This is interesting - a forensic report that isn’t about science but about what they were originally designed for: money. Get ready for a whole lot of Benford analysis! taxpolicy.org.uk/2025/07/27/h... taxpolicy.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Se on #pandemiaPerjantai ja uudet @thlorg.bsky.social #COVID-19 #jätevesi datat. Päivitetyt kaaviot, olkaa hyvät! - aikamoinen pompsu - virusmäärät reippaassa nousussa, määrät vielä alhaisia huippumaksimeihin nähden - epidemia leviää nopeasti koulujen alun jälkeen 1/2

The thing the mainstream media is not remembering about Hurricane Katrina is their own lethal, racist contribution to treating rumors as facts used to demonize the stranded in New Orleans, turning them from victims to be aided to enemies to be contained.

Ada: Somehow I always hurt only my most sensitive body parts! Me: Okay kid, it’s time we have The Talk—

Meta-perceptions matter -- they drive behaviour and sometimes lead to spirals of silence.

1/ I don’t know how to say this without sounding harsh, but I need you to hear it. COVID — or SARS-2 — is not “just another cold.” It doesn’t leave you the same. Every reinfection stacks damage: brain, heart, immune system.

I read this wonderful book and felt good about humanity. Then I read "Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany 1918-1933", and felt... Well... Less good about humanity.

This is progress: #healthpolicy #episky

🚨😷🚨😷🚨😷🚨😷 BREAKING NEWS At last, in the UK, we now have official guidance on the use of respirators (FFP3) vs Fluid Resistant Surgical Masks (FRSM) which has been prepared SPECIFICALLY FOR THE HEALTHCARE SECTOR. 🚨😷🚨😷🚨😷🚨😷

Pretty striking for the BMJ to run this piece. “[Immunity debt’s] explanatory power has faded as the number of non-covid infections has kept rising each year.”

An important letter. It's written in the context of Scottish action against pro-Palestine protests, but contains universal advice to avoiding loss of public trust -- and along with it, national security.

🎉 Delighted to share new research out today: The Political Consequences of the Mental Load 📄 European Sociological Review doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf019 @europeansocreview.bsky.social What happens to political engagement when the “mental load” of running a household gets too heavy? 🧵

@roopekaaronen.net miten oikeastaan sanotaan suomeksi "pattern recognition"? Tuntuu, että "affordance" on eräänlainen "pattern", jonka mieli tunnistaa hyödynnettävissä olevaksi. Onko näin ja miten suomeksi? 😅

Suomessa on myös erillinen long covid. Täällä kukaan ei sairastu siihen, kaikki paranevat ja se on muutenkin vaan luulotauti.

Springer Nature retracts book with fake citations. Help us find more cases like this.

Podcast: A glossary for crowd dynamics www.firescienceshow.com/212-a-glossa...

Someone said I'd probably like @dalupton.bsky.social's book Risk, and doing my due diligence, bumped into an interesting #longCovid piece: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

'Changes in support and adherence did not reflect the notion of pandemic fatigue as a monotonic decline in support and adherence across behaviors.'

@simonhammann.bsky.social this is new

In airborne news: "We report detection of virus in the air during milking of suspected H5N1-infected cows on multiple farms and on multiple days, and in the exhaled breath of cows, suggesting that airborne transmission may serve as a mode of H5N1 spread between cows and to humans in dairy parlors"

This. Please stop telling me that you are “not surprised.” Public interest journalism isn’t about shock value. It’s about informing people and holding power to account. I don’t care if you’re not surprised by the information I report on.

Pieces following up on this are coming together: how can participatory community surveillance networks and collaborative foresight workshops improve preparedness in uncertain times? Stay tuned for upcoming research! mattiheino.com/2025/05/17/f...

Hot take: BlueSky (particularly the mobile app) is worse than Twitter in most ways. Perhaps even worse than X. It's fascinating that this turned out to be the go-to platform post-Elonpocalypse.

you say "i asked chatgpt" i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]" an improv group wrote this report instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group

a thin white woman in head to toe lululemon screaming at these thugs makes me think ICE has jumped the shark

What happens when you allow a novel pandemic virus to keep spreading and mutating, let vaccination rates drop dramatically, don't fund ventilation or filtration in schools, and reject germ theory: People are sick all of the time and society starts to fall apart.

“a deliberate, systematic starvation of an entire population” A statement by Doctors Against Genocide. #Gaza

One of the things I hear a lot is “until the ICJ has made a judgement we don’t know if it’s genocide or not.” Imagine if you suspected someone you knew was in an abusive relationship. Would you say “until the police have investigated and a court has made a determination I won’t take a view” ?

I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.

This is why I still advocate for mandatory masking in healthcare. It’s where the sickest people are and where the strongest bugs thrive. It’s a place disabled people can’t “just stay home” from. Masks in healthcare make sense.

"The failure of the international community to tackle the #genocide in #Gaza will resonate through history."

Meta-perceptions matter.

Yes this is how taboos work. It's evolutionary behaviour!

we got another one

Here is my checklist summarising a small set of some of the simplest tasks you can do that have high potential to improve the reproducibility of your analysis code. This is based on my year of reproducibility reviews for the J. of Archaeological Science: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lHjN_6yUM... 🧪🏺

This commentary should be read as a case study of a more general issue in social psychology, not restricted to intergroup conflict.

Humanity has not died even once in its history ergo humanity is immortal.

This sentence, typed in her dissent, should scare the living fuck out of everyone in this country. "This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law." – Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

Incredible take. All sorts of health problems --> grip strength. Thus, anything that improves grip strength will improve overall health. QED

Did NOT see this coming.

How asbestos research is done. Apparently.

Poor air quality is a choice. Paris made theirs. How’s the air quality where you’re living?

The difference between accuracy and precision haunts us always.

When you engage in no mitigations to lessen viral spread that damages everyone’s health, you’re complicit. Neuropsychiatric conditions WORSEN w/ infection. Infection has been associated w/INCREASED mental health symptoms & diagnoses. New diagnoses are linked w/ neuroimaging abnormalities. Wake 🆙

This is quite correct in the most important sense. I'll tell you a story: over ten years ago, I built an automatic p-hacker (in Matlab, I'm old). It took some data, changed more or less every analysis parameter possible, used every outlier management schema, etc. and then subgroups. It could...

Hey Alberta! Heads up! Rising COVID hospitalizations in Alberta. Although gov't is no longer publicly reporting hospital outbreaks (last report April 16, 2025), there are now 4 hospitals on outbreak. Rockyview, Royal Alex, Leduc, and Miseracordia. Haven't this many outbreaks in a long time. 1/

NEW: 549 Palestinians now killed in the last 30 days. Itself shocking. But, EVERY SINGLE ONE WAS KILLED AT A FOOD AID STATION. A unique war crime. Firing squads using aid as bait. Palestinians in #Gaza face two choices: starve to death, or risk death to get food. 🧵

Beyond disgusting. It’s all deliberate.