Rumours are that 30 to 40% of #LongCovid patients who get the vaccine have reported improvements to their symptoms. https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/vaccines-long-covid
It seems Radboud UMC has the first Dutch professor of infectious disease outbreaks... #LongCovid
https://www.radboudumc.nl/en/news-items/2021/first-dutch-professor-of-infectious-disease-outbreaks
Tim olde Hartman received a ZonMW grant for studying persistent complaints after COVID-19. #LongCovid
The Radboud UMC has a long covid outpatient clinic: #LongCovid (in Dutch)
Funds needed to develop an accessible, lab-based method to diagnose microclots in LongCovid patients. #longcovid
#longcovid: Kell, Laubscher and Pretorius from Stellenbosch University in South Africa are discovering microclots as origins of long COVID.
Very interesting research: https://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~asenol/leaky-forms/
"Users' email addresses are exfiltrated to tracking, marketing and analytics domains before form submission and before giving consent"
-> yes, you read that right, before form submission.
This is an example of how the intransparency of the digital world leads to a huge #InformationAsymmetry between normal people and corporations.
Source: NOS
https://nos.nl/artikel/2428358-adverteerders-kijken-mee-als-je-online-je-e-mailadres-invult
The EU has joined the #fediverse by hosting Mastodon and PeerTube instances for EU institutions, offices, and agencies.
ActivityPub is a W3C standard that can redistribute power on the Web back to communities. Great to see public institutions leading.
EU having its own #fediverse instance makes sense. For the EU digital autonomy is important, independence from big platforms is essential. The shortest road to digital autonomy is to adopt open protocols, open standards and open source software. And lucky that the biggest open source initiatives are European 😇
https://social.network.europa.eu/explore
beabadoobee - see you soon
https://open.spotify.com/track/5W5N23Xz1Zk6Qi8wkP8UPM
New track on our Spotify playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2VcOkY7S1DsoTjPNm7yXEn?si=Cl0DDLywTfG-cErQSZ9fVg
#beabadoobee #great-britain #spotify #np
Welcome to all the new mathstodon.xyz users! @ColinTheMathmo and I are the admin here, and we're working on letting people in as fast as we can.
Moderation is not how I enjoy spending my time, so please try to be kind. We'll have your back if baddies appear.
This instance can render \(\LaTeX\) in the web interface. Don't make me regret that by, for example, posting your most cursed equations by way of an introduction.
Like, \[\cos^2(x) = \cos(\cos(x))\] or \[2+4 = 3!\]
There are still ways the deal could fall apart, but Twitter's board has agreed to sell the platform to Elon Musk. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/25/twitter-accepts-elon-musks-buyout-deal.html
Did you know there are centralized alternatives to the #Fediverse?
They are great!
Instead of being developed by volunteers for the community they are developed for millionaires with the sole purpose of getting them more money and influence over the "users".
They contain ads and algorithms, so you don't have to decide, what you want to see, but you get to see what makes you addicted, so you view more ads, buy more stuff and thereby support the capitalist system that we all love.
Instead of anonymity you get to enter your phone number and other form of identification, which totally helps against hate speech, right?
I could go on with advantages, but I think it's best you check them out for yourselves.
The fake artists problem on streaming platforms - https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/the-fake-artists-problem-is-much
Professor of Federated Search at Radboud University. Formerly known as @hiemstra