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Angry Redhead

@sidherian.bsky.social
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Aus GenX, cranky femme lesbian 🐈🫖🗾 80s New Wave music nerd. Clean air, N95 😷, Greens member. #COVIDISNOTOVER #MASKFORYOURLIFE No DMs.

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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It was a name chosen to respect LC It's the Title Name But... It would be disrespectful and indecent to push MECFS aside They were the loudest voices of support for early Long-Haulers They too have much to teach Medicine and Allied Health
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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Some things in Neurobiology are just... Well... 😎‼️ How certain types of memory work. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Storage of Spatial Information by the Maintenance Mechanism of LTP
Analogous to learning and memory storage, long-term potentiation (LTP) is divided into induction and maintenance phases. Testing the hypothesis that the mechanism of LTP maintenance stores information...
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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Link to the paper, @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social 🧠 Daily Feed of Brain Damage 🧠 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Increased phosphorylated tau (pTau-181) is associated with neurological post-acute sequelae of coronavirus disease in essential workers: a prospective cohort study before and after COVID-19 onset
The COVID-19 pandemic led to a spectrum of post-acute sequelae including several neurological complications including cognitive dysfunction labelled N…
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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
doi.org/10.1183/2312...
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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Clever little virus www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Secreted ORF8 reprograms macrophages to enhance SARS-CoV-2 infection of lung epithelial cells
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) primarily targets the respiratory epithelium, yet severe disease features diffuse lung injury and hyperinflammatory syndromes driven by dys...
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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🧠 Daily Feed of Brain Damage 🧠 doi.org/10.1016/j.yn...
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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When you don't bother with precautions in Health Care doi.org/10.1002/ajim...
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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Elegant study from @profmarkfaghy.bsky.social and his outstanding Team.... Now in ink🖋😎 doi.org/10.1093/oxfi...
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An Open-Label Feasibility Study of Remdesivir in Long COVID: Results from the ERASE LC Trial
AbstractObjective. Treatment of acute COVID-19 with anti-viral and immunomodulator medications demonstrates a reduced risk of long-term outcomes. To date,
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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Things that don't improve over time pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/...
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Five-year Quantitative Chest CT and Hyperpolarized Xenon 129 Ventilation MRI Findings in Survivors of COVID-19 Pneumonia | Radiology
Five years after COVID-19 pneumonia, some survivors showed persistent respiratory symptoms, abnormal diffusion capacity, and ventilation defects, with stabilization of pulmonary function and chest ...
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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Metabolic derangement following acute infection... Possibly a predictor of LC going forward. Only COVID causes Long C-19 doi.org/10.1016/j.di...
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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
And then.... There's Measles 🤦🏻‍♂️ doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🧠 Daily Feed of Brain Damage 🧠 In case you're wondering why people have "attitude" and anger issues 😳 doi.org/10.3390/neur...
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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Shit‼️ My BAD🤦🏻‍♂️ Take ...#2 www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/15...
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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You're absolutely right, Steve🙏🏻😊 My apologies... The puppies were having a bath... Chaos ensued 😂😂
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Mike Honey @mikehoney.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here's the latest variant picture with a global scope, to early September. XFG.* "Stratus" variants remained dominant, but fell to 43% frequency. The new saltation variant PJ.2.1 is driving all the growth of the JN.1.* + DeFLuQE JN.1.* + DeFLuQE lineages, growing steadily to 6%. 🧵
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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🧠 Daily Feed of Brain Damage 🧠 Part 2 The gift that keeps giving 👀 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Posthospitalization COVID-19 cognitive deficits at 1 year are global and associated with elevated brain injury markers and gray matter volume reduction - Nature Medicine
A national prospective study of patients requiring hospitalization for COVID-19 demonstrates global cognitive deficits at 1 year, associated with elevated brain injury markers and reduced gray matter ...
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Angry Redhead @sidherian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NSW Health once again hiding comments that don’t fit their narrative. Having a healthy lifestyle is good for everyone, but that alone won’t prevent dementia. Outsourcing public health to individuals doesn’t work for COVID, won’t work for dementia.
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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If ultimately there's no criminal responsibility for this incident here then FOI just became a lot easier if we ask AI agents to go find those documents for us. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Albanese says OpenAI hacked Medicare and told Australia months later via email to generic inbox
Prime minister says he told Sam Altman he was disappointed it had taken OpenAI ‘way too long’ to disclose breach
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Crowbar @crowbar.wtf · 24/09/2026
4 Corners do a dodgy investigation into Chinese EVs being susceptible to “hacking”, meanwhile an AI has a nosy around private data in an Australian government system. Make the world make sense.
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Angry Redhead @sidherian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Via Zdenek Vrozina Comments below theirs. Cognitive fatigue is related to reduced cerebral perfusion and sustained attention in patients with post COVID-19 condition: An fMRI study
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Angry Redhead @sidherian.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Via Hiroshi Yasuda "as attention shifts to the prolonged sequelae of COVID-19, commonly referred to as Long COVID, a troubling pattern has emerged: symptoms often resemble or exacerbate chronic conditions, including neurodegenerative diseases and autoimmune disorders.
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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Well worth a read... Sleep restriction is not the same as sleep fragmentation or sleep deprivation... Sleep loss is many things Start here 🏁 doi.org/10.3389/fnag...
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Frontiers | Acute total sleep deprivation transiently increases plasma total tau but not plasma P-tau181 in healthy adults
BackgroundSleep deprivation is a modifiable risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Plasma amyloid-β (Aβ) and phosphorylated tau (P-tau) are closely relate...
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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
And whilst we're on the subject: doi.org/10.1093/cerc...
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Who are these unofficial informants scouring social media feeds to report “problematic posts” to employers and regulatory bodies?
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It wasn’t enough that a targeted campaign was used to defame and damage me by deliberately mischaracterising one cartoon. Now those same obsessive bullies are using other people’s posts about that cartoon to destroy their careers. Are we living under the Stasi now?
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David Metcalf @dlmetcalf.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Has parallels to JD Vance removing requirements for U.S. military to get flu vaccinations and then having predictable new outbreaks on bases, deaths, hospitalisations spiking and having to reverse course. Albo's Hanson-ising government in advance, in a race to the bottom.
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Angry Redhead @sidherian.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Via @atranscendedman RECOVER studied 74 autopsies and found replicating SARS-CoV-2 in the heart in 11 cases. 82% had cardiac Long COVID symptoms. The virus was found inside heart muscle cells alongside immune and structural changes, supporting viral persistence.
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USCAP 2026 Annual Meeting
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Angry Redhead @sidherian.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Via @atranscendedman RECOVER studied 74 autopsies and found replicating SARS-CoV-2 in the heart in 11 cases. 82% had cardiac Long COVID symptoms. The virus was found inside heart muscle cells alongside immune and structural changes, supporting viral persistence. Crossposted with @openvibe.social
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Angry Redhead @sidherian.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The Xitter rumours were true, access to COVID vaccines in Australia is being changed. Article explains the changes - payment now required if you don’t have eligibility. Crossposted with @openvibe.social
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Angry Redhead @sidherian.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Via @academic_la on Xitter Meanwhile most Australia Premiers & PM are calling meetings. 1) The Philippines declared a national energy emergency. Government offices have shifted to a four-day work week, and agencies must cut fuel and electricity use by 10–20%.
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Angry Redhead @sidherian.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Via @osintPk on Xitter NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THE HELIUM CRISIS BUT THE REALITY WILL SHOCK YOU Everyone is panicking about oil but there is a silent crisis happening right now in the Strait of Hormuz that will actually stop the modern world from functioning.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
New Human Rights Watch report finds that the US Israel massacre of an elementary school in southern Iran has to be investigated as a war crime. The US and Israel had sufficient information and intel to know whether it was a school or not. www.hrw.org/news/2026/03...
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US/Israel: Investigate Iran School Attack as a War Crime
An unlawful attack on a primary school in southern Iran before midday on February 28, 2026 that reportedly killed scores of civilians, including many children, should be investigated as a war crime, H...
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Angry Redhead @sidherian.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
#C0VIDisnotover #maskforyourlife #cleantheair
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Dr Satoshi Akima, FRACP @toshiakima.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
A good documentation of COVID history preserving data for posterity before it is vanished substack.com/home/post/p-...
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The Curious Case of the Disappearing Data
Last night I tried to access a dataset I’ve used many times before.
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Angry Redhead @sidherian.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
#C0VIDisnotover #maskforyourlife #cleantheair threadreaderapp.com/thread/20267...
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Thread by @loscharlos on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App
@loscharlos: “If Covid is quietly accelerating cognitive aging… in working-age adults, the consequences will ripple through workplaces & health systems for years.” “The incidence & prevalence of Alzheimer’s is going...…
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Don Milton @donmilton.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
We just published our “Insights from lack of transmission in a controlled transmission trial with naturally infected donors” in the journal PLOS Pathogens. I've summarized it in a Substack post. "How not to catch the flu?" profairborne.substack.com/p/how-not-to... #Influenza #AirborneInfection
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How not to catch the flu?
The airborne infection transmission pathway remains elusive
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Angry Redhead @sidherian.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
#C0VIDisnotover #maskforyourlife #cleantheair As some might know I’m in regular contact with NSW politician to whom I send COVID related papers & articles.
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Melissa Sweet @melissasweetdr.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Some interesting comments on the petition to #SaveVicHealth: www.change.org/p/keep-viche...
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Change.org
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Melissa Sweet @melissasweetdr.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Public records documented 257 meetings between tobacco lobbyists and Members of the European Parliament from 2023 to 2025, and an average of €14 million spent annually on lobbying activities in the EU. mailchi.mp/exposetobacc...
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Millions Spent to Undermine Lifesaving Policies
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VivVSTJJ @viviyngar.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
@an-leavy.bsky.social @maffygirl.medsky.social @asharao.bsky.social @lovenotgreed.bsky.social @drhilary.bsky.social @sidherian.bsky.social hope you are all ok Jacarandas are today’s offering. ‘End of their blossom)
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Angry Redhead @sidherian.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
#C0VIDisnotover #maskforyourlife #cleantheair Deep Scars Left by COVID-19 on Bones: Overlooked Idiopathic Femoral Head Necrosis.
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Angry Redhead @sidherian.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
#C0VIDisnotover #maskforyourlife #cleantheair While involved in a discussion on another platform about people forgetting COVID infections & rewriting what occurred emergency phase of pandemic I segued into toxoplasmosis (as you do) so came upon this article. www.sciencealert.com/we-finally-k...
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We Finally Know How The 'Mind-Altering' Cat Parasite Controls Our Immune Response : ScienceAlert
Up to 50 percent of global population is infected by the 'cat parasite' Toxoplasma gondii, and in some areas, the infection rate is as high as 95 percent.
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Angry Redhead @sidherian.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Via @smpwrgr.bsky.social @SMpwrgr@mastodon.au
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Angry Redhead @sidherian.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
#C0VIDisnotover #maskforyourlife #cleantheair Effectiveness of cough etiquette maneuvers in disrupting the chain of transmission of infectious respiratory diseases.
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Angry Redhead @sidherian.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
#C0VIDisnotover #maskforyourlife #cleantheair Persistent neurological sequelae in children and adolescents after SARS-CoV-2: a scoping review. Objectives For the past five years, COVID-19 has not only been a priority for health planning but also a hotspot for clinical research.
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Angry Redhead @sidherian.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Project Summary: A clinical trial to test if 2 repurposed HIV antivirals (Truvada & Maraviroc) can reduce symptom burden in patients with LongCOVID. Truvada, Maraviroc, or a placebo will be given to participants randomized to 1 of 3 groups to take for 90 days. polybio.org/projects/a-c...
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A clinical trial of repurposed HIV antivirals in LongCOVID - PolyBio Research Foundation
Project Summary:  A clinical trial to test if two repurposed HIV antivirals (Truvada and Maraviroc) can reduce symptom burden in patients with...
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Angry Redhead @sidherian.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
#covidisnotover #maskforyourlife #cleantheair Via @zdenikvrozina “A new important study in Frontiers shows that repeated SARS-CoV-2 infections are beginning to display same patterns seen in chronic viral infections - narrowing of T-cell repertoire, exhaustion, & loss of immune flexibility (!)🧵
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Angry Redhead @sidherian.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Via @michael_hoerger #covidisnotover #maskforyourlife #cleantheair “Patients may notice lasting changes to their sense of smell after SARS-CoV-2 infection. According to a study published in JAMA Network Open, these self-reports are often accurate indications of persistent olfactory dysfunction.
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Angry Redhead @sidherian.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Another superspreader event brought to you by @ACONhealth “Here for health”. They refuse to implement any airborne disease precautions because “no govt mandate” & instead throw this expensive party at a 5 star hotel. #covidisnotover #maskforyourlife #cleantheair m.facebook.com/story.php?st...
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