Lauralee Dukeshire (she/her) @LauraleeDukeshire@social.cleverlibre.org

I'me new here, so here's a little intro about me :)
I'm a British-Iraqi public health doctor, academic & mum. I'm passionate about my work & social justice (which I consider to be the same thing). I love nature, flowers, smiling, and hope. I haven't changed in that respect since I was child (as you can see from the photo) but my biggest personality strength is growth so I do change my mind on other things. Relevant hashtags #LongCovid #Intersectionality #Inequalities #Lifecourse #Epidemiology

Fui la princesa Verónica.

Serotonin on its side looks like a pikachu

Mastodon: all tusk and no Musk.

New life growing on remnants of old. #IdąPsięta #Dog #Wetlands

tryin mastodon, want to see if I can send a link and someone else can see this. Can you see this?

Y'ALL. I have just discovered https://covidmeetups.com which is a site to connect #COVID-conscious people with each other and with responsible businesses.

It's severely lacking in critical mass, which is unsurprising given that I have been ranting about this shit daily for 2.5 years and no-one told me about it until this week.

Anyway, please spread the word so more of us can connect!

#CovidIsAirborn #covidisntover #WearAMask #SARS2

Immunological dysfunction persists for 8 months following initial mild-to-moderate SARS-CoV-2 infection

#longCOVID
#COVID
#Immunology
#ImmuneSystem

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-021-01113-x#:~:text=Immunological%20dysfunction%20persists%20for%208,CoV%2D2%20infection%20%7C%20Nature%20Immunology

Hi, this is Greta. You are welcome to follow me here, if you prefer planet earth to planet mars.

While Estée Lauder covers abortion under their health policy, one of the Lauder billionaires has supported Trump and is trying to get a GOP elected as Governor in New York.

Not gonna lie, the Democrats have been terrible on many things, but the other choice is a party who will ban public health protections, stall all action on climate, and destroy democracy.

I know who’d I’d much rather be holding accountable in office.
Please vote, it matters a whole lot for all of us! 🗳️

🚨 P.S. New Yorkers, you need to vote because there's a chance we may have a Republican Governor. This is NOT a drill!

#VOTE #midterms

My first toot!

TL;DR: That #LEGO "#GreatPyramid of #Giza" model everybody's talking about really is as great as they say. And it comes with lots of little details which make you want to read up on the current state of research in #Egyptology. 😉

It's easy to forget that downtime is still good, is still productive. When my son is here, he often just wants to stay home and chill. I have things we can do here. We can paint, draw, play games, watch movies.

But he needs time *not* doing anything.

So, we often just chill. It's quiet, there's ginger ale, we've got Legos -- and zero pressure to do anything else.

#ActuallyAutistic

Hello, everyone! New here? We are, too!

Let's help keep #Mastodon #inclusive, which is one of the best things about this place!

Got an image? Include alt text for screen readers.

Got a hashtag? Use camel case. What's that? It's #HiMom, not #himom or #WearAMask not #wearamask.

Drop more gems below, and have a great day!

Whoa! I know bats are important, but this is insane. An exclusion experiment by Beilke et al shows that forests without bats are *three to five times* as insect-eaten as forests with bats.

#ecology #bats #science

https://phys.org/news/2022-11-young-trees-insect-bugs.amp

But at beginning many people said this could have serious consequences, and nobody has EVER said, we will do what we can but there will be those who are disabled, and that's inevitable.

They told me (and others) to my face "this is not neuro", for ex, which is demonstrably false

Don't worry about numbers and SARS-CoV-1 very likely more severe, the point is this expectation of mild you've been sold is not based on anything.
Some results will be mild, some not, and nobody has more than a guess what makes it worse, so don't catch it if you can avoid.

On a #LongCOVID "how could we have known" point:

Of 233 SARS survivors participating in follow up about 3.5-4 years later,
- Over 40% had active psychiatric illnesses
- 40.3% reported a chronic fatigue problem
- 27.1% met CDC criteria for chronic fatigue

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20008700/