Pippa Yeoman

New article out today, a lovely piece about shifting teaching practices in new learning spaces—with Stephanie Wilson and Carmen Vallis. rdcu.be/ersYu

One group to listen to - actuaries. Mostly apolitical with one objective only, accurate underwriting of insurance so profits stay up.

Results for first 8 months of 2024, over a baseline of expected Covid deaths (ie, this is higher that baseline)

www.actuaries.digital/2024/12/17/m...

Technological Remedies for Social Problems: Defining and Demarcating Techno-Fixes and Techno-Solutionism - Science and Engineering Ethics Can technology resolve social problems by reducing them to engineering challenges? In the 1960s, Alvin Weinberg answered yes, popularizing the term “techno-fix” in the process. The concept was immedia...

Kudos to @henriksaetre.bsky.social & @evanselinger.bsky.social for a brilliant paper on techno-solutionism. Read this if only for zingers: "Like everyone else, people in the tech industry can have complex inner lives and act for mixed reasons." [::giggle:: to "can"] link.springer.com/article/10.1...

As no one else is counting we could give it a bash. I'm from the March 2022 cohort (Sydney, AUS). I take 10 prescribed and 9 OTC meds/supplements. I pace like a pro, live a very small life, and work reduced hours/duties mostly from home.

Graph of norovirus cases from 2012 to present day. The peaks come in Spring, the troughs come in Autumn. The side before Covid peaks at about 200-300. The side after Covid peaks 400-450. And this year hasn't necessarily peaked yet.

But what could have caused a change in patterns like this?

How Do Scientists Think? Contributions Toward a Cognitive Science of Science In this article, I discuss and demonstrate how research into real-world scientific problem-solving provides a novel window on the mind and insight into the human capacity to design and utilize resour...

This is a fascinating autobiographical account of the development of Nancy Nersessian's research agenda; cognitive ethnographies of scientific work. Open access.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Is It Dangerous to Keep Getting COVID-19? Common as they are, reinfections may have lasting impacts.

Why is this even a question? Article experts say reinfections:

*remain consequential
*cause more health effects inc heart, lung, brain
*3x more likely hospitalised
*more likely to have probs w-blood clots, gastro, kidney, mental-health
*compromise immune resp

time.com/6553340/covi...

An ultra-early, transient interferon-associated innate immune response associates with protection from SARS-CoV-2 infection despite exposure Our interferon-associated signature of early SARS-CoV-2 infection characterises a subgroup of exposed, uninfected contacts in three independent cohorts who may have successfully aborted infection prior to induction of adaptive immunity. The earlier transient upregulation of signature genes in PCR-negative compared to PCR-positive CHIM volunteers suggests that ultra-early interferon-associated innate immune responses correlate with, and may contribute to, protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Why do some people, despite SARS-CoV-2 exposure, not develop an infection?
An ultra-early interferon response blocks Covid
www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...
adds to protection from pre-existing, cross-reactive T cells in some people

Rapid prediction of acute thrombosis via nanoengineered immunosensors with unsupervised clustering for multiple circulating biomarkers A nanoengineered immunosensor uses machine learning to detect multiple biomarkers for rapid prediction of acute thrombosis.

Predicting clotting events in 49 of 53 people with Covid!
An immunosensor that rapidly detects 4 different protein biomarkers
science.org/doi/10.1126/...

(1/4) NSW respiratory surveillance reports: Week ending 7 December 2024

🔸COVID PCR positivity rate: 8.2% (+1.1%)

🔸Number of laboratories reporting COVID: 2 out of 4

🔹COVID: 2,088 (+7.3%)
🔹Influenza: 433 (+5.6%)
🔹RSV: 417 (+3.7%)

@NSWHealth

www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/c...

Perhaps the most harmful thing you can do to someone with almost zero repurcussions is to infect them with covid

Netherlands: CO2 Monitors to be mandatory in all Dutch classrooms.

airspothealth.myshopify.com/a/blog/co2-m...

One of the most depressing aspects of this pandemic is the lack of learning. #medsky #academicsky #healthpolicy

Washing your hands is important.

But COVID gathers in under ventilated spaces like smoke.

It's high time we in public health were honest with the public and admit we got it wrong.

There was far too much emphasis placed on handwashing for Covid.

Many died because of this incorrect guidance.

We can, and must, do more to protect students in higher education from the risks of post-COVID condition Published: December 8, 2024 9:03am EST

We can, and must, do more to protect students in higher education from the risks of post-COVID condition.

Source: archive.md/ZJYUG

YouTube video by minutephysics The Astounding Physics of N95 Masks

youtu.be/eAdanPfQdCA?...

How’s your TBR stack? We have episodes featuring the authors of all of these books, sharing their work. 🎧 📚💙⬇️

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COVID virus finds a home in your brain A landmark study has found the virus that causes COVID-19 accumulates and persists in the body - especially the brain - for years after infection.

No, not a study by me, I just talk about it. Amazing work by Ali Erturk and a very large team.

thewest.com.au/business/hea...

So excited to finally see this study out in pre-print! This study is the largest of its kind to date: Using data from 4,244 people with #LongCOVID, #MECFS and other complex chronic illnesses, we took hundreds of thousands of data points across hundreds of
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...
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