💔severe ME is a whole nother thing

Adam@abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 9h ago

Very severe #MECFS can cause profound suffering, extreme disability and life-threatening symptoms. Many are completely dependent on care, yet still face misunderstanding and inappropriate management. #SevereMEAwarenessWeek

What is long covid?

We're hiring! We have a new Local Change project, building on previous BSBI monitoring projects, to provide crucial data on the state of our wild plants. Background to the project: bsbi.org/take-part/pr... We're now looking to recruit a Project Coordinator. Find out more: bsbi.org/about/people...

Are Australia's endangered plant species more likely to go extinct from climate change? Here is a Plant ecophysiology PhD opportunity in sunny South Australia, open to both domestic and international applicants. Contact @ilainematos.bsky.social (ilaine.matos@adelaide.edu.au) for further details.

Fascinating – because of the balance between sunlight, temperature, and humidity, some crops grow better in the shade of solar panels than in full sun.

Suw@suw.bsky.social · 3d ago

Crops grown underneath solar panels produce more, require less water and are more resistant to extreme weather, even during a hot, dry summer. We need agrivoltaics to be rolled out asap, for both the electricity and the better growing conditions. microgridmedia.com/solar-panels...

Another study showing exercise and fitness is completely unrelated to whether you are susceptible to long cd. Impotrant to prove - Can we move on now?

Tom Kindlon@tomkindlon.bsky.social · 2d ago

From Germany: Associations Between Pre-Quarantine Exercise and Persistent Symptoms After SARS-CoV-2 Infection www.mdpi.com/2075-4663/14... "In our study, neither [Physical Activity] intensity nor duration showed an association with the presence or absence of long-term symptoms." #LongCovid #PASC

About time 💉 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

RFK Jr tells US families to vaccinate children against measles amid outbreak

Health secretary, longtime vaccination skeptic, spent years boosting misinformation about vaccines including MMR

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#ClimateReality

Ian Hall@ianhall.bsky.social · 3d ago

Global warming may have accelerated since 2015. After accounting for El Niño, volcanoes, and solar variability, researchers estimate the warming rate increased from ~0.2°C/decade to ~0.35°C/decade. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

A data-driven picture of our rapidly changing planet - updated through June 2026... Download the graphic at zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

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Isn’t AI terrible enough already? Now they want to eat the world’s books?! | First Dog on the Moon

Leave books alone!

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Pretty stunning statistic

Nahel Belgherze@wxnb.bsky.social · 5d ago

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

Extraordinary! About 49,000 migrants have crossed into Spain's North African territory of Ceuta from Morocco in the last 24 hours via land and sea, officials estimate. www.bbc.com/news/article...

About 49,000 migrants enter Spanish territory of Ceuta, officials say

The estimated number of arrivals is more than half of the population of the city, which is about 83,600.

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Almost all Covid deaths in US were and are in unvaccinated people Meanwhile the UK is now limiting boosters to people over 80! Not 60, not 70 but 80.

Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH@gavinyamey.bsky.social · 6d ago

And by June 2021, almost every single COVID death was in unvaccinated people It was essentially entirely preventable—but folks like RFK Jr, who lied by saying the COVID vaccine was “the deadliest vaccine in history,” were doing all they coul to derail vaccination 😢 2/2 www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

80% of Australians support a complete ban on gambling advertising. It’s time the government got on board. Join the campaign today to call on the federal government to protect young Australians from the predatory gambling industry and free our feeds from gambling ads.

And another: this contains important protocols for measuring all the different #toxins in #cycads in the same tissues and relates to #seed biology: Integrated LC/MS–MS approaches reveal toxicity differences across seed layers of Cycas angulata academic.oup.com/aob/article/...

Integrated LC/MS–MS approaches reveal toxicity differences across seed layers of Cycas angulata

Cycad seeds are toxic, but Indigenous Australians have developed effective methods for detoxification. We optimized LC/MS–MS protocols to enable quantifica

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Latest paper: provides new insight into the N-responsive regulation of #dhurrin in #sorghum, candidate regulators - some TFs may be involved in relieving senescence-associated suppression of dhurrin biosynthesis, links to N signalling #cyanide onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/8AIGAX...

We’re all watching “Once” tonight, right?

This: small grants to work on Eucalypts in Australia

Eucalypt Australia@eucalyptaus.bsky.social · 7d ago

Are you an Australian-based researcher working on #eucalypts? Apply for our 2027 Research Grants of up to $25,000 per annum for up to two years. eucalyptaustralia.org.au/grants/ Applications close 11th August. 📸: Current Research Grant awardee Dr Liubov Volkova, University of Melbourne

Trees: Having recently been in the UK, the obvious thing is to plant trees everywhere - there’s room in most suburban streets and parks. Trees provide shade, act as natural evaporative coolers and provide habitat #Plants #Trees #climateadaptation www.bbc.com/news/article...

What Britain's air-con row tells us about fighting climate change

Should we embrace air conditioning despite its costs and consequences, and how much should we spend on adapting homes versus cutting carbon?

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My alma mater (College of the Atlantic) is hiring faculty in Field Ecology, Agroecology, and Chemistry. If you're looking for a very cool small liberal arts college on the coast of Maine with a strong environmental focus, check it out (happy to answer questions!): www.coa.edu/human-resour...

Career Opportunities | College of the Atlantic

Career opportunities at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor Maine.

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“Artificial intelligence labs are in a new arms race to buy up millions of rare books, slicing them open, scanning the pages and pulping the remains — sparking concerns that the last remaining copies of out-of-print texts are being destroyed on an industrial scale.”

Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · last wk.

This aught to be illegal ... "AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books" www.news.com.au/technology/o...

@oeaw.bsky.social is searching for the next #director of @gmivienna.bsky.social ‼️It’s a huge opportunity to shape the future of #plantscience oeawnr.onlyfy.jobs/de/job/u3g5t...

Scientific Director (f/m/x)

OeAW - Discovering the futureThe Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (GMI), part of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), is seeking to appoint a visionary Scientific Director to lea

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H/T Sue J @smpwrgr.bsky.social "Aussie Aussie Aussie 😷 😷 😷 Good to see Australian Commonwealth Games athletes masking up as they travelled to Glasgow to compete Avoiding airborne infections in transit is performance enhancing preparation 🥇" Source: x.com/SMpwrgr/stat...

A Norwegian trial shows Paxlovid for acute COVID-19 significantly cuts long COVID risk at 3 months by ~40% (26% vs 43% placebo) The randomised study ran from May 2023 to June 2025, enrolling 144 participants total: 66 assigned to nirmatrelvir–ritonavir and 78 assigned to placebo. 16 July, 2026

Nirmatrelvir for acute COVID-19 to prevent long COVID (PANORAMIC Norway): a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial

Treatment with nirmatrelvir–ritonavir for acute COVID-19 was associated with a significant reduction in the risk of long COVID at 3 months’ follow-up. The limited sample size precludes firm conclusion...

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Taiwan's COVID-19 wave is expected to peak in early August. 🔹 Weekly outpatient and ER visits are forecast to reach 51,000 before easing in September 🔹 Last week, outpatient and ER visits jumped 117.4% to 10,605 🔹 The youngest severe COVID-19 case this year is an unvaccinated 7-month-old girl

COVID-19 wave in Taiwan expected to peak in early August: CDC - Focus Taiwan

Taiwan's Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said Tuesday that the current COVID-19 wave in the country is expected to peak in early August, earlier than previously forecast.

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A new study of 142 babies shows exposure to SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy may be associated with developmental delays that become evident at 22 months, despite not being detected at 12 months. Language delay was the most common finding. Published: 24 July 2026 Source: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New higher ed job alert: tenure-track Molecular Biologist in the Biology Dept at Bucknell University. Come be a part of our PUI teacher-scholar tradition! Application review begins 29 Sep 2026. 1/2 #STEMeducation #undergradresearch #higheredjobs bucknell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

Funding for R&D relative to GDP in Australia has been declining for nearly 20 years Source: www.theage.com.au/national/thi...

Millennium seed bank receives seed of extremely rare plant

The Global Plant Council@globalplantgpc.bsky.social · last wk.

Last of its kind: Critically Endangered tree clinging to cliffside finds hope at Kew and Logan Botanic Garden Conservationists are in a race against time to prevent one of the world’s rarest island plants from disappearing forever. buff.ly/hglX0rq via @rbgkew.bsky.social #PlantScience

New job--please share! Looking for a postdoc to deep learning methods for identifying plant species from drone imagery. The two year position offers a salary of $78,000 and the option to be based in Boise, Idaho, or Burns, Oregon. For more info: caughlinlab.com/join-the-lab/ #postdoc #drones #ai