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Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.

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The Covid Inquiry has revealed systemic failures that left Clinically Vulnerable families unprotected during the pandemic. Our latest update delves into these oversights and their lasting impact. Read more: www.clinicallyvulnerable.org/post/covid-i...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

👤 Our first starter pack is a handy repository for all SSI Fellows on Bluesky. Connect with them at go.bsky.app/BaXzrAh and if we've missed missed anyone, please let us know!

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

I am #recruiting an #infrastructure #RSE to work on #OpenSource #DataSHIELD for #FederatedAnalysis of health data. Experience in one of e.g. Linux server admin, database usage, Docker, Kubernetes Salary: £39,105-£58,596 Duration: 1-2 yrs dependent on salary Details: bit.ly/4ht8cUs Closes 12 Feb.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Showing my age 😱. Not sure why we are holding onto these, but we are somewhat nostalgic about them. Does anyone else have these? What followed after this was subsequent 15 years of #Linux. #Vintage #Retro #Microsoft #Windows95 #Windows98 #WindowsNT #WindowsXP #Windows7

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

We are dismayed that the Health Secretary has utterly misinterpreted the evidence from the Inquiry. Although Ritchie restated her flawed beliefs, the evidence is overwhelming, and was presented to the Inquiry, that the primary mode of transmission of SarsCov2 is airborne.

submitted 51 days ago • 6 comments

A few months ago I tested the new @merseytravel.bsky.social level boarding trains for AccessAble & @lpoolcityregion.bsky.social . A very windy and rainy day, but the new trains are life-changing for #Wheelchair users. #Accessibility #Liverpool #Southport www.instagram.com/reel/DE7a2vA...

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

If only public health authorities gave the same level of emphasis to portable air filters as they do to handwashing… www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 54 days ago • 8 comments

In early 2020, a pandemic was spreading. The UK’s PM went on a 10 day half-term holiday during which he was uncontactable and the government went into panic mode, focusing, as Hancock related to the COVID enquiry, on buying enough body bags. 1/8

submitted 54 days ago • 92 comments

🧼 “You can’t hand wash your way out of this quad-demic because it is mainly spread by what you breathe in and what you breathe out." - Dr @evonnetcurran.bsky.social retired infection control nurse. inews.co.uk/news/health/...

submitted 57 days ago • 3 comments

Brilliant substack @independentsage.bsky.social . UK is a failure of #PublicHealth policy & messaging re #covid19 #Indoor #AirQuality and #mitigations. Not even consistent with historical practice. Real life example of the allegorical film Don't look Up. open.substack.com/pub/independ...

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

🚨 Clinically Vulnerable Families call for robust IPC measures in healthcare to reduce preventable infections and further lost lives. inews.co.uk/news/son-hos...

submitted 62 days ago • 2 comments

When your #PIP mandatory reconsideration fails and you now have to take it to #tribunal and wonder where the #Spoons will come from. I provided my #SocialCare needs assessment as evidence of the HUMAN assistance I require for daily living. #DWP can't read the evidence 🤷‍♀️. #Disabled #Welfare

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Well things have not improved this week. Visible App Stability score Mon-Friday 2, 2, 1, 2, 1 😭😭😭. Fatigue is my normal levels, only my heart rate is stupidly high 🤷‍♀️. Going to deep rest for the next 2 weeks while Uni is closed. #CFS #TM #disability #ChronicIllness #DisabledInSTEM

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

I'm using the free Visible pacing app to manage #CFS like symptoms (primary & secondary #fatigue for #neuroinflammatory #disability). First time i've scored lowest value for stability. Prob should take the day off sick, but got 3 meetings today 😭🤷‍♀️ #ChronicIllness #DisabledInSTEM #DisabledAcademic

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

Who uses #DataSHIELD open source software for #FederatedAnalysis with #AutomatedSDC ? Over 180 data sites, across 5 continents, over 40 international research consortia. www.linkedin.com/posts/drbecc...

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

Living in the UK? Concerned about the lack of testing for COVID and spread of infections within hospitals? Then support and share this petition to 'direct the @UKHSA to monitor, and report on, numbers of COVID infections that occur in healthcare settings'. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

#Disability is about grieving & acceptance. Acceptance was quick for me: once neurologist said spinal cord damage was permanent unlikely to improve there was nothing I could do. Grieving: 11 yrs on I still mourn the life we will never have & how hard our life is now. #ableism #TM #WheelchairUser

submitted 99 days ago • 2 comments

Thread from #CovidEnquiry evidence from mid 1st pandemic year showed covid being airborne - but PPE e.g. FFP3 masking has never been adopted in healthcare settings and staff can work covid+ without precautions spreading it to patients and colleagues. #disabled #CV #ChronicallyIll are on their own.

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

CV, chronically ill & disabled people were not protected then, and are not protected now. Identical to self advocacy for disability (to get diagnosis, equipment, social care, adjustments, blue badge, PIP, Access to Work) you are alone unsupported and must arrange / pay for mitigations yourself!

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

Andrew Tate: I’M HERE Bluesky: No

submitted 109 days ago • 867 comments

I heard that Andrew Tate tried to come stretch his awkward wings here and got banned in just one day. Sorry, hate has no home here. Stay in the bad place, thanks.

submitted 109 days ago • 2076 comments

🚨ANNOUNCEMENT: Our open letter, signed by leading scientists & HCPs, urges the JCVI & UK Gov to reverse the decision denying COVID vaccines to millions of Clinically Vulnerable people who still qualify for 'flu vaccines. A "willingness-to-pay" approach puts lives at risk. 1/

submitted 111 days ago • 8 comments

COVID VACCINE ELIGIBILITY 🇬🇧, a thread🧵 JCVI have just advised that, going forwards, eligibility for Covid vaccination will be even more tightly restricted. But the ‘bespoke cost-effectiveness assessment’ upon which this is based is heavily flawed… gov.uk/government/p...

submitted 114 days ago • 11 comments

Hello @bsky.app family!

submitted 111 days ago • 172 comments

With Bluesky user numbers rocketing, more official news accounts are arriving. Here is a starter pack of major media outlets. Feel free to repost, I’ll keep this updated as more arrive.

submitted 112 days ago • 226 comments

Got the #DisabledInSTEM Starter Pack up and running! Can't wait to see the list grow and meet new connections! 💜 go.bsky.app/SwJ4rFX

submitted 112 days ago • 39 comments

Until now I have only ever had a burgundy EU passport. Now I have the (pre-EU) navy blue, and am unlikely to be issued a burgundy EU one again in my lifetime. This burgundy one is also my traumatising log of post-disability travel. #EndOfAnEra #BluePassport #EU #Brexit #disability #WheelchairUser

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

#Disability #ChronicIllness #Care for #elderly and #disabled family impacting low and middle income families. "Britain’s 13 million low-to-middle income families are older and more likely to suffer from poor health or a disability than three decades ago." #HealthInequality #SocialInequality

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

Thanks for following us on Bluesky! We’re the official resistance team for the National Park Service.

submitted 117 days ago • 654 comments

If you keep forgetting alt text, this setting is for you. It's awesome!

submitted 119 days ago • 38 comments

Here's an @independentsage.bsky.social starter pack for people recently arriving over here and looking to find old friends. go.bsky.app/TbZdrEU

submitted 122 days ago • 28 comments

The financial burden of disability is already staggering - close the Disability Pay Gap! The max UK disability benefit covers ~half these costs. I once calculated that my household has incurred £200,000 of costs for the first 10 years of my disability. #UK #Disability #PayGap #DisabledInWork

submitted 122 days ago • 0 comments