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If you're birding deer-rich areas or doing @btobirds.bsky.social heathland surveys, you need be #LymeDeiseaseAware! I contracted Lyme disease from a tick bite in Thetford Forest in February 1997. #LymeDisease season is already on us, its not just summer. #birdingWales #birdingScotland #UKbirding

Our co-founder @karenlhargrave.bsky.social quoted in @thetimes.com today on news this week that no additional funds are planned for the new ME delivery plan. www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

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The case for ramping up ME/CFS research, through both public and private funding, is absolutely compelling 📈 Especially in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has significantly worsened this humanitarian crisis happening under our noses A visual thread 🧵

The Livestream is up and running again for this year #birds Worcester Cathedral Peregrines Live Stream 2025 www.youtube.com/live/86VxLzm... via @YouTube

We URGENTLY need to provide help to the most severely affected with #LongCovid and #ME In September 2024 on World Patient Patient Safety Day, we wrote to The Secretary of State for Health, a letter signed by >250 healthcare professionals stating ‘Doing nothing is NOT safe’.

This is *exactly* what the UK government is failing to do. Please read this thread to understand the critical risks at the heart of our democracy.

Feeling quite downcast. Don’t we care enough even to make time for this important gesture of solidarity whilst Trump sells Ukrainians down the river. If the shoe was on the other foot & Putin had invaded the UK what would you want other countries to do?

Jay (Garrulus glandarius) #bird

Jay (Garrulus glandarius) #birdinflight

Curlew (Numenius arquata) #birdinflight

Goosander (Mergus merganser) #birdinflight

SQUIRREL!!!

Puffin Island

Female Stonechat (Saxicola torquata)