I want to write a paper on the weirdly large number of similarities between ME/CFS/long COVID and migraine. They keep stacking up: more likely in women, mitochondrial dysfunction(?), sensory sensitivity, pain, co-morbidity, etc...and now reduced vasopressin secretion?

Very nice work looking at directed higher-order interactions. I'm looking forward to see what applications are in the pipeline.

I’m seeing some “free market” simps defending Nature’s 12k open access fees. Guess it’s time to bring this back around.

Very cool work at the intersection of computer science, engineering, and complex systems. Take a look if any of those things spark joy.

New Best of Science Blogging post!

'How a Citizen Scientist will win the Nobel Prize' by SoS fellow Richard Sprague

Link below!

The public needs to know more about the organization pushing MDMA therapy and the host of issues and allegations around their research. It is important for the historical record even in the event of approval so that future patients are aware.

Hopeful claims w/o evidence: 'thanks to gained immunity reinfections pose minimal risk of #longCOVID '

Scientific evidence: studies that reported on reinfections & LC show that #longCOVID incidence follows (almost too well) the theoretical cumulative risk growth pattern.
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What is this strange feeling? Is it...hope that maybe Congress might do something good?

(If any of that $10b could be allocated to tinnitus, that would be cool and good).

This is a truly astonishing piece of scientific scholarship, especially when you consider what went into making it possible.

Scientist colleagues: give this a read and maybe get inspired? (If you do, shoot me a DM).

My talk at the Binghamton Center of Complex Systems (CoCo) seminar is now live if anyone wants to learn about what happens when we evolve for higher-order structures in complex systems.
(Spoilers: synergy makes things chaotic, but interesting, redundancy makes things stable, but boring).

This is one of the most egregious cases of ongoing medical abuse I've ever seen. It's astonishing to me that, no matter how many young women die from this, that UK doctors keep turning around saying: 'but THIS time it's definitely all in her head.'