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Hilda Bastian

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

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Sarah T. Roberts, Ph.D.

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.

independent.co.uk/voices/suell

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Tony Stark

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.

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Joel Topf, MD FACP

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.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/401925

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FerArceAmare

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

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@Freedom2B @Pat

These are called electrets. Tiny dipoles with positive and negative ends.

N95s only, not medical/surgical

Evidence on silk didn't pass muster and that's why we don't include it.

Here's an evidence based summary on materials for cloth masks⬇️

maskevidence.org/summary-of-ad

And here's our paper on cotton⬇️

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/353162

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@thejenniwren @Brad_Rosenheim

we will not change fringe opinions but the majority of people in Canada and elsewhere say they support mask mandates if necessary. It requires public health to say it's necessary.

beta.ctvnews.ca/national/coron

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Jennifer

@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! 💙

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Catherine Clase

@Freedom2B @Pat good fitting cloth is = medical

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/353162

try a medical mask under your trusty cloth mask. The cloth mask gives you fit, reducing edge leak, and the medical mask will improve filtration of submicron aerosols.

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Catherine Clase

@Pat I totally agree with your approach. Encourage elastomerics, N95s, FFP3s.

But when you say not to wear anything else:

➡️ people without access to these are disempowered

➡️ we downplay the contributions of mask-making volunteer groups early in the pandemic and may even create confusion about whether those early masks worked (they did)

➡️ the absoluteness is not in keeping with the peer-reviewed evidence which we summarize here⬇️

maskevidence.org/mask-types

maskevidence.org/why-masks-mat

Also it makes it seem like we disagree, which I doubt!

We also curate curated lists of ⬇️

maskevidence.org/findingn95s

✨ We would welcome additions to this page from outside North America✨

Thanks for the interest!❤️

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Dr. Brad Rosenheim

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

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@Moira yes and

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Moira Davidson

@cmclase I think in terms of "inhalation dose" which part of the picture, the rest being how receptive a given vector is -- temperature of nasal passages, for example, and humidity, and so on. I lower dose with the open window and the Corsi box, and in public with the N95.

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@thejenniwren @Brad_Rosenheim

Thank you! Totally admirable teaching around this!

We started the website to put the evidence at people's fingertips, so we could say 'there is evidence, it's summarized here':

Filtration evidence: maskevidence.org/mask-types

Evidence in practice:
maskevidence.org/why-masks-mat

But you are right, people continue to summarize all this as 'no evidence'. Public health could help here with ongoing information campaigns but this is not happening widely.

I think persistence and will get us there in the end. We are social animals and it is not normal in many countries to wear a mask. The opportunity to normalize this for everyone was lost early in the pandemic because of academic and public health dissent and disagreement. So now it may be a long haul; as you know, behavioural and social change is hard.

Or maybe we will instead and masks will be less important.

Did you see this paper on game theory? In their models, either everyone or no-one ends up wearing masks

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10 (sorry, paywall)

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Catherine Clase

@nancylwayne Thank you! great to be here!

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Nathanael Nerode

@cmclase (one of many citations for the value of elastomeric P100s : nytimes.com/2022/07/03/health/ )

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Nathanael Nerode

@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

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Catherine Clase

@neroden Good point, I agree. They aren't front-and-centre in our writing because the up-front costs and the appearance are barriers. Hoping to normalize mask-wearing for as many as possible

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@barney6063 thank you so much, very nice to meet you

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Catherine Clase

@auscandoc @nancylwayne I did a lot of lurking and learning before I posted. Maybe a bit over-the-top :) but very much appreciate all the people I've just met.

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