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Hello Mastodon! This is an #introduction. I’m a writer (book: Spare Parts, which is a history of transplant surgery from the sixteenth century to the present day (yes, they did transplants back then!) Published by Penguin in the UK and Australia, and St Martin’s in North America. Before this, I was a film maker. Actually, I still am, working mostly with museums, universities and healthcare institutions. I’m so excited to learn about and connect with you all!

I have wished a bird would fly away,
And not sing by my house all day;
Have clapped my hands at him from the door
When it seemed as if I could bear no more.
The fault must partly have been in me.
The bird was not to blame for his key.
And of course there must be something wrong
In wanting to silence any song.

Robert Frost

ASYMPTOMATIC OR LATENT PERSISTENT INFECTION IN CHILDREN.

SARS COV-2 WAS DETECTED IN BIOPSIES OF TONSILS OR ADENOIDS
IN 25% OF ASYMPTOMATIC CHILDREN
None had experienced signs or symptoms

Authors point out:
lymphoid tissue may be a Reservoir of SARS-CoV-2

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1808869422001392?via%3Dihub

What a pair ... the #commodore 128 and 64C ... gorgeous!

For a few years I've been maintaining and slowly improving a Google Sheet template to help #academics (particularly salaried academics) track how much they are working, and how this work is distributed. I've just updated the template for 2023.

The reason for this is academic #workloads are often left very abstract and vague, usually measured in 'percentages' with only the loosest connection to time and the actual number of hours you are paid to work. I find that tracking my hours helps to reassure me I am doing enough work in some aspects of my job (in #research, for instance), and also help prevent me from overworking.

For example, this year, I know I have worked 61 hours more than I have been paid for thus far. This means in December, once marking and everything is wrapped up, I'm just going to tap out and do pretty much no work for a couple of weeks (just keep an eye out for urgent emails), but also not take leave. Because those are hours I'm owed. So by the end of the year, I should be back close to zero hours overworked.

Some academics hate counting hours as bean counting or volunteering into surveillance. I get that. But considering how the ever-intensifying exploitation of academic staff relies on #university management obscuring and intensifying our work, I find tracking how much I've actually worked incredibly empowering.

With the new year, maybe consider tracking your own #academic work!

The template: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1W-w_pbJgsemr5vznErqqNG5UJsfxeiPUNgG8f6pXyfg/edit#gid=1226213337 #commodon

Female medical students dissecting a cadaver, c.1895.

In the United States, the idea for a college that trained female doctors was first proposed by Dr. Bartholomew Fussell in 1846. He wanted it to be a tribute to his departed sister, whom he felt could have been a doctor if women had been given the opportunity at that time. The Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania was founded in 1850.

#histmed #histodons #MedMastodon #medstudent #medicine #history #anatomy #histsci

Hello! Here is our #introduction post!

Oxford University #Museum of #NaturalHistory was established in 1860 to draw together scientific studies from across the University of #Oxford.

Some of our highlight objects include: the first ever described #dinosaur - Megalosaurus bucklandii, the only soft-tissue specimen of a #Dodo bird, and a 4.5 billion year old #meteorite you can get your hands on!

#science #geology #paleontology

The Butterfly Nebula from Hubble

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing: William Ostling

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221121.html #APOD

Imagine a piece of tissue paper.

Coat it with cyanotype chemicals.

Fold it into an origami crane.

Let it be a crane for a while, in any place with a bit of light. Ignore it, play with it, whatever.

After a while, unfold it. Develop.

You'll get an image.

The image is the memory of it's experience as an origami crane.

Repeat. Every crane's experience - and hence every image - will be unique.

Here's 4 out of the >750 I've made so far.

#blueprint #origami #orizuru #metamorphogram #memory

Understanding #Mastodon gets easier once you get the basic idea that federation between servers can be understood as homeomorphisms across hyperplanes between the Riemannian manifolds of toots, whereas the servers represent countable finite sets of discrete entities.