A Concerned Scientist @BE@qoto.org

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

I'm crushed that #Biobot stopped posting real-time county-level #wastewater data. They were the most consistent, transparent, reliable source to show that #CovidIsNotOver.

My local #Massachusetts Water Resource Authority #MWRA uses Biobot, will this affect their data too?! Their graphs don't map to my county exactly, but they're close.

https://www.mwra.com/biobot/biobotdata.htm

Are there any other sources? I'm looking into #WastewaterSCAN, though they also do not have my county.

https://data.wastewaterscan.org

I’m old enough to remember when they were screaming that people who don’t want to get Covid can just stay home.

Then when sick people weren’t allowed to stay home they were screaming if you want to wear a mask you can wear a mask.

I remember the government extend telehealth through December 2024, why is every doctor I see trying to force me to come in into the office to give me information they can give me over the phone?

From: @1goodtern
https://bird.makeup/users/1goodtern/statuses/1791791566060667112

ONE BILLION

1,000,000,000

"By 2033, a billion people are expected to suffer from Long Covid - most of them in the economically active age groups."

https://www.manager-magazin.de/lifestyle/long-covid-konferenz-wir-muessen-uns-endlich-eingestehen-wie-gewaltig-dieses-problem-ist-a-4389644b-1795-4acf-bccf-759d6dce1982

The #Covid #Pandemic is STILL going on‼️

#LongCovid sucks more than you can imagine‼️

#CovidIsAirborne or as the WHO now says it spreads #ThroughTheAir‼️

#MaskUP with #N95 or better & Stay Safe‼️ 😷🫶

There was a young man from Islip,
Said the vax had a magnet and chip.
Now his memes have all stopped,
His O2 is way dropped,
And the COVID sent him a pink slip.

Can anyone think of a better place name than "Islip"*, that rhymes with "chip" & "slip", with the accent on the 2nd syllable, so the limerick scans better?

* Town in Long Island, NY.

#covid
#limerick

I'm sorry WHAT and none of you told me?????

Position ENTIRELY reversed on Python. Literally going to learn it now. Call me pythonista Cat. I am so serious. WHAT.

https://masto.machlis.com/@smach/112462436451472935

Probably one of the most clearly written, well thought out and downright disturbing pieces I’ve read about the current state of our democracy and political system. The historical context helps tremendously in seeing the trajectory we’ve long been on and how hard it will be to fix (if even possible). https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/04/minority-rule-is-threatening-american-democracy-like-never-before/