Heidi Fidler
@hidfid.bsky.social
RN, PhD drop-out (for now at least) 💓 Peds & NICU. Mom of 2 energetic kiddos & wife to 1 great spouse. POTS (likely LC triggered), MCAS, ME/CFS, HSD & Endometriosis. #pots #longcovid #wearlumia
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For several years, I have spent my time busting terrible and even fraudulent research into ME, ME/CFS, Long COVID, etc. If this crowdfunding works out, I will do one more in the spring and then retire from Berkeley. If you'd like to support my work, here's how: crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/47768
David Tuller's Trial by Error Fall 2025
Help UC Berkeley raise $68,000 for the project: David Tuller's Trial by Error Fall 2025. Your gift will make a difference!
crowdfund.berkeley.edu
October 22, 2025 at 10:20 AM
For several years, I have spent my time busting terrible and even fraudulent research into ME, ME/CFS, Long COVID, etc. If this crowdfunding works out, I will do one more in the spring and then retire from Berkeley. If you'd like to support my work, here's how: crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/47768
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Help shape Canada’s respirator standard!
Until August 19, the CSA Z94.4 standard is open for public comment — and for the first time, it includes protections in health care settings.
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Until August 19, the CSA Z94.4 standard is open for public comment — and for the first time, it includes protections in health care settings.
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August 14, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Help shape Canada’s respirator standard!
Until August 19, the CSA Z94.4 standard is open for public comment — and for the first time, it includes protections in health care settings.
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Until August 19, the CSA Z94.4 standard is open for public comment — and for the first time, it includes protections in health care settings.
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Nature’s careers team spoke to a dozen scientists who have been laid off from US federal agencies and from universities because of federal funding cuts in the past two months. #Academicsky 🧪
#OpenToWork: how laid-off US scientists are coping with shattered careers
Unemployed researchers face some tough career choices as they flood the job market after the Trump administration’s cuts to science.
go.nature.com
May 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Nature’s careers team spoke to a dozen scientists who have been laid off from US federal agencies and from universities because of federal funding cuts in the past two months. #Academicsky 🧪
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I’m one of many in this.
From @this.is.the.illness.m.e on Instagram 👍
This video might take a few minutes to watch, but M.E takes years. Decades. Whole lives.
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#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #MEcfs #MEawareness #PwME #MillionsMissing
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From @this.is.the.illness.m.e on Instagram 👍
This video might take a few minutes to watch, but M.E takes years. Decades. Whole lives.
(Video 1 of 2)
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #MEcfs #MEawareness #PwME #MillionsMissing
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May 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I’m one of many in this.
From @this.is.the.illness.m.e on Instagram 👍
This video might take a few minutes to watch, but M.E takes years. Decades. Whole lives.
(Video 1 of 2)
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #MEcfs #MEawareness #PwME #MillionsMissing
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From @this.is.the.illness.m.e on Instagram 👍
This video might take a few minutes to watch, but M.E takes years. Decades. Whole lives.
(Video 1 of 2)
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #MEcfs #MEawareness #PwME #MillionsMissing
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On #MillionsMissing Day:
As an ally to the tens of millions of us on earth w/ #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis and #LongCovid, an easy thing you can do is follow
M.E. Action @meactnet.bsky.social
Open Medicine Foundation @openmedf.bsky.social
The Bateman Center
@batemanhornecenter.bsky.social
As an ally to the tens of millions of us on earth w/ #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis and #LongCovid, an easy thing you can do is follow
M.E. Action @meactnet.bsky.social
Open Medicine Foundation @openmedf.bsky.social
The Bateman Center
@batemanhornecenter.bsky.social
May 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
On #MillionsMissing Day:
As an ally to the tens of millions of us on earth w/ #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis and #LongCovid, an easy thing you can do is follow
M.E. Action @meactnet.bsky.social
Open Medicine Foundation @openmedf.bsky.social
The Bateman Center
@batemanhornecenter.bsky.social
As an ally to the tens of millions of us on earth w/ #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis and #LongCovid, an easy thing you can do is follow
M.E. Action @meactnet.bsky.social
Open Medicine Foundation @openmedf.bsky.social
The Bateman Center
@batemanhornecenter.bsky.social
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Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world
May 2, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world
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With more than half of the Education Department’s civil rights offices closed and the division reduced to a fraction of its former staff, families’ pleas for updates and action have gone unheard. @jsmithrichards.bsky.social @jodiscohen.bsky.social
A Gutted Education Department’s New Agenda: Roll Back Civil Rights Cases, Target Transgender Students
The Trump administration is subverting the traditional priorities of the department’s decimated civil rights office by making discrimination investigations practically impossible — instead enforcing i...
www.propublica.org
May 2, 2025 at 1:41 PM
With more than half of the Education Department’s civil rights offices closed and the division reduced to a fraction of its former staff, families’ pleas for updates and action have gone unheard. @jsmithrichards.bsky.social @jodiscohen.bsky.social
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A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...
![In an interview with Popular Information, his first with any media outlet, Hermosillo said DHS'.
's account was false.
According to Hermosillo, he was visiting his girlfriend's family in Tucson from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Several hours before his arrest, Hermosillo was transported to a hospital in Tucson by ambulance after suffering from a seizure. He has a New Mexico state ID, but did not take it with him during the medical emergency.
After being released from the hospital following treatment, Hermosillo did not know how to return to where he was staying.
He approached the Border Patrol officer because he was looking for someone to help him. "I saw a car, and I askled] him for help," Hermosillo said. He told the officer that he was staying in Tucson.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreie3gc6fndj7mtotijddm4eg264zgsqxpn4nbekb3xq5ubdmskvr6u@jpeg)
!["You"
re not from here. Do you have your
papers?" the officer said, according to Hermosillo. When the officer asked where he was from, Hermosillo said he told the officer,
"New Mexico." The officer then accused Hermosillo of lying. "Don't make me lout] like [I'm] stupid," the officer said. "I know you're from Mexico." After that, Hermosillo said, he was arrested.
Hermosillo said that he never told the officer that he was born in Mexico, was a citizen of Mexico, or entered the country illegally. And he would not have said those things because they are not true. He signed the transcript released by DHS because the officer ordered him to "sign everything." But Hermosillo did not read it, because he cannot read.
According to Hermosillo's girlfriend, Grace Hernandez, Hermosillo has learning disabilities and can only write his name.
Hermosillo said he did not graduate from high school and dropped out after the 10th grade.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreiensu64iobo4ftuqeaighf2p5k745uzdnmhcecugsi4ec74dnqse4@jpeg)
April 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...
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They don't care about your health and they don't care about your kids.
"The Trump administration is set to cancel tens of millions of dollars in grants to scientists studying environmental hazards faced by children in rural America."
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www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/c...
"The Trump administration is set to cancel tens of millions of dollars in grants to scientists studying environmental hazards faced by children in rural America."
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www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/c...
E.P.A. Set to Cancel Grants Aimed at Protecting Children From Toxic Chemicals
The cancellations, set to apply to pending and active grants, also affect research into “forever chemicals” contaminating the food supply.
www.nytimes.com
April 23, 2025 at 2:22 AM
They don't care about your health and they don't care about your kids.
"The Trump administration is set to cancel tens of millions of dollars in grants to scientists studying environmental hazards faced by children in rural America."
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www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/c...
"The Trump administration is set to cancel tens of millions of dollars in grants to scientists studying environmental hazards faced by children in rural America."
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www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/c...
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•••••BREAKING•••••
The Supreme Court has blocked any new deportations under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.
SCOTUS is acting in response to an emergency appeal by lawyers from the ACLU.
The Court has directed the Trump regime not to remove Venezuelan immigrants held in the Bluebonnet Detention…
The Supreme Court has blocked any new deportations under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.
SCOTUS is acting in response to an emergency appeal by lawyers from the ACLU.
The Court has directed the Trump regime not to remove Venezuelan immigrants held in the Bluebonnet Detention…
April 19, 2025 at 5:41 AM
•••••BREAKING•••••
The Supreme Court has blocked any new deportations under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.
SCOTUS is acting in response to an emergency appeal by lawyers from the ACLU.
The Court has directed the Trump regime not to remove Venezuelan immigrants held in the Bluebonnet Detention…
The Supreme Court has blocked any new deportations under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.
SCOTUS is acting in response to an emergency appeal by lawyers from the ACLU.
The Court has directed the Trump regime not to remove Venezuelan immigrants held in the Bluebonnet Detention…
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aside: a stunning comment from David Baker, UW professor who won the Nobel Prize in 2024. Now 15 lab members are looking for positions overseas.
“There’s so many amazing people who want to come in, & we can’t take them. The Nobel Prize was just a little blip. But things have gotten quite bleak.”
“There’s so many amazing people who want to come in, & we can’t take them. The Nobel Prize was just a little blip. But things have gotten quite bleak.”
April 14, 2025 at 12:37 PM
aside: a stunning comment from David Baker, UW professor who won the Nobel Prize in 2024. Now 15 lab members are looking for positions overseas.
“There’s so many amazing people who want to come in, & we can’t take them. The Nobel Prize was just a little blip. But things have gotten quite bleak.”
“There’s so many amazing people who want to come in, & we can’t take them. The Nobel Prize was just a little blip. But things have gotten quite bleak.”
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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
April 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
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This guy gets it. Must have listened to @timmiller.bsky.social
Let’s do this #chicago!
cc: @thebulwark.bsky.social
Let’s do this #chicago!
#HandsOff #April5 #handsoff2025 #wethepeople #youworkforus #chicagoprotest #equalityil #indivisiblechicago
Let’s do this #chicago!
cc: @thebulwark.bsky.social
Let’s do this #chicago!
#HandsOff #April5 #handsoff2025 #wethepeople #youworkforus #chicagoprotest #equalityil #indivisiblechicago
April 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This guy gets it. Must have listened to @timmiller.bsky.social
Let’s do this #chicago!
cc: @thebulwark.bsky.social
Let’s do this #chicago!
#HandsOff #April5 #handsoff2025 #wethepeople #youworkforus #chicagoprotest #equalityil #indivisiblechicago
Let’s do this #chicago!
cc: @thebulwark.bsky.social
Let’s do this #chicago!
#HandsOff #April5 #handsoff2025 #wethepeople #youworkforus #chicagoprotest #equalityil #indivisiblechicago
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The richest man in the world spent more money than most of us will see in our lifetimes to lose a state Supreme Court race by 10 points.
And the fact his $25 million was a drop in the bucket compared to what he's spent on other elections is exactly why we must overturn Citizens United.
And the fact his $25 million was a drop in the bucket compared to what he's spent on other elections is exactly why we must overturn Citizens United.
April 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The richest man in the world spent more money than most of us will see in our lifetimes to lose a state Supreme Court race by 10 points.
And the fact his $25 million was a drop in the bucket compared to what he's spent on other elections is exactly why we must overturn Citizens United.
And the fact his $25 million was a drop in the bucket compared to what he's spent on other elections is exactly why we must overturn Citizens United.
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Circling back on this…
March 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Circling back on this…
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A reenactment of Patrick Henry's famous speech is slated for Richmond's St. John's Church this Sunday, exactly 250yrs after he delivered it there. Protesters hope to highlight “the hypocrisy of celebrating the power of political speech while our president declares protests and news media ‘illegal.’”
"No Kings in America" comes to Church Hill
Organizer Lauren Natale on counter-programming the 250th anniversary of Patrick Henry's "Liberty or Death" speech
www.chlookout.com
March 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
A reenactment of Patrick Henry's famous speech is slated for Richmond's St. John's Church this Sunday, exactly 250yrs after he delivered it there. Protesters hope to highlight “the hypocrisy of celebrating the power of political speech while our president declares protests and news media ‘illegal.’”
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A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.
March 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.
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Our only real defense against the circling sharks — however imperfect — has been the courts. And in recent weeks, Trump has begun targeting them with precision.
The Sharks Circling the Boat
From Marc | Donald Trump’s “flood the zone” strategy is designed to overwhelm us.
www.democracydocket.com
March 20, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Our only real defense against the circling sharks — however imperfect — has been the courts. And in recent weeks, Trump has begun targeting them with precision.
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"Autocracies require ideological control and a single narrative about what is happening within the country"
"Both science and universities foster critical thinking and a pursuit of truth and evidence over ideology"
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
"Both science and universities foster critical thinking and a pursuit of truth and evidence over ideology"
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
March 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
"Autocracies require ideological control and a single narrative about what is happening within the country"
"Both science and universities foster critical thinking and a pursuit of truth and evidence over ideology"
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
"Both science and universities foster critical thinking and a pursuit of truth and evidence over ideology"
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
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[10 Dec 2024] Opening Remarks from Dr Tedros at yesterday’s @who.int media briefing:
“We cannot talk about COVID in the past tense.
“It’s still with us, it still causes acute disease and Long COVID, and it still kills.
“The world might want to forget about COVID-19, but we cannot afford to.”
“We cannot talk about COVID in the past tense.
“It’s still with us, it still causes acute disease and Long COVID, and it still kills.
“The world might want to forget about COVID-19, but we cannot afford to.”
December 11, 2024 at 12:45 PM
[10 Dec 2024] Opening Remarks from Dr Tedros at yesterday’s @who.int media briefing:
“We cannot talk about COVID in the past tense.
“It’s still with us, it still causes acute disease and Long COVID, and it still kills.
“The world might want to forget about COVID-19, but we cannot afford to.”
“We cannot talk about COVID in the past tense.
“It’s still with us, it still causes acute disease and Long COVID, and it still kills.
“The world might want to forget about COVID-19, but we cannot afford to.”
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3.1 million off with long Covid. Stop blaming disabled for sickness. Start accepting responsibility for not following WHO guidance and keeping your promise to #CleantheAir! @teamlabouruk.bsky.social
[10 Dec 2024] Opening Remarks from Dr Tedros at yesterday’s @who.int media briefing:
“We cannot talk about COVID in the past tense.
“It’s still with us, it still causes acute disease and Long COVID, and it still kills.
“The world might want to forget about COVID-19, but we cannot afford to.”
“We cannot talk about COVID in the past tense.
“It’s still with us, it still causes acute disease and Long COVID, and it still kills.
“The world might want to forget about COVID-19, but we cannot afford to.”
March 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM
3.1 million off with long Covid. Stop blaming disabled for sickness. Start accepting responsibility for not following WHO guidance and keeping your promise to #CleantheAir! @teamlabouruk.bsky.social