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Wanda Allard

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Fabled Stained Glass @fabledstainedglass.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The yellow colour of the leaves is achieved by using silver nitrate mixed with oils which are fired at a low kiln temperature- this method turned clear glass into “gold” and may be a source of the famous quest to turn lead into gold …
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Fabled Stained Glass @fabledstainedglass.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Autumn leaves … this lovely medieval Style stained glass oak leaf motif is painted and kiln fired, then silver stained using a technique dating back to 1350 … fabstainedglass.etsy.com/listing/5651...
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Steven Strang @alchemicalrat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Felt well enough today to visit the Billing’s Estate museum. I’d worked there in the 1980’s so was delighted to see their current ways of sharing the collection and telling the stories. They even have a little section on the family scandals now, cheekily displayed behind a closet door…
Photo of one of my toy mice wearing a silk dress standing on an antique table next to a brass inkwell, a blue patterned china teacup, and a glass oil lamp.
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 28/09/2026
Ontario is launching free flu and COVID-19 shots next week as vaccination rates decline, Jake Ross reports. Read more at canadahealthwatch.ca #CdnHealth #PublicHealthCA
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Wanda Allard @wandaallard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
2019 Alzheimer’s gene research by 2 scientists may be questionable youtube.com/shorts/yW5_8...
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Science investigation casts doubt on genes hailed for warding off Alzheimer’s disease
YouTube video by Science Magazine
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Fabled Stained Glass @fabledstainedglass.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is a limited edition of just four pieces - heavily painted with blue enamel, which I am offering at a SPECIAL OFFER (Usually £40 in the UK) as a temptation to my new web site. They will need a VERY SUNNY WINDOW! No frills me! Link here …. claremaryangreen.co.uk/products/har...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Steven Strang @alchemicalrat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
None shall pass!
Photo of a tabby cat sitting on a carpeted flight of stairs. He does looks neither impressed nor cooperative.
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Fabled Stained Glass @fabledstainedglass.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Bye swallows, it was fun …
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Simon Spichak @spichaksimon.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Still looking to chat with teachers about AI use in primary and middle schools. #EdTech #GenAI #JournoRequests
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betsy ladyzhets 😷 @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Today @thesicktimes.org: People with Long COVID are demanding a pause and review for a planned clinical trial that would test the Lightning Process, a pseudoscientific mind-body treatment. By @spichaksimon.bsky.social: thesicktimes.org/2026/09/22/p...
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People with Long COVID demand pause of McMaster University clinical trial - The Sick Times
The trial, run by researchers at McMaster University in Canada, is testing the Lightning Process, a pseudoscientific mind-body program that outside experts have heavily criticized.
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Simon Spichak @spichaksimon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I also highlight how sparse funding and trial landscape for Long COVID is in Canada, compared to other countries. Thanks to all who commented for the story, including Dr. Zeest Kahn, Michael Hoerger, Nina Steinkopf, and Rob DeRosa /n
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Simon Spichak @spichaksimon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The trial uses self-reported outcomes, which may be problematic when the intervention depends on changing how people view and perceive their symptoms. 8/n
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Simon Spichak @spichaksimon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
For @thesicktimes.org, I covered a petition that over 1,700 people have signed calling for a pause to a trial that's applying for ethical approval to test a psuedoscientific program for #LongCOVID called The Lightning Process. thesicktimes.org/2026/09/22/p... 1/n
Screenshot of Sick Times article. Title: "People with Long COVID demand pause of McMaster University clinical trial"

DEK: The trial, run by researchers at McMaster University in Canada, is testing the Lightning Process, a pseudoscientific mind-body program that outside experts have heavily criticized.

Image: A college buildingey points you should know:

A petition signed by 1,700 people asks for a pause and independent review of a trial run by McMaster University researchers who want to test the Lightning Process.
 
The Lightning Process is a pseudoscientific mind-body program to try to treat Long COVID that has been accused of exploiting people with Long COVID and related diseases.
 
The trial is designed in part by a Lightning Process practitioner and prescreens participants for motivation using a questionnaire that isn’t validated for Long COVID.
 
There are very few trials and little funding in Canada for Long COVID research, and advocates believe that studying the Lightning Process instead of pathobiological pathways is a waste of funding.
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Miles W. Griffis @mileswgriffis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Over 1,700 people have signed a petition calling on McMaster University to review a Long COVID clinical trial evaluating a pseudoscientific "mind body" program. "It seems like we're in the dark ages," the petition author told @spichaksimon.bsky.social thesicktimes.org/2026/09/22/p...
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People with Long COVID demand pause of McMaster University clinical trial - The Sick Times
The trial, run by researchers at McMaster University in Canada, is testing the Lightning Process, a pseudoscientific mind-body program that outside experts have heavily criticized.
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Steven Strang @alchemicalrat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“Art is not a mirror, but a hammer. It is a weapon in our hands to see and say what is good and right and beautiful.” John Grierson, founder of the NFB.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/09/2026
Starting in a minute!
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The irony of it all Yesterday, @NEJM posted a new essay suggesting that the US government attacks on biomedical science will subside. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... On the same day, it was announced the President wants control of NIH funding
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Wanda Allard @wandaallard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A drug for ME / CFS? www.healthrising.org/blog/2026/09...
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IVO-21 - A Paradigm Changer AND a Mitochondrial Drug for ME/CFS? - Health Rising
Could a new mitochondrial drug called IVO-21 be the answer to the energy problems in ME/CFS, fibromyalgia, and long COVID?
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Fabled Stained Glass @fabledstainedglass.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Just delighted with how this piece has turned out! Link for the curious here … claremaryangreen.co.uk/products/mid...
Stained glass rabbit in a blue panel with a happy moon, a bat, nd the silhouette of a foxglove shown on a light boxDetail of painted rabbit from the stained glass panel with the artist signature lower leftDetail of moon and bat from stained glass panelHand holding arched stained glass panel with rabbit, foxglove, moon and bat.
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Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Morning side-eye from our favorite swimming handbag guy 👀👝🐟 #spottedtrunkfish #trunkfish #boxfish #swimminghandbag #coralcitycamera
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Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Please accept a nuzzle from a manatee muzzle (We’re not worthy! We’re not worthy!!) 🥹〰️🐮🐮〰️ #manatee #manateesofcoralcity #nuzzle #muzzle #coralcitycamera
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Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
On this World Oceans Day we are proud to unveil the latest extension of the world’s longest underwater timelapse, starting May 1, 2023, and running for three years through May 1, 2026 🪸🌎🪸
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Karin Celestine @celestineandthehare.com · 15/09/2026
Hare hung a moon boat in the sky ready for someone in need of a moon lullaby. I wonder who will find it?
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Karin Celestine @celestineandthehare.com · 16/09/2026
Hurrah it is Wednesday and the weasels are dancing. Today to Diana Ross. Dance like a weasel you know you want to. #weaselwednesday
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Fabled Stained Glass @fabledstainedglass.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My new “moon” collection in full sunlight …
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Fabled Stained Glass @fabledstainedglass.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Another fractured piece - hmm - the kiln gods are being tough on me! I have now decided it will be a candidate for experimenting with my new enamel pigment … something I would never have done if it had fired complete … making the most of a bad lot is my message to self today!
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Karin Celestine @celestineandthehare.com · 10/09/2026
The day of the shed! Hurrah! karincelestine.substack.com/p/the-day-of...
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The Day of the Shed
The day when people across the lands say Where’s Karin and I say ‘I’m in me shed! ‘
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Karin Celestine @celestineandthehare.com · 11/09/2026
Sometimes it is really used having a tail! Specially when the ripest berries are just out of reach, or if you just fancy a swing!
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Karin Celestine @celestineandthehare.com · 13/09/2026
Mouse knew just where to get the softest bedding for her babies
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Karin Celestine @celestineandthehare.com · 14/09/2026
Everyone was enjoying the warm afternoon sunshine today. Mouse was in a rush to catch post badger before he went home
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon
Image: lots of scientists milling round a very cold air conditioned room that also contains moss, stones and snow. One scientist makes notes on a clipboard.

Caption:
Every summer, professor Singh noted the correlation between rising temperatures in the rest of the institute and the increased number of colleagues visiting his "Moss growth in Arctic conditions" experiment.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Two books talking 
Younger book  "What's happening?"
Older book  "The wheel of life has turned, my child... Our time on the front table of the bookshop is over, and, like brave birds flying south for the winter, we summer books must journey back to the shelves."

Younger book "But I like it here!"
Older book "All things must pass. The beach reads table you knew is already gone. The time of autumn books is upon us." 

Younger book "Will we ever return?" 
Older book "The cycle is eternal: the Christmas bestsellers and prize nominees will come and go, but people will always want something nice to read on holiday."
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon
Title: Need staff for your lab? Close your eyes and stick a pin in the chart!

Image: The chart consists of 81 rectangles arranged in a 9 x 9 grid.

Down the side are these nine labels:
Brilliant
Eccentric
Indolent
Charming
Mysterious
Diligent
Scheming
Visionary
Clumsy

Across the bottom are these nine jobs:
Technician
Lab cat
Lead Scientist
Graduate student
Stranger
Robot
Child prodigy
Janitor
Emeritus professor
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/books/pictur...
Title: Methods for Encouraging a Reluctant Young Reader 
 

Panel 1
Caption: Read Together 
Image: A small child sits on a sofa, face buried in a book, between two adults doing the same.

Panel 2
Caption: Bribery
Image: The small child sits on a treasure chest wearing a crown, face buried in a book, in a room full of coins, jewels and precious items.

Panel 3
Caption: Element of danger
Image: The small child sits, face buried in a book, precariously balanced on a thin branch in a tall tree.

Panel 4
Caption: Reverse Psychology
Image: The small child sits, face buried in a book, beside a huge bookshelf and a sign that reads “Adults Only”

Panel 5
Caption: Pulleys and Pistons
Image: The small child sits, face buried in a book, amidst a complicated mechanism that provides endless new books.

Panel 6
Caption: Rituals and Incantations
Image: The small child sits, face buried in a book, in a circle of candles amidst clouds of smoke and mysterious phrases.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
My latest for @newscientist.com
Two scientists walk past numerous enormous shelves, each divided into sections containing a huge array of weird items. One says:
“We still don't know what any of this is, where it came from, or what it does, but you have to admit we've shelved it all beautifully.”
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Notebook doodle and original art for the cartoon quoted below: www.tomgauld.com/art-for-sale
A small scatchy ink drawing.
A reader walks past bookcases, ghosts and clouds of ectoplasm.
Title: Haunted library is cool.Ink drawing

Title:
Who is Haunting The Library of Forbidden Tomes? 

Image: five panels showing characters in a gothic library 

22% - tormented souls, frozen between life and death (a ghost reading a book)
4% - dank, fetid horrors from the icy depths below (a black slug like creature with a single eyestalk reading a book)
15% - cold, lifeless bones possessed by a corrupt sorcery (a skeleton reading a book)
11% - frigid and malevolent ectoplasmic vapours (a shapeless apparition reading a book)
48% - regular readers happy to away from the heatwave
(A mother, small child and toddler in buggy, all reading books)
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Fabled Stained Glass @fabledstainedglass.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Green Man With Blue Border Stained Glass Decor - Etsy
This Panels & Wall Hangings item is sold by FabStainedGlass. Ships from United Kingdom. Listed on Sep 7, 2026
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Fabled Stained Glass @fabledstainedglass.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
octopus and fishes (commission) left, and rabbit and new moon right … I just added a bat! squeal!
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Steven Strang @alchemicalrat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
After several months distracted by health issues and home repairs I’ve finally had some productive time in the studio! Now onto the next commission…
Painting of a submarine surfacing in a small patch of open water in a bog.
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Wanda Allard @wandaallard.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
youtube.com/watch?v=q4eO.... Elevated pressure and ME / CFS QUESTIONS
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089 - Is elevated pressure on the brain part of ME/CFS?
YouTube video by Jarred Younger, PhD
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Fabled Stained Glass @fabledstainedglass.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
this lovely octopus is now up for grabs! Click here to see more claremaryangreen.co.uk/products/oct...
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Fabled Stained Glass @fabledstainedglass.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
She’s on a roll - this lovely octopus piece is finally made …
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Steven Strang @alchemicalrat.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Serendipity in action. One day after seeing this I discovered that the @clonehenge.bsky.social feed exists.
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valebodi.bsky.social @valebodi.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Prof. Chris Ponting’s on Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Ignored, blamed, and sometimes left to die – a leading expert in ME explains the origins of a modern medical scandal #ME/CFS #pwME @cgatist.bsky.social
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Ignored, blamed, and sometimes left to die – a leading expert in ME explains the origins of a modern medical scandal
The co-lead of the world’s largest ever genetic study into ME calls for a radical change in how society deals with the disease.
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Fabled Stained Glass @fabledstainedglass.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Busy cutting new projects in the studio - this one is going to be fun to paint …
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Karin Celestine @celestineandthehare.com · 26/08/2026
Hurrah it is Wednesday and the weasels are dancing. We were going to do some goth bats, but after the news last night, it had to be Dolly. The weasels are Dancing for Dolly, with love and gratitude. Dance like a weasel you know you want to #weaselwednesday
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Karin Celestine @celestineandthehare.com · 30/08/2026
The zebra mice are on an international foreign exchange programme going to school with the school mice for a few weeks. They are a little nervous but hoping to learn a lot about different sorts of British cake. (They’ll be in the new collection Saturday 5th Sept)
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Karin Celestine @celestineandthehare.com · 31/08/2026
‘Oh hi there I’m Opossum reporting for the international school exchange programme. Which way? We heard there was cake? Erm I mean cake lessons?’ New Collection Sat 5th Sept 8pm
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Karin Celestine @celestineandthehare.com · 01/09/2026
“Swap a marble for cake?” Uh oh there’s another one! Watch out! Coming Saturday 5th Sept. Lock up your cakes
Needle felted opossum with some lovely marbles For sale this Saturday
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