Nicole
@persephonesgarden.bsky.social
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Also tired. Very, very tired.
Living with congenital heart disease, heart failure & cardiac cirrhosis.
Also tired. Very, very tired.
Living with congenital heart disease, heart failure & cardiac cirrhosis.
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Worked hard on this, and I hope it will be a useful resource for many.
A beginner’s guide to Long COVID, with a discussion of mechanisms:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/what-is-lo...
A beginner’s guide to Long COVID, with a discussion of mechanisms:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/what-is-lo...
What is Long COVID?
A Beginner's Guide
www.thegauntlet.news
February 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Worked hard on this, and I hope it will be a useful resource for many.
A beginner’s guide to Long COVID, with a discussion of mechanisms:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/what-is-lo...
A beginner’s guide to Long COVID, with a discussion of mechanisms:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/what-is-lo...
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1/ Introducing PolyBio’s new interactive website module, where you can learn about our #LongCovid Research Consortium projects, technologies, and findings across international institutions:
polybio.org/consortium-p...
polybio.org/consortium-p...
November 19, 2024 at 8:45 PM
1/ Introducing PolyBio’s new interactive website module, where you can learn about our #LongCovid Research Consortium projects, technologies, and findings across international institutions:
polybio.org/consortium-p...
polybio.org/consortium-p...
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Today, 15th March, is #LongCOVIDAwarenessDay
We stand with the millions who suffer in silence. The cost of inaction is too great. Never let a good crisis go to waste—now is the time to demand a #longCOVID moonshot research project to find effective treatments. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
We stand with the millions who suffer in silence. The cost of inaction is too great. Never let a good crisis go to waste—now is the time to demand a #longCOVID moonshot research project to find effective treatments. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
March 15, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Today, 15th March, is #LongCOVIDAwarenessDay
We stand with the millions who suffer in silence. The cost of inaction is too great. Never let a good crisis go to waste—now is the time to demand a #longCOVID moonshot research project to find effective treatments. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
We stand with the millions who suffer in silence. The cost of inaction is too great. Never let a good crisis go to waste—now is the time to demand a #longCOVID moonshot research project to find effective treatments. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Australia needs friends we can rely on and Trump isn’t reliable. At all.
Yet Peter Dutton reckons he can be Donald’s bestie…. 😳
Bullies don’t have friends, they just have suckers.
Aust needs to rethink our relationship with the US.
Handcuffing ourselves to America with AUKUS is reckless.
Yet Peter Dutton reckons he can be Donald’s bestie…. 😳
Bullies don’t have friends, they just have suckers.
Aust needs to rethink our relationship with the US.
Handcuffing ourselves to America with AUKUS is reckless.
March 12, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Australia needs friends we can rely on and Trump isn’t reliable. At all.
Yet Peter Dutton reckons he can be Donald’s bestie…. 😳
Bullies don’t have friends, they just have suckers.
Aust needs to rethink our relationship with the US.
Handcuffing ourselves to America with AUKUS is reckless.
Yet Peter Dutton reckons he can be Donald’s bestie…. 😳
Bullies don’t have friends, they just have suckers.
Aust needs to rethink our relationship with the US.
Handcuffing ourselves to America with AUKUS is reckless.
Photos from the Botanic Gardens Sydney.
January 29, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Photos from the Botanic Gardens Sydney.
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Almost 5 years since I started asking about air quality in relation to covid. Fewer people now tell me I don’t know what I’m talking about.
When a team of doctors, scientists and engineers at Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the University of Cambridge placed an air filtration machine in COVID-19 wards, they found that it removed almost all traces of airborne SARS-CoV-2.
airspothealth.myshopify.com/a/blog/air-f...
airspothealth.myshopify.com/a/blog/air-f...
January 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Almost 5 years since I started asking about air quality in relation to covid. Fewer people now tell me I don’t know what I’m talking about.
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Sometimes referred to by our teams as ‘the last taboo’, menstrual health is an enormous yet deeply neglected global health issue. Important work.
www.burnet.edu.au/knowledge-an...
www.burnet.edu.au/knowledge-an...
How to reach people most in need of free period products | Burnet Institute
More effort is needed to ensure free period products reach people who need them most, study finds.
www.burnet.edu.au
January 24, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Sometimes referred to by our teams as ‘the last taboo’, menstrual health is an enormous yet deeply neglected global health issue. Important work.
www.burnet.edu.au/knowledge-an...
www.burnet.edu.au/knowledge-an...
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#NSWHealth #NSWCHO
Patients are not second class citizens and are objectively at more risk than staff statistically speaking .
This is not okay.
Patients are not second class citizens and are objectively at more risk than staff statistically speaking .
This is not okay.
December 30, 2024 at 12:45 AM
#NSWHealth #NSWCHO
Patients are not second class citizens and are objectively at more risk than staff statistically speaking .
This is not okay.
Patients are not second class citizens and are objectively at more risk than staff statistically speaking .
This is not okay.
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This is pretty neat. 5th person confirmed to be cured of HIV after a stem cell transplant.
abcnews.go.com/Health/5th-p...
abcnews.go.com/Health/5th-p...
5th person confirmed to be cured of HIV
Researchers are announcing that a 53-year-old man in Germany has been cured of HIV.
abcnews.go.com
December 11, 2024 at 4:48 PM
This is pretty neat. 5th person confirmed to be cured of HIV after a stem cell transplant.
abcnews.go.com/Health/5th-p...
abcnews.go.com/Health/5th-p...
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Around 1.5 million deaths globally per year associated with air pollution from landscape fires between 2000 and 2019, study suggests.
🔗 bit.ly/4f5bxrb
🔗 bit.ly/4f5bxrb
December 3, 2024 at 12:11 PM
Around 1.5 million deaths globally per year associated with air pollution from landscape fires between 2000 and 2019, study suggests.
🔗 bit.ly/4f5bxrb
🔗 bit.ly/4f5bxrb
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No one could have foreseen this.
Long COVID is becoming a serious social and economic issue for Australia
www.crikey.com.au/2024/12/02/l...
www.crikey.com.au/2024/12/02/l...
Long COVID is becoming a serious social and economic issue for Australia
Addressing this health challenge is vital to getting many people back participating fully in their lives.
www.crikey.com.au
December 3, 2024 at 12:18 PM
No one could have foreseen this.
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In 2021 in England, public health decided that the way to get well was to get sicker, and that the way to get rid of disease was to catch it.
It's official policy.
They write it down and everything.
Since then...
It's official policy.
They write it down and everything.
Since then...
December 3, 2024 at 11:31 AM
In 2021 in England, public health decided that the way to get well was to get sicker, and that the way to get rid of disease was to catch it.
It's official policy.
They write it down and everything.
Since then...
It's official policy.
They write it down and everything.
Since then...
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"We cannot continue to participate in the social network feed of a man who proclaims the death of the media and therefore of journalists... X is a platform that no longer serves the public interest at all, but the special ideological and financial interests of its owner and his political allies"
European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
December 3, 2024 at 6:22 AM
"We cannot continue to participate in the social network feed of a man who proclaims the death of the media and therefore of journalists... X is a platform that no longer serves the public interest at all, but the special ideological and financial interests of its owner and his political allies"
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Is @harryspoelstra.bsky.social still stuck over there?
December 3, 2024 at 9:57 AM
Is @harryspoelstra.bsky.social still stuck over there?
Golden hour Zinnia at golden hour
December 1, 2024 at 8:58 AM
Golden hour Zinnia at golden hour
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Me “my 90yo dad needs outta here Bed B has covid”
Nurse “the curtains will protect him”
Me “Ha! Covid is airborne haven’t you bn told by hospital ID?”
Nurse “no it spreads by droplets”
Me 2 days later “dad has Covid it’s AIRBORNE curtains DONT WORK”
Nurse “he must’ve got it in bathroom”
Me🤬
Nurse “the curtains will protect him”
Me “Ha! Covid is airborne haven’t you bn told by hospital ID?”
Nurse “no it spreads by droplets”
Me 2 days later “dad has Covid it’s AIRBORNE curtains DONT WORK”
Nurse “he must’ve got it in bathroom”
Me🤬
“Magic curtains.”
HCW casually using this term and laughing about it.
Everyone knows the curtains don’t stop COVID-19.
But we are *causing* 1/7 of all C19 deaths in the state of NSW… and it’s all very amusing.
HCW casually using this term and laughing about it.
Everyone knows the curtains don’t stop COVID-19.
But we are *causing* 1/7 of all C19 deaths in the state of NSW… and it’s all very amusing.
November 30, 2024 at 10:03 AM
Me “my 90yo dad needs outta here Bed B has covid”
Nurse “the curtains will protect him”
Me “Ha! Covid is airborne haven’t you bn told by hospital ID?”
Nurse “no it spreads by droplets”
Me 2 days later “dad has Covid it’s AIRBORNE curtains DONT WORK”
Nurse “he must’ve got it in bathroom”
Me🤬
Nurse “the curtains will protect him”
Me “Ha! Covid is airborne haven’t you bn told by hospital ID?”
Nurse “no it spreads by droplets”
Me 2 days later “dad has Covid it’s AIRBORNE curtains DONT WORK”
Nurse “he must’ve got it in bathroom”
Me🤬
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We have a lot of memos and leaked/discovered emails floating around about the intentional decision of the Biden administration to lie to the public about the pandemic. I'd like to gather it all into one coherent narrative if anyone hasn't done that yet. Hit me with links.
November 30, 2024 at 8:56 PM
We have a lot of memos and leaked/discovered emails floating around about the intentional decision of the Biden administration to lie to the public about the pandemic. I'd like to gather it all into one coherent narrative if anyone hasn't done that yet. Hit me with links.
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This is the crux of the issue. If our failed pandemic response has taught us anything - it’s how little people think of the “vulnerable”. They’re willing to throw us away for brunch.
We won’t get equitable (or any) medical care if it’s cheap & legal to offer us death instead.
We won’t get equitable (or any) medical care if it’s cheap & legal to offer us death instead.
In societies that demonise long term chronically sick people, fail to cure them and instead demand they get back to work, euthanasia should not exist
November 30, 2024 at 2:14 AM
This is the crux of the issue. If our failed pandemic response has taught us anything - it’s how little people think of the “vulnerable”. They’re willing to throw us away for brunch.
We won’t get equitable (or any) medical care if it’s cheap & legal to offer us death instead.
We won’t get equitable (or any) medical care if it’s cheap & legal to offer us death instead.
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Key point is that China has been investing in EVs for over a decade to reduce its dependence on imported oil.
No country wants to be dependent on imports for key energy or security needs. And that's a big reason why it is unlikely that projections of high LNG demand growth in Asia will be realized.
No country wants to be dependent on imports for key energy or security needs. And that's a big reason why it is unlikely that projections of high LNG demand growth in Asia will be realized.
November 30, 2024 at 12:44 AM
Key point is that China has been investing in EVs for over a decade to reduce its dependence on imported oil.
No country wants to be dependent on imports for key energy or security needs. And that's a big reason why it is unlikely that projections of high LNG demand growth in Asia will be realized.
No country wants to be dependent on imports for key energy or security needs. And that's a big reason why it is unlikely that projections of high LNG demand growth in Asia will be realized.
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Your regular reminder that a subgroup of long COVID and ME patients do not respond to exercise with muscle hypertrophy.
Instead, they get muscle necrosis.
This means exercise can make them worse.
#MedSky
Instead, they get muscle necrosis.
This means exercise can make them worse.
#MedSky
November 29, 2024 at 3:37 AM
Your regular reminder that a subgroup of long COVID and ME patients do not respond to exercise with muscle hypertrophy.
Instead, they get muscle necrosis.
This means exercise can make them worse.
#MedSky
Instead, they get muscle necrosis.
This means exercise can make them worse.
#MedSky
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Something to make you laugh.
Someone that is highly skeptical of my points of view decided to ask ChatGPT questions on C19.
It basically repeated verbatim the stuff I say.
Now that’s probably because I base my opinions on data, however the 100k+ tweets probably affected the results. 😂
Someone that is highly skeptical of my points of view decided to ask ChatGPT questions on C19.
It basically repeated verbatim the stuff I say.
Now that’s probably because I base my opinions on data, however the 100k+ tweets probably affected the results. 😂
November 30, 2024 at 2:03 AM
Something to make you laugh.
Someone that is highly skeptical of my points of view decided to ask ChatGPT questions on C19.
It basically repeated verbatim the stuff I say.
Now that’s probably because I base my opinions on data, however the 100k+ tweets probably affected the results. 😂
Someone that is highly skeptical of my points of view decided to ask ChatGPT questions on C19.
It basically repeated verbatim the stuff I say.
Now that’s probably because I base my opinions on data, however the 100k+ tweets probably affected the results. 😂