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tarazupancic.bsky.social
Tara, MPH
@tarazupancic.bsky.social
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Public health scientist, ecologist at heart (she/her) Work on #climate and #health by day. Spare time spent building the soil to help things grow🌱Focused on the long game. Rabid masker. #LongCovid advocate.
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Tara, MPH @tarazupancic.bsky.social · Apr 26
An excellent factsheet shared by University of Toronto’s Rehabilitation Science Research Network for #COVID, in the Faculty of Medicine #LongCovid
Patient-Led Research Collaborative Launches Fact Sheet
rehabcovidnetwork.med.utoronto.ca
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Long Covid Kids @longcovidkids.bsky.social · Jul 31
⭐ “While our study is small, its results are powerful and have implications not only for MIS-C, but potentially for long COVID,” said lead author @laelyonker.bsky.social ⭐️

www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/new...

#PIMS #MISC #Treatment
#LongCovidKids #LongCovid #ChildHealth
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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · Jun 27
Powerful excerpt:

“Intentionally or not, the Ban will signal that there is something wrong with or suspect about having a gender identity that is different than the sex you were assigned at birth. Gender diverse youth will bear the entire burden of that speculation.

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Dr. Kristopher Wells @drkristopherwells.bsky.social · Jun 27
BREAKING NEWS. Alberta Court of King’s Bench grants injunction preventing Alberta Government from banning gender-affirmative care for minors citing “irreparable harm will be caused if the Ban comes into force.”

A victory for human rights and trans youth! 🏳️‍⚧️
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Dr. Kristopher Wells @drkristopherwells.bsky.social · Jun 27
It’s only the start of Pride Season. We go all summer. 🌈
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Dr. Kristopher Wells @drkristopherwells.bsky.social · Jun 27
Donate to Skipping Stone and Egale! The fight is far from over. This is only a temporary injunction.
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Dr. Kristopher Wells @drkristopherwells.bsky.social · Jun 27
BREAKING NEWS. Alberta Court of King’s Bench grants injunction preventing Alberta Government from banning gender-affirmative care for minors citing “irreparable harm will be caused if the Ban comes into force.”

A victory for human rights and trans youth! 🏳️‍⚧️
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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · Jun 27
Great news! 🎉🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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Dr. Kristopher Wells @drkristopherwells.bsky.social · Jun 27
BREAKING NEWS. Alberta Court of King’s Bench grants injunction preventing Alberta Government from banning gender-affirmative care for minors citing “irreparable harm will be caused if the Ban comes into force.”

A victory for human rights and trans youth! 🏳️‍⚧️
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · Jun 22
The US attacks on Iran breached international law www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/06...
Under the Geneva Convention of 1949 as modified in 1977, an attack on a nuclear installation that is not a power plant is illegal during war, but that is what the USA just did.
The US attacks on Iran breached international law
It is worth noting these protocols this morning: One key clause addresses the issue of attacking nuclear sites, and says: Those looking for a let-out might claim section 2 of this Article provid...
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Jun 18
Illinois has enshrined protections to meet this very moment.

In a time of increasing overreach and hateful rhetoric, it's more important than ever to reaffirm our commitment to the rights and dignity of the LGBTQ+ community.

You have a home here always.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · Jun 18
BREAKING: The Supreme Court upholds a Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors in a huge setback for transgender rights.
Supreme Court OKs Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for minors, big loss for transgender rights
The Supreme Court has upheld Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors, a stunning setback to transgender rights.
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Cindy Blackstock @cblackst.bsky.social · Jun 5
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#TheMoment a student built an interactive map to help wildfire evacuees
Computer science student Justin Fung recalls the moment he created Winnipeg Community Compass, a website with an interactive map to help Manitoba wildfire evacuees find essential services, with some i...
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Tara, MPH @tarazupancic.bsky.social · Jun 5
Joy!
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Tara, MPH @tarazupancic.bsky.social · May 21
One of the best characterizations of #longCOVID I’ve ever read and how it stems from a much greater pathology.
A Chronically Ill Earth: COVID Organizing as a Model Climate Response in Los Angeles
BY VIOLET AFFLECK I spent the January fires in Los Angeles arguing with my mother in a hotel room. She was shell-shocked, astonished at the scale of destruction in the neighborhood where she raised…
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Tara, MPH @tarazupancic.bsky.social · May 1
“I don’t know what the big deal is” is the long and the short of it.
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CNN @cnn.com · May 1
Robert De Niro is expressing his love and support for his daughter Airyn De Niro, after she recently shared publicly for the first time that she is transgender. cnn.it/3EY1msu
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · May 1
Alberta First Nations issue cease and desist order against Danielle Smith's attempt to create a national unity crisis. Alberta is on treaty lands.
Those treaties were signed 30 years before Alberta became a province.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Apr 30
“…this morning, from a war zone half a world away, I was reading about your election. And for the first time in days, I exhaled.

A small, almost invisible breath. Relief.

And then came gratitude…

You didn’t just choose kindness or experience…

You chose not to flirt with fascism.”

From Ukraine.
The Nation That Trump Could Never Break
Canada didn’t just resist, they reminded the rest of us how to endure
viktorkravchuk.substack.com
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Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · Apr 29
With CBC now having called all ridings it's time for the land-vs-people-vote animation.
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Tara, MPH @tarazupancic.bsky.social · Apr 26
For people living with #LongCovid who get questions from friends & family, save your energy and just send them this.
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Tara, MPH @tarazupancic.bsky.social · Apr 26
An excellent factsheet shared by University of Toronto’s Rehabilitation Science Research Network for #COVID, in the Faculty of Medicine #LongCovid
Patient-Led Research Collaborative Launches Fact Sheet
rehabcovidnetwork.med.utoronto.ca
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Tara, MPH @tarazupancic.bsky.social · Apr 26
An excellent factsheet shared by University of Toronto’s Rehabilitation Science Research Network for #COVID, in the Faculty of Medicine #LongCovid
Patient-Led Research Collaborative Launches Fact Sheet
rehabcovidnetwork.med.utoronto.ca
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Rehabilitation Science Research Network for COVID @uoftcovidrehab.bsky.social · Apr 25
Todd Davenport’s #KeyMessages from the #COVIDRehab forum:
📌 Long COVID symptoms have a basis in bioenergetic impairment, which can be demonstrated using 2-day CPET
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Rehabilitation Science Research Network for COVID @uoftcovidrehab.bsky.social · Apr 25
Alice MacLean discusses people's experiences of attempts to return to work and school with Long COVID.

Key message at #COVIDRehab forum:
📌 Existing policies are not well-designed for episodic disabilities like Long COVID
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Rehabilitation Science Research Network for COVID @uoftcovidrehab.bsky.social · Apr 25
Todd Davenport discusses Abnormal Post-Exertional Recovery in People Living with Long COVID: Insights from Two-Day Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing at #COVIDRehab forum with @sunsopeningband.bsky.social
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Rehabilitation Science Research Network for COVID @uoftcovidrehab.bsky.social · Apr 25
Simon Décary’s #KeyMessages from the #COVIDRehab forum:

📌 Quebec implemented a 15-site integrated care model, delivering care to thousands of Long COVID patients from 2020-2025
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Keith Muise @keithmuise.bsky.social · Apr 22
Check me out on Jimmy Kimmel tonight.

They will be showing my video on my thoughts of Canada becoming the 51st State.

#Never51
#canada #keithmuise #canadian #trump #canadian #mentalhealth #newfoundland #teacher
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · Apr 15
What you're seeing are wet microbursts—intense downdrafts from thunderstorms that slam rain into the ground, creating those stunning lobes. Like a reverse explosion from the sky. Captured in Perth, #Australia
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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · Apr 15
PolyBio: 'Chan Soon-Shiong Family Foundation donation expands PolyBio Long COVID program'

'Funds will support exploration of SARS-CoV-2’s potential to drive cancer, as well as continued work delineating persistence of the virus in LC tissue, including therapies..'

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Chan Soon-Shiong Family Foundation donation expands PolyBio Long COVID program - PolyBio Research Foundation
Funds will support exploration of SARS-CoV-2’s potential to drive cancer, as well as continued work delineating persistence of the virus in...
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Tara, MPH @tarazupancic.bsky.social · Apr 15
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