Mastodawn

Dr Pieter Peach May 27

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]May 27

For those of you unable to join us live, here's the moment!

#BigBoatStuck #BigBoatUnstuck

Dr Pieter Peach May 22

Greenpeace International May 22

More than 40% of insect species have declined in just a decade. They’re vanishing 8 times faster than mammals, birds or reptiles.

If insects go, so do the ecosystems that keep us alive.

Biodiversity is our life-support system — we can’t afford to let it collapse.

#WorldBiodiversityDay

Dr Pieter Peach May 21

Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him)May 20

Roll-out of RSV vaccine and antibody treatment leads to massive drop in US hospitalisations
https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/roll-out-rsv-vaccine-and-antibody-treatment-leads-massive-drop-us-hospitalisations

Roll-out of RSV vaccine and antibody treatment leads to massive drop in US hospitalisations

Data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests that the roll-out of preventive approaches has had an immediate impact on RSV rates.

Dr Pieter Peach May 9

Anaesthesia

Mar 24

This study found that in patients with measured peri-op renal parameters, for every 100 elective major non-cardiac surgery procedures, postoperative AKI could be expected to happen in a minimum of four and a maximum of 15 cases.

#anaesthesia #surgery #renal #medicine

https://doi.org/10.1111/anae.16568

Dr Pieter Peach May 8

Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him)May 8

Such a fragile thing is democracy
Reversed at the drop of a hat.
Vote in a flagrant kleptocracy
And you're back where you started at.

Dr Pieter Peach May 5

“The replies to her story were full of similar anecdotes about loved ones suddenly falling down rabbit holes of spiritual mania, supernatural delusion, and arcane prophecy — all of it fueled by AI.“

#LLM

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/

People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies

Marriages and families are falling apart as people are sucked into fantasy worlds of spiritual prophecy by AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT

Rolling Stone

Dr Pieter Peach May 3

Happy day in Australia
#ausvotes #auspol

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-04/election-result-map-how-labor-won/105208988

How Labor carved a path to landslide victory

Australian voters have delivered Anthony Albanese "a win for the ages" that should see Labor with more seats than at any point in its history.

ABC News

Dr Pieter Peach Apr 28

Would love Apple intelligence to allow me to block unblockable text messages from political parties unscrupulously mass spamming us all.
Still perplexed that this is not legislated against.
#auspol #ausvotes

Dr Pieter Peach Apr 15

Wait. HOW MANY supernova explode every year?

https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/ban-447-wait-how-many-supernova-explode

#astronomy