Attenuate

To weaken; make less strong; to reduce in force, intensity, quantity or even value; to make thin or slender

Eva A. García Ferrés

Eva A. García Ferrés

@egarciaferres.bsky.social

📣 Exciting but belated news: My first, and first-first author publication is out now in Social and Personality Psychology Compass: "Counterfactual thinking may attenuate polarization of COVID-19 prevention behavior"
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Jim Duffee, MD, MPH

Jim Duffee, MD, MPH

@jimduffee.bsky.social

This person has a distorted view of public health and bioethics. Solidarity, interdependence and justice (equity in resource allocation) always attenuate individual liberty and bodily autonomy. Neither is absolute. #resisthate #GlobalBioethics

im1776.com/2025/01/21/c...

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Hwa Shi-Hsia /xwa51 ʂɚ55 ɕja35/

Hwa Shi-Hsia /xwa51 ʂɚ55 ɕja35/

@coolvirus.bsky.social

Overheard in the coffee shop:
overachievers on first date:

Guy: ... mutations in the viral capsid protein which destabilize the capsid but attenuate it in mice.
Girl: Oh yeah I worked with mice once in undergrad, we were putting transparent windows into their skulls so we could see their brains...

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