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🌍 ERA-ENVHEALTH Open Conference 2026 “One Health for Sustainable Cities”

How can we create cities that are healthier, greener & more equitable?

📅 13 October
🕤 9:30 am – 5:00 pm
📍 Berlin (on-site fully booked) & online

🔗 Registration & further information: www.umweltbundesamt.de/en/era-envhe...
ERA-ENVHEALTH Open Conference 2026: Start
The next ERA-ENVHEALTH network’s Open Conference will take place on Tuesday, 13 October 2026 at the Federal Press Office, Reichstagufer 14, 10117 Berlin and online. The event will be hosted by the Ger...
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September 28, 2026 at 2:34 PM
farsouthhistory.bsky.social
Check out Alexandra Maertens's review of @christian-s-warren.bsky.social's "Starved for Light: The Long Shadow of Rickets and Vitamin D Deficiency," published in 2024 by @uchicagopress.bsky.social; review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #envhealth
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November 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
markpoloncarz.bsky.social
Concerned about your home’s safety? Erie County offers FREE home assessments of indoor air quality, fire & carbon monoxide safety, lead poisoning hazards, and more. Smoke & CO detectors provided as needed. Learn more about the program: www3.erie.gov/envhealth/he...
December 26, 2024 at 8:12 PM
farsouthhistory.bsky.social
Check out Thaís R. S. de Sant'Ana's review of Jeff Lesser's "Living and Dying in São Paulo: Immigrants, Health, and the Built Environment in Brazil," published in 2525 by @dukepress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhealth #envhist #urban
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September 8, 2026 at 1:02 PM
stephenjacobsmith.com
Same dynamic as NY – Chicago’s code defers to plumbing industry interests, raising replacement costs by banning plastics in service lines: codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/chicag...

…while the Illinois code (in effect outside Chicago) allows less costly plastics: www.idph.state.il.us/envhealth/pd...
August 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
feorlean.bsky.social
Argyll & Bute Council along with Scottish Water have an emergency water scarcity scheme operating for those on private supplies which are under threat ( or completely dried up) as a result of the current very dry spell. Initial contact is :

envhealth@argyll-bute.gov.uk
May 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
farsouthhistory.bsky.social
Check out Garret McDonald's review of Anna Mazanik's "Sanitizing Moscow: Waste, Animals, and Urban Health in Late Imperial Russia," published in 2025 by @upittpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #envhealth #urban #animals
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March 18, 2026 at 3:30 PM
bullardcenter.bsky.social
TODAY: @drrobertbullard.bsky.social keynotes the EHD Community-Engaged Environmental Health Workshop at NC State, focusing on partnerships to tackle health disparities. Panels, keynotes & workshops all day! 🌍🤝 Learn more: ow.ly/IVR750VmZK1 #EnvHealth #CommunityEngagement
March 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
motria.bsky.social
Share with Chicago networks! Hosted by People for Community Recovery, Environmental health training, Weds, Dec. 4, Altgeld Gardens Library, 950 E. 132nd, 11:30-1:30PM.
More info: www.atsdr.cdc.gov/land-reuse-h... #BlackAndSTEM #stemsky #BlackSTEM #environmentaljustice #envhealth #publichealthsky
December 2, 2024 at 9:17 PM
farsouthhistory.bsky.social
Check out Micah McKay's review of @wombatscholar.bsky.social's "Spectacles of Waste," published in 2024 by @politybooks.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhealth #waste #ecology #histmed 💩
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October 29, 2024 at 2:33 PM
christian-s-warren.bsky.social
So stoked to read Alexandra Maertens' review of my little history of rickets, which Maertens finds "engagingly written," with "careful, nuanced attention to the scientific literature."
🗃️ @uchicagopress.bsky.social @hnetreviews.bsky.social
#envhist #envhum #envhealth
Maertens on Warren, 'Starved for Light: The Long Shadow of Rickets and Vitamin D Deficiency' | H-Net
Warren, Christian. Starved for Light: The Long Shadow of Rickets and Vitamin D Deficiency. : University of Chicago Press, 2024. 288 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780226151939. Reviewed by Alexandra Maertens (Johns Hopkins University) Published on H-Environment (November, 2025) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
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November 5, 2025 at 10:31 PM
gasparrini.bsky.social
New tutorial!

Updated #EHMLab work by Jacopo Vanoli w/ R code to link residential data to environmental exposures in cohort studies. Simple, scalable, and open-source.

📄 Article: nature.com/articles/s41370-023-00635-w
💻 Code: github.com/gasparrini/EnvExpLink

#EpiTwitter #RStats #EnvHealth
April 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM
farsouthhistory.bsky.social
Check out @angelagui.bsky.social's review of Jean Y.C. Lin's "A Spark in the Smokestacks: Environmental Organizing in Beijing Middle-Class Communities," published in 2023 by @columbiaup.bsky.social; review now available @HNet_Reviews #envhist #envhum #envhealth
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March 1, 2024 at 3:49 PM
farsouthhistory.bsky.social
Grad students, indep scholars, librarians, museum pros, academics ...this list of avail & DM me to review your pick for H-Environment! #envhum #envhist #conservation #anthropocene #ecocrit #sustainability #envjustice #envtech #envhealth #aghist
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Books Available to review for H-Environment
Books Available for Review for H-Environment Below are the books currently available for review for H-Environment. Interested in reviewing one? Please email me at dmccahey@uci.edu for DM me at @fars...
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June 15, 2024 at 12:01 AM
markpoloncarz.bsky.social
Lead poisoning is an insidious disease that can steal a child's future. It is essential that you have your baby checked for lead poisoning at ages 1 and 2, and at least twice before 3. If your child does test positive, our Dept of Health specialists can help your baby:

www3.erie.gov/envhealth/le...
November 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
isee-global.bsky.social
PFAS exposure and cancer risk: a critical area of public health research. Join our symposium at ISES/ISEE 2025 to explore the latest evidence—spanning epidemiology, toxicology, and omics—and identify paths toward prevention. #PFAS #Cancer #EnvHealth #ISEE2025
July 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
farsouthhistory.bsky.social
Check out Yu-Hsuan Wang's review of Jean-Thomas Tremblay's Jean-Thomas Tremblay's "Breathing Aesthetics," published in 2022 by @dukepress.bsky.social; review now available on H-Net #envhist #envhum #envhealth 🫁
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July 17, 2024 at 1:11 PM
motria.bsky.social
What the actual hell. When I teach #envHealth I talk about how the US put air monitors in China in advance of the Beijing Olympics, because there was no data to be had. 😤
Scientists raise concerns as US stops sharing air quality data from embassies worldwide
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Scientists raise concerns as the US stops sharing air quality data from embassies worldwide
The U.S. government’s decision to stop sharing air quality data from embassies and consulates worldwide has worried some local scientists and experts who say the data was vital for people to be aware ...
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March 6, 2025 at 2:08 AM
farsouthhistory.bsky.social
Check out Kathleen Kole de Peralta's review of Amelia Fiske's "Reckoning with Harm: The Toxic Relations of Oil in Amazonia," published in 2023 by @utexaspress.bsky.social; review now available on H-Net #envhist #envhum #pollution #amazon #envjustice #energy #envhealth🛢️
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June 21, 2024 at 4:08 PM
historyrocio.bsky.social
Joel is on Bsky! Give him a follow! Happy to be on his dissertation committee; looking forward to the end product! 🤗
@aguachiles.bsky.social
#envhist #LatAmHist #envhealth #publichealth

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August 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
ecoenvironhealth.bsky.social
Hey T2DM folks 👋 New #EcoEnvironmentHealth find: Serum PAEs boost stroke risk in type 2 diabetes!
Shiyang Zhang’s team saw clear dose-response links—no tie to CVD/CHD.
Free read: doi.org/10.1016/j.ee... #EnvHealth 🌍
October 22, 2025 at 8:46 AM
highland.gov.uk
During power outages some water treatment systems (e.g. Ultra Violet (UV) disinfection) will not be effective at treating the water.

For further advice or information, please email envhealth@highland.gov.uk or phone 01349 886603.

#StormFloris recovery
August 6, 2025 at 10:12 AM
eriecounty.bsky.social
🏠 Concerned about your home's safety? Erie County offers FREE home assessments of indoor air quality, fire & carbon monoxide safety, lead poisoning hazards, and more. Smoke and CO detectors are provided as needed.

Info at: https://www3.erie.gov/envhealth/healthy-neighborhoods-program-hnp
June 18, 2026 at 7:30 PM
eriecounty.bsky.social
Spring cleaning? Take the next step toward a safer, healthier home 🏠 Erie County offers FREE home assessments to check indoor air quality, fire and carbon monoxide safety, lead hazards, and more.

Learn more: www3.erie.gov/envhealth/healthy-neighborhoods-program-hnp
March 27, 2026 at 4:15 PM
met-hsph.bsky.social
Mapping the “exposome” to protect health.

@penggao.bsky.social, uses high-resolution mass spectrometry and multi-omics to reveal how pollutant mixtures shape asthma, cancer, Alzheimer’s risk, and more.

Read about the work. in the Gao Lab: hsph.me/hpiitbtih31026

#Exposomics #EnvHealth
How pollutants interact inside the body to impact health | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Peng Gao studies the “exposome”—the measure of an individual’s total environmental exposures over the course of their life and how those exposures impact biology and health.
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March 12, 2026 at 2:06 PM