Jim Parkin @ParkinJim@qoto.org

Got this here, on Mastodon. Every new member should be given one... enormously helpful

The UK's vaccine rollout was not a "brexit benefit".

Over 20,000 died in western Europe’s summer heatwaves, figures show

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/24/over-20000-died-western-europe-heatwaves-figures-climate-crisis?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Steirapollen, Lofoten, Norway. #photography #lofoten #norway

Quick little tip: You don't need to use link shorteners on Mastodon.

All links on Mastodon count for 23 characters towards your limit, no matter how many characters they really are.

However, you need to include https:// at the beginning of links to make them clickable.

If you don't laugh with him, you're dead inside 🤩

The fact that Russia is choosing to use its expensive, dwindling and hard to replenish supplies of precision-guided missiles to degrade and destroy the Ukrainian energy grid is a very good indication that they are not able to do so with (cheaper) cyber attacks.

Yet another reminder of the practical limitations of offensive cyber, or, at least, the limitations of Russian ability to conduct strategic offensive cyber attacks

Just published
@ScienceMagazine

A universal influenza mRNA vaccine effective against all 20 lineages of influenza A and B, protective in experimental models
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm0271

If anyone is in the vicinity of Newark (the UK one!!) on Saturday 14th January 2023, and fancies coming to hear myself and Roland talk about the Newark torc, then you can!!!

Booking details:

http://www.nationalcivilwarcentre.com/seedo/events/the-torc-talk.php

#Archaeology #Gold #Torc #Research #lecture #meeting #event

Paper here: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0277317

The German football team protesting against being silenced by FIFA ✊ #WorldCup2022

"In addition to the significant health burden of #LongCovid, the stigma and discrimination associated with the condition can lead to relationship breakdowns and problems at work" - Claire Hastie, Long Covid Support

"We were surprised to find that people with a clinical diagnosis of #LongCovid were more likely to report stigma than people without a formal diagnosis" - Prof. @nisreen Alwan, University of Southampton

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/covid-university-of-southampton-fear-hiv-b2231697.html

Months ago @VirusesImmunity@twitter.com and I laid out the strong case for nasal vaccines to achieve containment of the virus, breaking the chain of transmission at the individual and population level
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciimmunol.add9947 @SciImmunology@twitter.com

Vaccine effectiveness vs reinfection, a Denmark nationwide study
The reduction of reinfection after primary vaccination was significant for the Alpha, Delta, and Omicron variant periods, ranging from 60-94%, lasting up to 9 months
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1004037 @PLOSMedicine@twitter.com

Minor hobby of mine is to photograph Little Free Libraries as I find them.

As I don't come into the Internet Archive office often, I did not know we now have a Big Free Library of our own. Here it is—

#LittleFreeLibrary #InternetArchive

For ordinary people the pandemic was a tragedy. But for well-connected VIPs it was the chance of a lifetime – huge fortunes were up for grabs.

This is the cost of cronyism – good administration suffers, efficient buying of PPE suffers.

https://goodlawproject.org/ppe-urgent-hearing/