crime is at historic lows in Canada.
3. Police do not prevent crime.
4. Funding for education, mental health, drug treatment, housing, youth programs, and other social programs reduces crime.
5. Canadians did not vote for this.
#cdnpoli
1. Read the room.
2. Crime is at historic lows in Canada.
3. Police do not prevent crime.
4. Funding for education, mental health, drug treatment, housing, youth programs, and other social programs reduces crime.
5. Canadians did not vote for this.
#cdnpoli
We’re combatting crime — bringing in tougher penalties for violent offenders and hiring more officers to help keep your community safe.
January 9, 2026 at 8:12 PM
A few things:
1. Read the room.
2. Crime is at historic lows in Canada.
3. Police do not prevent crime.
4. Funding for education, mental health, drug treatment, housing, youth programs, and other social programs reduces crime.
5. Canadians did not vote for this.
#cdnpoli
1. Read the room.
2. Crime is at historic lows in Canada.
3. Police do not prevent crime.
4. Funding for education, mental health, drug treatment, housing, youth programs, and other social programs reduces crime.
5. Canadians did not vote for this.
#cdnpoli
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Babe I actually just consider all people worth protecting
Leftists try to use Palestine as a wedge issue on Democrats during an existential crisis for America democracy. Instead of rallying against fascism in America, you all would rather dilute and split the opposition to American fascism. Why? For Palestine.
January 9, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Babe I actually just consider all people worth protecting
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There is a growing trend to see our relationship with nature as a spiritual thing. This is a mistake, argues Richard Smyth
Why connecting with nature shouldn't mean disconnecting from science
There is a growing trend to see our relationship with nature as a spiritual thing. This is a mistake, argues Richard Smyth
www.newscientist.com
January 8, 2026 at 12:09 PM
There is a growing trend to see our relationship with nature as a spiritual thing. This is a mistake, argues Richard Smyth
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Great news for Indigenous people
Trump on Greenland: “The fact that they landed a boat there 500 years ago doesn’t mean they own the land.”
January 9, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Great news for Indigenous people
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I’ll be on Laura Flanders and Friends tonight at 5 PM Eastern US, with Sandy Ho, for a special remembering our friend Alice Wong @lauraflanders.org youtube.com/@lauraflande...
January 9, 2026 at 9:21 PM
I’ll be on Laura Flanders and Friends tonight at 5 PM Eastern US, with Sandy Ho, for a special remembering our friend Alice Wong @lauraflanders.org youtube.com/@lauraflande...
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Imagine it being an international news story that you've had sex.
New Zealand’s rare flightless parrot begins breeding again
New Zealand flightless parrot, kakapo, is breeding again
New Zealand’s critically endangered flightless parrot, the kakapo, started breeding last week for the first time in four years, the government conservation department said.
www.ctvnews.ca
January 9, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Imagine it being an international news story that you've had sex.
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My husband, a psychology professor, is listening to a Grand Rounds on climate & mental health in the next room.
We know people don't talk about climate change, even if it worries them, but I was interested to hear they often don't talk to their *therapists* about it, even if it's causing distress.
We know people don't talk about climate change, even if it worries them, but I was interested to hear they often don't talk to their *therapists* about it, even if it's causing distress.
January 9, 2026 at 5:30 PM
My husband, a psychology professor, is listening to a Grand Rounds on climate & mental health in the next room.
We know people don't talk about climate change, even if it worries them, but I was interested to hear they often don't talk to their *therapists* about it, even if it's causing distress.
We know people don't talk about climate change, even if it worries them, but I was interested to hear they often don't talk to their *therapists* about it, even if it's causing distress.
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a decade of "participation trophy" bullshit from the right could only reach this conclusion bsky.app/profile/eric...
I thought Trump would never get the Nobel Peace Prize. He's about to prove me wrong!
January 9, 2026 at 4:39 PM
a decade of "participation trophy" bullshit from the right could only reach this conclusion bsky.app/profile/eric...
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Just before the holidays, a website that offered the world a window into the evolution of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, went dark. https://scim.ag/3NlkHrr
Fresh conflicts erupt around giant database for flu and COVID-19 sequences
Critics say “autocratic” behavior by GISAID could hamper response to a future pandemic
scim.ag
January 9, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Just before the holidays, a website that offered the world a window into the evolution of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, went dark. https://scim.ag/3NlkHrr
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Our letter to WHO, signed by over 2,300, calls for respirator use in healthcare to protect patients and staff.
Covered by Kat Lay in The Guardian:
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Covered by Kat Lay in The Guardian:
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Face masks ‘inadequate’ and should be swapped for respirators, WHO is advised
Experts are urging guideline changes on what health professionals should wear to protect against flu-like illnesses including Covid
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Our letter to WHO, signed by over 2,300, calls for respirator use in healthcare to protect patients and staff.
Covered by Kat Lay in The Guardian:
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Covered by Kat Lay in The Guardian:
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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can we stop turning everything into gambling?
The Golden Globes signs a deal with Polymarket, which will provide stats and predictions about the awards show at the official 2026 viewing party (Jordan Moreau/Variety)
Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
January 9, 2026 at 4:42 PM
can we stop turning everything into gambling?
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The caulosphere has a surface area of 143 million square kilometres; some trees have 6 trillion bacteria living in or on each square metre of bark
Tree bark has a total surface area similar to all of the land area on Earth 🤯
www.newscientist.com/article/2510...
www.newscientist.com/article/2510...
Tree bark microbiome has important overlooked role in climate
Tree bark has a total surface area similar to all of the land area on Earth. It is home to a wide range of microbial species unknown to science, and they can either take up or emit gases that have a w...
www.newscientist.com
January 8, 2026 at 10:26 PM
The caulosphere has a surface area of 143 million square kilometres; some trees have 6 trillion bacteria living in or on each square metre of bark
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Thank you to everyone who signed. The full letter, including the complete list of signatories, can be found here:
whn.global/a-call-for-t...
whn.global/a-call-for-t...
Open Letter to WHO: A Call for the Universal use of Respirators in Healthcare - WHN
January 7, 2026 The letter below (a button to download it as a .pdf file is at the bottom of this page) was sent to seven top officials at the World Health Organization on Wednesday 7 January. We wil...
whn.global
January 9, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Thank you to everyone who signed. The full letter, including the complete list of signatories, can be found here:
whn.global/a-call-for-t...
whn.global/a-call-for-t...
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From sea slugs to sunflowers, California Academy of Sciences described 72 new species in 2025 news.mongabay.com/2026/01/from... 🌎🧪🦑
From sea slugs to sunflowers, California Academy of Sciences described 72 new species in 2025
Researchers at the California Academy of Sciences kept busy throughout 2025. Along with collaborators from across the globe, they described 72 new-to-science species from six continents — creatures…
news.mongabay.com
January 9, 2026 at 3:52 PM
From sea slugs to sunflowers, California Academy of Sciences described 72 new species in 2025 news.mongabay.com/2026/01/from... 🌎🧪🦑
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Almost exactly one year ago, Progresso came out with a limited edition product called Soup Drops.
Reviews were less than stellar. Maybe it's time for somebody to try again?
www.thetakeout.com/1758741/prog...
Reviews were less than stellar. Maybe it's time for somebody to try again?
www.thetakeout.com/1758741/prog...
I'd Rather Be Sick Than Eat Progresso Soup Drops Ever Again - The Takeout
Progresso's new Soup Drops promise chicken noodle soup in cough-drop form. Are they comforting or cringe-worthy? Here's the scoop on this savory experiment.
www.thetakeout.com
January 9, 2026 at 6:37 AM
Almost exactly one year ago, Progresso came out with a limited edition product called Soup Drops.
Reviews were less than stellar. Maybe it's time for somebody to try again?
www.thetakeout.com/1758741/prog...
Reviews were less than stellar. Maybe it's time for somebody to try again?
www.thetakeout.com/1758741/prog...
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It would be great if, as a society, we stopped treating taxes like a bad thing.
Taxes are a good thing. And rich people who avoid paying them should be treated like the leeches they are.
Taxes are a good thing. And rich people who avoid paying them should be treated like the leeches they are.
January 9, 2026 at 7:07 AM
It would be great if, as a society, we stopped treating taxes like a bad thing.
Taxes are a good thing. And rich people who avoid paying them should be treated like the leeches they are.
Taxes are a good thing. And rich people who avoid paying them should be treated like the leeches they are.
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Why doesn’t this exist? This should exist.
January 9, 2026 at 6:10 AM
Why doesn’t this exist? This should exist.
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Why are they less common Emily
If you are reading Oster's NYT OpEd on nutrition guidelines, then you missed this take on vaccine schedules:
"The vaccines removed from the schedule are generally those for diseases that are less common and usually less serious."
*Hepatitis B is a serious disease*
parentdata.org/what-changed...
"The vaccines removed from the schedule are generally those for diseases that are less common and usually less serious."
*Hepatitis B is a serious disease*
parentdata.org/what-changed...
What Changed in the Childhood Vaccine Schedule? | ParentData by Emily Oster
The CDC has changed the childhood vaccine schedule. What changed, what didn’t, and what it means for parents—without panic, and without misinformation.
parentdata.org
January 8, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Why are they less common Emily