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When the Next Pandemic Comes, MAHA Says, You're on Your Own (David Wallace-Wells/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/opinion/maha-pandemic-public-health.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4U8.cTik.7D48v2q-NFap&smid=bs-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251127/p7#a251127p7

Sources: Amazon plans to lay off ~10% of corporate staff, or ~30,000 people, its largest layoffs since 2022, to reduce costs and address pandemic overhiring (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-…

Last week, while the country reacted to Kennedy’s rewrite of vaccine reality,
Jay Bhattacharya continued his own campaign to rewrite pandemic history.
He did this by retweeting misleading content from an unreliable source.
A closer look at that source, and at Bhattacharya’s long-standing relationship with it, raises serious concerns for science-based public health.

HHS Science Is Rotting From the Head
How RFK Jr and Jay Bhattacharya Are Undermining Science at HHS

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.

University of Minnesota website alerts 'Whiteness pandemic' (Jenny Goldsberry/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/education/3898175/university-of-minnesota-website-alerts-whiteness-pandemic/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p74#a251125p74

Seems like there are 2 kinds of reviews for "House of Dynamite" (Netflix). Either it's amazing or it's a misfire.
It had me glued to the screen which rarely happens with Netflix movies nowadays. I liked it.
But it's interesting to see that the movie industry seems to gloss over the fact that Donald Trump exists in just the same way as they glossed over the fact that there was a pandemic.

REMINDER: Influenza has everything needed to kill people every year and produce a global pandemic every few decades forever. What keeps it at a low “just the flu” level is vaccination. One thing that kept the most recent surges from being more like 1918 is the CDC. What is left of the CDC is inadequate to that task. https://m…

More than 25,000 cases of vaccine preventable whooping cough were recorded this year
-- higher than pre-pandemic levels
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/25000-cases-whooping-cough-recorded-year-higher-pre/story?id=127831021

More than 25,000 cases of whooping cough recorded this year, higher than pre-pandemic levels: CDC
Deaths from whooping cough have been recorded in Louisiana and Washington.

"Sea urchin species on brink of extinction after marine pandemic"
#Oceans #SeaUrchin

Disney crosses the $6B milestone at the box office for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic; no other studio has managed to reach $6B since 2015 (Rebecca Rubin/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/box-office/disney-box-office-milest…

Disney Crosses $6 Billion at Global Box Office
Disney surpassed a major box office milestone, crossing the $6 billion mark globally.

A record 3million people to fly from UK this holiday.
Also, heading for the hottest year since records began.
No connection.
Millions hit UK roads, railways and airports for Christmas Eve getaway | Transport | The Guardian
#EcocidalMadness

Disruptive Mobilities: Unsettling Law, Space, and Identities through Movement
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The onset of the pandemic generated a powerful, universal newfound currency for mobility. Around the…
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Disruptive Mobilities: Unsettling Law, Space, and Identities through Movement
The onset of the pandemic generated a powerful, universal newfound currency for mobility. Around the world, many yearned to exercise their freedom of movement, even those who had long settled into sedentary lives. In this context, this seminar series asks: what does mobility mean in today’s times?While the practice of mobility has been normalised as the physical movement across space, its conceptual understanding reveals a more complex relationship between the body, agency, and the State. At …

But when U.C.L.A.’s campus shut down during the pandemic, something remarkable happened: The beaks of juncos born on campus reverted to their wildland shape.

From the man who said “If we don’t test, then there is no pandemic.”
#wedontneednosteenkindata
The costs of Trump’s campaign to censor climate science https://on.ft.com/42UZbyZ

but but the tariffs! 🙃
https://journa.host/@samlitzinger/115420385933741234

A silent ocean pandemic is wiping out sea urchins worldwide #ocean

A silent ocean pandemic is wiping out sea urchins worldwide
A sudden, unexplained mass die-off is decimating sea urchins around the world, including catastrophic losses in the Canary Islands. Key reef-grazing species are reaching historic lows, and their ability to reproduce has nearly halted in some regions. Scientists suspect a pathogen but haven’t yet confirmed the culprit. The fate of these reefs may hinge on solving this unfolding pandemic.

Non-traditional data in pandemic preparedness and response: identifying and addressing first and last-mile challenges
Mattia Mazzoli, Irma Varela-Lasheras, Sonia Namorado, Constantino Pereira Caetano, Andreia Leite, Lisa Hermans, Niel Hens, Polen T\"urkmen, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Leo Ferres, Ciro Cattuto, Daniela Paolotti, Stefaan Verhulst
https://

Non-traditional data in pandemic preparedness and response: identifying and addressing first and last-mile challenges
The pandemic served as an important test case of complementing traditional public health data with non-traditional data (NTD) such as mobility traces, social media activity, and wearables data to inform decision-making. Drawing on an expert workshop and a targeted survey of European modelers, we assess the promise and persistent limitations of such data in pandemic preparedness and response. We distinguish between "first-mile" (accessing and harmonizing data) and "last-mile" challenges (transla…

Layoff announcements pass 1.1 million, most since pandemic | WKRG.com
https://www.wkrg.com/national/layoff-announcements-top-1-1-million-most-since-2020-pandemic/

Something happened today at the grocery store that hasn't happened to me since before the pandemic: I ran out of SNAP funds on my EBT card. This is entirely unrelated to the possibility that SNAP payments might not go out next month due to the shutdown, btw; this particular payment failure is entirely from my balance getting run down by the cuts Trump already did earlier:

Added a zoom level to the Category page on the Exocortex-Log app. Can make the graphs look a lot cleaner now.
Looking back over the last 100 months here, we can see in general my social life is quite seasonal -- Festivals are a lot of social all weekend long and a couple of them in a month really bumps up the hours from my usual habit of sitting alone in a dark room pressing buttons.
The peak in 2019 is a summer filled with Glasto and Noisily and another festival or camping trip I don’t seem to have recorded the name of.
Then clearly visible is the drop-off in social activity as the COVID pandemic hit. Virtual-Social (IE zoom meetings and the like) picked up quite a bit around there but had died back to almost nothing way before the hours spent with actual people started to tick up.
Annoyingly, I have my biggest gap in data right on top of the pandemic there, where I failed to back up for months and then data became corrupted.
When the data-hole is over we see social life still not really returning until the middle of 2021 and not really getting back into stride until summer 2022.
It remains much lower now on average with lower peaks than before the pandemic too. Multiple reasons.
Work is pretty constant all the way though other than the data-hole. Dipping when I take time off for social mostly.
That data-hole is annoying. Back up your data kids.
#lifeLog #app #exocortexLog

Disruptive Mobilities: Unsettling Law, Space, and Identities through Movement
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The onset of the pandemic generated a powerful, universal newfound currency for mobility. Around the…
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Disruptive Mobilities: Unsettling Law, Space, and Identities through Movement
The onset of the pandemic generated a powerful, universal newfound currency for mobility. Around the world, many yearned to exercise their freedom of movement, even those who had long settled into sedentary lives. In this context, this seminar series asks: what does mobility mean in today’s times?While the practice of mobility has been normalised as the physical movement across space, its conceptual understanding reveals a more complex relationship between the body, agency, and the State. At …

The COVID-19 mRNA-based vaccines that saved 2.5 million lives globally during the pandemic
could help spark the immune system to fight cancer.
This is the surprising takeaway of a new study published in the journal Nature.
While developing mRNA vaccines for patients with brain tumors in 2016, our team, led by pediatric oncologist Elias Sayour, discovered that mRNA can train immune systems to kill tumors – even if the mRNA is not related to cancer.
Based on this finding…

COVID-19 mRNA vaccines could unlock the next revolution in cancer treatment – new research
The researchers found that mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines could potentially help patients whose tumors don’t respond well to traditional immunotherapy.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Gil Scott-Heron:
🎵 The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
#GilScottHeron
https://kemetic7ntr.bandcamp.com/track/03-survivalofthefittest-re-style-mobbdeep-gilscottheron-therevolutionwillnotbetelevised-ras-ben-2020yearofgreatconjunctions-saturnconjunctpluto-pandemic-trapped-in-reason-ab-soul-metime-stic-coac
https://open.spotify.com/track/7ni78Vjslqo2VxiDOahYlV

“They held a natural cure for mankind but don’t worry CFIA took that also”
No they did not. Quite the opposite in fact.
The deed is finally done. Let's all move on.
#Ostriches #Pandemic #AvianFlu
https://albernivalleynews.com/2025/11/07/overnight-ostrich-massacre-in-edgewood-b-c-by-cfia/

A father who has become the sole caretaker for his two young children after his wife was deported.
A school district seeing absenteeism similar to what it experienced during the pandemic.
Businesses struggling because customers are scared to go outside.
These are just a sampling of how this part of Ventura County
is reckoning with the aftermath of federal immigration raids on
Glass House cannabis farms six months ago,
when hundreds of workers were detaine…

It's like the 1980s all over again.
"AI" is the hot new tech thing
A terrible showbiz guy is president
Russia is threatening Europe
There's a pandemic that people ignore
They even released a new Commodore 64

Heading to #Malaysia for the first time since the pandemic in a few weeks, likely followed by #Indonesia. Can't wait - to eat all the amazing vegetarian food, drink lots of teh, speak in Indonesian.

WSJ restructures its health, science, and education teams, with the health group moving back under the business team, after separating during the pandemic (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)
https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/wsj-restructures-…

WSJ restructures health, science and education, makes layoffs - Talking Biz News
Wall Street Journal editor in chief Emma Tucker sent out the following on Wednesday: Dear all, Today we are announcing changes to how we structure our health, science and education teams at The Wall Street Journal. The health group is returning to the business team after becoming a separate coverage area during the Covid-19 pandemic. Coverage of […]

Several of my #PurdueFortWayne #Math colleagues retired shortly after the 2020 pandemic outset, and some since then, and we finally had a retirement dinner celebration for all of them. (particularly famous among them, graph theorist L. Beineke :k33: :k5: )
Lots of photos:

Sources detail how Tiger Global fueled the COVID-era unicorn bubble that burst ahead of the AI boom; the firm recently shared its $12.7B 2021 fund is now up 16% (Issie Lapowsky/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/tiger-global-unicorn-investment-crash/

Big bets and broken unicorns: Tiger Global’s rise and reckoning
The fast-money pandemic era helped build billion-dollar startups around the world — then brought many down just as quickly. Will the AI boom be a repeat?

Trump is on a campaign to blame all 80,000 Somali descendants in Minnesota for “billions of dollars” in pandemic rescue fraud. The leader of the fraud ring is here. Notice anything about her?
PS: It was $250M, not billions. Trump has trouble with numbers.

Day 23: Thi Bui
Indirect CW: parental neglect, war, intergenerational trauma
Bui is the author of "The Best We Could Do", a graphic memoir which explores her relationship with her parents and unpacks some of the intergenerational trauma coming out of the Vietnam War. It has a lot of wisdom to offer about both dealing with troubled parents as a 1.5th-generation immigrant, and it delves deeply into her parents' histories in Vietnam and the complexities of the situation there both in the north and in the south. It's beautifully illustrated and very nicely plotted together given all the disparate threads it is working with.
I haven't read any of Bui's other work, but it looks like she's published a picture book for kids as well as a series of short comics during the pandemic. Besides Oseman who also writes non-illustrated fiction and the two manga artists Ice mentioned, Bui is the first graphic novel author I've included here, but I've actually got quite a few of them in my longer list, one of whom may make it into the 30 I'll include in this thread. These days I'm reading a bunch of graphic novels since they're easy to get through, and the variety of stories and perspectives in that space is wonderful these days, with a huge array of indie stuff that probably never would have gotten off the ground in traditional publishing/comics spaces.
#30AuthorsNoMen

Disruptive Mobilities: Unsettling Law, Space, and Identities through Movement https://www.socialifeoflaw.com/post/disruptive-mobilities-unsettling-law-space-and-identities-through-movement

Disruptive Mobilities: Unsettling Law, Space, and Identities through Movement
The onset of the pandemic generated a powerful, universal newfound currency for mobility. Around the world, many yearned to exercise their freedom of movement, even those who had long settled into sedentary lives. In this context, this seminar series asks: what does mobility mean in today’s times?While the practice of mobility has been normalised as the physical movement across space, its conceptual understanding reveals a more complex relationship between the body, agency, and the State. At …

US hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic (Fatima Hussein/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-treasury-debt-ceiling-bessent-09575f13ca95c2f1beb38234b2cbe85b
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p160#a251022p160

A Wave of Resignations in the Aftermath of Remote Onboarding
Darja Smite, Franz Zieris, Lars-Ola Damm
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05878 https://arxiv.org/pd…

A Wave of Resignations in the Aftermath of Remote Onboarding
The COVID-19 pandemic has permanently altered workplace structures, normalizing remote work. However, critical evidence highlights challenges with fully remote arrangements, particularly for software teams. This study investigates employee resignation patterns at Ericsson, a global developer of software-intensive systems, before, during, and after the pandemic. Using HR data from 2016-2025 in Ericsson Sweden, we analyze how different work modalities (onsite, remote, and hybrid) influence employ…

Finding the Best Route During the Pandemic Disease
Amirsadegh Mirgalooyebayat, Farzad Didehvar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02396 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.…

Finding the Best Route During the Pandemic Disease
This article presents a mathematical model for identifying the safest travel routes during a pandemic by minimizing disease contraction risks, such as COVID-19. We formulate this as the LEAST INFECTION PROBABILITY PATH (LIPP) problem, which optimizes routes between two nodes in a transportation network based on minimal disease transmission probability. Our model evaluates risk factors including environmental density, likelihood of encountering carriers, and exposure duration across multiple tra…

Child-Care Providers Sound Alarm as Pandemic-Era Aid Expires | News Talk 580 and 105.9 KMJ
https://www.kmjnow.com/2025/11/01/child-care-providers-sound-alarm-as-pandemic-era-aid-expires/

Nearly a million chickens packed the barns at Howe’s Hens last Christmas Eve when the first of them tested positive for bird flu.
The deadly virus spreads so fast that even if only one hen is infected,
farmers are legally obligated to kill all of the others.
Massive mounds of carcasses soon appeared outside the Ohio egg farm, covered in compost. 
The slaughter wasn’t enough.
The virus tore through industrial barns in Darke County
and moved on through one …

What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic
Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vaccines could help, but the USDA hasn’t approved them.

In the weeks since ransomware hackers attacked Jaguar Land Rover in the UK, local businesses where the car maker's plants are have lost between 15% to 50% of their business.
Hackers targeted a global conglomerate. A local community is counting the costs.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/04/world/…

Hackers targeted a global conglomerate. A local community is counting the costs.
Alex Tora knew his fish and chips shop in Solihull, England needed a boost after the pandemic, so he began offering a discount to workers from the Jaguar Land Rover factory down the road. It was a business masterstroke. Many of his customers now come from the company’s ranks, grabbing a quick lunch or picking up a “fish supper” on their way home.

Daily Profile of COVID-19 Infections in Germany, throughout the Pandemic
Derek Marsh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05721 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.05721

Daily Profile of COVID-19 Infections in Germany, throughout the Pandemic
Progress of the COVID-19 pandemic was quantified, in the first instance, using the daily number of positive cases recorded by the national public health authorities. Averaged over a seven-day window, the daily incidence of COVID-19 in Germany reveals clear sections of exponential growth or decay in propagation of infection. Comparing with incidence profiles according to onset-of-symptoms shows that reporting of cases involves variable delays. Observed changes in exponential rates come from grow…

SenWave: A Fine-Grained Multi-Language Sentiment Analysis Dataset Sourced from COVID-19 Tweets
Qiang Yang, Xiuying Chen, Changsheng Ma, Rui Yin, Xin Gao, Xiangliang Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08214

SenWave: A Fine-Grained Multi-Language Sentiment Analysis Dataset Sourced from COVID-19 Tweets
The global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for a comprehensive understanding of public sentiment and reactions. Despite the availability of numerous public datasets on COVID-19, some reaching volumes of up to 100 billion data points, challenges persist regarding the availability of labeled data and the presence of coarse-grained or inappropriate sentiment labels. In this paper, we introduce SenWave, a novel fine-grained multi-language sentiment analysis dataset specific…

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[2/5]:
- Linguistic Patterns in Pandemic-Related Content: A Comparative Analysis of COVID-19, Constraint, ...
Mkululi Sikosana, Sean Maudsley-Barton, Oluwaseun Ajao

A profile of Wang Jian, a journalist who has moved to the US in 2018 due to increasing press restrictions in Hong Kong and has built a news operation on YouTube (Lauren Hilgers/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Gil Scott-Heron:
🎵 The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
#NowPlaying #GilScottHeron
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv

Before the pandemic, I used to stay at a #Starbucks café a lot and I used to collect their Christmas stickers to get a free planner. For instance, I spent a total of ₱18,870 in 2018, which is about $370, not adjusted for inflation.
But ever since their usual drinks started going over ₱200 (~$3.41), I rarely buy from them anymore. I’ve only bought from them less than a handful of times this y…

"I find it difficult to avoid deep pessimism. The lessons of the Covid pandemic have not been learned, and we face the risk of a much more threatening pandemic. The rise to prominence of the ethno-nationalist right in most of the ‘rich’ world combines climate change scepticism with command of a racist political agenda on migration.
/contd

Identifying the post-pandemic determinants of low performing students in Latin America through interpretable Machine Learning SHAP Values-Insights from PISA 2022
Marcos Delprato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24508

Identifying the post-pandemic determinants of low performing students in Latin America through interpretable Machine Learning SHAP Values-Insights from PISA 2022
The high prevalence of students not achieving the basic competencies in Latin America is concerning. Even more so given the region's deep structural inequalities and the larger post-pandemic regional learning losses. Within this scenario, this paper contributes to the identification of the determinants of bottom and low performers (below level 2) using recent advancements on explainable machine learning methods. In particular, relying on PISA 2022 data for 10 countries and using the Shapley Add…

One of the reasons I support free transit is because relying on fare revenue is a trap. One economic downturn, one pandemic, and suddenly the transit system is on life support and needs to drastically reduce service. On the other hand, funding operations through general taxes allows voters to dictate how to handle funding operations, rather than markets.
[This is just one reason I like free transit; I have many. And yes, if your democracy is broken, so is your transit]

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday
he is deploying the state’s National Guard to help staff food banks
amid the ongoing federal government shutdown.
Newsom said the move mirrors steps he took during the COVID-19 pandemic a few years ago.
He warned that the prolonged shutdown
— now in its 22nd day
— could disrupt California’s CalFresh program,
which provides food benefits to about 5.5 million residents.

Newsom deploys California National Guard to help with food banks amid prolonged government shutdown
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday he is deploying the state’s National Guard to help staff food banks amid the ongoing federal government shutdown.

Would that those looking at San Francisco paid attention to this.
https://bsky.app/profile/brenttoderian.bsky.social/post/3m4vpcch5jc22

Brent Toderian (@brenttoderian.bsky.social)
“Call it a comeback.” I was asked by a reporter this week if New York’s clear success with de-congestion pricing could change the political & community conversation [and media coverage] about the proven public policy idea in other cities around the world. Hell ya. It should. It needs to. It will. https://gothamist.com/news/call-it-a-comeback-manhattan-foot-traffic-finally-tops-pre-pandemic-times

Would that those looking at San Francisco paid attention to this.
https://bsky.app/profile/brenttoderian.bsky.social/post/3m4vpcch5jc22

Brent Toderian (@brenttoderian.bsky.social)
“Call it a comeback.” I was asked by a reporter this week if New York’s clear success with de-congestion pricing could change the political & community conversation [and media coverage] about the proven public policy idea in other cities around the world. Hell ya. It should. It needs to. It will. https://gothamist.com/news/call-it-a-comeback-manhattan-foot-traffic-finally-tops-pre-pandemic-times

PreprintToPaper dataset: connecting bioRxiv preprints with journal publications
Fidan Badalova, Julian Sienkiewicz, Philipp Mayr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01783 https://…

PreprintToPaper dataset: connecting bioRxiv preprints with journal publications
The PreprintToPaper dataset connects bioRxiv preprints with their corresponding journal publications, enabling large-scale analysis of the preprint-to-publication process. It comprises metadata for 145,517 preprints from two periods, 2016-2018 (pre-pandemic) and 2020-2022 (pandemic), retrieved via the bioRxiv and Crossref APIs. Each record includes bibliographic information such as titles, abstracts, authors, institutions, submission dates, licenses, and subject categories, alongside enriched p…

Scientists Reveal Biological Basis of Long COVID Brain Fog #covid
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-finally-reveal-biological-basis-of-long-covid-brain-fog…

Scientists Finally Reveal Biological Basis of Long COVID Brain Fog
Researchers employed a specialized brain imaging technique to identify a potential biomarker and therapeutic target for Long COVID. More than four years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists are still working to fully understand the lingering effects of infection with SARS-CoV-2. O

The International Chess Federation (Fide) said on Wednesday it is examining former world champion Vladimir Kramnik’s public attacks on Daniel Naroditsky,
the American grandmaster whose sudden death at 29 has stunned the chess world and laid bare fissures in the sport’s digital age.
Naroditsky, among the most visible faces of chess’s pandemic-era renaissance,
was one of the most popular players and teachers of his generation,
a Stanford-educated prodigy who won the Und…

#Measles On The Rise Across Globe As #Vaccination Rates Decline...Third World Has Highest Spike, But #USA in The Mix As Well Now.

Analysis: music copyright's global value rose 5.2% YoY to a record $47.2B in 2024; the revenue split favored labels and artists at 62%, above songwriters' 38% (Will Page/Pivotal Economics)
https://pivotaleconomics.com/undercurrents/music-copyright-2025

Global Value of Music Copyright Hits New All-Time High, Nearly Doubling in a Decade to $47.2bn in 2024 — Pivotal Economics
The global value of music copyright reached $47.2bn in 2024. That's up just $2.3bn (5.2%) on the prior year; growth is slowing largely because this is the first year where the pandemic effects have vanished.

Unacademy CEO Gaurav Munjal says the Indian edtech startup's valuation has fallen from its $3.5B peak three years ago to less than $500M, and confirms M&A talks (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/unac

Unacademy's founder says startup is now worth less than $500M, confirms M&A talks | TechCrunch
Unacademy's valuation has dropped by over 85% from its pandemic-era peak price tag of $3.5 billion, its founder said.

Multivariate Zero-Inflated Causal Model for Regional Mobility Restriction Effects on Consumer Spending
Taekwon Hong, Wenbin Lu, Shu Yang, Pulak Ghosh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03422

Multivariate Zero-Inflated Causal Model for Regional Mobility Restriction Effects on Consumer Spending
The COVID-19 pandemic presents challenges to both public health and the economy. Our objective is to examine how household expenditure, a significant component of private demand, reacts to changes in mobility. This investigation is crucial for developing policies that balance public health and the economic and social impacts. We utilize extensive scanner data from a major retail chain in India and Google mobility data to address this important question. However, there are a few challenges, incl…

Heard a TV news report say that the courts backlog started during Covid.
This completely papers over a situation that predates 2010 and is the responsibility of both main parties. Any small progress the previous government made in ten years was wiped out by the pandemic - but the underlying condition is why it's still not recovering.

Few people would claim with absolute certainty to know how the pandemic began. Both sides are gathering evidence to support their case, yet neither can fully rule out the possibility put forward by the other. This lack of clarity is not unlike what we see with most emerging diseases. For instance, we still don’t know how the devastating Ebola outbreak in west Africa began in 2014.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/25/covid-lab-leak-theory-right-conspiracy-science?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

While immigrants do contribute to rising housing demand,
they are not the primary drivers of increasing housing costs.
Instead, factors such as housing shortages,
restrictive zoning laws,
and shifts in housing preferences in the wake of the pandemic
are the more dominant forces behind rising prices.
Furthermore, immigrant workers are essential to the housing supply, making up a crucial segment of the construction workforce that can address shortages and …

Vance Blames Immigrants, Biden in Response to Affordability Questions
There is no significant relationship between immigration rates and rising housing costs in the US, experts have said.

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.CY. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/new
[1/1]:
- Learning Pareto-Optimal Pandemic Intervention Policies with MORL
Marian Chen, Miri Zilka

Space, time and altruism in pandemics and the climate emergency
Chris T. Bauch, Athira Satheesh Kumar, Kamal Jnawali, Karoline Wiesner, Simon A. Levin, Madhur Anand
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06236

Space, time and altruism in pandemics and the climate emergency
Climate change is a global emergency, as was the COVID-19 pandemic. Why was our collective response to COVID-19 so much stronger than our response to the climate emergency, to date? We hypothesize that the answer has to do with the scale of the systems, and not just spatial and temporal scales but also the `altruistic scale' that measures whether an action must rely upon altruistic motives for it to be adopted. We treat COVID-19 and climate change as common pool resource problems that exemplify…

"‘Eat out to help out’ scheme added to air pollution in London, study finds"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #London #Pollution

Labor market lost 41,000 jobs over October, November;
Unemployment rate is up
The October loss of more than 100,000 jobs was particularly striking,
-- the sharpest losses since the covid pandemic-era recession.
But economists expected losses in October
-- because the data reflected tens of thousands of federal workers who deferred resignation and officially parted ways with the federal government in October.
Federal government payrolls fell by 162,000 j…

Unemployment rate rises, signaling weakness in the economy
The labor market cool down continued this fall, according to new jobs numbers released on a delayed scheduled by the Labor Department.

Good Morning #Canada
The #FIFA World Cup Final Draw is today, hosted by renowned soccer experts Heidi Klum and Kevin Hart. The Village People will be performing live so I expect we'll see some Orango Mango Tango from the U.S. president in addition to a comedic break when the FIFA Peace Prize is awarded. Canadians will be watching because #Soccer is the most popular organized sport for ages 5 to 17 in Canada. Soccer and swimming have both surpassed Hockey in youth participation for many reasons but equipment and facilities cost is a major factor and it's estimated that there are over 1M children in soccer leagues across the country. Approximately 74% of Canadians consider themselves avid sorts fans and hockey remains #1 in views with 58% following. NFL came in next at 37%, followed by MLB 34%, CFL 32%, and NBA 29%. Formula One at 24% was sixth overall, followed by Tennis 20%, with PGA Tour and Major League Soccer tied for eighth.
#CanadaIsAwesome #SportsNews
https://www.sportsnet.ca/soccer/article/study-soccer-most-popular-sport-among-canadian-kids-post-pandemic/

"‘Eat out to help out’ scheme added to air pollution in London, study finds"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #London #AirPollution

Crosslisted article(s) found for q-bio.PE. https://arxiv.org/list/q-bio.PE/new
[1/1]:
- Learning Pareto-Optimal Pandemic Intervention Policies with MORL
Marian Chen, Miri Zilka

Determinants of Latin American students academic resilience-Insights based on PISA 2022 using an explainable machine learning approach
Marcos Delprato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24830

Determinants of Latin American students academic resilience-Insights based on PISA 2022 using an explainable machine learning approach
The learning crisis in the Latin American region (i.e., higher rates of students not reaching basic competencies at secondary level) is worrying, particularly post-pandemic given the stronger role of inequality behind achievement. Within this scenario, the concept of student academic resilience (SAR), students who despite coming from disadvantaged backgrounds reach good performance levels, and an analysis of its determinants, are policy relevant. In this paper, using advancements on explainable…

Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, a microbiologist at Mount Sinai’s medical school who wasn’t involved with the study, called the work
“a good vaccine to have ready in case of any outbreaks with this virus”
However, he thinks this approach may fall short in tackling human influenza.
“H5 changes in multiple directions, so a central antigen makes sense,
while in the human flu or human SARS-CoV-2,
the central antigen moves with time.”

One shot to rule them all in the fight against H5 influenza
New bird flu vaccine design could help preparations against an evolving potential pandemic virus 

It's only shortly past 8 in the morning, but I need to #vent.
I just overheard a new #tenure track assistant #professor talk about how they got there.
In a nutshell, they haven't left the department since their master studies and stumbled into the tenure process by accident.
I am (kinda) happy for them, but I am also so incredibly fucking jealous!
I have switched not only university but country after every degree/job, so by now I live in country number 5 since starting by studies.
The longest I've been in the same country was during my #PhD plus pandemic and unemployment for over a year.
Especially older #academics don't seem to understand this, because whenever I mention any of this I encounter completely blank stares. Note, I'm in a department where most senior staff is local and celebrating 15-35 years at the same employer.
I'm in my mid-30, I don't want to move every few years when my temporary contract ends.
I want to be able to plan more than 1-2 years at a time.
I absolutely love doing #research, but I hate so many aspects of #academic culture or what has been normalized over the years for #AcademicLife.
I plan on staying in #academia despite of it.
#Rant over, time to calm down and sip my tea.
#PostDocLife #PhDLife #academicchatter #MyLifeAsAnAcademic #AcademicMastodon #tenuretrack