#pandemics — Public Fediverse posts

this week's feature in #CurrentBiology is about preventing #pandemics in the light of the recent #hantavirus outbreak and ongoing #ebola epidemic. https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/06/preventing-pandemics.html

#science #publicHealth

this week's feature in #CurrentBiology is about preventing #pandemics in the light of the recent #hantavirus outbreak and ongoing #ebola epidemic. https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/06/preventing-pandemics.html

#science #publicHealth

#DistributedComputing & #CitizenScience: Das World Community Grid präsentiert ein Update zum Open #Pandemics Subprojekt:
https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/article.s?articleId=806
#DC #VC #BOINC #VolunteerComputing #CitSci #Pandemie #Rechenkraft

The ‘taken-for-granted’ disappears
A look out of the window or at the screen reveals a world where our 'ontological security' is disappearing. Our very fundamental sense of being is being broken. Our sense of continuity of our lives is ruptured. Multiple crisis rock the sense of the self. All of a sudden we are all at the ‘front-lines’ experiencing the polycrisis.

Ontological security
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontological_security

#Giddens #Laing #Agamben #BareLife #experience #Angst #anxiety #ambiguity #stability #security #health #polycrisis #SelfdestructiveBehaviour #FossilFuels #war #pandemics #PermantThreats #SecureWorld #insecurity #climate #extinction #OntologicalSecurity