Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@social.cleverlibre.org

#COVID19 #COVID cautious folks:

Carrying a CO2 monitor helps me check how safe the #AirQuality in a space is, and lower or raise my cautions accordingly. (Details: https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2023/my-current-covid-risk-approach/#ventilation ) Super useful.

I use and like the #Aranet4 #CO2 monitor. The #Aranet 4 is usually USD$249. It's on sale, direct from the manufacturer, till September 17, for $184.35, with free shipping in the US.

https://shop.aranet.com/north-america/product/aranet4-home

Or from Amazon for $197: https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B07YY7BH2W/ref=nosim/0sil8 (Might be today only - Sept 7th.)

2/2 #Wastewater testing was stopped in my county > a year ago and we are flying in the dark. CDC says to mask when community levels are high, but how is anyone to know?
It’s imperative that you continue #wastewater testing throughout the country--and preferably that you expand it. #Covid #surveillance #Biobot

Comments DUE BY TOMORROW/FRIDAY https://regulations.gov/document/CDC-2023-0055-0001

How does Colorado use its water?

This 10-question guide breaks down the basics, explaining Colorado’s water supply, how it gets used and what experts do — and don’t — know about its future.

https://coloradosun.com/2023/09/05/colorado-water-use-supply-future/?utm_content=buffer9293a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

Well... School just started & 3 out of 30 children in my 5th grader's class have already tested positive for COVID. 😷

Be careful out there folks!

The Reaganomics trickle down scam has redistributed $50T from bottom 90% to top 1%.

If the minimum wage increased with inflation & corporate productivity it’d be $26/hr today.

Corporations annually steal $15B from workers and face zero meaningful accountability.

Think about these facts next time you hear an exploitative CEO of a blue collar retail store complain “People just don’t want to work anymore.”
#LaborDay

We'd really be screwed if it wasn't for federal courts consistently slapping the shit out of #DeSantis.

In this one, they tell him his map is way too racist and he needs to redraw it.

'Bipartisan support continued through three reauthorizations of the program. That ended this year, when Republicans took over the House with a slim majority that was beholden to the MAGA wing of the party, which has been looking for opportunities to damage any Biden administration priorities. PEPFAR became a target when the Heritage Foundation released a falsehood-ridden report in May saying the administration was using it as a “vehicle to promote its domestic radical social agenda overseas,” specifically abortion and L.G.B.T.Q. issues.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/01/opinion/pepfar-abortion-republicans.html

If you follow the sort of things they say, it's completely unsurprising that they would want to use this for that.

Curious about quantum tunneling? Check out the latest episode of #Quantum101, from me and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics: https://youtu.be/Yg0LT3n4mYY?si=qru2ItWY14ta8giC

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New:
“Viral Origins of #ChronicFatigueSyndrome May Be Hiding in Plain Sight”

https://www.sciencealert.com/viral-origins-of-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-may-be-hiding-in-plain-sight

On recent paper by @DrMaureenHanson:
The viral origin of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome

https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article%3Fid=10.1371/journal.ppat.1011523

@mecfs #MEcfs #CFS #MyalgicE #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #PwME #enterovirus
#enteroviruses

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Labor Day reminder: If the min wage increased at the rate of inflation & productivity since 1960 it'd be $26 today—not $7.25. Meaning—billionaires & corps have stolen at least $19/hour from working Americans for 60 years.

That’s generational theft from the working class to keep people in poverty.

We don't suffer a lack of resources—but an excess of greed.

People said we were being alarmist when we said extremist Christian nationalists would use the abortion laws to target women trying to escape Texas to receive an abortion.

Honey bees get all the hype, but it's our little native bees that really need help. https://modernfarmer.com/2023/09/are-we-backing-the-wrong-bee/

Did I ever mention that I wrote a book? About the history of females Geoscientists from around the world?

Vote #Zircon in #MinCup23 because it's time, geological time, where continents move and mountains grow over millions of years - all meticulously measured by the steady decay of tiny amounts of uranium and lead trapped in the heart of each and every zircon...

The attached images show what zircons look like when they are analysed, especially the figure on the right which reveals an amazing property of zircon. They can grow like trees with layer upon layer of new zircon being added. A zircon is so robust is that it can:
* form in a magma
* be part of an igneous rock deep in the Earth
* slowed get eroded and weathered at the surface
* become a sand grain
* get washed into an ocean
* be part of sandstone
* get subducted and melted
* add another layer of growth and repeat...

Those layers could just be a few million years apart, sometimes they could be billions of years apart, but each layer inside the zircon has a different story to tell. Unravelling that complex history has taught us a lot about how, over millions of year, the Earth is a crazy, dynamic planet.

Vote for the Time Lord #zircon that has been watching over the geological craziness of the Earth for millions and billions of years.

https://www.mineralcup.org/2023/campaigns/round-1-match-3

Limpet (Patella sp.) feeding trails - the one in the centre was clearly eating on the go! It's trail reminds me of a bungee rope.
Limpet teeth are made up of fibers of Goethite - one of the strongest known natural substances. County Clare, Ireland.

Cormacscoast.com Walking tours

#wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #marinelife #biodiversity #Limpet #limpetfeedingtrail #goethite #Ireland