I got a strange mole on my hand. Should I get it checked out? 🙃 #happymoleday #nationalchemistryweek2022 #avogadrosnumber

According to the U.S. Elections Project, more then 7,460,000 early votes have already been cast.

After all the mistruths about the vaccines and overpromises - the term immune escape may not fully sink in. People will likely believe it means they will get infected but not realize it means the vaccines do not prevent against severe illness like they do with other variants.

This is an excerpt from the original US Patent number 3005282 A, issued 61 years ago #Today, proposing a design for a "Toy building brick", from a company named LEGO. That brick became much more than a simple toy buff.ly/2W9C0gy

1/ Riddle me this: SARS-COV-2 may only be studied in a Biosafety Level 3 laboratory, but it's OK for your kids to contract it in day care and at school. How does this work? How stupid actually are we? Is there a limit to the lies we will tolerate? cdc.gov/coronavirus/20…

This sweater developed by the University of Maryland is an invisibility cloak against AI. It uses "adversarial patterns" to stop AI from recognizing the person wearing it.

BREAKING: catastrophic insect declines will drastically reduce the ability of humankind to build a sustainable future warn scientists 🧵

An incredibly useful paper that show how the quirks of the human visual system can change our interpretation of charts and graphs: journals.sagepub.com/stoken/default… I picked out a couple of particularly great summary diagrams, as well as the list of suggestions, in the images below 👇

My teen is in a group chat of 28 #Homecoming friends, & 26 have #influenza A. They are really sick. This attack rate is so much higher than usual for flu. Winter is going to be rough. #WashYourHands #WearAMask #GetBoosted #FluShot #HoCoMD HCPSS

«The B in Benoît B. Mandelbrot stands for Benoît B. Mandelbrot» #WednesdayWit [more math humor: buff.ly/3W0mceN]

An extreme but true statement: Every workplace needs to be revamped urgently to deal with our current reality—labor shortage, profound burnout, remote work, & repeated rounds of personal/family illness.Pretending like it’s 2018 now is dangerous & not working. #MedTwitter #Truth

10 must-know Japanese concepts that will improve your life:

Costume includes a book, a library card and a feisty attitude. 😉

Very excited to receive the book THE LONG COVID SURVIVAL GUIDE edited by @fi_lowenstein. This book has many great insights and ‘how-to’ tips from amazing patient experts and researchers, including Boo-trino Lab. Honored to contribute an afterword 🙏🏼 #MustRead #longcovid

Read these 3 pages. I post them every so often because I think it is some of the tightest, wisdom-packed writing on managing complex systems ever. And almost every system is a complex system today, which is why cascading failures are swirling around us. researchgate.net/publication/22…

Who even knows ??? Hello, please find the unroll here: threadreaderapp.com/thread/1590183… See you soon. 🤖

One of my Math History students sent me this

Big announcement— Yale University's FREE new happiness course for teenagers is finally here! The Science of Well-being for Teens is a 6-wk course on Coursera designed to give teens science-based strategies for reducing stress/feeling happier. Please RT & share: coursera.org/learn/the-scie…

Real life example of impact from COVID infection and why we need clean air Hannah Davis taught a grad course on generative music at NYU, works with machine learning, data sonification (auditory equivalent of data visualization), and more ( hannahishere.com/about-me/ ). 🧵1/

ICYMI, my latest poem was recently featured in SoFloPoJo and was inspired by my 14-year-old (who told me, thrillingly, that he loved this poem).