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Screenshot of research paper title and authors. Header says Health Expectations Open Access An International Journal of Public Participation in Health Care and Health Policy. Below this it says Original Article Open Access. The title of the paper is Understanding the Clinical Characteristics and Timeliness of Diagnosis for Patients Diagnosed With Long Covid: A Retrospective Observational Cohort Study From North West London. The list of authors reads Denys Prociuk, Jonathan Clarke, Nikki Smith, Ruairidh Milne, Cassie Lee, Simon de Lusignan, Ghazala Mir, Johannes De Kock, Erik Mayer, Brendan C. Delaney, LOCOMOTION Consortium. It is dated as First Published on 25 September 2025. The reference is https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.70429.

📣 1/4. Paper out from the UK’s LOCOMOTION study on incidence of #LongCovid diagnosis.
 
🚩 Huge under-recording of Long Covid in primary healthcare records!
 
Big thank you to our Members & co-authors @nikki-s.bsky.social & @ruairidhm.bsky.social for their hard work🙏

Link to paper on below 🧵 ⬇️

Listen to this young lady, protect yourselves. Don’t wait for the messaging, it’s already been over 5 years! We have an estimated 409 million with long Covid now. Over 28 million have died. We need to help each other #WeShareTheAir

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.”

Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!

Petition: Fund NHS COVID boosters for Clinically Vulnerable people – keep covid boosters 'Protect the NHS' and 'Save Lives' by continuing to fund NHS COVID boosters for Clinically Vulnerable people, including most previously shielded as CEV, rather than limiting them to over-75s, care hom...

When we don’t stand up for other people’s rights, the Overton window slides and then it can be us who need help. Please don’t let this happen. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

We have a fight on our hands to keep vaccines in the UK. So please start by signing up to help the 13 million vulnerable who have had these cut. If we don’t start being loudly vocal then the US is our future and its incoming fast.

Petition:
A plurality of views from all political parties in Westminster & nations' parliaments to be heard all year round, not just election times.
Rules for coverage during elections to always apply.
A review to ensure coverage never verges on propaganda.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

A graphic of a beating heart surrounded by a shield stating: HEART PATIENTS AT RISK #KeepCovidBoosters SAVE LIVES followed by the Clinically Vulnerable Families Organisation's logo

A poster with both the UK Government and the Clinically Vulnerable Families Organisation logos stating: SIGN OUR UK GOVERNMENT PETITION KEEP COVID BOOSTERS FOR CLINICALLY VULNERABLE PEOPLE SAVE LIVES

#KeepCovidBoosters and Save Lives
Please sign the petition:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Sarah holds up a brightly colored eel calendar with a moray, ribbon eel, splendid garden eels, and American and European eels, in front of some plants on the sidewalk

Last year we sold 5x more advent calendars than we have this August. Advent calendars are the biggest thing that keep the lights on at Skype a Scientist so this makes me a bit nervous!

These calendars are bright and cute and are full of really fun information about eels!

Get one here: EelFacts.net

🚨ACTION OF THE DAY🚨
@standupforscience.bsky.social

Day 21! QUACK-O-GRAM THURSDAY!

For $3 we will hand deliver an "IMPEACH THE QUACK" rubber ducky to your House Representative! (By one of our team members in a duck suit!)

DO IT (AND TELL YOUR FRIENDS)

act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/...

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/petitions/73...

Beaker on the cover of Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen.

album covers but with muppets: thread

The Disaster Preparedness Bundle main flier. Play games, save lives! The charity games bundle runs from August 9th - 24th, and features 22 games from 12 creators! Check the link in the post to get it now! It shows a pug chilling on a beach playing a Switch in a folding chair under a beach umbrella, with a shipping container an a pallet of aid in the background. There's a few cute crabs scuttering about, a drink in a coconut with a lil drink umbrella, and an innertube and beach volleyball on the shoreline. Tropical plants frame the scene.

It's only a matter of time before the next major disaster. Except this time, FEMA might not show up at all.

The @distributeaid.org team has your back. Do you have ours?

Get your game bundle and get our 6 aid hubs in the US filled up before disaster strikes!

distributeaid.org/usa-disaster...

Synthetic sugar-coated nanoparticle blocks Covid-19 from infecting human cells Groundbreaking research led by a Swansea University academic has revealed a synthetic glycosystem - a sugar-coated polymer nanoparticle - that can block Covid-19 from infecting human cells, reducing i...

Well done to @swanseauni.bsky.social for this brilliant discovery! www.news-medical.net/news/2025081...

small 50mm model of a woman with blue hair holding a placard with the slogan 'f**k ai. It's f**king s**te'. The model has been handmade and painted and is alongside a peacock

I have been making these little models with placards. The models are made in #nomadsculpt and then #3dprinted and painted. I love making these and very happy to do commissions or provide for auctions, fund raisers etc #notoai

small 50mm model of a person wearing an ffp3 facemask and beanie cat (in trans rights colors) with a blahaj shark holding a placard with the slogan 'protect trans lives'. The model has been handmade and painted

I have been making these little models with placards. The models are made in #nomadsculpt and then #3dprinted and painted. I love making these and very happy to do commissions or provide for auctions, fund raisers etc #transrights #transrightsarehumanrights

Covid is still out there.

It’s still killing & disabling people.

I know you were told it was over.

I know you were told to stop masking.

Please get your booster & wear a mask.

Normalize masking (N95 or better!) as a public health tool.

We can save each other.

If you’re still wearing a mask, thank you

Thank you for standing in solidarity with disabled & high risk people

Thank you for practicing community care

Thank you for following the science & seeing the value in breaking chains of transmission

Thank you protecting your health

Thank you.

These children might still be here now if we hadn’t been told to sing ‘Happy Birthday’ for a predominantly airborne virus and five years on schools are still unmitigated. @privateeyenews.bsky.social

trans and bisexual people are far more likely to suffer from longcovid than cis and straight counterparts. preventing the spread of SARS2 is an act of allyship.

Here's another Covid scandal that is just starting to emerge into the public domain from today's Private Eye. I think this will turn into a big one.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: our punk and drag shows have more covid mitigation than disease foundation summits and physicians conferences. Why can we do what people whose careers supposedly depend on the knowledge—with far more resources— can’t? #WeKeepUsSafe

it’s actually wild that, as far as i know, there’s nothing about anticovid activism on wikipedia. no mask blocs, no clean air clubs, very little mention of organized guerilla pro-social public health at all thus far.

The Pandemic Has Been a Portal (for a few of us) It's true that most people keep choosing "normalcy". But the COVID conscious community is showing us a radical new way forward, that centers care

In 2020, Arundhati Roy wrote a gorgeous, prescient essay called “The Pandemic is a Portal”. In this piece, I discuss who actually walked through it: the COVID conscious community, and why I’m proud to be a part of it.

www.thegauntlet.news/p/the-pandem...

"By May 2023, the UK had recorded 3,330 deaths per
million people compared to 670 deaths per million in South Korea and 600 deaths per million in Japan"

Hi, folks headed to WorldCon or GenCon or any other convention:

Please, for the love of god, wear a mask. The whole time. Don’t take it off for selfies or food in the convention center. The summer surge of COVID is already violent, measles is doing her thing, and god knows what else is out there.

Nurseries in England bring in Covid-style protocols as measles cases rise Staff deploy infection controls and step up cleaning as cases pass 500 for year to date and after one child dies

While infection control and cleaning is always a good thing, it’s not going to cut it for measles. Measles is airborne and highly contagious. The best approach is vaccination, and local infection control should focus on ventilation and air cleaning www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Earlier this month, the government blocked an inquiry into its complicity in the Gaza genocide.

We don’t need their permission to uncover the truth.

That’s why, today, we are announcing The Gaza Tribunal.

Sign up at thegazatribunal.uk.

Petition: Change law: OFWAT to block dividends & executive bonuses when rationing water Change the Water (Special Measures) Act to require OFWAT to block executive bonuses and payment of shareholder dividends in the event of water companies declaring water rationing measures.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...