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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 2h

I grew up with Cicely Mary Barker’s flower fairies books and used to attempt to fashion wardrobes for wooden peg dolls out of leaves. This is a true wood nymph’s dress, c1918 Lucile, ethereal layers and embellishments @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social #kelvingroveartgallery #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Front full length view of a pale green silk sleeveless dress with a sheer gold overlay. It is embellished with ribbon work flowers and gold lace

A detail of the pale green dress showing the three dimensional ribbon work embellishments and gold lace

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Long Covid Advocacy @longcovidadvoc.com · 1h

Excellent article by @bilson.org.uk & Drayak about the urgent need to withdraw the dangerous @rcpch.bsky.social FII guidance

⚠️Instead of support for complex care the system is primed for suspicion

The need for co-produced evidence based frameworks is vital

Campaign details👇

‘Why fabricated or induced illness needs to be dropped as a child protection category’

By Andy Bilson and Taliah Drayak The term fabricated or induced illness (FII) was introduced in 2002 to replace the discredited idea of Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSbP). The label was meant to…

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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 1h

They approached an imaginary yellow line in a landscape that looks nothing like it did just a few weeks ago.

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 14h

Palestinian families eager to reunite with loved ones due to be freed learned that Israel had deported them instead. Amid the pain and the decimation of Gaza, U.S. President Donald Trump declared the “dawn of a new Middle East” at the Knesset.

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Palestinians freed from Israeli prison denied reunion with families as Trump claims a ‘forever’ peace

Palestinian families eager to reunite with loved ones due to be freed learned that Israel had deported them instead. Amid the pain and the decimation of Gaza, U.S. President Donald Trump declared the...

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 18h

You can watch our full interview with Sid Khan, from our brand new podcasting studio, on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nn1...

The National Meets: Sid Khan of the Global Sumud Flotilla

YouTube video by The National

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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 17h

"We found, on average, about 67% of individuals who had had Covid-19 remained unwell in one way or the other," Dr. Achan said. "In a significant proportion of them, they are still unwell two to three years after the acute illness."

#LongCovid in Africa

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Africa: Beyond Malaria - Uncovering the Overlapping Crisis of Long Covid in Ethiopia and Uganda

While governments lifted restrictions and international attention moved elsewhere after some declared victory over the initial, acute phase of the Covid-19 pandemic, a significant portion of Covid-19 ...

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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 22h

But they've banned celebrations at every other hostage/prisoner/detainee release, so I'd imagine it's the same now. :(

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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 22h

The alt text on this post claims that it mentions "demonstrations supporting terrorist organisations" and not celebrations per se... 😕 bsky.app/profile/news...

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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 1d

...instance of that sort while working on Department of Error.

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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 1d

It's not a really function of peer review, but maybe it should be. There is a huge amount of trust that the authors have got things right when citing other articles, and are citing correctly and appropriately.
Errors of that sort are never corrected post publication. I can't think of a single...

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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 1d

At TL, we were only supposed to check cited Lancet refs, but I would always tend to check at least the abstract of other refs if things didn't look right. But it's difficult if you don't have access to the whole paper. And of course it takes lots of time we didn't have.

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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 1d

This is their reply:

Screenshot of Twitter convo confirming that Bucks Highways grit the roads on one day in October to test that everything on the gritters is working properly before they are needed in the next few weeks.

Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 1d

As a medical editor, I used to be that mechanism!

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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 1d

The scale of the destruction is so incredibly mindblowing.

It must just leave everyone who experiences it with a sense of unreality.

But the reality is that one entity decided to do this to a whole people and their land.

Almost incomprehensible.

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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 1d

And sometimes it happens by mistake.
I saw another example in a article about covid by a researcher I respected, so I wrote to tell them, so they could correct the error. Never heard anything back. 🤷

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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 1d

Some geographical snooping in Gaza.

Just seen this post from Bisan - www.instagram.com/p/DPtjly4ivFJ/

taking about the Kuwaiti roundabout on Salah A'deen street.

I think this is what it looked like before Israel turned it to dust.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

🏥 Dr. Munir Al-Barsh, Director General of Gaza’s Ministry of Health, outlined several urgently needed steps to support the medical needs in Gaza.

“We demand justice, not pity,” he said. “The health sector is devastated and suffering severely after two years of extermination. The world must stand...

▪️ Field hospitals must be established in the north, center, and south to relieve pressure. Over 17,000 patients need urgent treatment already approved by WHO.

▪️ “Children with cancer and deformities, women with chronic diseases — this is their right.”

▪️ Water and sewage networks must be repaired to prevent epidemics such as cholera, diarrhea, and skin diseases.

▪️ A program is needed to employ health graduates, technicians, and administrators to sustain operations.

▪️ Support is required for prosthetics, assistive devices, and rehabilitation programs to reintegrate people with disabilities into work, education, and society.

Dr.Muneer Alboursh د.منيرالبرش via X (@Dr_Muneer1):
We are facing major challenges in the health sector and thousands of wounded are still in hospitals, while saving patients and restoring hospitals requires a long time… The occupation destroyed Gaza City’s hospitals including Al-Rantisi Children’s Hospital, Sheikh Radwan Clinic, large parts of Hamad Hospital and the Psychiatric Hospital… Thirty-eight hospitals were destroyed and only around twelve remain partially functioning with operating rooms, intensive care units and laboratories destroyed and severe shortages of beds, blood units and ventilators… There are power and water cuts and even clean water is almost unavailable in hospitals… More than 1700 health workers were martyred and over 360 were arrested… Medical teams are physically and mentally exhausted after two years of continuous work… Diseases have spread amid overcrowding and displacement with rising cases of skin infections and diarrhea and disruption of supply chains… More than 17000 wounded must be evacuated immediately and their names are approved by the United Nations… We have estimated our health sector needs at over 7 billion dollars… What is urgently required is to rescue the system by rehabilitating and reopening hospitals or establishing field hospitals, dispatching surgical missions, and supplying medicines, emergency and intensive care materials, chronic disease treatments, vaccines and antibiotics, and opening safe and permanent medical corridors… The

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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 1d

Here's another example here:

From my notes, an example of miscitation by Graham Sutton, who wrote that "membership of an ME group predicts a poor outcome" but cites a study that does not say that at all, as they didn't measure it.

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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 1d

Oh yes!
That's a common way to get complete nonsense cemented into the literature.

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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 2d

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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 2d

Oh sweet chestnut, what hath you brought forth for me this year?
More disappointment, I’m afraid.

A spreading sweet chestnut tree from below.

Three prickly chestnut fruits on the brown soil, but all have tiny nuts with no kernel.

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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 2d

I wish I'd realised this 20 years ago, and then I could have rectified the situation by planting a companion.

But I probably thought back then, oh it will take too long...
(it takes about 20 years!). 🙄

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Sweet chestnut - Wikipedia

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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 2d

And of course now I learn that sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa) is self-incompatible, so the lack of another specimen in the neighbourhood is the cause of the empty nuts.

However, the poor tree has produced the odd one in the past, but as a clone I suspect even that would not do, even if I grew it

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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 2d

Oh sweet chestnut, what hath you brought forth for me this year?
More disappointment, I’m afraid.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d

Can’t stop thinking about the fact that RFK Jr just fired the group who were responsible for connecting the initial dots during the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

These are vital roles that save lives.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 3d

Among many others at the CDC, the Trump regime laid off the staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

“The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic.”

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 2d

It's a regular sweet (European) chestnut (Castanea sativa), but the nuts almost never develop beyond very small.
I'll post a pic tomorrow.

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