1/ "This trial marks a significant step in understanding how digital tools can support people living with #LongCOVID": www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/tracker...

Monday mood: This Heron standing very still, hoping no one asks it to do anything today. #MondayMotivation

Today's WIP (work in progress). It seemed like a good idea, but that was before enough coffee had been consumed. #WIP #WorkInProgress #Art #Birds

Happy Monday! It's a new week! A combination of diffused clouds and a high tide amplified by the full moon led to a very dynamic sunrise with a lot of texture in the sky, water and sand. Tap for full size. I hope you have a great day!

Gareth the Great Tit. #BirdOfTheDay #OpenWings #EastCoastKin #ukbirds

Caught against the sun, a great egret (Ardea alba) displays the details of its wing and tail feathers, even the bone structure of its wings. Photo taken at Isleta Lakes, New Mexico on February 1, 2026. #nature #naturephotography #birds

The Moon is stunning tonight. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

Barry the Blue Tit. Photographed yesterday. #BirdOfTheDay #ShortLeggedBirds #birds #EastCoastKin

Neil the Nuthatch. Photographed yesterday. #BirdOfTheDay #ShortLeggedBirds #birds #EastCoastKin

“neglect of the highest order to look children in the eyes and say, ‘We knew how to protect you and we didn’t do it. We have access to technology to prevent airborne disease, something that millions of our ancestors and millions of people around the world today would kill for, & we refuse to use it”

Arcyria sp slime mold. NWT, Canada. #myxomycetes #fungifriends The slime mold sporangia are about 0.5cm high.

February brings us closer to the return of bumblebees – you might be lucky enough to see some this month 🤞 Bumblebee queens emerge from hibernation in spring. Keep your eyes peeled this month for early emerging Tree and Buff-tailed bumblebees 👀 Have you spotted your first bumblebee of 2026?

Terry the Treecreeper making another appearance at the log pile yesterday. #ukbirds #birds #wildlife #photography

It's perfect. there's nothing better than this

September 17th 2024 🌹 random rose 🌹

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 249 In 2013 and 2014 observations confirmed that 2 species of bumblebee - Red Tailed and Buff-Tailed - had expanded their range to within the Arctic Circle. Researchers suggest global warming as the likely influencing factor. #bees #nature #science

A beautiful male Bullfinch perched nicely while I was waiting for the Eagle's in 🇪🇪 #birdoftheday #SmallBirdSaturday #birdoftheday #eastcoastkin

Tonight's almost full moon. While waiting for the clouds to clear away I saw my first bat of the year over the garden.

In the Irish language, the goldfinch is known as 'lasair choille' (pronounced 'lasser-quilla'), which means... The Flame of the Forest! 🔥

What could possibly explain the trend line in this chart? #LongCOVID #COVID #medsky digital.nhs.uk/data-and-inf... NHS Sickness Absence Rates, October 2025

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... “Since reinfections can trigger long COVID at any age, one obvious strategy would be prevention (ie, limiting the number of reinfections).”

Out in the Lancet today. There are tens of thousands of #children in England living with the consequences of #Covid — direct, like #LongCovidKids, or through clinical vulnerability or bereavement and hardship. There is no Children's Commissioner listening to them. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Other work by the Ladybird artists. ‘Cat among ferns’ Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

Just finished my first painting of 2026, I’ce titled it ‘Woodpecker & Shadows’ - painted in watercolours. #watercolours #birdart #woodpecker 🪶

Signs of spring. Happy days 😁 ##flowerfeed 🌱

Lulu the Long-tailed Tit #BirdOfTheDay #EyeContact #birds #birding #wildlife #birdwatching #photography #nature #EastCoastKin

Winter woods #trees #woodland #treeclub

Will people, and doctors, start making the connection to new allergies being a result of a Covid infection? And not knowing Covid can bring on new allergies, will people continue to get repeat Covid infections and think “it’s just allergies” while acquiring even more new allergies? 🔁 🌀 😵‍💫

UCLA researchers found that fragments of digested SARS‑CoV‑2 spike protein can punch holes in and kill specific shape‑defined immune cells like dendritic and T cells, which may explain depletion in severe COVID and why omicron is milder. newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/cov...

From today's wander upto Loadpot Hill, Arthurs Pike and High Street and the views down Ullswater in the Lake District from the cairns above Whinny crag. A super clear and calm day but very wet and muddy underfoot. #landscapephotography #lakedistrict

Outstanding article from my friend Lucyl Harrison in @theconversation.com today. 'Human character changed in December 2019, when SARS-CoV-2 was discovered and the COVID pandemic began in earnest'. theconversation.com/on-being-ill...

🕕 18:00 on 27 January 2026 🌔 Waxing Gibbous 🌧️ Rain, very unsettled Barometer 978.4mb, 🔹 Steady Temperature 7.0°C, 🔺 Rising Rain today 12.7mm Wind 3mph E, Gust 9mph Humidity 76% UV 0.0 SolarRad 0W/m² #CumulusMX #Cumberland 🔸 #Cumbria #LiveWeather

“How many Flowers fail in Wood- Or perish from the Hill- Without the privilege to know That they are Beautiful-“ - Emily Dickinson. #flowerfeed🌱

A review of over 160,000 US adults finds about 7.2% develop IBS after COVID-19, with 2.6 times higher odds than non-infected people. Risk is highest with GI symptoms, depression, and lingering illness, pointing to a gut-brain pathway. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Cold enough for leg warmers #forJanet #ukbirds #birdoftheday #robins #nature #wildlife #EastCoastKin

Taekwondoin Tina Sugandh and her black belt kids, who always compete in their masks, warn about #LongCOVID— why they support #MaskTogetherAmerica and @publichealthaction.bsky.social. “This is for all that say you can't compete to your fullest potential at athletic events with a mask on.”

This will continue to happen as long as Covid is allowed to spread relentlessly in schools. The virus can cause immune dysregulation, making kids more susceptible to other infections and reactivations

Athens researchers followed 137 children for up to a year after COVID-19 and found at least 1 in 5 had long COVID symptoms. Even without heart disease, many showed signs of subtle but lasting heart dysfunction. www.internationaljournalofcardiology.com/article/S016...

Patients seek care at a hospital and instead get infected with deadly pathogens. Sound familiar? #CovidIsAirborne #MaskUp #CleanTheAir #IDSkt #MedSky www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Other work of the Ladybird artists. The park in winter Artist: SR Badmin

University of Maryland School of Public Health: Study shows N95 masks near-perfect at blocking escape of airborne COVID-19 #ThatCovidLife #CovidIsNotOver

Terry the Treecreeper was added to my #BigGardenBirdwatch list this morning. I've never seen him land on the log pile before. Happy days! #birds #photography #birdphotography #EastCoastKin

I promised Graham @oldmanrambling.bsky.social I would post a Robin a day for a week in memory of his beloved wife, Janet. As she loved Roberto, who is their little garden visitor. So for the sixth day #WinterRobin #ForJanet #birds #EastCoastKin

Dreaming of spring #flowerfeed #flowers #gardening 🌱

Full Moon... Pretty cool for a phone pic 😀

“Covid testing has declined. We can therefore no longer be sure who has had Covid-19. That creates methodological problems…When very few people test, it becomes much harder to link symptoms to Covid-19” As govts worldwide intended when they made testing vanish—eliminating accountability & liability

Russia launches deadly strikes on Kyiv and Kharkiv ahead of day two of peace talks

As someone who spent the last 15 years working with aging brains & dementia, I can't stop thinking about this. It is gerontocracy: leaders who are substantially older than most of the adult population. When did we accept this? The new generations can't show up because the old generations never left.

The PCR positivity map is out, and national positivity across England has nudged up to 2%. Adjusted for non-reporting areas, of which there are a lot this week, we make the real figure 3.16%. In Scotland, it's 2.16%. jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol... 1/9