Reposted by Teunke ArvoAdam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 04/02/2026One lesson from the Epstein–Mandelson affair is that we need to stop routinely rehabilitating political careers after serious scandals. When politicians knowingly engage in grave ethical wrongdoing, that should permanently end their political careers. Being "talented" should not override that. 772176803888
Reposted by Teunke ArvoSylvana Simons @sylvanasimons.bsky.social · 04/02/2026“D66, daar kan ik me geen buil aan vallen” = stemmen zonder te denken aan de builen van anderen en vergeten dat die builen uiteindelijk ook jou zullen treffen. Peak privilege naïviteit die alleen 7 vinkers zich kunnen veroorloven. 2229651
Reposted by Teunke ArvoJoanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Apparently, Google Books deliberately removed search for previewed books?? For ANYONE doing research, this is a BIG deal. Not to be able to search for specific things that you need? For books that will help? For references used by other authors? My last book would have been impossible without it. 2026094
Reposted by Teunke Arvo@Marcel @elsschot.bsky.social · 03/02/2026In tijden van hybride oorlogsvoering is 'n weerbare samenleving essentieel. Dat vraagt om samenhang en solidariteit. Daarin past niet dat de rijken rijker worden en de armen armer. De coalitie doet 't tegendeel. Ze heeft de mond vol van veiligheid maar pakt minstbedeelden. @marcialuyten.bsky.social 69630
Reposted by Teunke ArvoGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/02/2026I'm guessing that the "Jes" in this message is that other moral paragon, Jes Staley, though I can't be sure. A Labour government minister, channelling the demands of his finance-bro chums. This, my friends, is how it happens. This is why we don't get what we want, or what we vote for. 15736124
Reposted by Teunke ArvoLisa Westerveld 🌱 @lisawesterveld.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Overigens zijn ook zinnen als ‘we voeren het VN-Verdrag Handicap uit’ een holle kreet. Nederland moét dit namelijk doen, en loopt achter. Ook het vorige kabinet zei dit trouwens, maar deed het niet. Want voor maatregelen is budget nodig. Dat weten VVD, D66 en CDA ook. 17374110
Reposted by Teunke ArvoME/CFS Science @mecfsscience.org · 01/02/20261) 🇩🇪 Researchers from Munich tested microcirculation in the eyes of Long Covid patients. They weren't interested in eyesight, but used the eye to study circulation and endothelial function in the brain. They call it a "accessible surrogate of cerebral microvascular function" 1338
Reposted by Teunke ArvoKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 01/02/2026People think being disabled is like being on vacation They say “you’re lucky! I wish I didn’t have to work!” Most of us would love to work. We would love to get out of bed. We would love to not be forced into legislated poverty Imagine your worst sick day on repeat forever That’s chronic illness 271299366
Reposted by Teunke ArvoDave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 30/01/2026what a whirlwind of a performer. RIP, Catherine O'Hara 271715322
Reposted by Teunke ArvoEmine Uğur @overlistener.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Looking at you, linkse kiezers die strategisch D66 hebben gestemd in de hoop op een centrumlinks kabinet. 1725656
Reposted by Teunke ArvoNadia Bouras @nadiabouras.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Meer oorlogswapens, meer gevangenissen, minder asielzoekers (succes met meer oorlog) en minder geld voor arbeidsongeschikten, werklozen, chronische zorgbehoevenden en gepensioneerden. Ik begrijp wel dat Yesilgöz glundert. 3840793
Reposted by Teunke ArvoT. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 29/01/2026See also "pragmatic", which means "my principles are actually just preferences". 1236
Reposted by Teunke ArvoMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 29/01/2026guess what reactivates EBV 26928
Reposted by Teunke ArvoJesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 16/01/2026What the US learned quickly from the UK was that popularizing certain language had advantages not just for perception, but law. All rollbacks of rights in the UK hinged in some way on the alleged immutability of binary sex and the illegitimacy of gender— accomplished not with science, but words. 128445
Reposted by Teunke ArvoNoortje van Lith @lithnoortje.bsky.social · 27/01/2026🎉 Goed nieuws! Het Facultatief Protocol bij het VN-Verdrag Handicap is getekend door staatssecretaris Nicki Pouw-Verweij (VWS). Een belangrijke stap richting ratificatie en inwerkingtreding in Nederland. 🧵⬇️ 1/4 1223
Reposted by Teunke ArvoNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 26/01/2026The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change. 262206388519
Reposted by Teunke ArvoKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 25/01/2026A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth. 5154719614179
Reposted by Teunke ArvoScience for ME (S4ME) @s4me.info · 25/01/2026Science for ME: News in Brief 19 - 25 Jan 2026 This week's research articles, media items, advocacy and other news relating to #MECFS and #LongCovid www.s4me.info/threads/news-in... 1168
Reposted by Teunke ArvoWilliam C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Once you understand that you're dealing with murderous liars, you stop entertaining what they say as possibly credible and legitimate. The fight against them is about stopping them from terrorizing and killing by any means, not winning debates about your reality versus theirs. 142751910
Reposted by Teunke ArvoTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 25/01/2026So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened. 9188172771
Reposted by Teunke ArvoMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 24/01/2026I don’t think we’ve reckoned with how pervasive the feeling of righteousness about lack of care is. The idea that people have an inalienable right not to gaf about others due to those people being “too expensive” to help or not being “worth it”—or even just being inconvenient to accommodate. 3315
Reposted by Teunke ArvoAnil van der Zee @anilvanderzee.bsky.social · 23/01/2026"That a 21-year-old, suffering from a severe illness, a dramatic lack of care, and a lack of hope, sees no other way than assisted suicide is a sign of collective failure." #MECFS #severeME #millionsmissing 03319
Reposted by Teunke ArvoGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/01/20267. Immigrants, asylum seekers, Muslims, women, transgender people, disabled people, students, protesters: anyone and everyone must be blamed for our dysfunctions, except those causing them. Ever more extreme “culture wars” (a euphemism for divide-and-rule) must be waged. 4609123
Reposted by Teunke ArvoT. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Values that you only hold to when it's convenient are not principles, they're merely preferences. Hiding behind "pragmatism" does not change that. 1285
Reposted by Teunke ArvoAnna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Gently: We can care for caregivers without diminishing the people in their care. It’s a hard thing, caregiving, but treating it as something heroic/saintly reinforces the narrative that needing care is a burden, instead of accurately identifying systemic support failures. 37222
Reposted by Teunke ArvoChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/01/2026Feel like I’m going to lose my mind explaining to people that what’s happening now is an expansion of domestic policies to larger scales, not an introduction of foreign policies to domestic life 435968
Reposted by Teunke ArvoJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 18/01/2026I’ve been saying this for seven years now but you can’t abandon the elderly, immunocompromised, vulnerable to death or disability in just this one little instance. Once you shut off empathy to a group of people for your own benefit, the valve is closed. You will find more reasons to abuse them. 226854
Reposted by Teunke ArvoProf Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Avoid Covid to preserve your brain 03917
Reposted by Teunke ArvoDr. Keith R. Brunt @profbrunt.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Epstein-Barr Virus #EBV was linked to #MultipleSclerosis - now a plausible cause has been found, misidentification by longterm memory T-cells that pick on the wrong protein, ANO2, instead of the EBV-antigen. Massive inflection towards the elimination of MS!!! 🧪🧠Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...cell.comAnoctamin-2-specific T cells link Epstein-Barr virus to multiple sclerosisResearchers identified anoctamin-2 (ANO2) as a frequent autoimmune target in multiple sclerosis, with T cell responses against ANO2 occurring in over half of patients. These ANO2-specific T cells shar... 11865281
Reposted by Teunke ArvoWalker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 14/01/2026The idea that health equals virtue is extremely dangerous. Who doesn’t like natural foods and clean water? But the idea that if you’re fat or sick or disabled, it’s your fault is dehumanizing and wrong. We’re all only ever one serious illness or accident away from disability. And life is random. 7496109
Reposted by Teunke ArvoPetit Feu @petitfeu.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Wie einerseits in vielen Beiträgen inzwischen korrekt darüber berichtet wird, wie viele ME/CFS-Betroffene sich durch Reha verschlechtern und wie in anderen Beiträgen noch immer Reha-Lobbyist*innen unkritisch zu Wort kommen dürfen und ihr Gift anpreisen, ist schwer zu ertragen. 0399
Reposted by Teunke ArvoJack - amatica health @jackamatica.bsky.social · 13/01/2026New research on ME/CFS finds unusual cell signals after exercise. Tiny packages released by cells (extracellular vesicles) show problems with energy production, an overactive immune system, and cell stress. Let’s break it down in simple terms. 12912
Reposted by Teunke ArvoME/CFS Science @mecfsscience.org · 13/01/20261) In the coming years, we will likely get an answer to a frequently asked question: Is ME/CFS caused by auto-antibodies? Looking forward to the HLA-results from DecodeME, the Norwegian daratumumab study and sham-controlled trials on immunoadsorption. 14115
Reposted by Teunke ArvoSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 10/01/2026"Being on the 'right side of history' is romanticized. It often means you were wronged and people cared too late." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-invaders 7455151
Reposted by Teunke ArvoNadim Mansour @nadimmansour.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Als je zelf niet op het menu staat kun je het je permitteren om het allemaal als een debatwedstrijd op school te zien. 2783
Reposted by Teunke ArvoEb @ebthen.bsky.social · 23/01/2025If you are serious about supporting your neighbors and the vulnerable members of your community, you will need to ask them about their unmet needs and take them seriously when they tell you what they are. You will need to learn not to say sentences starting with "Well can't you just...?" 2545153
Reposted by Teunke ArvoSaul van Stapele @saulvs.bsky.social · 10/01/2026We moeten voorzichtig zijn. Voorzichtig met de tiran. Anders wordt hij boos. We moeten begripvol zijn. Begripvol voor racisten. Ze zijn gewoon bezorgd. Geef ze wat ze willen, een vermoorde demonstrant, of nee een heel land. Hij komt er aan, snel, verzin een prijs. We moeten voorzichtig zijn. 1L 517244
Reposted by Teunke ArvoFrank Theunissen @franktheunissen.bsky.social · 10/01/2026De ZW-Veluwe roedel bij een prachtige winterse zonsondergang.Voor zover ik er zicht op heb bestaat ze uit 2 ouderdieren, 2 jaarlingen en 7 “welpen”. ( 2 welpen zijn in de herfst verongelukt op de N224) Zo nu en dan ook een een enkele doortrekker op camera. 1820838
Reposted by Teunke ArvoCrits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 10/01/2026Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment. 169106373853
Reposted by Teunke ArvoAnna Krijger @annakrijger.bsky.social · 09/01/2026"D66, VVD en CDA zijn het erover eens dat het geld opgehaald kan worden door te bezuinigen op de zorg en sociale zekerheid." Niemand had dit kunnen voorspellen. www.volkskrant.nl/politiek/d66...volkskrant.nlD66, VVD en CDA kiezen voor minderheidskabinet, JA21 valt afD66, VVD en CDA onderhandelen de komende weken verder over de vorming van een minderheidskabinet. Dat betekent dat JA21 alsnog afvalt en zich kan opmaken voor een plek in de oppositie. 2312441
Reposted by Teunke ArvoDon Milton @donmilton.bsky.social · 08/01/2026We 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 #AirborneInfectionprofairborne.substack.comHow not to catch the flu?The airborne infection transmission pathway remains elusive 43619
Reposted by Teunke ArvoJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 07/01/2026When you feel immobilized, remember: there is a world outside these apps. Sometimes, when we feel helpless, the best thing is to look to our own communities. Reach out to a friend going through it. Feed someone. Ask a shelter what they need. Spreading the light somewhere helps it grow everywhere. 221479
Reposted by Teunke ArvoSteph Halmhofer @cultarchaeo.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Consent should absolutely be at the forefront of every researcher's project. One of the things I loathe the most about AI is the way it is absolutely corroding the importance of consent, the impacts of which do not stay bound to these machines. 1346
Reposted by Teunke ArvoME/CFS Science @mecfsscience.org · 03/01/20261) 🇸🇪 A Swedish study of 111 ME/CFS patients found reduced levels of vasopressin, a hormone that regulates water retention. Low vasopressin could lead to low blood volume and some of the orthostatic symptoms that ME/CFS patients report. 36717
Reposted by Teunke ArvoKirsty Hall @kirstyhall.bsky.social · 03/01/2026This is such wonderful news, Alem paid such a terrible price for helping to debunk the PACE trial. Reading that he was able to directly email David after 10 years made me tear up. Any improvement when you have ME is incredibly welcome but especially for those with severe or very severe ME. 072
Reposted by Teunke ArvoDavid Tuller @davetuller1.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Remarkably, Alem Matthees, the Australian patient whose freedom of information request liberated the raw data from the PACE TRIAL, has reported some improvements in his condition: virology.ws/2026/01/02/t...virology.wsTrial By Error: My Unexpected E-Mail Exchange with Alem Matthees | Virology BlogBy David Tuller, DrPH In recent months, one of the most high-profile people with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS)—Australian Alem ... 47420