A Concerned Scientist @BE@qoto.org

Johns Hopkins is doing a long-COVID survey and apparently is having trouble finding controls -- people who haven't had COVID. If this is you, consider giving them some clicks.

https://covid-long.com/

Life would be easier for many scientists if the general public would get past the stereotype that all science is just about "surprise" and novelty and completely unknown things and that studies don't matter if they match your lived experience 😭 there is massive need to document well known things into the scientific record and establish specific evidence examples for them in ways that will be legible and useful for policy, public action, etc....!

Media really fuels this misconception

Doctor says FLiRT Covid spreads more easily, and could beat immunity

There has been an increase in Covid cases and hospitalisations in the UK after the new strains emerged.

UKHSA show a 17.9% increase in Covid infections week on week and a 32.6% increase in people admitted to hospital with the virus - while another 92 people have died.

It comes as the most common strains now found in the UK are the FLiRT variants KP.2 and KP.1.1.

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/doctor-says-flirt-covid-spreads-29198935

I'm especially annoyed today. Like both from people who think surgical masks are what to wear for Covid (when we know you need respirators like n95/ kf95/ kn95 or higher,) and also angered by people who want to ban masks for identity issues like NC. But maybe the combined ignorance will just result in surgical masks being banned and actual respirators being used instead? Either way the ignorance is killing me. Just wear an n95 and let others do the same. We are trying to protect each other.

Study finds that 'children & young people have a fluctuating experience of cognitive impairment by 12-months post #SARSCoV2-infection [consistently correlated with poorer sleep, behavioural & emotional functioning over a 12-month period].' @ElsevierConnect https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0889159124003891

May 18, 2024- “Cerebral microstructural alterations in Post-COVID-condition are related to cognitive impairment, olfactory dysfunction and fatigue”- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48651-0

Study Reveals That Organic Farming Changes Plants' Genetic Code

https://scitechdaily.com/study-reveals-that-organic-farming-changes-plants-genetic-code/

Fellow doctors noting that #COVID19 cases are up again! #MaskUp

(There's is no reliable data monitoring from the Department of Health anymore)

If you come into my mentions saying there are bigger problems than covid and treating it like a flu isn't the end of the world you will be aggressively told to educate yourself on the realities of covid (https://covidsafetyforschools.org) with a minimum of 8 slides from that course and if you then keep minimizing covid to me you will be blocked

The slides will show that an order of magnitude more children are hospitalized from covid than flu, that it kills way more than an order of magnitude people than flu does, that it's a vascular illness not a respiratory illness like the flu, which causes significant long term increases in potentially fatal cardiovascular events, that it causes likely irreversible neuron fusing which causes cognitive impairment, that it causes IQ drops cumulative with each infection, and that it greatly increases risk of developing alzheimer's and parkinson's disease

Hello helpful fediverse do I know anyone with experience of supporting someone with expressive #aphasia?

Finally my paper looking at #AtmosphericRivers is out!

"How River-like ARE Atmospheric Rivers?”

VERY-- they take moisture from 1000's km and 10deg equatorward than your average storm.

#NASA #CYGNSS - GPS array that looks at how choppy the ocean surface is to determine surface wind speed and heat fluxes compares well w simulations from the #NASAGISS climate model w include a tracer suite that identifies where moisture in the atmosphere originally evaporated from.

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2023GL105828

A series of online workshops are running this summer for researchers, health professionals and people with ME, with the aim to raise the profile of #MECFS clinical research, increase collaboration, attract new researchers & formulate research priorities

https://meassociation.org.uk/2024/05/research-working-together-to-find-answers-to-me-cfs/

@mecfs

#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME #MyalgicE #CFSME #MEeps #CFIDS #SEID #NeuroME

What do #Electrophysiologists who record raw data from many channels (#NeuroPixels, #Hyperdrives…) do for data backup and storage? I just bought 2 x 4Tb external drives and it looks like they won’t be enough (at all). Is there a cheap and reliable AND huge storage way to do this?

#Ephys #NeuroMethods #DataManagement