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Life after lockdown: five years on, this is how Australia has changed since Covid first started
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025/09/25/the-stats-guy-covid-5-years

Five years on, this is how Australia changed since Covid 
In March 2020 we wondered how Covid would change us. Five years on, the data shows the pandemic pressed fast-forward on a host of changes.

The Atlanta Fed estimates delays faced by claimants in COBOL-based unemployment insurance systems cut US GDP by at least $40B between March 13 and year-end 2020 (Bryce Elder/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7610a755-27e3-4792-a337-27d9b301000b

Happy March 2000th of 2020 to all who celebrate.
https://mastodon.mallegolhansen.com/@marchbot/115069472068312012

Our wonderful dog, Izzy (the brown and white dog) was taken to a shelter in March 2020 with four very young puppies. One, Star (the black and white dog), lives nearby and he and his human often stop by on their walks. Even after 5 1/2 years, Izzy gets more excited to see Star than any other dog or person, except maybe me. #MonDog

The impact of Alfvenic shear flow on magnetic reconnection and turbulence
Tamar Ervin, Alfred Mallet, Stefan Eriksson, Marc Swisdak, James Juno, Orlando M. Romeo, Tai Phan, Trevor A. Bowen, Roberto Livi, Phyllis L. Whittlesey, Davin E. Larson, Stuart D. Bake
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12608

The impact of Alfvenic shear flow on magnetic reconnection and turbulence
Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental and omnipresent energy conversion process in plasma physics. Novel observations of fields and particles from Parker Solar Probe (PSP) have shown the absence of reconnection in a large number of current sheets in the near-Sun solar wind. Using near-Sun observations from PSP Encounters 4 to 11 (Jan 2020 to March 2022), we investigate whether reconnection onset might be suppressed by velocity shear. We compare estimates of the tearing mode growth rate in the …

A comparison of variable selection methods and predictive models for postoperative bowel surgery complications
\"Ozge \c{S}ahin, Annemiek Kwast, Annemieke Witteveen, Tina Nane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22771

A comparison of variable selection methods and predictive models for postoperative bowel surgery complications
Accurate prediction of postoperative complications can support personalized perioperative care. However, in surgical settings, data collection is often constrained, and identifying which variables to prioritize remains an open question. We analyzed 767 elective bowel surgeries performed under an Enhanced Recovery After Surgery protocol at Medisch Spectrum Twente (Netherlands) between March 2020 and December 2023. Although hundreds of variables were available, most had substantial missingness or…