#researcher — Public Fediverse posts

‘I was just mesmerized.’ Researchers capture first northeast Pacific sighting of spooky squid

The underwater vehicle was coasting about six feet above the ocean floor, two miles deep, when a pinkish,…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Wildlife #andrewdevogelaere #animal #datum #furrow #mesmerizingcreature #northeastpacificsighting #Pereira #researchvessel #researcher #sample #Science #seamount #Ship #spookysquid #video #whale
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/837531/

‘I was just mesmerized.’ Researchers capture first northeast Pacific sighting of spooky squid

The underwater vehicle was coasting about six feet above the ocean floor, two miles deep, when a pinkish,…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Wildlife #andrewdevogelaere #animal #datum #furrow #mesmerizingcreature #northeastpacificsighting #Pereira #researchvessel #researcher #sample #Science #seamount #Ship #spookysquid #video #whale
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/837531/

Having seen research from many different angles – as a clinician, #researcher, trial manager – she knows that every manuscript represents years of work by real people
#Technology can help #publishers handle growing volumes of research, spot patterns, make processes more efficient – it can speed up good science & reduce routine tasks. But it cannot replace the human judgement, accountability & shared responsibility that scholarly publishing relies on.

Interview by Tim Gillett

Parental mental health — not medication — drives autism correlation, study finds

A sweeping new review of prenatal antidepressant use underscores a finding that has surfaced repeatedly throughout the last…
#NewsBeep #News #Healthcare #ADHD #antidepressant #autismcorrelation #CA #Canada #child #childneurodevelopmentaldisorder #depression #Health #Medication #mother #paper #parentalmentalhealth #Pregnancy #prenatalantidepressantuse #researcher #risk #woman
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/709598/

I am very proud of my newly bought solar power generator and I use it straightaway on my makeshift office space at the upper deck of the ship taking me to Jakarta. The sunset over the Java sea is, however, a big distraction for my overdue essay...
See video : https://youtube.com/shorts/X4CwMSqv_Wk

#RefuseToFly #Slowtravel #Decarbonise #ClimateAction #StrictlyPublicTransport #researcherlife #researcher #AFuoco #Singapore #Indonesia #Batam #Jakarta #FerryTravel #Pelni #JavaSea

To all researchers who recently* moved from a #postdoc to a permanent position (still in academia)**: are you more happy now?

Comments are obviously welcome!

() recently = in the last 10 years
(*) permanent = e.g #lecturer doing at least some research, or #researcher, or even semi-permanent like #tenureTrack, let's call it PI
#AcademicChatter #Research #Academia

The AI Spending Boom Is Boosting US GDP

The AI capex spending race is so massive that it’s lifting up the entire US economy. Resear…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Artificialintelligence #AI #aispendingboom #ai-relatedspending #amount #analystexpectation #ArtificialIntelligence #computerequipment #datumcenterconstruction #energy #gdpboost #Investment #PantheonMacroeconomics #report #researcher #Technology #topceo #usimport #year
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/85176/

The AI Spending Boom Is Boosting US GDP

The AI capex spending race is so massive that it’s lifting up the entire US economy. Resear…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Artificialintelligence #AI #aispendingboom #ai-relatedspending #amount #analystexpectation #ArtificialIntelligence #computerequipment #datumcenterconstruction #energy #gdpboost #Investment #PantheonMacroeconomics #report #researcher #Technology #topceo #usimport #year
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/85176/

Will you come speak and share your 26 years of education and intellectual property for free? #SpeakingEngagements #DevilIsALiar #Speaking #SpeakingEngagements #NoireSTEMinist #EngineeringProfessor #Researcher #Author #BlackSTEM #WomenSTEM #MelanatedSTEM #STEMvangelist #RoboticsEngineer

*Related to my post from yesterday.

#BCNDP's #HousingHub program is coming under #scrutiny after one #TaxpayerSubsidized #RentalBuilding in #Vancouver's #Kitsilano neighbourhood, touted as "affordable", is now listing units for $2,600 per month for a studio & $4,200 per month for a 2 bedroom unit.

The listed #RentalPrices are well above provincial #AffordableHousing thresholds & one #housing #researcher says it's an example of how difficult it is to build #AffordableRental buildings when market prices are so far beyond what average #renters can afford.

The leader of the #BCGreenParty called it an "infuriating" #misuse of #TaxpayerDollars.

The #BCNDPgovernment provided a $31.8 million #LowInterestLoan to Vancouver developer #JamesonDevelopmentCorp. for the 68-unit rental building through the HousingHub program, which is aimed at providing housing to middle-income renters shut out of the real estate market.

#BCPremier #DavidEby, who was the minister -responsible for housing at the time, was quoted in a December 2021 government news release announcing the project.

"Our government is investing in more affordable housing for people who work and live in Vancouver, and throughout B.C." he said.

The building at 1807 Larch St., called the L2, is set to be complete next month & is now advertising units.

According to the building's website, a 400-square foot studio apartment starts at $2,599 a month & a 840-square foot two-bedroom, two-bath unit is listed for $4,299 a month.

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7288112

#YYJpoli #VanPoli #YVR #BCpoli #CDNpoli #HousingForAll #HousingCrisis #HousingFirst #EndCorporateWelfare #BChousing #Corruption #BCNDPFailures

In today's #Introduction #Introductions #Connections #TwitterMigration post, where I curate interesting accounts for you to follow on the #Fediverse :fediverse:, I'd like you to meet:

Professor @KathAlbury is a #researcher #academic at #Swinburne, part of @adms (full disclosure: I @admin the server that the ADMS account is on). Her ADMS projects focus on the development of data capability and capacity in #NFP organisations, and data #ethics and speculative #DesignJustice in the field of #SexTech. 🇦🇺 If you're into #DesignJustice,
you may also like the work of @schock.

@blasbenito is a #DataScience and #AgTch #GIS #researcher and #PhD in computational #ecology

@KristinaRiemer is also a #DataScience educator and communit builder @cct_datascience at #UArizona

@simonoid is a #melbourne / #Naarm #nerd and #gamer 🇦🇺

Dr @amykmcl is a #facilitator, #researcher and #ethnographer in #medical #anthropology 🇦🇺

That's all for today, please do share your own lists so we can more closely connect the #Fediverse ❤️

Today is the third anniversary of the first confirmed #Covid-19 case in the US. As good a day as any to write a long and rambly essay about the current state of the nineteenth crow. I’m going to begin and end on a personal note, with some #science in the middle.

Almost my entire adult life has been dedicated to keeping people alive. I became a #medic for a number of reasons, but most directly because a friend was murdered: if there was any way I could keep another close circle of young, healthy people with a reasonable expectation of living for decades more from having to gather to mourn one of their own, I would.

So. First as a medic, then a #biotech #programmer, and now a #bioinformatics #researcher, my goal has been quite consistent. Everyone dies—but if we can claw back just a little more time, a few more years or days or hours, that is a victory in the war that never ends. As my fiancee says in another context, a slap in the face of a forgetful future. Only our deeds live after us. There is no greater deed than life itself.

For all that time, I’ve known there was another #plague coming. It was inevitable. One aspect of the medic’s war is the arms race, and pathogens have one hell of an R&D program. We can win skirmishes, and sometimes battles, and occasionally even a campaign. They’ll keep coming back, with mindless determination and terrifying numbers.

What I didn’t know, couldn’t even imagine, was what the primary obstacle to that particular phase of the war would be. I thought the challenges would be technical: spotting the #outbreak, identifying the #pathogen, learning its strengths and weaknesses, developing preventions and treatments, getting #medicine out to where it’s needed most. You know, science stuff.

Those are all challenges with covid, to be sure. But it turns the biggest problem is willful, deliberate, self-imposed, homicidal and suicidal stupidity.

I’ve written at length about my opinions of #antimaskers and #antivaxers, and no doubt I will again. The short version is, they’re traitors to humanity. I’ve given up trying to reason with them. Best to concentrate on what I can control: my own work, the knowledge I gain from others in the field, and the information I provide to people who are willing to listen. Eventually the traitors will benefit too, however little they deserve it.

Okay, on to the facts. The data I’ll be discussing are #US-centric. I live here, it’s my primary area of concern, and it’s what I know the most about. Readers in other countries, please feel free to comment on similarities and differences.

1. There were massive spikes in January 2021 and January 2022: here is a nice visualization. At the peaks, 2022’s spike was more than three times as bad as 2021’s. On the other hand, there were only (only!) about three-quarters as many deaths in 2022. I suspect there are a few things going on here:

   • New Year’s celebrations both years, but especially in 2022, packed a lot of people together in small spaces. This is of course a recipe for mass infection.

   • Prevalence of the omicron strain in 2022, which is generally more infectious but less lethal than other strains.

   • More masks in 2021, preventing infection but doing nothing to reduce severity, compared to much more #vaccination but fewer #masks in 2022.

2. As of September, Republicans were dying of covid almost twice as fast as Democrats, controlling for age. Of course it’s not being a Republican that kills you: it’s not being #vaccinated. Antivax has become an ideological purity test for a substantial portion of the Republican Party, and those who try to both-sides this issue have their heads buried so far in the sand they’re hitting bedrock.

3. New #variants haven’t been much in the news lately. That’s not because #SARS-CoV-2 has stopped mutating. It’s because what we call #omicron has now mutated so much that it now has more genetic diversity than all the others put together. Tracking variants by letter made sense in the early stages of the pandemic, but now we could go through the entire Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Arabic, and every other alphabet and still run out. As a practical matter, this means we’ll need at-least-annual #booster shots forever.

4. In June 2022, we passed a little-remarked milestone: total US covid deaths in people under 30 surpassed total US #military deaths in #Afghanistan and #Iraq, in a similar demographic over a much shorter time. Older people are more likely to die of covid, sure. Older people are more likely to die of everything. Youth will not save you.

There is some good news. The January spikes mentioned in item #1 seem so far not to be materializing this year, although we’ll have to wait until the data for the entire month have been sifted to be sure. I doubt people are getting any more careful, but 70-80% of the US population is vaccinated, depending on how you count: maybe that’s enough for a meaningful degree of herd #immunity.

Older #vaccines aren’t as effective against newer strains as newer vaccines tailored to those #strains, but they still help. With any vaccination on board, you’re less likely to get infected, and less likely to die if you do. Keep getting boosters, and your #immune system will build up a kind of library: “oh, this isn’t exactly like anything I’ve seen before, but it looks kind of like this thing I read about, so …”

We can’t make antivaxers go away. They’ll always be there, acting as a reservoir for infection and a breeding ground for new strains. Sure, they’ll die at a much higher rate, but more of them will live, largely thanks to the heroic efforts of the science they reject. What we can do, to a degree, is work around them.

Back to the personal.

I’ve lost a few friends, and I know many people who have lost family, to #antimask / #antivax lunacy. I understand the pain and anger and confusion. Stay strong. Maybe one day before we’re all dead, this will be over and reconciliation will be possible, if we choose to extend such grace. Not today, and not for a long time to come.

Any person, any family, any circle of friends, any gathering, any business, any government … all are more than justified in exiling these traitors forever. When they are those we love, grief is inevitable. But the people we loved are already dead. Our job is to avoid joining them.

Let’s be careful out there.

Stay safe down there!

#Antarctica #millionYearIceCore
#millionYear #IceCore #millionYearCore #coreSample #coreSamples #iceCoreSample #iceCoreSamples

#LivingTraverse #caravan #SoCold #stayWarm #ice #oldestIce

#science #research #scientificResearch #researcher #Antarctic #researchers #AntarcticResearch #AntarcticResearcher #AntarcticResearchers #study #samples #takeSamples #takingSamples #HistoryOfTheEarth #IceAges #warmPeriods #ClimateChange

https://www.antarctica.gov.au/news/2022/million-year-milestone-traverse-sets-course-toward-the-oldest-ice/

In tonight's #ConnectionList to more richly connect the :fediverse:, I would like you to meet:

@kristinmbranson is a #science #researcher who is into #MachineLearning #ML #Neuroscience and #DEI 👋

@daniloneves is an #ecologist #botanist #researcher and is faculty at UFMG 👋

@profbeeman is Engineering Manager at gardens.dev 👋

@fionatribe is an #anthropologist who works as an #OrgDev consultant 👋

@dr_marcomeer is a computational #biophysicist in 🇨🇭 👋

Professor @KathAlbury is a #researcher #academic in #sexualities, #gender, #data and #DigitalCultures at #Swinburne 👋

@jeffpaul is Director of #OpenSource practice at 10up, and works with #WordPress. He likes #beer and #bourbon and runs #triathlons.

@MerlinJStar is involved in #DEI efforts and is interested in #mathematics and #psychology. They work in #interdisciplinary #intersectionality fields 👋

@kin is the Chief Evangelist for #Postman #DevRel #APIevangelist and loves #APIs. 200 :-) 👋

@bestqualitycrab needs no introduction and she is amazing, I love her work in #DigitalHumanities #Media #Culture. Has anyone seen a woman? (said Dave to Dave) #academic #professor #researcher 👋

That's all for tonight, don't forget to build your own #ConnectionList ❤️