Someone captured a video over on the other place. (Don't know how to embed it here) #WrongParentError #OspreysVsStarlings x.com/i/status/205...

Clicking through the Cornell Lab Hellgate Osprey cam live feed and cracking up at these ospreys BAFFLED about a pair of fledgling starlings getting into their nest. The baby starlings keep trying to run under them like nestlings would. 🥹

How many NHS elective procedures that require the patient to be signed off for more than a week are done per day in the NHS? UK Government says that 40,000 fit notes are issued per day. What proportion of these are to allow a patient to recuperate at home? Maybe they should have checked first?

Whoop! #PooleHarbourOspreys www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTA-...

"wizard_bisan1 Our fight against death in it’s different faces is still ongoing, spread out the word ✊🏻🇵🇸

Yn dilyn yr etholiadau diweddar yng Nghymru, hoffem longyfarch i’r Aelodau’r Senedd newydd etholedig. Dymunwn lwyddiant iddynt wrth iddynt ddechrau eu tymor yn cynrychioli pobl Cymru. 1/

Following the recent elections in Wales, we’d like to congratulate the newly elected Senedd Members. We wish them every success as they begin their term representing the people of Wales. 1/

We have asked you to contact your MP using our advocacy guides (link to our full guide shorturl.at/9lhU7 or to our shorter guide here shorturl.at/pxwux). This is showing results so please keep doing it if your energy allows..

Today in @thesicktimes.org: A new feature by Lorraine Boissoneault (@lodrinkswater.bsky.social) about how mold can trigger and worsen chronic illness. And how climate change could increase the risk of environmental exposures like mold. thesicktimes.org/2026/05/21/m...

That was a genuine request for answers... Why do psychotherapists use silent sessions? What is their purpose? (Other than to cause the patient a great deal of discomfort?)

Very Severe ME now has a SNOMED CT code, but still no specialist NHS pathway. #SevereMErgency #VerySevereMErgency

www.cidrap.umn.edu/ebola/commen... And here we have it. The uncertainty and also knowledge that “An infectious patient may emit droplets during coughing, sneezing, and talking and through medical procedures like suctioning, endotracheal intubation, cough induction by chest physical …🧵

Spain's Irene Montero addresses EU Vice-President Kallas: “Israel has been for 24 hours kidnapping European citizens and you’re SMILING?!” “What would you do if it were Iran? If it were Russia? But since it is ISRAEL, you smile and look the other way.” “Shame on you” #GlobalSumudFlotilla

That was a genuine request for answers... Why do psychotherapists use silent sessions? What is their purpose? (Other than to cause the patient a great deal of discomfort?)

Made some comments on the initial phylogenetic analysis of Bundibugyo viral sequences for SMC: www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-react... The analysis is here: virological.org/t/initial-ge...

Here is Elon Musk bragging about how he "accidentally" canceled all Ebola prevention efforts (DOGE never fully restored the canceled contracts)

Well, that's healthcare rationing by the [checks notes] front door then. 😱 BMJ | GPs back exploration of NHS private “dentist-style” service www.bmj.com/content/393/...

Astronomers find interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS hiding in images taken by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory before its official discovery. 🧪 🔭

When I first came across this article from Garner (5 years ago, I think), it was this passage that leapt out at me. Why the heck do psychotxists use silence torture as therapy???

The floating ice shelf of world’s widest glacier – Thwaites glacier in Antarctica – is detaching, with worrying implications for global sea-level rise

Organisers say that Israeli ​forces have intercepted 16 of their boats, with six Irish people on board. The six include President Catherine Connolly’s sister Dr Margaret Connolly, a Sligo GP. The other five are Catriona Graham, Louise McCormack, Joshua St Leger, Cormac O’Daly and Tom Deasy.

#WildflowerHour is featuring #TinyPlants this week. So here’s some tiny blue Veronica arvensis flowers from mid Wales.

#freemarwan #freehussam #freethemall 🇵🇸 ✊ #MarwanBarghouti #drhussamabusafiya

#WildflowerHour is featuring #TinyPlants this week. So here’s some tiny blue Veronica arvensis flowers from mid Wales.

For those thinking that so-called "virtual wards" will solve everything, please read this important paper by Geraint Lewis et al. Integrating care for high-risk patients in England using the virtual ward model (2013) pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Reposting this after @cgatist.bsky.social prez in Berlin showing similar genetic footprints btw ME and fibro. That (very underlooked) study about how master cells mediate damage in fibro was one of the most interesting papers in months for me...

It was a pleasure to meet with Tracey Williams at the Welsh Government offices in Cardiff to discuss the possibility of all-Wales service for ME. With her background in nursing, Tracey truly ‘gets it’ and the conversation was refreshingly honest.

After Israel began expunging humanitarian organizations in Gaza for failing to comply with new rules, a Doctors Without Borders team was left scrambling to establish a permanent clinic. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/huUHZP

Please sign this petition. Many people with #ME are too till to attend GPs' surgeries, outpatients' appointments, or A&E. #MEAwarenessWeeek petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

After the great news from the UK about #SequenceME (a continuation and deeper dive of the first GWAS study @decodemestudy.bsky.social into the genetic factors involved in #ME/CFS). This recent paper by Prof. @lizworthey.bsky.social et al. is a must read Uncovering the genetic architecture of ME

We are in the Meningitis B outbreak area with a teen in hospital from our school. 1 family has lost their child 🥺 3 colleges affected - private school has vac for all the yr group. State schools - nope. If @UKHSA had offered national vac program?! www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

NB: Hantavirus genetic material = viral RNA, not necessarily viable infectious virus... [OP here: x.com/AlphaPulseGl... ]

Argentina has recorded 102 hantavirus cases this season, nearly double the same period a year earlier. Rodent exposure remains typical, while human-to-human spread is exceptional.

Meanwhile, all the Labour MPs will steadily be replaced by Greens. 😀

"The best way to keep people from panicking about hantavirus is to do everything possible to ensure there is nothing to panic about." Excellent article. That is all.

This explains a lot... You can just pick a friend who's not even a subject expert to review you @pnas.org paper.. Like asking a Professor of Cognitive Science to review your climate paper, for example. What could go wrong? 🤷‍♂️

Nearly 50,000 people around Lake Tahoe have been told their utility will stop providing them power because that electricity is being redirected to Nevada data centers. This is beyond cruel.

www.nature.com/articles/s41... 'Genome-wide analyses of EBVread+ identified strong associations at the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), including 54 independent human leukocyte antigen (HLA) alleles of MHC classes I and II, and at 27 genomic regions outside MHC'

Claire Hirst (It's All About M.E. on Facebook) has shared this post, and has asked folks to share, so I'm sharing here. 🙏💙 www.facebook.com/permalink.ph... #SevereME #SevereMErgency

I just want Streeting to resign, then fail hilariously, and be relegated to the back benches, with someone less terrifying taking the job as Health Secretary.

I know there’s a lot going on in the world, and we don’t have enough attention to pay to any of it. But the throttling of Cuba by the US should be a bigger story than it is. There are about 10 million people in Cuba, subjected to horrendous collective punishment. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

A cause for national shame. This is the Rainbow Map for LGBTI+ rights across Europe. Until 2015, the UK was top. We've now collapsed down the rankings - and are the worst in Western Europe. We're now near Albania.

"We've known this virus for decades and we will assume this is nothing new." vs. "We don't know everything and this could be something new, therefore precautionary principle." 2025: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Plaid Cymru's cabinet is currently being announced. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Minister for Social Justice and Equality – Sioned Williams. Cabinet Minister for Finance – Elin Jones. Trefnydd, Chief Whip and Cabinet Minister for Culture and Sport – Heledd Fychan. 1/n

Transcranial ultrasound stimulation targeting the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex may reduce pain perception over time, indicating potential as a noninvasive therapy for chronic pain conditions. doi.org/hb3s4b

tbf I'm not sure that even neurology is the right place either... (particularly with the takeover by MUS/FND). Until infection-associated chronic conditions are recognised as their own specialty, this issue will persist. 😩

The Heritage study funded by the government states the annual cost to the U.K. economy from #ME and #LongCovid exceeds £12 billion. That’s £32.8 million a day to the U.K. economy. Yesterday they pledged £4.75 million for research. This makes no economic nor humanitarian sense.

LET THIS SINK IN—the U.S. now has no confirmed CDC director, no FDA commissioner, no Surgeon General, an NIH director with no medical license, and the last Acting CDC Director was a George Bush speechwriter. In fact—the only doctor/scientist we have in the White House is… Dr Oz.

ME is not “chronic fatigue.” It’s a devastating neuroimmune disease that destroys lives, and far too many people are still being dismissed, neglected, and left without hope or proper care. I wrote this after another tragic loss in the ME community. 💔 amandafrancey.medium.com/the-me-you-d...

‘The withholding of lifesaving care is not a theoretical concern: it is a documented, devastating outcome of misapplying psychosomatic models to a serious, organic illness.’ BMJ opinion piece on treatment of #ME patients. Too many die Too many suffer for decades. #MEAwarenessDay