Brain scans show #COVID can alter children’s development. Areas tied to language and listening sometimes improve with time. But changes in memory, emotions, and focus persist. Families say reinfections can wipe out recovery. Prevention matters. Kids must be included in research and care.

A customer just came into the shop and bought 12 books for her friend’s birthday. She’s going to wrap them individually and write a different month of the year on each one, so her friend has a new book to read every month until her next birthday. And I think that’s just the most thoughtful gift.

So yeah, this is one of the reasons I live here.

Steve Silberman is so pissed about this Tylenol bullshit that he's screaming from the afterlife he didn't even believe in. Increased rates of autism are due to testing, a broadened definition, and greater awareness. It's not vaccines. It's not Tylenol. It's like his work never happened.

Autumn is here, and so are the cyclamen! Happy autumnal equinox, the beginning of my favourite season. 🌱

i’ll be doing this soon myself! i was a novavax person but it’s back to pfizer this time since i didn’t want to risk waiting for novavax, what with the… politics.

Costco is reporting that some locations will have Novavax beginning next week, and all locations should have by mid October #NEISvoid 💉

Today is #HobbitDay because both Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were born on September 22nd. Normally we'd shire a hobbit pun or two but it might just feel like a tolkien gesture and we don't want to embarrass our elves. Anyway come and boromir #Tolkien books.

"significant genetic correlations between hEDS and joint hypermobility, myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, depression, anxiety, [autism], migraine, and gastrointestinal diseases" #NEISvoid #MECFS #EDS #hEDS

Our paper found that people with generalized joint #hypermobility have a 23% higher risk of #LongCOVID while people with extreme hypermobility have a 76% higher risk of #LongCOVID. This thread focuses on possible explanations for the higher risk. 1/20

I forget people don’t know I’m in remission from cancer. I was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma a few years ago which is usually kicked off by Epstein Barr virus, which also causes something like 90% of M.S. cases.

As a guy who got a cancer that was probably caused by a virus, I think we should have /more/ vaccines.

Broken record and such but while it is undeniably good that PRH is doing this work, part of the reason why they need the task force at all is because they legitimized & helped fund the book banners by publishing them www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

The High Seas Treaty has been ratified by 60 countries! This is about protecting oceans beyond the coastal zones controlled by single countries. There are still lots of steps between where we are and the future we dream of, but wow, this is a big one! apnews.com/article/high...

"These findings suggest that people with variant connective tissue (manifest as joint hypermobility) disproportionately experience long COVID. Long COVID among people with variant connective tissue may potentially constitute a subtype of long COVID" /end

Every time I attend an n95-required event, I cry afterward. We can have accessible, justice-oriented spaces. We can create new ways of organizing & connecting. We can enact disability justice. We can educate & protect each other. We can get free, if we do it together. A better world is possible.

i think every girl should be issued an obedient murder of crows upon reaching the age of 12

From @emergeaustralia.bsky.social : "The AusME Registry is making a real impact! The AusME Registry is now supporting 25 research projects across Australia - helping scientists unlock the biology behind ME/CFS & long COVID" Get involved here: emerge.org.au/get-involved... #MEcfs #LongCovid

I genuinely had no idea that my Mum Voice had hit Bene Gesserit area-effect levels already…

this makes sense if you look at the self-reports on bsky of people with ME/CFS or MCAS. very often EDS (or HSD) is in the mix, and POTS, and possibly ADHD. are they different manifestations of a particular etiology? 🤔 (multiple ways to get to the same underlying issue, which then manifests as....?)

I was unprepared for that nostalgia hit. I'm so tired of SUV-land

#NEISvoid #MECFS #PEM #POTS #sleep #pacing #longCOVID

EXCITING DAY: I am going to the @harpercollins.bsky.social offices to meet w my editor, agent and publicist to talk about our big plans for my new book, IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH out in February!! www.harpercollins.com/products/in-...

📜📚#archives

I am *seriously* tempted to set up a service where for a frankly pittance of a fee I'll write good alt text for your illustrations because there's a lot of folks on here who have amazing stuff that I don't share because it doesn't have alt text.

[Food intolerances, food science] This post may be particularly relevant to folks experiencing "random" food intolerances: IF the antioxidants are what's helping reduce inflammation so you can actually digest food then fine tuning how you cook them may help with food tolerance #MCAS

[Severe food intolerances, restricted diet, nutrition] Next up is that survival guide on liquid antioxidants for when you're having trouble eating solids I've also tried to indicate when something might be a trigger for other medical issues because, say, it's really acidic etc #NEISvoid #MCAS

#NEISvoid #EDS #MECFS #POTS #MCAS #ChronicIllness #PASC New paper on #Hypermobility as a #longCOVID risk factor: Variant connective tissue as a risk factor for long COVID: a case-control study of data from a retrospective online survey of adults in the USA and UK (Sept 2025) 1/

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading. Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own. Just. Keep. Reading.

"Do [x] ship outside the contiguous U.S.?" I misread that as 'contagious' initially, and it feels on point...

Marketing Dept gets to add "creator of one of Time's Hundred Greatest Podcasts of All Time" to my bio now and forever so that's pretty nifty time.com/collections/...

On zero evidence. Children will die for these dilettantes' egos

Look at this beautiful graphic from @meactnet.bsky.social ! Please share the #MECFS continuing medical education course from Mayo Clinic Proceedings, since it expires at the end of the month!

Hey, I know books are expensive and money is tight right now. But if there's a brand new book you really wanna read — including my own Lessons in Magic and Disaster — you can help get the book into way more hands by requesting it from your local library! It's easy! Check your library's website.

IKEA Winnipeg has been working with Four Star Woman, or Lesley Beardy, in their reconciliation journey. It’s working with Indigenous communities, learning Indigenous history and teachings, and now has a permanent exhibition and Indigenous family room.

#NEISvoid #MECFS #PEM #POTS #sleep #pacing #longCOVID

Are you in low power mode? Is it your 24/7 reality or maybe just a mode you have to visit frequently? www.bonfire.com/store/meacti... You are helping support our non-profit with each order! THANK YOU! #pwME #spoonie #ChronicIllness #MECFS #LongCovid #MCAS #Fibro #POTS

💯 all this 👇🏻 But theres also a weird dynamic where drs will bash wellness BS whilst also spouting it. How many of us have been told to do yoga or lose weight (and ive heard much utter BS on this topic from drs) instead of getting tests? They actively encourage us to seek wellness BS too

Good piece 👇 with good links and a good conclusion about a taboo subject for leaders worldwide - the extra-respiratory disease burden of SARS-CoV-2.

UK folks #MECFS #MyalgicE #PwME #NEISVoid

The Penobscot Nation reclaims 1,700 acres in rural Maine as they grow their land holdings. The Appalachian Mountain Club is repatriating the parcel to its Indigenous stewards. www.pressherald.com/2025/09/16/p...

Some nice volunteers, too—this little guy is not very easy to see unless you get right up, but it’s growing at the base of one of Agastache. This is scarlet beeblossom, Oenothera suffrutescens. Very showy if you have a magnifying glass!

Canadian COVID Forecast: Sep 13 - Sep 26, 2025 Severe: NL, PEI, SK Very high: CAN, AB, BC, MB, NB, North, NS, ON High: QC Moderate: none About 1 in 81 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

Missed this when it was introduced (this news cycle is something!) but a Wheelchair Right to Repair bill was introduced in Congress at the end of last month. frost.house.gov/media/press-...

The Ninth Circuit just delivered good news for digital privacy: abandoning a phone doesn't abandon your Fourth Amendment rights in the phone's contents. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

I think this means the FCC just wiped out whatever protection we might've had from spam calls/texts. 😕 (Can someone who's a lawyer PLEASE tell me I've got this wrong? I'd really like to be wrong.) www.insidearm.com/news/0009418...

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

You should be able to get like a 10% discount at places if you show them your library card