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Todd Davenport
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Non nobis solum nati sumus. Husband. Dad x3. Upstreamist. Pracademic. Oregifornian. Storyteller. It’ll be ok in the end. If it’s not ok then it ain’t the end. Alphabet soup after my name: DPT PhD MPH OCS. https://www.linkedin.com/in/todd-davenport-2795ba10
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Todd Davenport @sunsopeningband.bsky.social · Nov 14
Well, there goes the neighborhood. 😅
Reposted by Todd Davenport
tomkindlon.bsky.social
Upcoming Renegade Research @renegaderesearch.bsky.social Events

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#LongCovid #MEcfs @sunsopeningband.bsky.social @ciarawrightphd.bsky.social
Upcoming Renegade Research Events Renegade Research hosts a series of Research Roundtables and Clinician's Roundtables. Upcoming events in March are: Clinician’s Roundtable: John Haughton MD, MS - The Remission Biome Protocol. Clinicians and patients are invited to learn the protocol in detail. March 7, 2025 - 1:00 PM ET (10:00 AM PT). Register here. Clinician’s Roundtable: Tania Dempsey, MD - Vector-borne illnesses. Co-infections in ME/CFS and Long COVID. March 14, 2025 - 1:00 PM ET (10:00 AM PT). Register here. Research Roundtable: The Acid Test: a Patient-led Study of Lactate in ME/CFS and Long COVID Todd Davenport, PhD, and Ciara Wright, PhD. will discuss the latest research on this patient-led study. March 28, 2025 - 1:00 PM ET (10:00 AM PT). Register here.
March 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Reposted by Todd Davenport
Todd Davenport and I were on Cochrane's author team for a full update of their #MECFS exercise review. We wrote this open letter to them, critical of their decision to disband the effort, called for withdrawal of current review
@sunsopeningband.bsky.social (1/2)

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Author Open Letter to Cochrane Mar 2025.pdf
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March 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Reposted by Todd Davenport
Todd and I also wrote an open letter to the #MECFS community to:
a) share the final version of the draft protocol for the ME/CFS exercise review as submitted to Cochrane in Feb 2023
b) solicit comments as originally promised (2/2)
@sunsopeningband.bsky.social
drive.google.com/file/d/1JK06...
Community Letter re Cochrane Mar 2025.pdf
drive.google.com
March 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Reposted by Todd Davenport
neurologistmom.bsky.social
“The first step in being hopeful, I think, is being honest. That keeps hope from becoming baselessly optimistic and untethered from reality...”
Todd Davenport @sunsopeningband.bsky.social has a message for us. #LC2025hopevideos Thank you for your honesty about hope!

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A message from Todd Davenport on Long COVID Awareness Day 2025
YouTube video by NeurologistMom
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March 15, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Reposted by Todd Davenport
tomkindlon.bsky.social
The cancelled protocol for a new Cochrane review of exercise therapy for ME/CFS by @marydimmock.bsky.social & @sunsopeningband.bsky.social

www.s4me.info/threads/2025...

From the latest Science for ME weekly update

#MEcfs #CFS
Cochrane review Exercise therapy for ME/CFS The cancelled protocol for a new review An author group was appointed in 2020 to write a new protocol and review to replace the 2019 review, Exercise Therapy for CFS by Larun et al. Cochrane announced in December 2024 that they had rejected the protocol, and cancelled the new review process. Letter to the Cochrane Board Two members of the author team, Mary Dimmock and Todd Davenport, have written to Dr. Susan Phillips, Chair, Cochrane Governing Board. They express their shock at Cochrane's decision, reveal the lengthy process they went through with Cochrane to agree the protocol, with four revisions, question the grounds for Cochrane's decisions, and argue that Cochrane's rules should allow the review to be withdrawn on the grounds of harm. They conclude: "Accordingly, we call on Cochrane to immediately withdraw the Larun et al ME/CFS exercise review." Thread with letter
March 16, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Reposted by Todd Davenport
roberthmcmullen.bsky.social
“The net result of all this is that Cochrane has flash-incinerated their credibility, or what was left of it” Prof Todd Davenport @sunsopeningband.bsky.social
February 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Reposted by Todd Davenport
tomkindlon.bsky.social
Useful piece with some depth by David Tuller @davetuller1.bsky.social

“Really pissed off”: Cochrane receives backlash from advocates and experts after abandoning ME/CFS review

thesicktimes.org/2025/02/04/r...

Has quotes from Todd Davenport @sunsopeningband.bsky.social & Mary Dimmock

#MEcfs #CFS
“Really pissed off”: Cochrane receives backlash from advocates and experts after abandoning ME/CFS review Posted by David Tuller – February 4, 2025 Headshot of Dr. Karla Soares-Weiser, with a tan background on either side of the photo Cochrane editor-in-chief Dr. Karla Soares-Weiser. Image via Cochrane / BMJ. Key points you should know: Cochrane produces systematic reviews of medical interventions that are influential for clinicians seeking to provide evidence-based care. A 2019 review controversially recommended exercise therapy for ME/CFS, despite questions about the quality of the evidence and the experiences of people with the disease. Cochrane acknowledged problems with the review and promised a complete update, then abruptly dropped the update project in December 2024. The situation has sparked sharp criticism of Cochrane from ME/CFS advocates and researchers. An online petition seeking withdrawal of the 2019 review has attracted more than 15,000 signers.
February 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Reposted by Todd Davenport
mileswgriffis.bsky.social
“The Biden administration had its own softer version of COVID erasure...’” said @sunsopeningband.bsky.social “I think Trump is just being much more explicit about erasing COVID.”

thesicktimes.org/2025/02/21/t...
Trump commands HHS to terminate advisory committee on Long COVID - The Sick Times
A new executive order from the Trump Administration commands the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to terminate the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Long COVID. The order, “Commencing the...
thesicktimes.org
February 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Reposted by Todd Davenport
boghuma.bsky.social
Every week, I check the CDC's Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report. This week for the first time in its 60 years it was not published on schedule. American healthcare workers all over the country are less informed about health crises that affect their patients. CDC led reports matter a 🧵
January 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Reposted by Todd Davenport
chronicillness.bsky.social
If u like chronic illness humor, you will like my account
January 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Reposted by Todd Davenport
astrokatie.com
Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.

I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
monscience.bsky.social Nsikan Akpan @monscience.bsky.social · Jan 22
NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.

Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
liebschutz.bsky.social Jane Liebschutz, MD MPH (she/her) @liebschutz.bsky.social · Jan 22
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Reposted by Todd Davenport
pflegeherz.bsky.social
Dazu würde ja auch passen, was
@sunsopeningband.bsky.social kürzlich veröffentlicht hat. Hier zwar bezogen auf Long Covid, aber für mein Empfinden lässt sich das gar nicht mehr trennen von #MECFS:

www.mdpi.com/2075-4426/14...
Long COVID Is Not a Functional Neurologic Disorder
Long COVID is a common sequela of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Data from numerous scientific studies indicate that long COVID involves a complex interaction between pathophysiological processes. Long COVID m...
www.mdpi.com
January 23, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Reposted by Todd Davenport
drstarbird.bsky.social
Just received notice that my NIH study section next week has been cancelled. It has nothing to do with DEI and will have a negative impact on critical cancer research.
January 22, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Reposted by Todd Davenport
klm.bsky.social
related: did i just miss the moment when these freaks added A-for-accessibility to DEI?
ohdearz.bsky.social Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · Jan 22
Here's an e-mail that just went out to NASA agency wide. 🔭
Letter reading, "Dear agency employees, We are taking steps to close all agency DEIA offices and end all DEIA-related contracts in accordance with President Trump’s executive orders titled Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing and Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions. These programs divided Americans by race, wasted taxpayer dollars, and resulted in shameful discrimination. We are aware of efforts by some in government to disguise these programs by using coded or imprecise language. If you are aware of a change in any contract description or personnel position description since November 5, 2024 to obscure the connection between the contract and DEIA or similar ideologies, please report all facts and circumstances to DEIAtruth@opm.gov within 10 days. There will be no adverse consequences for timely reporting this information. However, failure to report this information within 10 days may result in adverse consequences. Thank you for your attention to this important matter. Janet Petro"
January 22, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Reposted by Todd Davenport
malar0ne.bsky.social
An administration willing to capriciously halt NIH activity wants to appoint as NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, who has spread conspiracy theories about the agency.
(ht @gorskon.bsky.social)

www.respectfulinsolence.com/2022/05/03/n...
www.respectfulinsolence.com
January 22, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Reposted by Todd Davenport
astrokatie.com
The thing that’s most striking about this is that they set up an e-mail account specifically for people to report on each other for any attempt to implement “DEIA or similar ideologies” and threatened “adverse consequences” for NOT reporting.
ohdearz.bsky.social Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · Jan 22
Here's an e-mail that just went out to NASA agency wide. 🔭
Letter reading, "Dear agency employees, We are taking steps to close all agency DEIA offices and end all DEIA-related contracts in accordance with President Trump’s executive orders titled Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing and Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions. These programs divided Americans by race, wasted taxpayer dollars, and resulted in shameful discrimination. We are aware of efforts by some in government to disguise these programs by using coded or imprecise language. If you are aware of a change in any contract description or personnel position description since November 5, 2024 to obscure the connection between the contract and DEIA or similar ideologies, please report all facts and circumstances to DEIAtruth@opm.gov within 10 days. There will be no adverse consequences for timely reporting this information. However, failure to report this information within 10 days may result in adverse consequences. Thank you for your attention to this important matter. Janet Petro"
January 22, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Reposted by Todd Davenport
amyfeldman7.bsky.social
If you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you
liebschutz.bsky.social Jane Liebschutz, MD MPH (she/her) @liebschutz.bsky.social · Jan 22
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Reposted by Todd Davenport
germhuntermd.bsky.social
Scientific advancements aside, this is economically irresponsible

Every $1 spent by NIH generates $2.46

For example, in 2023, $47B in NIH spending generated ~$93B

Halting NIH spending will LOSE the US a lot of money (and talent)
An image of NIH campus. Text says : With annual budget of more than $47 billion, NIH is the largest single public funder of biomedical and behavioural research in the world. In fiscal year 2023, NIH funding generated an estimated $92.89 billion in economic activity Every state and almost every congressional district received a share of NIH investment Each year, NIH awards over 60,000 grants that directly support more than 300,000 researchers at more than 2,500 different institutions In fiscal year 2023, every $1 of NIH funding generated approximately $2.46 of economic activity
January 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Reposted by Todd Davenport
sunsopeningband.bsky.social
I like the quiet on here from no outrage algorithm but it’s hard to tell whether some of the stuff I post gets seen because there’s never much engagement. Maybe that will change over time because I’m still new. For now, it’s hard to know if I’m just posting these long threads into the void. Oh well.
January 22, 2025 at 12:51 PM
sunsopeningband.bsky.social
But the price of eggs!
January 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
sunsopeningband.bsky.social
Defrosting your car in some parts of California looks like spraying the windshield…with water…from a garden hose. 😄
January 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Reposted by Todd Davenport
naomidharvey.bsky.social
I think a big difference that reduces engagement is that ‘likes’ have no effect here, and people tend to like rather than repost. But the only way more people will see a post, is if their followers repost it 😕
January 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
sunsopeningband.bsky.social
I like the quiet on here from no outrage algorithm but it’s hard to tell whether some of the stuff I post gets seen because there’s never much engagement. Maybe that will change over time because I’m still new. For now, it’s hard to know if I’m just posting these long threads into the void. Oh well.
January 22, 2025 at 12:51 PM
sunsopeningband.bsky.social
Everyone is so mad at Biden protecting people from the inevitable upcoming partisan witch hunts as the last thing he did that it apparently makes them totally cool with Trump pardoning the worst people you can think of as the first thing he does.

Feature, not bug. nypost.com/2025/01/21/u...
Exclusive | Trump announces pardon for Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, vacating life sentence
President Trump announced Tuesday night that he had granted a “full and unconditional” pardon to Ross Ulbricht, founder of the notorious dark web site Silk Road.
nypost.com
January 22, 2025 at 12:46 PM