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Climate change and sustainability on your mind?🌍 Want to discuss how computing educators can help? Join our SIGCSE Birds of a Feather March 16 5:30-6:20pm EST on centering environmental justice in computing ed. In person: bit.ly/CSforEJ_ virtual: bit.ly/CSforEJv
Greg Nelson retweeted
📣 New paper in @NatureMedicine
Three-year outcomes of post-acute sequelae
of COVID-19
By Miao Cai @Biostayan @EricTopol and me
A 🧵
nature.com/articles/s41591-0…
Greg Nelson retweeted
I'm proud to announce a public beta of wordplay.dev, a new educational, accessible, and language-inclusive programming language for creating playful, interactive typography.
Learn more about it here:
medium.com/bits-and-behavior…
Or go play, and send us feedback!
Ian's a great researcher!
Want to research how multi-modal AI will transform programming? I’m recruiting! Prospective PhD students, email me, or apply via DIRO or MILA-DIRO affiliation: diro.umontreal.ca/en/english… Please retweet and share! 🥳
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Want to research how multi-modal AI will transform programming? I’m recruiting! Prospective PhD students, email me, or apply via DIRO or MILA-DIRO affiliation: diro.umontreal.ca/en/english… Please retweet and share! 🥳
Greg Nelson retweeted
Congratulations to @DrJimJackson on the release of his book “Clearing the Fog.” He’s led #LongCovid support groups for the last 2 years. Please share this tweet. @pamelarbishop @hmkyale @VirusesImmunity @WesElyMD @mrzphd @kindred_health @Dakota_150 @drclairetaylor @CIBScenter
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The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s Clean Air for Schools program provides free HEPA filters to K-12 schools (public, private, charter, parochial, facility, and Tribal schools
covid19.colorado.gov/clean-a…
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Greg Nelson retweeted
Very good news
Metformin significantly helped prevent #LongCovid in a placebo-controlled randomized trial, a 42% relative reduction
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.… by @BramanteCarolyn
and colleagues
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PhDONE!!!! 🍾 after 4 years, 1 pandemic & many studies & tools for #CreativeAILiteracies Very grateful to all the families who worked with me during all these years, my collaborators, mentees, and mentor @amyjko together w committee members @jonfroehlich @katiebda & Ben Shapiro
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Amazing, timely, comprehensive, and evidence-based review - Long COVID: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations - by @ahandvanish @LisaAMcCorkell @juliamv @EricTopol. This is a #MustRead and is already my go-to review on #LongCovid.
nature.com/articles/s41579-0…
1/6 How to use AI to slow down AI growth using training data copyright issues - which might lead to copyright reform for orphan works (works where copyright owner is unknown or can't be contacted)
7 Bonus: learn more about how Disney and other brands keep passing copyright extension laws to stop Mickey Mouse and others from going into the: public domain (no restrictions on using them) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyri…
Donate to the EFF
8 Bonus: I'm not an expert but you could donate to the EFF which works on issues like this
supporters.eff.org/donate/jo…
Here's a longer article about orphan works and how the problem affects creators, access to free older works, libraries, and our culture eff.org/deeplinks/2013/02/or…
Greg Nelson retweeted
One of my students is in the news! @electroweak was interviewed by APS about whether we should build quantum computers given their dubious benefits to society: aps.org/publications/apsnews…
Greg Nelson retweeted
Here is the latest from our team in @NatureMedicine
Should you protect yourself from Covid-19 reinfection
Yes!
Reinfection is not benign; it is best to avoid it
by @Bcbowe @Biostayan @zalaly
A thread 🧵
nature.com/articles/s41591-0…