Freya Emerson, 35, reportedly failed to respond to your casual request for a coffee as she didn’t know how to explain to you that she was overwhelmed and unavailable without making it sound like she didn’t like you – and has felt terrible about it ever since.

ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long.
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Their work has helped pave the way for new treatments for autoimmune diseases & ushered in an exciting era of cancer immunotherapy

And given that SARS-CoV2 can disrupt T regs, I'm guessing we'll be needing this science more than ever

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine went to 3 scientists who uncovered how the immune system is kept in check by tiny "security guards" called regulatory T cells 🧬🥹

Here’s an explainer on what they are & how autoimmune disease & cancer can develop when they become dysregulated

tinyurl.com/ur97yya7

Anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab racism is on the rise in Canada

My friend is Asian and the woman who said this to her was white

A friend of mine was trolled at Costco this past week in Vancouver for wearing a respirator. She was nudged by a woman who snuck up behind her & told her "there's no such thing as Covid"

It's weird how they make me feel like I know nothing in the field, despite working in comms...my whole career

Shout out to all the mansplainers who have never won any science writing awards telling me how communication works

When leaders say "there are more important things to focus on" than the current pandemic, they are saying that there are more important things to focus on than brain injury, organ damage, long term disability in kids, immune dysfunction etc - and that sounds totally absurd if you think about it

A study of 500,000 medical records linked viruses with Alzheimer's again and again

"Those who were hospitalized with pneumonia after catching the flu seemed to be more susceptible to Alzheimer's disease, dementia, Parkinson's disease, and ALS"

www.sciencealert.com/a-study-of-5...

Let's be clear tho: Carney abandoned climate change policy as a cynical means to get elected, not because there are other crises.

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?!

"Blue medical masks and cloth masks are great at helping a sick person keep their germs to themselves. 🚨Only 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."

😮 Pigs flew today!

I've heard the verdict will be in your favour if you bring them milk and cookies

i had no idea this is how canada's supreme court dresses

Greta 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.”

500,000 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

“Greta Thunberg is just attention seeking” says the walnut that doesn’t grasp what “activist” means

Jane Goodall offers sage advice for the rest of us. #3E

Nobody 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