Anna Wood
@annakwood.bsky.social
Physicist, education researcher, gardener, bird watcher/photographer, chronic illness/ME
oo I have exciting news - you can now buy my book 25 birds directly from Ingram Spark (who print it) for £14.50! Much better than the Amazon price and still making a good amount for Action for ME (to go to biomedical research).
Link here
shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...
Link here
shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...
25 Birds
A delightful collection of bird photographs by housebound photographer Anna Wood
shop.ingramspark.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:11 AM
oo I have exciting news - you can now buy my book 25 birds directly from Ingram Spark (who print it) for £14.50! Much better than the Amazon price and still making a good amount for Action for ME (to go to biomedical research).
Link here
shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...
Link here
shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...
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Right beloveds we had so little uptake of this that I’ve extended the deadline indefinitely — if you’re someone who loves sales and marketing and wants to work for my small but mighty disabled-majority social enterprise, please apply!
🚨 Closing today!
Are you passionate about intersectional disability justice, inclusion, and accessibility? Do you love having conversations driven by curiosity and care that build rapport with potential clients? If that’s you, we’d love to hear from you.
Apply now!
Are you passionate about intersectional disability justice, inclusion, and accessibility? Do you love having conversations driven by curiosity and care that build rapport with potential clients? If that’s you, we’d love to hear from you.
Apply now!
Job Description: Sales & Marketing Assistant (Freelance, PT)
Apply by Friday 7th November.
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November 17, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Right beloveds we had so little uptake of this that I’ve extended the deadline indefinitely — if you’re someone who loves sales and marketing and wants to work for my small but mighty disabled-majority social enterprise, please apply!
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When you go to Auschwitz they have piles of jewellery and watches which were confiscated from those arriving.
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 8:34 AM
When you go to Auschwitz they have piles of jewellery and watches which were confiscated from those arriving.
I had the most beautiful message from an acquaintance recently about my 25 Birds book
'the perfect book to inspire an interest in wildlife ' 😊💕
All profits to Biomedical research
#mecfs
#NatureWriting
'the perfect book to inspire an interest in wildlife ' 😊💕
All profits to Biomedical research
#mecfs
#NatureWriting
November 16, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I had the most beautiful message from an acquaintance recently about my 25 Birds book
'the perfect book to inspire an interest in wildlife ' 😊💕
All profits to Biomedical research
#mecfs
#NatureWriting
'the perfect book to inspire an interest in wildlife ' 😊💕
All profits to Biomedical research
#mecfs
#NatureWriting
Eeeek! I have some exciting news - I've been awarded one of the Curtis Brown Breakthrough Mentoring Scheme places for disabled writers! 😁 🎉
I'm writing a narrative non-fiction book about discovering nature in my garden, my experience of being housebound and chronic illness
I'm writing a narrative non-fiction book about discovering nature in my garden, my experience of being housebound and chronic illness
November 14, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Eeeek! I have some exciting news - I've been awarded one of the Curtis Brown Breakthrough Mentoring Scheme places for disabled writers! 😁 🎉
I'm writing a narrative non-fiction book about discovering nature in my garden, my experience of being housebound and chronic illness
I'm writing a narrative non-fiction book about discovering nature in my garden, my experience of being housebound and chronic illness
November 14, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Eeeek! I have some exciting news - I've been awarded one of the Curtis Brown Breakthrough Mentoring Scheme places for disabled writers! 😁 🎉
I'm writing a narrative non-fiction book about discovering nature in my garden, my experience of being housebound and chronic illness
I'm writing a narrative non-fiction book about discovering nature in my garden, my experience of being housebound and chronic illness
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See that gorgeous smile, there? That’s recent birthday girl @annakwood.bsky.social having just opened the 🎁 I made for her big birthday: a cushion inspired by Rennie Macintosh, upcycled from purple fabric I had saved for special use.
#sewing #upcycling #charlesrenniemackintosh #chronicillness #MECFS
#sewing #upcycling #charlesrenniemackintosh #chronicillness #MECFS
November 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
See that gorgeous smile, there? That’s recent birthday girl @annakwood.bsky.social having just opened the 🎁 I made for her big birthday: a cushion inspired by Rennie Macintosh, upcycled from purple fabric I had saved for special use.
#sewing #upcycling #charlesrenniemackintosh #chronicillness #MECFS
#sewing #upcycling #charlesrenniemackintosh #chronicillness #MECFS
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If they only knew how to zoom in, they might just be able to make out the red poppy too....
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
If they only knew how to zoom in, they might just be able to make out the red poppy too....
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Thank you so much for this fabulous review of my book 25 birds, one year one garden - if you'd like a gentle book for the bird liver in your life then find it on Amazon
All profits to #MEcfs research
All profits to #MEcfs research
November 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Thank you so much for this fabulous review of my book 25 birds, one year one garden - if you'd like a gentle book for the bird liver in your life then find it on Amazon
All profits to #MEcfs research
All profits to #MEcfs research
November 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Thank you so much for this fabulous review of my book 25 birds, one year one garden - if you'd like a gentle book for the bird liver in your life then find it on Amazon
All profits to #MEcfs research
All profits to #MEcfs research
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This thread is adapted from my substack "Heist of the century - could a simple maths problem have foiled the Louvre robbery?"
Please check it out.
open.substack.com/pu...
9/9
Please check it out.
open.substack.com/pu...
9/9
November 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM
This thread is adapted from my substack "Heist of the century - could a simple maths problem have foiled the Louvre robbery?"
Please check it out.
open.substack.com/pu...
9/9
Please check it out.
open.substack.com/pu...
9/9
Hi all
I'm doing a birthday fundraiser (big birthday coming up next week). It's for the Daratumumab trial which is really exciting, via Joan Crawfords just giving page.
I think this has huge potential and needs a proper clinic trial.
Please share #mecfs
www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
I'm doing a birthday fundraiser (big birthday coming up next week). It's for the Daratumumab trial which is really exciting, via Joan Crawfords just giving page.
I think this has huge potential and needs a proper clinic trial.
Please share #mecfs
www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
Help raise £2500 to support promising medical research into ME – JustGiving Crowdfunding
Iʼm raising money to support promising medical research into ME. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.
www.justgiving.com
October 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Hi all
I'm doing a birthday fundraiser (big birthday coming up next week). It's for the Daratumumab trial which is really exciting, via Joan Crawfords just giving page.
I think this has huge potential and needs a proper clinic trial.
Please share #mecfs
www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
I'm doing a birthday fundraiser (big birthday coming up next week). It's for the Daratumumab trial which is really exciting, via Joan Crawfords just giving page.
I think this has huge potential and needs a proper clinic trial.
Please share #mecfs
www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
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ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long.
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome
Research could offer hope for ME patients – but some experts urge caution and say more studies needed
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 6:09 AM
ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long.
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Headline is inaccurate. The results need to be verified. Patient selection isn't clear but it seems all were homebound.
The paper includes a good list of immune dysfunction seen in #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis
Link to the paper: translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
The paper includes a good list of immune dysfunction seen in #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis
Link to the paper: translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
October 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Headline is inaccurate. The results need to be verified. Patient selection isn't clear but it seems all were homebound.
The paper includes a good list of immune dysfunction seen in #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis
Link to the paper: translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
The paper includes a good list of immune dysfunction seen in #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis
Link to the paper: translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Researchers implanted CRISPR-edited pancreas cells into a person with type-1 diabetes.
The cells produced insulin for months
There was no need for immune-dampening drugs, due to gene edits that allowed the cells to evade detection by the recipient’s immune system.
🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The cells produced insulin for months
There was no need for immune-dampening drugs, due to gene edits that allowed the cells to evade detection by the recipient’s immune system.
🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Hope for diabetes: CRISPR-edited cells pump out insulin in a person – and evade immune detection
Edits create cells that don’t trigger an immune response, allowing implant recipient to forego immune-suppressing drugs.
www.nature.com
September 7, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Researchers implanted CRISPR-edited pancreas cells into a person with type-1 diabetes.
The cells produced insulin for months
There was no need for immune-dampening drugs, due to gene edits that allowed the cells to evade detection by the recipient’s immune system.
🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The cells produced insulin for months
There was no need for immune-dampening drugs, due to gene edits that allowed the cells to evade detection by the recipient’s immune system.
🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Rooks in a field yesterday!
It's a bit of a joke in the birding group that I didn't see my first rook until October last year (more likely just hadn't noticed one). Beautiful birds
It's a bit of a joke in the birding group that I didn't see my first rook until October last year (more likely just hadn't noticed one). Beautiful birds
September 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Rooks in a field yesterday!
It's a bit of a joke in the birding group that I didn't see my first rook until October last year (more likely just hadn't noticed one). Beautiful birds
It's a bit of a joke in the birding group that I didn't see my first rook until October last year (more likely just hadn't noticed one). Beautiful birds
A great response to the salt path and nature cure narrative
I keep getting asked for my salty thoughts about the Salt Path as my position on nature cure narratives is v clear! A mere fraction of those thoughts published here @literaryhub.bsky.social, with thanks to @bookwormvaught.bsky.social and @nicwilson.bsky.social for their earlier pieces linked below.
Nature is Not Going to Cure You: On Raynor Winn’s Fabricated Memoir
Like many writers, I have been following the unfolding revelations about Raynor Winn and The Salt Path with great interest, and a degree of self-interest. I am a memoirist and nature writer, and I …
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August 30, 2025 at 8:44 AM
A great response to the salt path and nature cure narrative
I'm not at #ViCEPHEC25 but hope you all have a great conference and will follow anything posted here
August 28, 2025 at 7:34 AM
I'm not at #ViCEPHEC25 but hope you all have a great conference and will follow anything posted here
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Initial findings from the DecodeME genome-wide association study of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome now on medRXiv
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 9, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Initial findings from the DecodeME genome-wide association study of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome now on medRXiv
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Channel 4 News – full segment on DecodeME results (9 mins) — the world’s largest genetic study of #MECFS — identifies eight genetic differences. Includes interviews with Prof Chris Ponting, a patient participant, Sonia Chowdhury, and MP Tessa Munt.
youtu.be/c5i_K3QEbCI?...
youtu.be/c5i_K3QEbCI?...
Channel 4 News DecodeME results
YouTube video by Broken Battery
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August 7, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Channel 4 News – full segment on DecodeME results (9 mins) — the world’s largest genetic study of #MECFS — identifies eight genetic differences. Includes interviews with Prof Chris Ponting, a patient participant, Sonia Chowdhury, and MP Tessa Munt.
youtu.be/c5i_K3QEbCI?...
youtu.be/c5i_K3QEbCI?...
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#DecodeME in case you a quick reminder about DNA and how it underpins this study:
DNA carries the instructions for how to make and run a human body. It’s effectively a very long string of four different chemicals, named A, T, C and G for short.
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DNA carries the instructions for how to make and run a human body. It’s effectively a very long string of four different chemicals, named A, T, C and G for short.
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August 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Israeli Ch12 Daphna Liel on the plan to get the hostages killed and ethnically cleanse the population of Gaza.
Sooner or later, European sanctions will be imposed. The only question is how many more would be killed and injured.
Sooner or later, European sanctions will be imposed. The only question is how many more would be killed and injured.
August 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Israeli Ch12 Daphna Liel on the plan to get the hostages killed and ethnically cleanse the population of Gaza.
Sooner or later, European sanctions will be imposed. The only question is how many more would be killed and injured.
Sooner or later, European sanctions will be imposed. The only question is how many more would be killed and injured.
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#MEcfs @decodemestudy.bsky.social: "We plan to send you an email with [initial DNA findings] on [6 August]...We're letting you know the timing in advance so you can pace yourself if needed." This is unbelievably exciting, & how lovely that our energy levels/PEM are considered by the research group!
August 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
#MEcfs @decodemestudy.bsky.social: "We plan to send you an email with [initial DNA findings] on [6 August]...We're letting you know the timing in advance so you can pace yourself if needed." This is unbelievably exciting, & how lovely that our energy levels/PEM are considered by the research group!
August 3, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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I know they are coming late in the day but I think we need to welcome each change of hear if we are to stop this genocide forward.com/opinion/7598...
As an Israeli political scientist, I resisted thinking this war was a genocide. Here's what changed my mind
The incitement for genocide in the Israeli public sphere is undeniable. So why are so many of us liberal Jews so reluctant?
forward.com
August 3, 2025 at 7:41 AM
I know they are coming late in the day but I think we need to welcome each change of hear if we are to stop this genocide forward.com/opinion/7598...