Catherine Clase @cmclase@qoto.org

them: how was your day

me:

@cmclase
Yeah in general mastodon has approachable people compared to birdsite

Such a cool idea! @natematias & team developed software to run n-of-1 trials in personal tech use. Just like a randomized trial, but you are your own control.

They ran one on whether changing your phone to grayscale reduces phone addiction. You'd get a message on what to set your phone for the day & feed data in: you got your results back, & they analyzed everyone's.

The result of this proof of concept? 14 people did it. (Overall, switching off color didn't reduce time on phones.) ...1/2

Her shameless remarks to a child victim of the Holocaust caught on video, the UK Home Secretary then used her office to pressure an independent organization to remove it. They did not. Also: fuck her.

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/suella-braverman-holocaust-survivor-refugees-b2263059.html

I obviously need to pin a post about this again which is forcing me to create a new one.

Nobody on social media owes anyone else an explanation for how and what they post. Nobody needs to roll up and tell people what and how to post.

Nobody owes anyone else an explanation for how they present themselves online, most especially anyone in a marginalized or threatened group. Nobody should have to share or be forced to share any more information about themselves than they want.

People usually come to a social media platform to meet like-minded people and relieve stress, not make new stress. Give people a break.

We have moderation rules. They’re reasonable. We stick to them.

And if you don’t like it, just don’t follow me or anyone on this instance. We don’t care. We’re fine. You don’t need to tell us.

We’re way past explaining it. We’re just going to block you.

The anion gap was not always a thing and we have nephrology legends Robert Narins and Michael Emmett to thank for popularizing it in this amazingly comprehensive manuscript.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/401925/

The most exciting part of the year —work-related, at least for me— is on! From now until April, we will work hard together with colleagues from all over the world. Stay tuned for the announcement of the WCN'23 Social Media Team this Monday!

#ISNWCN #ThisIsISN

@cmclase @Brad_Rosenheim
Here in the U.S., I don’t know if we can achieve kindness. The right wing extremists don’t respond well to kindness. Or logic. Or facts. Of course, the CDC’s failure to present a strong public stance isn’t helping either. I will definitely read your data and use your site. Thank you for taking the time to reply! 💙

@cmclase @thejenniwren Thank you for the paper, and the optimistic outlook! I will take a look at the paper.

@cmclase (one of many citations for the value of elastomeric P100s : https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/03/health/covid-ppe-masks-health-care.html )

@cmclase Well, that got you a follower!

I've been putting #reusable #P100 #elastomeric #respirator tags whenever I talk about #masks because *practically nobody has heard of them* and they are cheap and really good #PPE

New to the server, and about a month on Mastadon! #introduction My name is Melissa, and I am adult programming librarian in a public library. I also run my library's podcast, and am hoping to start my own soon. Also am the author of a comic book for children about bipolar disorder. Was very involved on #LibraryTwitter but EM and censorship at work required a restart.

@cmclase Thanks for the link! BTW, Perhaps this is a matter of discipline, but every journal I've reviewed for has been double-masked. I've always assumed this is the norm.

@cmclase welcome!

As a kid, I often heard that if you weren’t automatically amazing at something like art, you didn’t have any chance of succeeding in that field and you shouldn’t try. Trying to get better at art (or writing, or dance, etc) was an embarrassing waste of time in the eyes of many of the adults around me. So despite a strong desire to make art, I just . . . didn’t. I barely even used coloring books.

Cut to my 30s, and I’m finally learning to draw and sketch. I’ve spent the last year working mostly on my hand-eye coordination and really basic art skills. I work in Procreate on an iPad because it allows me to try things and easily undo or fix them without feeling like I’m wasting physical supplies, and it avoids the sensation of touching art paper, which is a sensory experience I really dislike. I’m definitely making improvements, and I’m really satisfied most of the time with the process!

All of which to say that I’ll be sharing art here that looks like I don’t know what I’m doing, or looks like I haven’t had any formal art instruction, and those things are true! I’m gradually learning actual art technique, but it’s early days still.

This image is from a few months ago and I was just as surprised as my new friend here about how well the mushroom turned out on my first attempt. I’d do some things differently now, but it’s a great progress snapshot!

#art #artist #learning #DigitalArt #procreate

In a way Mastodon is a great place for a 🍁 Now If I could only migrate my 1k followers from that other place

Here is the link to Aaron Collins's (MaskNerd) mask-testing spreadsheets. Note that he tested kids' masks as well as adult masks. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1eE2BERAvRzs28kG87ft3a27FS9-gHvdC