Mastodawn

Martin Paul Eve 1d ago

Subjacent Banana 1d ago

Probably the single clearest, most important recent paper on Covid.

Hits all the main points abt Covid:

Immune dysregulation
Immune exhaustion/aging
Cancer
Brain damage

https://bird.makeup/users/polybiorf/statuses/1913717179113259179

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.16.25325949v1

PolyBio

BREAKING: PolyBio-supported study reveals long-term immune and metabolic damage after COVID-19 infection New preprint study reveals profound & long-lasting biological disruptions that can follow a SARS-CoV-2 infection, i.e. changes connected to altered metabolism & cancer-associated epigenetic changes https://polybio.org/polybio-supported-study-reveals-long-term-immune-and-metabolic-damage-after-covid-19-infection/

Martin Paul Eve 5d ago

Show thread

Timothy Elfenbein 6d ago

So how might the success of Figshare (for both the company & its users) help us rethink possibilities that won't be giving over design or governance control to for-profits? Perhaps Knowledge Commons' recently announced KCWorks repository hosting service might provide an option. Given that they just had federal grants terminated, the question is whether they can offer a similar platform, w/ compatible affordances, at a similar cost to libraries.

https://mailchi.mp/449304745fa8/on-the-neh-and-our-path-forward?e=4ca20c8fd5

500: We've Run Into An Issue | Mailchimp

Martin Paul Eve 6d ago

On the NEH and Our Path Forward at Knowledge Commons

https://about.hcommons.org/2025/04/17/on-the-neh-and-our-path-forward/

Martin Paul Eve 6d ago

Work on new KC Profiles continues to advance. The chart is looking good in our colour scheme. Got it rendering responsively for mobile now, too 😁. The CiteProc rendering of citation styles is fairly snappy, too.

Martin Paul Eve Apr 15

Much to be done on the colour scheme, but today's tech work was graphing KC Works deposits on members' profiles.

Martin Paul Eve Apr 12

Yesterday and this morning I added full dynamic citation rendering using CSL to the in-dev, forthcoming Knowledge Commons Profiles app. It's working well!

Martin Paul Eve Apr 12

Tim Sherratt Apr 12

So now people I've helped use Trove in the past are contacting me because they've received a confusing email from Trove about their API keys and and worried that they've done something wrong and their research is in trouble.

Slow handclap NLA. Nice work.

Martin Paul Eve Apr 9

New forthcoming Thomas Pynchon novel!

"Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the PI business shifting from labor-management relations to the more domestic kind."

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/316427/untitled-6108-by-penguin-publishing-group/

Untitled 6108 by Thomas Pynchon: 9781594206108 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

The new novel from Thomas Pynchon Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the fed...

PenguinRandomhouse.com

Martin Paul Eve Apr 4

Had a horrific night reaction, for the first time, to a Covid booster jab. Was shivering uncontrollably. Woke up and rheumatoid arthritis was going crazy - horribly painful all over. Now I'm boiling hot and feel like I have been hit over the head.

Still better than a month in hospital with Covid.

Martin Paul Eve Apr 4

Mike Taylor 🦕Apr 4

The Royal Society is dead

A few months ago, Dorothy Bishop resigned her fellowship in the Royal Society in protest at Elon Musk's continuing fellowship. This was a highly principled stand. Eight weeks ago, Steven Curry wrote an open letter to the President of the Royal Society asking him to explain how Musk's activities and pronouncements can be considered compatible with the Society's code of conduct.

http://svpow.com/2025/04/04/the-royal-society-is-dead/

The Royal Society is dead

A few months ago, Dorothy Bishop resigned her fellowship in the Royal Society in protest at Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship. This was a highly principled stand. Eight weeks ago, Steven Curr…

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week