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Lygia Navarro (she/ella) ♿️ + 🏳️‍🌈 💜 🏳️‍⚧️ @lygianavarro.com · 23d

Great job opp! @narrativegigs.bsky.social @berkeleyjournalism.bsky.social

CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 27d

Are you a driven science journalist with a passion for infectious diseases? Join the CIDRAP News team and a great work environment.

We are hiring a general-assignment writer/editor and an investigative reporter. Apply today

hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/...

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 23d

Tell Instar, the private equity company that owns Windmill mushrooms, to recognize the union their workers elected.

Sign the petition today and boycott the hell out of Windmill mushrooms! act.seiu.org/a/windmill_i... #BoycottWindmillMushrooms

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Lygia Navarro (she/ella) ♿️ + 🏳️‍🌈 💜 🏳️‍⚧️ @lygianavarro.com · Sep 3

This amazingly brave LGBTQ+ refugee and her baby arrived in Canada today, and will need lots of financial help to get trauma treatment and settled in. Please donate!!!

Lygia Navarro (she/ella) ♿️ + 🏳️‍🌈 💜 🏳️‍⚧️ @lygianavarro.com · Aug 13

Friends are helping/sponsoring a trauma-survivor queer Cameroonian refugee moving to Montreal shortly with her child. She has really been through torture fleeing through numerous countries to reach Canada. PLEASE donate if you can.

Donate to Help an LGBTQ Refugee and Her Son Get Started in Canada!, organized by Anne Raeff

Help an LGBTQ refugee and her son get started in Canada! We… Anne Raeff needs your support for Help an LGBTQ Refugee and Her Son Get Started in Canada!

www.gofundme.com

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Citizen Harry 😷🥄⚙️💚🍉 @citizenharry.bsky.social · Sep 3

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Lygia Navarro (she/ella) ♿️ + 🏳️‍🌈 💜 🏳️‍⚧️ @lygianavarro.com · Jul 10

PLEASE SHARE!
I'm reporting on #H5N1 #BirdFlu (#AvianInfluenza #HPAI) for @thesicktimes.bsky.social, & want to talk to farmworkers or people who work with them re impacts of H5N1 on farmworkers. I'm especially interested in hearing re human cases since Feb 2025. Sources can be anonymous! (1/4)

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The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · Sep 3

This piece is our first in a series on the impacts of H5N1 on humans — especially Latine farmworkers. If you have professional expertise or hands-on knowledge about any aspect of H5N1 to share with our reporter, please email her at [info at lygianavarro dot com].

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The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · Sep 3

The flurry of 70 human infections over the course of 11 months, followed by an abrupt halt, makes scientists wonder how many people may have had H5N1 since February without the public being informed.

Read more from @lygianavarro.com: bit.ly/45NqwF8

Collage graphic showing a chicken on the left, with an orange filter, a cow on the right, in black and white, and a cutout of a farmworker’s silhouette in the center. The text reads, “The Sick Times. Despite waning headlines, bird flu is still a threat. Here’s how you can help farmworkers. By Lygia Navarro.”

How you can help farmworkers:

First, educate yourself and your community about how bird flu spreads. Many of the same tools we’ve used to protect ourselves from COVID-19 also work against H5N1. Additionally, keep your cats indoors and don’t consume raw milk products. And be sure to keep many high-quality masks on hand (with a minimum N95 filtration per the CDC), and do a fit test.

You can also monitor wastewater H5N1 surveillance data to see when infections may be increasing in your area. But keep in mind that these data are not a perfect indicator of human cases, as animals also contribute waste to public sewer systems.

How you can help farm workers:

Donate money to mask blocs, some of which provide N95s and other PPE to farmworkers around the country.

Donate funds to community health clinics in rural agricultural areas, which serve as safety nets for farmworkers.

If you speak Spanish or other languages farmworkers may speak in your community, offer your language and translation abilities to your local mask bloc to do outreach to farmworkers or translate written information.

Seek out ethical food providers, and inquire about whether their workers have access to paid sick time, PPE, information about H5N1, and testing.

How you can help farm workers:

If you live in a community with farmworkers, print out H5N1 info sheets from the CDC, and ask to post them in public locations like libraries, health facilities, schools, immigrant-run grocers, dollar stores, and anywhere else where community members might gather. Include information about accessing H5N1 testing — call your local county public health department for more guidance on this.

U.S. readers, ask your elected officials at the state and federal level to take action on H5N1 — especially if you have a representative on the House Committee on Agriculture or senator on the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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Lygia Navarro (she/ella) ♿️ + 🏳️‍🌈 💜 🏳️‍⚧️ @lygianavarro.com · Aug 13

Friends are helping/sponsoring a trauma-survivor queer Cameroonian refugee moving to Montreal shortly with her child. She has really been through torture fleeing through numerous countries to reach Canada. PLEASE donate if you can.

Donate to Help an LGBTQ Refugee and Her Son Get Started in Canada!, organized by Anne Raeff

Help an LGBTQ refugee and her son get started in Canada! We… Anne Raeff needs your support for Help an LGBTQ Refugee and Her Son Get Started in Canada!

www.gofundme.com

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Keith Muise @keithmuise.bsky.social · Aug 2

Covid numbers are rising and we trying to get the word out. Here are the first two billboards so far this summer and I’ll be working to keep putting them out well into the fall.
If you want to help me continue the campaign any help is appreciated.

gofund.me/fc751c58

There is a large green digital billboard display with the words COVID-19 CAUSES...
BRAIN DAMAGE
DEMENTIA
IMMUNE DAMAGE
HEART PROBLEMS
DIABETES
CHRONIC ILLNESS
N95
ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION
ANYONE CAN GET LONG COVID, EVEN KIDS.
MASK UP AND STAY SAFE. On it. There is also a graphic of a purplish virus particle, and a white n95 mask. There are also 3 vehicles in the picture, two are dark blue suvs and the other is a white car. There are buildings in the background and a patch of grass in front of the parking lot where the vehicles are. It is a sunny day.

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National Association of Science Writers (NASW) @sciencewriters.org · Aug 5

THURSDAY: Whether you're a current freelancer, considering adding or transitioning to freelancing work, or have an interest in hiring and working w/freelancers, come say hello at the member social hosted by volunteers Jennifer Huber + Ellen Kuwana.

Join the August 7 Event: www.nasw.org/events/...

Networking social: Freelancer meetup

Virtual networking social: Freelancer meetup Presented by the NASW Freelance Committee Date: Thursday, August 7 Start time: 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific Event access link: https://www.nasw.org/virtual-events-auditorium (NASW member login required)

www.nasw.org

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · Aug 3

These CA tomato pickers make 86¢ per bucket. The worker runs back to try and make as many buckets as they can. Because of the hot weather they often only work 4 to 5 hours a day, so every bucket counts towards paying their bills. #WeFeedYou

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Karla Monterroso @karlaliliana.bsky.social · Aug 3

Anyone in So Cal know a solar panel vendor you liked?

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Post-Viral Trials @postviraltrials.bsky.social · Aug 1

This is some of the most exciting observational research into post-viral illness. At the end, @virusesimmunity.bsky.social says that positive results would lead them to try to pursue trials with immunotherapies like FcRn inhibitors, B cell targeting therapies, and IVIg.

Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · Aug 1

Solve ME: 'Probing Functional Autoantibodies in Patients with ME/CFS'

'Dr. Akiko Iwasaki (Sterling Professor of Immunobiology and Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale University) is the first recipient of Solve’s ME/CFS Catalyst Award..'

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ar0...

Probing Functional Autoantibodies in Patients with ME/CFS

YouTube video by SolveME

www.youtube.com

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Lygia Navarro (she/ella) ♿️ + 🏳️‍🌈 💜 🏳️‍⚧️ @lygianavarro.com · Aug 1

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Camille A. Clare MD MPH @cclaremdmph.bsky.social · Jul 30

#maskedatconferences

Camille A. Clare MD MPH @cclaremdmph.bsky.social · Jul 30

#covid19 is no stranger to conferences and large gatherings. There is a summer surge #maskup

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · Jul 31

It’s not too late to start masking.

You don’t have to do it alone. You won’t be the lone masker.

There’s an engaged Covid cautious and disability community who will help you.

There’s local mask blocs who provide respirators to those who can’t afford them.

Covid is still here, and masks work!

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National Press Club Journalism Institute @npcinstitute.bsky.social · Jul 29

Over 6 months, our Public Health Reporting fellows @tedalcorn.bsky.social, Jamal Jordan, @eleanorklib.bsky.social, @lygianavarro.com & Amanda Seitz explored underreported public health challenges.

Watch highlights from their ambitious reporting projects:
www.pressclubinstitute.org/event/public...

Video & Highlights: Lessons from our inaugural Public Health Journalism Fellowship cohort - Journalism Institute

As the inaugural Public Health Reporting Fellowship comes to a close, the 2025 cohort will share details from their ambitious reporting projects.

www.pressclubinstitute.org

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Lygia Navarro (she/ella) ♿️ + 🏳️‍🌈 💜 🏳️‍⚧️ @lygianavarro.com · Jul 30

The amount of people chilling outside during what used to be called summer (now known as "wildfire season" in Canada) just rawdogging heavily polluted air ... not thinking about the future.

Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · Jul 25

NEW RESEARCH: breathing polluted air in midlife (45-60 yo) can accelerate cognitive aging decades later. Even low levels of pollutants harm memory and processing speed.

Your reminder that dementia is projected to triple by midcentury. Also we’re cutting Medicaid.

www.newsweek.com/this-age-ran...

This is the age range when air pollution starts damaging your brain

Air pollution damages the brain. Here's when it starts.

www.newsweek.com

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Lygia Navarro (she/ella) ♿️ + 🏳️‍🌈 💜 🏳️‍⚧️ @lygianavarro.com · Jul 30

This is deeply disturbing but sadly unsurprising. The govt is trying by all means it can to access personal information about those it wants to get rid of -- including threatening and harassing a Latine educator.

Vermont school superintendent detained after trip to Nicaragua

Wilmer Chavarria, the superintendent of the Winooski School District, was held by U.S. Customs and Border Protection while returning to the country after visiting family.

www.wmtw.com

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Lygia Navarro (she/ella) ♿️ + 🏳️‍🌈 💜 🏳️‍⚧️ @lygianavarro.com · Jul 30

#DisabilityStudies teaching job in Winnipeg for people with a PhD -- open to all applicants, it seems, but Canadian citizens and permanent residents given priority

Probationary Instructor III in Disability Studies, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and Disability Studies Program

www.northstarats.com

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · Jul 30

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Lygia Navarro (she/ella) ♿️ + 🏳️‍🌈 💜 🏳️‍⚧️ @lygianavarro.com · Jul 30

¡Muchas gracias, Demian!

Lygia Navarro (she/ella) ♿️ + 🏳️‍🌈 💜 🏳️‍⚧️ @lygianavarro.com · Jul 30

Marginalized people are at much higher risk of #LongCovid, which is why (at least in my city), I often see BIPOC, working class folks wearing masks more often than the rest of the general public. They know firsthand the threat they face. #MaskUp, folks.

Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · Jul 30

Respiratory Therapy: 'Economically Disadvantaged Patients at Greater Risk for Long COVID'

'Patients with financial hardship, food insecurity, less than a college education, and healthcare access challenges were at higher risk for developing long COVID.'

respiratory-therapy.com/disorders-di...

Economically Disadvantaged Patients at Greater Risk for Long COVID

Patients with financial hardship, food insecurity, and healthcare access challenges had higher risk of long COVID.

respiratory-therapy.com

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Lygia Navarro (she/ella) ♿️ + 🏳️‍🌈 💜 🏳️‍⚧️ @lygianavarro.com · Jul 24

Join us tomorrow!

National Press Club Journalism Institute @npcinstitute.bsky.social · Jul 24

Tomorrow: Hear from our Public Health Reporting fellows @tedalcorn.bsky.social, Jamal Jordan, @eleanorklib.bsky.social,‪ @lygianavarro.com, Amanda Seitz.

They'll share a behind-the-scenes look at their ambitious reporting projects and top lessons learned.
www.pressclubinstitute.org/event/public...

Public Health Journalism: Lessons from our inaugural journalism fellowship cohort - Journalism Institute

As the inaugural Public Health Reporting Fellowship comes to a close, the 2025 cohort will share details from their ambitious reporting projects.

www.pressclubinstitute.org

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#MEAction Network @meactnet.bsky.social · Jul 23

We have a great MEpedia update for you!

- Our articles have been viewed 55+ million times!

- We recently created German & Spanish versions of our TEN most popular pages.

Check it out: me-pedia.org

More info: www.meaction.net/2025/07/22/m...

#pwME #MECFS #wiki #myalgicE #longCovid

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