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Kimberly Prather PhD
@kprather.bsky.social

Atmospheric Chemistry professor, air quality, clouds-climate, health, viruses, bioaerosols, public speaker, environmental justice. ❤️ ❤️ gardening, cooking, empathy.

https://airborne.ucsd.edu

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Kimberly A. Prather is an American atmospheric chemist. She is a distinguished chair in atmospheric chemistry and a distinguished professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and department of chemistry and biochemistry at UC San Diego. Her work focuses on how humans are influencing the atmosphere and climate. In 2019, she was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for technologies that transformed understanding of aerosols and their impacts on air quality, climate, and human health. In 2020, she was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences. She is also an elected Fellow of the American Philosophical Society, American Geophysical Union, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. .. more

Environmental science 47%
Geology 20%

Following until desiccated virus cells past thru hepas...not likely given known transmission efficiency vs size curve.

Happy Holidays @maryfernando.bsky.social !!

Reposted by McKenzie Wark

This is reason I still wear a mask on all flights and probably will do so forever. I also still carry CO2 monitor to check ventilation! My lessons (after not catching it yet AFAIK): always wear a mask during travel, in tight crowded spaces, public restrooms, hotel corridors, and elevators....

Amazing that this review paper from 2021 just became my most cited paper of my 30+ yr career. I am honored to have been the lead first co-corresponding author with @ChiaWang8. COVID is indeed airborne--as are most other respiratory viruses. @ucsandiego.bsky.social

www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Airborne transmission of respiratory viruses
A Review discusses the scientific basis of and factors controlling airborne transmission of respiratory viruses including coronavirus.
www.science.org
Flashback post and yep, still our favorite.
Holiday edition of Threat Model: #Covid from @violetblue.bsky.social
"We’ve learned so much this year showing that Covid is not really a respiratory disease, but instead it’s a systemic vascular-immune disease causing...damage...[that] stacks with reinfections."
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Covid: December 25, 2025 | Threat Model
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We have started sharing our preliminary H2S data from the Nestor community in San Diego, CA. Levels and odors have been high again recently. For near real time data, see airborne.ucsd.edu/H2S. Screenshot below.
WHAT?

Who and how??
Garcia: They are, on one hand, putting names of survivors in these documents that are not redacted. And in these same documents, they're taking extra time and being extra careful to redact the names of the coconspirators

And they ALL need to go to jail!
Todd Blanche knows. Pam Bondi knows. Kash Patel knows.
Melania knows.

They ALL know what he did.
They all know.
In #Denver celebrating the release of Latina activist #JeanetteVizguerra from GEO (ICE) in #Aurora CO. Almost 9 months after being kidnapped & detained in GEO before getting a hearing! #Pinks
and the administration hasn’t shown legal authority to use the military to “execute the laws” in Chicago. Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch dissented. 2/2
Todd Blanche knows. Pam Bondi knows. Kash Patel knows.
Melania knows.

They ALL know what he did.
They all know.
“Only evil people would hide this and protect those who participated.”
Kash lied to congress.
Mitt Romney said the quiet part out loud: the rich should pay more in taxes.
The Wall Street Journal attacked him for it.
But he’s right—and ignoring the math is how democracies crack.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Mitt Romney Is Right: Tax the Rich Before the Pitchforks Come Out
The One Percent’s Problem Isn’t Envy. It’s Math.
open.substack.com
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
"Bondi and company are sorely mistaken if they think breaking the law and giving Congress a middle finger will make the Epstein scandal go away."
The regime's new Epstein coverup will backfire
They're buying time but not fooling anyone.
www.publicnotice.co
Donald Trump’s Department of Justice just went on national television and said that their official position is to protect pedophiles.

That’s what Todd Blanche just said out loud on TV.

Is this what you voted for Maga?
Happy Winter/Summer solstice today and festive greetings for the coming week. Looking forward here to the lighter, longer days 🎄
Have you ever heard someone go off, and their words are so perfectly chosen, so well said in that moment, that you’re in awe? You think, “There’s nothing to add here,” and you applaud in your head.

That’s exactly this. Pure perfection. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
DOJ broke the law today by refusing to produce all the Epstein files. It also broke the law by redacting information other than to protect victims. Yet, the corporate media is acting that DOJ did us a huge favor.

Now, more than ever, help build independent, pro-democracy media. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.

Imagine covering up for child rapists and being able to look your daughter, son, wife, sister, mom, yourself in the eye!!!!!! This is sickness beyond belief....
Imagine covering up for child rapists and being able to look yourself in the mirror.
Imagine covering up for child rapists and being able to look yourself in the mirror.
The law requires the DOJ to explain every single redaction…right??

Massie and Khanna can’t be happy about this…right??!?

This has the votes to pass with bipartisan support, but Johnson is going to adjourn the House again to delay it as long as possible just like he did with Epstein.

Our Mothership is being dismantled. Stop the damage. Now.
NCAR is quite literally our global mothership.

Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.

Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.

Unbelievable.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
www.usatoday.com