Sadie J. Ryan (she/her)
@sjryan3.bsky.social
🌍🔮🌡️☣️🦟🏳️🌈 Prof. Medical Geography, Co-Director, FL Climate Institute, Assoc Dir, APPEX, building tools to anticipate climate-health impacts to prepare us for the future! Mum and wife, enjoyer of cheese. Rarely serious. She/her. Queer. All opinions are my own.
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Ok folks, now more than ever, we need to Be Kind and do Good Science.
This means digging in, producing the evidence, communicating clearly and sincerely, celebrating our collective curiosity, and being mindful of the spaces we are and can be in.
This means digging in, producing the evidence, communicating clearly and sincerely, celebrating our collective curiosity, and being mindful of the spaces we are and can be in.
Merry Christmas from us to you - wandering downtown after midnight. Yes, I'm the shortest. By a lot.
December 25, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Merry Christmas from us to you - wandering downtown after midnight. Yes, I'm the shortest. By a lot.
Everybody else gets renewbles. "You could tell watching the climate talks this year in Belém, Brazil, that people are sort of moving past the US, like we’re sort of receding into the rearview mirror."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘This is the Costco of energy, man!’: author Bill McKibben on the promise of renewables
The activist and author of Here Comes the Sun discusses rapid advances in solar and wind power and how the US ceded leadership in the sector to its main rival
www.theguardian.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Everybody else gets renewbles. "You could tell watching the climate talks this year in Belém, Brazil, that people are sort of moving past the US, like we’re sort of receding into the rearview mirror."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Happy Solstice - may your long night be restful, and the promise of longer days raise your spirits.
a painting of a woman holding a wand with the words bon hiver happy winter solstice
ALT: a painting of a woman holding a wand with the words bon hiver happy winter solstice
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December 21, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Happy Solstice - may your long night be restful, and the promise of longer days raise your spirits.
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The official death count in South Sudan is nearly 1,600, making it the worst cholera epidemic in the country’s history.
But that toll is a dramatic undercount.
ProPublica found newly dug, unmarked graves alongside roads and in backyards.
But that toll is a dramatic undercount.
ProPublica found newly dug, unmarked graves alongside roads and in backyards.
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 20, 2025 at 2:40 AM
The official death count in South Sudan is nearly 1,600, making it the worst cholera epidemic in the country’s history.
But that toll is a dramatic undercount.
ProPublica found newly dug, unmarked graves alongside roads and in backyards.
But that toll is a dramatic undercount.
ProPublica found newly dug, unmarked graves alongside roads and in backyards.
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Monthly global climate data update from @metoffice.gov.uk HadCRUT5 for the month of November 2025.
Third hottest month of November since 1850.
#climate
datagraver.com/climate-data...
Third hottest month of November since 1850.
#climate
datagraver.com/climate-data...
December 19, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Monthly global climate data update from @metoffice.gov.uk HadCRUT5 for the month of November 2025.
Third hottest month of November since 1850.
#climate
datagraver.com/climate-data...
Third hottest month of November since 1850.
#climate
datagraver.com/climate-data...
Me: oh look, there must be funding over there.
December 18, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Me: oh look, there must be funding over there.
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Two more fully funded PhDs in real-time infectious disease modelling & forecasting — developing methods for operational use by @ukhsa.bsky.social and others in outbreak response. UK home students, starting April or September 2026.
www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
PhD Studentships in Health Analytics and Modelling | LSHTM
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), Imperial College London and the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) are pleased to invite applications for two PhD studentships in real-time
www.lshtm.ac.uk
December 17, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Two more fully funded PhDs in real-time infectious disease modelling & forecasting — developing methods for operational use by @ukhsa.bsky.social and others in outbreak response. UK home students, starting April or September 2026.
www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
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Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
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.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.
Still unclear on my feelings about taking 6-7 hours to take two very short flights north (NC) then south (LA) to get somewhere I could drive to on sketchy highways in 15 hours, and cannot take a train or bus to.
(Probably could string buses together and get there in 2.5 days)
(Probably could string buses together and get there in 2.5 days)
a cartoon of snoopy wearing a helmet and goggles with the words here we go underneath him
ALT: a cartoon of snoopy wearing a helmet and goggles with the words here we go underneath him
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December 14, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Still unclear on my feelings about taking 6-7 hours to take two very short flights north (NC) then south (LA) to get somewhere I could drive to on sketchy highways in 15 hours, and cannot take a train or bus to.
(Probably could string buses together and get there in 2.5 days)
(Probably could string buses together and get there in 2.5 days)
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Kentucky has lost three babies to pertussis, or whooping cough, along with two in Louisiana and two in Texas. The pertussis vaccine, given in combination with vaccines against diphtheria and tetanus, is safe and lifesaving.
PAHO warns of whooping cough vaccination gap
Pertussis vaccination coverage dropped during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 87% coverage in the region for the first dose.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/p...
Pertussis vaccination coverage dropped during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 87% coverage in the region for the first dose.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/p...
December 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Kentucky has lost three babies to pertussis, or whooping cough, along with two in Louisiana and two in Texas. The pertussis vaccine, given in combination with vaccines against diphtheria and tetanus, is safe and lifesaving.
Really pleased to share this website with you all for our Wellcome Trust funded TACTIC project developing tools, analyses, engagement, and communication around health impact assessment.
Check out our site, the team, and stay tuned for more!
www.tactic-tools.org
Check out our site, the team, and stay tuned for more!
www.tactic-tools.org
Tactic
www.tactic-tools.org
December 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Really pleased to share this website with you all for our Wellcome Trust funded TACTIC project developing tools, analyses, engagement, and communication around health impact assessment.
Check out our site, the team, and stay tuned for more!
www.tactic-tools.org
Check out our site, the team, and stay tuned for more!
www.tactic-tools.org
It is that time of the year where I have to update my password for all work applications. l33t saved me again so I can rock a totally appropriate password. <ahem>
a man in a red shirt says wacky fun in a gif
ALT: a man in a red shirt says wacky fun in a gif
media.tenor.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
It is that time of the year where I have to update my password for all work applications. l33t saved me again so I can rock a totally appropriate password. <ahem>
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Learn about using the VectorByte Databases, VecTraits and VecDyn, to answer cool questions! Save the date for the VectorByte training workshop at Virginia Tech, together with EEID, May 30-June 1, 2026!!
December 5, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Learn about using the VectorByte Databases, VecTraits and VecDyn, to answer cool questions! Save the date for the VectorByte training workshop at Virginia Tech, together with EEID, May 30-June 1, 2026!!
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@WHO World Malaria Report out today ⏬️
Successes ~ 1 million lives saved in 2024 & progress towards global elimination goals.
But there were 282 million cases & 610 000 deaths in 2024, ~9 million more cases than 2023. Progress in reducing the mortality is far off track share.google/aZEcdOqzpAI6...
Successes ~ 1 million lives saved in 2024 & progress towards global elimination goals.
But there were 282 million cases & 610 000 deaths in 2024, ~9 million more cases than 2023. Progress in reducing the mortality is far off track share.google/aZEcdOqzpAI6...
share.google
share.google
December 4, 2025 at 8:13 PM
@WHO World Malaria Report out today ⏬️
Successes ~ 1 million lives saved in 2024 & progress towards global elimination goals.
But there were 282 million cases & 610 000 deaths in 2024, ~9 million more cases than 2023. Progress in reducing the mortality is far off track share.google/aZEcdOqzpAI6...
Successes ~ 1 million lives saved in 2024 & progress towards global elimination goals.
But there were 282 million cases & 610 000 deaths in 2024, ~9 million more cases than 2023. Progress in reducing the mortality is far off track share.google/aZEcdOqzpAI6...
Imagine paying for Netflix every month, then paying when you watch the movie, and then getting another bill three months later because one of the actors isn’t signed with Netflix so you have to pay him directly.
That’d be STUPID right?
This is a post about health insurance.
(h/t Salaam Bhatti)
That’d be STUPID right?
This is a post about health insurance.
(h/t Salaam Bhatti)
December 1, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Imagine paying for Netflix every month, then paying when you watch the movie, and then getting another bill three months later because one of the actors isn’t signed with Netflix so you have to pay him directly.
That’d be STUPID right?
This is a post about health insurance.
(h/t Salaam Bhatti)
That’d be STUPID right?
This is a post about health insurance.
(h/t Salaam Bhatti)
Getting into the spirit of the season.
December 1, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Getting into the spirit of the season.
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What happened is precisely what the world's leading macroeconomists predicted would happen.
November 29, 2025 at 8:05 PM
What happened is precisely what the world's leading macroeconomists predicted would happen.
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I think about this tweet a lot
November 30, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I think about this tweet a lot
I attended a lovely invited @wikipedia.org page editing meeting today. It's been a while since I did one, and relearning how it works was great.
Apologies for topic vagueness, but just giving a shout out to such a highly used resource in health. Yes, really.
Apologies for topic vagueness, but just giving a shout out to such a highly used resource in health. Yes, really.
a white puzzle with the letters w and i written on it
Alt: a white puzzle with the letters w and i written on it
media.tenor.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:53 AM
I attended a lovely invited @wikipedia.org page editing meeting today. It's been a while since I did one, and relearning how it works was great.
Apologies for topic vagueness, but just giving a shout out to such a highly used resource in health. Yes, really.
Apologies for topic vagueness, but just giving a shout out to such a highly used resource in health. Yes, really.
Great to see this one out - one of the original questions on this #NSF BII journey - are wildlife more or less 'zoonotic' as they become more endangered? Read on below...
Congrats to Kayla and the OG team!
Congrats to Kayla and the OG team!
NEW! 🦠🦧 We revisited a perplexing paradox: do wildlife really pose less of a risk to human health as they become more endangered? Turns out, it's sampling bias all the way down: conservation risks correlate with disease surveillance blindspots. 🔓 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Viral diversity and zoonotic risk in endangered species
A growing body of evidence links zoonotic disease risk, including pandemic threats, to biodiversity loss and other upstream anthropogenic impacts on ecosystem health. However, there is little current...
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Great to see this one out - one of the original questions on this #NSF BII journey - are wildlife more or less 'zoonotic' as they become more endangered? Read on below...
Congrats to Kayla and the OG team!
Congrats to Kayla and the OG team!
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Dialing down the use of social media for a week reduced symptoms of anxiety, depression and insomnia in young adults, according to a study published on Monday in the journal JAMA Network Open.
Study Finds Mental Health Benefit to One-Week Social Media Break
Young adults who engaged in a social media “detox” reported reductions in depression, anxiety and insomnia, though it was unclear how long the effects would last.
nyti.ms
November 25, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Dialing down the use of social media for a week reduced symptoms of anxiety, depression and insomnia in young adults, according to a study published on Monday in the journal JAMA Network Open.
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Hi #planetaryScience folks, we have an open position for a *Professor in Planetary Sciences* at the Space Research & Planetary Sciences Division of the @unibe.ch.
Application deadline: *Jan 31, 2026*
Full ad: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
Reach out to me if you have any questions!
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Application deadline: *Jan 31, 2026*
Full ad: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
Reach out to me if you have any questions!
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Uni Bern: Professor in Planetary Sciences
The Division of Space Research and Planetary Sciences of the Physics Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland, invites applications for a full-time position as a Professor in Planetary Sciences.
ohws.prospective.ch
November 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Hi #planetaryScience folks, we have an open position for a *Professor in Planetary Sciences* at the Space Research & Planetary Sciences Division of the @unibe.ch.
Application deadline: *Jan 31, 2026*
Full ad: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
Reach out to me if you have any questions!
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Application deadline: *Jan 31, 2026*
Full ad: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
Reach out to me if you have any questions!
🧵 1/5
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This is a recurring theme among climate deniers & delayers. From The #MadhouseEffect (bookshop.org/p/books/the-...)
November 24, 2025 at 11:23 PM
This is a recurring theme among climate deniers & delayers. From The #MadhouseEffect (bookshop.org/p/books/the-...)
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Unsurprisingly, the suspected cases of HPAI H5N1 in elephant seals on Australia's subAntarctic island (Heard Island) have been confirmed.
👉 minister.agriculture.gov.au/collins/medi...
👉 minister.agriculture.gov.au/collins/medi...
November 25, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Unsurprisingly, the suspected cases of HPAI H5N1 in elephant seals on Australia's subAntarctic island (Heard Island) have been confirmed.
👉 minister.agriculture.gov.au/collins/medi...
👉 minister.agriculture.gov.au/collins/medi...
Sawn
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 25, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Sawn