List of bird and mammal species infected with H5 avian influenza....fao.org/animal-health/…

My first impressions of Apple's Vision Pro:

The good:
✅ Resolution of the OLED screens, it's the best I’ve experienced in a headset
✅ The learning curve isn’t huge - VisionOS is very intuitive and easy to use and the pinch and swipe gestures to navigate it really work.
✅ The…

Food for thought about who invites speakers to seminars -

Note also the switch of terminology from 'refereeing' to 'peer review' came in the late 1970s possibly as a consequence of concerns about government interference ethos.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/19/

A thread on the WHO #PandemicAccord , some good, some weak ⬇️

These are the sort of people the US political theatre 'origin of COVID-19' 'investigations'/witch-hunt seem to be playing to. All very stupid, and really not helping. *Sigh*

#NZ First electric flights

Air New Zealand has announced Wellington to Marlborough will be the first route for its first all-electric aircraft, the Beta ALIA.

ODT story: odt.co.nz/business/air-n…

Could be a big deal - thread on vaccine for UTI (urinary tract infections). Long-term prevention. NZ is one of the trial countries. 🧵⬇️

Good work on the Listener covering the topic.

(I haven’t read it.)

#NZ “WorkSafe has widened a ban on Serene wall mounted heaters, which don’t meet safety standards and have been linked to a spate of fires.”
stuff.co.nz/business/35024…

This is a great award honoring a great science journalist. (Deadline 4/30) Sharon Begley Science Reporting Award - CASW casw.org/awards-fellows…

I think they should have added “, making it wilt” 😀

The US law system may think it’s doing right by law (?), but knowing how they roll the ‘anti-’ movement will trumpet removal of the tweet as a grand ‘victory’.

It was excellent comms, reaching the audience well.

“FDA has not admitted any violation of law or any wrongdoing.”

Hey, current and ex-Newshub and 3 News journos - if you're afraid your archived work on the Newshub site will be lost forever, worry no more. We've developed a little tool that can retrieve much of your work to your own computer (details in thread)

Globally, life expectancy fell by 1.6 years between 2019 and 2021.

#NZ is one of 7 countries bucking this tread with negative all-age mortality rates for 2020 & 2021 combined.

Nearly 6000 NZers have died with COVID.
This work does not consider long-COVID
rnz.co.nz/news/what-you-…

#NZ Paxlovid for those not eligible for subsidy

Not all pharmacies,* and not cheap (~$2,000).

Details in linked web page and thread 🧵⬇️