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"[M]arketing strategies and techniques offer powerful insights into how libraries perceive themselves and the communities they serve."
– "Academic library marketing in the post-COVID world" by Melissa Fraser-Arnott: https://doi.org/10.1080/15323269.2023.2291282

‘The working class can’t afford it’: the shocking truth about the money bands make on tour
deceiving. “I don’t blame the public for seeing a band playing to 2,000 people and thinking they’re minted,” says artist manager Dan Potts. “But the reality is quite different.”
Post-Covid there has been significant focus on grassroots music venues as they struggle to stay open.
There’s been less focus on the actual ability of artists to tour these venues. David Martin, chief executi…

“Most people will get delayed onset muscle soreness after a tough workout, but post-exertional malaise is a different animal altogether.” #LongCovid #coronavirus

Trump asked if U.S. was better off in his last year. In many ways, the answer is no. (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/24/trump-2020-better-off-covid/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240324/p19#a240324p19

I don't usually post videos here, but the mental gymnastics going on among the magats in this clip are just astonishing.
#SouthCarolina #Trump voters were asked to react to various things "Joe Biden did," like dodging the Vietnam draft with a flimsy bone-spurs excuse. Then, t…

Long Covid - nice article
... with comments from someone experiencing it, & from doctors.
“Efforts to treat COVID more like the flu fail to recognize that COVID is not the flu, COVID is COVID — a virus that, per the CDC’s own resources, is more contagious than the flu, can cause more severe illness than the flu, causes more post-viral illness than the flu, and is infectious to others longer than the flu”
#covid #LongCovid

‘The working class can’t afford it’: the shocking truth about the money bands make on tour
deceiving. “I don’t blame the public for seeing a band playing to 2,000 people and thinking they’re minted,” says artist manager Dan Potts. “But the reality is quite different.”
Post-Covid there has been significant focus on grassroots music venues as they struggle to stay open.
There’s been less focus on the actual ability of artists to tour these venues. David Martin, chief executi…

It's pretty cool that in 2024 we're still discovering brand new things about #covid (while also letting it rip).
https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/112095342607776246<…

Sometimes it is difficult to just get on with stuff when the war in Ukraine is already lasting two years and there's a genocide going on in Palestine and we're saying things such as post-covid and we can't even get easy things right such as no lemonade tax on plant based milk..
Sigh.

Stemmen voor #longCovid poliklinieken!
https://petities.nl/petitions/stem-voor-post-covid-poliklinieken/signatures/28817923?locale=nl

Evaluating Pedagogical Incentives in Undergraduate Computing: A Mixed Methods Approach Using Learning Analytics
Laura J. Johnston, Takoua Jendoubi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14686

Evaluating Pedagogical Incentives in Undergraduate Computing: A Mixed Methods Approach Using Learning Analytics
In the context of higher education's evolving dynamics post-COVID-19, this paper assesses the impact of new pedagogical incentives implemented in a first-year undergraduate computing module at University College London. We employ a mixed methods approach, combining learning analytics with qualitative data, to evaluate the effectiveness of these incentives on increasing student engagement. A longitudinal overview of resource interactions is mapped through Bayesian network analysis of Moodle ac…

Long #covid may cause cognitive decline of about six IQ points, study finds - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/20

Long covid may cause cognitive decline of about six IQ points, study finds
Covid may cause measurable, long-term effects on cognition and memory, a new study published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests.

All my life it has been unthinkable that the USA could cut Israel loose.
But between the Netanyahu administration succeeding pretty hard in alienating absolutely everybody, and the strengthening international consensus, and the latest manifestation of America's internecine madness, and post-Covid economic issues...
It almost kinda sorta feels like things could change.

Alcohol intolerance may be linked to long COVID, specifically the post-viral fatigue syndrome (PVFS) type.
Long COVID refers to persistent symptoms that occur more than three weeks after the initial COVID-19 infection.
According to several anecdotal reports, alcohol intolerance, which is characterized by reactions like nausea, low blood pressure, fatigue, and dizziness when consuming alcohol, may be a unique symptom of long COVID.

Alcohol Intolerance After COVID: Symptoms, Causes, Treatment
Alcohol intolerance is not a common side effect of long COVID, but people have reported it happening to them.

Just in case someone here happens to have one: anyone have a link to a post-COVID union contract that has COVID-19 safety provisions in it, bonus points if it's at an academic institution?
Boosts appreciated for reach.

Stemmen voor #longCovid poliklinieken!
https://petities.nl/petitions/stem-voor-post-covid-poliklinieken/signatures/28817923?locale=nl

How COVID-19 has Impacted the Anti-Vaccine Discourse: A Large-Scale Twitter Study Spanning Pre-COVID and Post-COVID Era
Soham Poddar, Rajdeep Mukherjee, Subhendu Khatuya, Niloy Ganguly, Saptarshi Ghosh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01669

How COVID-19 has Impacted the Anti-Vaccine Discourse: A Large-Scale Twitter Study Spanning Pre-COVID and Post-COVID Era
The debate around vaccines has been going on for decades, but the COVID-19 pandemic showed how crucial it is to understand and mitigate anti-vaccine sentiments. While the pandemic may be over, it is still important to understand how the pandemic affected the anti-vaccine discourse, and whether the arguments against non-COVID vaccines (e.g., Flu, MMR, IPV, HPV vaccines) have also changed due to the pandemic. This study attempts to answer these questions through a large-scale study of anti-vaccin…

Developing a Multi-variate Prediction Model For COVID-19 From Crowd-sourced Respiratory Voice Data
Yuyang Yan, Wafaa Aljbawi, Sami O. Simons, Visara Urovi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.07619

Developing a Multi-variate Prediction Model For COVID-19 From Crowd-sourced Respiratory Voice Data
COVID-19 has affected more than 223 countries worldwide and in the Post-COVID Era, there is a pressing need for non-invasive, low-cost, and highly scalable solutions to detect COVID-19. We develop a deep learning model to identify COVID-19 from voice recording data. The novelty of this work is in the development of deep learning models for COVID-19 identification from only voice recordings. We use the Cambridge COVID-19 Sound database which contains 893 speech samples, crowd-sourced from 4352 p…

#LongCovid
Three papers of interest regarding Long Covid:
1.
Liew, F., Efstathiou, C., Fontanella, S. et al.
Large-scale phenotyping of patients with long COVID post-hospitalization reveals mechanistic subtypes of disease.
Nat Immunol (2024).

Comical snark
Not entirely fair, because there _are_ some doctors looking into Long Covid properly...
"Physicians can help you with post Covid symptoms about as much as toddlers with one of those pretend doctor kits. Actually, the toddler probably has better advice because they might actually say something helpful like “take a nap” instead of the “deconditioning” BS from the “trained” physicians (who have nearly zero training in post-viral pathologies)."
#LongCovid

"Worldwide, there were more than 11,000 reported deaths from COVID between mid-December 2023 and mid-January 2024, and more than half of those deaths occurred in the U.S."
Yeah baby, still punching well above our weight!
*chants* U-S-A! U-S-A!
https://ecoevo.social/@marcrr/11189483

Can anyone who understands statistics with regards to covid infection rates understand why the rating, which used to be from 1-10 in severity is now calculated at 1-20?
What does that mean when I see a rate 'high' - 5.3/20 in Nova Scotia? Would that have been 10.6/10 before? And therefore severe? Or 2.6/10 which would have only been elevated.
I'm no good at these things!
The original post from is here:
#CovidIsNotOver #statistics #covid @…
@…

Mews, which offers cloud-based hotel management tools, raised $110M led by Kinnevik at a $1.2B post-money valuation; the company says it's not yet profitable (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/04/mews-the-hot…

Mews, the hotel SaaS startup, books $110M at a $1.2B valuation | TechCrunch
Tourism continues to bounce back in the wake of Covid-19, with 2023 raking in $2.23 trillion globally, surpassing pre-pandemic levels for the first time

"Experts worry a recent rise in long COVID cases — fueled by a spike in winter holiday infections and a decline in masking and other measures — could continue into this year."
Spoiler: it will continue for years and years to come, if not into the next century.
https://www.

New Data: Long COVID Cases Surge
A post-winter rise in estimated long COVID cases may last well into 2024, experts said.

Dieser Podcast über Aninas Kampf mit #PostCOVID ist wichtig. Seit über 800 Tagen hat sie das Bett nicht verlassen. 🎧👉 https://fel…

Well, post Covid (3 days since second negative test)
Still kinda nauseous and having issues not eating enough, which I need to figure my way around.
WFH still a mixed curse/blessing.

Bird flu pandemic could be '100 times worse' than COVID, scientists warn (Melissa Koenig/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2024/04/04/us-news/bird-flu-pandemic-could-be-100-times-worse-than-covid-scientists-warn/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240404/p35#a240404p35

That didn't age well ...

Mews, which offers cloud-based hotel management tools, raised $110M led by Kinnevik at a $1.2B post-money valuation; the company says it's not yet profitable (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/04/mews-the-hot…

Mews, the hotel SaaS startup, books $110M at a $1.2B valuation | TechCrunch
Tourism continues to bounce back in the wake of Covid-19, with 2023 raking in $2.23 trillion globally, surpassing pre-pandemic levels for the first time

That didn't age well ...

Older adults' safety and security online: A post-pandemic exploration of attitudes and behaviors
Edgar Pacheco
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09208 https:/…

Older adults' safety and security online: A post-pandemic exploration of attitudes and behaviors
Older adults' growing use of the internet and related technologies, further accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, has prompted not only a critical examination of their behaviors and attitudes about online threats but also a greater understanding of the roles of specific characteristics within this population group. Based on survey data and using descriptive and inferential statistics, this empirical study delves into this matter. The behaviors and attitudes of a group of older adults aged 60 ye…

The next dot-com bubble… #AI #AIHype https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68439120

A hybrid memetic-ANS optimization algorithm for the home health care and home care routing and re
Qiao Pan, Zhaofang Mao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.07662 h…

A hybrid memetic-ANS optimization algorithm for the home health care and home care routing and re
This paper addresses a realistic home health care and home care (HHC\&HC) problem which has become increasingly complex in the face of demographic aging and post-COVID-19 disruptions. The HHC\&HC sector, as the essential component of modern health care systems, faces unique challenges in efficiently scheduling and routing caregivers to meet the rising demand for home-based care services. Traditional approaches often fall short in addressing the dynamic nature of care requests, especially in acc…

"Reminder:
- garbage collectors, ironworkers, agricultural workers, delivery drivers and highway maintenance workers all have higher on-the-job fatality rates than cops
- by FAR the likeliest cause of in-the-line-of-duty deaths for police the last five years has been... COVID-19"
https://

Maximally Forward-Looking Core Inflation
Philippe Goulet Coulombe, Karin Klieber, Christophe Barrette, Maximilian Goebel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05209 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.05209
arXiv:2404.05209v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Timely monetary policy decision-making requires timely core inflation measures. We create a new core inflation series that is explicitly designed to succeed at that goal. Precisely, we introduce the Assemblage Regression, a generalized nonnegative ridge regression problem that optimizes the price index's subcomponent weights such that the aggregate is maximally predictive of future headline inflation. Ordering subcomponents according to their rank in each period switches the algorithm to be learning supervised trimmed inflation - or, put differently, the maximally forward-looking summary statistic of the realized price changes distribution. In an extensive out-of-sample forecasting experiment for the US and the euro area, we find substantial improvements for signaling medium-term inflation developments in both the pre- and post-Covid years. Those coming from the supervised trimmed version are particularly striking, and are attributable to a highly asymmetric trimming which contrasts with conventional indicators. We also find that this metric was indicating first upward pressures on inflation as early as mid-2020 and quickly captured the turning point in 2022. We also consider extensions, like assembling inflation from geographical regions, trimmed temporal aggregation, and building core measures specialized for either upside or downside inflation risks.

Older adults' safety and security online: A post-pandemic exploration of attitudes and behaviors
Edgar Pacheco
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09208 https:/…

Older adults' safety and security online: A post-pandemic exploration of attitudes and behaviors
Older adults' growing use of the internet and related technologies, further accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, has prompted not only a critical examination of their behaviors and attitudes about online threats but also a greater understanding of the roles of specific characteristics within this population group. Based on survey data and using descriptive and inferential statistics, this empirical study delves into this matter. The behaviors and attitudes of a group of older adults aged 60 ye…

Maximally Forward-Looking Core Inflation
Philippe Goulet Coulombe, Karin Klieber, Christophe Barrette, Maximilian Goebel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05209 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.05209
arXiv:2404.05209v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Timely monetary policy decision-making requires timely core inflation measures. We create a new core inflation series that is explicitly designed to succeed at that goal. Precisely, we introduce the Assemblage Regression, a generalized nonnegative ridge regression problem that optimizes the price index's subcomponent weights such that the aggregate is maximally predictive of future headline inflation. Ordering subcomponents according to their rank in each period switches the algorithm to be learning supervised trimmed inflation - or, put differently, the maximally forward-looking summary statistic of the realized price changes distribution. In an extensive out-of-sample forecasting experiment for the US and the euro area, we find substantial improvements for signaling medium-term inflation developments in both the pre- and post-Covid years. Those coming from the supervised trimmed version are particularly striking, and are attributable to a highly asymmetric trimming which contrasts with conventional indicators. We also find that this metric was indicating first upward pressures on inflation as early as mid-2020 and quickly captured the turning point in 2022. We also consider extensions, like assembling inflation from geographical regions, trimmed temporal aggregation, and building core measures specialized for either upside or downside inflation risks.