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Shelley Shenton
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Port Alberni, BC
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Understanding the similarities and differences between HIV/AIDS and SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, and Long COVID is vital for informed advocacy. bit.ly/429D9J8
January 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Up to 10,000 emperor penguin chicks drowned or froze to death in the Bellingshausen Sea in Antarctica because we keep burning fossil fuels.
Climate change: Thousands of penguins die in Antarctic ice breakup
Vast numbers of emperor penguin chicks drown as sea-ice melts and collapses underneath them.
www.bbc.com
August 24, 2023 at 6:32 PM
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1/ Since the carefully crafted walls of secrecy about all that was known about LC/PCC by PH/Gov’t officials are hopefully starting to crack, I thought I’d share, in order, the pieces I’ve written to date on this subject as it relates to B.C…this is a thread (I think)...
August 21, 2023 at 7:50 PM
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Some people have ethical concerns about feeding crows.

I mentioned this to a corvid biologist once. "Doesn't feeding them prevent them from living the way they naturally evolved to?"

"Not at all," she answered. "Crows and ravens evolved to trick mammalian carnivores out of their food."
August 20, 2023 at 7:32 AM
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Variant update for Ontario & Ottawa, Canada (August 19, 2023)

XBB.1.5* "Kraken" and its descendants are still hanging around with XBB.1.5.10 making a comeback as EG.5.* "Eris" tries to become dominant here while XBB.1.16 "Arcturus" is slowly decreasing. 🧪🧵1/
August 19, 2023 at 8:22 PM
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Adding some deranged mountain yam to my timeline.
Jinenger, a deranged mountain yam, is an unofficial mascot for Shiroi City.
August 17, 2023 at 3:34 PM
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UPDATED: #SARSCoV2 variant prevalences in #Canada. Updated to the week of 8/6.

As of 8/6-8/12, EG.5.1 prevalence was 25% nationwide.

https://anarchodelphis.tumblr.com/CanadaVariants
August 17, 2023 at 11:04 PM