Richard Corsi

YouTube video by UC Davis College of Engineering The Technically Hip: UC Davis Engineers Rock in This Faculty & Staff Jam Band

I am so excited. Our @ucdavisengineering.bsky.social rock band - The Technically Hip - has just added a saxophonist, and rumor has it that there may even be some cowbell in our future.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnzW...

Great list, @meganranney.bsky.social!

I will add:

* Higher education 🏫

* Science ⚗️

* Great colleagues

* Music 🎸

* Dogs 🐕

* Tofu

Nov 21st Update:

NWSS is back! After what may have been the lowest transmission rates since 2021, we are seeing rises again. Expect this to accelerate into the holiday season, especially in MW&NE
Estimates:

🔸150,000 new inf/day
🔸~1 in 220 currently infected
🔸~1 in 550 are significantly infectious

All the chickens touched the same elevator button

YouTube video by UC Davis College of Engineering The Technically Hip: UC Davis Engineers Rock in This Faculty & Staff Jam Band

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnzW...

A white egret stands in water with reeds in the background. Its reflection in the water below it is evident, partially obscured by plants in the foreground.

Egret and its reflection.

@ucdavis.bsky.social arboretum

Vaccine Safety MENU V For Everyone NOV. 19, 2025 KEY POINTS • The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. • Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities. • HHS has launched a comprehensive assessment of the causes of autism, including investigations on plausible biologic mechanisms and potential causal links.

The U.S. government is now inarguably spreading medical disinformation that is going to kill babies preferentially.

Period.

This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.

Arizona's dust storms getting a ranking system like tornadoes A team 22 meteorologists and weather experts has spent years developing the first standardized dust storm scale.

cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2025/11/19/p...

I occasionally do :)

UC Davis Engineering Faculty Find Harmony on and Off Stage At UC Davis, the College of Engineering is known for innovation, academic excellence and now, for rocking out. A band comprised entirely of faculty and staff members, The Technically Hip, is striking ...

We are educating future engineers & doing research that will better society & the planet, and also rocking out!

I am so proud that the @ucdavisengineering.bsky.social has its own rock band, the Technically Hip.

Check out the rockumentary link in the story below.

www.ucdavis.edu/magazine/uc-...

A do-it-yourself air cleaner constructed with walls that are themselves air filters configured and held together with yellow and blue duct tape and powered by a box fan sits on a table in a classroom. A window in the background shows a courtyard with picnic tables, trees, and grass.

4/ Consider a CR Box. It is highly effective at removing respiratory aerosol particles across a wide range of particle sizes that convey viruses, and the additional mixing added to rooms can cause rapid dispersion of respiratory plumes when in close contact with those infected.

A man wearing glasses and a respirator to protect himself from airborne viruses sits in a commercial aircraft with violet lighting.

3/ Public empowerment is important, folks. Reducing the amount of respiratory aerosol particles you inhale in shared spaces will dramatically reduce your risk of infection. Increase ventilation when possible, wear an N95, KN95 or better mask/respirator in shared public spaces, improve filtration.

2/ "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hasn’t provided a detailed, national report on flu activity since Sept. 26 because of the government shutdown."

Warnings rise for U.S. as severe flu strain causes outbreaks in Canada, U.K. A flu strain that emerged over the summer is causing "unprecedented" outbreaks in Japan, as well as in Canada and the U.K. The CDC hasn't provided insights on flu in the U.S. in nearly two months.

1/ H3N2 that’s circulated worldwide this year “acquired 7 new mutations over the summer,” Antonia Ho, of Scotland’s U of Glasgow, said.

That “means the virus is quite different to the H3N2 strain included in this year’s vaccine,” she said.

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

We recently saw a randomized trial of exercise markedly improve cancer disease-free survival
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.....
How can this be explained?
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

End of day rainbow over @ucdavis.bsky.social today.

Study Finds COVID mRNA Vaccines Boost Cancer Treatment New research found that mRNA vaccines for COVID-19 could enhance cancer treatments and help patients live longer.

mRNA vaccines help vs cancer
Our @scifri.bsky.social conversation, with transcript
www.sciencefriday.com/segments/cov...
Remarkable improved survival data and mechanism reviewed here erictopol.substack.com/p/how-mrna-v...

Awesome lineup. Wish I could attend.

🔸️Early data suggests we could be in for a worse than normal flu season, brought on by a cluster of escape mutations in H3N2 this year that may lift the Re from 1.2 to 1.4. We are starting to see an uptick in the US. Data from BIOFIRE.

YouTube video by Jonathan Clark Gordon Lightfoot - "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" - Chicago - 1979

The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald happened 50 years ago today.

Gordon Lightfoot memorialized the tragedy in a haunting song.

Bob Dylan once implied that Gordon Lightfoot was the greatest songwriter of all time. He was certainly one of the great ones.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV9P...

Grew up a Dodger's fan & sustained my allegiance through the years out of memory of my father's love for the Brooklyn & later Los Angeles Dodgers. I also loved going to Blue Jays games in the early 1990s while living in ONT.

Blue Jays played like champs. Respect to both teams for a GREAT series.

👍👍👍 right on! Thanks, @meganranney.bsky.social.

Moment of Zen

Weir in @ucdavis.bsky.social
arboretum.

No matter who wins, this World Series is one of, if not the best, of my lifetime. Wow!

Long COVID in Kids: What Pediatricians Need to Know New research suggests that children and teens who get COVID a second time face twice the risk for developing long COVID.

Getting COVID twice doubles risk for long COVID in kids.
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

We need the help of chimps.

Covid in pregnancy tied to autism, developmental issues, study says A study published in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology analyzed more than 18,100 births in Massachusetts of children born to women who contracted the virus starting in the early months of the pand...

Oh, the (very sad) irony.

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

It’s been obvious now for years for Covid-19, but this adds to the evidence for other viral infections.

Alrighty, ready to see something really cool? (and maybe a little nauseating)

The evolution of Hurricane Melissa's mesovortices at peak strength.

Please post a photo of your Corsi-Rosenthal Box if you are decorating one or more for Halloween.

@crfoundationus.bsky.social