Happy Fenton Day to all who celebrate. Jesus Christ, fourteen years. youtu.be/3GRSbr0EYYU

School pupils are to be taught how to tackle conspiracy theories, spot 'fake news' & root out misinformation. The Daily Mail, ajudged by Wikipedia to be an unreliable new source, is furious. You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to work out why.

Sorry for the silence: The ERASE-LC trial is making steady progress. All participants have now received their infusions of remdesivir and completed their post-treatment testing.

Mirror: “Covid Inquiry reveals ‘forgotten’ children left disabled by Long Covid” www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Boris Johnson Faces COVID Inquiry as Long Covid Children Demand Recognition and Accountability. He's called Long Covid: 👉 B*ll*cks 👉 Made up like "Gulf War Syndrome" It's time for answers... Our #PressRelease: www.longcovidadvoc.com/borisjohnson...

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

@marciles.bsky.social Incredible 😅Surely worth having to rewrite your match report for!

Every time I accidentally ping the arm off my glasses 🙄 If you know, you know!

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Please sign & share if you can 🙏 Ensure UKHSA monitors & reports on the numbers of COVID infections that occur in healthcare settings through its routine surveillance programmes, & advises on how to prevent & control infection in hospitals, care homes & schools petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

I’m watching and it’s astounding. We all knew something like this was going on - but the extent of it! While so many were suffering, dying, sunk into loneliness - a few were absolutely RAKING IT IN. The COVID health crisis was a very, very lucrative opportunity for some.

Metro UK: “The long Covid legacy: ‘People don’t want to think about us” ‘Alex Sprackland caught Covid-19 in March 2020, he thought he’d be back to normal in no time…five years on, the 34-year-old still grapples with the severe, life-limiting effects of the infection’ metro.co.uk/2025/09/20/l...

This is how you do it. UK media take note.

Wordle 1,535 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I will die on this hill: it isn’t hard to say “at the height of the pandemic” or “at the start of COVID” during a podcast interview. Producers, hosts, don’t let your guests say “during COVID” like this thing is over. Correct them. Ask them to say the sentence again. This is your job.

Clip from The Guardian’s Science Weekly podcast: @nickyproctor.bsky.social describes how doctors dismissed her #MECFS as psychological, before she crashed completely and became mostly bedbound, unable even to hold a conversation.

www.notjustfatigue.org/past 2011 "The UK funds a £5 million study known as the PACE Trial, offering participants cognitive behavioral therapy and graded exercise therapy to combat their “false illness beliefs” (29)

Great thread 🧵

Missing that view already #Criccieth #Wales

"This is important, this is big actually"

Our initial DNA results! DecodeME have discovered that people with an ME/CFS diagnosis have significant genetic differences compared to the general population. - Summary of our results: shorturl.at/pgsjk Check out our full preprint paper: shorturl.at/VwN3s

Pursue engagement at the cost of credibility and you’ll deserve neither and lose both.

The BMJ has not published a rapid resopnse from Maeve Boothby O'Neill's mum, @swastrosarah.bsky.social‬, to its ME/CFS "hope" propaganda piece from members of the biopsychosocial ideological brigades. So I have posted it here. virology.ws/2025/07/23/t...

Incredibly powerful watch about the government plan on ME from @binitakane.bsky.social and Sarah, whose daughter Maeve died from ME. NHS urgently needs to commission specialist services for the 100,000s people living with this debilitating condition. watch here youtu.be/GZbSrdtiA9k?...

Sarah Boothby on the BBC Breakfast segment about the new delivery plan "The way Maeve was treated while she was in hospital was she was constantly being referred to psychiatric services because the conception has been that ME is a mental illness. It isn't a mental illness."

2:41 in from the start - some of my response to the long awaited DHSC _Plan for ME_ and where we are now. Thanks to BBC Radio 5 live for the opportunity www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

BBC: 'Chronic fatigue is not in your head, it's in your blood - experts' 'University of Edinburgh researchers said their findings could pave the way for a "game-changer" diagnostic test.' www.bbc.com/news/article...

www.theguardian.com/society/2025... Ondine did such a huge job to get recognition for all with Long Covid👇

Highlights from Prof Chris Ponting’s presentation to the joint APPG on ME & Long Covid: He made clear that graded exercise is harmful, and warned that despite rising numbers, there’s still no research strategy, no effective treatments, and almost no funding. #MECFS #LongCovid

Learning about myalgic encephalomyelitis really changed me. The full depth of suffering associated with this horrific illness is right out in the open for anyone to read about and/or to develop themselves, and our society seems to have decided to address the problem solely by stigmatising patients

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Disabled people need to figure in the working from home discussion #LongCovid bsky.app/profile/nort...

🗣️ 'This is a really big day for children and families up and down the country!' Our Executive Director Anna Taylor reacts to government plans extend #FreeSchoolMeals on @bbc5live.bsky.social this morning. Listen in full: bit.ly/3ZFd6rl @rachelburden.bsky.social @rickedwards1.bsky.social

An insight into our #LongCovid #research at the @DerbyUni www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSwH...

Science communicator Dianna Cowern/Physics Girl has #MECFS & #LongCovid. She has been completely bedbound, but has now improved a bit. She provides an update, talks on life with the diagnoses & on her close friend Tobias with very severe ME/CFS. 12 minutes youtu.be/vqeIeIcDHD0 #SevereME #PwME

Our global effort to raise the urgency of research into Long Covid in children published in The ERJ ⬇️ Huge thanks to @buonsenso.bsky.social and @laelyonker.bsky.social for leading on this. #longcovidkids @longcovidkids.bsky.social publications.ersnet.org/content/erj/...

This is absolutely terrible news. With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately. h/t @merz.bsky.social

Rotring 600 tip — Swap out the standard Rotring G2 ballpoint refill for a Schneider Gelion+ #StationeryNerd

#MECFSAwarenessMonth – Day 18 2018: MP Carol Monaghan leads the first of 3 UK Parliament debates on ME, including one about the PACE trial. She highlights patient harm and flawed research, calling it “one of the biggest medical scandals of the 21st century.”

Way more than that. An earlier lockdown would’ve prevented hundreds of thousands more from their lives being ruined by #longcovid #mecfs. They’re not dead, but they’re barely living life.

It’s my birthday. I’m 44. I feel deeply happy. That feels extraordinary - after 22 years with ME, and now 17 days in hospital with post-Covid microvascular failure. What I’m going through feels otherworldly. But it’s common. Not rare. We must take ME and Long Covid seriously!

Again for those in the back: 👏🏼 PEM 👏🏼 is 👏🏼 NOT 👏🏼 deconditioning Symptoms associated with effort expenditure in #LongCOVID, #MECFS and other energy limiting illnesses are physiological, not “preferential” Thanks to @RobWust for this incredible work. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

An incredibly powerful and thought-provoking film that should be required viewing for healthcare practitioners. #MECFS #LongCovid #ItCouldHappenToYou youtu.be/J0ywwLIfH_w

Not a milestone I wanted, but today’s my 4 year Long Covidversary 🎂😔 #LongCovid

The coastal path in south Devon with Burgh Island across the causeway. The quietest place we have been this year. #FingerPostFriday

@rachelburden.bsky.social This Mansfield Up&Down Quiz certainly counts, it’s like when American sports have flyaway games — they still count!

Are there any more GPs with Long Covid out there who would be interested in reading my article in the British Journal of General Practice (BJGPlife) and maybe comment on it? #LongCovid bjgplife.com/suzanne-osul...

‚In November 2023, the Dorset Post Covid Syndrome Service (…) stopped its service for paediatric patients (…). "I really struggled with that because everyone is still suffering, why have they shut it down?" Molly asked. (…) now also closing for adults from 30 June.‘ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Coventry, Derby, Telford, just 3 of the hardest hit areas of the U.K. because of Trump’s tariffs. Our modelling shows these areas would be among those that benefit MOST from goods alignment with the EU.

"Suzanne O’Sullivan’s “Psychosomatic” Mis-Diagnoses" by Dr David Tuller @davetuller1.bsky.social virology.ws/2025/04/10/t... People can support David's work here: crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/46120 #LongCovid #chronicillness