Su Schaffler
@suschaffler.bsky.social
Writer, anthropologist, public + digital health enthusiast, forever optimistic and obsessed with the nature of building resilient communities.
Understanding how #belonging can go wrong is essential to fostering communities that validate individuals' worth and nurture genuine connection – spaces where interdependence strengthens rather than diminishes personal agency.
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December 10, 2024 at 5:32 PM
Understanding how #belonging can go wrong is essential to fostering communities that validate individuals' worth and nurture genuine connection – spaces where interdependence strengthens rather than diminishes personal agency.
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Americans eat unhealthy food because the food system is designed to feed it to us. Changes to that system are necessary, but food and agriculture companies will fight them bitterly.
November 30, 2024 at 10:31 PM
Americans eat unhealthy food because the food system is designed to feed it to us. Changes to that system are necessary, but food and agriculture companies will fight them bitterly.
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For our latest newsletter, we ask how to interrupt the 'Human Doom Loop' described by Diana Lind. Plus: @jessgrose.bsky.social on human contact becoming a luxury good; the latest on nutrition from @erictopol.bsky.social and NIH's @kevinh-phd.bsky.social and more
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Building H: Interrupting the 'Human Doom Loop'
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December 5, 2024 at 3:55 PM
For our latest newsletter, we ask how to interrupt the 'Human Doom Loop' described by Diana Lind. Plus: @jessgrose.bsky.social on human contact becoming a luxury good; the latest on nutrition from @erictopol.bsky.social and NIH's @kevinh-phd.bsky.social and more
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Reading @jenniferwilson.bsky.social on the weird new business of breakups is truly among the most fun I've had with any feature this year-- as wickedly smart as it is funny and searching www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The New Business of Breakups
After getting dumped (by text), a writer investigates the feverish boom in heartbreak apps, breakup coaches, and get-over-him getaways.
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December 4, 2024 at 10:05 PM
Reading @jenniferwilson.bsky.social on the weird new business of breakups is truly among the most fun I've had with any feature this year-- as wickedly smart as it is funny and searching www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Why do so many Americans live in poverty? Because so many rich people benefit from it, the sociologist Matthew Desmond told Annie Lowrey last year. theatln.tc/oc1NTW54
November 27, 2024 at 7:37 PM
Why do so many Americans live in poverty? Because so many rich people benefit from it, the sociologist Matthew Desmond told Annie Lowrey last year. theatln.tc/oc1NTW54
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@wikimedia.bsky.social has some very insightful reflections on building a trusted information ecosystem in this @ssireview.bsky.social article. ssir.org/articles/ent...
Knowledge Is Human (SSIR)
Why building a trusted information ecosystem requires building a community.
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November 26, 2024 at 2:48 PM
@wikimedia.bsky.social has some very insightful reflections on building a trusted information ecosystem in this @ssireview.bsky.social article. ssir.org/articles/ent...
Get involved in setting new standards for how we live, love, and work.
If you’re interested in creating a future where everyday life is healthy by design, please join with us at Building H…
Hey everyone — we’re Building H, a nonprofit research group.
We believe that everyday life - the food we eat, the entertainment we consume, the transportation we use, the communities we live in - should make it easier to be healthy, not harder.
www.buildingh.org
We believe that everyday life - the food we eat, the entertainment we consume, the transportation we use, the communities we live in - should make it easier to be healthy, not harder.
www.buildingh.org
December 1, 2024 at 12:24 AM
Get involved in setting new standards for how we live, love, and work.
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Jonny Currie's podcast about community, health, & capital is based on his experience in Wales but includes insights applicable to us all. I loved talking with him this week (thanks @amcunningham.bsky.social for the intro!) Listen: comm_health_cap.buzzsprout.com/2270573/epis...
November 28, 2024 at 2:19 PM
Jonny Currie's podcast about community, health, & capital is based on his experience in Wales but includes insights applicable to us all. I loved talking with him this week (thanks @amcunningham.bsky.social for the intro!) Listen: comm_health_cap.buzzsprout.com/2270573/epis...
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For most of human history, people lived in multigenerational family clusters.
But more recently, Western societies have broken the family apart. Children grow up and leave their parents behind, starting new “nuclear” family units. What is the driver of this historically unusual way of living?
But more recently, Western societies have broken the family apart. Children grow up and leave their parents behind, starting new “nuclear” family units. What is the driver of this historically unusual way of living?
Policies for Housing With Heart (SSIR)
Multigenerational living is an old solution whose time has come.
ssir.org
November 26, 2024 at 9:27 PM
For most of human history, people lived in multigenerational family clusters.
But more recently, Western societies have broken the family apart. Children grow up and leave their parents behind, starting new “nuclear” family units. What is the driver of this historically unusual way of living?
But more recently, Western societies have broken the family apart. Children grow up and leave their parents behind, starting new “nuclear” family units. What is the driver of this historically unusual way of living?
Today, a staggering 75% of American adults are overweight or obese - a number that will cross 81% in 25 years…..
….enter big food and big Pharma battle to control our bodies.
….enter big food and big Pharma battle to control our bodies.
Last week's newsletter featured an essay by @thgoetz.bsky.social on how the food industry is responding to new consumption patterns driven by use of GLP-1s. Check it out: www.buildingh.org/news/2024/11...
Big Food and Big Insurance Face Down the GLP-1 Threat — BUILDING H
If you want to put your ear to the heartbeat of American consumption, take a listen to Walmart’s earnings calls, where the retailer tells Wall Street how the past quarter has gone financially. Th...
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November 26, 2024 at 7:20 PM
Today, a staggering 75% of American adults are overweight or obese - a number that will cross 81% in 25 years…..
….enter big food and big Pharma battle to control our bodies.
….enter big food and big Pharma battle to control our bodies.
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Every year at Thanksgiving, I repost this slide created by Engage With Grace & I urge people to talk with their loved ones about what they want at the end of life.
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November 26, 2024 at 4:48 PM
Every year at Thanksgiving, I repost this slide created by Engage With Grace & I urge people to talk with their loved ones about what they want at the end of life.
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Open call for noms for expert panel to improve primary care education and engagement in the care of patients with Long COVID. Applications from clinicians and patients welcome.
For more information and to apply, please visit: cmss.org/programs-and...
Applications are due December 13, 2024!
For more information and to apply, please visit: cmss.org/programs-and...
Applications are due December 13, 2024!
Long COVID Education, Engagement, and Care Management
Program Details: Over the course of a one-year program, CMSS will engage primary care and specialty societies, advanced practice practitioners, patients, and other stakeholders in a series of coordi...
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November 26, 2024 at 4:50 PM
Open call for noms for expert panel to improve primary care education and engagement in the care of patients with Long COVID. Applications from clinicians and patients welcome.
For more information and to apply, please visit: cmss.org/programs-and...
Applications are due December 13, 2024!
For more information and to apply, please visit: cmss.org/programs-and...
Applications are due December 13, 2024!
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The #Neuroscience of #Belonging
Belonging isn't just a warm, fuzzy concept—it's wired into us.
Neuroscientists have found that the brain treats rejection like physical pain.
That's why exclusion hurts so much—it's your biology. When we belong, our brains light up with dopamine and oxytocin.
Belonging isn't just a warm, fuzzy concept—it's wired into us.
Neuroscientists have found that the brain treats rejection like physical pain.
That's why exclusion hurts so much—it's your biology. When we belong, our brains light up with dopamine and oxytocin.
November 21, 2024 at 6:59 PM
The #Neuroscience of #Belonging
Belonging isn't just a warm, fuzzy concept—it's wired into us.
Neuroscientists have found that the brain treats rejection like physical pain.
That's why exclusion hurts so much—it's your biology. When we belong, our brains light up with dopamine and oxytocin.
Belonging isn't just a warm, fuzzy concept—it's wired into us.
Neuroscientists have found that the brain treats rejection like physical pain.
That's why exclusion hurts so much—it's your biology. When we belong, our brains light up with dopamine and oxytocin.
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20% increase in global measles cases last year, basically because vaccination rates are falling for no good reason.
108,000 deaths, most of them little kids.
Call me skeptical that Trump’s nominees for HHS, FDA and CDC would turn those trends around.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
108,000 deaths, most of them little kids.
Call me skeptical that Trump’s nominees for HHS, FDA and CDC would turn those trends around.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Measles cases rose to more than 10 million in 2023, WHO and CDC say
The surge in the preventable disease was driven by “inadequate immunization coverage,” the agencies said.
www.nbcnews.com
November 24, 2024 at 12:47 AM
20% increase in global measles cases last year, basically because vaccination rates are falling for no good reason.
108,000 deaths, most of them little kids.
Call me skeptical that Trump’s nominees for HHS, FDA and CDC would turn those trends around.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
108,000 deaths, most of them little kids.
Call me skeptical that Trump’s nominees for HHS, FDA and CDC would turn those trends around.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
“Young adults today spend nearly 1,000 fewer hours with friends in person per year than young people did in 2003. That's according to the surgeon general.”
#loneliness
#belonging
#community
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www.npr.org
November 24, 2024 at 3:33 AM
“Young adults today spend nearly 1,000 fewer hours with friends in person per year than young people did in 2003. That's according to the surgeon general.”
#loneliness
#belonging
#community
www.npr.org/2024/11/22/n...
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Others have noted it but I will too: The big reason Bluesky is so hot right now is that the people who add value to social media - the frequent posters in specific fields - are here now, talking to each other and creating the "spectator value" that draws users and attention.
Twitter’s heir apparent isn’t X or Threads — it’s Bluesky
The blue bird is dead. Long live the blue sky.
www.theverge.com
November 23, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Others have noted it but I will too: The big reason Bluesky is so hot right now is that the people who add value to social media - the frequent posters in specific fields - are here now, talking to each other and creating the "spectator value" that draws users and attention.
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"Knowing other people with the same diagnosis is an important source of support" - universally true AND unique to every community (this time: sleep disorders). Congrats @remrunner.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Social support and isolation in narcolepsy and idiopathic hypersomnia: An international survey
To evaluate factors associated with feeling supported in adjusting to life when diagnosed with narcolepsy or idiopathic hypersomnia.An online survey w…
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November 22, 2024 at 4:43 PM
"Knowing other people with the same diagnosis is an important source of support" - universally true AND unique to every community (this time: sleep disorders). Congrats @remrunner.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Hahahaha, YES
There is a special circle in hell for publishers who do not make the gutter margins big enough
November 19, 2024 at 4:05 AM
Hahahaha, YES
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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
- James Baldwin
- James Baldwin
November 18, 2024 at 5:15 AM
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
- James Baldwin
- James Baldwin