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Becca Wilson
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Tenure Track Fellow on wheels Uni of Liverpool [email protected]. PI #DataSHIELD datashield.org. 2016 #SSIFellow. 2020 ShawTrust #Power100. #DataPrivacy #FederatedAnalytics #HealthDataScience. #AcademicAbleism #DisabledInStem #WhiskyGeek Views own.
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Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.
February 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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The Covid Inquiry has revealed systemic failures that left Clinically Vulnerable families unprotected during the pandemic.

Our latest update delves into these oversights and their lasting impact.

Read more:
www.clinicallyvulnerable.org/post/covid-i...
How Clinically Vulnerable Families Were Left Behind
It has now been five years since the emergence of Covid, and nearly four since Boris Johnson announced what he had dubbed ‘Freedom Day’. But for some in Clinically Vulnerable Families (CVF), true rest...
www.clinicallyvulnerable.org
February 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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👤 Our first starter pack is a handy repository for all SSI Fellows on Bluesky. Connect with them at
go.bsky.app/BaXzrAh and if we've missed missed anyone, please let us know!
February 13, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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I am #recruiting an #infrastructure #RSE to work on #OpenSource #DataSHIELD for #FederatedAnalysis of health data. Experience in one of e.g. Linux server admin, database usage, Docker, Kubernetes

Salary: £39,105-£58,596
Duration: 1-2 yrs dependent on salary

Details: bit.ly/4ht8cUs
Closes 12 Feb.
Job Specification
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January 28, 2025 at 1:55 PM
drbeccawilson.bsky.social
Showing my age 😱. Not sure why we are holding onto these, but we are somewhat nostalgic about them. Does anyone else have these? What followed after this was subsequent 15 years of #Linux. #Vintage #Retro #Microsoft #Windows95 #Windows98 #WindowsNT #WindowsXP #Windows7
A black cd case holding install discs for Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT and Windows XP.
January 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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greensagainstcovid.bsky.social
We are dismayed that the Health Secretary has utterly misinterpreted the evidence from the Inquiry. Although Ritchie restated her flawed beliefs, the evidence is overwhelming, and was presented to the Inquiry, that the primary mode of transmission of SarsCov2 is airborne.
Letter states: The Government understands the debilitating effect that long COVID cna have on adults and children and is committed to improving the lives of people living with the condition. As someone who has been suffering with long COVID , I understand just how debilitating it can be. Sine my appointment in July, I have held a number of meetings to look much more closely at long COVID and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrom and how we can best support people with these conditions. As of 1 April 2024 there are over 90 adult post-COVID services acros sEngland, along with an additional ten children's and young people's hubs. These services assess people with long COVID and direct them to care pathways that provide appropriate support and treatment. GPs will assess patiehnts who have COVID-19 symptoms lasting longer than four weeks and refer them to a long-COVID service where appropriate. I also appreciate Ms McConway's concerns about airborne transmision of COVID-19. [highlighted]Although not the primary mode of transmission [/highlighted], smaller particles can remain airborne for extended periods and travel further distances. Transmission may occur under certain conditions, such as in enclosed and poorly ventilated spaces and during specific aerosol generating medical procedures. This transmission mode has been implicated in some outbreak scenarios, including choir practices and indoor gatherings. Guidance has been published on transmission routes which can be found at www.gov.uk/government/publications/sars-cov-2-transmission-routes-and-endvironments-22-october-2020. [highlighted]In her testimony to the COVID-19 Inquiry, Dr Lisa Ritchie, NHS England's National INfection PRevention and Control LEad, reaffirmed that COVID-19 is not predominantly transmitted throug the airborne route. This position is supported by the Government [/highlighted] and
January 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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A few months ago I tested the new @merseytravel.bsky.social level boarding trains for AccessAble & @lpoolcityregion.bsky.social . A very windy and rainy day, but the new trains are life-changing for #Wheelchair users. #Accessibility #Liverpool #Southport

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January 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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DWP's consultation on disability benefit reforms unlawful, High Court rules
The DWP's consultation into plans to slash billions from disability benefits has been ruled unlawful in a damning High Court ruling.
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January 16, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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If only public health authorities gave the same level of emphasis to portable air filters as they do to handwashing…

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January 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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In early 2020, a pandemic was spreading. The UK’s PM went on a 10 day half-term holiday during which he was uncontactable and the government went into panic mode, focusing, as Hancock related to the COVID enquiry, on buying enough body bags. 1/8
January 14, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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cvcev.bsky.social
🧼 “You can’t hand wash your way out of this quad-demic because it is mainly spread by what you breathe in and what you breathe out."

- Dr @evonnetcurran.bsky.social retired infection control nurse.

inews.co.uk/news/health/...
'I was an infectious disease nurse, I've never seen a crisis like the quad-demic' A retired infection control nurse says she has never known a situation in hospitals where four viruses are rife at such high levels Winter flu pressures continue to rage at hospitals across England with an average of 5,408 patients a day in hospital with flu in the first week of January, new figures show (Photo: Jeff Moore/PA) Aasma Day
January 11, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Brilliant substack @independentsage.bsky.social . UK is a failure of #PublicHealth policy & messaging re #covid19 #Indoor #AirQuality and #mitigations. Not even consistent with historical practice. Real life example of the allegorical film Don't look Up. open.substack.com/pub/independ...
Learning lessons from the COVID pandemic…we could do SO much better.
We must mitigate, vaccinate, and communicate...
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January 9, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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🚨 Clinically Vulnerable Families call for robust IPC measures in healthcare to reduce preventable infections and further lost lives.

inews.co.uk/news/son-hos...
'My son has been hospitalised twice with Covid, I'm terrified by the quad-emic'
Clinically vulnerable patients delay or cancel appointments as ‘quad-demic’ of flu, Covid, Norovirus and RSV hits hospitals
inews.co.uk
January 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
drbeccawilson.bsky.social
When your #PIP mandatory reconsideration fails and you now have to take it to #tribunal and wonder where the #Spoons will come from. I provided my #SocialCare needs assessment as evidence of the HUMAN assistance I require for daily living. #DWP can't read the evidence 🤷‍♀️. #Disabled #Welfare
January 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Well things have not improved this week. Visible App Stability score Mon-Friday 2, 2, 1, 2, 1 😭😭😭. Fatigue is my normal levels, only my heart rate is stupidly high 🤷‍♀️. Going to deep rest for the next 2 weeks while Uni is closed. #CFS #TM #disability #ChronicIllness #DisabledInSTEM
Visible app graph showing stability scores for the last month. A downward trend in the graph.
December 20, 2024 at 9:00 PM
drbeccawilson.bsky.social
I'm using the free Visible pacing app to manage #CFS like symptoms (primary & secondary #fatigue for #neuroinflammatory #disability). First time i've scored lowest value for stability. Prob should take the day off sick, but got 3 meetings today 😭🤷‍♀️ #ChronicIllness #DisabledInSTEM #DisabledAcademic
Visible App output - text reads "Score 1, out of balance. Be kind to yourself today. Your body needs rest to get back to baseline. HRV lower than average and far outside it's normal range. Resting heart rate is much higher than your recent average, and is far outside of its normal range".
December 18, 2024 at 6:31 AM
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Who uses #DataSHIELD open source software for #FederatedAnalysis with #AutomatedSDC ? Over 180 data sites, across 5 continents, over 40 international research consortia. www.linkedin.com/posts/drbecc...
Rebecca Wilson on LinkedIn: #datashield #puma #metadata #publications #research #impact #interactive…
𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗘𝗟𝗗?   This summer DataSHIELD undergraduate Kathryn Ward joined the DataSHIELD research project, University of Liverpool as a…
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December 12, 2024 at 1:28 PM
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Living in the UK?
Concerned about the lack of testing for COVID and spread of infections within hospitals?
Then support and share this petition to 'direct the @UKHSA to monitor, and report on, numbers of COVID infections that occur in healthcare settings'.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Petition: Direct the UKHSA to monitor COVID infections that occur in particular settings.
Ensure that the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) monitors, and reports on, the numbers of COVID infections that occur in healthcare settings through its routine surveillance programmes, and advises o...
petition.parliament.uk
December 10, 2024 at 9:20 PM
drbeccawilson.bsky.social
#Disability is about grieving & acceptance. Acceptance was quick for me: once neurologist said spinal cord damage was permanent unlikely to improve there was nothing I could do. Grieving: 11 yrs on I still mourn the life we will never have & how hard our life is now. #ableism #TM #WheelchairUser
brianamillslmft.bsky.social Briana Mills, LMFT ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @brianamillslmft.bsky.social · Nov 29
So much of being disabled is grieving. Grieving the body you’ll never have, grieving the capabilities you used to have but no longer do, grieving friends and family who no longer reach out. It’s a heavy, ongoing type of grief that is compounding.
November 30, 2024 at 7:44 AM
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Thread from #CovidEnquiry evidence from mid 1st pandemic year showed covid being airborne - but PPE e.g. FFP3 masking has never been adopted in healthcare settings and staff can work covid+ without precautions spreading it to patients and colleagues. #disabled #CV #ChronicallyIll are on their own.
November 25, 2024 at 7:55 AM
drbeccawilson.bsky.social
CV, chronically ill & disabled people were not protected then, and are not protected now. Identical to self advocacy for disability (to get diagnosis, equipment, social care, adjustments, blue badge, PIP, Access to Work) you are alone unsupported and must arrange / pay for mitigations yourself!
cvcev.bsky.social Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · Nov 21
🚨Matt Hancock explained "It was not clinically safe to have cancer treatment during the pandemic"

Cancer patients are severely immunosuppressed whilst undergoing treatment. Their immune defenses are low.

We ask what is different for this group today?
November 23, 2024 at 7:34 AM
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Andrew Tate:

I’M HERE

Bluesky:

No
November 20, 2024 at 4:24 PM
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I heard that Andrew Tate tried to come stretch his awkward wings here and got banned in just one day.

Sorry, hate has no home here. Stay in the bad place, thanks.
November 20, 2024 at 3:29 PM
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🚨ANNOUNCEMENT:
Our open letter, signed by leading scientists & HCPs, urges the JCVI & UK Gov to reverse the decision denying COVID vaccines to millions of Clinically Vulnerable people who still qualify for 'flu vaccines.

A "willingness-to-pay" approach puts lives at risk.
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Hyperlink to more accessible .pdf on the next post. Image of first page of open letter to the JCVI and UK Government from with header image Clinically Vulnerable Families logo Open Letter: Maintain Covid-19 Vaccine Access for All Clinically Vulnerable People Hyperlink to more accessible .pdf on the next post. Image of second page of open letter to the JCVI and UK Government signed by Clinically Vulnerable Families founder Lara Wong,
November 19, 2024 at 12:02 AM
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COVID VACCINE ELIGIBILITY 🇬🇧,
a thread🧵

JCVI have just advised that, going forwards, eligibility for Covid vaccination will be even more tightly restricted.

But the ‘bespoke cost-effectiveness assessment’ upon which this is based is heavily flawed…

gov.uk/government/p...
November 15, 2024 at 12:08 PM