Good write-up from #ThereForME on progress with the #MEDeliveryPlan I agree. People with ME deserve so much better.

I was particularly surprised by this "aim" from RCP that all of their ~40,000 members would undertake the modules by the end of 2025. Particularly as (afaik) they have made no attempt to tell members about the modules, and no CPD points are available for completing the modules. #MEDeliveryPlan

Today's #ThereForME blog takes stock progress in key areas six months on from the publication of the Final Delivery Plan for ME. We look at progress in terms of: ➡️ Improving care for severe and very severe ME ➡️ Boosting education and training ➡️ Accelerating research

Like how long will it be before medics realise that the brain is part of the body and that mental health *is* physical health??? 🧠

Happy Bun Day to all who celebrate! Please honour our traditions of spanking people while they are still in bed, yelling "BOLLA BOLLA BOLLA!" and then demanding they give you a creamy bun!

The document that NIHR produced is here: io.nihr.ac.uk/wp-content/u... I'd be interested to know what you folks make of it.

Today the astro-community discussed the devastating proposed 30% cuts to our research funding, cuts that will be offsetting (some of the) rising costs at UK facilities that we don't use. Hard not to feel victimised when those same facilities make a fanfare announcement about an expensive facelift. 🔭

I was particularly surprised by this "aim" from RCP that all of their ~40,000 members would undertake the modules by the end of 2025. Particularly as (afaik) they have made no attempt to tell members about the modules, and no CPD points are available for completing the modules. #MEDeliveryPlan

Thanks Tessa. Please don't let her fob you off with respect to treatments. The NIHR IO review was particularly poor in this regard. bsky.app/profile/luci...

Thanks to The Times for highlighting Savannah’s story and the critical issue that there is no specialist NHS service for very severe ME. Grateful to Ashley Dalton for our recent brief call but still waiting for progress report re ME Plan commitment to explore such a service, including treatments.

Update on Savannah’s case in The Times. She has severe ME/CFS, has lost 30kg and eaten nothing since January 18. Sonya Chowdhury, CEO of Action for ME, describes the situation as “appalling” and says she is very worried Savannah could die. archive.ph/J3Xv3

🚨 NEW CVF DATA 🚨 Today we publish new evidence on the impact of the pandemic on Clinically Vulnerable households across the UK. For many, the harms did not end in 2022. 1/🧵 <Full report on final post>👇

Gah! Really wanted (and enjoyed a few) chips with nice supper last night, but potato intolerance has hit back in spades (and a few shovels) today. So hoped that having abstained for many weeks would have meant it had gone away. But no. 😵‍💫 :(

Researchers have uncovered the molecular trigger for a rare but potentially deadly clotting disorder that some people experienced after receiving some COVID-19 vaccines. A rare genetic change means that antibody binds PF4 due to its similarity to adenovirus pVII. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I am ABSOLUTELY reading this as HARD PROOF that Romans farmed ichthyosaurs. It is fact now. Sorry.

Wow! Another 🇬🇧🥇 Snowboard cross team event Whoop!

When Plumes serenades curious Lemurs we all win.😍💗 #TimelineCleanse

NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

Excellent response from Dr Nicola Boyd: "Firstly, the article states that “the best preventive measure is vaccination”. This is fundamentally incorrect. The best preventative measure is to avoid infection, and vaccination alone cannot achieve this." 👏👏👏😷 www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Time to decant the sloe vodka 🍷

Trying to watch ice skating on the BBC last night made so difficult as a result of there only being 2 feeds available. Eventually managed to catch most of the men's singles final across 3 separate programmes, but they *still* missed 2 of the competitors in the final group - Cha and Grassl.

Generations of pupils have learned in stuffy classrooms filled with recycled air, but a Hampshire school is now breathing new life into the way lessons are taught. The impact of installing HEPA filters has been striking. Poke @safeairschoolsuk.bsky.social www.portsmouth.co.uk/education/th...

What I'd like to get an idea of: a) How many emails do RCGP send their members per week? b) Do members even read them? c) How many times in *the last 6 months of 2025* did RCGP mention the NHS e-learning modules on ME?

Might it be that the "at baseline/resting" bit is the issue here? So many studies show that pwME look normal, until they don't. Aren't the studies looking in the wrong place at the wrong time?

Trying to watch ice skating on the BBC last night made so difficult as a result of there only being 2 feeds available. Eventually managed to catch most of the men's singles final across 3 separate programmes, but they *still* missed 2 of the competitors in the final group - Cha and Grassl.

Found today February 14th 2026 - A scarlet elf cup fungus presenting itself just perfectly for Valentine's day.

Finally caught up with Alaa Alqaisi's essay on Palestine and the geography of vanishing. Never not read Alaa Alqaisi www.thenation.com/article/worl...

The Evening Post, Bristol, England. 13th February 1998. ""CFS/ME is a very poorly understood condition and services are virtually non-existent."" - twenty-seven years ago today. #myalgicencephalomyelitis #cfsme #myalgice #mecfs

The latest #CopernicusAtmosphere forecasts show a Saharan dust episode that will affect south-east Europe over the weekend. The animation below shows the plume in our Aerosol Alert, based on the forecasts. Explore more at the link: aerosol-alerts.atmosphere.copernicus.eu

This seems as good an excuse as any for a short thread introducing people to some single moths I've found in my area, looking for fun. 1. Here, for starters, is a Canary-Shouldered Thorn Moth (I didn't make this up).

UNRWA's compound in occupied East Jerusalem - a United Nations premises. Seized and demolished by Israeli authorities, in an unprecedented violation of international law. Water and electricity to UNRWA's East Jerusalem installations have also been cut. UNRWA services must be allowed to continue.

[TW Unpopular Opinion] I'm not sure that making certain training modules "mandatory" is necessarily the right thing to do. Often the problem is a lack of basic *core* training because of entrenched views and stigma, and a lack of any basic services. Those issues need addressing first.

The first of the papers mentioned in this article has one of the most astonishing figures I've ever seen wrt ME. www.mdpi.com/ijms/ijms-24...

More evidence that exercise should be approached with extreme caution in people with #MECFS , as well as those with #longcovid or other chronic illnesses who experience post-exertional malaise: www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Literally waiting for this re: #MECFS ... had spoken to folks at Moderna about a trial for #MECFS . Love living in this anti-science country.

It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea

Does anyone on here know anyone (friend, partner, relative) who gets regular emails from RCGP who might be able to help me with this? Please?????? Even if the result draws a blank?

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Reliability of LLMs as medical assistants for the general public: a randomized preregistered study added to the hub. www.pslhub.org/learn/commis... #AI #patientsafety

Does anyone on here know anyone (friend, partner, relative) who gets regular emails from RCGP who might be able to help me with this? Please?????? Even if the result draws a blank?

A female Hooded Merganser communicating a message to a male Hooded Merganser. I think she wanted to go for a walk, because soon after this they were strolling along the icy shoreline together.

Major earthquakes don’t run to timetable ⏰ BAS' Dr Zakaria Ghazoui-Schaus has overturned a common assumption about earthquake prediction: that major earthquakes follow predictable cycles, and that regions can be ‘overdue’ for the next big one. This has big consequences for disaster planning ⬇️

I love Ilia and he’s the one of the greatest figure skaters of our lifetime, but let’s not pretend he isn’t insulated by white male privilege when people talk about his backflip. I’m old enough to remember watching Surya Bonaly, a Black woman, do hers and being publicly DRAGGED for it.

the people who spread the “female brains are bad at math and spatial reasoning” lies should be tried at the Hague

Some Winter Olympics athletes, teams, and their loved ones are protecting themselves from airborne pathogens by masking and isolating. Meanwhile, the media stigmatizes disease prevention while minimizing serious risks of Long COVID. Read more from @mileswgriffis.bsky.social: bit.ly/4rHDA6R

wrt this action statement in the #MEDeliveryPlan, are there any UK GPs on here who can confirm whether the RCGP has indeed been sharing and promoting the NHSE e-learning modules on ME/CFS? Thanks!

During a congressional visit, Congressman Joaquin Castro discovered that babies as young as two months old are being held at the Dilley, Texas Family Concentration Camp. (February 10, 2026)

Interesting. Particularly after The Lancet published a monster meta-analysis to deny that this side-effect was associated with statins at all. www.sciencealert.com/painful-side...

1) "Incorporating PEM into a new conceptual model of long covid cardiac rehabilitation programmes is essential to clinically distinguish it from cardiovascular deconditioning and to safeguard patients from unintended harm"

wrt this action statement in the #MEDeliveryPlan, are there any UK GPs on here who can confirm whether the RCGP has indeed been sharing and promoting the NHSE e-learning modules on ME/CFS? Thanks!