Jard
@jard0.bsky.social
Biologist, PhD. Interested in long covid and chronic Lyme disease. Views are my own and not medical advice.
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"Yorkshire Water was privatised in 1989 under the Water Act, launched debt-free and promoted as the start of a new, efficient era.
Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt...."
Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt...."
Yorkshire Water: it’s time to end the rip-off
Handing the company back to local people would return both control and value to those who need it most
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 11:34 AM
"Yorkshire Water was privatised in 1989 under the Water Act, launched debt-free and promoted as the start of a new, efficient era.
Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt...."
Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt...."
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Genuinely don't understand why anyone would encourage / tolerate their young kids being exposed to LLM chatbots.
"Children’s toymaker FoloToy says it’s pulling its AI-powered teddy bear “Kumma” after a safety group found that the cuddly companion was giving wildly inappropriate and even dangerous responses, including tips on how to find and light matches, and detailed explanations about sexual kinks"
AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With Children
FoloToy says it's suspended sales of its AI-powered teddy bear after researchers found it gave wildly inappropriate and dangerous answers.
futurism.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Genuinely don't understand why anyone would encourage / tolerate their young kids being exposed to LLM chatbots.
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Good to see this research being picked up by the popular science media.
Microclots and NETs in #LongCovid
www.sciencealert.com/strange-stru...
Microclots and NETs in #LongCovid
www.sciencealert.com/strange-stru...
Strange Structures Found Lurking in The Blood of People With Long COVID
A hidden physical change in the body may be helping to drive the prolonged malaise some people experience after contracting COVID-19.
www.sciencealert.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Good to see this research being picked up by the popular science media.
Microclots and NETs in #LongCovid
www.sciencealert.com/strange-stru...
Microclots and NETs in #LongCovid
www.sciencealert.com/strange-stru...
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See me website that plots the scientific discoveries of persistence of 11 viruses:
exercisetechlab.com/viral-persis...
exercisetechlab.com/viral-persis...
Viral Persistence Timeline — The Unseen Journey
exercisetechlab.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM
See me website that plots the scientific discoveries of persistence of 11 viruses:
exercisetechlab.com/viral-persis...
exercisetechlab.com/viral-persis...
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Masking makes sense. SARS-CoV-2 can persist, and new evidence from France shows infected megakaryocytes + platelets — meaning real blood involvement. This virus isn’t just respiratory, and protecting your air protects your blood.
Don’t know anything about viral persistence? Know that it’s the norm👇
Don’t know anything about viral persistence? Know that it’s the norm👇
"No man is an island, entire of itself."
John Donne
For me, choosing to wear a respirator mask in all public spaces signifies an awareness of my connection to the human community, whose collective well-being is grievously threatened by the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19.
#COVID19 #respirator
John Donne
For me, choosing to wear a respirator mask in all public spaces signifies an awareness of my connection to the human community, whose collective well-being is grievously threatened by the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19.
#COVID19 #respirator
November 16, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Masking makes sense. SARS-CoV-2 can persist, and new evidence from France shows infected megakaryocytes + platelets — meaning real blood involvement. This virus isn’t just respiratory, and protecting your air protects your blood.
Don’t know anything about viral persistence? Know that it’s the norm👇
Don’t know anything about viral persistence? Know that it’s the norm👇
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Review of T cells exhaustation following SARS-CoV-2 infection
Current advances in COVID immunopathology and therapeutics underscore that understanding T-cell exhaustion is crucial to improving outcomes and shaping next-generation immunotherapies and vaccines
Chen-Camaño et al 2025
Current advances in COVID immunopathology and therapeutics underscore that understanding T-cell exhaustion is crucial to improving outcomes and shaping next-generation immunotherapies and vaccines
Chen-Camaño et al 2025
November 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Review of T cells exhaustation following SARS-CoV-2 infection
Current advances in COVID immunopathology and therapeutics underscore that understanding T-cell exhaustion is crucial to improving outcomes and shaping next-generation immunotherapies and vaccines
Chen-Camaño et al 2025
Current advances in COVID immunopathology and therapeutics underscore that understanding T-cell exhaustion is crucial to improving outcomes and shaping next-generation immunotherapies and vaccines
Chen-Camaño et al 2025
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6 million American kids have Long Covid.
This isn’t fringe.
It’s now more common than asthma — the #1 chronic condition in U.S. children.
Do you even know what Long Covid refers to?
This isn’t fringe.
It’s now more common than asthma — the #1 chronic condition in U.S. children.
Do you even know what Long Covid refers to?
November 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
6 million American kids have Long Covid.
This isn’t fringe.
It’s now more common than asthma — the #1 chronic condition in U.S. children.
Do you even know what Long Covid refers to?
This isn’t fringe.
It’s now more common than asthma — the #1 chronic condition in U.S. children.
Do you even know what Long Covid refers to?
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Framing Long Covid as just some "fatigue" and "brain fog" can have negative effects on clinical care as cardiovascular disease is an important component of LC (of course some people may have fatigue and brain fog as symptoms of LC)
November 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Framing Long Covid as just some "fatigue" and "brain fog" can have negative effects on clinical care as cardiovascular disease is an important component of LC (of course some people may have fatigue and brain fog as symptoms of LC)
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In a RCT, Urolithin-A boosted CD8⁺ T cells and improved immune metabolism, hinting at a new way to slow age-related immune system decline and inflammaging. buff.ly/qaGyGF0
Urolithin A works by inducing mitophagy (clearance of damaged mitochondria).
#medsky #aging
Urolithin A works by inducing mitophagy (clearance of damaged mitochondria).
#medsky #aging
November 2, 2025 at 12:53 AM
In a RCT, Urolithin-A boosted CD8⁺ T cells and improved immune metabolism, hinting at a new way to slow age-related immune system decline and inflammaging. buff.ly/qaGyGF0
Urolithin A works by inducing mitophagy (clearance of damaged mitochondria).
#medsky #aging
Urolithin A works by inducing mitophagy (clearance of damaged mitochondria).
#medsky #aging
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This Physicist Says We Don't Take COVID Seriously Enough via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee
We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.
thetyee.ca
October 31, 2025 at 4:02 PM
This Physicist Says We Don't Take COVID Seriously Enough via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
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As someone who has lived with #LongCOVID since my first infection in March 2020, it's baffling to me how strenuously many people resist this excellent paper -
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
As someone who has lived with #LongCOVID since my first infection in March 2020, it's baffling to me how strenuously many people resist this excellent paper -
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
COVID-19 is “Airborne AIDS”: provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between?
Immune dysfunction and systemic effects in HIV and SARS-CoV-2 infections are distinct, but share relevant similarities and downstream consequences. We…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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As someone who has lived with #LongCOVID since my first infection in March 2020, it's baffling to me how strenuously many people resist this excellent paper -
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
As someone who has lived with #LongCOVID since my first infection in March 2020, it's baffling to me how strenuously many people resist this excellent paper -
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Our new review article examines the parallels between COVID and AIDS, including the social impacts
www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...
www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...
COVID-19 is “Airborne AIDS”: provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between?
COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 is often compared to other pandemics for its societal
and global health impact, with some commentators drawing parallels to HIV/AIDS due
to the immune dysfunction caused ...
www.ajpmfocus.org
October 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Our new review article examines the parallels between COVID and AIDS, including the social impacts
www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...
www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...
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Mexican researchers analyzed sweat from 426 people and found six compounds that differ in COVID-positive patients.
Levels of palmitic and oleic acids rose, while squalene fell, allowing 80% accurate detection through sweat alone.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Levels of palmitic and oleic acids rose, while squalene fell, allowing 80% accurate detection through sweat alone.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Client Challenge
www.nature.com
October 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Mexican researchers analyzed sweat from 426 people and found six compounds that differ in COVID-positive patients.
Levels of palmitic and oleic acids rose, while squalene fell, allowing 80% accurate detection through sweat alone.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Levels of palmitic and oleic acids rose, while squalene fell, allowing 80% accurate detection through sweat alone.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Kentucky researchers studied 11 people with post-COVID fatigue and 17 healthy adults.
They found a five-log rise in soluble IL-2 receptor levels that directly damaged muscle mitochondria, suggesting a new drug target for long COVID fatigue.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
They found a five-log rise in soluble IL-2 receptor levels that directly damaged muscle mitochondria, suggesting a new drug target for long COVID fatigue.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Soluble IL‐2R: A potential therapeutic target for mitochondrial dysfunction in post‐COVID fatigue syndrome
Click on the article title to read more.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Kentucky researchers studied 11 people with post-COVID fatigue and 17 healthy adults.
They found a five-log rise in soluble IL-2 receptor levels that directly damaged muscle mitochondria, suggesting a new drug target for long COVID fatigue.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
They found a five-log rise in soluble IL-2 receptor levels that directly damaged muscle mitochondria, suggesting a new drug target for long COVID fatigue.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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We are now in a significant COVID wave after a period of relative calm- excellent summary from @chrischirp.bsky.social
England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet
The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter
open.substack.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
We are now in a significant COVID wave after a period of relative calm- excellent summary from @chrischirp.bsky.social
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“Often when people online claim that the studies about Long COVID “can’t be true,” their evidence is that we’d be seeing a catastrophic level of damage around us by now were their findings accurate- and I’d argue that you can’t see what you refuse to see.”
Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...
www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...
When Will the Lion Concern Himself
Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days
www.thegauntlet.news
October 6, 2025 at 9:51 AM
“Often when people online claim that the studies about Long COVID “can’t be true,” their evidence is that we’d be seeing a catastrophic level of damage around us by now were their findings accurate- and I’d argue that you can’t see what you refuse to see.”
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"The fact that COVID infections damage our brains is not debatable. There are hundreds of studies to support that COVID affects the brain, leading to memory, attention, executive function, and mental health issues."
again: COVID infections damage our brains
#LongCOVID
again: COVID infections damage our brains
#LongCOVID
Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...
www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...
When Will the Lion Concern Himself
Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days
www.thegauntlet.news
October 6, 2025 at 8:24 AM
"The fact that COVID infections damage our brains is not debatable. There are hundreds of studies to support that COVID affects the brain, leading to memory, attention, executive function, and mental health issues."
again: COVID infections damage our brains
#LongCOVID
again: COVID infections damage our brains
#LongCOVID
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“nobody can get a virus that is objectively bad for you, objectively harmful, that we know invades the brain, degrades the immune system, and attacks the blood vessels, dozens and dozens of times, and just “be fine” That is not how human bodies work.”
Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...
www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...
When Will the Lion Concern Himself
Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days
www.thegauntlet.news
October 6, 2025 at 6:09 AM
“nobody can get a virus that is objectively bad for you, objectively harmful, that we know invades the brain, degrades the immune system, and attacks the blood vessels, dozens and dozens of times, and just “be fine” That is not how human bodies work.”
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"We’ve been serially infecting children with a virus that damages their brains. We know it does this. And we just…. keep doing it?"
Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...
www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...
When Will the Lion Concern Himself
Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days
www.thegauntlet.news
October 6, 2025 at 12:17 PM
"We’ve been serially infecting children with a virus that damages their brains. We know it does this. And we just…. keep doing it?"
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Another must read: 🔥
“[Masses] are being harmed, more slowly, in more subtle ways... [Disabled people & people with Long COVID] have been harmed first and worst, but we are warning you that COVID is dangerous because our bodies are made of flesh and blood - hearts and brains- just like yours.”
“[Masses] are being harmed, more slowly, in more subtle ways... [Disabled people & people with Long COVID] have been harmed first and worst, but we are warning you that COVID is dangerous because our bodies are made of flesh and blood - hearts and brains- just like yours.”
Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...
www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...
When Will the Lion Concern Himself
Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days
www.thegauntlet.news
October 6, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Another must read: 🔥
“[Masses] are being harmed, more slowly, in more subtle ways... [Disabled people & people with Long COVID] have been harmed first and worst, but we are warning you that COVID is dangerous because our bodies are made of flesh and blood - hearts and brains- just like yours.”
“[Masses] are being harmed, more slowly, in more subtle ways... [Disabled people & people with Long COVID] have been harmed first and worst, but we are warning you that COVID is dangerous because our bodies are made of flesh and blood - hearts and brains- just like yours.”
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October 6, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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The self-destructive denial about every stage of the Covid phenomenon says a lot about the degree to which people hate having to alter their routines - even to save their own lives - and how unwilling they are to admit their own recklessness in inviting the virus in, and the damage it did to them.
October 6, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The self-destructive denial about every stage of the Covid phenomenon says a lot about the degree to which people hate having to alter their routines - even to save their own lives - and how unwilling they are to admit their own recklessness in inviting the virus in, and the damage it did to them.
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Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...
www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...
When Will the Lion Concern Himself
Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days
www.thegauntlet.news
October 5, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...
www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...
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I haven't seen one single study that shows it's harmless to keep getting Covid again & again. But there are thousands of peer-reviewed studies that document long-term harms
October 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I haven't seen one single study that shows it's harmless to keep getting Covid again & again. But there are thousands of peer-reviewed studies that document long-term harms
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A Manitoba government worker diagnosed with long COVID and chronic fatigue is suing the province and Canada Life after being denied long term disability.
She says her non sedentary job is impossible with her symptoms.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
She says her non sedentary job is impossible with her symptoms.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Manitoba government employee sues province, Canada Life over denial of long-term disability | CBC News
A Manitoba government employee who was diagnosed with long COVID and another ailment is suing the province and Canada Life after her request for long-term disability payments was denied by the insuran...
www.cbc.ca
October 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
A Manitoba government worker diagnosed with long COVID and chronic fatigue is suing the province and Canada Life after being denied long term disability.
She says her non sedentary job is impossible with her symptoms.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
She says her non sedentary job is impossible with her symptoms.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...