Dr Sally Witcher
@salwitcher.bsky.social
Working to promote a safe #InclusiveNewNormal by maximising ongoing learning arising through the Covid pandemic and responses to it. #Masketeer
WHO's advice needs to change. Excellent @thewhn.bsky.social letter. Please sign & share by 31 October (anyone can sign) @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social @chrischirp.bsky.social @martinmckee.bsky.social @kityates.bsky.social @tryangregory.bsky.social @njbbari3.bsky.social @drjoepajak.bsky.social
The evidence is overwhelming. Surgical masks were not designed to protect against respiratory infection & are vastly inferior to respirators. For the WHO's advice not to reflect this is indefensible & dangerous. Please sign & share - open to scientists, doctors, patient advocate organisations, etc.
Doctors & scientists urge WHO: N95s—not surgical masks—must be the standard in healthcare.
Add your name before Oct 31 👇
tinyurl.com/RespiratorsN...
#RespiratorsNotSurgicals #ProtectHCWs
Add your name before Oct 31 👇
tinyurl.com/RespiratorsN...
#RespiratorsNotSurgicals #ProtectHCWs
October 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
WHO's advice needs to change. Excellent @thewhn.bsky.social letter. Please sign & share by 31 October (anyone can sign) @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social @chrischirp.bsky.social @martinmckee.bsky.social @kityates.bsky.social @tryangregory.bsky.social @njbbari3.bsky.social @drjoepajak.bsky.social
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Interested in ME/CFS research?
Want to do a PhD with @aryback.bsky.social, @avakhamseh.bsky.social, @sjoerdvbeentjes.bsky.social & @cgatist.bsky.social?
Then apply for a *funded* Future Medicine PhD Fellowship.
See: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Please contact us to discuss before applying.
Want to do a PhD with @aryback.bsky.social, @avakhamseh.bsky.social, @sjoerdvbeentjes.bsky.social & @cgatist.bsky.social?
Then apply for a *funded* Future Medicine PhD Fellowship.
See: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Please contact us to discuss before applying.
Personalised blood-based biomarkers for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) symptom severity at University of Edinburgh on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Personalised blood-based biomarkers for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) symptom severity at University of Edinburgh, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Interested in ME/CFS research?
Want to do a PhD with @aryback.bsky.social, @avakhamseh.bsky.social, @sjoerdvbeentjes.bsky.social & @cgatist.bsky.social?
Then apply for a *funded* Future Medicine PhD Fellowship.
See: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Please contact us to discuss before applying.
Want to do a PhD with @aryback.bsky.social, @avakhamseh.bsky.social, @sjoerdvbeentjes.bsky.social & @cgatist.bsky.social?
Then apply for a *funded* Future Medicine PhD Fellowship.
See: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Please contact us to discuss before applying.
Delighted to be on the new global Commission for healthy indoor air. Taking action on this alone would greatly improve public health, reduce NHS pressures, labour market inactivity, work/ school sickness absence & disability benefit cost. So why don't they? healthandcare.scot/stories/4307...
Scotland at the table with UN healthy air commission
During Climate Week this year, attendees to the United Nations Assembly in New York announced a new Global Commission to drive action on healthy indoor air.
Among the global commissioners is Scotland’...
healthandcare.scot
October 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Delighted to be on the new global Commission for healthy indoor air. Taking action on this alone would greatly improve public health, reduce NHS pressures, labour market inactivity, work/ school sickness absence & disability benefit cost. So why don't they? healthandcare.scot/stories/4307...
If you thought you'd heard it all where it concerns explanations for increased demand for healthcare 'post-Covid' without mentioning the health impacts of ongoing Covid, I refer you to Cabinet Sec Neil Gray's response to the Citizen Participation & Petitions Committee yesterday 😕
September 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
If you thought you'd heard it all where it concerns explanations for increased demand for healthcare 'post-Covid' without mentioning the health impacts of ongoing Covid, I refer you to Cabinet Sec Neil Gray's response to the Citizen Participation & Petitions Committee yesterday 😕
Reposted by Dr Sally Witcher
Hugely proud that our Founder & Director Dr Sally Witcher is be part of this incredible initiative. Keen to know what your priorities would be for action on healthy indoor air. There's a long way to go to get even health, social care & education settings to take this seriously here in Scotland & UK.
1. As someone at high clinical risk interacting online daily with others locally & globally whose lives are similarly restricted due to unsafe indoor air, I couldn't be more honoured & excited to be part of this landmark initiative to make healthy indoor air a priority for every country & community
September 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Hugely proud that our Founder & Director Dr Sally Witcher is be part of this incredible initiative. Keen to know what your priorities would be for action on healthy indoor air. There's a long way to go to get even health, social care & education settings to take this seriously here in Scotland & UK.
1. As someone at high clinical risk interacting online daily with others locally & globally whose lives are similarly restricted due to unsafe indoor air, I couldn't be more honoured & excited to be part of this landmark initiative to make healthy indoor air a priority for every country & community
September 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
1. As someone at high clinical risk interacting online daily with others locally & globally whose lives are similarly restricted due to unsafe indoor air, I couldn't be more honoured & excited to be part of this landmark initiative to make healthy indoor air a priority for every country & community
1/4 Today global leaders gather in New York to push for action on healthy indoor air, at a high level side event at the UN Assembly. Meanwhile, tomorrow in Scotland Cabinet Secretary Neil Gray @scottishgov.bsky.social takes questions...
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Healthy Indoor Air: A Global Call to Action
Join global leaders, policymakers, scientists and health experts for Healthy Indoor Air: A Global Call to Action – the inaugural High-Level Side Event on indoor air quality, to take place on the sidel...
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September 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
1/4 Today global leaders gather in New York to push for action on healthy indoor air, at a high level side event at the UN Assembly. Meanwhile, tomorrow in Scotland Cabinet Secretary Neil Gray @scottishgov.bsky.social takes questions...
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There's real momentum growing across the world for action to make indoor air safe,World Ventil8 Day on 8 November& lots of local activism too. Looking forward to speaking at this event, to share ideas on what we can do. Mon 8 Sept, 6pm BST. Register at: bit.ly/ccseptsw
Clear the [Indoor] Air - Sally Witcher discusses safe-indoor-air activistm on 8 September at 6pm BST
#covidactionuk
#covidaware
#covidconscious
Register at https:/bit.ly/ccseptsw
#covidactionuk
#covidaware
#covidconscious
Register at https:/bit.ly/ccseptsw
September 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
There's real momentum growing across the world for action to make indoor air safe,World Ventil8 Day on 8 November& lots of local activism too. Looking forward to speaking at this event, to share ideas on what we can do. Mon 8 Sept, 6pm BST. Register at: bit.ly/ccseptsw
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Basically a petition calling for @ukhsa.bsky.social to do its actual job. Ridiculous it should be necessary, but here we are. It is. Please support 🙏
We shouldn't be having to beg for this, but here we are. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: Direct the UKHSA to monitor COVID infections that occur in particular settings
Ensure that the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) monitors, and reports on, the numbers of COVID infections that occur in healthcare settings through its routine surveillance programmes, and advises o...
petition.parliament.uk
August 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Basically a petition calling for @ukhsa.bsky.social to do its actual job. Ridiculous it should be necessary, but here we are. It is. Please support 🙏
😱 Yikes! That's the highest CO2 reading I've ever seen!! I'm told it means approx 15% of the air you're breathing in comes straight from other people's lungs. That's a lot of bodily respiratory fluids to ingest 🤢. And potentially a lot of infectious aerosols. Take care out there. Have #FunNotFlu
Someone has been taking their CO2 monitor to @edfringe.bsky.social shows and 😱. The CO2 @monkeybarrelcomedy.bsky.social was so high it temporarily broke the Aranet!! Should be below 800. So if anyone there was breathing out germs, a lot of people could well end up sick #AirAware #HighCO2FestivalFlu
August 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
😱 Yikes! That's the highest CO2 reading I've ever seen!! I'm told it means approx 15% of the air you're breathing in comes straight from other people's lungs. That's a lot of bodily respiratory fluids to ingest 🤢. And potentially a lot of infectious aerosols. Take care out there. Have #FunNotFlu
A hugely important study confirming what sufferers have always known yet medics have rarely believed - ME/CFS is a real, serious, debilitating physiological illness. And please can everyone stop talking using minimising language like 'brain fog'. It's brain damage. It's cognitive dysfunction.
Clip: BBC Scotland’s News at 7 introduces the DecodeME findings, revealing #MECFS is built into patients’ DNA. Amanda, a patient, says it was once seen as a psychiatric illness — “whereas now there is medical proof that this is a disease and can be treated.”
August 7, 2025 at 9:19 AM
A hugely important study confirming what sufferers have always known yet medics have rarely believed - ME/CFS is a real, serious, debilitating physiological illness. And please can everyone stop talking using minimising language like 'brain fog'. It's brain damage. It's cognitive dysfunction.
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It's so important to call it out when supposed 'commitment to involve people with lived experience' descends into timewasting farce. Good on @longcovidscot.bsky.social & @longcovidkids.bsky.social Scotland. Scottish Government Ministers - hang your heads in shame 😡
www.scotsman.com/health/chari...
www.scotsman.com/health/chari...
Charities quit SNP Government's Long Covid network over 'broken promises' as £4.5m fund not spent
Long Covid Scotland and Long Covid Kids have quit a Scottish Government network.
www.scotsman.com
August 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
It's so important to call it out when supposed 'commitment to involve people with lived experience' descends into timewasting farce. Good on @longcovidscot.bsky.social & @longcovidkids.bsky.social Scotland. Scottish Government Ministers - hang your heads in shame 😡
www.scotsman.com/health/chari...
www.scotsman.com/health/chari...
I actually saw the live @BBCNews coverage of this. Couldn't hear a word! Of the many clips online today this is the only one I can find where the sound engineers haven't been busy dialling up the annoying grating babble and dialling down the bagpipes. youtube.com/shorts/awQNH...
Trump DROWNED OUT by BAGPIPES in Scotland 😂
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
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July 29, 2025 at 8:51 AM
I actually saw the live @BBCNews coverage of this. Couldn't hear a word! Of the many clips online today this is the only one I can find where the sound engineers haven't been busy dialling up the annoying grating babble and dialling down the bagpipes. youtube.com/shorts/awQNH...
Scoland is famous for its poetry
July 26, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Scoland is famous for its poetry
Scotland says no.
July 26, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Scotland says no.
Scotland prepares to say 'Get tae f**k'
July 23, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Scotland prepares to say 'Get tae f**k'
Noam Chomsky had a word for this. Thirdworldisation. The deliberate transformation of wealthy developed countries to resemble (become?) 'third world' countries where elite wealth coexists with mass poverty, through dismantling public services, labour protections, and democratic institutions.
July 20, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Noam Chomsky had a word for this. Thirdworldisation. The deliberate transformation of wealthy developed countries to resemble (become?) 'third world' countries where elite wealth coexists with mass poverty, through dismantling public services, labour protections, and democratic institutions.
Looking forward to chairing/ facilitating discussion, Saturday 19 July, 4.00-5.30pm. Covid is still here, there's loads of learning on preventing airborne infections, so much more to do on Long Covid, so much avoidable damage being done to public health, economy, education & so little being done 😠.
Public meeting, Sat, 19th July: 🏴Elections ahead: Addressing the Covid crisis - What do we need to see in Scottish parties’ manifestos for the 2026 elections to finally address the Covid crisis? Pls register on Zoom now: covidactionscotland.org/2025/07/04/e... ...(2)
July 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Looking forward to chairing/ facilitating discussion, Saturday 19 July, 4.00-5.30pm. Covid is still here, there's loads of learning on preventing airborne infections, so much more to do on Long Covid, so much avoidable damage being done to public health, economy, education & so little being done 😠.
📣What do you want to see in the Manifestoes for the Scottish Parliament Election next year, on tackling the ongoing impact of Covid and preparing for the next pandemic? Action to make indoor air safe? Access to vaccines? Research? It would be great to know your priorities. Come along or reply 🙏 👇
Public meeting, Sat, 19th July: 🏴Elections ahead: Addressing the Covid crisis - What do we need to see in Scottish parties’ manifestos for the 2026 elections to finally address the Covid crisis? Pls register on Zoom now: covidactionscotland.org/2025/07/04/e... ...(2)
July 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
📣What do you want to see in the Manifestoes for the Scottish Parliament Election next year, on tackling the ongoing impact of Covid and preparing for the next pandemic? Action to make indoor air safe? Access to vaccines? Research? It would be great to know your priorities. Come along or reply 🙏 👇
They're parcelling up the UK, handing the pieces over to - who exactly? - taking them out of the tax system, eroding democracy and sovereignty. Personally I think this is a very very bad idea.
The use of unregistered companies in Freeports/SEZs, poses a real risk for tax evasion and fraud, facilitated by a deregulatory environment and weak oversight at Companies House.
Please sign and share on other social media platforms!
No one voted for this!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Please sign and share on other social media platforms!
No one voted for this!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
July 14, 2025 at 11:46 AM
They're parcelling up the UK, handing the pieces over to - who exactly? - taking them out of the tax system, eroding democracy and sovereignty. Personally I think this is a very very bad idea.
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Following the Government's decision to cut billions from disability benefits, and my blog to my MP on Wednesday begging him (again) to vote against it, I found out how he spent his day 😡 threadreaderapp.com/thread/19436...
July 12, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Following the Government's decision to cut billions from disability benefits, and my blog to my MP on Wednesday begging him (again) to vote against it, I found out how he spent his day 😡 threadreaderapp.com/thread/19436...
Blog - letter to my MP, @chrismurraymp.bsky.social, urging him to vote against the Bill and explaining why he should. medium.com/@sally.witch...
Please vote against the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Bill
In advance of the Third reading of the Bill, I wrote a letter to my MP, Chris Murray. Here’s (a slightly tidied version) of what I said.
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July 9, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Blog - letter to my MP, @chrismurraymp.bsky.social, urging him to vote against the Bill and explaining why he should. medium.com/@sally.witch...
On BBC Radio Scotland earlier, discussing the UK disability benefit reform car crash of an omnishambles, why ‘concessions’ won’t fix it, just make a bigger unfair mess, & why it makes a bad situation even more complex for Scotland. Segment starts approx 11.13 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Drivetime - 27/06/2025 - BBC Sounds
Breaking down the day's talking points with comment and opinion.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
On BBC Radio Scotland earlier, discussing the UK disability benefit reform car crash of an omnishambles, why ‘concessions’ won’t fix it, just make a bigger unfair mess, & why it makes a bad situation even more complex for Scotland. Segment starts approx 11.13 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...