I am an academic myself now, but fortunately I am funded through my work with 1717. So please don’t mistake this as self-serving. I am using this privilege to highlight the difficult position of the scientists who are too humble to do so themselves. 5/5

As an NHS doctor with school age kids, the government’s key argument against closing schools - that this action will take staff away from the NHS frontline - is highly pertinent. But surely we can show a little imagination here? (1/4)

A thread on social distancing from infection researcher/doc. Key point: you can help protect yourself, your family and others by taking moderate steps, without becoming a total recluse for 6 months. It’s about meaningfully reducing risk- not necessarily completely eliminating it.

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My spouse is a physician in the emergency dept, and is actively treating #coronavirus patients. We just made the difficult decision for him to isolate & move into our garage apartment for the foreseeable future as he continues to treat patients. (1/5)

Ok I just heard about two gay women who were on a third date having dinner at one of their flats, both began to feel ill at the same time and decided to self-isolate for 14 days, TOGETHER. I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF ANYTHING MORE LESBIAN IN MY LIFE. (P.S I bagsy film rights)

Tragically, Eurovision Song Contest has been cancelled! This was to be my 7th annual EV-themed bday party and my first celebrated as a British Citizen. Not 2b defeated, we will be doing something online together from our respective bunkers. Send ideas!! #alternativeurovision BBC Eurovision

What the world needs now...I mean apart from a vaccine...is Mr Motivator. pri.org/stories/2020-0… Mr Motivator MBE #coronavirus #coronavirusuk

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We challenge you to recreate a work of art with objects (and people) in your home. 🥇 Choose your favorite artwork 🥈 Find three things lying around your house⠀ 🥉 Recreate the artwork with those items And share with us.

any other ‘housebound for months/years’ folks finding all of the ‘what do you miss the most?’ lists being shared by people after less than 2 weeks inside quite difficult to read?

Ok this got me 😭

I see all your lockdown dataviz and I raise you this

Yikes. And also to know the limitations of your software.

This essentially sums up how I'm feeling today, having dared to hope for a more unified rebuke.

Researchers Ellen Ewer and Prof Jane Simmonds are looking for participants aged 13-18 with and without symptomatic #hypermobility for #research testing a new screening tool to assess the impact of hypermobility in young people ehlers-danlos.org/studies/testin…

This is so exciting! My adult son in particular would definitely have benefited from improved screening as his symptom profile is a bit bizarre, very disabling, and because he doesn't have a "typical" EDS presentation like me, it's been hard for HCPs to know what to do with him.