New consensus statement on preventing cardiovascular disease in people with COVID-19. #episky #healthpolicy #medsky academic.oup.com/eurjpc/advan...

7 days to go- a new film, a project close to our hearts, in collaboration with #CombinationDance Together, we’re giving young people with #LongCovid the voices & visibility they deserve. Because no child should be left behind. 🙏 @bendybrain.bsky.social @sedsconnective.org #Dancers #LongCovidKids

Honoured to write the @nhsconfed.org blog this week about why #OrganDonation is important, #healthinequalities & how #NHS orgs can help #OrganDonationWeek www.nhsconfed.org/articles/we-... @felly500.bsky.social @shareyourwishes.bsky.social @antonytiernan.bsky.social @binitakane.bsky.social

Seems very timely "What normalization does is transform the morally extraordinary into the ordinary. It makes us able to tolerate what was once intolerable by making it seem as if this is the way things have always been." —  Jason Stanley. How Fascism Works en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Fas...

Beautiful - @khalidabdalla.bsky.social you are the most amazing person, thank you ❤️🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸☮️☮️☮️☮️🕊️

COVID is airborne and most definitely still with us: England positive tests on an upward trend since November 2024, hospitalisations, and deaths data also trending up. Health protections matter: such as effective ventilation, booster vaccines, and testing, all may help limit spread and Long COVID.

Disappointed that this BBC news piece about Trump not wanting Mayor Sadiq Khan at the State Banquet doesn't once mention Khan's race or religion. If you leave out that Khan is a brown Muslim man, you gloss over why he's targeted by Trump. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Tackling racism is not an optional extra: a call for a national NHS response www.linkedin.com/pulse/tackli...

A quick summary of developments in US re infections and vaccines. Cuts of CDC staff threaten infectious disease monitoring and research 🧪🧵

Official figures indicate net migration is falling, so why is the Government joining in the "migration" hysteria? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Expect more silence from the Royal Society in the face of their most notorious fellow advocating for the overthrow of the democratically elected government of a country he is neither a citizen nor a resident of (yet he is a fellow of their most prestigious learned society).

It is interesting that Brexit has failed just about as comprehensively as any human project can. Yet our entire establishment remains utterly signed up to it.

✨ Fireside Chat Ep 24 ✨ 📅 Wed 17 Sept | 18:00 BST | YouTube Live 'Muscle & Movement: Rethinking Long Covid & ME/CFS' Dr Rob Wust and @binitakane.bsky.social on why PEM is nothing like deconditioning and what research reveals about muscle changes in these conditons. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i4i...

Here's a short happy-go-lucky 🎶 parody about the way that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now collapsing American healthcare - based off #PaulSimon's toe-tapping "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard". youtu.be/FDiXrd-R68U It's called: "Measles and Polio Down in the Schoolyard."

A tenet of Fascism is keep repeating lies and people will become so confused about what is the truth that they’ll start to believe them. We all have a responsibility to keep repeating the truth in the face of politically-motivated lying. Don’t just roll your eyes, speak up.

the two americas

🚨Challenge Trump and you’ll be punished. My new substack looks at how Trump’s weaponisation of government has rapidly escalated. Judges, journalists, officials, politicians, business leaders, celebrities - even whole cities - are all in his sights. christinapagel.substack.com/p/trumps-war...

Bargibant’s Pygmy Seahorse. #AGoodPlace Video credits: www.instagram.com/reel/C5iNmVf...

This is ICE-style immigration enforcement in the UK, it is also very reminiscent of Windrush.

Yesterday we visited Green Mountain Falls, CO to visit the kinetic sculpture Off the Beaten Path by Patrick Shearn. I wasn’t ready for just how dynamic it was even in the slightest breeze. Reminds me of a murmuration of starlings. Incredible artwork. It’ll only be up through October 19th.

Our submission to the Education Committee's inquiry, Solving the SEND Crisis is now published on the committee’s website. 🔗https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/135905/pdf/ #Education #SEND #SENDcrisis #COVIDInquiry #LongCovidKids #LongCovid @joplatt.bsky.social

Oxford has a terrible homelessness problem. Every year there's a CEO sleep out (yes, chief executives sleep out, no tents) to raise awareness and funds. Take a look, and if you qualify, think about joining in. You can do it without being a CEO btw. oxfordshirehomelessmovement.org/ceo-sleepout

Thanks for sharing this Vijaya Nath

British baby dies from whooping cough as vaccination rates fall Infant’s mother had not been vaccinated against the highly infectious disease “Vaccine rates among pregnant women for whooping cough reached a peak of 76% in 2016 but fell to 59% by March last year”

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🏆 Winner (Ages 12–21): Caitlin Glasgow, Age 14 🎨 Poster Title: “How To Help Someone With Long Covid” We are proud to announce that Caitlin Glasgow, age 14, is the winner of the 12–21 age category in the Long Covid Kids Poster Design Competition 2025! 🎉

🏆 Winner (Ages 5–11): Clara M, Age 10 🎨 Poster Title: “Understand We Need Your Support” Her moving poster, “Understand We Need Your Support,” uses bold imagery and heartfelt messaging to highlight the importance of empathy and support for children living with Long Covid.

📢We are proud to announce the LCK Poster Design Competition winners 2025! 🏆 Overall Winner: Michael J, Age 17 “I’m Not Fine,” immediately caught the attention of our judges- a bold visual style and powerful message, showing that even when someone looks fine, they may not be.

A lovely piece by Dr @binitakane.bsky.social on “Roots to Routes: why South Asian Heritage Month matters to the NHS”

Mount Sinai Creates First Manual for Treating Infection-Associated Chronic Illness for Clinicians Brilliant work - huge thanks to all involved 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 www.mountsinai.org/about/newsro...

In the latest #Commentary Dr @binitakane.bsky.social‬, the co-founder of #SouthAsianHeritageMonth, shares how stories like her father’s helped to create, sustain and transform the modern-day #NHS: ow.ly/l7LC50WEr5u #RootsToRoutes #SAHM2025

“My own father, Professor Bim Bhowmick, a partition refugee, somehow survived starvation and abject poverty to qualify as a doctor in Kolkata. In 1969, he and my mother, also a doctor, migrated to the UK, each with £3.50 in their pockets.” @binitakane.bsky.social

Absolutely beautiful and personal story from @binitakane.bsky.social of why south Asian heritage month matters to the NHS- how her doctor parents migrated to the UK, each with £3.50 in their pockets in 1969 to join our NHS

**NEW FEATURE** As our TrumpActionTracker gallops towards 1000 authoritarian actions, we've added a new feature for downloading the data! You can choose to download filtered actions - e.g. just a specific time period, or with a specific key word or a single domain. www.trumpactiontracker.info?

Despite the fact that vaccines have saved millions of lives and RFK Jr made promises that he was not anti-vaccine when he was confirmed as HHS and pledged to maintain vaccines and science integrity he is systematically going back on that promise #ImmunoSky 🧪🧵

My piece for The RCP Commentary Magazine for #SouthAsianHeritageMonth. This is my lovely Mum and Dad in 1969. Immigrants helped build the NHS www.rcp.ac.uk/78702?utm_so...

As part of a news piece on Decode ME for Reporting Scotland, News at Seven, one of our amazing #MEAction Scotland volunteers, Amanda Stephen, has been interviewed about her experience of ME & the need for research. ow.ly/LKKr50WAI8Y #DecodeME #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis

DECODE ME has published its results. Massive congratulations to @cgatist.bsky.social and team in Edinburgh. Let’s hope this is the start of a paradigm shift in how we view, research and treat this dreadful illness. www.decodeme.org.uk/initial-dna-...

RFKJr’s gradual elimination of vaccines in USA is continuing and gathering pace as 22 federal contracts for mRNA-based vaccines being terminated including late stage research for bird flu vaccine #ImmunoSky 🧪🧵

This is interesting: A second COVID protein, the main protease, triggers blood clotting. This protein is *not* in vaccines used in developed countries, but it is highly conserved in coronaviruses including common cold coronaviruses. Ref Pagotto et al, www.nature.com/articles/s42....

The Bishop’s exactly right. One accusation would destroy a Black man’s life. But 22 accusations can’t even stop a white man from running the country again. That’s not just white privilege. That’s a system designed to protect itself at any cost.👇

Trump administration attempting to unmake virtually all climate US regulations. Triumph for fossil fuels industry as millions facing sea level rise, extreme heat, floods, fires, crop failures, health problems, ecological disasters. Will others follow? Planet/People sacrificed to profits.

The Trump administration has quietly released the first stage of its plan to revoke birthright citizenship from the children of immigrants. It uses dry legalese to conceal the barbaric reality of ICE agents in maternity wards and deportation flights for babies. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Flashback 8 years to this BBC Radio 4 File on Four episode on children with ME, and the tendency of social services to inappropriately invoke FII on extremely sick children and their parents www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Short Radio Mansfield 103.2 interview with Kara Jane Spencer’s father, David, about her new posthumous album In Limbo, launching on Severe ME Day – 8 August. Kara, had severe ME, and died in January 2023 aged just 32.

Personal story - when I was doing my PhD years ago, 2 senior male academics were fighting each other about my work & I had no idea what to do. Michele saw what was happening, stepped in & made a big difference at a crucial time in my PhD. I've never forgotten it. A great scientist & a great leader.

“The COVID pandemic began with a myth – that children are spared its ill effects. In contrast, many children were sick with COVID, and we now have a new chronic illness emerging,” Kleinman said www.rutgers.edu/news/study-s... #ChildHealth #LongCovidKids #LongCovid #PaediatricLongCovid

🚨🔔 🚨🔔 🚨🔔 🚨🔔 🚨🔔 HSE are holding their AGM on 29th July. I have tabled 3 questions in advance. These may be of interest to healthcare workers - those still in service and those who were injured by Covid and can no longer work (or are limited as to what they can do).