Nicola Palin
@nicpalin.bsky.social
Keen on education, maths, non-verbal reasoning, science, wildlife, food.
Author.
Raising caring humans with inquiring minds.
Clean indoor air enthusiast.
Born at 333ppm.
#CovidIsAirborne #CleanAir
Author.
Raising caring humans with inquiring minds.
Clean indoor air enthusiast.
Born at 333ppm.
#CovidIsAirborne #CleanAir
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Great IAQ info (from a conference) shared by @peteuk7.bsky.social on Twitter:
"In Jan there was a conference:
Breathing achievement into every classroom
This conference was designed to probe the link between Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) in educational buildings..."
threadreaderapp.com/thread/18974...
"In Jan there was a conference:
Breathing achievement into every classroom
This conference was designed to probe the link between Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) in educational buildings..."
threadreaderapp.com/thread/18974...
March 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Great IAQ info (from a conference) shared by @peteuk7.bsky.social on Twitter:
"In Jan there was a conference:
Breathing achievement into every classroom
This conference was designed to probe the link between Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) in educational buildings..."
threadreaderapp.com/thread/18974...
"In Jan there was a conference:
Breathing achievement into every classroom
This conference was designed to probe the link between Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) in educational buildings..."
threadreaderapp.com/thread/18974...
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A reminder for these times.
March 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
A reminder for these times.
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youtu.be/pvT3aQjLxdE
Here's a 🎶 twist on Coldplay's thumping #VivaLaVida we're calling "Puppets on a Kremlin String?"
It reflects on the grotesque media spectacle hosted by #Trump & #Vance yesterday at the White House. In solidarity with Zelensky & Ukraine.
#SlavaUkraini
#Dontabandonthem
Here's a 🎶 twist on Coldplay's thumping #VivaLaVida we're calling "Puppets on a Kremlin String?"
It reflects on the grotesque media spectacle hosted by #Trump & #Vance yesterday at the White House. In solidarity with Zelensky & Ukraine.
#SlavaUkraini
#Dontabandonthem
"Puppets on a Kremlin String?" - Marsh Family adaptation of Coldplay's "Viva la Vida" on Trump/Vance
YouTube video by Marsh Family
youtu.be
March 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
youtu.be/pvT3aQjLxdE
Here's a 🎶 twist on Coldplay's thumping #VivaLaVida we're calling "Puppets on a Kremlin String?"
It reflects on the grotesque media spectacle hosted by #Trump & #Vance yesterday at the White House. In solidarity with Zelensky & Ukraine.
#SlavaUkraini
#Dontabandonthem
Here's a 🎶 twist on Coldplay's thumping #VivaLaVida we're calling "Puppets on a Kremlin String?"
It reflects on the grotesque media spectacle hosted by #Trump & #Vance yesterday at the White House. In solidarity with Zelensky & Ukraine.
#SlavaUkraini
#Dontabandonthem
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"In short, portable air filters are an important tool to help reduce the risk of transmission of airborne infectious diseases. This is settled science, and has been for decades."
Their deployment in health care and community settings would help stop the spread of #flu, #Covid & other viruses.
Their deployment in health care and community settings would help stop the spread of #flu, #Covid & other viruses.
If only public health authorities gave the same level of emphasis to portable air filters as they do to handwashing…
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com
January 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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What I said Jan 2022...
So if we all agree that we will be living with respiratory viruses in the future & that they have an airborne transmission component, can we agree that it is essential to clean indoor air using filtration & ventilation for all schools/businesses so we can get our lives back?
So if we all agree that we will be living with respiratory viruses in the future & that they have an airborne transmission component, can we agree that it is essential to clean indoor air using filtration & ventilation for all schools/businesses so we can get our lives back?
November 17, 2024 at 3:03 AM
What I said Jan 2022...
So if we all agree that we will be living with respiratory viruses in the future & that they have an airborne transmission component, can we agree that it is essential to clean indoor air using filtration & ventilation for all schools/businesses so we can get our lives back?
So if we all agree that we will be living with respiratory viruses in the future & that they have an airborne transmission component, can we agree that it is essential to clean indoor air using filtration & ventilation for all schools/businesses so we can get our lives back?
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🦠💉🧪
“The success of childhood vaccination has a perverse effect of making the benefits of these vaccines invisible.”
It’s a classic conundrum of preventative measures against disease:* success is when you see nothing when you otherwise would
Nice article from @sarahzhang.bsky.social
“The success of childhood vaccination has a perverse effect of making the benefits of these vaccines invisible.”
It’s a classic conundrum of preventative measures against disease:* success is when you see nothing when you otherwise would
Nice article from @sarahzhang.bsky.social
Gift article. "For most of human history, half of all children died before reaching age 15; that number is down to just 4 percent worldwide, and far lower in developed countries, with vaccines one of the major drivers of improved life expectancy." Medsky www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Here’s How We Know RFK Jr. Is Wrong About Vaccines
Children used to die of diseases far more gruesome and deadly than we remember.
www.theatlantic.com
November 24, 2024 at 6:24 AM
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“The success of childhood vaccination has a perverse effect of making the benefits of these vaccines invisible.”
It’s a classic conundrum of preventative measures against disease:* success is when you see nothing when you otherwise would
Nice article from @sarahzhang.bsky.social
“The success of childhood vaccination has a perverse effect of making the benefits of these vaccines invisible.”
It’s a classic conundrum of preventative measures against disease:* success is when you see nothing when you otherwise would
Nice article from @sarahzhang.bsky.social
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At long last, MHRA has approved Novavax's Nuvaxovid JN.1 in the UK for those aged 12 years and over! How long will it take to become available? #Novavax #JN1
www.gov.uk/government/n...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
MHRA approves adapted Nuvaxovid JN.1 COVID-19 vaccines for adults and children aged 12 plus
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has approved an adapted version of the Nuvaxovid COVID-19 vaccine that targets the Omicron JN.1 COVID-19 subvariant.
www.gov.uk
November 15, 2024 at 1:26 PM
At long last, MHRA has approved Novavax's Nuvaxovid JN.1 in the UK for those aged 12 years and over! How long will it take to become available? #Novavax #JN1
www.gov.uk/government/n...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Thread for those new to BlueSky. First of all, welcome. It feels like a safer space, doesn’t it? But also perhaps a bit disorienting initially? Here’s some tips for getting your bearings.
November 13, 2024 at 5:59 PM
Thread for those new to BlueSky. First of all, welcome. It feels like a safer space, doesn’t it? But also perhaps a bit disorienting initially? Here’s some tips for getting your bearings.
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Installing air filters in classrooms has surprisingly large educational benefits
$1,000 can raise a class’s test scores by as much as cutting class size by a third.
www.vox.com/2020/1/8/210...
H/t @leanhealth.bsky.social on Twitter
$1,000 can raise a class’s test scores by as much as cutting class size by a third.
www.vox.com/2020/1/8/210...
H/t @leanhealth.bsky.social on Twitter
Installing air filters in classrooms has surprisingly large educational benefits
$1,000 can raise a class’s test scores by as much as cutting class size by a third.
www.vox.com
November 5, 2024 at 10:18 PM
Installing air filters in classrooms has surprisingly large educational benefits
$1,000 can raise a class’s test scores by as much as cutting class size by a third.
www.vox.com/2020/1/8/210...
H/t @leanhealth.bsky.social on Twitter
$1,000 can raise a class’s test scores by as much as cutting class size by a third.
www.vox.com/2020/1/8/210...
H/t @leanhealth.bsky.social on Twitter
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Looking for something more positive today? It’s only TWO sleeps until world ventilation day. And your last chance to sign up to hear our fantastic speakers talk about their work to understand and improve ventilation and IAQ 🧪
Save the date! We’re hosting a free webinar on 8th Nov 1-3pm for World Ventilate Day. Join us to hear about research studies and practice on improving ventilation for schools, homes, offices, hospitals and small business. Sign up here www.eventbrite.com/e/building-t...
Building the Evidence to Improve Ventilation
Join us for an online event to explore how research can support evidence for better ventilation and how this can change practice.
www.eventbrite.com
November 6, 2024 at 9:53 AM
Looking for something more positive today? It’s only TWO sleeps until world ventilation day. And your last chance to sign up to hear our fantastic speakers talk about their work to understand and improve ventilation and IAQ 🧪
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The @Harvard Healthy Buildings Team creates tools and resources to empower people to apply the latest research on healthy building solutions to their everyday lives. Their tools are free and open to the public.
forhealth.org/tools/
forhealth.org/tools/
December 8, 2023 at 5:31 PM
The @Harvard Healthy Buildings Team creates tools and resources to empower people to apply the latest research on healthy building solutions to their everyday lives. Their tools are free and open to the public.
forhealth.org/tools/
forhealth.org/tools/
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If you are not already aware that the little owl antennae are called “plumicorns” I would like to be the one who shared that information with you.
November 16, 2023 at 6:37 AM
If you are not already aware that the little owl antennae are called “plumicorns” I would like to be the one who shared that information with you.
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The question is not:
“Is cleaner indoor air cost-effective?”
it’s
“What does it take to make cleaner indoor air cost-effective?”
Some solutions will deliver high efficacy at low cost, some will deliver low efficacy at a high cost.
The wisdom is knowing the difference.
filters.cleanairstars.com
“Is cleaner indoor air cost-effective?”
it’s
“What does it take to make cleaner indoor air cost-effective?”
Some solutions will deliver high efficacy at low cost, some will deliver low efficacy at a high cost.
The wisdom is knowing the difference.
filters.cleanairstars.com
November 1, 2023 at 12:25 AM
The question is not:
“Is cleaner indoor air cost-effective?”
it’s
“What does it take to make cleaner indoor air cost-effective?”
Some solutions will deliver high efficacy at low cost, some will deliver low efficacy at a high cost.
The wisdom is knowing the difference.
filters.cleanairstars.com
“Is cleaner indoor air cost-effective?”
it’s
“What does it take to make cleaner indoor air cost-effective?”
Some solutions will deliver high efficacy at low cost, some will deliver low efficacy at a high cost.
The wisdom is knowing the difference.
filters.cleanairstars.com
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This may be the most important piece of journalism in the entire pandemic. Brilliant detective work by scientists; compellingly told.
www.wired.com/story/the-te...
www.wired.com/story/the-te...
The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill
All pandemic long, scientists brawled over how the virus spreads. Droplets! No, aerosols! At the heart of the fight was a teensy error with huge consequences.
www.wired.com
October 25, 2023 at 8:31 PM
This may be the most important piece of journalism in the entire pandemic. Brilliant detective work by scientists; compellingly told.
www.wired.com/story/the-te...
www.wired.com/story/the-te...
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This does not mention that illness is the leading cause of absences,and covid cases are driving this level of illness. Clean air would go a long way to fixing a lot of the absences and bring children living in CV households back into the school system. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
October 22, 2023 at 3:29 PM
This does not mention that illness is the leading cause of absences,and covid cases are driving this level of illness. Clean air would go a long way to fixing a lot of the absences and bring children living in CV households back into the school system. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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An opinion I feel should be universal at this point: All indoor public spaces (but especially schools, workplaces, and medical facilities) should be subject to air quality regulations and continuous monitoring and CO2 and particulate concentration numbers should be accessibly displayed.
October 19, 2023 at 5:40 PM
An opinion I feel should be universal at this point: All indoor public spaces (but especially schools, workplaces, and medical facilities) should be subject to air quality regulations and continuous monitoring and CO2 and particulate concentration numbers should be accessibly displayed.