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I already knew this story, and there’s nothing sad about it, but listening to it nonetheless nearly brought me to tears. There is an ineffable ethos I believe in as an engineer, and this is the closest I have come to seeing it expressed. cc: @corecursive
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We developed a new multivalent mRNA vaccine against all known influenza virus subtypes. Our study describing the vaccine was just published in @ScienceMagazine. 1/n
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This would be important enough, especially with older higher-risk VA cohort. Plus, those who get repeatedly infected and/or detected are obviously more frail than the undetected because milder/asymptomatic case.
8.3% of third infections are immunocompromised vs. 1.1% of first.
I'm going to keep lurking on here, but my tribe (mostly tech/maker folks) is making Mastodon a compelling place to hang out. If you're over there too, I'm @acj@mas.to 👋
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Very occasionally we get a front-row seat to the part of science where an educated observer looks at the data and says “That’s weird, and I’m dubious the conventional explanation works.” Everything starts from there.
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BREAKING: White House issues new policy that will require, by 2026, all federally-funded research results to be freely available to public without delay, ending longstanding ability of journals to paywall results for up to 1 year. Coverage coming on @ScienceInsider.
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Data visualization inspiration thanks to DALL-E: how Rothko, Basquiat, Picasso, and Monet would create an academic chart.
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A map of the entire universe to (log) scale, by @budassiuniverse. Spacecraft, planets, large-scale galactic structures - they are all there if you zoom in. pablocarlosbudassi.com/2021/…
Are there any good books about “natural experiments”?
For ex, in the Before Times we couldn’t tell how much city noise was coming from construction v. restaurants v. passenger vehicles. As things slowly spin back up after quarantine, we can kinda tell. How to find more examples?
Aha, apparently @99piorg was wondering about this too. ❤️
99percentinvisible.org/episo…
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"Mismanagement and grief:
We must suffer them all again"
September 1, 1939 poets.org/poem/september-1-1…
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A compelling case from @stevenbjohnson on reframing risk in a way people can more easily understand & assess by using a standardized unit of measure (the micromort!) and relating it to a familiar analogy buff.ly/3Hza3ph
Finally got around to putting my #nanowrimo book on the web. It was fun to reread after ~11 years. The spoken dialogue was the hardest part, and it shows, but whatever. Glad I did it.
acj.sh/escape-velocity-book
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And when you do ask, here's what they say: theatlantic.com/health/archi…
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#NASAWebb is fully deployed! 🎉
With the successful deployment & latching of our last mirror wing, that's:
50 major deployments, complete.
178 pins, released.
20+ years of work, realized.
Next to #UnfoldTheUniverse: traveling out to our orbital destination of Lagrange point 2!
ALT The James Webb Space Telescope's primary mirror during "center of curvature" mirror testing at NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center. The technician, on left, shines a flashlight at the mirror.
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Journalism has *no* idea how to cover science as process. Journalists want final, definitive answers when science constantly tests and retests questions, leading to more questions. Thus journalists skew the public perception of science, doing a great disservice.
