Ed Brown 🏳️‍🌈 🇦🇺 @reallyedbrown@qoto.org

Cartoon by Christopher Downes....Brief Summery.

I normally don’t like posting #Twitter screenshots but this is just gold

Hello there! I’m Associate Professor Cameron Webb, Medical Entomologist (aka “mosquito wrangler”) with NSW Health Pathology and University of Sydney in Australia. I’m interested in keeping you and your family safe from the pest and public health threats of mosquitoes. Follow me to learn more about mosquitoes and the #wetlands where I do much of my work. You can read more about mosquitoes in the articles I’ve published through The Conversation https://theconversation.com/profiles/cameron-webb-6736 #introduction #scicomm #entomology #publichealth #science #mosquitoes

Something I haven't done for years is #FollowFriday. Here are some astro/science folks I appreciate:
@CosmicRami
@sarahkendrew
@upulie @noisyastronomer
@elakdawalla
@telescoper

And memory loss (nagiging malilimutin ka). What's worrying is that this is the same problem encountered by those suffering from neurodegenerative diseases like #Alzheimer's and #dementia. So, surprise! It's not psychological and it hell ain't anxiety or stress. #BrainFog Is an understatement. It's brain damage. Bonus: it happens even when your initial symptoms are mild.

Their activation leads to loss of oligodendrocytes (nerve cells in the brain) as well as myelin sheaths -- the lining of The nerves which help transmit electrical impulses through the nerves so these can send signals to your brain. (Parang wire ng kuryente na nabalatan Kaya may ground). This leads to cognitive dysfunction (you become dumb. Nagiging mas tanga ka kasi di ka makaisip ng derecho)

Anxiety? Let's break down this study in simple terms to show how #Covid damages the brain. Without being anxious and stressed, the virus that enters through your nose goes through the blood (sa dugo) and the cerebrospinal fluid --that fluid found in Your backbone. This triggers the release of molecules that causes inflammation(pamamaga). The immune cells in the brain (microglia) are then activated.

Today was exhausting.

I asked someone to run a test on some data for me and the response was to assume I didn't know what I was talking about. This is not the first time this person has done this, they are constantly speaking down to me about science. I see how they treat colleagues that are men, and it's completely different from how they treat women.

So anyways, I'm looking for more #WomenInSTEM to connect with here! 🔭🧑‍🔬

To inaugurate our brand new Mastodon account, we're gonna tell you everything we know (and don't know) about MASTODON VAGINAS. As in the extinct animal, obvs.