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Any eye-opening talk today by Dr. Peter DeCarlo, Johns Hopkins University. His group is measuring organic air pollutants in residential areas near industry.

Context for the map below: 11 parts per trillion is the EPA level for a 1:10,000 cancer risk from long-term exposure.

From:
Robinson et al. (2024) Environmental Science & Technology 2024 58 (25), 11084-11095. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.3c10579

FREE Magnetometers for Science Center Education Departments/STEM Programs in Museums.

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (JHU APL) and NASA, extend an invitation for museums and science centers to join the EZIE Mission, particularly the EZIE-Mag initiative, which involves a ground-based magnetometer essential for our research in space weather and aurora science.
Contact: Jenny.Leibert@jhuapl.edu

ezie.jhuapl.edu/outreach/ezie- #ScienceCenters #Science #ScienceCentres #NASA #JHU

New results out: Zac & Kelson looked at order and disorder in the functional representations in the auditory cortex. On large scales, there are tonotopic maps, but on small scales, neighboring cells can be tuned very differently. To reconcile this, they imaged 3D volumes and found that there is a fractured columnar small-world functional network organization.

#Hearing
#AuditoryCortex
#neuroscience
#jhu

Read here:

academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/art

OUP AcademicFractured columnar small-world functional network organization in volumes of L2/3 of mouse auditory cortexAbstract. The sensory cortices of the brain exhibit large-scale functional topographic organization, such as the tonotopic organization of the primary auditory

"The FDA voted to update the COVID vaccine to represent one of the variants that are collectively called XBB. There are a couple of different versions of XBB, but they are similar enough that antibodies to one recognize the other. The XBB-based vaccine for the fall will no longer be what we call a 'bivalent booster,' which had two viruses in it; this will only have one (monovalent)."
publichealth.jhu.edu/2023/look
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#covid #XBB #FDA #JHU

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthLooking Ahead at COVID, Flu, and RSV Vaccines for Fall 2023 | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthTogether, annual flu shots, an updated COVID vaccine, and a new RSV vaccine for people 60+ can help us avoid another rough respiratory virus season.