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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 26m

Anyway, back to Celebrity Traitors.

The interesting thing for me is how crap they all are at spotting the traitors given that they all know each other.

It's a myth that one is able to spot friends lying better than strangers. A nice comforting myth.

Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 29m

No. I just don't like the way this is now becoming a thing.

So many game shows now involve lying to trump knowledge. I think that's a very dangerous road.

I absolutely hate being lied to. I have stopped doing business with companies because their staff lied to me.

Hate being conned.

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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 31m

"Liars tend to be pretty quiet," he says.

Well thanks to you, I guess that's why us introverts are treated with suspicion.

"As soon as children master language, they start lying," adds Prof Wiseman.

*Some* kids. Not all.

But if everyone lies, why isn't everyone quiet all the time?

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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 35m

This whole "society would collapse if people didn't lie all the time" guff from Richard Wiseman is complete nonsense though.

We've chosen this modus operandi.

Honesty has been abandoned in favour of scamming as much money as possible off people. 😠

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Celebrity Traitors: Murder, betrayal and lies - why we're attracted to the show's dark side

Psychologists and critics tell us why everyone must lie on the show and how teamwork is an illusion.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 1h

More like a sprinkler system that won’t turn off, and then locks all the doors to prevent anyone coming in to fix the problem. And then sets booby traps, and an electric fence for good measure.

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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 13h

Interesting study, but I don't think the "fire alarm" analogy is quite right here.

A fire alarm doesn't attempt to put out the fire, in an analogous way to how the immune system is "on edge" in ME.

It's this type of analogy that has led to misplaced solutions such as just ignoring the alarm. 🙄

Bateman Horne Center @batemanhornecenter.bsky.social · 14h

A new study sheds light on why people with ME/CFS feel worse after activity.
Findings reveal an immune system on edge, energy production that falters, and gut barrier leaks fueling inflammation.
Read more: https://bit.ly/4q3i8sV
#MECFS #PEM #Research

When the Body’s Alarm Won’t Turn Off

Blog Summary Imagine if a fire alarm kept ringing long after the smoke was gone. That’s similar to what happens in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), where the body seems…

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Bateman Horne Center @batemanhornecenter.bsky.social · 14h

A new study sheds light on why people with ME/CFS feel worse after activity.
Findings reveal an immune system on edge, energy production that falters, and gut barrier leaks fueling inflammation.
Read more: https://bit.ly/4q3i8sV
#MECFS #PEM #Research

When the Body’s Alarm Won’t Turn Off

Blog Summary Imagine if a fire alarm kept ringing long after the smoke was gone. That’s similar to what happens in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), where the body seems…

bit.ly

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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 16h

I guess they need to test that the equipment actually works? 🤷

They seem quite responsive on X - so maybe they'll answer if you ask? @Bucks_Highways

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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 18h

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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 19h

Aha! www.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/news/warming...

Warming up for Winter!

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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 19h

Aha! www.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/news/warming...

Warming up for Winter!

www.buckinghamshire.gov.uk

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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 19h

Training?

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 21h

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.

TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

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

christinapagel.substack.com

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ME/CFS Science @mecfsskeptic.bsky.social · 21h

1) The Physios for ME team published a randomized trial on pacing with a heart rate monitor. It included 32 patients with ME/CFS and 15 with Long Covid.

A brief breakdown of the main results 🧵

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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 1d

But maybe that's the point. It shows just how susceptible folks are to conspiracy and paranoia when put in an information vacuum.

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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 1d

tbf I saw a bit of the first series, and couldn't understand the grief poor Wilf was getting - he didn't chose to be a traitor. He was playing the game exactly as he was supposed to play it, and yet got hated for it.

It also brings up this weird notion that liars lie all the time.
They don't.

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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 1d

After the BBC reported on Celebrity Traitors as if it were news, I thought, "wtf I'm going to have to watch this now just so I can complain about it aren't I".

But why does everyone behave as if the traitors have chosen themselves, rather than being chosen by the production team?

Baffling.

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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 1d

NEWS! Fury as man who threatened to invade Greenland and who uses military against own people fails to win Nobel Peace Prize newsthump.com/2025/10/10/f...

Fury as man who threatened to invade Greenland and who uses military against own people fails to win Nobel Peace Prize

Donald Trump has once again been cruelly snubbed by the Nobel Peace Prize committee, despite what he insists was an “incredible” year of personal achievements in the field of “peace, which is very …

newsthump.com

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 1d

The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 has been awarded to Venezuelan democracy activist María Corina Machado.

The Nobel Committee recognised her “struggle to achieve a just & peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”

In other words, exactly the opposite of what Trump is doing to the United States.

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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 1d

Well, quite frankly, not being able to access chat on some platforms is a small price to pay 🙄😐

Think I'll remain perpetually <13 tyvm

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

Hack of age verification firm may have exposed 70,000 Discord users’ ID photos

Names, email addresses and other contact details of users from around the world could also have been taken

www.theguardian.com

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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 1d

And, of course, all of these things are amplified when there is very little funding provided.

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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 1d

Unfortunately, our scientific system fosters and rewards aggressive competition.
The insistence that publication is dependent on "being first" to find something.
The downplaying of replication and confirmation (ironically).
Even working together means keeping secrets to maintain an edge.

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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 1d

[I wonder whether anyone will ask me how I know this!]

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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 2d

...particularly where they overlap.

Neither study on its own will provide the answers. That's why we need these groups to be kind to each other and WORK TOGETHER to crack the puzzle.

Science can be very bad at allowing this.
Even collaborations can put the brakes on.

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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 2d

This current study looked at those severely affected with ME (from the CureME biobank), and identified a pattern of epigenetic changes that characterise the disease and the dysfunction it causes.

DecodeME looks at the other end: genetic susceptibility markers.

Both are important...

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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 2d

The key to these studies is not in identifying a single biomarker that can be used to test for ME, but in identifying the pathways and ultimately treatments.

Each method we've seen does it in slightly different ways.
*And that's a good thing.*

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