It’s Friday, which means getting an email from #JHU that I don’t care about. Full of nonsense like: #JohnsHopkins Alumni Association Golf Outing 🤦

"The FDA voted to update the COVID vaccine to represent one of the variants that are collectively called XBB. There are a couple of different versions of XBB, but they are similar enough that antibodies to one recognize the other. The XBB-based vaccine for the fall will no longer be what we call a 'bivalent booster,' which had two viruses in it; this will only have one (monovalent)."
https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2023/looking-ahead-at-covid-flu-and-rsv-vaccines-for-fall-2023
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#covid #XBB #FDA #JHU

The latest issue of The Science Writer has been published! (It's the last issue for me as editor-in-chief, a bittersweet moment.) Please check it out and support our talented student authors. #scicomm #sciencewriting #jhu https://www.thesciencewriter.org

Don't get me wrong. I hate the Russian government. I strongly want a free #Ukraine. But, #Zelenskyy addressing my alma mater's 2023 graduating class is just fucking weird. Seriously. It could not be more out of place for a man who is leading a war to liberate his people from #Russia's aggression. WTF. Shame on #JohnsHopkins for this stunt in the middle of a war. #JHU
https://hub.jhu.edu/2023/05/25/commencement-2023-volodymyr-zelenskyy-remarks/?utm_source=Alumni+-+Weekly+Update&utm_campaign=4b951b9631-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_05_24_12_41&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_82ece9ffab-891d6035ba-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=4b951b9631&mc_eid=72e8df7c25

Et tu, #JHU? #baltimore #maryland #immigration #HigherEducation

What's a six-letter word for "Baltimore bird" that's not BLU JAY? ;)

Click on the link to enter your solution (and all the others) on today's 11 × 11 grid.

https://mmcrosswords.weebly.com/minis--midis/baltimore-bird

#xw #crosswords #puzzle #Baltimore #JHU

Sigh. My alma mater continues to disappoint. #JohnsHopkins is actually boasting about its ranking with U.S. News & World Report. WTF, #JHU? From an email to Johns Hopkins alumni:

#JohnsHopkins MS in Energy Policy and Climate is over $200,000, in total, tuition only. My master's from #JHU was a fraction of that. This to me is obscene exploitation of students for a degrees in a field that is in demand.

#Climate #climatechange #climatecrisis

New details of Billie Holiday's early life.

https://hub.jhu.edu/2023/04/11/billie-holiday-collection-baltimore/?utm_source=Alumni+-+Weekly+Update&utm_campaign=34c0bf51f7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_04_12_11_48&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_82ece9ffab-d399afcb90-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=34c0bf51f7&mc_eid=72e8df7c25

#BillieHoliday #baltimore #BaltimoreMuseumofArt #jazz @jazz #JohnsHopkins #JHU

#COVID is not gone but data on COVID is - #JHU has stopped collecting data as of 03 / 10 / 2023 After three years of around-the-clock tracking of #COVID19 data from around the world, Johns Hopkins has discontinued the #Coronavirus Resource Center’s operations. The site’s two #RawData #repositories will remain accessible for information collected from 1/22/20 to 3/10/23 on cases, deaths, vaccines, testing and demographics. #PublicHealth #pandemic #endemic #LongCovid #disabilities

Johns Hopkins has been so obsessed with #ChatGPT the last few weeks. It is just shameful. And, frankly, embarrassing.

#JohnsHopkins #JHU

Johns Hopkins has been so obsessed with #ChatGPT in the last few weeks. It is just shameful. And, frankly, embarrassing.

#JohnsHopkins #JHU

So sad! Over the past 3 years, I had been a daily visitor of the Johns-Hopkins-University #JHU website for worldwide #Covid19 infection and fatality data by country, as a single-version-of-truth, as you couldn't trust figures issued by the different national health organisations. No idea how I will be able to get a continuous view on the situation after this site stops operating.

Join us for a special #JHU workshop on #SubatomicWriting next Tuesday at 7 pm Eastern. Bring a favorite sentence from literature or from your favorite science writer. Register:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/author-talk-featuring-jamie-zvirzdin-tickets-520764840657

Get the book: https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12825/subatomic-writing

See reviews:
www.subatomicwriting.com

In another sign of the changing state of the #pandemic, an invaluable source of information about the virus over the last three years is shutting down, NPR has learned. The Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center plans to cease operations March 10, officials told NPR. #COVID19 #JHU #CovidTracker #PublicHealth https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/02/10/1155790201/as-the-pandemic-ebbs-an-influential-covid-tracker-shuts-down

#JohnsHopkins computer scientist Daniel Khashabi's statement about #chatgpt is why we need the #humanities.

He stated, "It can be an excellent writing and brainstorming tool. I can write a summary of an idea I have in mind, ask ChatGPT to expand it more sophisticatedly, then pick the results I like and further develop them myself or continue using ChatGPT. This is human-machine collaborative writing."

Disappointed in my Alma mater. Not surprised. #JHU #criticalthinking

https://hub.jhu.edu/2023/02/09/chatgpt-qa-khashabi/?utm_source=Alumni+-+Weekly+Update&utm_campaign=43dd5cfe69-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_02_08_06_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_82ece9ffab-4cffdcfc1f-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=43dd5cfe69&mc_eid=15176e1508

Check out "Author Talk Featuring Jamie Zvirzdin." Bring your favorite sentence from literature—doesn't even have to be related to science.
https://eventbrite.com/e/author-talk-featuring-jamie-zvirzdin-tickets-520764840657

#JHUPress
#JHU

#SubatomicWriting #scicomm #writingcommunity #writing #writingtips #physics #professors #students

Any #DataVis folks know someone working at the #JHU #Covid dashboard?

Hey! 👋 New to mastodon. Hoping to connect to folks posting about #neuroscience, #academia, #antiracism, #BlackInNeuro, #BlackInSTEM, etc. I did my #phd in #computationalneuroscience and am a #postdoc in an #NIH #IRACDA program at #JHU researching cognitive control and decision making through modeling behavioral and intracranial EEG data. I am teaching at Coppin State University, an #HBCU in #Baltimore. Interested in science and activism.

so much sports (and even more football today) so just going to toot our solo bluejay, as I believe this is one of our best designs. Maybe it will bring all who see (and boost of course) the bluebird of happiness for 2023

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/blue-jay-college-mascot-designs.html

#AYearForArt #ArtMatters #Bluejays #GoJays #Jays #GoHop #Creighton #Tabor #Etown #Westminster #Elmhurst #JHU #JohnsHopkins