herid @herid@qoto.org

Just had a request for a "Share on Mastodon" button for a blog.

As far as I know there's no official "Share on Mastodon" button, but there are several third party options.

If you've used a "Share on Mastodon" button on your site, could you give your recommendations/experiences?

#Mastodon #AskMastodon #AskFedi

Spot-on Twitter algorithm. No notes.

No, this claim is disinformation actually. We now have epidemiological evidence that bivalent boosters enhance protection against novel Omicron subvariants.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm715152e2.htm
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7148e1.htm

There is no evidence that the existence of prior immunity to pre-Omicron variants via vaccine or via infection harms the development of immune responses against novel subvariants. If anything, data shows the exact opposite as those most immunologically experienced...

The entire article is a travesty but this part is pathetic. Stop using terms like "imprinting" or "original antigenic sin" if you have no idea what they mean. People who received a bivalent booster in this study have had 4 exposures to ancestral spike vs. 1 for BA.5.

It genuinely seems like WSJ is incapable of covering science without resorting to sophomoric, ideologically motivated analysis by people who have no idea what they're talking about.

Here’s a taste of the vaccine-related mis/disinformation going around about the incident involving Damar Hamlin. There’s no evidence that his collapse was related to vaccination, but anti-vaxxers will use any opportunity, even tragedy, to advance their agenda.

$TSLA is now down over 13% today and down 73% over the past 12 months

ABBA - Happy New Year

https://youtu.be/3Uo0JAUWijM

#SongOfTheDay
#happynewyear
#FavoriteMusic 47/

@aprettyaday @tundenagybanto, this is highly embarrassing for the academics organizing such meetings, given the research on how conferences have commonly been superspreader events. Insisting on in-person attendance is ridiculously retrograde and rooted in poor scholarship. I wonder if these conferences monitored CO2 in real time, provided access to vaccination, and had mandatory masking, free daily RATs, and HEPA units everywhere 🤷‍♀️
Guessing not.
#climatechange
#inclusion #covidisnotover

Shame on conferences announcing in their call for papers that "no virtual talks will be accommodated"! Truly sad that academics don't show the way #climatechange #inclusion #pandemicnotover

A nice empirical demonstration of Galileo's principle of relativity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIMNS0YiHzY

If one replaces the person on the trampoline with a light beam bouncing up and down between two horizontal mirrors, and assumes that the speed of light is \(c\) in every inertial frame, one obtains the well-known 'light clock" thought experiment of Einstein that derives the fact that such clocks slow down by a factor of \(\sqrt{1-v^2/c^2\) when moving at a velocity \(v\).

Sick of people calling everything in crypto a Ponzi scheme. Some crypto projects are Pump-and-Dump schemes, while others are Pyramid schemes. Others are just middlemen skimming off the top. Others are just standard-issue fraud.

Stop glossing over the diversity in the industry.