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Wastewater surveillance #WWS can speed up disease detection & response with better leadership, more funding, & flexible guidelines, says new The Lancet Global Health study from the Wastewater Action Group. Bouvé College of Health Sciences at Northeastern Mathematica UK Health Security Agency Learn more: rockfound.link/3JjWnl4

We have received many recent media enquiries asking how a #heatwave impacts the human body. Here is a short animation from Heat and Health Research Incubator that explains the physiological impacts based on our 2021 paper The Lancet: thelancet.com/journals/lance… University of Sydney #LeadershipForGood

This is climate action, protecting our health. World Health Organization (WHO) . Cindy McKinley x.com/davidlois_UNED…

Today, Mathematica released a new tool to better understand community heat vulnerability. The interactive ClimaWATCH tool provides statistics and visualizations to show heat wave information, socio-environmental factors, and more. Access the tool here! bit.ly/4565eQ4

Today I saw someone present a nicely executed study with null results, and I remember this blog : "How to Publish Statistically Insignificant Results in Economics" blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati… #ThrowbackThursday

Cold fact: Over the last 50 years, 1 million lives have been lost in Asia due to extreme weather events 99% of these losses were in developing countries and 89% were either lower income or lower-middle income individuals 70% were caused by cyclones library.wmo.int/viewer/57564?m…

#AcademicTwitter Recommendations for leading & emerging academics working on heat adaptation & health? Academic Chatter™ #climatechange #academia

This year featured the first ever health day at a COP - here Dheeya Rizmie, PhD and Colleen Psomas (Mathematica & Imperial Business School) discuss the health implications of #climate change buff.ly/3TgCPDJ #COP28 #EconTwitter

The late Marilyn Young once wrote an essay that talked about this. How being an American means living oblivious to how American power looks and feels in other parts of the world on a daily basis. Many of us still do. muse.jhu.edu/pub/190/monogr…

Bored in the hospital so I put all my symptoms into ChatGPT & asked it to list the most likely dx’s in order. Of course, anxiety was at the top of the list. So I ran it again but as a male pt, and to absolutely no ones surprise, anxiety wasn’t even ON the list of possible dx’s 🙃

As a white ally, it’s not enough to not be racist. You HAVE TO BE ACTIVELY anti-racist.

A 🧵 of new #DiD stuff that came out this year. Just putting it here mostly for myself since bookmarks are becoming a mess: Paper 1 by Callway, Goodman-Bacon, Sant'Anna 2024a: Difference-in-differences with a Continuous Treatment nber.org/papers/w32117

Exactly this⤵️ Reminds me when I presented my work on carbon pricing and someone implied it's a good paper because it's "fashionable" Sadly there's a reason why studying climate change is "a hot topic" 🌏🔥 🌡️🥵

As the US, Mexico and Central America swelter during a record breaking heatwave, our new study on heat🥵 and decision-making 🧠 shows that: ⚠️High nighttime temperatures lead to poor decision-making ⚠️Main drivers: ⬆️sleep deprivation and ⬇️ cognitive abilities A 🧵

I'm currently reading a difficult-to-navigate introduction of an economics paper. I admit that I appreciate it when papers follow this simple formula cgdev.org/blog/how-write….

Interesting paper, and useful package for those interested in combining synthetic DID and event-studies!

What are the effects of extreme temperatures on consumption? 🏪 💳 New work in JAERE provides evidence on contemporaneous + cumulative effects of extreme temps using micro shopping data in the US. Extreme temps ⬇️ the # of store visit in short & long-run. #JaereFigureFriday

9/11/2001 I was a freshman in high school in Alabama, I wore a hijab. In gym class my teacher wheeled in a screen. Something horrible was happening. I watched, mouth agape as the second tower hit. We were silent. As that period reached an end, my name was announced on the 1/