Tavo @tavoglc@social.cleverlibre.org

Mastodon please help me with something. I'm a #trans guy with practically no trans guy friends. I know nothing about trans guys. I only know about James.

I could really do with some transmasc and trans men friends so.... hi?

Boosts encouraged 💜

Not trying to appeal to the vehement anti-maskers, but I implore my friends on here:
"The problem is that it’s not all about you. Your neighbor, the person sitting next to you on the bus, or your coworker may not face your same odds if they get COVID." https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katiecamero/tripledemic-covid-pandemic

This is not a chart depicting Moore’s Law.

This chart is the CRAYOLA COROLLARY showing that the number of Crayola crayon colors doubles approximately every 18 years.

Twitter is now blocking links to pixelfed!

"First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win"

#fediverse

JFC 😳. The variant is BF. 7. "To put this into context, BF.7 is believed to have an R0, or basic reproduction number, of 10 to 18.6. This means an infected person will transmit the virus to an average of 10 to 18.6 other people. Research has shown omicron has an average R0 of 5.08"

#covid19 #covidisairborne #BringBackMasks #wearyourdamnmask #covid @novid

A new omicron subvariant is spreading in China. Here's what we know so far. | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/covid-what-we-know-about-new-omicron-variant-bf-7

Reminder to new users: If you have a cat you are required to post a photo of the cat.

Include the hashtags #cats and #catsOfMastodon so I can find, I mean... so people can find them.

Why is scientific fraud not taken seriously?

"Institutions may be reluctant to accept that someone is fraudulent if that person occupies a high-ranking role [...] Publishers may be reluctant to retract papers unless there is an institutional finding of misconduct, even if there is clear evidence"

@ElisabethBik "noted that 60-70% of the 800 papers she had reported to journals had not been dealt with within 5 years."

By @deevybee https://deevybee.blogspot.com/2022/12/when-there-are-no-consequences-for.html #OpenScience #Science @academicchatter

Benchmarking AlphaFold2 on peptide structure prediction

#StructuralBiology #Alphafold @strucbio

https://www.cell.com/structure/fulltext/S0969-2126(22)00479-8?rss=yes

New ideas pass through three periods:
1) It can't be done.
2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing.
3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
- Arthur C. Clarke
http://www.jlhuie.com/2022/12/there-can-be-no-progress-without-change.html

How much centralization is too much?

Well, if your city falls off the internet, are emergency services able to talk to each other and contact citizens?

If your neighborhood has the power cut, can you still use your part of the internet if you have solar power?

What is the smallest chunk of the network that can still do what it was funded to do?

If that chunk is the entire network, that is too much centralization.

CW - cancer /chemicals
This is about 3M (the company) and contaminated ground water

There must be something in the water - Minnesota Reformer
https://minnesotareformer.com/2022/12/14/there-must-be-something-in-the-water/

I’m hiring health care analysts at Firefly Health, please boost!

https://apply.workable.com/firefly-health/j/A49A6DAAC6/

Peer review, a huge waste of time, and therefore money ?

Figure 👇🏼 and excerpts taken from Aczel et al. 2021 https://doi.org/10.1186/s41073-021-00118-2

“…the total time reviewers globally worked on peer reviews was over 100 million hours in 2020, equivalent to over 15 thousand years. The estimated monetary value of the time US-based reviewers spent on reviews was over 1.5 billion USD in 2020 […] The numbers highlight the enormous amount of work and time that researchers provide to the publication system.”

(authors add: By design, our results are very likely to be under-estimates as they reflect only a portion of the total number of journals worldwide.)

#peerreview #openscience #publishANDnotperish

SARS-CoV-2 infects all organs.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05542-y?s=09

9 Dec '21: @fitterhappierAJ anticipated that Covid would become increasingly harmful, like in the RMA15 experiment, where the virus became more lethal as it mutated in mice.

Children will be the early indicator because they produce fewer antibodies.

In older people, loss of regulatory T cells results in severe disease/death.
https://twitter.com/NatashaFatah/status/1599560610748182528/video/ #LeonardiEffect