SARS-CoV-2 infection can impact peripheral nerve conduction and muscle architecture in #LongCovid, new study on dozens of Covid survivors and 30 controls suggests
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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SARS-CoV-2 infection can impact peripheral nerve conduction and muscle architecture in #LongCovid, new study on dozens of Covid survivors and 30 controls suggests
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Wait, what?!
07.10.2025 04:52 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0"Blue medical masks and cloth masks are great at helping a sick person keep their germs to themselves. ๐จOnly a proper fitting respirator, like an N95, KN95 or CAN95, protects the wearer from germs, especially diseases like COVID-19 and measles, which travel through the air."
๐ฎ Pigs flew today!
I've heard the verdict will be in your favour if you bring them milk and cookies
07.10.2025 00:51 โ ๐ 48 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Nine members of the Canadian Supreme Court sitting for a photo. They are dressed in red robes trimmed in white.
i had no idea this is how canada's supreme court dresses
07.10.2025 00:49 โ ๐ 7435 ๐ 672 ๐ฌ 648 ๐ 309Greta Thunberg speaks to the press after being released from illegal detainment in Israel: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.โ
06.10.2025 19:22 โ ๐ 3836 ๐ 1504 ๐ฌ 104 ๐ 132500,000 people being slowly and quickly murdered, in this round, so Israel can take over Gaza and advance the project of erasing Palestine from the map and establishing their nation from the river to the sea.
I wish we could stop them. I feel so helpless!
It's a real gut punch when you see someone you thought was Covid aware maskless in the wild. This undermines trust. I try to be one person, online and offline
06.10.2025 19:06 โ ๐ 101 ๐ 10 ๐ฌ 6 ๐ 0โGreta Thunberg is just attention seekingโ says the walnut that doesnโt grasp what โactivistโ means
06.10.2025 18:14 โ ๐ 825 ๐ 89 ๐ฌ 24 ๐ 4Jane Goodall offers sage advice for the rest of us. #3E
06.10.2025 00:39 โ ๐ 3355 ๐ 1192 ๐ฌ 55 ๐ 115Nobody 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-...
Feels good to block people who send me texts that say "why don't kids get Covid in schools?"
They are obviously trolling me
Tweet from Nate Bear: "Great doing what she's doing for Gaza really puts a spotlight on all the big climate scientists who've never once said 'genocide is bad for the environment.' The people who once shared stages with her now don't even retweet her. Bankrupt centrism
Too good not to share here as well
06.10.2025 13:18 โ ๐ 43 ๐ 9 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1Iโm sorryโฆ. But at this point if you fall for โ your kid is always sick because they havenโt been sick enoughโฆโ
06.10.2025 09:20 โ ๐ 258 ๐ 52 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 5Weird thing where people say โno one could have predicted itโ when really what they mean is their political commitments and orientation were such that they ignored everyone who was predicting it
Sorry but โno one could haveโ and you having your head stuck up your ass are two different situations
Remember 2007 Facebook where you could just post about the sandwich you had for lunch to like 11 close friends?
06.10.2025 01:43 โ ๐ 35 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Molecular aspects of medicine headline dated December 2025; The double-edged sword: How SARS-CoV- 2 might fuel lung cancer: Investigating the potential oncogenic mechanisms of the novel coronavirus in lung carcinogenesis
December 2025 science called and it's not looking too great
(H/t @1goodtern.bsky.social)
I'm hoping microwave mammography will be available in some areas in a couple years too. It's already been trialed in Canada. Ionizing radiation free!
05.10.2025 19:26 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0The test analyzes immune cell patterns in blood using machine learning. One day this could spare women the discomfort of mammograms
05.10.2025 19:22 โ ๐ 17 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0A simple blood test could soon make it possible to screen for breast cancer & identify those high at risk
montreal.citynews.ca/2025/10/01/b...
Yesterday's Living with Long Covid exhibit launch got some media coverage. ๐๐ผ
Hopefully more to come! The event is on until March 22 if you missed it
globalnews.ca/video/114650...
I saw the photographer there and also they filmed the launch speech. Hopefully some good photos to come!
05.10.2025 04:07 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I didn't see any
05.10.2025 04:05 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Yes! Today was the launch and it will go until March 22. Hope you can see it ๐
05.10.2025 02:33 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Thanks so much to all the partners, and a special shout out to Kayli Jamieson (@wanderingkayli.bsky.social) and all the @sfu-fhs.bsky.social staff helping to put this outstanding masks mandatory event together!
05.10.2025 02:23 โ ๐ 33 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Long Covid researcher and activist Kayli Jamison speaks at today's Long Covid launch event at the Museum of Vancouver
Selfie at event wearing a white headstrap zimi mask with purple flowers
One of the stories that resonated - "I was able to venture out for an ice cream cone with a friend this day. I don't feel comfortable eating in restaurants or going to bars like most people my age. Spring and summer are nice beaches they give me more options to spend time outdoors with fewer people around - which means I get to see the people I love more often. Even short moments like this help me feel a little more like a "normal" 24 year old again
Some of the personal stories on display. A combo of text and pictures artistically laid out on white walls with brightly coloured orange and yellow backgrounds
It was standing room only at today's Living with Long Covid exhibit at the @museumofvan.bsky.social!
I was moved to tears by some of the personal stories on display. Such a great event
I stopped eating meat in high school after seeing a pyramid diagram in a biology text book that showed how cows eat greens to get energy, and then we eat cows to get that same energy, only with a loss (and a lot more COโ) along the way. I realized we could just eat the greens directly
04.10.2025 20:05 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Same here. Solidarity ๐ซถ๐ผ
04.10.2025 19:56 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0