Basil M. Gravanis

Neolithic turf farmer, biologist. Rogue nerd, naturalist. Sometimes photos. Highly heterodox. Scandithenian 🇸🇪🇬🇷 🔁 🇺🇸 ♂️Terroir: Mediterranean

[Basil M. Gravanis @PaleoPhotoPro]

https://t.co/8etWSJq3J4
If I had to link to a “one-stop-shop” of information — with study abstracts and links — this’d be it.

Very handy resource-rundown for those who have tried hard to ignore and forget the emergence of a new, major wrinkle in our reality in 2020. 🦠

“COVID-19 and Immune Dysregulation, a Summary and Resource”

[Basil M. Gravanis @PaleoPhotoPro]

Never forget that, by default, AI is a terrible PubMed Warrior, despite being able to read far more than you could ever hope to.

Always regard it as akin to yourself perhaps debating things online after an especially inebriated night of bar trivia.

Either not able to diverge enough or taking divergent thinking much too far.

[Sammy @NeuroSGS]

Many psychological, cognitive, and behavioural sex differences are small to moderate when examined individually.

But when dozens of these differences are considered together, the overlap between male and female distributions shrinks substantially:

https://t.co/m6ExKjMEdb

[Lorwen Harris Nagle, PhD @LORWEN108]

A Stanford psychiatrist says modern anxiety is not caused by danger.

It's caused by tiny habits that teach your brain to panic when nothing is actually wrong.

You do them every day.
And you call them normal.

6 normal habits quietly teaching your nervous system to panic:▼▼▼

1/ Reaching for your phone the moment you feel uncomfortable.

[David Krieger @PragmaticNurse]

An arrogant doctor or nurse is a lot more dangerous for your health than any occasional cigarette or bottle of beer could ever be.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Steve Jobs's bedroom when he was still living with his parents, 1976. Apple 1 boxes stored on the right.

[Alice Evans @_alice_evans]

Simone de Beauvoir, MacKinnon and Dworkin all saw romantic love as patriarchy’s handmaiden, fooling women into domestic drudgery and sacrifice, effectively enabling what I call ‘patriarchal rents’.

And that’s certainly possible, people can sacrifice due to devotion.

However, these Western feminist overlooked the reality that their own culture of female choice increased the likelihood of women finding men that would love them, and prioritise their wants and welfare, seeking emotional companionship and being committed to their children.

That has been a unique engine of gender equality.

[VB Knives @Empty_America]

To think that there used to be lions along the shores of the Aegean, the Mediterranean.

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Identifying an inflection point for Alzheimer's disease from the brains of 80 and 100 year old individuals. Microglia transition is key; initially it is protective vs inflammatory changes triggered by amyloid.
But microglia can turn destructive linked to tau. Resilience in older age, via two divergent pathways, prevents that transition. @NatureMedicine
https://t.co/cyiHYetCVt

[Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78]

We must be crystal clear about a few points. Long Covid is not a "poorly understood neuroimmune disorder" with no biomarkers. It is a widely studied biological medical condition. Pathology spanning basically all body systems is well documented, with damage in situ across organs

[Basil M. Gravanis @PaleoPhotoPro]

Yep.

[David Moscrop @David_Moscrop]

Really torn here.

[covanD @covandavidson11]

Oil boys summer

[PolyBio @polybioRF]

Said Dr. Mark Painter in a recent episode of PolyBio’s Lab Visits: “What we’re seeing in a third of people with Long COVID, maybe more, is evidence that T cells recognizing either SARS-CoV-2—or in some different people, herpesviruses—are persistently activated. Which is suggestive that those viruses are present somewhere in the body.”

Listen to the full interview here: https://t.co/g3CnbSqNsl

[MECFS, MCAS and PTSD @FatigueMe92484]

Anxiety / Amygdala

Scientists have identified a specific brain circuit that appears to play a major role in anxiety, depression-like behaviors, and social withdrawal. Even more striking, they found that restoring balance within this circuit was enough to reverse several of these behaviors in mice.

Read more...

Scientists reverse anxiety by fixing a tiny brain circuit | ScienceDaily https://t.co/1dARLqNuPx

[jorgenponder — om coronavirusepidemin @jorgenponder]

Strong public health signal that Covid promotes cancer either through flare-ups of the HPV virus, or a suppressed ability to fight cancer.
3 million patients. I reckon some in the control group had had Covid too, which would boost the signal even more.
https://t.co/HT8HQyx6VA

[Conor Browne @brownecfm]

Remember that the existence of Long Covid and the fact that millions of people worldwide are suffering from it creates an extraordinary dissonance in the minds of a section of the population who wish to believe the falsity that Covid is no longer dangerous, and perhaps never was.

[Basil M. Gravanis @PaleoPhotoPro]

@PGC1a_RB Damn, you just made me remember that I forgot to take mine before a dinner of unknown insult. Oops.

[Seeking Boston Marathon @seeksboston26mi]

@WIRED The worst article ever (poorly) written about Long Covid; gaslighting and minimizing those disabled by it. The ultimate "puff piece", a one-sided OpEd approach devoid of any well-known and established experts in the Long Covid community https://t.co/LPOJzcbBR8

[Ryan Maue @RyanWeather]

60 Minutes when everyone has a 60 Seconds attention span.

[gaut @0xgaut]

son, back in my day engineers copy pasted code from a website