Elizabeth O. Crawford

ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

Thought of you the other day when a student argued why I should allow them to use AI for their unit planning (suggesting I was not with the times) and I sent them your Edutopia article along with the MIT study time.com/7295195/ai-c...

Colorful farmer’s market produce

Doing what we can to support the local economy and farmers and cut plastic waste. How beautiful are these colors?

Rest in peace, Alice.

Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation

Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e

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A friend has LC in NC as well. Have you been to the UNC Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R)?

Same - got covid in fall 2021 and had phantom cigarette smell 24/7 for about 6 months. Got covid again this year and it’s back. 🫤

Good morning, friend. 🌞

Wildflowers and turkey feather

Caterpillar on wildflower

Field of wildflowers

Gifts of #nature. Wild turkey feather, wildflowers, and caterpillar reflect the beauty and cycle of life.

I have to take oral minoxidil for mine brought on by my first infection in 2021. Only thing that worked. It’s not like it was before but much fuller.

Long COVID associated with SARS-CoV-2 reinfection among children and adolescents in the omicron era (RECOVER-EHR): a retrospective cohort study Children and adolescents face a significantly higher risk of various PASC outcomes after reinfection with SARS-CoV-2. These findings add to previous evidence linking paediatric long COVID to multisyst...

Children & adolescents reinfected with SARS-CoV-2 face a significantly higher risk of …”myocarditis, changes in taste & smell, thrombophlebitis & thromboembolism, heart disease, acute kidney injury,… generalised pain, arrhythmias, abnormal liver enzymes, ...”

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PSA: #Costco now has #Novavax in stock in Wilmington, NC. It's on their website and I called the pharmacy to confirm. #COVID

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...

Stanford researchers found that AI-generated "workslop" is actually making people less productive, in part because workers have to correct errors or decode the useful information/intent buried in a flood of auto-generated garbage:

Absolutely gorgeous!

Mom had a stroke and contracted it in ICU and we all got it. I tested positive for just a week. Much easier than my case in 2021. Dad tested + for 8-9 days, negative, then post-Paxlovid rebound like your wife. I think he tested positive over a 2-week window. Hope everyone feels better soon!

We just went through this as well. I didn’t test positive until day 4 of symptoms (4 tests).

Which part? 😭

Beautiful Georgia skies

No words. I’m truly sorry. 😞

I’m truly sorry. It’s enraging.

I think it’s high time we take back the national narrative. For centuries Americans of all races, genders, religions, and abilities have worked to create a more perfect union, and we should shout from the rooftops that WE are America. Not these idiot white supremacist authoritarians.

I’m really sorry. I know that area well as we used to live in Richmond Hill. We had to drive 2.5 hours to get one in Raleigh. I imagine they won’t be available at all this coming year.

And after years of dangerous, anti-vax rhetoric, there is little demand for covid vaccines at all. Yesterday I got my daughter boosted before going back to school. In a CVS located in a large, urban shopping center, the pharmacist said they’re throwing out more doses than they give.

Sooo time consuming.

Thanks for sharing. We’ve been masking since 2020 & my husband contracted Covid via his eyes when someone blew their nose walking past him 🤢 as he was wearing an N95. I was quarantined in a small hospital room for 10 days with a Covid patient, even sleeping in a mask. Sometimes it’s just bad luck.

COVID-19 Infection can awaken dormant cancer cells COVID-19 can trigger inflammation that can awaken dormant cancer cells in the lungs, raising the risk of lung metastasis and cancer-related death. This was revealed by research conducted by an interna...

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As soon as I saw the title and photo, I smelled it 🥰

Need for awareness and surveillance of long-term post-COVID neurodegenerative disorders. A position paper from the neuroCOVID‐19 task force of the European Academy of Neurology

Important paper by members of the European Academy of Neurology. "Healthcare systems should be aware of, and be prepared for a potential increase in the incidence of neurodegenerative diseases in the upcoming years." What has been the state of surveillance and awareness so far? #NeuroCovid

I had symptoms for 4 solid days and only on the 4th test did it show as positive. I still believe in testing but I don’t trust a negative test. If I have Covid-like symptoms, I mask around my family and assume I have it. (We still mask in public).

~50% of covid infections are asymptomatic. A neighbor just had “covid toes” and surgery but thought he’d never had covid. Covid reactivates dormant viruses too so I wonder if we’re seeing more illness for that reason as well.

It’s very sad and depressing. It didn’t have to be this way. 🥺