Richard Levenson

@Starbucks anyone else notice that the lemon pound cake is not as good as before? Much less lemon flavor. Icing used to have a nice tang.

Simple intervention.... Awake prone positioning in non-intubated hospitalised patients with COVID-19 was associated with a lower risk of intubation and mortality in this multicentre observational study. DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00265-2021

It's March 15. (from my pal KSS). It was chuckled.

ICYMI: Here's my talk/tutorial on CycleGANs. Presented code demo, & discussed application to #pathology (my research) @abhi1thakur's channel: youtube.com/watch?v=gT8-wD… Showed how to use @fastdotai+nbdev+@GradioML for prototyping end2end #DeepLearning (training+ inference+web app)

@RepGaramendi just read piece I the Enterprise about extending AB5 exemptions to news carriers. This sounds essential at present to stop extinction of smaller papers in the state. Thanks.

@paulg I somehow knew that 1/3 copulations resulted in a pregnancy, so did the math, sort of, then asked my mother how often per year she and Dad mated—3 times or 4?

"I had a theory that when people kiss, they mix their DNA, but then I realized that can't be right." – 8 yo trying to work it out

My weekly COVID limerick: We are learning to live with the virus. In fact I think you’ll admire us. No more feeling strapped, Passover helped us adapt. Now we’re switching to toilet papyrus!

Sharing this gift from a colleague (forget who) ...

And now, thanks to my sister...a must-see example of what a shut-in family can manage: youtube.com/watch?v=Nf4Xxn… I am humbled. So far, all I've managed is to watch Tiger King.

My reprehensible brother sent me this: youtube.com/watch?v=jOk_8A… Enjoy.

A call to arms. CDC recommending hospital staff use bandanas when masks run out. Hospitals are asking the public to sew masks. Here is a physician responding: bitly.ws/85Af

An appropriate exercise for our time.

Article by my brother, Tom Levenson, in the Atlantic on the attempt to rebrand COVID-19 as the Wuhan virus, a Chinese scourge. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

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@DrJohnKang Boiled eggs for morning poster session at San Antonio Breast Cancer Soc. Agree--does work. Nice twitter feed, btw.

I have never been to a conference that had hard boiled eggs for refreshments but now I'm sold #NeurIPS2019

Even eagles have roaming limits nytimes.com/2019/10/26/wor…

@virtsmondavi you mentioned space station science, but I can’t think of any real success stories. What examples can you give?

@histochemnews I like your new logo, perhaps because it resembles my Twitter pic--which is actually a real physical entity--an inverted image of an LED array! Good luck with the new look.

Thieves steals thieves🤣