Twitter used to be my go to place to write my thoughts, but it's become the Mos Eisley of social media. I will no longer post here, but I'll lurk until I have followed the cool people I've met here the past decade on the safer X alternatives, & keep this handle for myself.

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An anti-vaxxer appointed as secretary of health? LOL at USA

I'm defending PAGASA. PAGASA had not been remiss in reminding EVERYONE in Northern Luzon to prepare, whether in the predicted direct path of the eye or not. Predicting paths and intensity of storms is already hard enough; blaming meteorologists makes it harder.

Sino nga siya? Can someone tell us who she is! Her facial expressions spoke decibels. And that left eyebrow! It almost flew out of the roof! Way to go, girl!

True. The flip side - ang dami ko patients today with cough and cold sa clinic 🤪 Walang classes daw. Diozkolord may balak pala papasukin ang mga yan 😡

Who reviewed this paper? A few days ago @gcabanac tweeted about a paper that had published a remark that it had been forced to cite irrelevant papers. You can see the tweet here: buff.ly/3UMIguf. We remarked that if it was not so serious, it would be funny. Since reading that tweet, we have not been able to get it out of our head, so we thught that we would document it in a little more detail. We are doing this for three reasons. 1️⃣ In our view, it descerves more detail to be made available. 2️⃣ We'd like these details to be be kept as a matter of public record, so we are posting similar posts on our X account and our LinkedIn account. 3️⃣ It should be of interest to this community, so we hope that this raises even further the ethical issues around this topic. The first image shows the paper that we are looking at. What is interesting is the text that appears on at the end of the introduction (highlighted in red). This appears to show that the reviewer insisted that a set of 13 papers be cited, else they would not accept the paper. It would be interesting to see the review repport, so that we could be certain what had been said. If you want to see the paper, it is available here: buff.ly/4fndXm0 In the rest of this 🧵, we show the papers that have been asked to be cited (i.e. [35]-[47]). These have been taken from the paper mentioned above. You'll notice (as we have highlighted it) that every paper is "et al." meaning, of course, that there are quite a few authors on each paper. Gicven that we cannot see all the authors, the other images on this 🧵 shows the full set of authors on each of these 13 papers. We leave it an an exercise for the reader to hazard a guess as to the reviewr is?

I suppose these people will enjoy watching the presidential inauguration from prison TV newsweek.com/full-list-capit…

PH Ambassador to the US Jose Romualdez advises illegal Filipino immigrants to voluntarily leave as President-elect Donald Trump is set to implement stricter immigration policies. “Leave voluntarily because once you are deported you can never come back to the United States.” | via @victoriatulad

Our pediatric ERs are seeing a LOT of cases of COVID again lately, many also testing positive with a coinfection with RSV (and even metapneumovirus). It would be prudent to avoid crowded (and poorly ventilated) places for now, and to practice masking and good hand hygiene.

there was quite noticeable and often, an outright hostility to non-white customers; and noticeable among young people at malls, was lack of mixing among races: each tribe so to speak, seemed to keep to its own kind. My wife said, "something has changed about Americans."

Matutunan ng mga kano ang alam natin mula pa noong 2022: celebrity endorsements and rally sizes are meaningless

Nag-ululan kayo dyan, pero damay kaming lahat.

Bwiset na news Tatakbo na lang ako. Hahabaan ko

“He’s gonna make America great again” daw sabi ng supporter ni Trump. Narinig ko na rin yan noon eh, “Change is coming” daw dito sa Pinas. Ayun, ending nganga.

He was not only gifted, but good: a person who was kind and respectful to others, and passionate about his art and his country. He was impossible to dislike and so easy to respect. Robert Alejandro, you will be missed. RIP.

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Sabi nila may 189 Filipino Scientists per 1 million Filipinos. Mayroon lang tayong 172 meteorologists for the whole Philippines. Hug a scientist friend today.