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Journalists 🙏 Long COVID is not "a syndrome in which people continue to experience symptoms of COVID-19". It's a virus-triggered cluster of complications with a high degree of overlap with ME, and includes POTS, dysautonomia, dysbiosis, MCAS, endothelial dysfunction and neuro.

Nassim Taleb has written a devastatingly strong critique of IQ, but since he writes at such a technical level, his most powerful insights are being missed. Let me explain just one of them. 🧵

Jason Reid Food of the gods

Just got back from London. No one tried to nick my watch, no one mugged me, everyone in the shops spoke English, and most people smiled at me. It's almost like X talks a load of rubbish. Best city in the world.

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Fantastic valentines meal last night Newcastle College chefs academy. With Tam J Watermeyer

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Thanks to all the people who've been so positive about my new book. It's about how neurological patients can tell us so much about our selves, how personal and social identities are forged by different cognitive functions, and what it means to belong.

7 hours of sleep is associated with the lowest phenotypic age. 🧵1/9

From 1945 until January 2025 the leader of the free world was in Washington DC. Tonight, his successor was in London.

Interesting choice of words by Vance to describe the proposed UK and French force for Ukraine as “20,000 troops from some random country that hasn’t fought a war in 30-40 years.” Some 700 UK service members were killed while fighting to help the U.S. in Iraq and Afghanistan, and

Lol. I’m British and I’ve fought in more wars than JD Vance has.

“Have you even said thank you once?”

I'm teaching databases this semester at Berkeley. My students all seem unusually brilliant. Not many go to office hours, and not too many folks post on the course forum asking project questions. Weirdly, the exam had the lowest recorded average in my 10 semesters teaching it.

Never forget this is exactly who and what they mean when they say they hate DEI

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Of >105,000 participants with 30-year follow-up, only 9.3% achieved healthy aging (age 70, w/o any chronic diseases). Their diet was significantly associated with this outcome🧵 Nature Medicine

Following the success of Netflix drama Adolescence, a researcher from University of Sunderland reveals how parents face learning a “new language” in a bid to help keep their children safe online sunderland.ac.uk/more/news/univ…

Found out today that a lady in a Bristol hospital who had M.E, EDS and MCAS passed away this week from starvation. How tf is that possible in this day and age to allow that to happen? To be refused TPN because the ‘infection risk is too dangerous’ … more dangerous than? Death?