Chenoa
@chenoamarie.bsky.social
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🫎Anishininewag–settler | she/her 📊Epidemiologist & health equity researcher | PhD MPH 🏃🏽‍♀️Loves running, coffee, reading, beadwork, mountain sports 🐌Embracing slow: moving through the world with radical intention 📍Unceded Coast Salish territory 🔍Views my own
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Beautiful day in the Coquihalla alpine yesterday. #BlueSky (🤭)
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Recently finished from the #TBR pile: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (2013) is my favourite book of the year. A boy’s traumatic and chaotic journey through adolescence and young adulthood spent harbouring a BIG SECRET. Riveting piece of fiction with complex characters and storylines within storylines.
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Another weekend well spent catching up with friends and family in the city, getting some fresh air, finally checking out the Nuxalk Strong exhibit at MOA, and stopping by the library for a few more books for the #TBR pile. #BookSky
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From the #TBR pile: Wînipêk by Niigaan Sinclair (2024). A provocative and revelatory storyteller, Niigaan will make you feel passionate about a place you may or may not have ever visited. Highly recommended reading any time, but particularly as we near the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
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I often bead during online meetings; it helps me listen and really engage with people, particularly presenters. A random butterfly design from my overflowing bead box. Indig wisdom I learned a long time ago: keep your hands busy!
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It can only good happen!
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This is great! Looking forward to reading.
Bridging this gap is what Indigenous scholars have been advocating for decades: calling for recognition of the value and legitimacy of bridging methodologies across disciplines AND worldviews to answer complex health questions.
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Medicine has largely underutilized the power of humanities to advance scientific research.

In our piece, physician/historian @thelakshmik.bsky.social, @hls.harvard.edu student Kayla Z & I describe how this methodological bridging can strengthen scientific enquiry.

(1/4) #MedSky

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RFK Jr.‘s advisory panel, amidst rushed confusion, votes to rescind the MMRV recommendation. “It was unclear whether the members all understood what they were voting for” is not a sentence I want to read after decisions like this. More votes to come, COVID tomorrow. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/h...
Kennedy’s Advisory Panel Votes to Limit M.M.R.V. Vaccine for Children Under 4
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From the #TBR *audio* pile: The Push by Ashley Audrain (2021). When I tell you I ignored my husband for an entire day last weekend because I could not turn this off!! I’m sorta picky about psychological dramas but this was unputdownable. I don’t think I ever even hit pause haha.
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From the #TBR pile: Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner (2021), which I read last August. You will seriously want to eat this book. An ode to her mother, her culture, and good food. Special appearance: my dog Kya who, despite being unable to read, spends a lot of time hanging around the library.
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Okay so unfair to catch Italy in the crosshairs like that.
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This is abhorrent. And so deeply sad. The parallels to the residential school system in Canada are poignant.
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From the #TBR pile: The Other Valley by (local author!) Scott Alexander Howard (2024). I am so impressed by the simple yet vast world building in this alternate universe where to travel between valleys is to travel through time.
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Oh you thought there would be a theme to my book recommendations? No! My curiosity and interests span the ages and genres. In addition, I am a heavy consumer of audiobooks, from which I will also draw many recommendations.
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From the #TBR pile: North Woods by Daniel Mason (2023). One of my favourite recent novels, I read this last year and highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys fiction. This is the story of a place throughout time, told from the perspectives of people occupying a house in New England over centuries.
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As a budding epidemiologist and researcher during the COVID-19 pandemic, I remember the squabble over whether SARS-CoV-2 was airborne or droplet transmitted. It was fascinating to learn of the tensions throughout history that persisted in the airborne debate even into the modern, COVID era.
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First up (and most recent) from the #TBR pile:
Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe by Carl Zimmer (2025). A comprehensive account of the history of research on what constitutes our aerobiome and the incredible challenges faced by researchers along the way.
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I am going to start sharing books I’ve been reading every week. I have always been an avid reader, but post-PhD I found myself a bit estranged from that passion. I’m happy to report I’m more voracious than ever and would love to share some of the stack. I will call it my “from the #TBR pile” series!
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I wanted to share some of my recent beadwork: daisy earrings I made for my friend’s birthday 🌼 backed with green felt. I made the original as part of a beading workshop I led several months ago, and I’m glad it found its final form.
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mRNA vaccines ushered in a “new era” for vaccine technology.

With nearly $500 million in funding canceled for mRNA vaccine projects, the possibility of using these vaccines against diseases like HIV, rabies, Zika, and certain cancers is dimming.

Learn more: publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/risks-o...
Messenger RNA Vaccines #shorts
YouTube video by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
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Release from HHS: HHS will wind down its development of the mRNA vaccine development activities under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).
HHS Winds Down mRNA Vaccine Development Under BARDA

 

WASHINGTON, DC—AUGUST 5, 2025—The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), including the cancellation and de-scoping of various contracts and solicitations. The decision follows a comprehensive review of mRNA-related investments initiated during the COVID-19 public health emergency.

 

“We reviewed the science, listened to the experts, and acted,” said HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. “BARDA is terminating 22 mRNA vaccine development investments because the data show these vaccines fail to protect effectively against upper respiratory infections like COVID and flu. We’re shifting that funding toward safer, broader vaccine platforms that remain effective even as viruses mutate.”