Rebecca Johnson Bista @rebeccaji.bsky.social · 05/04/2025it’s all I know about Girl Scouts in the USA. Girl Scouts AKA Girl Guides here, are UK-based, invented by Lord Baden Powell and his sister Agnes in the early 1900s, then spread around the world. so I know a bit about Guiding in the UK, and was one once. Bake sales are not a major part of UK Guides.world.so 010
Reposted by Rebecca Johnson BistaMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 05/04/2025WHAT THE F**K! 885250647774
Reposted by Rebecca Johnson BistaBilly Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Global News: 'Vancouver rally raising awareness around long COVID' 'A small demonstration in Downtown Vancouver shedding light on a condition that is not yet fully understood. Millions of Canadians suffer from symptoms of long COVID..that can be debilitating' globalnews.ca/video/110839...globalnews.caVancouver rally raising awareness around long COVID | Watch News Videos OnlineWatch Vancouver rally raising awareness around long COVID Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca 1316
Reposted by Rebecca Johnson BistaOpen Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 17/03/2025"We’re in the midst of an authoritarian takeover of the U.S. government.... Our problem in part is a failure of imagination. We cannot get ourselves to see how this is going to unfold in its most frightening versions." --Lee Bollinger, former president of Columbia University. 313345
Reposted by Rebecca Johnson BistaBilly Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 01/03/2025KSDK: “COVID-19 turns 5 this year, but it's far from being gone” "Right now we think that there are more people living with long covid than realize it," Cheng said www.ksdk.com/article/news...ksdk.comCOVID-19 turns 5 this year, but it's far from being goneFor some, it's not much different than dealing with a cold or flu. But for others, COVID completely upended their lives. 17925
Rebecca Johnson Bista @rebeccaji.bsky.social · 28/02/2025stoptrump.org.uk/petition-can...stoptrump.org.ukPetition: Cancel Trump’s state visitStop Trump Coalition 020
Reposted by Rebecca Johnson BistaThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 15/02/2025Good journalism, unlike academic writing, “often emerges from the convergence of disagreement and befuddlement,” Joshua Rothman writes. In a new Weekend Essay, he reflects on his turn to reporting.newyorker.comAn Academic’s Journey Toward ReportingI was used to a disembodied way of working: identify a philosophical problem, then study it. What could spending time with a philosopher teach me about his ideas? 39315
Reposted by Rebecca Johnson BistaGregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 15/02/2025They are gutting NIH like a fish. www.splinter.com/the-unhinged...splinter.comThe Unhinged Axe Falls on the National Cancer Institute and the Rest of NIHSplinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day. 6392153
Reposted by Rebecca Johnson BistaRebecca Gethin @rgethin.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Betrayal is betrayal. I always thought better of America. 011
Reposted by Rebecca Johnson Bistasimonworrallauthor.bsky.social @simonworrallauthor.bsky.social · 15/02/2025“Love is a great privilege. Real #love, which is very rare, enriches the lives of the men and women who experience it.” —Simone de Beauvoir #simonedebeauvoir #lovers #paris #france 121
Reposted by Rebecca Johnson BistaJorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 15/02/2025www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comMore than 1,100 dead sea turtles washed up along southern India’s coastlineThe mass death of once-endangered olive ridley turtles in January has prompted an increase in wildlife patrols and a crackdown on fishing boats 052
Reposted by Rebecca Johnson Bistaex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 15/02/2025The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available. 3972657611683
Reposted by Rebecca Johnson BistaJorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 15/02/2025www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comUS Forest Service and National Park Service to fire thousands of workersWildfire-management groups say Trump’s latest push to trim government could impede firefighting efforts 114
Reposted by Rebecca Johnson BistaBilly Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 15/02/2025NBC Washington: '‘Taking away years of experience': NIH probationary employees fired Friday' 'Scientists and medical researchers being let go by President Trump’s administration walked out of the gates of the NIH..appearing shaken, some in tears..' www.nbcwashington.com/news/preside...nbcwashington.com‘Taking away years of experience': NIH probationary employees fired FridayScientists and medical researchers being let go by President Donald Trump’s administration walked out of the gates of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, Friday afternoon appearin... 051
Reposted by Rebecca Johnson BistaJorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 15/02/2025This!!! Thank you @tribelaw.bsky.social ! Pass it on. Read the comments. 031
Reposted by Rebecca Johnson BistaAnthropoceneMPG 🌊 @anthropocenempg.bsky.social · 15/02/2025#GlobalHeatingImpossibleToSlowDown 04116
Reposted by Rebecca Johnson BistaGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 08/02/2025Call your R reps. If you have a regional accent, make the most of it. Tell them you didn't vote for CANCER and ask them what the hell they're gonna do to stop Musk and Trump. reps.fyi 6441281873
Reposted by Rebecca Johnson BistaChristophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 09/02/2025👀 posted by @jlerollblues.bsky.social on Twitter 30mins ago: "From SARS-CoV-2 on substack: H5N1 Bird Flu Is About to Go Global. The D1.1 strain of H5N1 in Nevada has acquired the PB2 D701N mutation, allowing it to adapt to mammals." OP: x.com/jlerollblues... 33220
Reposted by Rebecca Johnson BistaNicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Trials abandoned due to the stop-work order on USAID-funded research: 8550386
Rebecca Johnson Bista @rebeccaji.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Great plan. What could possibly go wrong? 000
Reposted by Rebecca Johnson BistaDenis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 31/01/2025AUSTRALIA weekly COVID update: 31 January 2025 #COVID19Australia #COVIDisntOVER #COVIDisAIRBORNE 26017
Rebecca Johnson Bista @rebeccaji.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Just maybe they thinks take a look at the research on ME/CFS before declaring - yet again - that this condition is new to the world? Why doesn’t the penny drop? 140
Reposted by Rebecca Johnson BistaDenis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 30/01/2025New Zealand: Covid-19 ‘brain fog’ likely factor in near-miss train crash in South Island. "A KiwiRail engineer experiencing after-effects of Covid-19 failed to stop at a red signal nearly causing a train collision last year." Source: archive.md/6GI2m 424983
Reposted by Rebecca Johnson BistaThe Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 28/01/2025“Isn’t life like that? We live it, only half-knowing what it is, aware of possibilities all along but often mistaken as to their full meaning. Then time may change it all, throw it in a new perspective.” —Elizabeth Spencer www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2...theparisreview.orgElizabeth Spencer, The Art of Fiction No. 110A portrait of Elizabeth Spencer from the film Landscapes of the Heart. Elizabeth Spencer has published a large body of work, yet she became famous for a novella she wrote in a month. The i... 082
Reposted by Rebecca Johnson BistaIt's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) a funder of biomedical research particularly as it applies to military readiness, appears to be entirely gone. cdmrp.health.mil 32412
Reposted by Rebecca Johnson BistaIt's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 27/01/2025A good thread about what's missing from where, and a place to report what's gone. 12715
Reposted by Rebecca Johnson BistaWonder Mutt @wondermutt.bsky.social · 25/01/2025I am grateful to the NIH for publications that were critical in helping me develop a treatment regime that is finally working against my own Long COVID. I won’t have that resource during the next pandemic. #RIPNIH #RIPUSA RIP—me? 153
Rebecca Johnson Bista @rebeccaji.bsky.social · 24/01/2025A mask ban is a form of eugenics. State sponsored manslaughter. It is surely a human and constitutional right to choose how to protect oneself as an individual. 151
Reposted by Rebecca Johnson BistaChantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Study finds acute Covid associated with a 50% ⬆️ in car crashes, vaccination was not protective "The odds ratio of car crashes associated with COVID-19 was comparable to driving under the influence of alcohol at legal limits or driving with a seizure disorder" 10270110
Reposted by Rebecca Johnson BistaBilly Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 24/01/2025ScienceBlog: 'Scientists Discover ‘Blood Fingerprint’ of Long COVID in Children, Paving Way for First Diagnostic Test' 'Using advanced protein analysis and artificial intelligence, the research team examined blood samples from 112 children...' scienceblog.com/553371/scien...scienceblog.comScientists Discover 'Blood Fingerprint' of Long COVID in Children, Paving Way for First Diagnostic TestIn a discovery that could transform how doctors diagnose and treat Long COVID in young patients, Italian researchers have identified a distinct molecular 0104
Reposted by Rebecca Johnson BistaBilly Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Forbes: 'Higher Risk Of Long COVID In Women, Link Between SARS-CoV-2 And ME/CFS' As Dr. Horwitz remarked, “For the millions of people suffering from long COVID worldwide, finding effective treatments is an urgent priority." www.forbes.com/sites/davewe...forbes.comHigher Risk Of Long COVID In Women, Link Between SARS-CoV-2 And ME/CFSRisk of long COVID is higher in women and a link between SARS-CoV-2 infection and development of ME/CFS is shown, according to new studies. 421353
Reposted by Rebecca Johnson BistaBilly Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Live Science: '1 in 22 COVID survivors develop debilitating chronic syndrome' 'A study suggests that catching COVID-19 significantly raises the risk of developing ME/CFS..' "This study's findings underscore the urgent need for treatments," Pollack said www.livescience.com/health/coron...livescience.com1 in 22 COVID survivors develop debilitating chronic syndromeA study suggests that catching COVID-19 significantly raises the risk of developing ME/CFS (formerly called "chronic fatigue syndrome"), a typically lifelong condition that can be debilitating. 0368
Reposted by Rebecca Johnson BistaOpen Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Umberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism #3. The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.”openculture.comUmberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of FascismCreative Commons image by Rob Bogaerts, via the National Archives in Holland One of the key questions facing both journalists and loyal oppositions these days is how do we stay honest as euphemisms an... 3320128
Rebecca Johnson Bista @rebeccaji.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Denmark clearly floundering in a mire of Covid/infection misinformation. How can anyone be so ignorant of how disease spreads? A) it’s in the air; b) you need more masks, less focus on the hand washing; c) distance distance distance, or better still, stay at home if you are symptomatic. Humans eh? 021
Reposted by Rebecca Johnson BistaSally Witcher @salwitcher.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Whatever your views on assisted dying - this is NOT what democracy looks like. 23521
Reposted by Rebecca Johnson BistaRachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 23/01/2025My piece is out! A history of archaeological scholarship on the potential for matrilineal societies in Iron Age Europe. 15623186
Rebecca Johnson Bista @rebeccaji.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Shocking. Like Ireland used to be with removing ads from women’s magazines. And stupid, because people will have prepared and word will pass round anyway, just like it used to before 1973 RvW. All it means is later, less safe abortions. 000
Rebecca Johnson Bista @rebeccaji.bsky.social · 23/01/2025"God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone; He that sings a lasting song Thinks in a marrow-bone." William Butler Yeats 010
Reposted by Rebecca Johnson BistaThereForME @thereforme.bsky.social · 23/01/2025We saw some requests for transparency re: who is involved in the Task & Finish group for the new Delivery Plan for ME/CFS. We raised this with DHSC who have kindly given us permission to share the list. On our new Delivery Plan explainer here 👇 www.thereforme.uk/p/about-the-...thereforme.ukAbout the Delivery Plan for ME/CFSIn March 2025 the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) will publish a cross-government delivery plan for ME/CFS, aiming to improve attitudes, bolster research and better lives. 3246
Rebecca Johnson Bista @rebeccaji.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Please sign and share this petition against forced psychiatric hospitalisation of a young Danish woman with ME. How can Denmark not know yet that ME is not a psychiatric disorder? Such treatment is dangerously inhumane. 000
Reposted by Rebecca Johnson BistaIan Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 23/01/2025RIP Michael Longley. I'd known him for over 40 years when he taught an Arvon with Paul Muldoon. I always said Paul supplied the genius, but Michael the magic: how else would a classicist write 'Ceasefire', an intervention into a vicious war admired by both sides? Ave atque vale. 36114
Reposted by Rebecca Johnson BistaTom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 23/01/2025New free audio piece: "Caroline Kingdon | From Stigma to Support: A New Approach to ME/CFS Treatment in the UK" www.scipod.global/caroline-kin... A sympathetic description of some information in the 2021 NICE ME/CFS guidelines. #MEcfs #CFS #PwME 1165
Reposted by Rebecca Johnson BistaRabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 08/12/2024A photo I posted of graffiti in Syria in 2014. "One day the war will be over and I will return to my poem" I hope they will return to their poem 4681781778