Worth reposting this excellent thread from Prof Griffin
11.03.2026 10:15
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Worth reposting this excellent thread from Prof Griffin
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Even one COVID infection can have lasting impacts on the heart, brain, and blood vessels. Prevention is long-term health care.
#LongCOVID #CleanAir #PublicHealth #COVID19 #InfectionPrevention #COVID #MaskUp
And so we write to brilliant postgraduate students from Sudan, withdrawing the offers and scholarships they won in open competition with the best in the world. A sad day for the University of Oxford.
It isn’t just that nearly half of british voters polled think that 🇬🇧 should stay neutral on 🇺🇸 war on Iran
Only about 17-18% think we should support it outstripped by those who think we should actively oppose it.
Aerosol transmission of SARSCoV2 virus is the dominant route for transmitting COVID-19.
👏'2025 Faraday Horizon Prize for advancing understanding of the physicochemical properties of exhaled aerosols, and their impact on transmissibility of respiratory pathogens.' @rsc.org
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recent Trump moves against universities and knowledge
youtube.com/shorts/j6_m0...
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Millions of people around the world are living with the lasting impacts of Long COVID — a growing public health crisis that continues long after the initial infection.
Long COVID can affect the brain, heart, lungs, immune system, and more, (...)
"This is a life and death story for the UK – so why is it being brushed under the carpet?"
Healthy Life Expectancy at Birth Plummeting. 📉
It is a hideous scandal that they can publish a chart as obvious as this and not even mention the words 'covid infections'.
This is a really interesting thread. The possibility that the drones that hit Turkey and Cyprus were launched by Israel makes a lot of sense, given the evidence below 👇🏻
Invite them to a debate hosted by the Nerve instead.
The Trump headlines this week have been - understandably - focused on Iran but a lot else has been going on too.
In the latest 6 min video, I go through actions that have underminded elections & democracy, attacks on universities and suppression of dissent...
youtu.be/-CPF1CkzUsc
Great to hear this!
for those interested the report is here
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
Photo of a black sign on a pole stood in a grassy landscape with trees in the distance and blue sky. In white lettering the sign says Please do not climb on the War Horse. At the bottom left corner of the sign is the logo for Test Valley Borough Council.
I took this photo when I visited the War Horse statue, located in a park in a small town in the south of England, commemorating horses lost in the First World War. Today as the US seeks to unleash World War 3, it takes on a whole new meaning. Please everyone. Don't climb on the war horse bandwagon.
1/ If I hear one more public official call indoor air filters a "band-aid," I'm going to explode! Filtering indoor air should be as standard as filtering water. Full stop. 🧵
10/ The upfront cost of clean air is NOTHING compared to long-term health impacts of breathing increasingly polluted air every day. When will the world wake up and fix this? science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abd9149
Your risk of clots is over 30 times higher after any COVID infection but much of the media doesn’t talk about this. It talks about the very small risk from vaccines. This is a very skewered narrative. www.hdruk.ac.uk/news/new-stu...
I've already made my feelings about this abhorrent policy clear but one antidote is to repost this piece I wrote last year about one refugee's story
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
No more illegal wars. Introduce a prevention of military intervention act and put human rights at the heart of foreign policy. Review all UK arms sales and make us a force for international peace and justice.
The majority of people in this country do not want us to be involved in this war.
Keir Starmer of a few years ago wouldn't have supported this war.
The only reason he does now is he will do anything Donald Trump wants - and it makes us all less safe.
The events of the past 48 hours have laid bare Keir Starmer's utter inability to stand up to Donald Trump - and this weakness could have serious consequences for the safety of British people.
this policy is cruel and will make minimal difference to immigration numbers (as refugees are only a small % of overall immigrants, and most of them come from countries that aren't going to be safe any time soon [e.g. eritrea;afghanistan]).
It will actively harm integration and finding work.
CR Boxes are powerful DIY air purifiers - we got a very kind donation of kits and want to pass on this gift! We'll keep costs to a minimum (mostly room hire) to keep it accessible for community projects, small businesses, or individuals!
More info: corsirosenthalfoundation.org/instructions/
Under the headline "Interested in your own air purifier?" there's a picture of a Corsi-Rosenthal Box with sparkles around it, surrounded by text reading: "We’re considering running a workshop building our own Corsi-Rosenthal Boxes to give away to community projects, businesses and individuals! Sound good? Let us know if you'd like to join a build in Edinburgh or Glasgow"
Want your own purifier rather than borrow one? We're considering a Corsi-Rosenthal Box building workshop if we get enough interest, so get in touch if you'd like a spot!
Materials provided, location dependent on interest but hopefully both Edinburgh and Glasgow - posting kits may be possible too
Three ways the Trump administration undermined Americans' health last week in 2 minutes...
youtube.com/shorts/IS8te...
Have written a quick post on the timeline leading to today's attacks...
A key thing to notice is how Trump et al tried to suppress dissent and independent evidence after last summer's strikes. Expect the same again now.
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
was considering doing this plot and luckily @colinmacpherson.bsky.social has already done it!
this is the main thing - the anti-Reform vote was so high that any split between labour and the Greens would have beaten Reform.
Many thanks, as always, for the data. This what we Shetlanders get for having the huge Up Helly Aa festival at the end of January. Lots of folk in the community currently unwell.
So much happened under the radar last week in the US that this is a longer video.
I cover patronage and “Trump as king,” nationalism at home and aggression abroad, new pressure on universities, US health and science agencies, FEMA disruption, major EPA rollbacks...
youtu.be/A0homNAbQok
wow
