Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #noise

“The most annoying sounds are typically associated with transport — aviation, road traffic, railways — and living in urban areas ... entertainment, neighbors, and new sources such as heatpumps or mechanical ventilation #noise in heavily insulated houses.” irishtimes.com/health/2023/03…

“The levels we are talking about when we look at #noise and health are much lower than occupational noise levels [in industrial jobs], and lower than levels that have effects on hearing.”
— Anna Hansell, professor of environmental epidemiology at Britain's University of Leicester

“There’s a lot of evidence on effects of #noise on sleep disturbance, but also links to cardiovascular health and a possible link to respiratory disease. ‘The strongest evidence is on ischaemic heart disease [and] road #trafficnoise’” and some on metabolic impacts, like diabetes.

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Providence Noise Project

@NotSoLoudPVD

Washington DC City Council member @CMBrookePinto introduced the 2023 Vehicular #Noise Reduction Act to create a #noisecamera pilot program, subsidies for vehicle-repair costs, and a study on how to reduce #vehicularnoise⏳ @pvdcitycouncil ⁦@JohnGPVD⁩ lims.dccouncil.gov/Legislation/B2…

“The #VehicularNoise Reduction Act would create a two-year pilot program to use a combination of #noise-detection devices, video cameras, and automated ticketing to hopefully cut down on vehicles with purposely loud or bad mufflers on DC roads.” @PVDMayor dcist.com/story/23/01/19…

Washington DC ‘Gets’ It: City Councilmember @CMBrookePinto says that “excessive #noise from revving engines and other #roadnoise is a quality-of-life issue that can alter sleep; disrupt business, educational, and social settings; and create stress.” @pvdcitycouncil @PVDMayor 👂⚠️

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Providence Noise Project

@NotSoLoudPVD

“The honking of horns and revving of engines doesn’t just affect those in the vehicles — it can also raise the #bloodpressure of people living near the road.” #trafficnoise #noisekills @CityofProv @PVDMayor @PVDCityCouncil @HealthyPVD @Brown_SPH @RIHealth cnn.com/2023/03/22/hea…

“Previous research had shown a connection between road #trafficnoise and an increased risk of #hypertension (#highbloodpressure), but it was still unclear whether it was the #noise or the pollution from the traffic that was the cause. Now, researchers say they have the evidence.”

“The results ... surprised researchers. People living near road #trafficnoise were not only more likely to develop #highbloodpressure, but the risk of this outcome increased with the ‘dose’ of #noise, even when researchers adjusted for fine particles and nitrogen dioxide.”

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Philipp Markolin

@PhilippMarkolin

WARNING:
There are new pathogens in our midst.

My latest article about media #manipulators, velocity #hacking, and the latest Covid origin #controversy.

Maybe some #mainstream journalists & influencers take a good look in the mirror.

Read:
protagonistfuture.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-…

How much should we think about the role of information in society?

In this article, I use the recent media coverage surrounding #lableak versus #zoonosis to point toward a new threat we have not yet wrapped our heads around:

Information pathogens with high #velocity.

#Velocity is a metric for the transmission efficacy of information given a particular content payload, its viral packaging, and its host environment.

Basically the R0 of information, a measure of #contagiousness.

Info pathogens with high velocity outcompetes good information.

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Providence Noise Project

@NotSoLoudPVD

Latina resident: “It’s frustrating feeling as though #SouthPVD isn’t getting the help it needs so residents can enjoy a decent quality of life. The ongoing noise from Mi Sueño and neighbors who blast their music excessively is taking a toll on my health.” providencenoiseproject.org/testimonials/

“The bar called ‘Syn’ on Spruce Street has been a repeated, major #noise offender for sometime now and the city should [conduct] strict noise enforcement there”
— Federal Hill resident @Dylan2DC @RachelRI @CouncilHelen @CityofProv @PVDCityCouncil @PVDMayor providencenoiseproject.org/testimonials/

“The #noise is intolerable! These establishments do not comply with city regulations — no noise should be heard from outside the establishment. The residents in the area have been complaining for years, yet nothing gets resolved.”
— Federal Hill resident providencenoiseproject.org/testimonials/

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Alberta Hum

@alberta_hum

In a recent discussion, a question was asked about whether or not homeowners could stop the #hum and low-frequency noise from entering their homes using bass traps & sound-proofing. I shared some of our experiences in trying to deal with the #LFN and #vibration. 1/...

I've heard the hum In at least six different professional #recording studios who spent tens of thousands of dollars on sound proofing and noise mitigation. In #calgary, a family spend a tremendous amount of money wrapping their entire house in sound proofing material and... 2/...

...they still heard the hum. In fact, because the #noise mitigation was so effective in the studios, the hum was worse because there weren't any other sounds competing for my ear's attention. 3/...

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EuroMarine OYSTER

@EM_OYSTER

🚨🌊Are you ready for the Thursday thread 🧵of job #opportunities for early-career #scientists in marine and #ocean #Science?

🌊🦤🦭🐋🐳🐬🦈🐟🐡🐠🦠👩‍🔬🧑‍🔬🌊

Look down there!👇

#ECR #PhDchat #PhDjobs #ScienceJobs #PostDoc #Academictwitter #Internships #Researcher

🚨🌊@giulia_ghedini lab at @IGCiencia in Lisbon is recruiting a postdoc (euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/53594) and offering a research fellowship (master required) (euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/53587) to work on metabolic adaptation in phytoplankton communities

🚨Deadline: 31st Jan

🚨PhD opportunity!

5-year teaching & research studentship at
@PlymUni with @DrSimonIngram and @ClareEmbling studying #cetacean #abundance, #distribution and exposure to #shippingnoise joint with @CefasNoise

plymouth.ac.uk/schools/school…

📢Deadline: 26th Jan

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Santa Fe Institute is on Mastodon

@sfiscience

🧵 "#Criticality: A Balance Between #Robustness and #Adaptability"

Today's SFI Seminar by @cgershen @cgg_mx:

Regarding systems at the #EdgeOfChaos
Identifying #PhaseTransition dynamics
Citing @WagnerEvolution on #Robustness
Contrasting it with #Chaos (fragile, hard to predict, etc.)
And then #Criticality, somewhere in the middle...

With #criticality, due to #PowerLaw(-like) distributions:

"Most of the changes will be small, but for some, you can have large changes."

See also #fractals

Key history point: Stuart Kauffman's #random #Boolean #networks (1969!)

Updated by @cgershen in 2004

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Santa Fe Institute

@sfiscience

"The 21st Century Question: Emergently Engineering the Future"

Follow this 🧵 today and tomorrow for highlights from our 2022 #AppliedComplexity Network and Board of Trustees Symposium:

santafe.edu/events/annual-…

#Web3 #Cities #Polarization #EmergentEngineering #Decentralization

We start with a talk by SFI President David Krakauer:

"Would anyone care to guess why we're so GOOD at building transistors and so CRAP at designing drugs?"

"This thing [points to transistor] lives in a centralized system. This thing [points to cancer drug] lives in US."

"I'm going to pick on economics, because we like to do that at SFI. 'Ooh, look at that cover! So techy. Global, heat maps...' But here's 'Networks' [in the textbook]. THAT'S IT. Here's '#ComplexityEconomics.' NOTHING."

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Till A. Heilmann

@HeilmannTill

Here’s an interesting problem regarding the #aesthetics in reproduction of #digital #image|s. (Interesting to me, at least, and also, maybe, to people like @_menkman, @jbirken, @Sierra_Offline, @kevindriscoll and @GIFmodel). 1/38

What I’ll say is true for all digital images, in a way. (And more generally, for all works of art.) But I want to focus on one type of images and on one set of aesthetic qualities in particular here. 2/38

The problem that’s bothering me is this: What is the proper way to show an early digital #screen image in #print? (Reproduced as a figure in an academic monograph, for example.) 3/38

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Edgar Bernat-Ponce

@edberpon

1/6 #BOUasm21 #BREAK3 BOOMS from #fireworks are fun for people… But, what are their effects on #urban birds🐦? Noise has been proven to harm urban wildlife but recreational #noise is a source of pollution that has been poorly studied. #ornithology @bou
doi.org/10.1016/j.envp…

2/6 #BOUasm21 #BREAK3 Moors and Christians #festivals are very noisy recreational activities with the use of fireworks and powder guns. These festivals raise a potential #conflict between festivals participants and #bird conservation. Did this noise affect birds breeding success?

3/6 #BOUasm21 #BREAK3 5 pairs of cities in E Spain were studied to reveal if somehow these noisy festivals were affecting the breeding success of the #HouseSparrow. Two visits per year to explore if the effects were differential on eggs and nestlings🐥🐣.

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Quiet Home

@QuietHomeLife

Why are Blenders So Loud?
A #blender is an important #kitchen tool that is used almost regularly.

It’s easy to use and can help #homeowners to serve #drinks, #smoothies, and #ice #cream in seconds. The only inconvenience that it causes is its loud #noise.

Nobody likes to such loud #disturbing noises, especially when #guests are at #home.

quiethome.life/why-are-blende…

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Quiet Home

@QuietHomeLife

Does #Soundproofing Work Both Ways?

Everyone who has thought of #soundproofing does have this question at some point in time? quiethome.life/soundproofing-…

If I soundproof my #room, does it offer #soundproofing to both sides, like keeping the #voices inside and blocking the noise from outside?

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Patrick Stegemann

@petterich

Welche Rolle spielt #TikTok für die Weiterverbreitung von #Desinformation zu #Corona oder zur #Bundestagswahl? #TikTok funktioniert ganz anders als andere Plattformen, über bis zu 95% der Inhalte bestimmt allein der Algorithmus. Warum das ein echtes Problem ist...Thread

TikTok schafft rabbit holes, tiefer und enger als wir sie schon von Youtube kannten.Weil der Algorithmus,nach allem was wir wissen,die Nutzer*innen in sehr kleine Gruppen einsortiert.Und mit dem beliefert, was sie (scheinbar) wollen. Inhalte werden immer spitzer,lauter,krasser.

TikTok ist eine Meme-Factory.Was Erfolg verspricht,wird kopiert.Auch wenn es Lügen enthält.Unsere Recherche für #Noise zeigt: Es gibt virale Memes, die auf TikTok entstehen,die Nutzer*innen für Klicks kopieren.Und die u.a. Falschinfos über @diegruenen enthalten.

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Alberta Hum

@alberta_hum

The Kilkenny neighbourhood in #Edmonton has intense low-frequency noise & vibration again disturbing peace & quiet. The sound is a low drone & at times it feels as if the air's vibrating as well. /1...
#yeg #Alberta #canada #noise #noisepollution @ChrisNielsenNDP @KerryDiotte

Frustrating to pin down because the low-frequency drone sounds like it's *all around*. Will be taking recordings to analyze and share. /2...
#yeg #Alberta #canada #noise #noisepollution @ChrisNielsenNDP @KerryDiotte @doniveson #Edmonton

Clearly something of an industrial nature, i.e. motors in compressor/pumping stations causing a #hum that's carried along by attached underground pipe infrastructure /3...
#yeg #Alberta #canada #noise #noisepollution @ChrisNielsenNDP @KerryDiotte @doniveson #Edmonton

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WesElyMD

@WesElyMD

1/🧵Human Error in Decision Making and Judgment:

For those who loved @NobelPrize Laureate’s book Thinking Fast & Slow, there is a new Kahneman book called Noise reviewed @TheLancet. It’s worthy of a bit of commentary…

bit.ly/3hzD7RR

#MedTwitter #ScienceTwitter

2/In statistics, #NOISE refers to random scatter, ie, variations in our judgment that are NOT caused by individual judgment. #BIAS on the other hand is systematic deviation in judgment.

@nataliexdean @EpiEllie @f2harrell – teach us more & did you read Kahneman’s book yet?

3/ Kahneman himself (see quote in @TheLancet review👆) acknowledges that this book is somewhat data-o-penic. We need much more knowledge about “noise”…it’s a limitation in science at this point. In Medicine, he claims #Psychiatry is an extreme noise factory…@APAPsychiatric

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Ramona

@desderamona

New Concept Weapons #NCW
Directed Energy #Weapons #DEW
Force multiplier
New sword
Invisible card
People’s Liberation Army #PLA
PLA Strategic Support Force #PLASSF
new #technology testing
Disruptive #technologies
#Space Engineering University
#Chinese academic and military
#China

https://twitter.com/desderamona/status/1392876749529157641

New Sword

Kinetic energy weapons #KEW

#DEW:
#Laser
#microwave
#electromagnetic #pulse
particle beam

New #atomic weapons:
#neutron bomb
#antimatter

#Sonic weapons:
#noise
#infrasound

jamestown.org/program/new-co…

https://twitter.com/desderamona/status/1392876749529157641

Force multiplier

Intelligent network and electromagnetic spectrum attack and defense weapons

“Computer chip virus” weapon

New-type psychological intervention/warfare weapons
noise intervention
holography display

Nanosatellites for intelligence collection

#China
#ChinaNCW

https://twitter.com/desderamona/status/1047982310363209728

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Alberta Hum

@alberta_hum

The low-frequency #hum and #vibration that's been plaguing our home for the last 5 weeks began diminishing Friday. At 4 AM, May 9 2021, it stopped. Our Mother's Day has been thankfully quiet. #alberta #edmonton #edmontonliving #calgary #Hum #noise #industrialnoise #canada

Coincidentally, Colonial Pipeline in the US was shut down on Friday night. Would be very interested in learning whether or not there's a correlation between these two events. #alberta #edmonton #edmontonliving #calgary #Hum #noise #industrialnoise #Canada

Be sure to let us know what you think and whether or not you've heard a change in the LF hum/vibration this weekend.
#alberta #edmonton #edmontonliving #calgary #Hum #noise #industrialnoise #canada

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Santa Fe Institute

@sfiscience

This week at SFI: "#Complexity and the Structure of #Music: Universal Features and Evolutionary Perspectives Across Cultures", an #interdisciplinary working group assembled to explore new frameworks for understanding music. Stay tuned for highlights!

santafe.edu/events/complex…

"Every pitch class set is connected to every other pitch class set."

– @mbnUNT, co-organizer of this week's #musicology working group, presents on how to understand the #topology of #harmonic structures in music with #network diagrams (e.g. Pic 4 with #JSBach's BWV 66):

Once you represent a musical composition as a network, it is possible to examine the evolutionary dynamics of its harmonic content over time, as explained by @mbnUNT in his opening talk for this week's SFI #musicology working group.

(Ironically, this #Beethoven is #scalefree:)

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