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  1. May 2020
    1. El hallazgo más sorprendente del estudio fue que en las personas confinadas, la visión de los grupos sociales producía exactamente la misma activación cerebral que en las que habían guardado ayuno y observado imágenes de comida: una intensa actividad del área tegmental ventral y de la sustancia negra. Ello apunta a que la motivación para estar en contacto con un grupo de personas es idéntica a la motivación para comer.

      A nivel neurológico, el ayuno social y el ayuno alimentario generan las mismas actividades cerebrales en el área tegmental ventral y de la sustancia gris al ser estimuladas.

    1. They only thought in terms of lockdowns vs business as usual, but failed to consider a third option: that people engage in social distancing voluntarily when they realise lives are at stake and when authorities recommend them to do so.

      I find it interesting that the author felt the need to include "and when authorities recommend they do so."

      Absolutely unnecessary. At best, a sop. In truth, untrue.

      People engaged in social distancing voluntarily when they believed their lives were at stake. Full stop. And they did not / do not when they don't.

      Infantalizing other people is the modern hobby of journalism.

    1. Las rondas campesinas no solo actúan en la región cajamarquina, sino también en los poblados de las zonas altas de Piura y Lambayeque, donde se han producido escasos casos de contagio, en contraste con las ciudades cercanas al mar donde existen un alarmante número de infectados.

      Hipótesis: si existe la presencia de Rondas Campesinas, existe un mayor control social y menos contagiados, lo que no pasa en los territorios donde no existe la presencia de R.C.(Costa Norte).

    2. En las zonas donde la Policía Nacional y las Fuerzas Armadas no siempre llegan, los ronderos colocaron tranqueras y dispusieron piquetes de vigilancia. Fueron las fuerzas del orden que hicieron respetar las disposiciones sanitarias.

      Hay una convivencia entre actores sociales donde prevalece la cooperación. El Estado y sus actores no intervienen en los territorios, pero los habitantes no lo hacen notar como un problema. Parece que estos están de acuerdo en que el Estado y sus actores deberían intervenir hasta un margen establecido como "permitido".

    1. Part of the problem of social media is that there is no equivalent to the scientific glassblowers’ sign, or the woodworker’s open door, or Dafna and Jesse’s sandwich boards. On the internet, if you stop speaking: you disappear. And, by corollary: on the internet, you only notice the people who are speaking nonstop.

      This quote comes from a larger piece by Robin Sloan. (I don't know who that is though)

      The problem with social media is that the equivalent to working with the garage door open (working in public) is repeatedly talking in public about what you're doing.

      One problem with this is that you need to choose what you want to talk about, and say it. This emphasizes whatever you select, not what would catch a passerby's eye.

      The other problem is that you become more visible by the more you talk. Conversely, when you stop talking, you become invisible.

    1. It feels a lot like the reason we are unable to offer real alternative social networks is not that we cannot do so. It is because most people with the abilities to do so spend their time working on things that only work for the tiny audience that is the tech sector, while happily ignoring the needs of all those billions of non-technical humans out there. This is something that frustrates me more than I want to admit.
  2. Apr 2020
    1. Networks  of civic engagement increase the potential cost to defectors who risk  benefits from future transactiaction. The same networks foster norms of  reciprocity that are reinforced by the networks of relationships in  which reputation is both balued and discussed. The same social networks  facilitate the flow of reputational information.

      How can we build some of this into social media networks to increase the level of trust and facts?

    1. Jefferson, T., Jones, M., Al Ansari, L. A., Bawazeer, G., Beller, E., Clark, J., Conly, J., Del Mar, C., Dooley, E., Ferroni, E., Glasziou, P., Hoffman, T., Thorning, S., & Van Driel, M. (2020). Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses. Part 1 - Face masks, eye protection and person distancing: Systematic review and meta-analysis [Preprint]. Public and Global Health. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.30.20047217