Delighted to say that we (@deanskevin.bsky.social et al.) have got our case study of post-vaccine syndrome updated: researchsquare.com/article/rs-1... Key takeaway is that within clinical pathways, we found evidence of POTS, MCAS, clotting, metabolic, and endocrine dysfunction 🧵

Oh, and here's a nice video if you want to nerd out on lunar orbits... Comparison of the orbits of Apollo 8, and Artemis 1 & 2 from The Overview Effekt www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNQ7...

What are they all doing in there? 😆 #Artemis

The fact that one might be able to come up with an explanation of the data consistent with prior assumptions does not mean it is safe to add another layer of assumption. That's where the pandemic response went off the rails from day 1. Same thing with denial of #longCOVID, that it affects kids, etc.

Please keep signing if you disagree with the Government's response. #DirtyBusiness

And just for completeness, here is the originator of the petition, Cllr Alan Dean, talking about it for Ashford Green Party. They also include a clip of Feargal Sharkey talking to Zack Polanski about what the Government needs to do. www.instagram.com/p/DVyR-GWD1km/

Anyone know whether The 'Skeets' @continuitytweets.bsky.social (aka @rfh1955.bsky.social ) is OK? No sign on here for over 3 weeks now. 😟 I hope they're just taking a break, but I do worry when my tweeps are silent for a long time.

'“It’s Easter… when you would expect tens of thousands of pilgrims. This year it’s completely empty.” Peter Oborne reports from #Jerusalem, where access to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre has been restricted, and the Old City has been effectively shut down...' www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvmJ...

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

Emory University scientists find a structured region of SARS-CoV-2 RNA activates a key immune sensor, showing the virus is detected not by one piece but a coordinated RNA shape that helps trigger antiviral defense. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

+1. This ⤵️ I don't go to hospital as a severe #pwME anymore. I tried 5/6 times, different places... doesnt matter, it's harmful. Pure psychological and physical torture. We are forced to learn to dissociate from the year we live in. Back to 1890. No hospitals. #ME teleports you in time. 1/2

BBC Wales Today. Carer and campaigner Rob Messenger, who has two children with #MECFS in their 30s, says there are no specialists to turn to and describes care for Severe and Very Severe ME in Wales as a ‘desert’.

Via @NASAEarth: “The Artemis II crew captured beautiful, high-resolution images of our home planet during their journey to the Moon. As @Astro_Christina put it: ‘You guys look great.’”

ME/CFS should meet the “severe and lifelong” criteria as recovery is rare: "full recovery from zero or very low labor capability around .. diagnosis leads to a total return to jobs with normal wages in only exceptional cases" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @tessamunt.bsky.social #MEcfs

Good spot by @johnthejack.bsky.social at the start of The Ipcress File (currently on iPlayer): Dr Radcliffe is reading a copy of New Scientist and the second article is "Hunting the leukaemia virus"... www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... ...so I fell down a bit of a rabbit hole this morning. 🧵

Incredible footage from a United Airlines flight of the Artemis II launch.

Right now, the astronauts must be thinking: "The Earth is getting awfully big in the window." Artemis II is dropping toward perigee for the TLI burn that will send it to the Moon.🔭 #astro

#Animals You Might Never Knew Existed - such as (my favorite) the #manedwolf below. #biodiversity Link for more info and more #photos of these amazing animals: mossandfog.com/animals-you-...

According to a large observational study, receiving a high-dose flu vaccine is associated with a significantly lower risk of Alzheimer’s disease than a standard-dose vaccine in adults aged 65 and older. Read more on the study: ow.ly/KXTn50YCB6A

Solidarity with Rima Hassan

My allergist/immunologist told me their clinic is becoming overwhelmed with MCAS patients and they’re looking for an MCAS specialist but there’s really none out there.

Their letter is here:

Towards the end of her life (she died in 1967), my grandmother told my dad, "I went to school in a pony and trap, and now they're sending men into space. I've lived quite long enough." Nearly 60 yrs later, her great grandson is still waiting for step-free access at our local railway station.

Thrilled we have this new Comment out in @thelancetinfdis.bsky.social, arguing that to give Long COVID scientists more incentive to incorporate patient expertise throughout the research process, LC papers should all be subject to pre-publication review by patients. Free to read w/registration!

US-Israeli bombing destroys the Pasteur Institute “Established in 1920, the institute is the first and oldest public health center in Iran—where staffers pioneered vaccine development and research on the prevention of infectious diseases.” www.cnn.com/2026/04/02/w...

And for a while the lunar mission toilet was not working www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio...

In addition to this, over 17,000 people have dropped out of the social security system because of the transition from Employment Support Allowance to Universal Credit. [ht @stevewitherdenmp.bsky.social via X/FB] A group of MPs have written to ministers about this.

Frances Ryan in The Guardian: "From next week, almost three-quarters of a million of the most severely ill and disabled people in the country could end up having a lifeline benefit cut in half." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This YT feed is showing live coverage of the Artemis II mission, so do check it out to see what the crew are currently up to. About an hour ago, they completed the "proximity operations demonstration", where they separated Orion from the ICPS (interim cryogenic propulsion stage).

It's Artemis II Lunar Launch Day! I was too young to watch the last time we went to the Moon, so I'll be watching here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR... Coverage has already started, if you want to check in... 🚀🌔

It's Artemis II Lunar Launch Day! I was too young to watch the last time we went to the Moon, so I'll be watching here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR... Coverage has already started, if you want to check in... 🚀🌔

The 12yo has decided that today is Mongoose Awareness Day! I didn’t realize there was such a variety of mongooses. They have mutations in the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor that protect against snake venom. He says they are born to wrestle snakes.

Human Rights Watch slams the ruling against Ben Jamal and Chris Nineham as a 'political' move to silence dissent.

This response is absolutely PATHETIC. The water industry have had decades to sort this out, but instead they have asset-stripped to the point where nothing works properly any more. If "strong regulation" is the answer, why has the Government not already put this in place? 🤔 #DirtyBusiness

Just some doves. Sitting in an apple tree. 🕊️

Why tf aren't we cleaning the air in our hospitals? 😩 😷 Welsh hospital tells immunosuppressed cancer patients that they don't have room for them to wait somewhere in safety. #cvcev #CleanTheAir www.itv.com/news/wales/2...

Interesting article with lots of caveats. SSRIs have loads of unspecified additional effects, so much of this is unsurprising, but it's probably not easy to predict who will get benefit and who will not.

Now that's a good purple. 💜

NCNED Griffith University TRPM3 Dysfunction in ME/CFS: This study confirms that TRPM3 ion channel dysfunction is a reproducible biological feature of ME/CFS across labs. medicalxpress.com/news/2026-01... (article) www.frontiersin.org/journals/med... (study)

The UK Department of Health and Social Care now expect that work will begin in April 2027 to start the process of commissioning a service for those with very severe ME/CFS ugc.production.linktr.ee/8dd80874-c0a... Screenshot from Science for ME update #MEcfs #PwME #SevereME @thereforme.bsky.social

Tomorrow night! 🚀

Two and a half years on from the cyber attack and it's still not possible to consult ebooks at the British Library (which is a right pain when I have an article to finish).

I'm always skeptical of claims like this, and plenty of stuff done in the lab is not remotely commercializable, but if this is remotely true it's wild www.the-independent.com/tech/solar-p...

Israel’s holocaust of Palestinians reached a horrific new low today. No different than trains heading to gas chambers. Shame on everyone silent about this.

Welsh Labour launch their manifesto for the Senedd elections in May with the promise of a free baby dragon for every household. I mean, they might have well have done! 🙄 🐉

NEW: “Welsh Labour, like the other Welsh parties, is not fully facing up to the fiscal reality facing the next Welsh Government.” 📗 Read our response to the Welsh Labour manifesto here: ifs.org.uk/articles/ini...

Read the full story here: www.thenational.scot/news/2598005...

UN peacekeeper killed in southern Lebanon as Israeli invasion intensifies https://aje.news/90lau0

Australia TRI-ME Trial New treatment trial for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis aka #ME/CFS The Aim Researchers at Deakin, La Trobe and Swinburne Universities are investigating if a potential new treatment is effective in treating Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS).

'An incredible privilege and responsibility': Artemis 2's Christina Koch is ready to become the 1st woman to fly around the moon www.space.com/space-explor...