Dr Heather Battles

@DisabilityStor1 I look forward to reading it!

"#Brazil records world's first #Oropouche #virus deaths" @Telegraph telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

🪰🦟"#Oropouche #outbreak: Stillbirths linked to rare viral disease [vectored by #Culicoides midges & #Aedes mosquitoes] in #Brazil🇧🇷 raises fear of #Zika re-run" by @VerityBowman & @maeve_cullinan @TelGlobalHealth telegraph.co.uk/global-health/… @pahowho @minsaude

In March I did this 🧵on what anthropology offers; now I am being made redundant by Goldsmiths I just want to put it out again. I am an anthropologist & do feel I can offer a lot for climate, environment & other work beyond academia - if you see anything, let me know 🙏

Here's a new Briefing about implications of our new major mask review for Aotearoa New Zealand. Winter is on the way, respiratory infection rates are up, & there's a potential new pandemic on the horizon. Mask work & New Zealanders are missing out. phcc.org.nz/briefing/scien…

📣📣Looking for #research participants!📣📣 Are you a USA-based adult who postponed or is/was unable to get #healthcare you wanted or needed for non-#COVID health concerns during the #pandemic? Researchers at @SetonHall University want to hear more about your experiences! (1/2)

Interested in doing a PhD in disability history? We're advertising a fully funded AHRC CDP PhD Scholarship: Arts, Activisdm, and Accessibility: Disability Arts in Wales, 1980-Present swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/s… based @SwanseaHistory and @NLWales. #dishist

Today, a group of international experts led by Prof Lidia Morawska FAA (@QUT) has presented a blueprint for national indoor quality standards for public buildings, in @ScienceMagazine. How can indoor air quality standards be monitored and enforced? Read: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

“It’s critical that any review of higher education must feature staff and student voices at its heart – there is no science sector or tertiary education system without us.” - @GreyNZ teu.ac.nz/news/advisory-…

Wonderful to catch up with old friends and colleagues in LA at #PPA2024 and #AABA2024. Now to entice folks to Auckland for #ASHB2025...! @AusHumanBiology

@BioAnth_UniKent So sorry for you all - and the loss for all of Anthro as a field.

Anthropology is closing at Kent. We were unsuccessful in persuading management to retain this diverse and dynamic subject area. This spells the end for Social Anthropology, Biological Anthropology and Ethnobotany. Done. kent.ac.uk/news/statement…

@GlassDelaney Great talk today!

I can't even speak at the moment. Frans de Waal's death is a profound loss in the world of animal-behavior science. My sincere condolences to his family and closest friends. improbable.com/2024/03/16/sad… #primates #anthropology #ethology #animalbehavior #chimpanzees

So sad to hear that Paul Alexander passed yesterday at age 78 from Covid-19. Paul contracted polio in 1952, when he was just six years old. He ended up in an iron lung and while he could live outside it for extended periods of time he never really left it.

Paul Alexander died yesterday of #COVID19, at age 78. He contracted #polio in 1952, at age 6, and was paralyzed from the neck down. Paul lived the next 72 years in an iron lung. youtube.com/watch?v=O5DOre… theguardian.com/society/2020/m… iflscience.com/man-whos-lived… via @MarchofDimes @kakape

Canadian Covid Society launches to address long-term effects, prevent further illness | Health News | thecanadianpressnews.ca thecanadianpressnews.ca/health/canadia…

There have been 8 cases of #measles reported in Canada in the past week, almost as many of all of 2024. Worse yet, some cases appear to be domestic spread -- and March break travel is coming, by @carlyweeks theglobeandmail.com/canada/article… via @globeandmail

#Measles spreading in Ontario, Quebec with cases of unknown origin. If community transmission is occurring, that would have significant public-health ramifications, by @carlyweeks theglobeandmail.com/canada/article… via @globeandmail #vaccination