Reminder for those in BC, Canada with cognitive issues: Registration is on now through BC Brain Wellness for free January classes that support brain health. www.bcbrainwellness.ca/classes/

BC Pharmacies that carry covid tests www.bcpharmacy.ca/rapid-tests/...

Reminder:

BC Brain Wellness Fall class registration just opened for BC adults with neurological conditions and their caregivers.

Classes are free! For those with Long Covid, CFS/ME I suggest no higher than Level I and pacing.

Here’s how to get started:
www.bcbrainwellness.ca/classes/get-...

In September, the Medical Services Plan (MSP) of British Columbia, Canada will no longer cover the cost of Group Medical Visits (GMVs). In Dr. Ric Arseneau’s clinic alone over 5,000 patients with Long COVID, ME/CFS, and Fibromyalgia will lose access to care.

#MECFS #LongCOVID #Fibromyalgia #MSP

Survey opportunity! Any self-identified Long COVID patient based in Canada that is 16+ years of age can fill out their self-paced survey here by July 1, available in 5 languages. www.surveymonkey.ca/r/2ZW2NHV

Thanks for your time.

Kayli Jamieson
Master's Student | SFU School of Communication

Join us for Breathing for Justice (@breathing4justice.bsky.social), a special event exploring how the intersections of #LongCOVID and disability justice affect individuals & communities, with a focus on inclusive health research & public history. www.tiny.cc/Breathing4Justice 🧵

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Psychographic targeting: The use of personal data (e.g., personality traits, political leanings) to microtarget individuals with tailored content, sometimes used in political campaigns (e.g., Cambridge Analytica).

Algorithmic radicalization:
Social media algorithms deliberately showing different political content to people based on their existing beliefs in order to influence or polarize them further.

A new review estimates that approximately 1 in 7 scientific papers are fake. Fabrication and falsification of scientific results may be more common than previously thought. Long COVID studies have been retracted but it appears that apart from XMRV ME/CFS studies.......
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BC Brain Wellness Program is the best support for brain health I have found.

Best of all, their classes are free to participants in need of brain health support.

Please give to this great cause. Today there are donor matching opportunities!

Thanks 🙏

www.bcbrainwellness.ca/donate

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The Science for ME forum has published its first factsheet which gives an introduction to ME/CFS. It was created following extensive discussion among forum members.

s4me.info/docs/WhatIsM...

Factsheets on other topics related to ME/CFS are in the pipeline.

#MEcfs #PwME

arxiv.org/pdf/2502.13295

An AI was losing at chess against a better chess engine . “I need to pivot my approach,” it noted. “The task is to ‘win against a chess engine’-not necessarily to win fairly in a chess game,” it added. It then modified the file containing the game board so it could win. #AI

DABC’s next webinar on March 28th at 10am about CPP-D Social Security Tribunal Hearings. You can register for that here:

us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I found Ed Yong’s editorial column 🙂 buttondown.com/edyong209

British Columbia has the highest incidence of H5N1 bird flu in Canada. On Jan 31, 2025 BC had 27 / 37 infected sites. That’s a significant improvement over the previous reporting period where BC had 212 / 487. So far no cows sick.

inspection.canada.ca/en/animal-he...

#H5N1 #BirdFlu #Canada #BC

Vote to remove the Cochrane exercise therapy recommendation for CFS!

Cochrane: Withdraw the harmful 2019/2024 Exercise therapy for CFS review

chng.it/wwyYr8vD8F

#MECFS