🚨🧵by @michaelryan756 on Twitter, highlighting three reasons why the book chapter linked below is worth reading 🧵 threadreaderapp.com/thread/19869... Link to the FREE book chapter (PDF) 👇 which is from the book edited by Prof Deborah Lupton bsky.app/profile/dalu... #Covid #LongCovid #SocialAspects

Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix. Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!

Very glad to have a chapter in the Long COVID and Society book curated by D. Lupton. In my chapter, I show how #LongCovid patient-driven advocacy-research was critical in 2020-1 to identifying LC as a novel multi-system disease entity, and achieving recognition from policymakers and WHO

Here’s the direct link to my introduction chapter to ‘Long COVID and Society’, open access and free to read for all, either directly online or downloaded as a PDF link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

We need to start calling misrepresentation of COVID-related harms as due to "lockdowns" what it is: fraud, and a breach of academic integrity. There's room for good research, but studies that ignore direct effects and mindlessly attribute e.g. changes in mental health to mitigations are dishonest.

"Well guys, you're gonna have to learn his f*cking name now." I went on a rant at the Zohran Mamdani event last night, against billionaires who spent millions to try and stop a guy whose name they refuse to correctly pronounce. Watch/share/subscribe to Zeteo: zeteo.com/subscribe

Resist GenAI

Love This: In Louisiana, air pollution monitoring becomes an act of resistance lailluminator.com/2025/11/02/c...

For those in Atlanta, TIME 100 in AI honoree and mental health activist Kauna Malgwi will be gracing us with her presence at Georgia Tech tomorrow as part of our @aiainetwork.bsky.social Distinguished Speaker Series / IPaT Brown Bag crossover event. Info here: research.gatech.edu/ipat/fall-20...

I used to wonder if people would take this virus seriously again if evidence emerged that it increases the risk of heart attack and stroke, but now that researchers have found just that I find myself wondering what more it will take.

Teens need access to COVID vaccinations to help prevent Long COVID as well as acute COVID infection. ➡️New study shows 36% reduction in Long COVID for teens who had been vaccinated prior to infection. buff.ly/oaW4SIA #medsky #pedsky 🛟😷🧪

Zohran Mamdani ran on freezing the rent in NYC. Abigail Spanberger ran on supporting fired federal workers and lowering the cost of living in VA. Mikie Sherrill ran on lowering utility bills in NJ. Ensuring people can afford to live a decent life is the path forward.

Our position statement rejecting the use of GenAI for reflexive qualitative research can be found here papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

1/ "Throughout this book, narratives of lived experience demonstrate the sheer devastation—physical, psychological and emotional—that is integral to life with #LongCOVID in a society in which the condition is neglected, ignored, @dalupton.bsky.social link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Here are 7 things you should know about Long COVID.

Maybe we should call it No Czars.

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cannot believe on some level I & my colleagues have turned the tide on this, but also it was in some senses inevitable as why not! Humans can do anything; we still have a way to go however of course, but: banning AI in the classroom should be as uncontroversial as banning calculators in early maths

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My chapter examines the profound socio-economic impacts of Long COVID, particularly in education and employment, from the perspective of systemic inequities and social determinants of health, and exposes the harms of pandemic non-interventionism.

Now published! My edited book ‘Long COVID and Society’ - my introduction is free to read for everyone. Download from the link below and check out the others chapters too (Chapter 14, about LC children and families, is also open access) link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Proud to have co-authored this piece with amazing collaborators at the @thewhn.bsky.social. Let me know what you think. whn.global/whn-joins-in...

The purpose of the paper is to answer a direct question: Is use of the term "Airborne AIDS": a) justifiable b) overly provocative and wrong, or c) is the truth somewhere in between The paper (IMO) does a good job of exploring the available literature that we have to answer 2/

Have these people read the paper’s title - which overtly questions the airborne AIDS phrase, or indeed the whole article? Here it is www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our new article draws on critical air studies to address atmospheric wellbeing - how humans sense air quality with their own senses and using digital sensors. Open access journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

10/10 No notes, @dalupton.bsky.social!

Our new review article examines the parallels between COVID and AIDS, including the social impacts www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...

In session three of the RegNet AI Series, join @dalupton.bsky.social as she discusses her current work on how generative AI and the infrastructures supporting these tools affect the natural world. Learn more here: regnet.anu.edu.au/event/regnet...

There appears to be a resurgence of public health units doing, I dare say, really good reality-based public health! They even say COVID…let’s give them some love!

In a sample of thousands of Covid survivors from Rwanda, 34% suffered from #LongCovid symptoms for a study period of up to three years (LC WHO case definition) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This captures much of the frustration of today.

There is absolutely no good faith reason to use the term “AI” for any technology one is selling. It serves only for dazzling people into thinking the technology has capabilities that it doesn’t. If one wants a technology to be trustworthy, just use a transparent, informative term without hype.

My daughter described a tube of cheap lip gloss as smelling like “AI watermelon.”

More kids are severely ill or dying from the flu, CDC reports As fewer children get their flu shots, cases of a rare, severe complication are rising. Last season, the U.S. experienced the highest number of pediatric flu deaths in 15 years. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

My new article looks at the impacts of #GenAI on planetary health, calling for going beyond a human-centric focus on digital health to looking at impacts on ecosystems of data centre expansion and e-waste academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

Violet Affleck crushes it again

There is no conclusive evidence that taking Acetaminophen during pregnancy harms children, but there is very strong evidence that getting COVID does.

Our new findings just out - what do Australians think of generative AI and how are they using it? @admscentre.org.au simplysociology.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/w...

Our new findings just out - what do Australians think of generative AI and how are they using it? @admscentre.org.au simplysociology.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/w...

The Australian media reporting on 25 members of US congress decrying Australian support for an independent state of Palestine fail to mention the important context that there are 535 Members of US Congress.

It's not just people who caught it in 2020. It's 2021, 2022, 2023,2024, 2025, and forever into the future.

You guys have to read the termination letter that @washingtonpost.com sent @karenattiah.bsky.social because they essentially accused her of anti-white racism because she mentioned that Charlie Kirk was a white man 😵‍💫 Then they called her a “risk.” 🤡 karenattiah.substack.com/p/why-washin...

Definitely not caused by a complete failure to understand that covid does long-term immune damage, or that covid is spread through aersols that cannot be effectively blocked by intermittent medical masking in the near field. Definitely.

Giving a bully your lunch money is only a temporary downpayment for future bullying. We ALL need to step up for the first amendment. By-the-way, for the record, this ex-Disney employee finds Jimmy Kimmel very talented and funny. mh

theconversation.com/a-booming-lo... Notably, the ‘longevity industry’, which also includes well known and respected clinicians, usually fails to mention preventing COVID infections as a key way of protecting our good health and extending our longevity

Mini-scoop: After resisting pressure to strip Elon Musk of his fellowship for months, the Royal Society is meeting on 1 October to discuss his removal – following his decision to address Tommy Robinson's far-right rally on Saturday. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-r...

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

"Vaccines are safe. They are life-saving, and I would encourage any parent who is concerned about whether or not their child should get a vaccine to talk to their pediatrician to understand the benefits of these life-saving medical products..." — Former CDC director Susan Monarez

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

Dr. Monarez: "Kennedy called the CDC the most corrupt federal agency in the world. He emphasized CDC employees were horrible people. He said CDC employees were killing children. He said CDC employees were bought by pharma. He said CDC forced people to wear masks like a dictatorship."