Lev @levkonst.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Giving an interview while casually doing a #pluslife pool test was definitely on my 2025 wish list :) x.com/TogetherWeMa...x.com 030
Reposted by Levsafehourberlin.bsky.social @safehourberlin.bsky.social · 20/11/2025AdventsTanz is coming up soon! Non-dancers are warmly encouraged to come hang out with us. There will be plenty of opportunities to chat and mingle even if you don't want to participate in the class. Remember to dress warmly - we will be waiting outside while #pluslife is done. 1118
Reposted by Levsafehourberlin.bsky.social @safehourberlin.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Announcing Safe Hour Swing 2! "AdventsTanz" on 30 November The class is designed for people who are new to dancing swing and is intended to allow participation whilst seated or standing. Masks, pluslife, HEPAs as always. Sign up at luma.com/6wqc2zy1 #maskup #teamvorsicht 01810
Lev @levkonst.bsky.social · 21/09/2025Cheap detection of viruses in the air would be amazing www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comLC biosensors (Bio-LC): new resonant sensors for direct detection of airborne virusesViruses suspended in the air are key in the transmission of infectious diseases. We present a label-free selective system capable of detecting in situ… 052
Reposted by LevMike Honey @mikehoney.bsky.social · 29/08/2025BA.3.2.* variant making a solid debut in this week's wastewater for Perth - looks to be at around 15%. Quite impressive for a debutant. 25114
Lev @levkonst.bsky.social · 23/08/2025This NYC event by www.positivedeviance.co looks so awesome! So wish I was there - 50 people with masks, hepas/uvc and great music. www.youtube.com/live/nJ9va7Z... Hopefully soon it will become another global trend coming out of NYC. :)youtube.comYouTubeShare your videos with friends, family, and the world 020
Reposted by LevLev @levkonst.bsky.social · 13/07/2025How does it translate into actual job performance? Being unable to remember what happened in yesterday's meeting seems like an obvious one. 2121
Reposted by Levsafehourberlin.bsky.social @safehourberlin.bsky.social · 18/05/2025An event for kids to meet other kids in a Covid Safe environment. And for parents to meet each other too. We will play games and socialise either in outdoor playground or in a large indoor venue, depending on the weather. lu.ma/1zze772hlu.maKids Social. Covid Safe Edition. · LumaAn event for kids to meet other kids in a Covid Safe environment. And for parents to meet each other too. We will play games and socialise either in outdoor… 054
Reposted by Levsafehourberlin.bsky.social @safehourberlin.bsky.social · 11/05/2025We made great new friends last time—it was a big success! Let's do it again on Saturday 7 June. Masks, #pluslife tests, and HEPA filters included. lu.ma/j01j6y1c #maskup #teamvorsicht #inpersonjoy #covidisntover 061
Reposted by LevDr Satoshi Akima, FRACP @toshiakima.bsky.social · 27/03/2025“Death in Hamburg” by Sir Richard J Evans. A book written in 1987 for our COVID age. The title is a reference to Thomas Mann's novella "Death in Venice", also set in a cholera epidemic. This is a review of one of the best books I've ever read. 5/5 stars. 🧵 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/294784...penguinrandomhouse.comDeath in Hamburg by Richard J. Evans: 9780143036364 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books"A tremendous book, the biography of a city which charts the multifarious pathways from bacilli to burgomaster." -Roy Porter, London Review of Books Why were nearly 10,000 people killed in six weeks ... 212834
Lev @levkonst.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Awesome #longcovid demo by #berlinbuyersclub yesterday. Didn't expect to end up on the front page of it, but pretty proud to be an ally! www.ardmediathek.de/video/rbb24-...ardmediathek.derbb24 Abendschau: Long Covid bei Kindern und Jugendlichen - hier anschauenIn Berlin leiden noch viele Kinder und Jugendliche an Long Covid. Vereine wie der nichtgenesen.kids kritisieren weiterhin die schlechte medizinische Versorgung für diese Kinder und auch die gesamte Be... 010
Reposted by LevRyan Hisner @ryanhisner.bsky.social · 12/03/2025If the new BA.3 circulates long enough to pick up some transmission-enhancing mutations (think BA.2.86 getting L455S to become JN.1), it could be the next big thing. Or not. Time will tell. We should see it in other countries pretty soon if it’s the real deal. 13/end 1114115
Reposted by LevJoshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Similar issues applied to COVID-19 in early 2020. Relatively high observed case fatality rates (confirmed fatalities/confirmed cases) relative to expectations suggest far more infections than confirmed cases. Which means the epidemic is far bigger than we know. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/... 1137
Lev @levkonst.bsky.social · 09/03/2025We are continuing our @safehourberlin.bsky.social events now on bsky! 011
Reposted by Levlcmebillboards.bsky.social @lcmebillboards.bsky.social · 03/03/2025LONDON VOLUNTEERS NEEDED Due to the demand for home delivered leaflets and the number of responses to our Edinburgh campaign we have decided to run another leaflet campaign in London! 2145
Lev @levkonst.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Sad to learn that another of my AI research beacons has long COVID, and very impressed that they use their conference platform to promote COVID awareness! neurips.cc/virtual/2024... 030
Reposted by LevJoshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Late PM reflections on tail events that were once thought impossible and ensuring that they do not recur. joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/measles-in...joshuasweitz.substack.comMeasles in Texas, Oscillating Tragedies of the Commons & the Risk of Getting StuckMisinformation and vaccine hesitancy is generating tail events that were once thought impossible. Federal policies and funding for childhood vaccination must remain steadfast, or worse is yet to come. 034
Reposted by LevJoshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 13/02/2025This study, now nearly 5 years old, wrongly claimed that COVID-19 was no worse than the flu... it also provides a window into the mindset and approach to science in the world of those who will soon run HHS. sites.stat.columbia.edu/gelman/resea...sites.stat.columbia.edu 121
Lev @levkonst.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Next time a taxi driver looks at my mask and says "I have never had COVID so your precautions are nonsense." I will just tell them to read the first 10 pages of this book, free as a kindle sample. /sarcasm On a serious note, the book is great, recommend to anyone who had a go at modelling. 174
Reposted by Levsibylle dahrendorf @sibylledahrendorf.bsky.social · 14/02/2025🎥 If you would like to read some information about the film “Chronically Ill - Chronically Ignored”, you can find it here. Hier findet ihr ein paar Informationen über den Film. Dt & Engl. #ChronischKrank #ChronischIgnoriert #arte ab 24. 02. online sibylledahrendorf.jimdofree.com/chronically-...sibylledahrendorf.jimdofree.comChronically Ignored#SaveTheDate I 25. Februar 2025 I ARTE TV I 22.35 Uhr I 10.35 pm Dokumentation, 90 Minuten es kursieren leider 2 Uhrzeiten, selbst von arte so herausgegeben, einmal 22.35 Uhr, anderes mal 22.40 Uhr, 22:35 ist die richtige Uhrzeit online in der Mediathek ab 24. Februar 2025 - ab 5.00 Uhr morgens ! "Chronisch Krank - Chronisch Ignoriert" "Chronically Ill - Chronically Ignored" 11916
Reposted by LevAmanda Hu @amandalhu.bsky.social · 15/02/2025A simple fix should work because they’re not DiSaBlEd, they’re just tired/burned out/hussling too hard/not eating right/whatever excuse they’re telling themselves (OR what minimizing healthcare providers say). The reality is that minimization in healthcare fuels anti-science grifting 1394
Lev @levkonst.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Arriving to a new place is a tricky part of #covidsafetravel. Is there mould? Any funky smells? I will only know it after the mask is off in a couple of hours. And if there is a smell - will the host have any surviving sense of smell to smell the same thing that I do? #maskup #covidisntover 130
Lev @levkonst.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Wales covid conscious crew is awesome! #maskup #isolatingtogether 180
Lev @levkonst.bsky.social · 08/02/2025"Dum spiro spero" While I breathe I hope. Wearing a mask is similar to being a religious monk - it's de-personifying. #maskup #hope 270
Lev @levkonst.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Rome Fiumicino is such a great airport! I could keep my Aura on at security check. Big contrast to Germany and Sweden where they really into seeing what secret is hiding underneath it. And the passport control face scanner worked great with my cleanspace on. #covidsafertravel 092
Lev @levkonst.bsky.social · 08/02/2025I am in the magnificent city of Rome in the year 2025 when the Catholic church is celebrating "The Jubilee of Hope" #maskup #covidisntover 270
Lev @levkonst.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Hey, I am really excited about my first #VR headset! I am instantly into my body and out of my mind. Sweating in VR workouts or calming downing with VR meditation and relaxation. Expect the number of #CovidConscious folks in VR to keep growing. 140
Reposted by LevJon Douglas @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 28/12/2024In Beijing, researchers found SARS-CoV-2 variant LP.8.1 combines strong immune evasion and efficient ACE2 binding, driving its rapid spread, unlike LF.7.2.1 and NP.1, which trade immune escape for weaker growth. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.orgVirological and antigenic characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 variants LF.7.2.1, NP.1, and LP.8.1XEC and KP.3.1.1 have surpassed KP.3 to become the globally dominant lineages due to their unique NTD mutations. However, several emerging JN.1 sublineages, such as LF.7.2.1, MC.10.1, NP.1, and, espec... 085
Lev @levkonst.bsky.social · 28/12/2024This great film "Dr Wise on Influenza" was made 105 years ago by the UK government to educate the public about flu prevention during the 1918 pandemic... The current #covid and approaching human #H5N1 dangers are similar, but where is the response? www.youtube.com/watch?v=84nq...youtube.comDr. Wise on Influenza (1919) | BFI National ArchiveYouTube video by BFI 183
Lev @levkonst.bsky.social · 28/12/2024Sad that this mutation is already here. Furthermore, E190D is just one option for human transmission. Another one is G225D. In 1918 some strains had one and some had another. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov1918 Influenza Pandemic and Highly Conserved Viruses with Two Receptor-Binding VariantsThe “Spanish influenza pandemic swept the globe in the autumn and winter of 1918–19, and resulted in the deaths of approximately 40 million people. Clinically, epidemiologically, and pathologically, t... 220
Reposted by LevJanet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 18/12/2024For friends who teach theconversation.com/infectious-d...theconversation.comInfectious diseases killed Victorian children at alarming rates — their novels highlight the fragility of public health todayBetween 40% and 50% of children didn’t live past 5 in the US during the 19th century. Popular authors like Charles Dickens documented the common but no less gutting grief of losing a child. 56124
Lev @levkonst.bsky.social · 08/12/2024At a beach rave. A guy dancing next to me: "I like this! Who are you guys going to be tonight?.. Elephants?.. I see elephants." Another guy: "What's this?" Me: "Yeah, great party!" Him again: "no, what is this?" Me: "It's an art project." Him: "Hell yeah, high five!" 170
Lev @levkonst.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Great find for eating solid food when connecting in Singapore! Beautiful garden next to the food court. Even with no smoking signs! COVID Safe usually means liquid food only when flying. 150
Lev @levkonst.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Welcome to the COVID safe jungle beach bungalow! #airfanta #pluslife 080
Lev @levkonst.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Imagine a hospital in Europe having a sign like that? Instead of the panic reaction of "i have to explain to you it's mild" upon seeing a mask, by a doctor of any specialty. 1192
Lev @levkonst.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Just a normal private hospital in South East Asia #maskup All doctors in ffp3 auras. All staff in kn95 or surgical. 1203
Reposted by LevMichael Lin, MD PhD @michaelzlin.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Excellent discussion by Daniel Park of 3 recent papers on the Novavax SARSCoV2 vaccine. Better durability and cross reactivity and milder side effects than RNA vax. That's the way it appeared from early data, but it's good to see that confirmed. threadreaderapp.com/thread/18576...threadreaderapp.comThread by @Daniel_E_Park on Thread Reader App@Daniel_E_Park: A trio of Novavax preprints, showing 1) remarkable durability >6 months, 2) cross protection against newer variants, and 3) low reactogenicity (side effects), supporting NVX as an exce... 1923649
Lev @levkonst.bsky.social · 09/11/2024Thailand is amazing for masking. I am still getting used to the fact that I am doing a socially acceptable act, not an act of protest. :) 1211
Lev @levkonst.bsky.social · 02/11/2024Thailand is a masking paradise. Lots of locals wear them inside and outside. And if someone needs to take your picture, they carefully guide you to inhale, and do the photo quickly. 170
