Cheryl Peters
@cherylepeters.bsky.social
Cancer/chronic disease prevention; misinformation & health literacy research. I teach public health & science communication at UBC (partner assistant professor in Population & Public Health) and am a Senior Scientist @ both BCCDC + BC Cancer. Views my own
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When science is understandable, we all win. I've started a national petition calling on all institutions of higher education, and their accreditors, to require science communication and public engagement training for all STEM degrees. Share and sign today, it only takes a few seconds: bit.ly/3LbnfHB
November 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
When science is understandable, we all win. I've started a national petition calling on all institutions of higher education, and their accreditors, to require science communication and public engagement training for all STEM degrees. Share and sign today, it only takes a few seconds: bit.ly/3LbnfHB
Delighted to receive this funding to continue our teams’ work on understanding the burden of occupational skin cancer in Canada!
Outdoor workers are 3 times as likely to develop skin cancer as indoor workers. Dr @cherylepeters.bsky.social will use existing data to estimate the rates and costs of skin cancers caused by workplace sun exposure. The goal: to guide national efforts to reduce sun exposure and prevent future cases.
October 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Delighted to receive this funding to continue our teams’ work on understanding the burden of occupational skin cancer in Canada!
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Interesting disclaimer from a group of authors who had been helping develop the latest ROBINS risk of bias tool but jumped ship rather than put their names to the publication researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/46... #episky
researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk
September 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Interesting disclaimer from a group of authors who had been helping develop the latest ROBINS risk of bias tool but jumped ship rather than put their names to the publication researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/46... #episky
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struggling with an analogy here but imagine NASA posting a meme about how excited they are to return aviation to the pre-jet age
![u.s. department of energy post on x praising coal:
"She's an icon
She's a legend
And she is the moment
[sparkly picture of coal]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fwks525g7gw5wc7ul2wg4wj5/bafkreiemlnocjpmihyy2yegdsvokmpk3vdrwkvaqbgpopxqbb4bgiebtqm@jpeg)
July 31, 2025 at 9:48 PM
struggling with an analogy here but imagine NASA posting a meme about how excited they are to return aviation to the pre-jet age
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Vinay Prasad just got fired from the FDA because he was utterly unqualified and could not meet the moment. He can now go back to making his little YouTube videos chockablock with misinformation and continue to deceive the public that way.
Vinay Prasad departs the FDA
Vinay Prasad, a top FDA official, is out after less than 3 months on the job.
www.statnews.com
July 30, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Vinay Prasad just got fired from the FDA because he was utterly unqualified and could not meet the moment. He can now go back to making his little YouTube videos chockablock with misinformation and continue to deceive the public that way.
This is great to see from CSA! Public comment period is open.
Good News!
Canadian Standards Association (CSA) has called for universal respirator use in healthcare settings & when performing patient care outside of healthcare settings (eg – in the home) in the latest edition of CSA Z94.4, Selection, use and care of filtering respirators.
Canadian Standards Association (CSA) has called for universal respirator use in healthcare settings & when performing patient care outside of healthcare settings (eg – in the home) in the latest edition of CSA Z94.4, Selection, use and care of filtering respirators.
July 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM
This is great to see from CSA! Public comment period is open.
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A powerful graph that shows the effectiveness of the HPV vaccine in preventing cancer and saving lives.
July 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM
A powerful graph that shows the effectiveness of the HPV vaccine in preventing cancer and saving lives.
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Returning to the office isn’t the answer to Canada’s productivity problem — and it will add pressure to urban housing
Returning to the office isn’t the answer to Canada’s productivity problem — and it will add pressure to urban housing
Companies are betting on office mandates to fix sluggish productivity, but what workers need most are affordable homes, shorter commutes and real opportunities to grow, not added stress.
theconversation.com
July 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Returning to the office isn’t the answer to Canada’s productivity problem — and it will add pressure to urban housing
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So are all the news outlets saying Zohran Mamdani is using coded antisemitic language and if you read between the lines you can tell how bad he is going to make a big deal about the worlds richest man making a chatbot that advocates for Hitler?
July 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
So are all the news outlets saying Zohran Mamdani is using coded antisemitic language and if you read between the lines you can tell how bad he is going to make a big deal about the worlds richest man making a chatbot that advocates for Hitler?
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I don't think NYT should know peace until they divulge the full chain of decision making that led to the laundering of Nazi propaganda against a leading anti-fascist politician the same day fascism was codified in Congress.
July 4, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I don't think NYT should know peace until they divulge the full chain of decision making that led to the laundering of Nazi propaganda against a leading anti-fascist politician the same day fascism was codified in Congress.
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trump's first post about mamdani is going to be levels of racism we haven't seen since the 19th century
June 25, 2025 at 2:20 AM
trump's first post about mamdani is going to be levels of racism we haven't seen since the 19th century
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Incredible turn out for #NoKingsDay. Thank you to everyone speaking up and taking action. Dissent is patriotic!
June 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Incredible turn out for #NoKingsDay. Thank you to everyone speaking up and taking action. Dissent is patriotic!
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We feed you.
They hunt us.
They hunt us.
June 11, 2025 at 5:05 AM
We feed you.
They hunt us.
They hunt us.
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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
June 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
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I think once people realized they can bully ICE agents if they don’t have a full police escort it was kinda over for them.
ICE agents are chased and forced to leave their neighborhood by LA residents
June 7, 2025 at 4:29 AM
I think once people realized they can bully ICE agents if they don’t have a full police escort it was kinda over for them.
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Israeli tanks opened fire on thousands of civilians gathered at a distribution site in southern Gaza’s Rafah on Sunday morning, killing at least 31 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office aje.io/xx7980
Israel kills 32 Palestinians seeking food at ‘death trap’ Gaza aid sites
Troops gun down starving crowds, capping deadly first week of operations for controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
aje.io
June 2, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Israeli tanks opened fire on thousands of civilians gathered at a distribution site in southern Gaza’s Rafah on Sunday morning, killing at least 31 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office aje.io/xx7980
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🧵 Police and governments have manipulated media to create a moral panic around crime in homeless encampments. Now, they’re taking the next step to punish unhoused residents through medical incarceration.
Once again, major newspapers are serving as tailgunner. 1/
drugdatadecoded.ca/bc-governmen...
Once again, major newspapers are serving as tailgunner. 1/
drugdatadecoded.ca/bc-governmen...
BC government faces legal challenge as national news media promote forced abstinence
Two long-form articles in national news outlets are promoting the BC government's "secure care" policy the same week that the government faces a pivotal legal challenge on its expansive interpretation...
drugdatadecoded.ca
May 29, 2025 at 11:36 AM
🧵 Police and governments have manipulated media to create a moral panic around crime in homeless encampments. Now, they’re taking the next step to punish unhoused residents through medical incarceration.
Once again, major newspapers are serving as tailgunner. 1/
drugdatadecoded.ca/bc-governmen...
Once again, major newspapers are serving as tailgunner. 1/
drugdatadecoded.ca/bc-governmen...
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I'm going to tell you something the government won't (and I can't believe I'm the one saying this): coronavirus damages the placenta. Women who are infected experience double the baseline rate of stillbirths.
May 27, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I'm going to tell you something the government won't (and I can't believe I'm the one saying this): coronavirus damages the placenta. Women who are infected experience double the baseline rate of stillbirths.
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Sing it
If you're a grad student or an undergrad interested in research I need to you listen to me very carefully.
You cannot learn to write good research papers if you do not read good research papers.
Stop asking LLMs to summarize papers for you.
You cannot learn to write good research papers if you do not read good research papers.
Stop asking LLMs to summarize papers for you.
May 3, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Sing it
You can’t compete on what the most devastating cuts to science are these last few months, happening in the US. This one cuts me deeply. And it cuts all workers, everywhere in the world. Shameful, horrible, and stupid.
Nearly all of remaining staff at CDC's NIOSH received lay off notices today, we're told
This is an org chart shared with us illustrating eliminated divisions to date
Cuts had already upended approvals of new N95 respirators and probes of firefighter injuries
www.cbsnews.com/news/worker-...
This is an org chart shared with us illustrating eliminated divisions to date
Cuts had already upended approvals of new N95 respirators and probes of firefighter injuries
www.cbsnews.com/news/worker-...
May 3, 2025 at 6:09 AM
You can’t compete on what the most devastating cuts to science are these last few months, happening in the US. This one cuts me deeply. And it cuts all workers, everywhere in the world. Shameful, horrible, and stupid.
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Trying to think of any previous technology that needed this many people out there telling everyone that they're wrong about how it stinks and it is very good and helpfully actually
April 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Trying to think of any previous technology that needed this many people out there telling everyone that they're wrong about how it stinks and it is very good and helpfully actually