Entries from November 2020 ↓

• Twitter
  RT @Carina_Fish: Hi👋🏾 I’m Carina🐠, a 5th-yr PhD Candidate
  @bodegamarinelab, marine biogeochemist & (paleo)ceanographer. I study 1) coastal ocean change: OA & marine heatwaves, 2) deep-sea corals for the stories they hold of past oceanographic change. #BIMSRollCall #BlackinMarineScienceWeek
• Twitter
  RT @niasymwalker: Hi all! My name is Nia Walker and I’m a Biology PhD candidate @Stanford. I’m investigating links between coral thermal resistance and recovery. Happy to be part of #BIMSRollCall and to see #BlackInMarineScience excellence celebrated during #BlackinMarineScienceWeek (and beyond).
• Best sci-fi books of the year 2020 | Culture | The Times
• Could My Symptoms Be Covid-19? – The New York Times
• Untitled (https://www.valleycentral.com/news/local-news/digital-exclusive-covid-19-claims-life-of-27-year-old-nurse-family-mourns-loss/)
  RT @FacesOfCOVID: BRITTANY PALOMO, 27 of Raymondville, Texas died of COVID on Nov. 21.

  She worked as an ER nurse, starting her career just two months before the pandemic began.

• Twitter
  RT @Kolie_Yola: Hello world! I’m Kolisa Sinyanya, a PhD candidate in Ocean Biogeochemistry @UCT_news, South Africa. With the use of nitrogen isotopes I explore biogeochemical cycling in the Agulhas Current. I’m an inaugural fellow at the prestigious fellowship, @OceanWomxn. 💙🌊😎🇿🇦#BIMSRollCall
• Twitter
  RT @casscraze: Hi!! I’m Casandra and I’m a postdoc at UNCC studying cnidarian symbiosis in the upside down jellyfish Cassiopea (I’m also learning Aiptasia as a model system). I also studied Cassiopea for my PhD! Nice to see you all! ❤ #BIMSRollCall #BlackInMarineScience
• Hawaii seeks to be seen as a remote workplace with a view
• Twitter
  RT @rabihalameddine: Kim English (b. 1957). Sunday Morning, Oaxaca.
• Twitter
  RT @wonderofscience: An impact crater, roughly 1.5 km wide, on the surface of Mars, captured by the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter 257 km above the planets surface.

  Credit: NASA/JPL/UArizona

• AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology | DeepMind
• The African Crested Rat Covers Itself With Poison That Can Take Out an Elephant – The New York Times
  The African crested rat gnaws on poisonous tree branches, then grooms its noxious spittle into its fur.
• (500) https://ow.ly/nhxn30rlTNo
  RT @MacqDictionary: The Macquarie Dictionary 2020 Word of the Year is #doomscrolling. What do you think? You can vote for the People’s Choice Word of the Year right now. And stay tuned for our COVID Word of the Year!
• Twitter
  RT @MacqDictionary: The Macquarie Dictionary 2020 Word of the Year is #doomscrolling. What do you think? You can vote for the People’s Choice Word of the Year right now. And stay tuned for our COVID Word of the Year!
• Twitter
  RT @pkedrosky: William Shirer:
• Twitter
  RT @dakami: Alright who taught Hallmark about Generative Adversarial Networks

  #xmasgan

• Twitter
  RT @kissane: Almost December. We still haven’t fixed testing. This is so shameful.
• Twitter
  RT @GaryHershorn: The moon rises behind people standing on the Edge, the outdoor observation deck at Hudson Yards in New York City, Saturday evening #newyork #newyorkcity #nyc @_HudsonYardsNYC @EdgeNYC #moon @agreatbigcity
• Covid vaccine technology pioneer: 'I never doubted it would work' | Medical research | The Guardian
• Unaltered states – Jan Morris died on November 20th | Obituary | The Economist
• Twitter
  RT @PolarToffee: I think I found my favourite "malware" whilst searching for ransomware; it moves your files off your desktop elsewhere and adds many copies of a photo of a cat wearing a mask.

  If you say yes it will remove the cats and restore your files after having to "go for dinner"😂

• Revealed: Trump officials rush to mine desert haven native tribes consider holy | Environment | The Guardian
  RT @GuardianUS: Revealed: Trump officials rush to mine desert haven native tribes consider holy
• Twitter
  RT @williams_paige: “Some debtors who have been arrested owed as little as $28.” Stunning @lizziepresser piece:

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• Twitter
  RT @biannagolodryga: This description of Joe McCarthy in Fredrik Logevall’s JFK biography, when you take out the name McCarthy, is just…wow.
• Leafblower Legislation: The WaPo and the Current Weigh In – The Atlantic
  RT @isaach: today I learned that running a leafblower for 30 minutes creates more emissions than driving a ford f-150 for 3,800 miles
• Twitter
  RT @DanPriceSeattle: Jeff Bezos could give $148,000 to each of his 500,000 warehouse workers and still be richer than he was before the pandemic.

  The bonus they will receive is 0.2% of that.

• Intellectual humility: the importance of knowing you might be wrong – Vox
• Twitter
  RT @ASFleischman: I have seen some fact checks in my time but
• About the Apple Card (JHH)
• Twitter
  RT @biannagolodryga: .@Kasparov63 on why Putin hasn’t congratulated Biden yet:
  “I have bad news for you: I think it’s a very ominous sign….His silence says he expects Trump to continue working for his interests by destroying America’s democratic institutions.”
• The young die as well from COVID-19, even as many engage in denial
  RT @T_Inglesby: The myth that COVID is only a disease of older people. "The majority of patients in our intensive care unit currently are below 60. There are three patients in their 20s."
• Twitter
  RT @undertheraedar: Here’s the final version of the global population density graphic I made, because another one that is circulating was less well defined, and someone cropped NZ off it
• Twitter
  RT @SolNataMD: This is @CDCgov data of 14 day average covid death/100k. 1 – NCHS urban/rural classification (2003), 2 – metro vs non-metro. Early in the pandemic large hospitals were affected (mainly NY), now their deaths are down but deaths in rural/micropolitan/small metro hospitals are up
• Twitter
  RT @EricTopol: We’ve blown through the line of support.
  ~90,000 covid patients in the hospital.
  Not just beds. Not enough nurses, physicians, respiratory therapists and healthcare professionals to cope.
  To provide care.
  @COVID19Tracking
• Kitten Academy Live Stream – YouTube
• Twitter
  RT @marynmck: Arizona “risks a catastrophe on the scale of the worst natural disaster the state has ever experienced."
• Twitter
  RT @kari_jerge: This is what happens when we don’t listen to scientists.
• Twitter
  RT @SteveJoffe: By my calculations, approximately 1 in every 590 (233,241/137,390,000) Americans age 45 and above has died of COVID19–a figure that gets worse every day.
• LMPD Explorer sex scandal: Police lied to conceal records from public
  RT @robferdman: Absolute bombshell of a report from The Courier Journal: LMPD hid almost 750,000 records documenting the sexual abuse of minors by Louisville police officers, and then lied to keep the files from the public
• Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear
• Twitter
  RT @carlquintanilla: A new UCLA/Harvard working paper finds that a broad, federally funded program to test asymptomatic Americans — every 4, 7, 14 or 30 days — would generate more than enough GDP growth to offset the cost.

  (h/t @jeffbaileychgo @uclaanderson @nberpubs)

• Comprehensive COVID-19 Screening Would Pay for Itself Many Times Over – UCLA Anderson Review
  RT @carlquintanilla: A new UCLA/Harvard working paper finds that a broad, federally funded program to test asymptomatic Americans — every 4, 7, 14 or 30 days — would generate more than enough GDP growth to offset the cost.

  (h/t @jeffbaileychgo @uclaanderson @nberpubs)

• Twitter
  RT @annajanejoyner: Well, we’ve already hit all 5 on climate so id say it’s safe to say: yes, it will. The question is: what now?
• Twitter
  RT @DavidCornDC: Trumpists are paving a path to authoritarianism. They won’t reach it this month. But the bricks they’re laying ain’t going away.
• USWNT wore 'Black Lives Matter' on uniforms in statement to 'affirm human decency' – CNN
  RT @CNN: "We wear Black Lives Matter to affirm human decency," members of the United States women’s national soccer team said in a statement.
• Twitter
  RT @audubonsociety: Both the threatened Red Knot and drugmakers racing for a COVID-19 vaccine depend on the horseshoe crabs of Delaware Bay—making conservationists worried. A synthetic replacement for the crab blood already exists, but the U.S. is stuck in the past.
• Opinion | Happiness Won’t Save You – The New York Times
  RT @mkonnikova: "At the age of 38,Philip Brickman made his way onto the roof of Tower Plaza, the tallest building in Ann Arbor,& jumped. It was a 26-story fall. The man who’d done one of psychology’s foundational studies about happiness couldn’t make his own pain go away"
• Untitled (https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-55109092)
  RT @LotteLeicht1: There’s going to be a gap of several years in our ability to measure the thickness of ice at the top & bottom of the world, scientists warn.

  The only two satellites dedicated to observing the poles are almost certain to die before replacements are flown.

• New Documentary Explores "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" – InsideHook
• Voting Trump Out Is Not Enough | The New Yorker
• You Need to Opt Out of Amazon Sidewalk
• Twitter
  RT @normative: This is a witless PR stunt with zero chance of success, but nobody who participates should ever hold elective office again.

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• The Best Music of 2020 | The New Yorker
• Twitter
  RT @zachwhalen: Here’s the current state of the panel generator doing a latent walk.
• GAN — StyleGAN & StyleGAN2. Do you know your style? Most GAN models… | by Jonathan Hui | Medium
• StyleGAN2 – Colab – This Comic Does Not Exist · Issue #55 · NaNoGenMo/2020 · GitHub
• Twitter
  RT @juliaioffe: The cherry trees in DC are both shedding their leaves and blooming.
• Twitter
  RT @juliaioffe: The cherry trees in DC are both shedding their leaves and blooming.
• Twitter
  RT @CBSNews: Thousands of cars lined up to collect food in Dallas, Texas, over the weekend, stretching as far as the eye can see.
• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/opinion/covid-medical-debt-church-charity.html?smid=tw-share)
  RT @AnandWrites: “It is unfortunate that in the United States — a country so rich, so suffuse with every possible luxury — so many people receive justice only in the form of charity, and only after they have lost so much.”

  By @ebruenig.

• Twitter
  RT @kate_ptrv: I couldn’t just walk past this Tweet, so here is some fun #dataviz

  Scented candles: An unexpected victim of the COVID-19 pandemic 1/n

• Twitter
  RT @kate_ptrv: I couldn’t just walk past this Tweet, so here is some fun #dataviz

  Scented candles: An unexpected victim of the COVID-19 pandemic 1/n

• Twitter
  RT @FredTJoseph: It’s deeply disrespectful and privileged to be asking people to forgive Trump supporters.

  It’s disgusting and alienates everyone whose lives have been impacted or lost because of MAGA.

  A Trump flag for the rest of us is not a political statement it’s a sign of mortal danger.

• Twitter
  RT @bradheath: The Third Cir. has rejected Trump’s appeal. Decisively.

  "Free, fair elections are the lifeblood of our democracy. Charges of unfairness are serious. But calling an election unfair does not make it so. Charges require specific allegations and then proof. We have neither here."

• How Donald Trump and Conservative Catholics Formed a Far-Right Alliance | Vanity Fair
  RT @kathrynajoyce: If you’re feeling lost as to why a bunch of Catholics are furious at the pope for calling on people to practice solidarity and honor health care workers, here’s some background from my recent @VanityFair story:
• Twitter
  RT @soledadobrien: Whew. Can these people all please read Caste, then get back to me. [Many people, in fact, are not at all mystified by Trump’s base.]
• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/climate/epa-trump-biden.html)
  RT @JessePesta: Fascinating how quickly things can change:

  The EPA’s last-minute rush to deregulate things starts facing open opposition — from inside the agency itself.

  By @LFFriedman

• Twitter
  RT @typewriteralley: Spending some time this morning looking at this aerial photo from 1961 of lower Capitol Hill & Cascade neighborhood before I-5 forever separated them.
• Twitter
  RT @BeschlossDC: President Obama and his family volunteer before Thanksgiving 2011 at Capital Area Food Bank, Washington DC: #Souza
• The Inside Story of Michigan’s Fake Voter Fraud Scandal – POLITICO
• What's your favourite maths fact? : AskReddit
• The 10 Best Books Through Time – The New York Times
• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/26/us/montana-spanish-border-patrol.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes)
  RT @nytimes: Two women who were detained in Montana after a Border Patrol agent heard them speaking Spanish at a convenience store have settled for an undisclosed amount after filing a lawsuit against U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the ACLU of Montana said.
• Twitter
  RT @MechaDenny: You better watch out

  You better watch out

  You better watch out

  You better watch out

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  RT @thebetterindia: "Knowing camera settings is important. But more crucial is knowing how this cat will behave when ascending or descending a tree. More often than not, it will look in the final “V” before the jump", says Mithun H, who clicked these amazing shots.

  PC:

• Twitter
  RT @thebetterindia: "Knowing camera settings is important. But more crucial is knowing how this cat will behave when ascending or descending a tree. More often than not, it will look in the final “V” before the jump", says Mithun H, who clicked these amazing shots.

  PC:

• Twitter
  RT @peter_szilagyi: Remember the upstream #golang bug from 2 wooks ago that we said could take down the entire #Ethereum network? The same bug that could remotely crash SSH servers or code using RSA or x509 certs? A zero day in Go since forever?

  Myeah… lemme present you the fix! 🤯🤪🤓🙃

• Twitter
  RT @macfound: "Coded Bias" is a new film highlighting @AJLUnited and their work to show how machine learning algorithms reinforce societal inequities. 🤖🧠

  via @FastCompany

• 'Coded Bias' unpacks Big Tech's problem of biased algorithms
  RT @macfound: "Coded Bias" is a new film highlighting @AJLUnited and their work to show how machine learning algorithms reinforce societal inequities. 🤖🧠

  via @FastCompany

• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/26/health/dr-mary-fowkes-dead.html#click=https://t.co/21zcjF7xuy)
  RT @CTZebra: Dr. Mary Fowkes, 66yo Neuropathologist, Mt Sinai, NY, died 11/15. In Spring, only 4 pathologists were willing to risk their lives to autopsy covid pts; with protective equipment in short supply, she reused her n95 for a week at a time. #healthcareheroes
• Twitter
  RT @CTZebra: Dr. Mary Fowkes, 66yo Neuropathologist, Mt Sinai, NY, died 11/15. In Spring, only 4 pathologists were willing to risk their lives to autopsy covid pts; with protective equipment in short supply, she reused her n95 for a week at a time. #healthcareheroes

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• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/25/business/coronavirus-vaccine-astrazeneca-oxford.html?smid=tw-nytimesscience&smtyp=cur)
  RT @NYTScience: Since unveiling preliminary results, AstraZeneca has acknowledged a key mistake in the vaccine dosage received by some participants, adding to questions about whether the vaccine’s apparently spectacular efficacy will hold up under additional testing
• Twitter
  RT @tayhatmaker: who did this
• Twitter
  RT @thegallowboob: This rare phenomenon is called "Baikal Zen", where rocks lying on the surface of frozen lakes are heated by sunlight that emits infrared rays, melting the ice below. When the sun sets, the ice freezes again, creating these incredible frozen near-impossible structures.
• A Conversation With Ron Howard and J.D. Vance – The Dispatch
• Twitter
  RT @sahilkapur: The Pope publishes this op-ed in the New York Times, less than 24 hours after the 5-4 Supreme Court decision rejecting Covid restrictions on religious gatherings.
• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/26/opinion/pope-francis-covid.html)
  RT @sahilkapur: The Pope publishes this op-ed in the New York Times, less than 24 hours after the 5-4 Supreme Court decision rejecting Covid restrictions on religious gatherings.
• Twitter
  RT @cydharrell: this horror makes it fairly clear that a second term would have featured things like public executions. things are still very bad, but in winning the election, we’ve won some space to work toward better. I’m thankful today.
• Twitter
  RT @C_C_Krebs: I’m thankful for all of the below, and I’m also thankful for @mastersonmv. This guy’s a real American hero.
• Untitled (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-26/glow-in-the-dark-marsupials-surprise-scientists-biofluorescence/12910820)
  Not only platypuses, but wombats! "Biofluorescent Australian mammals and marsupials take scientists by surprise in accidental discovery"
• Twitter
  Not only platypuses, but wombats! "Biofluorescent Australian mammals and marsupials take scientists by surprise in accidental discovery"
• Twitter
  RT @nycsouthpaw: “We come to report a vast crime.”
• Untitled (https://www.prismreports.org/article/2020/11/24/home-care-workers-and-clients-are-in-an-impossible-position-during-the-pandemic/)
  RT @RepJayapal: People rely on domestic workers—who are overwhelmingly women—daily. But these heroes often go without health care, fair pay and workplace safety. COVID has made it worse.

  We must pass the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights that I wrote with @SenKamalaHarris.

• Twitter
  "Polgar — who became a grandmaster at age 15 in 1991, 30 years after Beth’s fictional rise — says her male competitors would disparage or mock her."
• Twitter
  RT @jamesewer: I had to pull over on the way to work to capture this yesterday.
• Twitter
  RT @nxthompson: The number of Americans who don’t have enough to eat is going up.
• Twitter
  RT @wolverinewilson: Remember that today is also a National Day of Mourning declared by native peoples in New England. And today Indians are falling ill and dying of Covid at much higher rates than others because inequity and poverty still kills. #Thanksgiving #NationalDayOfMourning
• Twitter
  RT @RottenInDenmark: Dark shit
• Twitter
  RT @CBHessick: I will be thinking of this every time I hear about President Trump pardoning another of his political allies.
• (500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/business/hunger-coronavirus-economy/
  RT @abhabhattarai: "No place has been spared. In one of the nation’s richest counties, not far from Trump National Golf Club in Virginia, Loudoun Hunger Relief provided food to a record 887 households in a single week recently. That’s three times the pre-pandemic normal."
• Add a Pacific Northwest touch to your Thanksgiving spread with this wild mushroom and Brussels sprouts casserole | The Seattle Times
• (500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/regeneron-treatment-rationing/2020/11/25/d3339d30-2f50-11eb-bae0-50bb17126614_story.html?tid=ss_tw
  RT @bylenasun: Trump, HUD sec Ben Carson, former NJ gov Chris Christie got these life-saving treatments. But they’re not likely to be within reach for regular folks. People don’t realize how inaccessible these drugs are.” @lauriemcginley2 @jdawsey1
• Twitter
  RT @ojblanchard1: A fascinating graph, showing the dynamics of the second wave in France.

  Things were fine in July, but the 20-29 year olds starting relaxing.

  Over time, they contaminated older generations until infection rates were high for all.

  How will the reverse movement proceed?

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• Twitter
  RT @baekdal: I live in a country (Denmark) where a ‘food bank line’ is simply not a thing. Instead, if you are unemployed, the government gives you what amounts to $22,200 per year to live for.

  So here in Denmark, people without a job just buy food like everyone else.

• Breaking out of the Malthusian trap: How pandemics allow us to understand why our ancestors lived in poverty – Our World in Data
• Twitter
  RT @UnvirtuousAbbey: 2020
• Untitled (https://www.doh.wa.gov/Newsroom/Articles/ID/2481/COVID-19-hospital-occupancy-is-soaring-in-Washington-state)
  RT @WADeptHealth: NEWS: We are seeing alarming increases in the number of #COVID19 patients in our hospitals and ICU beds. It is imperative that we ensure access to hospital care for anyone who needs it, whether they have COVID-19 or another illness or injury.
• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/25/us/politics/david-perdue-cardlytics.html?smid=tw-share)
  RT @ossoff: DEVELOPING: FBI investigation, Goldman Sachs records reveal Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) personally directed his own stock trades — contrary to the brazen lies he’s been telling for months.
• Patricia Lockwood · Diary: America is a baby · LRB 3 December 2020
• Types of Pens: How to Pick a Pen with the Right Ink | JetPens
• Twitter
  RT @jonoganz: "What should we call our matches?"
  "I dunno, something normal"
• Farhad Manjoo's New York Times Thanksgiving Column: What Epidemiologists Think | Elemental

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• Twitter
  RT @MattWoodworth8: Have you ever seen a medieval hedgehog? Here’s one of the 118 quatrefoil panels from the W façade of Amiens Cathedral, carved c. 1225. It depicts the ruins of Nineveh from Zephaniah 2:14: "Herds will lie down in her midst; even the owl and the hedgehog will roost on her lintels."
• Twitter
  RT @dwallacewells: A depressing perspective on the history of climate action (from @ClimateHuman).
• Donate to Feeding America – Feeding America
  RT @CiaoSamin: Hello! While you are planning your Thanksgiving menu, why don’t you take 5 mins to donate to your local food bank or @FeedingAmerica today? Things are really, really dire for more folks than ever before and even $5, $10, $20 can make a huge difference.
• New Research Confirms What We Eat Is Central to the Climate Crisis | Civil Eats
  RT @KariHamerschlag: New Research Confirms What We Eat Is Central to the Climate Crisis “if we continue eating the way we are (e .g. lots of meat), it will result in catastrophic climate change
• The 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century (So Far) – The New York Times
• Twitter
  RT @TipMahoney: Arlo Guthrie’s "Alice’s Restaurant" Thanksgiving classic germinated from this incident. Here, as reported out by the @BerkshireEagle newspaper:
• Twitter
  RT @markrendle: RT if you were part of that tiny 1993 bar.
• Twitter
  RT @Cleavon_MD: I want to live in a country where Colin Kaepernick is seen as a hero and Kyle Rittenhouse is seen as a terrorist.✊🏾
• Twitter
  "If we could watch what’s really going on in hospitals, there would be no more complacency."
• The impact of sexism on women's political behavior differs based on their ideology
  RT @amydiehl: Using 2 data sets, study shows that liberal women-when experiencing sexism-turn to political action, but conservative women do not. Possible reason: conservative women view sexist behavior as isolated incidents; liberal women see it as a systemic problem.
• Twitter
  RT @chrislhayes: This is flat out sabotage
• Google Cloud BrandVoice: How Anthos And Multi-Cloud Are Transforming Enterprise IT
• Measuring risk-taking – by watching people move computer mouses: Hand movements reveal conflict when making choices, study finds — ScienceDaily
• Dizzying Pics of Hong Kong's Massive High-Rise Neighborhoods | WIRED
• Testing for COVID-19 :: Washington State Department of Health
• Apple's security chief charged with bribery – BBC News
• Twitter
  RT @scottishlabour: Tonight, we have made history.

  Scotland will be the first country in the world to make access to free period products a legal right.

• Twitter
  RT @chick_in_kiev: how…. is there $455 billion unspent relief money someone smart explain this to me
• Twitter
  RT @AbbyCScience: So impressed with @EpiEllie’s ability to make this complex point clearly and succinctly
• (500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/biden-reaches-out-the-gop-slaps-him-in-the-face/2020/11/20/5111029e-2b76-11eb-92b7-6ef17b3fe3b4_story.html?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=wp_opinions&utm_source=twitter
  RT @JamilSmith: “Anyone advising Biden and members of his party to turn the other cheek and reach out to Republican congressional leaders as though none of this has happened,” writes @EJDionne, “is urging them down the path of political suicide.”
• Twitter
  RT @binarybits: According to the NYT, Facebook knows perfectly well how to slow the spread of misinformation on its platform. It has mostly chosen not to do so because the company is run by a sociopath.
• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/technology/facebook-election-misinformation.html)
  RT @binarybits: According to the NYT, Facebook knows perfectly well how to slow the spread of misinformation on its platform. It has mostly chosen not to do so because the company is run by a sociopath.
• Twitter
  RT @RBReich: Two things I would say if I was advising a Biden administration, one is pay no attention to Rahm Emanuel and two is pay no attention to Rahm Emanuel.
• Twitter
  RT @zeynep: The president spent last month telling people the election was rigged, the votes fraudulent, the count manipulated. The damage is real and we need better safeguards than just repeating there was no evidence of fraud. I wrote about basic & possible reforms.
• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/opinion/election-integrity.html)
  RT @zeynep: The president spent last month telling people the election was rigged, the votes fraudulent, the count manipulated. The damage is real and we need better safeguards than just repeating there was no evidence of fraud. I wrote about basic & possible reforms.
• Twitter
  RT @WangCecillia: Of all the truly evil things this administration has done, the rush to kill people in the waning days of this presidency fills me with such utter horror I literally feel my guts twisting and my hair standing on end.
• Twitter
  RT @NewsCHill: Please read this.
  Our society, even before COVID-19, was deeply dysfunctional. My only hope is that stories like these will finally put to bed the notion that there is a ‘normal’ to get back to.
• Untitled (https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/11/every-day-trump-repeatedly-emails-his-supporters-a-dangerous-message-democracy-doesnt-work/)
  RT @DavidCornDC: JUST POSTED: @realDonaldTrump & Co. have been pumping out emails to his supporters stating the election was stolen from him. This barrage of disinformation, which sows suspicion & paranoia, goes far beyond his tweets. Read my article on this & please RT.
• Twitter
  RT @benhammersley: Well that’s worth a hearing. Whoa.

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• Washington | The COVID Tracking Project
• Meet GPT-3. It Has Learned to Code (and Blog and Argue). – The New York Times
• AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 Vaccine: What You Need to Know – The New York Times
• The Charming Doodles Charles Darwin’s Children Left All Over the Manuscript of ‘On the Origin of Species’ – Brain Pickings
• Twitter
  RT @LloydLegalist: Never will get used to the beauty of a Canadian child being born.
• Why Won’t Emily Murphy Just Do Her Job? – The Atlantic
  RT @GrahamDavidA:
• Twitter
  RT @GrahamDavidA:
• How Venture Capitalists Are Deforming Capitalism | The New Yorker
  RT @NewYorker: .@cduhigg reports on the venture capitalists who let WeWork and its founder, Adam Neumann, essentially go unchecked in hope of a colossal payout.
• eliot peper: Reading Recommendations

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• Twitter
  "If this becomes the new norm after losing an election, there will not be many free and fair elections left in the American experiment."
• Twitter
  "Our problems will deepen, in particular, because Mr. Trump’s litigation strategy has led to the emergence of a voter-hostile jurisprudence in the federal courts."
• Airflow studies reveal strategies to reduce indoor transmission of COVID-19 | EurekAlert! Science News
  RT @EricTopol: Yelling, loud speech, singing worse than coughing and sneezing 😷😷
  "Micron-scale expiratory particles emitted …such as speaking or singing, increases dramatically w/ loudness, and can greatly exceed those generated by coughing."
• APS -73rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics
  – Event – Singing, Dust, and Airborne Disease Transmission
  RT @EricTopol: Yelling, loud speech, singing worse than coughing and sneezing 😷😷
  "Micron-scale expiratory particles emitted …such as speaking or singing, increases dramatically w/ loudness, and can greatly exceed those generated by coughing."
• Twitter
  RT @Atul_Gawande: Having a 3rd vaccine with such strong early results (incl 1 regimen w 90% efficacy) is stunning.

  AZ/Oxford vax:
  – Regimen 1 (1/2 dose then, 1 mo later, full dose): 90%
  – Regimen 2 (2 full doses): 62%
  – Refrigerator storage
  – Just $2.50 per dose

  Now let’s get thru winter alive

• Opinion | Your Brain Is Not for Thinking – The New York Times
• Most coronavirus cases are spread by people without symptoms, CDC now says – CNN
  RT @carlzimmer: Most coronavirus cases are spread by people without symptoms, CDC now says
• What Trump Showed Us About America – POLITICO
  RT @rodrikdani: What Trump showed him, says ⁦@FukuyamaFrancis⁩, that he doesn’t understand America after all. For me it’s the other way around. I didn’t understand America before, and now it feels familiar. I come from Turkey.
• 3rd major COVID-19 vaccine shown to be effective and cheaper
• Opinion | What Makes Trump’s Subversion Efforts So Alarming? His Collaborators – The New York Times
• Twitter
  RT @gillyarcht: ‘Open-face’ sneezers to be arrested
• Twitter
  RT @JakeMGrumbach: Smash the patriarchy with a universal welfare state 🔨
• NYC Dead Stay in Freezer Trucks Set Up During Spring Covid-19 Surge – WSJ
  RT @fanellijames: The bodies of hundreds who died in New York City during the spring Covid-19 surge are still being stored in freezer trucks on Brooklyn’s waterfront via @pdberger
• St. Louis Children's Hospital Is Now Seeing Adult Patients With COVID-19 | St. Louis Public Radio
  RT @FutureDocs: This is catastrophic. My Alma mater Wash U St Louis Missouri:

  Multiple patients in 1 ICU room. Pediatricians admitting adult #covid19 now

  “Barnes-Jewish ICU near capacity.” They take sick patients across Midwest including IL 😢

  Be a hero. Stay home.

• Twitter
  RT @ShabazzStuart: Nah, I’m good.
• Top hospitals charging patients up to 1,800% more for services than they actually cost: study | Salon.com
• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/20/opinion/the-argument-pramila-jayapal-kara-swisher.html)
  RT @RepJayapal: This isn’t the time for small ideas. It’s the time to deliver transformative change that makes a REAL impact in people’s lives. How? By implementing progressive policies that invest in health care, COVID relief, jobs that pay a living wage, and education.
• Politics, Science and the Remarkable Race for a Coronavirus Vaccine – The New York Times

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• Twitter
  RT @mandyekeroth: Please allow me to get this off my chest
• Twitter
  RT @MaxCRoser: The COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan.

  • The worst period of the outbreak was at the end of March. On a single day (May 31) three people died.
  • The other three victims died on March 21, April 12 and May 12.

  →

• Twitter
  RT @arusbridger: Some good news to cheer us all up. Fox News is now available in the UK!
• Twitter
  RT @BrettMmurphy: Email signature from an epidemiologist in Colorado
• Untitled (https://www.propublica.org/article/most-states-arent-ready-to-distribute-the-leading-covid-19-vaccine?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter)
  RT @propublica: Pfizer’s vaccine is unusually difficult to ship and store: It is administered in two doses given 28 days apart, has to be stored at temperatures of about minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit and will be delivered in dry ice-packed boxes holding 1,000-5,000 doses.
• Twitter
  RT @monicabyrne13: I think about this every time I read about an upcoming scifi flick where some feminine-gendered AI "gets out of control" and/or "must tragically die." Blegh. Come on.
• Stella Dadzie: 'Women resisted slavery at every stage of the journey' | Books | The Guardian
  RT @LeighanRenaud: "One of the key findings is that women resisted at every stage of the journey. That was my main aim – to show that they weren’t just passive victims."
  Stella Dadzie: ‘Women resisted slavery at every stage of the journey’
• Mask mandate in Kansas helped slow the spread of COVID-19, CDC research finds | TheHill
• The disinformation system that Trump unleashed will outlast him. Here’s what reality-based journalists must do about it. – The Washington Post
• 10 Future Cloud Computing Trends To Watch In 2021
• The Undying Voice of Diane di Prima | The New Yorker
• ‘Backward in time’: Israeli scientists claim to reverse ageing | Middle East | Al Jazeera

  Using hyperbaric oxygen treatments (HBOT) on ageing healthy adults, the researchers found the shortening of telomeres (chromosome ends) and the accumulation of old and malfunctioning cells in the body could be reversed.

• SpaceX’s ‘Resilience’ Lifts 4 Astronauts Into NASA's New Era of Spaceflight – The New York Times
• Coronavirus Antibodies Good. Machine-Made Molecules Better? – The New York Times
• Greater Equality Shouldn't Mean the End of Americans' Dreams.
• Twitter
  RT @ASlavitt: South Dakota vs Vermont: 2 small states w big differences
  -SD: heartless/headless— governor & Hosp ceo say masks are just symbols, no actions
  -VT: heart & head— found hotels for homeless, pay low income ppl to isolate
• Twitter
  RT @marceelias: 🚨BREAKING: Pennsylvania federal court DISMISSES Trump lawsuit WITH PREJUDICE.

  Case over.🥳

  Will post opinion shortly.

• Twitter
  RT @marceelias: 🚨BREAKING: Pennsylvania federal court DISMISSES Trump lawsuit WITH PREJUDICE.

  Case over.🥳

  Will post opinion shortly.

• Pennsylvania Democratic Counties Challenge | Democracy Docket
  RT @marceelias: 🚨BREAKING: Pennsylvania federal court DISMISSES Trump lawsuit WITH PREJUDICE.

  Case over.🥳

  Will post opinion shortly.

• As the coronavirus spreads in nursing homes, West Seattle facility reports a deadly outbreak | The Seattle Times
• San Francisco’s 1918 Spanish flu debacle: a crucial lesson for the coronavirus era – SFChronicle.com
  RT @KateGalbraith: I love history. On this day in 1918, San Franciscans sick of the "Spanish flu" tossed their masks into the streets, against the advice of public health officials. It wasn’t a good move. From @peterhartlaub:
• (500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2020/11/20/new-zealand-flight-covid/
  RT @AbraarKaran: A traveler who tested neg 48 hrs prior to flight was infectious by day of flight, pre-symptomatic; using genomic analysis, traced to 4 cases of in-flight transmission

  This doesn’t mean don’t get tested; it means *don’t travel unless an emergency* #covid19

• Twitter
  RT @WeatherProf: The Arctic is more than 12 degrees above normal. Repeat: the average for the entire Arctic is 12 degrees above what was normal in 1990. Would be even more extreme compared to pre-industrial.
• Isomaltulose – Wikipedia
• Twitter
  RT @GovInslee: This is why we took action. If things don’t change, our hospitals will be overwhelmed.

  If we can repeat the success we had in March, we will bend the curve, keep people out of the hospital and save lives.

• The Strange Friendships of Ursula K. Le Guin’s “T…
• Twitter
  surely the latter.
• From The New Yorker: The Coup Stage of Donald Trump’s Presidency
  To see this period more clearly, we can look to failed coup attempts of the past.
• Tea, Biscuits, and Empire: The Long Con of Britishness

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• 12 Million Workers Facing Jobless Benefit Cliff on December 26
  RT @brycecovert: 12 million workers face an abrupt cutoff of their unemployment benefits on December 26
• Twitter
  RT @JohnHolbein1: Female academics are *much* more affected by the birth of a child than are male academics.

  Academic mothers are much more likely to…

  ◾temporarily leave the labor force
  ◾and, if they return, shift away from tenure-track positions.

• (500) https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/sdcheng/files/sdcheng_jmp.pdf
  RT @JohnHolbein1: Female academics are *much* more affected by the birth of a child than are male academics.

  Academic mothers are much more likely to…

  ◾temporarily leave the labor force
  ◾and, if they return, shift away from tenure-track positions.

• Twitter
  RT @DL_Blackburn: Kalief Browder’s family was not allowed to post his bail so he spent 3 years in Rikers Island for allegedly stealing a backpack.

  There are Two Americas.

• Dr. Duchin: "The Risk of Acquiring COVID-19 Is Higher Now Than It Has Ever Been Locally" – Slog – The Stranger
  RT @richsssmith: Duchin is starting to sound more metal during his conferences on the virus: "We don’t have to follow the pathway to pain that so many other communities are experiencing…."
• Twitter
  RT @JakeKurtzer:
• How Trump Could Wreak Havoc Before Inauguration Day – The Atlantic
• Why We're Building Observable / Observable / Observable
• Covid-19 cases in Vermont: Here’s what the state did to help the vulnerable – Vox
• Untitled (https://crosscut.com/opinion/2020/11/i-lost-my-mom-covid-19-dont-let-holidays-steal-yours)
  RT @emjmccarty: Last week, my mom went into the ER with dangerously low oxygen levels. Five days later, she died.

  I wrote about it, in honor of her life, and in hopes that you would honor your own families’ lives. Don’t go home for the holidays.

• Twitter
  RT @thehowie: This is the least understood issue right now. There is no slack in travelling nurses, perfusionists, intensivists available for locums, and even cleaning staff, etc.

  We have experienced surges in many regions before. Never all at once.

• Twitter
  RT @Public_Citizen: .@AOC: Our country is going hungry and the week before Thanksgiving the Senate broke. I don’t care what party you are. It is an abandonment of responsibilities as elected officials who are charged with acting in the public trust.
• Twitter
  RT @JInterlandi: Of the many things I want you to understand, this is the thing I most want you to understand right now.
• Twitter
  RT @GovInslee: Washingtonians across the state are hurting due to COVID-19.

  Today, we’re announcing $135 million in financial support to help families, businesses and workers get by.

• Twitter
  RT @GlennF: Testing has also tightened up. In Seattle, they have been explicitly asking people to not test asymptomatically without exposure and *especially* DO NOT TEST FOR TRAVEL, because you SHOULD NOT BE TRAVELING.
• Twitter
  RT @MelforProgress: Kalief Browder spent 3 years in Rikers over a backpack he didn’t steal.
• Twitter
  RT @markmackinnon: "’I’m going to heaven,’ the blonde model tweeted after an eagle-eyed fan snapped a screenshot of the ‘like’…. Francis has 7.4 million Instagram followers, but does not follow any other profiles and does not appear to have ‘liked’ anything else."
• The COVID Tracking Project | The COVID Tracking Project
• Elena Ferrante names her 40 favourite books by female authors | Elena Ferrante | The Guardian
  RT @GuardianAus: Elena Ferrante names her 40 favourite books by female authors
• Elena Ferrante names her 40 favourite books by female authors | Elena Ferrante | The Guardian
• Nurses Say Their Midwest Hospitals Are About To Collapse
• Signs of Recent Volcanic Eruption on Mars Hint at Habitats for Life – The New York Times
• A Dolphin With Her Baby Is Followed Closely By A Whale With Her Baby (reddit) GI… | Gfycat
• Twitter
  RT @tmprowell: Stop. In normal times, this would be above the fold on the front page of every US newspaper & the top story on the nightly news. We’ve gotten ourself to a place where a lot of people will scroll past this, or worse. Pause a minute to reflect on where we are & how we got here.
• Twitter
  RT @nycsouthpaw: Murphy is "looking for cues from the White House" and also she has been given orders by the White House to prevent a Biden transition, the same anonymous source is permitted to say in this WaPo article within the space of three paragraphs.
• Untitled (https://medium.com/indica/i-lived-through-a-coup-america-is-having-one-now-437934b1dac3)
  I Lived Through A Stupid Coup. America Is Having One Now | by Indi Samarajiva
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle: One Month of "The Queen's Gambit" – Los Angeles Review of Books
• Twitter
  RT @BobMooreNews: Posting without comment because I just can’t.

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