Want to help Ukraine (and its people or soldiers) financially? Here is a list of six reputable charities and outlets suggested by a colleague of mine in Ukraine -- covering different ways to help (please RT): 1/
British-Ukrainian Aid supports victims of the ongoing war, orphaned children, internally displaced persons, the wounded, and others in need. It has launched a JustGiving appeal: justgiving.com/ukraine-aid 2/
Ukrainian Red Cross -- “Every day volunteers and staff of the Ukrainian Red Cross in different parts of the country support people who have found themselves in difficult living conditions or suffered from emergencies.” donate.redcrossredcrescent.org/ua/donate/~моя… 3/
The Ukraine Humanitarian Fund is one of the UN’s country-based funds. “Contributions are collected into a single, unearmarked fund and managed locally under UN leadership. Funds are made directly and immediately available to a wide range of partners” crisisrelief.un.org/t/ukraine 4/
The National Bank of Ukraine has opened a special multi-currency account for payments to “support the Armed Forces of Ukraine.” Anyone from any country can donate. Details at the bank’s official website: bank.gov.ua/ua/news/all/na…. 5/
Come Back Alive is a Kyiv charity that provides Ukraine’s Armed Forces with equipment, software, & personal body protection. It publishes its accounts (& accepts bitcoin, too). Donors choose between ‘help the Ukrainian Army’ and ‘support the fund.’ savelife.in.ua/en/donate/ 6/
SOS Children's Towns in Ukraine, founded in 2003, works to prevent orphanhood in Ukraine, to develop family-based care for children deprived of parental care, and to support young people coming out of care. sos-ukraine.org 7/
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On the one hand: “Just 1 in 4 college students favor schools disinviting controversial speakers, down from more than 2 in 5 in 2019. Similarly, the number of students who support colleges providing safe spaces or speech codes has fallen over the past two years.”
On the other hand: “College students say campus climate stifles free expression. Speech on campus is making 1 in 5 feel unsafe. More students now say climate at school prevents some from saying things others might find offensive, and fewer feel comfortable disagreeing in class.”
What an absurd, fact-free essay from @sciam which has besmirched itself by publishing this about EO Wilson. This journal should familiarize itself with Wilson’s response to this scurrilous and false accusation in Galileo’s Middle Finger by @AliceDreger
I’d not been paying attention to the periodic lapse in commitment to facts & reason at @sciam, which I’ve long admired, but it appears it’s had more than one such lapse? It’s precisely when accusations of racism and sexism are made that standards of probity should rise, not fall.
Let’s talk about natural immunity (NI) versus vaccine-induced immunity (VI) to SARS2. This has become controversial. If you survive COVID19 infection, what does that mean, immunologically and practically (given current state of knowledge and current state of the pandemic)? 1/
This is a SUPER long thread (with recent research) on a topic that has become weirdly politicized (as I learned – though I should have known with anything COVID19-related! – after my recent interview with @SamHarrisOrg ). So buckle up. 2/
I also mention this topic of natural versus vaccine-induced immunity in this 17-minute interview with @hari on @AmanpourCoPBS released last night. 3/
As expected, early studies are beginning to appear about omicron immune escape using in vitro assessments. We will also have large scale epidemiological studies, which are key. 1/
Leading scientist @sigallab who authored this paper on escape of SARS-CoV-2 501Y.V2 from neutralization by convalescent plasma in @nature in March nature.com/articles/s4158… just released data about immune escape and omicron using South African sample. 2/
Here is @sigallab thread on omicron immune escape:
There’s a new COVID19 variant that has people worried. Let’s talk about “omicron.” This assessment must necessarily be very preliminary, since we are in very early days (partly thanks to South Africa generously sounding the alarm!). 1/
Three key issues are whether omicron is 1) more transmissible, 2) more deadly, and 3) more capable of evading current vaccines (or, somewhat analogously, whether it evades current antibody treatments or immunity conferred by prior natural infection, aka “immune escape”). 2/
Based on currently available technical data and on news reports from around the world, here is a *preliminary* opinion about these three issues, along with my level of confidence in these guesses. 3/
Here is a tweet with images deemed most offensive. My sense is that having such a book available in a high school library is in keeping with the sexual awareness of most students that age. And similar content should be available for straight students, too.
I suppose I start from presumption that high school students (95% of whom have access to a smartphone -- pewresearch.org/internet/2018/…) can access sexual materials. To have a librarian who has (hopefully thoughtfully) chosen a book is more educational and developmentally supportive.