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First full week working from home ☑
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It's at times like these where I am grateful to have a non-lab based job and I have the privilege of basically carrying on as normal from home 🏠
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But dont get me wrong. I really miss being in the lab 🔬and creating images that look even half as beautiful as this one of an embryo. This situation is making me miss research and being able to help 'on the floor' so to speak. I miss being in a research lab, but am grateful that I dont have that to contend with right now and kudos 🙌🏻 to all of you out there who have wound down everything you were doing.
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That's my past and current situation, but what about the future? A future beyond COVID-19.
I dream 💭 of having my own scicomm business one day and being freelance achieving all the range of things I dream of doing 📚. So this long term working from home is a good trial for me to see how I work at home for extended time and to develop habits that will help me do it better in the future potentially.
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So these are a few Friday feels amidst the chaos that is going on beyond my little house that I've been sat in for 10 days now..
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Not a particularly insightful post this one... but a simple reflection after this first full week WFH. Many more lessons to be learnt to become more productive and efficient though.
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What has this first full week working from home taught you? What do you want to get better at when it comes to WFH?
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Stay healthy everyone
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Image credit: Elena Corujo-Simon, my final year undergrad project buddy :)
🎵🎶 Because you know it's all about that DATA, 'bout that DATA, 'bout that DATA 🎵🎶
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Collecting data 📊 allows you to stay on top of trends, provide answers to problems & analyse new approaches. Something that is key to research generally, but particularly important for let's say 🤔.... a rapidly evolving global health pandemic.
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In the UK, there are currently restrictions on who is getting tested for COVID-19. So the likelihood is that we dont really have the full picture of how many people have contracted the virus🤢, how many are presenting with milder symptoms compared to more severe symptoms & so on.
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In an attempt to tackle that, King's College London & collaborators have created an app 📱 called COVID Symptom Tracker to track the spread of the disease and explore who may be more at risk.
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It's available in the UK now from Apple Store & Google Play. I strongly encourage everyone to download it & spend less than a minute a day filling in their data & do their bit to help in the coronavirus fight.
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I downloaded it this morning & it is really really simple to use. You just need to create an account, enter some personal info such as age, sex at birth, postcode & a few more. You are then asked daily to report any symptom that could be associated with COVID-19. As a reminder that includes a fever, persistent cough, fatigue, shortness of breath, loss of smell or taste, chest pain, diarrhoea, drowsiness & lack of appetite.
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All this data that is collected will help researchers make better sense of how the disease is spreading in the UK & identify at risk areas of the country, especially as healthcare workers 🏥 on the front line are seeing that younger patients have different symptoms to the elderly. So this idea that it is just a two symptom disease (fever and cough) is not strictly true ⚠️⚠️
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If you live in the UK, download the app, update it daily, familiarise yourself with the list of possible symptoms, & EVERYONE keep washing your hands, maintaining your distance & stay at home 🏠 as much as possible.
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If you have any questions about the app or anything coronavirus related, please ask in comments or DMs
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Stay healthy 💕💕
Today should have been my TEDx talk 🔴
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Today I should have been walking out on stage to that famous red dot 🔴 on the floor to give my TEDx talk. It is something I have always dreamed of doing so was honoured to have been approached. While I will have to wait a little bit longer for my opportunity, I still wanted to mark the occasion today in some way.
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Thanks to your suggestions I thought I would share some of my favourite TED talks with you, and hopefully you can share some new ones with me. I always have and always will love learning. Whether that is about a science topic, a way to master a new skill or just learning something new from someone else, TED talks are a way I like to do that.
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So to wet your appetite a little and as a replacement for my TEDx talk for now, here are just 12 of the ones I have been most inspired by for many different reasons:
🔴 Inside the mind of a master procrastinate - Tim Urban
🔴 How to speak so that people want to listen - Julian Treasure
🔴 The mathematics of weight loss - Ruben Meerman
🔴 The skill of humour - Andrew Tarvin
🔴 What I learned from going blind in space - Chris Hadfield
🔴 Quantum physics for 7 year olds - Dominic Walliman
🔴 Do schools kill creativity? - Sir Ken Robinson
🔴 The art of misdirection - Apollo Robbins
🔴 Let's use video to reinvent education - Sal Khan
🔴 The power of introverts - Susan cain
🔴 A stroke of insight - Jill Bolte Taylor
🔴 The birth of a word - Deb Roy
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All of these talks have made me want to continue to be curious, improve myself and my skills and just appreciate who I am.
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At least now I have a few more months to practice and 🤞🏻 nail 🤞🏻 my own talk whenever that may be.
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Have you seen any of these? What are some of your favourite TED talks 🔴?
CORONAVIRUS CAN INFECT EVERYONE!! ⚠️
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If you are under the age of 70, or if you dont have any underlying health conditions and so you think you dont have to socially distance...
👏🏻YOU 👏🏼 ARE 👏🏽 PART 👏🏾 OF THE 👏🏿 PROBLEM 👏
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While many of the reported deaths of COVID-19 have been individuals who are over 70 or have underlying medical conditions, that does not mean you are immune to the virus! You may only get mild to moderate symptoms if you contract the virus 🤢 but you could pass it on to someone much more vulnerable 👴🏼👵🏾.
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The coronavirus 🧫 isnt picky about who you are. It will just use your body to spread itself further!
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There are more and more reports of 'healthy' adults fighting for their lives currently, and even reports of an otherwise healthy 12 year old fighting for their life too 🏥. A recent publication has shown that children of all ages were susceptible to COVID-19 but the severity of the disease seemed less than in adults, and many others showing no signs of symptoms at all.
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BUT the alarming 🔔🔔 thing is that recent research has shown that viral load 🧫 in someone who is asymptomatic 🙂 is just as high as someone with symptoms🤢. That means there are just as many virus particles in someone without symptoms as with.
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People without symptoms may be rubbing shoulders with you in the street, or contaminating communal surfaces after a cough. In terms of viral load, they are just as contagious as someone admitted to hospital with the most critical of symptoms.
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So I will say it again.
Just stay home! 🏠
Keep your distance if you must go out! ⬅️➡️
And wash your hands often 🤲🏼, even in your own home!
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Stay safe and healthy everyone!
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Once upon a time in maths class 🔢 we were learning about exponential growth. You may have been thinking when am I going to use this rubbish in everyday life right?
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Well, THAT TIME IS NOW! 🔔
I'm not asking you to do all the maths but it will help in this pandemic!
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You have probably seen the number of COVID cases seem to be skyrocketing and growing faster and faster each day📈. This is exponential growth happening right in front of us - all because some people refuse to stay at home!
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But let's really try to drive this home.
The R0 is the basic reproduction number which means how many people an infected individual can infect. The current data suggests that the R0 for this coronavirus is 3. That means each infected person 🤢 can infect around 3 other individuals 🤢🤢🤢
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Now initially this may not seem like much.
But imagine I was someone who went out on the weekend and I was infected. Let's imagine this cupcake🧁 is the virus.
I went out and passed on the virus to 3 more people.
🔄 Give it 5 days, and these 4 who are now infected go out again and infect another 3 people EACH!
🔄 Another 5 days and the same happens again, leaving 36 infected.
🔄 Repeat and we have 108 infected people.
🔄 5 more days and 324 infections!
🔔 324 infections that could all be traced back to me in just 25 days! 🔔
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And that's just a single person 👩🏽. Imagine now when thousands of people are not staying at home.
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To put this into visuals, each swipe ⏩ you make in the gallery is each set of 5 days.
While I would love to have that many cupcakes in my snack cupboard right now, we NEED to stop this spread!
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If we stay at home and keep our distance as little as 50% ↘️ in this example, after 25 days there would only be 19 infections. That's 19 too many still but it looks a lot better than 324!
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In these times, I ask everyone to stay at home, keep your distance and protect ourselves and our healthcare workers! 🏠
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PLEASE READ ⚠️
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Its Mothers Day 💕 here in the UK today. Normally I would be sharing a fun bit of mum themed science with you, but this year there is something more important I want to say!
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There are many people around the world today who would have loved to have spent the day with their mums, grandmothers, stepmother, foster mums and so on, or any of their loved ones, but they DIDNT because they are socially distancing and not only protecting themselves, but their families and others who may be more vulnerable.
But they did it. They Facetimed, rang or said hello through the window instead.
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What our government is asking us to do is going to involve a big change to our normal. It is going to be a big ask. Many people are already fed up with it. BUT if we dont stick to the guidance, there is going to be stricter measures, this will go on for longer and we will see more deaths.
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At the moment you can still go outside for a walk and still get your own groceries IF we maintain our distance. If people don't maintain their distance and continue to go to pubs or parties, or bring their caravans to tourist places as is happening in my home town, these privileges WILL be taken away, this situation WILL go on for longer & more people WILL get infected and die.
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Now is the time we need to come together and look after each other.
🧫 NOONE is immune from this virus. 🧫 It can infect ALL of us!!
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Stay healthy. Keep your distance. Stay at home as much as you can. Protect your friends and families and those who are more vulnerable. Help our healthcare workers by flattening the curve.
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Listen to the guidance and stick to it, and we will get through it together!
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If you have any questions about COVID19 please ask them and I will make sure you get the facts and not sensationalised media headlines.
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Stay at home. Please!
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