Todd Davenport
@sunsopeningband.bsky.social
Non nobis solum nati sumus. Husband. Dad x3. Upstreamist. Pracademic. Oregifornian. Storyteller. It’ll be ok in the end. If it’s not ok then it ain’t the end. Alphabet soup after my name: DPT PhD MPH OCS. https://www.linkedin.com/in/todd-davenport-2795ba10
Todd Davenport and I were on Cochrane's author team for a full update of their #MECFS exercise review. We wrote this open letter to them, critical of their decision to disband the effort, called for withdrawal of current review @sunsopeningband.bsky.social (1/2) drive.google.com/file/d/12__3...
Author Open Letter to Cochrane Mar 2025.pdf
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Todd and I also wrote an open letter to the #MECFS community to: a) share the final version of the draft protocol for the ME/CFS exercise review as submitted to Cochrane in Feb 2023 b) solicit comments as originally promised (2/2) @sunsopeningband.bsky.social drive.google.com/file/d/1JK06...
Community Letter re Cochrane Mar 2025.pdf
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“The first step in being hopeful, I think, is being honest. That keeps hope from becoming baselessly optimistic and untethered from reality...” Todd Davenport @sunsopeningband.bsky.social has a message for us. #LC2025hopevideos Thank you for your honesty about hope! youtu.be/dEXtHJPbDbw?...
A message from Todd Davenport on Long COVID Awareness Day 2025
YouTube video by NeurologistMom
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The cancelled protocol for a new Cochrane review of exercise therapy for ME/CFS by @marydimmock.bsky.social & @sunsopeningband.bsky.social www.s4me.info/threads/2025... From the latest Science for ME weekly update #MEcfs #CFS
“The net result of all this is that Cochrane has flash-incinerated their credibility, or what was left of it” Prof Todd Davenport @sunsopeningband.bsky.social
David Tuller@davetuller1.bsky.social · last yr.Here's my piece for @thesicktimes.bsky.social about Cochrane's broken promises to ME/CFS patients over its crappy 2019 exercise therapy review. thesicktimes.org/2025/02/04/r...
Useful piece with some depth by David Tuller @davetuller1.bsky.social “Really pissed off”: Cochrane receives backlash from advocates and experts after abandoning ME/CFS review thesicktimes.org/2025/02/04/r... Has quotes from Todd Davenport @sunsopeningband.bsky.social & Mary Dimmock #MEcfs #CFS
“The Biden administration had its own softer version of COVID erasure...’” said @sunsopeningband.bsky.social “I think Trump is just being much more explicit about erasing COVID.” thesicktimes.org/2025/02/21/t...
Trump commands HHS to terminate advisory committee on Long COVID - The Sick Times
A new executive order from the Trump Administration commands the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to terminate the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Long COVID. The order, “Commencing the...
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Every week, I check the CDC's Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report. This week for the first time in its 60 years it was not published on schedule. American healthcare workers all over the country are less informed about health crises that affect their patients. CDC led reports matter a 🧵
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Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research. I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
Nsikan Akpan@monscience.bsky.social · 2y agoNIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research. Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
Dazu würde ja auch passen, was @sunsopeningband.bsky.social kürzlich veröffentlicht hat. Hier zwar bezogen auf Long Covid, aber für mein Empfinden lässt sich das gar nicht mehr trennen von #MECFS: www.mdpi.com/2075-4426/14...
Long COVID Is Not a Functional Neurologic Disorder
Long COVID is a common sequela of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Data from numerous scientific studies indicate that long COVID involves a complex interaction between pathophysiological processes. Long COVID m...
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Just received notice that my NIH study section next week has been cancelled. It has nothing to do with DEI and will have a negative impact on critical cancer research.
related: did i just miss the moment when these freaks added A-for-accessibility to DEI?
Laura Lopez@ohdearz.bsky.social · 2y agoHere's an e-mail that just went out to NASA agency wide. 🔭
An administration willing to capriciously halt NIH activity wants to appoint as NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, who has spread conspiracy theories about the agency. (ht @gorskon.bsky.social) www.respectfulinsolence.com/2022/05/03/n...
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The thing that’s most striking about this is that they set up an e-mail account specifically for people to report on each other for any attempt to implement “DEIA or similar ideologies” and threatened “adverse consequences” for NOT reporting.
Laura Lopez@ohdearz.bsky.social · 2y agoHere's an e-mail that just went out to NASA agency wide. 🔭
If you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you
Jane Liebschutz, MD MPH (she/her)@liebschutz.bsky.social · 2y agoAll NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
Scientific advancements aside, this is economically irresponsible Every $1 spent by NIH generates $2.46 For example, in 2023, $47B in NIH spending generated ~$93B Halting NIH spending will LOSE the US a lot of money (and talent)
Adam Rogers@jetjocko.bsky.social · 2y agoThey…turned off…National Institutes of Health grants? That’s nearly $50 billion of scientific research.
I like the quiet on here from no outrage algorithm but it’s hard to tell whether some of the stuff I post gets seen because there’s never much engagement. Maybe that will change over time because I’m still new. For now, it’s hard to know if I’m just posting these long threads into the void. Oh well.
Defrosting your car in some parts of California looks like spraying the windshield…with water…from a garden hose. 😄
I think a big difference that reduces engagement is that ‘likes’ have no effect here, and people tend to like rather than repost. But the only way more people will see a post, is if their followers repost it 😕
I like the quiet on here from no outrage algorithm but it’s hard to tell whether some of the stuff I post gets seen because there’s never much engagement. Maybe that will change over time because I’m still new. For now, it’s hard to know if I’m just posting these long threads into the void. Oh well.
Everyone is so mad at Biden protecting people from the inevitable upcoming partisan witch hunts as the last thing he did that it apparently makes them totally cool with Trump pardoning the worst people you can think of as the first thing he does. Feature, not bug. nypost.com/2025/01/21/u...
Exclusive | Trump announces pardon for Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, vacating life sentence
President Trump announced Tuesday night that he had granted a “full and unconditional” pardon to Ross Ulbricht, founder of the notorious dark web site Silk Road.
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Preventing public health agencies from communicating with the public will not make America healthy again. This will leave us in the dark in the middle of respiratory season, with serious ongoing concerns about everything from bird flu to cases of whooping cough.
Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · 2y agoNew: Trump officials have paused all external communications at health agencies like CDC, FDA, NIH. No health alerts and the famed MMWRs; no updates to key websites or social media posts. And no indication how long the pause will last. With @rachelroubein.bsky.social + Lena Sun.
Passports didn't have a gender marker before 1978 when the UN made them mandatory because of "the rise of unisex fashion and hairstyles." Removing them would require a change in rules from the UN's International Civic Aviation Organization.
Anna Zarves@annasomeday.bsky.social · 2y agoMaybe they should just remove gender from passports altogether. 🤔
I'm not mad at anyone, but I think you'll find that, for the most part, the problem was not too much panic but too much complacency.
People with intersex biological characteristics make up about 1.5-2% of the population. So much for there only being two sexes.