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Disaster Informatics after the COVID-19 Pandemic: Bibliometric and Topic Analysis based on Large-scale Academic Literature
Ngan Tran, Haihua Chen, Ana Cleveland, Yuhan Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16820

Disaster Informatics after the COVID-19 Pandemic: Bibliometric and Topic Analysis based on Large-scale Academic Literature
This study presents a comprehensive bibliometric and topic analysis of the disaster informatics literature published between January 2020 to September 2022. Leveraging a large-scale corpus and advanced techniques such as pre-trained language models and generative AI, we identify the most active countries, institutions, authors, collaboration networks, emergent topics, patterns among the most significant topics, and shifts in research priorities spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings hig…

It looks like we will have tax free books in Denmark soon (Hurray!), partly to try an encourage more reading (though our libraries are booming) after #PISA2022 showed alarming decline in reading ability. This was IIRC the case across the OECD, I haven't seen a very convincing explanation for the decline in maths, science and reading performance (which started way before COVID shutdowns).
Has anyone done any research to understand why?
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/europe/article/2025/08/20/denmark-to-end-book-tax-to-encourage-people-to-read_6744543_143.html

Star Wars Actor Kenneth Colley, Who Played Admiral Piett in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, Has Died Aged 87 After Contracting Covid and Developing Pneumonia - IGN
https://w…

Star Wars Actor Kenneth Colley, Who Played Admiral Piett in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, Has Died Aged 87 After Contracting Covid and Developing Pneumonia - IGN
Star Wars actor Kenneth Colley, who played Admiral Piett in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, has died aged 87 after contracting Covid and developing pneumonia.

A Georgia man who had blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for making him depressed and suicidal
has been identified as the shooterwho opened fire late Friday on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters, killing a police officer.
The 30-year-old suspect, who died during the incident,
had also tried to get into the CDC’s headquarters in Atlanta but was stopped by guards before driving to a pharmacy across the street and opening fire.
The man, identified a…

Union wants statement against COVID vaccine misinformation after CDC shooting
A Georgia man who had blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for making him depressed and suicidal has been identified as the shooter who opened fire late Friday on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters, killing a police officer. The 30-year-old suspect, who died during the incident, had also tried to get into the CDC’s headquarters in Atlanta but was stopped by guards before driving to a pharmacy across the street and opening fire, a law enforcement official told The Associat…

I continue to maintain that Biden was one of the worst presidents in my lifetime - mostly due to an accident of timing. If he had been president in 2016 or 2000, he obviously would've been a huge improvement over Trump or Cheney, respectively. Heck, even in 2008 or 2012 or 1996 he would've been.. fine.
But after covid, BLM, 4 years of Trump 1.0 abuses, & subsequent open insurrection by literal fascism, he was the wrong person for the job. He gave the fash 4 years to prep

The US holiday is a memory now, so time to check out today's Metacurity to get briefed on the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Italian cops arrest FBI-wanted Chinese hacker who tried to steal COVID-19 vaccine
--Brazilian cops bust IT worker connected to $100m banking systems hack,
--Call of Duty: WWII yanked offline after RCE rumors,
--OpenAI beefs up corporate spying protections,
--DragonForce battles RansomHub,
--Cambod…

Italian cops arrest FBI-wanted Chinese hacker who tried to steal the COVID-19 vaccine
Brazilian cops bust IT worker connected to $100m banking systems hack, Call of Duty: WWII yanked offline after RCE rumors, OpenAI beefs up corporate spying protections, DragonForce battles RansomHub, Cambodia accuses Thai hackers of attacks, Trump's tax bill contains cyber money, much more

📉 California's economy is already getting hit by immigration raids
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-07-30/people-reporting-to-work-in-private-sector-in-california-down-after-raids-report-sa…

California's economy is already getting hit by immigration raids
The number of people reporting to work in the private sector in California has decreased by 3.1% — a downturn only recently matched by the COVID-19 lockdown.

‘She’s sold out’: Meghan McCain accused of going ‘full grift’ after promoting COVID vaccine ‘detox’ | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/meghan-mccain-detox-covid-vaccine-reaction-b2764455.html

A Bayesian Dirichlet Auto-Regressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity Model for Compositional Time Series
Harrison Katz, Robert E. Weiss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14132

A Bayesian Dirichlet Auto-Regressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity Model for Compositional Time Series
We analyze daily Airbnb service-fee shares across eleven settlement currencies, a compositional series that shows bursts of volatility after shocks such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Standard Dirichlet time series models assume constant precision and therefore miss these episodes. We introduce B-DARMA-DARCH, a Bayesian Dirichlet autoregressive moving average model with a Dirichlet ARCH component, which lets the precision parameter follow an ARMA recursion. The specification preserves the Dirichlet …

Next-Gen Education: Enhancing AI for Microlearning
Suman Saha, Fatemeh Rahbari, Farhan Sadique, Sri Krishna Chaitanya Velamakanni, Mahfuza Farooque, William J. Rothwell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11704

Next-Gen Education: Enhancing AI for Microlearning
This paper explores integrating microlearning strategies into university curricula, particularly in computer science education, to counteract the decline in class attendance and engagement in US universities after COVID. As students increasingly opt for remote learning and recorded lectures, traditional educational approaches struggle to maintain engagement and effectiveness. Microlearning, which breaks complex subjects into manageable units, is proposed to address shorter attention spans and e…

Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos,
a pediatric infectious disease expert, was a co-leader of a working group on COVID-19 vaccines who advised experts on the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).
She informed her ACIP colleagues of her resignation in an email on Tuesday.
"My career in public health and vaccinology started with a deep-seated desire to help the most vulnerable members of our population,
and that is not something I am able to continue…

Top CDC COVID vaccine expert resigns after RFK Jr. unilaterally restricts access
The expert said she could no longer help vulnerable people in her CDC role.

Chinese national arrested in Milan after US issues arrest warrant for Hafnium attacks https://therecord.media/chinese-national-arrested-italy-hafnium-covid

The Journey of CodeLab: How University Hackathons Built a Community of Engaged Students
Renato Cordeiro Ferreira (University of S\~ao Paulo), Renata Santos Miranda (University of S\~ao Paulo), Alfredo Goldman (University of S\~ao Paulo)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12840

The Journey of CodeLab: How University Hackathons Built a Community of Engaged Students
This paper presents the journey of CodeLab: a student-organized initiative from the University of São Paulo that has grown thanks to university hackathons. It summarizes patterns, challenges, and lessons learned over 15 competitions organized by the group from 2015 to 2020. By describing these experiences, this report aims to help CodeLab to resume its events after the COVID-19 pandemic, and foster similar initiatives around the world.

Huh?
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/08/opm-orders-deletion-federal-workers-vaccination-records/407334/

OPM orders deletion of federal workers’ vaccination records
The announcement came hours after a formal dissolution of a lawsuit challenging the Biden-era requirement that federal employees be vaccinated against COVID-19, which hasn’t been enforced since 2023.

There was an older lady in the train sitting across from us who was literally opening up a bottle of cough syrup and chugging it. We were wearing masks, she was not.
Perfect timing for our visit: https://aus.social/@DenisCOVIDinfoguy/114628380231359490

Denis - The COVID info guy - (@DenisCOVIDinfoguy@aus.social)
Attached: 1 image 🇬🇧 UK: Doctors call for return of face masks after new COVID strain reaches UK. In the UK, cases of the new COVID variant NB.1.8.1 have been reported. WHO is monitoring due to its rapid spread and possible resistance to prior infection or vaccination. Source: https://archive.md/DTVHw @auscovid19@a.gup.pe

Days after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that Covid shots would be removed from the federal immunization schedule for children,
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued updated advice that largely countered Mr. Kennedy’s new policy.
The agency kept Covid shots on the schedule for healthy children 6 months to 17 years old, -- but added a new condition.
Children and their caregivers will be able to get the vaccines in consultation with a doctor…

CDC Issues New Advice on Covid Vaccines for Children That Contradicted RFK Jr.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Tuesday that the vaccine would no longer appear on the childhood immunization schedule. C.D.C.’s update counters his policy.

The Bones and Shapes of the Phillips Curve
Hanyuan Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14030 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.14030

The Bones and Shapes of the Phillips Curve
The COVID-19 pandemic reignited debate on the U.S. Phillips curve. Using MSA-level panel data (2001-2024), we employ a Two-Stage Least Squares (2SLS) instrumental variable strategy with a shift-share instrument to estimate core non-tradable inflation's response to a v/u-based slack measure. We distinguish structural slope stability from state-dependent non-linearities via a threshold model. Our analysis addresses whether the slope of the Phillips Curve changed during and after the Pandemic in t…

Replaced article(s) found for physics.soc-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.soc-ph/new
[1/1]:
Sustained changes to urban mobility after COVID-19 amplified socio-economic inequalities in Latin...

Uncovering Synergistic Educational Injustices of COVID-19 and AI
Ahmad Banyasady (Malayer university)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03095 https://

Uncovering Synergistic Educational Injustices of COVID-19 and AI
Grounded in critical realism and using narrative inquiry, this article explores this article explores the long-term consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and the rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence within higher education. Through the analysis of student narratives collected in Iranian university settings, the study reveals that learning experiences during and after the pandemic, coupled with unprepared exposure to AI tools, have generated hidden yet impactful layers of educational i…

Julia Doubleday on the gamble that covid would be harmless to children
"It’s worth noting that at the time Kulldorff and the rest of the GBD crew were proclaiming COVID’s harmlessness to kids, they couldn’t possibly have had enough information to determine the veracity of their own claims. Viruses like the chickenpox, EBV, HIV, HPV, and HSV often present with mild initial infections but may cause major damage years later. We now know COVID can as well.
"For so-called experts to run with an assumption that an initially mild-presenting acute infection would be long-term harmless was just that; an assumption. They were willing to gamble the health of a generation of children on a guess in order to go “back to normal” because that’s what the oligarchy clamored for. Because it costs money to shut the world economy down. Because people who mattered were angry. Because children aren’t people who matter."
(GBD = Great Barrington Declaration, a bit of 2020 propaganda including the unfounded supposition that everyone who caught covid would be immune forever after)
Overall another excellent pointy article!
#children #covid #LongCovid #CovidIsntOver #GreatBarringtonDeclaration #misinformation

Researchers have discovered a breakthrough link between
organ failure and long Covid
after overcoming contentious Covid-era autopsy regulations
and one of the medical profession’s most high-profile legal disputes.
https://archive.md/TrZ32

Eine führende #CDC-Expertin für #COVID19-#Impfstoffe ist zurückgetreten, nachdem US-#Gesundheitsminister

Top CDC COVID vaccine expert resigns after RFK Jr. unilaterally restricts access
The expert said she could no longer help vulnerable people in her CDC role.

Slomads Rising: Stay Length Shifts in Digital Nomad Travel, United States 2019-2024
Harrison Katz, Erica Savage
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21298 https://ar…

Slomads Rising: Stay Length Shifts in Digital Nomad Travel, United States 2019-2024
Using every U.S. Airbnb reservation created from 1 January 2019 through 31 December 2024, weighted by nights booked, we document a lasting shift toward longer stays after the COVID 19 shock. Mean nights per booking rose from 3.7 before the pandemic to a stable 4.1 to 4.4 after 2021; the median increased from two to three nights and the weighted standard deviation nearly doubled to seven nights, indicating a heavier tail. Negative binomial regression shows that, relative to the restriction perio…

Remote Work and Women's Labor Supply: The New Gender Division at Home
Isabella Di Filippo, Bruno Escobar, Juan Facal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08184 https://

Remote Work and Women's Labor Supply: The New Gender Division at Home
We study how increases in remote work opportunities for men affect their spouses' labor supply. Exploiting variation in the change in work-from-home (WFH) exposure across occupations before and after the COVID-19 pandemic, we find that women whose husbands experienced larger WFH increases are over 2 percentage points more likely to be employed, equivalent to a 4% rise relative to pre-pandemic levels. Evidence from time-use diaries and childcare questionnaires suggests these effects are driven b…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.01076 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbi…

Duration of Transients in Outbreaks: When can Infectiousness be Estimated?
We investigate sub-leading orders of the classic SEIR-model using contact matrices from modeling of the Omicron and Delta variants of COVID-19 in Denmark. The goal of this is to illustrate when the growth rate, and by extension the infection transmission potential (basic or initial reproduction number), can be estimated in a new outbreak, e.g. after introduction of a new variant of a virus. In particular, we look at the time scale on which this happens in a realistic outbreak to guide future da…

Leigh Sparks has returned to her studio in Carpenteria California after leaving for several reasons, including a cancer diagnosis, the Covid-19 pandemic and the birth of her grandchildren. 
“I’m just getting started and I want to show other women that they can do the same,” Sparks told CVN. 
Now, Sparks has elected to share her space with several other artists,
who all pitch in to pay for the cost of the space and work in the gallery throughout the week. 
Other artist…

Unraveling Global Threads: Pandemic, Geopolitical Conflict, and Resilience in Fashion and Textile Supply Chain
Md. Al-Amin, Muneeb Tahir, Amit Talukder, Abdullah Al Mamun, Md Tanjim Hossain, Nigar Sultana
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00207

Unraveling Global Threads: Pandemic, Geopolitical Conflict, and Resilience in Fashion and Textile Supply Chain
Several noteworthy scenarios emerged in the global textile and fashion supply chains during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The destabilizing influences of a global pandemic and a geographically localized conflict are being acutely noticed in the worldwide fashion and textile supply chains. This work examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russo-Ukraine conflict, Israel-Palestine conflict, and Indo-Pak conflict on supply chains within the textile and fashion industry. This research e…