Jenny K 🌿🌳🌍

Finally, someone did what I said to my sleep specialist 4 years ago, should be done (the one who dismissed me and my data and recommended CBTi). And, surprise, they find that poor sleep in ME must be due to physiology, not bad "sleep hygiene". link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Typical English roast dinner potentially ‘drenched’ in 102 pesticides. "agrochemical giants rake in enormous profits and farmers are trapped in a costly cycle of chemical dependency.” Stark declines in birds, butterflies and hedgehogs. Consequences? theguardian.com/environment/20…

I don’t mind my data being used my for research to help the NHS etc, however, because the government have now allowed Palantir access, I have withdrawn my consent using this link: your-data-matters.service.nhs.uk

Nigel Farage has 5 houses. Zack Polanski lives in a house share with 5 other people. The media is trying to tell you Zack is the problem.

🚨BMJ Opinion: “Hantavirus outbreak should reset WHO’s default approach to airborne risk” “For pathogens with documented person-to-person spread […], the initial assumption should be AIRBORNE risk unless and until evidence supports easing back.” bmj.com/content/393/bm…

🟠 On #WorldMEDay, I’m proud to stand with Action for ME as a parliamentary champion for people living with the condition. It is estimated that around 1.3 million people in the UK are living with ME or ME-like symptoms, which can often be associated with Long Covid.

I don’t want an AI summary of my Google search. I don’t want an AI summary of the text message from my friend at work. I don’t want an AI summary of the email I’m about to read. Please just stop.

Every oyster and mussel sample collected near Chichester Harbour came back contaminated with fibreglass. Not some of them. Every one. Researchers from the Universities of Brighton and Portsmouth found up to 11,220 fibreglass particles per kilogram in oysters and 2,740 per kilogram in mussels collected near an active boatyard in one of England's most popular sailing destinations. The particles come from ageing fibreglass boats — glass reinforced plastic (GRP) — breaking down in the water during maintenance season and entering the marine food chain through filter feeders. This is the first study to document this level of contamination in natural bivalve populations. The problem is structural, not incidental. Fibreglass has been the dominant material in recreational boat manufacturing since the 1960s. Millions of vessels built during that era are now reaching the end of their usable life, and there is no coordinated system in Europe for tracking or managing them. As Dr. Corina ciocan of Brighton put it: "There is no coordinated system in Europe for tracking or managing end-of-life fibreglass boats. That creates a serious regulatory gap." Via Artemisa Forbes

Kevin O'Leary's proposed data center in Utah will require 9 Gigawatts of energy to function when fully built, double Utah's current energy usage for the entire state. It will dump around 23 atomic bombs worth of thermal load on the environment every day.

What is #MECFS? A brief overview of symptoms, diagnosis and management based on the 2021 NICE guideline. It’s not being tired all the time, patients have an energy impairment that dramatically limits their activity.

Reminder: One study showed 96% of commercial flights had Covid on board And long flights ⬆️ transmission 26X There's a good chance that virtually 100% of commercial flights have at least one communicable disease on board Wear an N95 when flying "Gate to gate" at least

The DfE's updated school ventilation guidance is clear: only HEPA filtration is recommended for air cleaning units. The guidance is there — now it needs to be acted on. go.corsirosenthalfoundation.org.uk/pNAgy5i #CleanAir #SchoolAirQuality

Spiralling global temperatures (1850-2026) It is exactly 10 years since I first put this animated graphic of changes in global temperature online. #ClimateSpiral It instantly went viral. People watched it over and over again. It still offers the power to shock a decade on.

As you may already know well, "young patients who experienced a second confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection during the omicron period were more than twice as likely to receive a clinician-documented diagnosis of post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) as those in the same calendar period after a first infection.. [In this cohort study of >465,000 patients younger than 21 years,] the incidence of clinician-documented PASC was roughly 1,884 cases per million children after a second infection, compared with about 904 cases per million after a first infection.. Beyond formal PASC diagnoses, children and adolescents who experienced reinfection had an elevated risk of a wide range of symptoms and conditions previously associated with long COVID. These outcomes spanned multiple organ systems, including: - cardiovascular complications such as myocarditis, arrhythmias, heart disease and chest pain; - neurologic and cognitive effects such as headaches, cognitive impairment, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) and other forms of dysautonomia; - kidney injury; - thrombotic events; and - more common symptom clusters including fatigue, abdominal pain and musculoskeletal pain. Myocarditis risk was more than three times higher after a second infection, and the risk of thrombotic events more than doubled.. These findings directly contradict the common assumption that because acute omicron illness is usually mild in children, and reinfection is clinically inconsequential.." SARS-CoV-2 is different. 'Reinfection raises Long COVID risk in children and adolescents' news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2026/05/08/rei…

BREAKING: Second Ever Green Mayor Win 🎉 Liam Shrivastava has been elected Mayor of Lewisham – huge congratulations!

A new study in Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine looked at a very important question. Can a history of COVID-19 be linked to impaired coronary blood flow, even when the main coronary arteries look normal?🧵

BREAKING | Green GAIN from Labour @ZoeGarbett wins Hackney Mayoralty

Happy Birthday Sir David We won’t protect what we don’t love & we won’t love what we don’t know Thank you for enabling us to know & love this precious planet even more deeply Now we must urgently act on that love - and protect & restore the earth while there’s still time 💚

Wes Streeting wants GPs to stop writing so many sick notes and send people to the gym. Worth remembering Brynmor John MP had #MECFS and died on Westminster Bridge in 1988 after exercising in the House of Commons gym. He had been advised to exercise his way back to fitness.