A Concerned Scientist @BE@qoto.org

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

Ruth Ben-Ghiat issues a warning: #TFG will institute another reign of terror; a 2nd presidency would end democracy & freedoms. A small circle of insiders would administer authoritarianism & conspire in his corruption: “For the personalist ruler, the party exists to defend, avenge, & enrich the ruler. Every counterrevolution needs disciplined cadres. #Project2025 is readying a civilian army of bureaucrats to transform US govt.” #GOPConspirators #Authoritarianism #democracy https://newrepublic.com/article/181265/permanent-counterrevolution?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SF_TNR

remember when trump said if we just stop testing for covid it would go away as if by a miracle and everyone thought that was a scandalously stupid thing to say

on an entirely unrelated note since 3 weeks ago the CDC no longer requires hospitals to report covid hospitalizations and now biobot is no longer showing covid wastewater data for the US

I hear that 2020 was difficult and traumatic for a lot of people. But for me, and I suspect for many of us who are still Covid-cautious, this year has been the most difficult year yet.

Not only are few people still wearing masks, but mask bans are now happening. Public areas are more and more dangerous, and mask-wearers are now being viewed as criminals.

Family are less and less tolerant of what they now view as subversive behavior from those of us who don’t want to gather together without mitigations.

As more years pass, waiting on medical care becomes impossible, and the likelihood of needing to take the major risk of visiting medical, dental, eye care and other facilities becomes greater. And now with the added risk of even healthcare providers not masking.

This is the hardest year by far. My patience for those talking about the trauma of 2020 has waned.

#Covid #CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask