Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@qoto.org

This points to an emerging paradox in media reporting on disasters that's become really apparent in recent years: the more severe the damage, the less news initially makes it out (because power is out and telecoms are down) and the less coverage they receive.

“While the history of racial covenants has been well-documented, urban planners and historians say plotting them on a map — neighborhood by neighborhood and, in some cases, parcel by parcel — lays bare the extent of discrimination in stark and often surprising ways.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2022/12/17/racial-covenants-mapping/

Quoting Tamar Kohn (@VirusExplorers) about their new paper: "#Aerosol acidification important for inactivation of #airborne #Influenza & #SARSCoV2. Unintentional removal of acids & elevated NH3 levels indoors may prolong virus persistence. Overlooked role of #pH important for #virus transmission & mitigation."

We're slowly inching toward a mechanistic understanding of virus inactivation in aerosols.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.2c05777

And thus the tradeoff - if we *don't* have a bad year, we need to hold some of that water back in storage to protect us against the next bad year. So crushing cuts either way.

Working on my comments for Interior's #ColoradoRiver Supplemental EIS - the "how do we save the Colorado" plan - I'm struck by how crushing the water cuts have to be if we have one or two more bad years.

Lake sunrise - shades of pink on a cold snowy lake. Only partially frozen, the open water reflects the skies.

Scarves below cold ears
Red noses above big smiles
Winter wonderland

#haiku #poetry #snow

The flowers are still pretty when you look carefully.

#Introduction Another rat swimming over from the sinking ship. I am retired #museum person who takes #photos on my walks, enjoying #nature even more now that it's not a 9-5 job.

Wow: 47% of all CO2 emissions from aviation ever were emitted after 2000 https://easa.europa.eu/eco/eaer

The guy who wants to put neurolinks in our heads worries about people knowing where he is.

I was reading interviews of Katalin Karikó, who made key discoveries that led to the development of lifesaving mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. Her dedication in the midst of adversity struck me.

-She pushed on despite not having job security, NIH R01 research funding, or recognition.
-A chance stop in Mainz led to her joining BioNTech.
-And her daughter is a two-time Olympic gold medalist!

More talk of dedicated scientists, less talk of narcissistic businessmen please.

(interviews in PNAS and JCI)

*Sheepish request* I'm new to Mastodon, but a lot of my former Twitter followers don't know I'm here yet. Someone suggested I could simply ask you fine people to boost me. Would you be so kind? (I promise to post a photo of my dog to say thanks). #WelcomeToMastodon

New and established users alike:

Alt text on images is important for accessibility as we have lots of blind and partially sighted users here. Please consider adding it to your images, or asking for help from other people to write descriptions:

https://mastodon.art/@Curator/109279035107793247

A lot of the fediverse won't boost posts without image descriptions, including me.

Just a friendly reminder!

#TwitterMigration #TwitterExodus #fediverse #FediTips

My mastadon link at my pinned tweet on Twitter is now warning anyone who clicks on it that the sight may be “unsafe.”
You know what actually feels unsafe right now? Musk on Twitter.

Rosalind Franklin’s research was crucial to discovering DNA’s double helix structure 🧬 but it was James Watson & Francis Crick who received the credit & Nobel Prize.

Unknown to Franklin, the pair saw her unpublished data & X-ray diffraction images, inspiring their famous model. They never acknowledged her contribution until after her death.

How many discoveries & innovations of #women do we attribute to the men who took credit for their ideas?

https://theconversation.com/sexism-pushed-rosalind-franklin-toward-the-scientific-sidelines-during-her-short-life-but-her-work-still-shines-on-her-100th-birthday-139249 #history #science