🔥Telegram İfşa

Unfortunately hospital admissions with covid are rising steeply again across England. No specific variant to blame (yet) but a combo of waning immunity, changing behaviour, and a soup of new more immune evasive variants growing (but not yet dominant). 1/2

Lets continue to share this information with all our people to know and be able to play their individual roles in the fight against Ebola. How Ebola spreads 👇

The data is clear: long Covid is devastating people’s lives and livelihoods | Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus theguardian.com/society/2022/o…

I'm recruiting Ph.D. students interested in "Implicit Machine Cognition" to study AI Ethics and Bias & Human-AI interaction in ML, NLP, Computer Vision, and Speech. Apply to @UW_iSchool & Allen School and join our UW NLP & HCI & Design at UW communities. Please share!

What are the #SARSCoV2 variants accounting for US cases? New CDC genomic surveillance update On the rise: Predominantly BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 (~17%), also BF.7 (7%), BA.2.75.2 On the decline: BA.5, BA.4.6 covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tra…

Please put your #Mastodon username in your #Twitter profile. Then people can use fedifinder.glitch.me to scan everyone they follow on Twitter to find you!

Who has used Mastodon, and how do you decide which server to join?

Help us out, #Mastodon twitter. We'll be setting up a mastodon account in the near future. What instance should we use? Ideally it would be an instance focused on higher education or quantitative reasoning (and it will have to accept a user name with the word "bullshit" in it.)

Lots to read about moving off academic science twitter this weekend.

Another take on the to-move/not-to-move for academics:

Should we get our own mastodon server for University of Washington? Do we have one already?

Looks like Twitter and Masto are both ad-free in my feed this morning.

OK, I'm starting a thread of paid bluecheck accounts that impersonate actual verified bluecheck accounts. May as well start with the account pretending to be Twitter itself to get access to crypto wallets. x.com/AGoldmund/stat…

This is what happened to typhoid when we started treating waterborne diseases as waterborne in Ontario. **Note log scale**, deaths mostly kids under 5. Imagine what we'd achieve if we treated airborne diseases as airborne? [Figure: the great Dr. Mary Ross, 1935]

NEW: Washington state’s projections for the current two-year budget cycle came in almost $762 million higher than expected. crosscut.com/politics/2022/…