Doctors tested a common drug on COVID. The results are stunning.

A new international study led by the Australian National University (ANU) and King’s College London found inhaled heparin, a cheap and widely available drug, halved the need for ventilation and lowered death risk in nearly 500 hospitalised COVID patients across 6 nations.

ANU's Professor van Haren, said: "Inhaled heparin is anti-viral, anti-inflammatory and anti-coagulant. There's no other drug that has that unique combination."

Source: https://archive.md/Uifo9

Study: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(25)00271-8/fulltext

The very lovely Star, with the Best Stick Ever @jeffsiver

#sillySpookyHatting

This is where Spock mind melded with whales (in Star Trek IV)

#Monterey #StarTrek

I'm so appreciative and honestly a little overwhelmed by the support that has come flooding in since the public announcement of my lab closure this week.

This work means more to me than I can say, and I intend to keep building amazing and ambitious developer science, because our software teams deserve it.

Right now you can help me by continuing to share my research work, news and posts; science survives as long as it's shared.

https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/114467137194485351

In case you're feeling mildly upset by the state of the world, here's a weird dog playing with a rubber chicken. [Sound on!]

#IknowItsADonkey #donkey #humor #humour #cute #dog #dogs #asstodon

#ILwx #LOT #Chicago
[5:58 AM CDT Thursday 3/27/2025]

A strong warm front will lift north tonight into Friday morning, accompanied by showers and scattered thunderstorms. The strongest thunderstorms may produce hail. In addition, heavy downpours may cause ponding on some roads. Stay tuned for updates today on our latest thinking regarding the thunderstorm forecast into Friday morning!

One of the things that is more prevalent on the Fediverse than other places is nostalgia; this has positive sides, like folks enjoying things like old computers and old cameras, but I feel like people ignore, wilfully or not, its negative sides.

Nostalgia is what drives the hunkering for 'the fedi that was'; an idealised image of a smaller, even whiter network that is just for the people in the know.

Nostalgia is what makes people look back instead of forward at a time when looking forward is desperately needed.

If nostalgia brings resentment, beware. You are on its slippery slope, sliding backwards into a past that never was.

Here's my logic:
A) Soviet totalitarianism was the best ever, having 75 years to perfect.
B) And yet, the USSR collapsed.
C) Union unrest in Poland is what applied the pressure.
D) Under that pressure, the Polish govt legalized unions.
E) Solidarity, the big new Polish union, began the flood of dissent.
F) Political infighting in the USSR broke out; there was a coup attempt.
G) The walls came down.
H) American totalitarianism is new, divided, and stupid.
I) American unions are already legal.
J) The tool for applying pressure is already here.
K) This should be easy, right?
L) The broligarchs are just itching to 25th amendment trump and install president Musk-Thiel-Puppetboy-Vance.
M) It can't be more than a few weeks before the broligarchs get frustrated and declare martial law (or marshall law).
N) I have lots more faith in the military's loyalty to the constitution than that of any maga or oligarch.
O) The military declines to participate.
P) Out of the chaos, progressive voices emerge, kick the Democratic gerontocracy to the kerb, articulate a positive vision of a liberal social democracy, the people rally to a platform that isn't just "us v them".
Q) America is pulled back from the brink by progressive voices.

Crazier things have happened.