The epidemic of Black maternal and infant mortality is the urgent moral stain of our time. We MUST solve it.
October 31, 2026 at 9:09 PM
The epidemic of Black maternal and infant mortality is the urgent moral stain of our time. We MUST solve it.
BAAJA likely increases domestic mortality attributable to air pollution from fossil fuels. On average, based on mortality estimates from the more cautious of two recent studies, domestic mortality increases by 1,500 deaths per year. For context, 2,977 Americans died on 9/11.
November 3, 2026 at 1:03 PM
BAAJA likely increases domestic mortality attributable to air pollution from fossil fuels. On average, based on mortality estimates from the more cautious of two recent studies, domestic mortality increases by 1,500 deaths per year. For context, 2,977 Americans died on 9/11.
🚨 Increasingly, health is about political identity.
What the 2024 electoral map reveals about America’s mortality divide www.statnews.com/2026/11/03/e... via @statnews.com
⚠️ The mortality rate "was 19.2% higher in states that voted for Donald Trump than in states that voted for Kamala Harris."
What the 2024 electoral map reveals about America’s mortality divide www.statnews.com/2026/11/03/e... via @statnews.com
⚠️ The mortality rate "was 19.2% higher in states that voted for Donald Trump than in states that voted for Kamala Harris."
What the 2024 electoral map reveals about America’s mortality divide
Leading drivers of mortality look different according to political geography, experts write.
www.statnews.com
November 3, 2026 at 5:20 PM
🚨 Increasingly, health is about political identity.
What the 2024 electoral map reveals about America’s mortality divide www.statnews.com/2026/11/03/e... via @statnews.com
⚠️ The mortality rate "was 19.2% higher in states that voted for Donald Trump than in states that voted for Kamala Harris."
What the 2024 electoral map reveals about America’s mortality divide www.statnews.com/2026/11/03/e... via @statnews.com
⚠️ The mortality rate "was 19.2% higher in states that voted for Donald Trump than in states that voted for Kamala Harris."
The viewers keep dying. They have a mortality problem.
November 3, 2026 at 1:39 AM
The viewers keep dying. They have a mortality problem.
What the 2024 electoral map reveals about America’s mortality divide. https://www.statnews.com/2026/11/03/electoral-map-reveals-red-state-blue-state-mortality-gap/
November 3, 2026 at 11:38 PM
What the 2024 electoral map reveals about America’s mortality divide. https://www.statnews.com/2026/11/03/electoral-map-reveals-red-state-blue-state-mortality-gap/
All data and code are open: github.com/fismanda/respiratory-virus-mortality-ontario (Zenodo archived). This specific study was unfunded but our group is supported by funds from CIHR for which we are very grateful.
GitHub - fismanda/respiratory-virus-mortality-ontario: Ecological regression analysis of respiratory virus mortality in Ontario, 1993-2025
Ecological regression analysis of respiratory virus mortality in Ontario, 1993-2025 - fismanda/respiratory-virus-mortality-ontario
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October 31, 2026 at 7:26 PM
All data and code are open: github.com/fismanda/respiratory-virus-mortality-ontario (Zenodo archived). This specific study was unfunded but our group is supported by funds from CIHR for which we are very grateful.
📌Black women’s jobs: Black women have suffered disproportionate job losses under Trump
📌Reproductive rights: Black women already face a maternal mortality crisis, and abortion restrictions put more lives at risk
📌Reproductive rights: Black women already face a maternal mortality crisis, and abortion restrictions put more lives at risk
November 3, 2026 at 12:51 PM
📌Black women’s jobs: Black women have suffered disproportionate job losses under Trump
📌Reproductive rights: Black women already face a maternal mortality crisis, and abortion restrictions put more lives at risk
📌Reproductive rights: Black women already face a maternal mortality crisis, and abortion restrictions put more lives at risk
Two years ago, Trump thought he was invincible. This week, the Democrats shoved his political mortality in his face. https://mrf.lu/2VNzN
The Blue Wave Is the Beginning of the End for Trump
newrepublic.com
November 4, 2026 at 3:49 AM
Two years ago, Trump thought he was invincible. This week, the Democrats shoved his political mortality in his face. https://mrf.lu/2VNzN
It's also the highest in maternal mortality
November 2, 2026 at 11:02 AM
It's also the highest in maternal mortality
From @jjbuonocore.bsky.social, "What pollutants are in your mortality estimates?"
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Good question from Jonathan on my BAAJA modeling.
Fine particulates under 2.5 microns in diameter (PM2.5) and ozone. The mortality estimates in the two papers I draw on don't consider other air pollutants, so they (and I) likely underestimate mortality attributable to fossil fuel use.
Fine particulates under 2.5 microns in diameter (PM2.5) and ozone. The mortality estimates in the two papers I draw on don't consider other air pollutants, so they (and I) likely underestimate mortality attributable to fossil fuel use.
What pollutants are in your mortality estimates?
November 3, 2026 at 1:47 PM
From @jjbuonocore.bsky.social, "What pollutants are in your mortality estimates?"
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They used to balance this out with a super high infant mortality rate.
November 2, 2026 at 8:00 PM
They used to balance this out with a super high infant mortality rate.
#poorlydrawnoctober #mdzs
Playing around with something scary and haunting for halloween/WWX birthday (Lighting and mortality)
Playing around with something scary and haunting for halloween/WWX birthday (Lighting and mortality)
November 1, 2026 at 8:04 PM
#poorlydrawnoctober #mdzs
Playing around with something scary and haunting for halloween/WWX birthday (Lighting and mortality)
Playing around with something scary and haunting for halloween/WWX birthday (Lighting and mortality)
Meanwhile, Abbott’s criminal abortion bans drove up maternal mortality rates and have killed at least five known women. This is a stunning upset and, depending on how many seats Democrats gain in the legislature, this could have major ramifications for abortion rights in the state.
November 4, 2026 at 4:10 AM
Meanwhile, Abbott’s criminal abortion bans drove up maternal mortality rates and have killed at least five known women. This is a stunning upset and, depending on how many seats Democrats gain in the legislature, this could have major ramifications for abortion rights in the state.
do you ever think about how graha and minfilia were both separated from their homeland for their own protection and that both sacrificed their bodies and mortality for a future they believed they would never see
November 1, 2026 at 9:58 PM
do you ever think about how graha and minfilia were both separated from their homeland for their own protection and that both sacrificed their bodies and mortality for a future they believed they would never see
In reality it is losing the fight against the inevitability of human mortality.
November 3, 2026 at 4:53 PM
In reality it is losing the fight against the inevitability of human mortality.
If you don't have fresh mortality, frozen mortality will work in a pinch.
Don’t forget to use your mortality while it’s still fresh.
November 1, 2026 at 10:27 AM
If you don't have fresh mortality, frozen mortality will work in a pinch.
If fossil fuel demand grows, then climate and mortality impacts from fossil fuel demand grow.
If electricity demand grows and is not met entirely by clean generation, then fossil generation grows and drives additional climate and mortality impacts.
If electricity demand grows and is not met entirely by clean generation, then fossil generation grows and drives additional climate and mortality impacts.
November 3, 2026 at 3:42 PM
If fossil fuel demand grows, then climate and mortality impacts from fossil fuel demand grow.
If electricity demand grows and is not met entirely by clean generation, then fossil generation grows and drives additional climate and mortality impacts.
If electricity demand grows and is not met entirely by clean generation, then fossil generation grows and drives additional climate and mortality impacts.
...pleasures in the face of human mortality.
Dating around 30 BC.
On display at Altes Museum, Berlin. 🧵2/2
Dating around 30 BC.
On display at Altes Museum, Berlin. 🧵2/2
October 31, 2026 at 8:54 AM
...pleasures in the face of human mortality.
Dating around 30 BC.
On display at Altes Museum, Berlin. 🧵2/2
Dating around 30 BC.
On display at Altes Museum, Berlin. 🧵2/2
Misogyny is political for women. Look at Texas. Look at the high maternity mortality rate for Black women, look at the Epstein files. Misogyny made her death political, too. She automatically became the DEI hire in the plane crash.
November 3, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Misogyny is political for women. Look at Texas. Look at the high maternity mortality rate for Black women, look at the Epstein files. Misogyny made her death political, too. She automatically became the DEI hire in the plane crash.
I love that Halloween is immediately followed by daylight saving time. First we confront our mortality, then we fiddle with the microwave.
October 31, 2026 at 3:48 PM
I love that Halloween is immediately followed by daylight saving time. First we confront our mortality, then we fiddle with the microwave.
For thousands of years, child mortality was 48-49%.
In 200 years — that is, since the Enlightenment combination of reason, science, and capitalism took hold — it has fallen to less than 5%. RFKJr appears to have no idea of this dramatic fact.
In 200 years — that is, since the Enlightenment combination of reason, science, and capitalism took hold — it has fallen to less than 5%. RFKJr appears to have no idea of this dramatic fact.
November 3, 2026 at 5:33 PM
For thousands of years, child mortality was 48-49%.
In 200 years — that is, since the Enlightenment combination of reason, science, and capitalism took hold — it has fallen to less than 5%. RFKJr appears to have no idea of this dramatic fact.
In 200 years — that is, since the Enlightenment combination of reason, science, and capitalism took hold — it has fallen to less than 5%. RFKJr appears to have no idea of this dramatic fact.
Maybe it's because we are in that time when the veil between the living and the dead is thin.
Historically, empires grow more dangerous when they sense their grip on power loosening.
Amplify this by a rapidly aging Trump facing his own mortality.
I'd like to be wrong. But I'm probably not.
Historically, empires grow more dangerous when they sense their grip on power loosening.
Amplify this by a rapidly aging Trump facing his own mortality.
I'd like to be wrong. But I'm probably not.
November 2, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Maybe it's because we are in that time when the veil between the living and the dead is thin.
Historically, empires grow more dangerous when they sense their grip on power loosening.
Amplify this by a rapidly aging Trump facing his own mortality.
I'd like to be wrong. But I'm probably not.
Historically, empires grow more dangerous when they sense their grip on power loosening.
Amplify this by a rapidly aging Trump facing his own mortality.
I'd like to be wrong. But I'm probably not.
nachhaltigen Prävention von Atemwegsviren unterstreicht.«
Weitere Details zu den Studienergebnissen im 🧵 von David Fisman @dfisman.bsky.social .
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Weitere Details zu den Studienergebnissen im 🧵 von David Fisman @dfisman.bsky.social .
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Population attributable mortality associated with respiratory viruses in Ontario, Canada: a population-based ecological analysis
SARS-CoV-2 was associated with a 3–4-fold higher population mortality burden than
seasonal influenza A despite available countermeasures, and continued to contribute
beyond the formal emergency period...
www.thelancet.com
November 1, 2026 at 8:09 PM
nachhaltigen Prävention von Atemwegsviren unterstreicht.«
Weitere Details zu den Studienergebnissen im 🧵 von David Fisman @dfisman.bsky.social .
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Weitere Details zu den Studienergebnissen im 🧵 von David Fisman @dfisman.bsky.social .
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Is there a nonfiction read you recommend?
October 31, 2026 at 11:14 PM
easy way to reframe it: “you might be right, and that’s because the stillbirth and infant mortality rates for Black babies are twice those of white babies. Don’t you say you’re pro-life?”
November 2, 2026 at 10:17 PM
easy way to reframe it: “you might be right, and that’s because the stillbirth and infant mortality rates for Black babies are twice those of white babies. Don’t you say you’re pro-life?”