Laura McCall
@equibotanica.bsky.social
Motto should be: 'No post without a typo'. 'Like' =|= agree. Vaccine equity is in everyone's interest.
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1. COVID is only starting as a crisis of chronic illness. You cannot talk in the past tense
“For so many NHS staff, in many ways covid never really left… There’s been no pause, no time to heal, just a relentless push forward in a system permanently stuck in crisis mode”
“For so many NHS staff, in many ways covid never really left… There’s been no pause, no time to heal, just a relentless push forward in a system permanently stuck in crisis mode”
Our first blog is live!
Our Ops & Comms Officer @samanthajwathen.bsky.social says:
"We need systemic change, resilience isn’t about pushing through until you break but about having the space, the tools, & the support to keep going safely, sustainably & with dignity"
frontline19.com/beyond-crisi...
Our Ops & Comms Officer @samanthajwathen.bsky.social says:
"We need systemic change, resilience isn’t about pushing through until you break but about having the space, the tools, & the support to keep going safely, sustainably & with dignity"
frontline19.com/beyond-crisi...
The Silent Collapse of NHS Wellbeing | Frontline 19
It’s 5 years since Covid hit our shores, 5 years since we all experienced something most of us would rather forget.
frontline19.com
May 1, 2025 at 11:39 PM
1. COVID is only starting as a crisis of chronic illness. You cannot talk in the past tense
“For so many NHS staff, in many ways covid never really left… There’s been no pause, no time to heal, just a relentless push forward in a system permanently stuck in crisis mode”
“For so many NHS staff, in many ways covid never really left… There’s been no pause, no time to heal, just a relentless push forward in a system permanently stuck in crisis mode”
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Merci, EmmanuelMacron 💙💛
Every European will be safer if every part of Ukraine is sovereign and pro-European.
russian occupation of an independent country creates a precedent that endangers the entire continent.
Every European will be safer if every part of Ukraine is sovereign and pro-European.
russian occupation of an independent country creates a precedent that endangers the entire continent.
April 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Merci, EmmanuelMacron 💙💛
Every European will be safer if every part of Ukraine is sovereign and pro-European.
russian occupation of an independent country creates a precedent that endangers the entire continent.
Every European will be safer if every part of Ukraine is sovereign and pro-European.
russian occupation of an independent country creates a precedent that endangers the entire continent.
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Trump day 91: First day with no decisions, Easter message about ‘millions of criminals,’ American detained 10 days for ‘illegal entry,’ Hegseth shared classified info with his wife and brother & more: reportersonline.eu/trump-day-91... #trump100
Trump day 91: No decisions, but Easter message about ‘millions of criminals,’ American detained 10 days for ‘illegal entry,’ Hegseth shared classified info with his wife and brother & more - Reporters...
New decisions from Trump, and new fallout. An overview of day 91.
reportersonline.eu
April 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Trump day 91: First day with no decisions, Easter message about ‘millions of criminals,’ American detained 10 days for ‘illegal entry,’ Hegseth shared classified info with his wife and brother & more: reportersonline.eu/trump-day-91... #trump100
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If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.
April 20, 2025 at 2:08 AM
If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.
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At least three people who are obsessed with criticizing me are being published in this book and I just want to point out that I travel and write regularly making the case for science funding and why cosmology is imporrant and these guys have had fuck all to say about science funding
Yall wanna hear something extremely embarrassing? Before Trump’s election, a bunch of academics who lumbered rightward after being criticized by the left (Pinker, Dawkins, Krauss) wrote essays for a book that is coming out in July about the threats to academia from the left.
YALL, THE TITLE!!
YALL, THE TITLE!!
April 21, 2025 at 12:12 AM
At least three people who are obsessed with criticizing me are being published in this book and I just want to point out that I travel and write regularly making the case for science funding and why cosmology is imporrant and these guys have had fuck all to say about science funding
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It’s bad enough we have healthcare workers refusing to mask, now one admits to practicing medicine while he has measles
Does the HHS Secretary condemn this behaviour? No. He praises the doctor as an “extraordinary healer”
Measles is airborne & wildly contagious. This doctor should lose his license
Does the HHS Secretary condemn this behaviour? No. He praises the doctor as an “extraordinary healer”
Measles is airborne & wildly contagious. This doctor should lose his license
Video shows doctor with measles treating kids. RFK Jr later praised him as an ‘extraordinary’ healer
A video shows a Texas doctor, who has been treating children in a measles outbreak, with a measles rash on his face in a clinic while caring for patients a week before he met with Health Secretary Rob...
apnews.com
April 19, 2025 at 9:46 AM
It’s bad enough we have healthcare workers refusing to mask, now one admits to practicing medicine while he has measles
Does the HHS Secretary condemn this behaviour? No. He praises the doctor as an “extraordinary healer”
Measles is airborne & wildly contagious. This doctor should lose his license
Does the HHS Secretary condemn this behaviour? No. He praises the doctor as an “extraordinary healer”
Measles is airborne & wildly contagious. This doctor should lose his license
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We need to stop making concessions to the right bc right-wingers get mad.
There’s this big effort to rewrite school closures. Even in ostensibly liberal media, we get solemnly acknowledgments that schools were closed too long.
Not bc of data, but bc right wingers screamed about it long enough.
There’s this big effort to rewrite school closures. Even in ostensibly liberal media, we get solemnly acknowledgments that schools were closed too long.
Not bc of data, but bc right wingers screamed about it long enough.
The truth is, we never, in any systematic way, made classrooms safe, like ensuring upgraded ventilation and air purification in schools.
And COVID ripped through classrooms. Kids fueled household spread and hundreds of thousands of them lost caregivers to the virus.
But we don’t talk about THAT.
And COVID ripped through classrooms. Kids fueled household spread and hundreds of thousands of them lost caregivers to the virus.
But we don’t talk about THAT.
April 13, 2025 at 10:48 AM
We need to stop making concessions to the right bc right-wingers get mad.
There’s this big effort to rewrite school closures. Even in ostensibly liberal media, we get solemnly acknowledgments that schools were closed too long.
Not bc of data, but bc right wingers screamed about it long enough.
There’s this big effort to rewrite school closures. Even in ostensibly liberal media, we get solemnly acknowledgments that schools were closed too long.
Not bc of data, but bc right wingers screamed about it long enough.
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Autism isn’t an epidemic. It's not a disease. It’s a natural variation in how people think…which, frankly, is a relief in a world where most people don't think at all.
April 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Autism isn’t an epidemic. It's not a disease. It’s a natural variation in how people think…which, frankly, is a relief in a world where most people don't think at all.
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Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale
NSF has posted an “update on priorities.”
They’re canceling all “DEI and misinformation/disinformation” grants.
And the guidance on how to fulfill the longstanding, legally mandated Broadening Participation requirement is utterly incoherent.
www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
They’re canceling all “DEI and misinformation/disinformation” grants.
And the guidance on how to fulfill the longstanding, legally mandated Broadening Participation requirement is utterly incoherent.
www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
Updates on NSF Priorities
www.nsf.gov
April 18, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale
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I hate the trope about "elites looking down their noses at rural folks lives". I lived in rural areas, and believe me, there was plenty of disdain there for the way urbanites lived *their* lives. It's not a one-way thing and in any case doesn't excuse fascism.
April 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I hate the trope about "elites looking down their noses at rural folks lives". I lived in rural areas, and believe me, there was plenty of disdain there for the way urbanites lived *their* lives. It's not a one-way thing and in any case doesn't excuse fascism.
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EU 2024 electricity generation:
49% renewable energy
24% nuclear
Only 28% fossil fuel 👍
49% renewable energy
24% nuclear
Only 28% fossil fuel 👍
Unthinkable just 10 years ago:
Almost 3/4 of the EU’s electricity in 2024 was from renewable energy sources and nuclear.
Gas and coal electricity generation is at record low levels.
Almost 3/4 of the EU’s electricity in 2024 was from renewable energy sources and nuclear.
Gas and coal electricity generation is at record low levels.
April 19, 2025 at 10:10 AM
EU 2024 electricity generation:
49% renewable energy
24% nuclear
Only 28% fossil fuel 👍
49% renewable energy
24% nuclear
Only 28% fossil fuel 👍
"We have footsteps to follow, and shoulders to stand on! Fascism wins when you lose hope. To joyful persistence, my friends!"
The horrors persist but so do we. We are not the first people to be here, we aren't the first scientists to be persecuted, we aren't the first citizens to be oppressed. We have footsteps to follow, and shoulders to stand on! Fascism wins when you lose hope. To joyful persistence, my friends! ❤️🔥
April 19, 2025 at 9:28 AM
"We have footsteps to follow, and shoulders to stand on! Fascism wins when you lose hope. To joyful persistence, my friends!"
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In the immortal words of Toni Morrison.
It applies to ableism too.
It applies to ableism too.
April 19, 2025 at 1:19 AM
In the immortal words of Toni Morrison.
It applies to ableism too.
It applies to ableism too.
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The White House has turned COVID.gov from a public health resource into a politically charged platform promoting the lab-leak theory and attacking specific scientists and the pandemic response in general. Let’s fact check its 5 headline claims… 🧵
April 19, 2025 at 8:47 AM
The White House has turned COVID.gov from a public health resource into a politically charged platform promoting the lab-leak theory and attacking specific scientists and the pandemic response in general. Let’s fact check its 5 headline claims… 🧵
No kidding
Social Security is not paying large sums of money to people who are over 150 years old.
That finding, trumpeted by Elon Musk, turned out to be a glitch in the recordkeeping, not evidence of massive fraud.
By @sengelberg.bsky.social
That finding, trumpeted by Elon Musk, turned out to be a glitch in the recordkeeping, not evidence of massive fraud.
By @sengelberg.bsky.social
How Investigative Journalists Actually Find Fraud, Waste and Abuse
While investigative journalists immerse themselves in minutiae to identify waste and fraud, Elon Musk’s team has taken a chainsaw approach to spending based on cursory examinations. That might help…
propub.li
April 6, 2025 at 11:44 PM
No kidding
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We’re either heading for a recession or are already in one, paired with a stock market collapse, all because Trump did something real stupid that he could undo at any time. The US economy is crashing because a single dipshit *wants* to crash it, and nobody with the power to stop him will do so.
April 6, 2025 at 11:24 PM
We’re either heading for a recession or are already in one, paired with a stock market collapse, all because Trump did something real stupid that he could undo at any time. The US economy is crashing because a single dipshit *wants* to crash it, and nobody with the power to stop him will do so.
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We know masks prevent Covid & other respiratory infections
We know hospital acquired covid has a 10% mortality rate
We know patients are scared or postponing medical care because they can’t risk Covid
We know many HCWs are burned out & suffering Long Covid
So why aren’t we masking in healthcare?
We know hospital acquired covid has a 10% mortality rate
We know patients are scared or postponing medical care because they can’t risk Covid
We know many HCWs are burned out & suffering Long Covid
So why aren’t we masking in healthcare?
We Need Mandatory Masking in Healthcare, and We Need it Now
Healthcare facilities should set the tone when it comes to masking. They should help patients protect themselves from Covid and other threats. Instead they push droplet dogma and put lives at risk.
www.disabledginger.com
March 10, 2025 at 10:58 AM
We know masks prevent Covid & other respiratory infections
We know hospital acquired covid has a 10% mortality rate
We know patients are scared or postponing medical care because they can’t risk Covid
We know many HCWs are burned out & suffering Long Covid
So why aren’t we masking in healthcare?
We know hospital acquired covid has a 10% mortality rate
We know patients are scared or postponing medical care because they can’t risk Covid
We know many HCWs are burned out & suffering Long Covid
So why aren’t we masking in healthcare?
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🚨 NEW: RFK Jr. Fanboys Owe You An Apology
Supporters of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. now have to face the music: RFK Jr.'s critics predicted exactly how his tenure as HHS Secretary would go, and a child is now dead of measles as the result.
👇 READ, SHARE, SUBSCRIBE: www.panaccindex.info/p/rfk-jr-fan...
Supporters of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. now have to face the music: RFK Jr.'s critics predicted exactly how his tenure as HHS Secretary would go, and a child is now dead of measles as the result.
👇 READ, SHARE, SUBSCRIBE: www.panaccindex.info/p/rfk-jr-fan...
RFK Jr. Fanboys Owe You An Apology
A Formal Reading of the Riot Act
www.panaccindex.info
March 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
🚨 NEW: RFK Jr. Fanboys Owe You An Apology
Supporters of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. now have to face the music: RFK Jr.'s critics predicted exactly how his tenure as HHS Secretary would go, and a child is now dead of measles as the result.
👇 READ, SHARE, SUBSCRIBE: www.panaccindex.info/p/rfk-jr-fan...
Supporters of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. now have to face the music: RFK Jr.'s critics predicted exactly how his tenure as HHS Secretary would go, and a child is now dead of measles as the result.
👇 READ, SHARE, SUBSCRIBE: www.panaccindex.info/p/rfk-jr-fan...
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My latest post is now out.
I show how Trump's attacks on science and universities are neither random nor new - they fit very precisely into the authoritarian playbook.
This means we can guess what might come next and prepare - and we must!
christinapagel.substack.com/p/censor-pur...
I show how Trump's attacks on science and universities are neither random nor new - they fit very precisely into the authoritarian playbook.
This means we can guess what might come next and prepare - and we must!
christinapagel.substack.com/p/censor-pur...
Censor, purge, defund: how Trump following the authoritarian playbook on science and universities
I have mapped 35 of the Trump administration's attacks on science and universities to the authoritarian playbook - and consider what it means for attacks still to come
christinapagel.substack.com
March 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
My latest post is now out.
I show how Trump's attacks on science and universities are neither random nor new - they fit very precisely into the authoritarian playbook.
This means we can guess what might come next and prepare - and we must!
christinapagel.substack.com/p/censor-pur...
I show how Trump's attacks on science and universities are neither random nor new - they fit very precisely into the authoritarian playbook.
This means we can guess what might come next and prepare - and we must!
christinapagel.substack.com/p/censor-pur...
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80% of German VOTERS went for parties that promised to have nothing to do with the AFD...
MEDIA: Huge win for AFD!
MEDIA: Huge win for AFD!
February 23, 2025 at 9:50 PM
80% of German VOTERS went for parties that promised to have nothing to do with the AFD...
MEDIA: Huge win for AFD!
MEDIA: Huge win for AFD!
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WIRED continues to lead the reporting on what's happening inside the US government right now.
A 25-year-old Musk acolyte now has admin privileges over the code that controls Social Security payments, tax returns, and more.
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
A 25-year-old Musk acolyte now has admin privileges over the code that controls Social Security payments, tax returns, and more.
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
A 25-Year-Old With Elon Musk Ties Has Direct Access to the Federal Payment System
The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is a sleepy part of the Treasury Department. It’s also where, sources say, a 25-year-old engineer tied to Elon Musk has admin privileges over the code that controls So...
www.wired.com
February 4, 2025 at 10:19 AM
WIRED continues to lead the reporting on what's happening inside the US government right now.
A 25-year-old Musk acolyte now has admin privileges over the code that controls Social Security payments, tax returns, and more.
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
A 25-year-old Musk acolyte now has admin privileges over the code that controls Social Security payments, tax returns, and more.
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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This paper showing that a bunch of interventions didn't work for #longcovid is used as evidence that #longcovid is psychosomatic. But if the interventions tested didn't address the biology of the disease, they wouldn't work. See my field for another demo of this tautology.
November 29, 2024 at 12:55 AM
This paper showing that a bunch of interventions didn't work for #longcovid is used as evidence that #longcovid is psychosomatic. But if the interventions tested didn't address the biology of the disease, they wouldn't work. See my field for another demo of this tautology.
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Stell Dir vor , Dein Kind geht zu Schule, kommt krank wieder heim und wird nie mehr gesund. Das darf einfach nicht passieren und schon gar nicht tausendfach. #BildungAberSicher www.srf.ch/wissen/gesun...
Long Covid - Hunderte von Kindern in der Schweiz kämpfen mit den Corona-Folgen
Das Corona-Virus ist nach wie vor da. Ein ernstes Problem vor allem für Menschen mit Long Covid, darunter auch Kinder.
www.srf.ch
November 26, 2024 at 4:58 AM
Stell Dir vor , Dein Kind geht zu Schule, kommt krank wieder heim und wird nie mehr gesund. Das darf einfach nicht passieren und schon gar nicht tausendfach. #BildungAberSicher www.srf.ch/wissen/gesun...