#personalscience — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #personalscience, aggregated by home.social.
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Here's some updates on the little 'Personal API' Django app I made for getting some status updates in the footer of my website.
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As part of moving away from iOS, I've also replaced my Apple Watch with a Garmin device. Which means I'll have to figure out a way to get some of those data out to display it in my website footer!
Does anyone have a recommendation/existing solution for how to export small chunks of that data in regular intervals to an HTTP endpoint? Or will I have to learn how to use the Garmin API after all? 🙈
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Revolutionizing Healthcare with Real-Time Monitoring and Frequency Therapy: A Personal Journey Through the TEHS Scrum Framework for Health and Performance: Twice the Energy with Half the Stress https://leanpub.com/tehs by Jeff Sutherland is the featured book on the Leanpub homepage! https://leanpub.com #Scrum #LifeCoaching #DietAndNutrition #PersonalScience #PersonalTransformation #books #ebooks
Find it on Leanpub!
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My secret to above average fitness? Plateauing and then waiting to get old enough to get into a different age bracket. From below average to above average, by benefit of turning 40 😅
Alternatively, a cautionary tale about the limits of quantifying health and wellbeing.
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«Symptom Radar works by evaluating metrics like resting heart rate, heart rate variability, temperature trends, and breathing rate to detect significant changes from your long-term baselines.»
Fun to see that Oura is now also using the approach we’ve come up with in the #personalscience community back in 2020 🙈 #quantifiedself
https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/5/24313465/oura-symptom-radar-illness-wearable-smart-ring -
Had the “chance” to see the Apple Health Vitals in action. Can agree, I feel like crap. Interestingly, the watch only picked it up today, but I noticed some infection starting already yesterday.
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Spend a bit of time today on updating the MediaWiki and extensions that are powering the #PersonalScience wiki at https://wiki.openhumans.org
There's nothing better to make you appreciate how brittle our technical infrastructures are. 🤣 More seriously: If anyone encounters issues, please drop me a line!
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The magnum opus of Katharina's PhD thesis has now been published in Royal Society Open Science: «Co-designing a #wiki-based community knowledge management system for #personalscience»! 🎉
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This article on potatoes also features the fun “All Potato Diet” #citizenscience effort!
“The pseudonymous science bloggers behind Slime Mold Time Mold are running an informal trial where they invite readers to try their own riffs on Chris Voigt’s potato-only diet. A few participants who ate only potatoes and dairy—almost a replica of the 19th-century Irish diet—reported that they’d lost weight over the month.”
https://www.wired.com/story/potatoes-are-the-perfect-vegetable-but-youre-eating-them-wrong/
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Just looked at that “vitals” feature that the upcoming Apple Watch OS will have: Apparently it'll be based on if 2+ of your physiological metrics are outside the 'normal' range.
This seems like a good validation of my own "heuristic" approach that I made back in December 2022 (I’ve written up here later): https://tzovar.as/heuristic/
More details on the #personalscience wiki here: https://wiki.openhumans.org/wiki/A_heuristic_for_feeling_fine
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«Peer Production in #CitizenScience: A Community-Centered Approach on the Example of #PersonalScience»
Super excited to see that Katharina's PhD thesis (which she successfully defended in November last year) is now available in full on HAL!
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«Quantifying the self with others» looks at the particular #CitizenScience community that is #PersonalScience / #quantifiedself.
«This community cultivated useful conversations about personal health data, the sorts of participatory “reflection and dialogue” needed to achieve “a shared vision” for these technologies, through specific communication techniques that integrated personal and community goals or transcended them by marshalling an open science data imaginary.»
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I wrote a small blog post about how I get (some) of my health metrics out of Apple Health to put it into my website's footer. And I used that as a good excuse to also update some pages in the #personalscience wiki. #quantifiedself
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Some of our colleagues are running a week-long, online "Summer School on #PersonalScience" this July. 🏫
If you're interested in learning about this particular type of #citizenscience, give it a look: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7186331478006333441/
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I replaced my Oura Ring with a non-smart band instead – which doesn't require being charged but is supposed to last a lifetime. 😂
This meant I had to adapt the data source in my website footer. Now it displays data from my smartwatch instead. Newest addition: environmental noise levels & time spent in daylight 🧛
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As Monday morning might be a better time to share than Friday afternoons: Check out our latest preprint on creating a shared knowledge base for #selfresearch, #personalscience & #quantifiedself. Katharina did a really great job on co-designing and testing the "Personal Science Wiki" with practitioners to make sure it fits their mental models of the practice!
Read the preprint here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09799
#citizenscience @academicchatter @citizenscience
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Friday afternoon maybe isn't the best time to share it, but I'm too excited! Our work on creating a shared knowledge base for self research & #quantifiedself is now up as a preprint:
«Co-Designing a wiki-based community knowledge management system for #personalscience»
Katharina – who defended her PhD in November – did amazing work on co-designing and user testing it with a wide range of practitioners! Read it here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09799
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The Ultimate Lifestyle Transformation Bundle https://leanpub.com/b/the-ultimate-lifestyle-transformation-bundle by Tom Luma is the featured bundle on the Leanpub homepage! https://leanpub.com #PersonalTransformation #Selfhelp #FamilyAndParenting #PersonalScience #Diy #CraftsAndHobbies
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There’s also a #PersonalScience cartoon! #CitSci4Health23 #quantifiedself
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Now in a session on "#PersonalScience and Self-Tracking: Learning From Continuous Blood Glucose Data"
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Our "Peer Produced Research Lab" team member Katharina Kloppenborg presented her work on the #PersonalScience Wiki at #CitSci4Health23
I'm super proud of her work – she's so ready to defend her thesis on peer-production & #citizenscience next week! 💪
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The first step for doing #personalscience, operationalize a research question into something observable, i.e. a noticeable, variable and distinct phenomenon.
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Currently looking at this “Show & Tell” as an example of what #personalscience can be. #CitSci4Health23 https://wiki.openhumans.org/wiki/My_Headaches_From_Tracking_Headaches
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The first international conference on “#citizenscience for health” is now kicking off at Twente University in Enschede. The first keynote is by Gary Wolf & Sara Riggare on #quantifiedself & #personalscience!
I’ll be posting about the event under #CitSci4Health23 if you want to follow (or mute).
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Book About AI by Luka Nikolic is on sale on Leanpub! Its suggested price is $9.99; get it for $8.99 with this coupon: https://leanpub.com/sh/Z6Yj3P1s #Ai #NonFiction #ComputerProgramming #CreativeNonFiction #Entertainment #PersonalScience #Textbooks
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How to self-experiment with the new Oura feature (or without it)
https://lifehacky.net/how-to-self-experiment-with-the-new-oura-feature-or-without-it-de9efd5c5788
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O tom, jak Oura láká k pokusům na sobě a další novinky v appce. Tohle může opravdu pomoct! https://www.lifehacky.cz/delejte-pokusy-na-sobe-s-ourou-i-bez-ni/
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I noticed that my respiratory rate started started being an outlier more often recently. I wondered if that was one of the outcomes of (again) stopping to smoke in February?
Plotting this year's respiratory rate compared to my own background data (collected since 2018) it looks like there's quite a big effect!
Not only is it down, it also goes against a seasonal effect – looks like my resp. rate usually goes up in (north. hemisphere) summer!
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At the end of last year I shared a little heuristic I made – for whether my #wearable data said I might be under the weather or not.
Last week I remembered that I actually have some data to pseudo-validate it: For now 1000+ days I've been tracking whether I'm sick & if so what symptoms I have. Turns out that my heuristic of “combined number of physiological deviations" doesn't work too badly!
A full write-up is here: https://wiki.openhumans.org/wiki/A_heuristic_for_feeling_fine#EDIT_2023-06-08:_Using_historical_data_to_.22validate.22_approach
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“One button in my pocket instead of the smartphone" @esenabre & I have a new paper out – in it we combine #autoethnography, #quantifiedself|#personalscience & #opensource hardware/software practices. ⚙️📝🔬📊
Enric used his protocol to investigate his own "digital disengagement” – when he traded his smartphone & being “always online" for a feature phone.
I'll try to make a small thread with our main considerations below, but you can also read the full article at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20597991231161093