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Ian Goodfellow @ian-goodfellow.bsky.social · Mar 15

#5YearsLongCovid #HalfADecadeOfNeglect #LongCovidAwarenessDay2025

Ian Goodfellow @ian-goodfellow.bsky.social · Feb 21

Oh, actually it was ~3/15. But all of my own time. I then handed things over to my co-author who did a ~12 minute talk on GANs

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Ian Goodfellow @ian-goodfellow.bsky.social · Feb 14

@publichealthaction.bsky.social now has a blog. @juliadoubleday.bsky.social has written a guest post about her experience living with long COVID.

Public Health Action Network @publichealthaction.bsky.social · Feb 12

Writer Julia Doubleday (@juliadoubleday.bsky.social) details on our blog her struggles with chronic illnesses caused by COVID. Long COVID has curtailed her physical activities but she's fighting for a normal life.

Julia's Story - Living with Long COVID

Julia Doubleday writes about her experience of living with Long COVID and her struggle to find treatment for multiple health issues that Long COVID has brought on

publichealthactionnetwork.org

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Ian Goodfellow @ian-goodfellow.bsky.social · Feb 9

If you’re interested in resources for staying safe from COVID, take our survey on how Public Health Action Network can best support you: publichealthactionnetwork.org/phan-safer-s...

PHAN COVID-Conscious Resources Survey - Public Health Action Network

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Ian Goodfellow @ian-goodfellow.bsky.social · Feb 4

I ordered one when orders opened today, don’t have it yet obviously

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Ian Goodfellow @ian-goodfellow.bsky.social · Feb 1

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Public Health Action Network @publichealthaction.bsky.social · Jan 30

Hi Bluesky friends! We're putting together our first monthly newsletter to go out tomorrow, and if you haven't subscribed yet, you should! Sign up on our website: https://publichealthactionnetwork.org/contact/

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Ian Goodfellow @ian-goodfellow.bsky.social · Jan 28

The recording of the GAN test of time award talk by my co-author David Warde-Farley is now available: neurips.cc/virtual/2024...

NeurIPS Test Of Time Test Of TimeNeurIPS 2024

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Ian Goodfellow @ian-goodfellow.bsky.social · Jan 23

My co-authors have completed one of the projects I was working on with them before I went on disability leave. Check out this great explainer thread from @davidlindner.bsky.social

David Lindner @davidlindner.bsky.social · Jan 23

New Google DeepMind safety paper! LLM agents are coming – how do we stop them finding complex plans to hack the reward?

Our method, MONA, prevents many such hacks, *even if* humans are unable to detect them!

Inspired by myopic optimization but better performance – details in🧵

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Ian Goodfellow @ian-goodfellow.bsky.social · Dec 12

Another more specific way people can help: does anyone know if it’s safe to take betahistine if I have MCAS? And does taking antihistamines make betahistine ineffective?

Ian Goodfellow @ian-goodfellow.bsky.social · Nov 24

Posting a call for help: does anyone know of a good way to simultaneously treat both POTS and Ménière’s disease? Please contact me if you’re either a clinician with experience doing this or a patient who has found a good solution. Context in thread

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Ian Goodfellow @ian-goodfellow.bsky.social · Dec 9

Thanks

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Ian Goodfellow @ian-goodfellow.bsky.social · Dec 8

Sorry, where did you send it?

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Ian Goodfellow @ian-goodfellow.bsky.social · Dec 4

Most of us aren’t on BlueSky but @memimo.bsky.social is

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Ian Goodfellow @ian-goodfellow.bsky.social · Nov 26

Thanks. I have an appointment set up with her for January.

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Ian Goodfellow @ian-goodfellow.bsky.social · Nov 25

No, I’ve never been a heavy headphone user and always been careful about my noise exposure (before getting ear disease). You can see in my profile pic I even wear “cat ears” when biking

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Ian Goodfellow @ian-goodfellow.bsky.social · Nov 25

I’ve seen some web pages that say betahistine can lead to increased histamine synthesis. Do you know if that’s accurate? My ears have responded well to migraine treatment so it would make sense for them to respond badly to more histamine

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Ian Goodfellow @ian-goodfellow.bsky.social · Nov 25

I tried betahistine for about 4 days and it seemed to make things worse. At the time I had not been off diuretics too long and my ears were still fairly stable. After a few days on betahistine I got woken up by tearing / popping sounds in my right ear + new pure tone tinnitus

Ian Goodfellow @ian-goodfellow.bsky.social · Nov 24

Thanks. I’m in the normal range for everything in Quest’s antiphospholipid antibody panel

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Ian Goodfellow @ian-goodfellow.bsky.social · Nov 24

Thanks

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Ian Goodfellow @ian-goodfellow.bsky.social · Nov 24

This is Vaughn and where else?

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Ian Goodfellow @ian-goodfellow.bsky.social · Nov 24

Re clotting: my fibrinogen activity and D-dimer are normal, does that rule out clotting?

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Ian Goodfellow @ian-goodfellow.bsky.social · Nov 24

What is STING in this context? I’m not seeing anything that looks like it could be fixed by surgery

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Ian Goodfellow @ian-goodfellow.bsky.social · Nov 24

Eagles syndrome: I don’t have any pain or any trouble swallowing or turning my head. I’ve had a CB-CT scan of my head and the radiologist didn’t notice any Eagles syndrome

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Ian Goodfellow @ian-goodfellow.bsky.social · Nov 24

Thanks. Yeah, I wear compression socks + tights + abdominal binder. I had a vascular ultrasound done of my neck and didn’t find anything wrong, not sure if that rules out everything.

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Ian Goodfellow @ian-goodfellow.bsky.social · Nov 24

As far as I know it’s the amount of sodium that reaches the inner ear (and how much that level fluctuates) that matters, not the delivery method.

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Ian Goodfellow @ian-goodfellow.bsky.social · Nov 24

I use CPAP anyway. I’ll ask my doctor if I should add an oxygen concentrator to it.

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