These signs should be on every hiking trail in Oregon and across the US .

Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency

David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”

The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.

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And learn from Australia, esp Victoria, where palliative care funding has now been cut. x.com/thelizcarr/s...

Liz "blue tick" Carr (@thelizcarr) on X

@PaulBrandITV No, assisted suicide & good palliative care don't go 'hand in hand'. In Victoria, Australia, where Ms Edwards hails from, after 5 years of their assisted suicide bill's implementatio...

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Lauren Edwards MP@laurenedwardsmp.bsky.social · 6d ago

Great piece from Michael Payne today. The debate around assisted dying should never be framed as a choice between improving palliative care and giving terminally ill people greater choice. We need to deliver both. Read the full article here:

Moral: Having a dog means accepting that one day your heart will break. But it also means knowing that, as long as it beats, that heart will live fuller, nobler, more human. Because the one who has been loved by a dog has known a form of love they will never forget.

🌹 I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong. - Leo Rosten

#Medsky🧪 #IDsky #episky #publichealth Origins of #HIV and the #AIDS Pandemic A fascinating story ! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org/content/1/1/... www.ox.ac.uk/news/2014-10... www.aidsmap.com/about-hiv/wh... canfar.com/awareness/ab...

Emory 🩶@emory-f8.bsky.social · 6d ago

This video was really fascinating! I've often thought that HIV must've been floating about before the 70s. I've even heard similar theories about it possibly existing in the 1800s. 🤔 #history #HIV #epidemiology #diseases #plagues #BeSmart youtu.be/61bgzr1LE8A?...

My grandpa (per family legend—he died before I was born, and I'm over 60) nearly machine-gunned T. E. Lawrence at Damascus!

Interesting Q, but not lethal for me. G paternal was working his way up the Australian Commonwealth (i.e. Federal) Bank. G maternal was farming oranges having survived Gallipoli (by contracting Brucellosis) & the Palestine Campaign.

The Palestine campaign? My paternal grandfather was in that one, too! (Sergeant i/c a mule-born machine-gun battery.)

Ain't retrospective contingency grand? I was lucky enough to talk to my grandpa - though too young to appreciate what it meant (I turn 70 next week). The narrative will be a threnody - preserved by the ephemeral web. PS: Thanks for your Bond Villain post - it resonated.

ID physician Anthony Fauci, MD, FIDSA has led with courage, scientific integrity and an unwavering commitment to improving public health. These qualities inspired IDSA to establish the Anthony Fauci Courage in Leadership Award. We thank him for his service to patients, science & the ID community.

Killer T cells (CD8+) in Long Covid directed to SARS-CoV-2 and Herpes virus antigens are persistent and may have a causal role www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Persistent cytolytic CD8+ T cells recognize SARS-CoV-2 and herpesvirus epitopes in long COVID

Ma et al. perform deep-phenotyping of CD8+ T cells specific for viruses implicated in LC pathogenesis: SARS-CoV-2, CMV, and EBV. These T cells from LC individuals share features of terminal differenti...

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most excellent exploration of #covid dopaminergic injury at the critical intersection of basal arousal...the reticular activating system

Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP@davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 2w ago

For those interested in my obsessions and concerns with respect to Cøvid... Here's a link to talk, @andrewewing11.bsky.social and I presented at the Kirby Institute at the invitation of Prof Raina MacIntyre 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 youtu.be/qg15z_88Q48?...

Scott Morrison was referred to the NACC over Robodebt and the Govt paid his $461K legal fees. I won an #AUKUS nuclear waste #FOI challenge and the Govt is threatening I’ll have to pay their $150K legal fees. @albomp.bsky.social thinks that’s fair play! #auspol

Anger at Labor as Rex Patrick faces potential six-figure legal fee if he loses Aukus documents battle

Australian government insists legal costs should be paid by former senator as FoI fight escalates

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Dealing with difficult people may be hazardous to your health. Each additional "hassler" in your network predicts 1.5% faster biological aging—and poorer physical and mental well-being over time. Non-spouse family hasslers are the most problematic. Some ties aren't worth the toll they take.

There’s a Name for the People Who Drain You

“Hasslers” make life more difficult—and we can’t escape them.

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For those interested in my obsessions and concerns with respect to Cøvid... Here's a link to talk, @andrewewing11.bsky.social and I presented at the Kirby Institute at the invitation of Prof Raina MacIntyre 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 youtu.be/qg15z_88Q48?...

Prof Andrew Ewing & Dr David Joffe — COVID-related Neurological Sequelae: From Delphi to Dopamine

YouTube video by Kirby Institute

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“Pain is both physical and emotional one hundred percent of the time.” This week, how a better understanding of pain can open up new possibilities for treatment and healing. www.hiddenbrain.org/podcast/how-...

How to Combat Pain - Hidden Brain Media

This week, we look at what's really happening when we experience pain, and how a better understanding of this process can open up new possibilities for treatment and healing.

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🧠 Daily Feed of Brain Damage 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#PalliativeCare Improves Quality of Life It focuses on quality of life and treats people living w/ the symptoms and stress of serious illnesses such as #cancer, #heartfailure, #COPD, #kidneydisease, #Alzheimers, #Parkinsons , #ALS and many more.

Mamdani's speech about Mandela is one for the ages. Solidarity. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Nelson Mandela held a mirror to humanity – and showed us what solidarity means | Zohran Mamdani

In a speech given on Wednesday in honor of Nelson Mandela Day, New York’s mayor reflects on what Madiba can teach us in a fractured era

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Modelling shows universal masking by healthcare workers leads to huge reduction in healthcare worker illness, even when people unmask in breakrooms www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Hypoalbuminemia may be a potential differential biomarker of dyspnea response to dexamethasone and placebo. On further validation, these findings may facilitate future personalized clinical trial design and tailoring of dyspnea interventions. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42456084/

Hypoalbuminemia as a Predictive Biomarker of Dyspnea Response to Dexamethasone and Placebo in Patients With Cancer: Secondary Analysis of the ABCD Randomized Clinical Trial - PubMed

Hypoalbuminemia may be a potential differential biomarker of dyspnea response to dexamethasone and placebo. On further validation, these findings may facilitate future personalized clinical trial desi...

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A meta-analysis by Mullins et al. of functional brain response to painful stimulation in areas involved in secondary mechanical hyperalgesia revealed increased activation in areas involved in pain modulation. Learn more in #PAIN bit.ly/44Fva6x

Led by Psychologist Dr Tracy Westerman, Jilya Institute has produced world class, culturally valid, psychological assessment tools for Indigenous mental health ➡️ tools for indigenous clients, developed - and administered - by trained Indigenous therapists & researchers. Donate if you can.

Dr Tracy Westerman AM@drtracywesterman.bsky.social · 3w ago

Our Men. Our Leaders. Our Legacy. Celebrating the men who carry Country forward. Strong communities are built by strong leaders. 2022 Jilya scholarship recipient Thalep Ahmat shares why incr Indigenous male psychologists matters. 🎟️ Tickets on sale Fri 17 July, 5pm 📅 23 Oct 2026

A Queensland judge stopped court proceedings to make the room sit in silence for five minutes after a barrister tried to talk down a man's sex act with a child by saying it only lasted that long. Via Reddit

Posted by Laura Tingle on Instagram. "Sweet Dreams darling Sam"

The internet doesn't bring out the worst in people. It makes the worst people more visible. Across all 30 countries studied, those who are nasty in online political discussions are nasty in real life, too. They seek status through hostility. Don't feed the hand that bites you.

🧠 What if #LongCovid is, in part, a disorder of dopamine? Our new commentary explores how disrupted dopamine signaling may help explain fatigue, brain fog, and autonomic dysfunction, and what this could mean for future therapies. Open access link: shorturl.at/vLAfU

Chantzy@chantzy.bsky.social · 4w ago

"Our findings provide compelling evidence that long COVID involves the loss of dopamine-releasing neurons," says Dr. Jeffrey Meyer, senior scientist at the Brain Health Imaging Center, Canada Research Chair medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07...

Someone stood up in the press club a few weeks ago and pledged to create an ethnostate.............. And the media is focused on the PM playing a high school sleepover game.

University of Minnesota, 173 people. Hospitalized COVID-19 showed higher LBP and sCD14, signs microbial products may be crossing barriers into blood, tracking with inflammation and illness status. www.nature.com/articles/s41...