Erin Fischell, PhD

Self-portrait of making it work in 2022. #art #parenting @Momademia @parentinscience @500womensci

@StephTaitWrites I have had real flu 3 times in the last 20 yrs: 2x in college, once 7 yrs ago. It is no joke- extreme weakness and joint pain (had to crawl to the bathroom), high fever causing hallucinations, weeks of recovery, secondary bronchitis. Don't mess with flu... vacc & mask up!

One third of student survivors of Covid-19 exhibited objective evidence of permanent cognitive impairment. Mental effort & focus involved in completing cognitive tasks induced distinct prefrontal haemodynamic patterns seen in much older adults. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🚨COVID-19 may Enduringly Impact Cognitive Performance and Brain Haemodynamics in Undergraduate Students Not a cold. Not no big deal. Not *just* a threat to the “vulnerable.” This is brain damage.

The northeast region of the US is now going straight up for Covid in wastewater. Nationally, things continue to rise once again this week. We are in uncertain times, so what happens next remains a mystery. cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVID1…

@aliciaandrz As a mom who left a highly privileged TT position after 4.5 yrs bc trying to push back on toxic workplace nearly crushed me (with no appreciable change), I hear you. I am also rooting for you!

I’ve spent almost twenty years in academia, from undergrad to this tenure-track position, & I am totally burnt out. I’ve been accused of being whiny & playing the victim for talking about this but if it’s this tough for me with all my privilege it means it’s rough out there, folks. we’ve got to build something better.

New study in Nature finds no such thing as natural immunity to covid after the arrival of omicron. Pre-omicron, infection provided 80% protection against re-infection one year later. This falls to under 5% at one year with omicron

Another day, another study showing why we still must take precautions against being infected with COVID-19.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but... A few weeks of online school five years ago is not why kids are struggling now. That's Covid brain damage.

RT @michael_hoerger: The CDC data persist. 🔥🔥🔥 Half the states remain in high/very high C0VID transmission today.

The "devil's pact" between the VIRUS and the ASYMPTOMATICS ! AIRBORNE SARS-CoV-2 PERSISTS OVER 5 HOURS After Hospital Room Turnover, Genomic Evidence Suggests Thanks to @mryoung151 and @DavidJoffe64 for the dtudy

@aliciaandrz My 6yo just demanded of my MOTHER why she never taught me to play pretend, to my mom's great amusement. Pretend made me uncomfortable/upset as a kid, and still bothers me so I opt out. I do play w my kids, but we build stuff, do crafts/art, read, play board games/cards.

remember when that woman was like, “I kinda dislike playing with my kids” & all of Twitter attacked her for being a bad mom? I think about her all the time, like when my daughter is telling me what to make barbies say & then getting frustrated & yelling at me when I say it wrong

@oldenoughtosay One of mine threw up w liquid medicine from 6 months or so. The peds nurse said she'd show us how it's done... kiddo puked all over her. Then on the Dr when she tried. Dr rec'ed suppositories for tylonal, & prescribed tablets to crush into applesauce or yogurt from then on.

While President Trump illegally pauses federal funding from Congress, the Senate must not be business as usual. We do not consent to this lawless power grab.

Democrats should not vote on a single Trump cabinet nominee until this federal assistance freeze is rescinded. Do not let up.

@codyaims Price of convenience... next day for anything my team needs is extremely worthwhile for my small company for one-off builds, prototyping & pre-production. Plus the catalog makes an excellent monitor stand.

McMaster Carr is overpriced

@codyaims I have a tech who sometimes does initial CAD part design. I give him hand sketches bc I can NEVER explain what I need without drawing. If I know details well enough to provide a text description, it is already designed. To get there would take... making a CAD model of the part.

@codyaims Agreed- if it helps w the hard/expensive parts, we'd adopt it, but isolated part design/small CAD assemblies aren't a pain point, & text to CAD doesn't make sense even w that. We design by drawing: by hand, in CAD, iterating w assemblies. The act of drawing IS the act of design.

Dunks should continue until slop improves “Hardware guys” are more practical than they are jaded. The problem is the inability to understand what has utility value We saw no hesitancy by hardware community to adopt SendCutSend. None. It’s an awesome solution, ultra practical

Healio: “Study: Multiple SARS-CoV-2 infections increase risk for long COVID” Nearly 85% of people with long COVID had experienced multiple SARS-CoV-2 infections healio.com/news/infectiou…

Live Science: '1 in 22 COVID survivors develop debilitating chronic syndrome' 'A study suggests that catching COVID-19 significantly raises the risk of developing ME/CFS..' "This study's findings underscore the urgent need for treatments," Pollack said livescience.com/health/coronav…