Gerri
@gerbelean.bsky.social
Living with MS and ADHD in the best way I can. Open University student. Interested in HSD, EDS, ME/CFS, Long Covid, neurodiversity, and neuroplasticity. Everything is connected, and that includes our environment and politics. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ ally
This is why we need to prioritise deicing pavements and cycleways. Kids could walk and cycle to school and @samfr.bsky.social, and many others would avoid trips to A&E. The lost productivity, NHS pressure and human costs of falls is immense.
Managed to break my shoulder in two places slipping on the ice this morning. Guess I'm going to have to learn to type one handed...
January 7, 2026 at 4:50 PM
This is why we need to prioritise deicing pavements and cycleways. Kids could walk and cycle to school and @samfr.bsky.social, and many others would avoid trips to A&E. The lost productivity, NHS pressure and human costs of falls is immense.
I live in a UK village and the weather was glorious, I could hear the birds and kids rode bikes. My neighbour is a hospital porter and he was visibly exhausted and traumatised. I live near the church and there were so many funerals with too few mourners and it was heartbreaking. I'll never forget.
Beginning 2022, I started having arguments with people who didn't experience the loss of a loved one to COVID & associate "lockdown" with sourdough starters & WFH rather than Zoom funerals.
I just had to accept that we did not have a shared reality, nor were they willing to remember.
I just had to accept that we did not have a shared reality, nor were they willing to remember.
there’s a thread on reddit right now called “was COVID really that bad?” and it is interesting to read people’s accounts five years out
there seems to be a collective trauma response where people (outside of healthcare workers) don’t remember how many people died
someone called it anticlimactic
there seems to be a collective trauma response where people (outside of healthcare workers) don’t remember how many people died
someone called it anticlimactic
January 7, 2026 at 12:29 AM
I live in a UK village and the weather was glorious, I could hear the birds and kids rode bikes. My neighbour is a hospital porter and he was visibly exhausted and traumatised. I live near the church and there were so many funerals with too few mourners and it was heartbreaking. I'll never forget.
I never caught Chickenpox as a kid and was exposed to shingles when I was pregnant. Had to have antivirals to protect my baby from serious harm or death. Finally, I caught it when I was 37 years old, and I've never been so sick or experienced pain like it. Please vaccinate your children.
Woohoo! Chickenpox vaccines are on the menu in the UK - finally!!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Ignore the sceptics: with this new vaccine, chickenpox could become a thing of the past | Wes Streeting
Thousands develop serious complications from the varicella virus. Today the NHS rolls out a new jab, alongside measles, mumps and rubella, says health secretary Wes Streeting
www.theguardian.com
January 2, 2026 at 2:37 PM
I never caught Chickenpox as a kid and was exposed to shingles when I was pregnant. Had to have antivirals to protect my baby from serious harm or death. Finally, I caught it when I was 37 years old, and I've never been so sick or experienced pain like it. Please vaccinate your children.
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I don't really post anymore, but I would like to carry on writing books at some point in the future.
Hate to be annoying, but any chance you could retweet so old twitter followers can find me if they want to? Going to delete my twitter, or at least abandon it on lock and let it die a slow death.
Hate to be annoying, but any chance you could retweet so old twitter followers can find me if they want to? Going to delete my twitter, or at least abandon it on lock and let it die a slow death.
December 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I don't really post anymore, but I would like to carry on writing books at some point in the future.
Hate to be annoying, but any chance you could retweet so old twitter followers can find me if they want to? Going to delete my twitter, or at least abandon it on lock and let it die a slow death.
Hate to be annoying, but any chance you could retweet so old twitter followers can find me if they want to? Going to delete my twitter, or at least abandon it on lock and let it die a slow death.
This is England, and my example has 2 acts of kindness. My son lost his phone at King's Cross on Thursday. Convinced it was gone forever, he got on his train to York, only to discover on route it had been handed in. The guard enabled him to go back for it and continue his journey at no extra cost.
December 6, 2025 at 8:49 PM
This is England, and my example has 2 acts of kindness. My son lost his phone at King's Cross on Thursday. Convinced it was gone forever, he got on his train to York, only to discover on route it had been handed in. The guard enabled him to go back for it and continue his journey at no extra cost.
Do these statistics include Scots or Gaelic? Seriously, because if they don't, Farage and his followers are just entitled English men and few women.
A: Who gives a fuck apart from racists?
B: His figure is wrong. 71.2% of Glaswegian children speak English as their first language.
C: So that's 28.8% who speak it as a second and I'll bet you they speak brilliant English and that it's much better than most Reform voters I've met online.
B: His figure is wrong. 71.2% of Glaswegian children speak English as their first language.
C: So that's 28.8% who speak it as a second and I'll bet you they speak brilliant English and that it's much better than most Reform voters I've met online.
December 3, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Do these statistics include Scots or Gaelic? Seriously, because if they don't, Farage and his followers are just entitled English men and few women.
Can we Crowdfund someone to build a system and a fund for Farage's constituents to do Cameo videos about why they need the support of their MP? @goodlawproject.bsky.social @thenerve.news #DemocracyForSale
Nigel Farage pockets £140k from up to 2,000 Cameo videos as constituents 'furious'
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
'Shameless' Farage pockets £140k from fan videos as constituents 'furious'
A Mirror probe shows the Reform MP has made £140,000 from the Cameo messaging platform - but spoken in Parliament 22 times and mentioning his Clacton constituents on just three occassions
www.mirror.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Can we Crowdfund someone to build a system and a fund for Farage's constituents to do Cameo videos about why they need the support of their MP? @goodlawproject.bsky.social @thenerve.news #DemocracyForSale
I was a receptionist in 2016, and even I understood the complexity and efficiency of sharing responsibilities in the EU and how being independently responsible would be expensive, complicated, and a never-ending shit show. We probably have more British civil servants doing what EU ones used to do.
What happened is precisely what the world's leading macroeconomists predicted would happen.
November 29, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I was a receptionist in 2016, and even I understood the complexity and efficiency of sharing responsibilities in the EU and how being independently responsible would be expensive, complicated, and a never-ending shit show. We probably have more British civil servants doing what EU ones used to do.
Excellent insight in this thread. I hope BBCR4 and @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social journalists read this as in recent years they've started talking at me as if I have the reading comprehension of a 10 year old, and an inability to grasp difficult concepts, and I don't like it. They used to talk to me.
I don't think it's all of it by any measure but I do absolutely believe that the political media's raging anti-intellectual streak has got worse with time and has ended up influencing the way MPs talk, and what they choose to talk/think about
I don’t think this is a “politicians have got dumber” issue for the most part. If you look at the *actual CVs* of previous cohorts of MPs, their background is not radically different when you account for, you know, the fact the economy is different! It is primarily a media and ecosystem issue.
November 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Excellent insight in this thread. I hope BBCR4 and @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social journalists read this as in recent years they've started talking at me as if I have the reading comprehension of a 10 year old, and an inability to grasp difficult concepts, and I don't like it. They used to talk to me.
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💨Quote: @ukcovid-19inquiry.bsky.social 'is considering airborne transmission (and methods used to combat it) in the context of healthcare in Module 3: Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on healthcare systems in the four nations of the UK'.
🤷It's STILL airborne!
covid19.public-inquiry.uk/reports/modu...
🤷It's STILL airborne!
covid19.public-inquiry.uk/reports/modu...
November 22, 2025 at 12:06 PM
💨Quote: @ukcovid-19inquiry.bsky.social 'is considering airborne transmission (and methods used to combat it) in the context of healthcare in Module 3: Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on healthcare systems in the four nations of the UK'.
🤷It's STILL airborne!
covid19.public-inquiry.uk/reports/modu...
🤷It's STILL airborne!
covid19.public-inquiry.uk/reports/modu...
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From the CWS ARCHIVE. 22nd March 2022.
November 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
From the CWS ARCHIVE. 22nd March 2022.
"During this time, he debated with philosophy graduate students about “whether we ever could understand how nervous systems worked through biochemical or physiological studies,” which sparked his interest in neuroscience, he wrote in his autobiography." #EverythingIsConnected
Ed Kravitz was an extraordinary scientist, educator and activist. I had the privilege of getting to know Ed through his work with SPINES, a professional development course at the MBL. His legacy will carry on, not only through his science, but also in the many students he taught and mentored. 🧪
Remembering GABA pioneer Edward Kravitz
The biochemist, who died last month at age 92, was part of the first neurobiology department in the world and showed that gamma-aminobutyric acid is inhibitory.
www.thetransmitter.org
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
"During this time, he debated with philosophy graduate students about “whether we ever could understand how nervous systems worked through biochemical or physiological studies,” which sparked his interest in neuroscience, he wrote in his autobiography." #EverythingIsConnected
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GB News broadcasted a package last week on analysis of people with "foreign sounding" names.
Peddling unverified and racist statistics on national TV is dangerous and we must call it out.
The Liberal Democrats are calling on Ofcom to investigate and take swift action.
Anna Sabine MP
Peddling unverified and racist statistics on national TV is dangerous and we must call it out.
The Liberal Democrats are calling on Ofcom to investigate and take swift action.
Anna Sabine MP
November 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
GB News broadcasted a package last week on analysis of people with "foreign sounding" names.
Peddling unverified and racist statistics on national TV is dangerous and we must call it out.
The Liberal Democrats are calling on Ofcom to investigate and take swift action.
Anna Sabine MP
Peddling unverified and racist statistics on national TV is dangerous and we must call it out.
The Liberal Democrats are calling on Ofcom to investigate and take swift action.
Anna Sabine MP
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My brilliant friend @katewomersley.com worked on this course on integrating sex and gender in health research and policy. Please share widely.
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Integrating sex and gender in health research and policy
Integrating sex and gender in health research and policy
www.imperial.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
My brilliant friend @katewomersley.com worked on this course on integrating sex and gender in health research and policy. Please share widely.
www.imperial.ac.uk/admin-servic...
www.imperial.ac.uk/admin-servic...
On the bright side, the BBC resignations meant I didn't hear any mention of immigration on The Today Programme this morning.
November 10, 2025 at 10:16 AM
On the bright side, the BBC resignations meant I didn't hear any mention of immigration on The Today Programme this morning.
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Vote for the OU's Open Societal Challenges (OSC) collaborative research platform in the Knowledge Exchange Awards 2025! 🏆
OSC aims to tackle some of the most important challenges of our time through impact-driven research 🔬🌏
👉 https://ke.org.uk/news/ke-awards-2025-public-vote-is-now-open/
OSC aims to tackle some of the most important challenges of our time through impact-driven research 🔬🌏
👉 https://ke.org.uk/news/ke-awards-2025-public-vote-is-now-open/
November 5, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Vote for the OU's Open Societal Challenges (OSC) collaborative research platform in the Knowledge Exchange Awards 2025! 🏆
OSC aims to tackle some of the most important challenges of our time through impact-driven research 🔬🌏
👉 https://ke.org.uk/news/ke-awards-2025-public-vote-is-now-open/
OSC aims to tackle some of the most important challenges of our time through impact-driven research 🔬🌏
👉 https://ke.org.uk/news/ke-awards-2025-public-vote-is-now-open/
As the parent of a NEET child a decade ago, nothing has changed to enable education or training for those who can't attend full-time. And it's never been needed more than now @longcovidadvoc.com @longcovidsupport.bsky.social @longcovidkids.bsky.social
Your regular reminder also that, for good and for ill, Rachel Reeves is planning measures on the wage floor and employment rights that will make it harder for NEETs to get into work!
As @stephenkb.bsky.social has said, once you tune into this sort of non-argument formulation, it’s everywhere in this government’s comms.
November 4, 2025 at 10:03 PM
As the parent of a NEET child a decade ago, nothing has changed to enable education or training for those who can't attend full-time. And it's never been needed more than now @longcovidadvoc.com @longcovidsupport.bsky.social @longcovidkids.bsky.social
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🚨NEW - Train hero who saved passengers during attack confuses racists by being a Muslim
Click for more:
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Click for more:
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Train hero who saved passengers during attack confuses racists by being a Muslim
Samir Zoutini, a heroic GNER staff member whose incredible bravery saved lives during the mass stabbing on Saturday, has confounded racists by being a Muslim.
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November 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
🚨NEW - Train hero who saved passengers during attack confuses racists by being a Muslim
Click for more:
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Click for more:
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Evening crew/western hemisphere crew! Please vote for Daphne as she is facing a strong challenge from a dog. Thank you!
Morning all - Daphne would be very grateful if you'd be kind enough to vote for her to be Miss March on next year's excellent @lawpawcalendar.bsky.social please! And then please buy the calendar! lawpawcalendar.com/vote-here-fo...
Vote here for the face of March 2026! – Law Paw Calendar
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October 20, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Evening crew/western hemisphere crew! Please vote for Daphne as she is facing a strong challenge from a dog. Thank you!
The power of this piece isn't because @zackpolanski.bsky.social trained as an actor, it's because Benjamin Zephaniah wrote this wonderful poem about the beautiful complexity of our country. He had more patriotism in his pen than Reform could even begin to imagine.
Why can I remember no Labour politician making this point, this well?
Everybody except the Greens seems to think the best way to fight Reform is to agree with Farage about everything.
This, right here, is brilliant. And genuinely patriotic. And so, so true.
Everybody except the Greens seems to think the best way to fight Reform is to agree with Farage about everything.
This, right here, is brilliant. And genuinely patriotic. And so, so true.
British.
October 16, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The power of this piece isn't because @zackpolanski.bsky.social trained as an actor, it's because Benjamin Zephaniah wrote this wonderful poem about the beautiful complexity of our country. He had more patriotism in his pen than Reform could even begin to imagine.
Chris Mason's interview on BBCR4 Feedback is making my blood boil. He doesn't understand what scrutiny is. Politics is just gossip to him.
October 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Chris Mason's interview on BBCR4 Feedback is making my blood boil. He doesn't understand what scrutiny is. Politics is just gossip to him.
Whenever someone says that social media and smartphones are damaging our children's mental health, ask them, "Where else can socialise without parents or money?" We all need to enable kids to be kids before we all forget what that looks like.
The absolute bloody vandalism of austerity in one chart. Good analysis of the overall picture here.
October 15, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Whenever someone says that social media and smartphones are damaging our children's mental health, ask them, "Where else can socialise without parents or money?" We all need to enable kids to be kids before we all forget what that looks like.
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NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
October 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
A few months ago, my 64 year old brother accused me of "trying to cancel" him when I asked him to stop posting Bernard Manning and Roy Chubby Brown YT videos on the family group chat. He hasn't spoken to me since. I remember the time when even he understood this stuff was unacceptable.
Unbelievable that TikTok & Insta are amplifying 1970s ‘jokes’ about N*****s & P***s to a whole new generation.
Bernard Manning, of all people, is back in fashion…
Bernard Manning, of all people, is back in fashion…
Bernard Manning rides again: how TikTok and Instagram are promoting racist “jokes” to teens
Sketches from the 70s & 80s featuring slurs including the N word are going viral on social media, shared by millions and boosted by algorithms
@stokel.bsky.social reports
www.thenerve.news/p/bernard-ma...
Sketches from the 70s & 80s featuring slurs including the N word are going viral on social media, shared by millions and boosted by algorithms
@stokel.bsky.social reports
www.thenerve.news/p/bernard-ma...
October 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM
A few months ago, my 64 year old brother accused me of "trying to cancel" him when I asked him to stop posting Bernard Manning and Roy Chubby Brown YT videos on the family group chat. He hasn't spoken to me since. I remember the time when even he understood this stuff was unacceptable.
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Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown
#amindofmyown
October 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown
#amindofmyown