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Health academic, sailor⛵, photographer, botanist🌿, writer. Memoir, poetry, children’s stories. AI & health/education, climate, UCU, films N of Ireland 🇪🇺 Avoiding🦠Covid. Photographs mine unless credited X: @organicbotanic Blue Sky 3/9/23
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Sunrise over Ballycastle Forest this morning #StormHour #ThePhotoHour @cmjohnston.bsky.social @organicbotanic.bsky.social @barrabest.bsky.social @metoffice.bsky.social @weatheraisling.bsky.social @itvweather.bsky.social

Wow! Congrats to Bluesky for passing the milestone of 32 MILLION users. Spread the word!! 💙🦋 bsky-users.theo.io

Pans Rocks Bridge and a crow on the wall #StormHour #ThePhotoHour @cmjohnston.bsky.social @organicbotanic.bsky.social @barrabest.bsky.social @metoffice.bsky.social @weatheraisling.bsky.social @itvweather.bsky.social

Striking #Sunset in #Mountsandel #Forest #February #RiverBann #NI #weather @lindahughes.bsky.social @barrabest.bsky.social @stormhour.bsky.social @loveballymena.bsky.social @cmjohnston.bsky.social @annlizkelly.bsky.social @weatheraisling.bsky.social

Striking #Sunset in #Mountsandel #Forest #February #RiverBann #NI #weather @lindahughes.bsky.social @barrabest.bsky.social @stormhour.bsky.social @loveballymena.bsky.social @cmjohnston.bsky.social @annlizkelly.bsky.social @weatheraisling.bsky.social

Visitor to my Spring Bulbs memorial to #Harmony #Cat #Robin #NIBirds #Bird #Photography @rspb.bsky.social @rspbni.bsky.social #PushingUpBluebells not #PushingUpDaisies #Tortie #CatsofSky #CatsofBlueSky #Tortoiseshell #Music #Purrfect #CatSky #Caturday

Visitor to my Spring Bulbs memorial to #Harmony #Cat #Robin #NIBirds #Bird #Photography @rspb.bsky.social @rspbni.bsky.social #PushingUpBluebells not #PushingUpDaisies #Tortie #CatsofSky #CatsofBlueSky #Tortoiseshell #Music #Purrfect #CatSky #Caturday

Ballycastle raindrops this morning #StormHour #ThePhotoHour @cmjohnston.bsky.social @organicbotanic.bsky.social @barrabest.bsky.social @metoffice.bsky.social @weatheraisling.bsky.social @itvweather.bsky.social

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We put up a #Bluebell 💙heart of lights in the conservatory where she often basked in warmth, where she would have seen it through library window. #PushingUpBluebells not #PushingUpDaisies #Harmony #cat #Tortie #CatsofSky #CatsofBlueSky #Tortoiseshell #Music #Purrfect #CatSky #Caturday

Not just #Mpox but other infectious pathogens will likely see a rise and thrive in this climate. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

On IDSA’s & HIVMA’s Science Speaks blog, Sonal S. Munsiff, MD, FIDSA, answers questions about an updated guideline from the American Thoracic Society, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the European Respiratory Society and IDSA on treating TB in adults and children.

U.S. HHS orders CDC to halt some vaccine ads, saying RFK Jr. wants message focused on ‘informed consent,’ by @helenbranswell.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/c... via @statnews.com

Sunshine this morning in Ballycastle #StormHour #ThePhotoHour @cmjohnston.bsky.social @organicbotanic.bsky.social @barrabest.bsky.social @metoffice.bsky.social @weatheraisling.bsky.social @itvweather.bsky.social

Mull of Kintyre as seen from Ballycastle this morning #Scotland #StormHour #ThePhotoHour @cmjohnston.bsky.social @organicbotanic.bsky.social @barrabest.bsky.social @metoffice.bsky.social @weatheraisling.bsky.social @itvweather.bsky.social

This, at least, is some good news. “The Trump administration has reversed a plan to shut down the government website that ships free COVID-19 tests to households” www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

To a Primrose Welcome, pale primrose, starting up between Dead matted leaves of oak and ash, that strew The every lawn, the wood, and spinney through John Clare Primula vulgaris supports nearly 40 species of invertebrate as a larval host, & most of them are Lepidoptera. #Invertebrates

Just added to my Etsy a lovely needle-felted Sweet Violet protected within a removable glass dome. Complete with spurs and rounded sepals at the back of the flower it would make a lovely botanical gift! 💜 #handmadehour

Two important things to remember at a time like this: "All it takes for evil to flourish is for good men to stand by and do nothing." - Edward Burke "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead

🎶Hey babe, you can fall by the wayside. My musical thoughts on Fauci's BBC interview this week. One of the lower points of the pandemic for me so far. I am not disposable, you are not disposable, we are not disposable. youtube.com/shorts/cNWGL...

NSF fired 168 yesterday. Today its staff directory page says this:

“At a minimum, 300 babies that wouldn’t have had HIV, now do,” one current USAID worker estimates. The impact on PEPFAR HIV programs is likely even more severe. The number is likely much higher. 🧵 www.wired.com/story/usaid-...

If the Ryan White Services Care Act (1990) is chopped completely from funding, our HIV/AIDs community that relies on it to cover meds/treatments/procedures that some insurances don't, it will be devastating and catastrophic in our country. It's up for renewal for the 2025 budget with Congress. 💔 👇🏼

We put up a #Bluebell 💙heart of lights in the conservatory where she often basked in warmth, where she would have seen it through library window. #PushingUpBluebells not #PushingUpDaisies #Harmony #cat #Tortie #CatsofSky #CatsofBlueSky #Tortoiseshell #Music #Purrfect #CatSky #Caturday

Ballycastle where the River Margy flows into the sea #StormHour #ThePhotoHour @cmjohnston.bsky.social @organicbotanic.bsky.social @barrabest.bsky.social @metoffice.bsky.social @weatheraisling.bsky.social @itvweather.bsky.social

Why this should worry Science has never divorced itself from an individual claim; it has a problem with the source of claim It is not just evidence creation but a framework allowing participation of unrelated & interrelated proposition @organicbotanic.bsky.social @elhopkins.bsky.social

Why this should worry Science has never divorced itself from an individual claim; it has a problem with the source of claim It is not just evidence creation but a framework allowing participation of unrelated & interrelated proposition @organicbotanic.bsky.social @elhopkins.bsky.social

Boyd's Wall on the left with Ballycastle and Pans Rocks in the far distance #StormHour #ThePhotoHour @cmjohnston.bsky.social @organicbotanic.bsky.social @barrabest.bsky.social @metoffice.bsky.social @weatheraisling.bsky.social @itvweather.bsky.social

Question 1. Did strategy A work in saving disease, death & disability- No 2. Did B work- no 3. Was strategy A superior to other- No We failed- let’s accept & strive together to find better ways It can’t be US VS Them in Science @organicbotanic.bsky.social kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

My beautiful best friend is now becoming part of #Bluebell season. I shall still post a photo from time to time to honour our love for each other. #PushingUpBluebells not #PushingUpDaisies #Harmony #cat #Tortie #CatsofSky #CatsofBlueSky #Tortoiseshell #Music #Purrfect #CatSky #Caturday 🎶🎵🎶🎵

Runners, Six Mile river, Antrim

Why us it a #SuperDemic @organicbotanic.bsky.social @elhopkins.bsky.social @mark-ungrin.bsky.social bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....