Dr Michelle Wong

For the last year and a bit, I've been writing a book, all about the science of beauty. It's called… The Science of Beauty. I'm great with names! It covers the basics (and not-so-basics) of skincare, haircare, makeup, nails, as well as general cosmetic science.

@Missy_dee811 There's like a 25% citation error rate in science (the referenced source doesn't support the claim)

You could not waterboard this out of me 😭 So many PhDs telling us they don't know how to fucking do the thing they're being paid to do which is research

Btw COVID was proven to be airborne bc of THIS WOMAN’s research and the WHO had to completely revise decades of science, she is a HERO, EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW HER NAME!!! She will be remembered by history and in the future so much about our infrastructure will change bc of her.

1) Something very clear from this Hantavirus outbreak is that @WHO is still quite confused about airborne transmission Still confuse "close contact" (a setting) with a mechanism of transmission Do not understand that ease of transmission in close proximity ==> likely airborne

5) Frustrante ver cosas q SI necesitan recursos, y se hace muy poco En particular prepararnos para proxima pandemia: - mejorando ventilacion en escuelas, hospitales, comercios etc. - Instalando medidores de CO2 visibles y explicando - Enseniando a usar mascarillas FFP2 / N95

@MundlerStudents @ukhadds @CrnchyMama @PeteUK7 There isn't even much for flu cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-gene…

@ukhadds @CrnchyMama @PeteUK7 I always wondered why there proved to be so little fomite transmission for Covid in the end, in spite of the hand gel hype, and yet so much for flu.

Pro-Tip: When a pathogen (A) spreads via “Close contact” and (B) infects anywhere in the respiratory system, this means that the pathogen is AIRBORNE. Mask. Filtration. Ventilation. Clean the air.

Your chances of being able bodied your entire life are slim to none. It is always in your best interest to advocate for a more accessible world.

This is a nice lull and great news. As a reminder, in fall 2021 (post vaccine), Fauci said a reasonable level of covid circulating to remove precautions would be 10k cases/day. This is the first time we’ve fallen below 100k cases/day in the nearly 5 years since

@robelyemiru Thank you!

Big fan of @LabMuffin’s science communication!

Send this to your left leaning friends who don’t mask

@profesterman @JayneFlan Argh not you as well with the AI slop

@JayneFlan Rising cancer diagnoses in younger adults are being reported in several countries. The causes are likely complex and still under investigation. We need careful data analysis — not single-cause explanations.

It’s COVID. Our government knew COVID was harmful & they -very criminally- let this happen. & too many people turned away from this reality & ensured this nightmare outcome. How do we ready ourselves for the scale of suffering we’re now certain to face? It will be crushing

“gen alpha cough” is a hilarious observation and then you realize it’s bc they all have chronic coughs from getting sick with covid 3x a year at public school

"COVID is here to stay" is a fatalist position. In the 1800s, before municipal water filtration, saying "there's nothing we can do about cholera" would have been wrong. The same is now true of COVID. Far-UVC/ventilation/filtration can hugely reduce transmission if we demand it.

This woman caught COVID three months ago, was just diagnosed with Long COVID, and is now in danger of losing her job. This pandemic is not over. It is ongoing.

They promoted Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent to distract you from reading Parenti’s Inventing Reality, which was written years earlier and is far better.

@NukitToBeSure @suchnerve Thank you 🥹 Very high praise from you!!

@suchnerve @LabMuffin She rocks so hard.

Biosec maps ridiculously well to infosec, but this does us absolutely no good because there are so few infosec professionals interested in biosec and so few biosec professionals willing to adopt an appropriately adversarial cognitive model from infosec. If you are looking for a loose framework to start with, you can pull so much from infosec- defense in depth, single point failure issues, not relying on security through obscurity (using mitigations with limited supporting evidence that have not been "pressure tested"), user compliance issues- the list goes on and on. Most importantly, just an overall adversarial mindset "how will they try and break/stop this?", because people are actively trying to remove and bypass biosecurity measures for convenience or profit, if not necessarily maliciously. I think one of the main problems with exclusively applying a mechanical engineering or medical mindset to biosec with no other tools in the box is that those professionals don't usually have an adversarial framework- they plan for failure well, even brute force vandalism, but they tend not to prepare well for an intelligent resisting opponent- which we have in biosec. We are up against articulate, well-credentialed individuals who have been successful in arguing in favor of inhaling other people's saliva for its health benefits. That's a hell of a Final Boss. You really need the equivalent of LockPickingLawyer to take apart your IAQ measure and find all the ways failure can be deliberately induced, either physically or administratively. People outside of infosec often become very upset about that kind of pressure/pen-testing, so it tends not to happen in development where it should, but instead occurs in the real world, where it usually kills the initiative.

@callmeeern @grok @NicoOkapi The only thing that's the same between your answer and Grok's is the idea of hydrogen bonds and hair shape. @grok Does salt spray mostly work via the grit and separation effect, or by drawing out water? Keep in mind that curly hair usually looks best at moderate humidity

@grok @LabMuffin @NicoOkapi “J’apprécie, Grok 😘”

Can someone tell me why in mexico my hair was gorgeous and curly and the second I get back to Minneapolis it looks awful again

@callmeeern @NicoOkapi This is complete bullshit lol

@NicoOkapi “If you were swimming somewhere coastal it’s because salt allows the hydrogen bonds in your hair to break and reform into more interesting patterns around the salt crystals once dried. Buy some saltwater spray and apply every morning for the same effect.

@ParentMishmash @fmrcavedweller @NukitToBeSure @xKonaPearl @drseanmullen This is so interesting! I've stayed in dozens of hotel rooms over the last 5 years but only one in the US, and that was the only time I could remember seeing a PTAC. I think the places I stayed in Europe and Australia were almost all VRF (or a window and an anti-mosquito plugin)

@fmrcavedweller @NukitToBeSure @xKonaPearl @drseanmullen Every hotel I’ve stayed in used either a PTAC or VTAC, both of which are 100% recirculating, PTAC in cheaper motels and VTAC in midrange hotels, the picture we are replying under from Dr Mullen appears to be a VTAC

@US_Macauley @allTheYud @Aella_Girl I don't understand how anyone could make this mistake if they've actually read more than 1 or 2 studies, and noticed the distinct lack of NLM being cited.

@allTheYud @Aella_Girl should learn to cite articles, before I'd declare her top anything. Citing an abstract published on pubmed simply as "National Library of Medicine" is unacceptable. I will bring this up whenever her scientific laurels are cited until corrected.

one of Earth's top scientists on sex and gender has published her latest work, open for all to read in a widely read venue on that science topic, where it will receive far more peer scrutiny than any lesser forum provides

@suchnerve I went to a concert at Le Trianon last year and it was 600 ppm - it's doable, just lack of incentive when ventilation so invisible! 😩

oh yeah one time in 2023 i decided to risk going to a concert in an N99 because i could isolate for 5 days afterward and then take a PCR test……… the CO₂ level was over 4,000 (above 2,500 is proven to impair thinking+moving and cause headaches; >5,000 is an OSHA violation)