Caitjan Gainty’s Healthy Scepticism will be published this June, and we are hosting a party! 🥳🥂 📌 17 June, 17.00-19.00, Strand Campus, London. Get your tickets via Eventbrite ➡️ Book Launch Party: Healthy Scepticism by @caitjan.bsky.social #histmed #histstm @kingshistory.bsky.social

This important study on lithium is still not published in a journal yet and I assume the direction of effects plays a role. If the results had been positive, the study would have been published in top psychiatric journals long ago.

It's disgraceful that such an important issue like the deprescription of antidepressants and their long-term prescription leading to physical dependence has been left in the hands of someone like RKJ. Why nobody listened to the thousands of people affected by this health crisis before?

Just a remarkable public space, the New York Public Library main reading room #hatm

Psychedelic drug policy via podcaster influence. @garyschw.bsky.social, quoting @statnews.com: "Rogan said he texted Trump about research around ibogaine, and the president’s response was quick: 'Sounds great. Do you want FDA approval? Let’s do it.'" garyschwitzer.substack.com?utm_campaign...

"The findings improve our understanding of how this novel group of contaminants can enter and potentially accumulate in freshwater ecosystems, raising concerns about the potential for long-term effects."

Another day, another arson attack www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Got the squid communication 🦑🦑🦑🦑 #caribbeanreefsquid #reefsquid #cephalopodsofcoralcity #squid #coralcitycamera

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So glad to see that this edited volume by Rachel Elder and Thomas Schlich to which I contributed a chapter is now available free-to-read on UPLOpen uplopen.com/books/e/10.7... 🗃️ #histmed #booksky

Christina Koch being greeted by her dog after returning from space is the dose of Monday hopium we all needed 💕

Reminding folks that one of the first signs of Orban’s authoritarianism was his attack on universities, including closing the highly-regarded gender studies MA program at the Central European University in Budapest. That program left Hungary & continues today in Vienna.

No more learning, pleaseeeeeee

A cancer patient enrolled in this trial died because of duloxetine. Adding insult to injury it was already known that duloxetine doesn't work (and why should it?) in the prevention or treatment of chemotherapy induced neuropathy spcare.bmj.com/content/13/1... #MedSky #Oncosky #Pharmsky

I have a father and mother in law in Iran. I have a sister in law. A niece. She's 14. She likes silly pink headbands and purses and dresses, just like kids her age all over the world. There are 93 million people like her in Iran. People who do all the normal mundane life things as the rest of us.

Looks important for a number of reasons. #histsci #histSTM #histmed

Gina Kolata strikes back

Reading this remarkable book by @michelamassimi.bsky.social Only just realising what a big deal it is: novel and profoundly erudite accounts of perspective, phenomena, models... All 👌 Plus the style manages to balance gutsy and respectful to predecessors (something I often mess up). Go read it

After taking time to connect with the Pretti family and with their consent, we are honored to share that we have created the Alex Pretti Nursing Scholarship. For those interested, you can learn more and make a gift here: crowdfund.umn.edu/campaigns/Al...

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Any recent history of laetrile? Thank you! #histmed 🗃️

Well done, Bosnia!

"In immigration detention, he missed 4 out of 5 chemotherapy sessions scheduled in his fight against aggressive lymphoma. A scan last month showed the cancer had spread into his bone marrow. “I was in shock, seeing those little dots,” he said of the scan...” www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...

An important piece by @elspethdavies.bsky.social in the @bmj.com. “Being at elevated risk of disease can fundamentally disrupt a person's sense of trust in their body. Helping people live with risk is not only about offering further monitoring and investigations” Link: www.bmj.com/content/bmj/...

'No Patient Deserves This': Doctors, Nurses Say Trump Blockade Is Killing Sick Cubans www.commondreams.org/news/us-bloc...

Join us to celebrate the release of Protein at our upcoming launch event! 📍 The Broom Factory 🗓 Wednesday, April 1 🕖 7:00 PM 📚 Books available from Novel Idea 🥤 Refreshments will be served All are welcome, we hope to see you there! #protein #booklaunch @dukepress.bsky.social

From yesterday’s conversation with @timothysnyder.bsky.social & @hcrichardson.bsky.social Full interview now on YouTube ⬇️

Italy has confirmed the first European human H9N2 avian flu case. About 90% of human H9N2 avian flu cases have been reported in China, with detections in Cambodia, Vietnam, and India, as well. Read more: ow.ly/zOBz50YyTjt

A bruised and battered, but ultimately healed, spotted eagle ray graced us today. Looks a lot like our pal Smiley, but the marks on the dorsal fin aren’t quite the same. #spottedeagleray #eagleray #stingraysofcoralcity #coralcitycamera

Protein: Nutritional Superstar or the Latest Health Fad? Thanks to the @nextbigidea.bsky.social for featuring @proteinthebook.bsky.social by Gavin Weedon and Samantha King.

A Maryland legislator wants pharma and patient groups to disclose ties to disease awareness campaigns www.statnews.com/pharmalot/20... via @statnews.com

Coralheads that have tuned into the CCC the past couple of mornings have been treated to a rainbow parrotfish party 🥳🌈🌈🦜🐟🪸🎊 #rainbowparrotfish #parrotfishjungle #parrotfishcapitaloftheworld #parrotfish #coralcitycamera

I am amazed that for a few years we had the ability to instantly access information through an almost perfect search engine and the makers of that search engine decided hundreds of billions wasn’t enough profit so they destroyed it

Gender Studies 101: even progressive social movements are not free of sexism. In fact, feminist movements have often emerged out of this contradiction.

BMJ Open article: "Substantial undisclosed financial COIs were identified among the top 10 earners in high-impact psychiatry journals." bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...

Oh my god it is actually out - like actually now. Over a week early! They snuck it out without telling me! lol. Well, here it is people, and you can download the whole thing for free - thanks to @wellcometrust.bsky.social Fill your boots: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...

NYT: Paula Doress-Worters, an Author of ‘Our Bodies, Ourselves,’ Dies at 87 By Penelope Green She wrote about postpartum depression when it was an unmentionable like abortion or birth control, and her research on her own suffering helped countless women. Gift link!

We had a visit from the largest school of permit we’ve ever seen on Cam 😮 #permit #permitfish #school #coralcitycamera

Today is #LongCovidAwarenessDay Long Covid changed my life beyond recognition. I got ill. I never recovered. Lost my job. Became housebound. I rely on others to do things for me. I lie on my bed most of the day. Watch the Guardian's short film about my life with #LongCovid 👇

There are no treatments and gov't is not properly investing in finding the treatments we so desperately need. That needs to change. It's time for government to fund the research. We've already waited too long. youtu.be/3mzG8j16FlQ?...

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

I keep thinking that if Donald Trump had gone to prison for January 6, as he should have, all those Iranian schoolgirls would be having dinner with their families this evening.

I’ve also been off of my venlafaxine for over a month now and apparently venlafaxine is infamous for its brutal withdrawals which I did not know. so I’ve been having random crying spells and crazy vivid dreams while sweating in my sleep. how long does this fucking last for

Consider yourself graced by a gentle green sea turtle ☺️〰️🔮🐢🪸〰️🌇 #greenseaturtle #seaturtlesofcoralcity #seaturtle #coralcitycamera

And, a lot of doctors actually don’t really seem to know half of what that specific drug does to you. If you’re desperate, it’ll help. But, man. Liver damage, insulin resistance, prediabetic stuff, hyponatremia. All associated with it. And, it’s a right bastard to kick the drug when you want/need.

Reducing venlafaxine is a nightmare, on many fronts

Any chance you could do mine too please? Reducing Venlafaxine so I'm making like a drug dealer opening the capsules and weighing it out. Very tedious.

Still get that every morning 10 years after stopping, along with the tinnitus