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The BMJ: Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2

News in brief posts for the week of Aug. 11 - 17: Mastodon Bluesky

Yes. Also, using automated captions is a bad idea in most cases, but it's even worse when it's a medical or technical video ("Welcome to this short video series on myalgic and sephilomiitis"). Anyone who is serious about helping folks learn more about a topic should include a corrected...

I agree with your comments. And that particular style of subtitles (which is somehow fairly popular??) is one that was highlighted as inaccessible and difficult to read by an article on accessibility that I read some months ago. Unfortunately, I can't find the link to where I read this.

There's more information here: Solve M.E. and The Brain Inflammation Collaborative Launch the Unified Platform to Advance Research Across 30+ Chronic Conditions They've also announced a webinar scheduled for October 14:

NIH RECOVER Study Analyzes Electronic Health Records to Estimate Long Covid Incidence I'm a bit confused by line that talks about "early 2019" and then says "since the pandemic had just begun." Do they mean early 2020? Or did they mean 2019 and meant to say that the pandemic had not yet begun...

Results From the RECOVER-Adult Study: How Social Challenges Affect Risk of Developing Long Covid

A text version of the webinar anouncement (line breaks added) for those who need it:

Thanks for the info. That re-post pattern (or re-tweet/boost/whatever) implies that their social media person is on X more often than on Bluesky.

Is Bateman Horne still using X a lot? I can't tell because without an account (not logged in to X) when I go to someone's X profile I can't see all the latest posts. There is one pinned tweet from May but the next post I can see from them is from 2023. Anyway, here's what they posted on...

News in brief posts for the week of Aug. 4-10: Mastodon Bluesky PS. Changed the format a bit this week. I wanted to highlight the DecodeME news. I also mentioned Severe ME Day.

This video from Solve ME was posted a couple days before Severe ME Day but this thread seems like a good place to post it. "Hollis Mickey on Pacing with Severe M.E." Transcript here: https://solvecfs.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Pacing-With-Severe-M.E.pdf This excerpt from the video (at...

This was such a well done video. Thank you so much for making it ❤️ I posted your video on my Mastodon account and here's one of the responses that I got:

From Open Medicine Foundation (OMF): Honoring Severe ME/CFS Awareness Day

From The Sick Times: Posthumous album of singer Kara Jane released on Severe ME Awareness Day

From Solve ME: Severe ME Day 2025: #UnitedForME

Upcoming webinar from Solve ME: Targeting Autophagy: A Clinical Trial of Low-Dose Rapamycin for ME/CFS, Long COVID, and IACCIs Thursday, Sept. 4 3 - 4 PM Pacific Time Register here (link can show the time for your time zone)

From #MEAction for Severe ME Day: Severe ME Artists Project, 2025 This webpage has four sections: a video compilation (video that shows a selection of all the art submitted), writers gallery, video gallery, and art gallery. EDIT: Updated post to use the correct link!

This report is just from the Senate Appropriations Committee. Funding still has to be passed by full senate and house. #MEAction posted a news item on their website which is a little easier to read: https://www.meaction.net/2025/08/01/celebrating-a-big-senate-win/ Jaime Seltzer posted a more...

News in brief posts for the week of July 28 - Aug 3: Mastodon Bluesky