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kdnyhan

@kdnyhan@social.esmarconf.org

Public health librarian in an academic medical library
Co-founder of Community Access to Ventilation Information, https://cavico2.com/, because everyone should have clean, safe indoor air

#EvidenceSynthesis #KnowledgeTranslation
#PublicHealthInformatics #DataSharing #DataCuration
#InformationLiteracy
#Scholcomm #OpenAccess
#HealthEquity
#EnvironmentalHealthLiteracy #CO2monitoring #PublicLibraries #LibraryOfThings
#Accessibility #COVIDisAirborne

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kdnyhan, to random
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Hi and
My library is hiring a biomedical informatics librarian (new role)

Blog post with salary range on the library website:
https://library.medicine.yale.edu/about/job-opportunities/biomedical-informatics-librarian

Posting on the HR website without salary range
https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/home/HomeWithPreLoad?partnerid=25053&siteid=5248&PageType=searchResults&SearchType=linkquery&LinkID=14124655#jobDetails=1586743_5248

kdnyhan, to random
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Just got a peer review request from a journal I didn't know, and because the topic was right up my alley I went and looked up the journal -- diamond OA, CC-BY, author retains copyright -- all things I want to support. None of which they mentioned in the request.
Don't hide your light under a bushel, handling editors!

kdnyhan, to random
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Great book, strong recommendation, get it for your library's collection and read it as soon as it's on the shelf

kdnyhan, to random
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I know @pluralistic has talked about right to repair in the context of wheelchairs - I bet you'd be interested in this too

https://www.statnews.com/2024/05/01/wheelchair-repair-delay-numotion-national-seating-mobility/

The headline is "After private equity firms gobbled up wheelchair makers, users pay the price in long repair times"

kdnyhan,
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@pluralistic
The article cites this report (not paywalled):
PRIVATE EQUITY IN DURABLE MEDICAL
EQUIPMENT
How Private Equity Profits Off of
Disabled and Chronically Ill Americans
NOVEMBER 2023
https://pestakeholder.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/PESP_Report_DME_2023.pdf

kdnyhan, to boston
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Hi (or greater Boston) folks

Is there anywhere that does dim sum outdoors? Boston, Quincy, wherever?

kdnyhan, to random
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This made me feel a lot better:
As of Friday, CDC recommends that people working with animals potentially infected with bird flu use PPE including respirators, implicitly acknowledging airborne/aerosol/“through the air airborne transmission/inhalation.”

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/h5/worker-protection-ppe.htm

HT @dfisman

kdnyhan, to random
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About the IAQ aerostability of SARS-CoV-2 paper that has been all over COVID-cautious Mastodon - it's fascinating (and open access).

Haddrell et al (2024). Ambient carbon dioxide concentration correlates with SARS-CoV-2 aerostability and infection risk. Nature Communications, 15(1), 3487. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47777-5

kdnyhan,
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To contextualize their finding that "a significant increase in SARS-CoV-2 aerostability results from a moderate increase in the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration (e.g. 800 ppm)," take a look at the CO2 ppm readings from two meetings I attended in person last week.These meetings were both in a recently renovated (2019 IIRC) building with mechanical ventilation.

kdnyhan,
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The meeting where CO2 ppm readings ranged from 800 to 1050 - that space was definitely not over capacity. I know because the number of invitees to that recurring meeting is above the room's capacity, so I keep track and leave to Zoom from my desk if it gets too crowded.

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So - if you are that unusual type of person who is both COVID cautious and trusting towards building managers - well, spaces in this recently renovated building, at a university that can afford to have nice things, when used as intended (ie, not overcrowded and not doing more physical activity than expected) are reaching these CO2 concentrations. FYI.

kdnyhan, to random
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"All of the artwork for this podcast series has been created with a generative AI image-to-image tool! The prompt for this episode was 'open and free science available to all communities as an abstract painting.'"
Does this make anyone more likely to subscribe to the podcast?

kdnyhan,
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@adr
On the one hand, I should probably pay attention to what Lisa Federer and Maryam Zaringhalam have to say about open science and NNLM's role in fostering communication between NLM and their users.
On the other, well, the closer I look at the "painting" the less I like it.

kdnyhan,
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@briagne Are you talking about this guy sitting on a stool being hugged around the waist by a child?

kdnyhan,
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@briagne I mean, it looks like the ghost of a child who wasted away in a famine....

ubikaritas, to random
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community, I’m tabling at an academic conference next month to spread awareness of both the Public Health Pledge (@phpledge) and precautions as paths toward inclusivity, and I’m trying to think of what would make this table both useful and appealing to passersby. Does anyone have suggestions on what else I can do, in terms of signage, giveaways, activities, etc.?

kdnyhan,
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@ubikaritas @phpledge

Hmm, do you have any clean air tech that you could show off at the table, and perhaps raffle off to a participant? An air filter or a CO2 monitor? Or collect donations to give masks/air filters to a local school, daycare, or homeless shelter?

kdnyhan,
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@ubikaritas @phpledge
Since it's an academic conference, maybe lean in to the message "are your students falling asleep in lecture bc you and your topic are boring? No! Probably they are falling asleep bc your ventilation is so bad!"

kdnyhan,
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@ubikaritas @phpledge
Can you bring up a ventilation simulator on a tablet?
https://www.nist.gov/services-resources/software/viper-virus-particle-exposure-residences

kdnyhan,
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@ubikaritas @phpledge
My tech-oriented suggestions notwithstanding, I think it's really important to center inclusion. But I haven't found a way to do that effectively in my professional circles....

kdnyhan,
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@ubikaritas
Thinking about the inclusion message - maybe you can prompt people to reflect on how many of their students

  • are immunocompromised or at higher risk bc of other conditions
  • live with/are in community with people who are at higher risk
  • already have Long COVID
  • can't afford to take time off work if/when they get sick
    Sadly I'm not aware of a convenient interactive tool where you could look that up by metro area or institution or anything....
kdnyhan,
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@ubikaritas
Oh! Maybe share the COVID info that Mike Hoerger puts on his syllabus? Especially if the conference has any pedagogical focus....

kdnyhan,
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@ubikaritas
Last idea I promise: https://friendhole.social/@beandreams/112305392190450816

Invite people to... well, you don't want to make a list of people who aren't there bc of COVID/lack of inclusion, terrible for privacy. But you could have a poster or a whiteboard or something, and you invite people to choose a sticker or write a message in honor of the people they wish were there at your event, but who aren't there bc of COVID/COVID risk.

kdnyhan, to random
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Someday I will get through an ASIST webinar about AI without needing this sign, but that day is not today.

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Was responding to someone #onhere and thought: "Wait I should tell everybody that."

Did you know @gbhnews is one of the very few newsrooms in the country with a reporter specifically covering the #disability beat?

Her name is Meghan Smith and you can see her excellent work right here: https://www.wgbh.org/people/meghan-smith #journalism

kdnyhan,
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@trebach @gbhnews Or indeed, Miles Griffith, the journalist and disability advocate who, with Betsy Ladyzhets, started The Sick Times, a newsroom that covers Long COVID

https://thesicktimes.org/2023/11/14/welcome-to-the-sick-times-a-letter-from-our-co-founder-miles-w-griffis/

kdnyhan, to random
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Surprised in a good way to see members writing a joint consensus statement with AIHA members: "Public Health Experts Urge CDC’s Advisory Committee to Follow the Science and Protect Health Care Workers and Patients"
If you want to read or sign (deadline April 12): https://forms.gle/1s4neNoXFKUrThvh6

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