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Non conforming human. She/Her. Inattentive ADHD. 🍍 🌟 😷

#COVID19 isn't mild, and we should be trying to reduce reinfections.

“Participants who reported a previous COVID-19 infection were 9.7 times as likely to have rapid abdominal aortic aneurysm growth (higher growth than the average of 2.7 mm per year).”

https://newsroom.heart.org/news/abdominal-aortic-aneurysm-new-treatment-may-reduce-size-covid-infection-may-speed-growth

Abdominal aortic aneurysm: new treatment may reduce size; COVID infection may speed growth

Research Highlights Abdominal aortic aneurysm, a weakening and ballooning of the aorta, the largest blood vessel in the body, may result in a life-threatening rupture. In a small, preliminary study examining a potential treatment to keep small ...

American Heart Association
“Ignoring COVID” means ignoring equity. Unless governments actually acknowledge that they still need to do much more to mitigate the harms of COVID, millions of people who are higher risk or have Long COVID will never be able to “ignore COVID.” That’s a travesty.
Junkyard colony. 💕 #TNR #CommunityCats #AnimalRescue
Both The Hamburgler and Vladimir Putin show what happen when lax rules let unethical people take something that isn’t theirs.

A real fascinating story of how an 81-year-old former Air Force chap had come forward to announce he saw pulsars well before they were discovered but could not talk about it for half a century until the military instruments he observed them with were decommissioned and de-classified.

In a nutshell, he was using radar for a Ballistic Missile early warning system and noticed a pulsating signal showing up in his data, which was rising 4 mins earlier each day. He asked astronomers after writing down the location, and it was the Crab Pulsar!

The woman who discovered pulsars, Dame Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell - agreed with his discoveries.

https://www.nature.com/articles/448974a

Sent this to our team's slack channel overnight, and my supervisor told me he and another one of our team's astronomers were the folks that the Air Force chap got in touch with!

Small world, and a nice Aussie connection!

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/acp/article-abstract/983/1/642/620966/An-Independent-1967-Discovery-of-Pulsars?redirectedFrom=PDF

#Astrodon #RadioAstronomy #Pulsars #Defence #Science

Air force had early warning of pulsars - Nature

Staff sergeant spotted neutron star before astronomers.

Nature
Billionaires and oil barons can build up tolerance to guillotines. Here’s how.
He’s right you know. Listen to Rep. Schiff.
Elon Musk claims he’s a “free speech absolutist,” but is now using his attorneys to try to silence and threaten a non profit that tracks hate speech and violent extremism https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/31/technology/twitter-x-center-for-countering-digital-hate.html #twitter #elonmusk #twittermigration #tech #technology #technews #news #x
Twitter Threatens to Sue Center for Countering Digital Hate Over Research

The Center for Countering Digital Hate said it had received a letter from X, Twitter’s parent company, accusing it of trying to hurt the social platform with its research.

The New York Times
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