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New Tim Hortons pizza made with 100% Canadian cardboard

#research #timhortons

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2024/04/new-tim-hortons-pizza-made-with-100-canadian-cardboard/

“We must have this national conversation. How are we going to deal with long #COVID?”

Featured post: Medical experts and those suffering from this challenging condition are demanding better—more research and healthier air to breathe. https://www.texasobserver.org/long-covid-texas-clearing-the-air/

(Edit: adjusted word choice based on reader feedback 🤠)

#LongCovid #Health #news #politics #USpol #science #healthcare #research #CovidIsNotOver #Austin #Texas

Clearing the Air: Long COVID Sufferers Call for a Healthier World

Even young, healthy Texans can suffer for years after COVID infections.

^{Kit O'Connell (The Texas Observer)}

According to a working paper by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Chicago, job applicants with names that suggest they are Black are getting fewer callbacks from employers than those with names that suggest they are white. The typical employer called back the presumed-white applicants around 9% more than Black ones. That rose to around 24% for the worst offenders. The research team has now named the 97 companies they studied and assigned them grades. "Putting the names out there in the public domain is to move away from a lot of the performative allyship that you see with these companies, saying, 'Oh, we value inclusivity and diversity,'" Pat Kline, an economics professor who worked on the study told NPR.

https://flip.it/HoZRiH

#Employment #Research #BlackMastodon @blackmastodon #HumanResources #Discrimination

Africa's fight against #urban #air #pollution
"With #urbanization and #economic #development, there is more pollution of air in urban areas, which exposes people to diseases that are linked to this polluted air," Felix Assah, a member of the population #health #research group at the #University of #Yaounde, told #DW. Such diseases include #cardiovascular and #respiratory ailments, along with #cancer.

Experts and organizations working for #cleaner air in Africa recently met in Yaounde to discuss how they can cooperate to monitor air quality using #sensor #technology

English https://www.dw.com/en/africas-fight-against-health-risks-of-urban-air-pollution/a-68757907

French https://www-dw-com.translate.goog/en/africas-fight-against-health-risks-of-urban-air-pollution/a-68757907?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=fr&_x_tr_hl=fr

#Afrika #afrique #africa #افريقيا

Africa's fight against urban air pollution

Cities are growing rapidly in Africa, but many countries lack effective technologies to measure the associated air pollution. Experts are finding new ways to track air quality in hopes of reducing health risks.

^{Martina Schwikowski (Deutsche Welle)}

We have two tenure track #lecturer positions available at the #University of #Edinburgh, to support and develop #teaching and #research linked to the undergraduate Dual Award Honours programmes in Integrative Biomedical Sciences and Biomedical Informatics jointly developed in partnership with Zhejiang University, China.

For more info and to apply see the ads here

https://elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1001/job/9999/

https://elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1001/job/10000

Academic Track Lecturer in Biomedical Informatics (Zhejiang)

Edinburgh Medical School: Biomedical Sciences wishes to appoint an Academic Track Lecturer in Biomedical Informatics to support and develop teaching and research linked to the undergraduate Dual Award Honours programmes in Integrative Biomedical Scie…

^{University of Edinburgh}

The Sustainability Ambassadors Global Exchange (SAGE) Program is back!

We are thrilled to announce the SAGE PhD Fellows program! This 3-year program is intended to nurture future impact leaders in solution-based sustainability research projects co-created with communities and consortia members.

To learn about the application process & program details, see this: SAGE PhD Fellowship Program 2024

Please help us spread the word. Boosts appreciated! 🙂​

#PhD #sustainability #research #India #Denmark #Ecosystem #EcosystemServices #EcosystemValuation #OneHealth #Ecology #environment #climate #CircularEconomy #RuralLivelihoods #SAGE

SAGE PhD Fellows Program 2024

The echo network is a community of over 2400 individuals from 45 countries who have dedicated their lives to building a more sustainable planet. Each of these members is an expert in their own field -

^{sway.cloud.microsoft}

In collaboration with The Nordic Centre in India we are also launching the 2nd year of our Sustainability Ambassadors Global Exchange (SAGE) Senior Ambassadors Program!

This is a unique opportunity to activate bright and motivated minds to consider current issues in global sustainability, with India as the target.

Applications are open till April 5th, 2024.

Program details here: SAGE Senior Ambassadors Program 2024

#sustainability #research #India #Ecosystem #EcosystemServices #EcosystemValuation #OneHealth #Ecology #environment #climate #CircularEconomy #WASH #RegenerativeAgriculture #SAGE

SAGE Senior Ambassadors Program 2024

Questions about the program or your application?

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The editors say: This collection on AI and Digital Inequities brings together 29 authors from 5 continents who provide key takeaways for decision makers, educators and students seeking to support more equitable and ethical design and deployment of AI in education across the full gamut of ethical concerns.

AVAILABLE NOW 👉https://www.norrag.org/ai/

Humbled to be included! #ai #inequality #genAI #research #AIED #ethics

One of the largest science funders, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will cease paying journal “article processing charges” and instead asks funded researchers to publish their work as preprints. This is fantastic. The costs of the current publishing system drain research funds and exclude too many scientists solely due to financial constraints. Funders are in a much better position to rock the “publishing” boat than researchers.
https://gatesfoundationoa.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/24810787662100-Policy-Refresh-2025-Overview

#academia #OpenScience #research