Medical Democrat ​ @MedicalDemocrat@qoto.org

“Well, we actually now have data. My colleague, Alison Galvani, is the mathematical epidemiologist at Yale, and her work suggests the COVID vaccine has prevented 3.1 million deaths. So instead of talking 1.1 million, we’re talking about 4.2 or 4.3 million deaths. Not to mention entire hospitals and clinics you’d have to create for all the additional long COVID sufferers. No question these vaccines saved our whole health system from collapsing. We don’t talk about that enough.”

What do you think of LeverNews.com?

I encountered it for the first time today and I'm still trying to figure out things like bias & accuracy & how thoroughly they base their articles on evidence.

I see that David Sirota is Founder/Editor In Chief. 02019 March, he began working as the senior advisor and speechwriter on the Bernie Sanders 02020 presidential campaign.

I haven't found any insights about them on https://www.newsguardtech.com/ so I welcome thoughts from here.

Hello! I just migrated my account to the neuromatch server, time to reintroduce! #introduction

I'm Crystal, I'm a neuroscientist interested in visual development. I work for the NIH BRAIN Initiative. I enjoy exploring science and art through quilting, crafting, 3D printing. Once I 3D printed my own brain and it's white matter.

I can also be found in the woods with my two dogs, foraging for mushrooms.

I spoke with students at Knox College, where hackers who ransomwared the school ended up emailing students directly: "all of your SSN and Medical records will be put for sale"
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/ransomware-hackers-take-demands-directly-college-students-s-sad-day-rcna61253

My relationship with social media started changing a lot since the edgelord took over Twitter and I joined first Mastodon, and then Post.

This essay by @sethabramson@mstdn.social articulates and crystallises a shift in my thinking around how to use social media for advocacy. It's been coming on for some time, long before the Chief Twit arrived at Twitter HQ...

https://post.news/article/2Iug5Maf8FABgUOcg0Y5n114ZHM

The Boston University School of Public Health is withdrawing from Twitter.

The dean’s thoughtful, nuanced explanation raises the question: Why are other institutions still there?

https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2022/reconsidering-our-engagement-with-twitter/

Please note:

Wear a mask not to get sick, not to protect hospital beds.

Yes, it is better to have a hospital bed if you need one, but it is much much better not to go there.

#covid #CovidIsNotOver #maskup #pandemic #prevention

Mastodon needs an option for client-side CSS

What is Counter.Social?

At first I thought it was a Mastodon instance but it's not present in instances.social.

I know there's a website at that domain and an app in the Google Play Store, but does anyone know the back story?

I checked Wikipedia and Google and there's very little written about it that I could find.

I do worry about what we are losing, especially in the cyber security space. I really hope the security community mostly make it over here.

Happy Thanksgiving! And if your meal today includes teenagers, show them this, the Iranian protest anthem, dedicated to the extremely brave women who have been arrested and killed just for wanting...a normal life. Tell them to watch it more than once.

https://youtu.be/0th9_v-BbUI

Here is some more context

https://twitter.com/ksadjadpour/status/1576629217466675202?s=20&t=MQ2QHL63LkIONBQ67jc0rw

We take so much for granted

@LisCarey @actuallyautistic I'm a library technician at a University. Cataloging is one of my special interests (books are my special interest and I love organizing them, my whole 1300+ library at home is all catalogued). I have 3 lists on worldcat.org for #actuallyautistic people, fiction, non-fiction and research papers

Hey Linux geek, you can use PGP, parsed by @keyoxide, to be verified on Mastodon. It only takes 12 minutes:

https://youtu.be/nLhiNOa4DBs

Too much? here's an easy HTML way, too:

https://youtu.be/KbH6Yjwg1Wo

@Kjun @bookstodon

5 books I'd recommend:
1. A Kind of Spark, #ElleMcNicoll - A book about difference & neurodivergence, brilliant!

2. Ten Steps to Nanette, #HannahGadsby - A searing autobiography of an #ActuallyAutistic woman.

3. But You Don't Look Autistic At All, #BiancaToeps The DSM criteria for #Autism from an #Autistic POV

4. A Man Called Ove, #FredrikBackman Emotional; #trauma & #neurodivergence.

5. Klara & The Sun, #KazuoIshiguro What does it mean to be human?

@actuallyautistic

Please boost:

Who else on here works on #phylogenetics?

Maybe do a quick post with what you work on (e.g. clades, methods, questions...), and include the hashtag #phylogenetics so we can find and follow each other. Feel free to link to a paper or two!

For my part - I work on model selection, phylogenetic algorithms, mixture models, and at the moment am mostly working on the problem of how you find >1 tree in a single alignment, e.g. our latest attempt https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.06.511210v1

[THREAD] This thread will contain #autism knowledge quizzes.

It won't be textbook stuff.

Some questions will have a right answer, but others are arguable, and you may even want to argue about the options. Some will be opinion polls.

Most of the questions serve as prompts for further enquiry, and are designed to support advocacy in the areas of #AutisticHealth, #communication rights and #DisabilityRights in general.

@actuallyautistic