Prof Doug Kell CBE #FBPE #FBPA🔶🇪🇺

We have written a free book (monograph) on why people believe crazy things, including #Brexit . You can download it at osf.io/pnxcs #openaccess #FBPE - please RT #beliefbook @beliefbook

You can’t say I didn’t warn you. I’ve spent a decade explaining why Brexit would leave us food insecure.

Truly honoured and humbled to be attacked by @trussliz at her 🇬🇧 MAGA conference. Spreading the news here because there weren’t that many people there in the room at the time apparently

@SEDSConnective @resiapretorius dbkgroup.org/publications/.

@resiapretorius @dbkell Indeed and more?

1/7) We are excited to share our preprint, where we present a method to measure thrombo-inflammation that lead to systemic thrombotic endothelialitis in Long COVID, other post-viral and inflammatory diseases in general: biorxiv.org/content/10.648… with @dbkell and lead author Anél Thompson

Naddaf, M. (2026) Why paying peer reviewers works, according to a journal's editor-in-chief. Nature. 655, 290-291. doi.org/10.1038/d41586…

@nw_nicholas Frogface vs Binface?

Farage has to submit his nomination to stand in Clacton by 4pm on Friday. Expect big announcement tomorrow.

To my X followers, including the fake and catfish accounts: For some time I have been the target of sustained personal harassment on this platform, much of it from anonymous and impersonating accounts. I have stayed quiet and kept working. I am addressing it now, once, and then returning to the science. I am not the only one. A number of researchers working on the biological basis of this illness, including collaborators of mine, have faced the same pattern of harassment. Much of it appears coordinated and comes from a small number of accounts whose interest is clearly not the science: their aim is not scientific debate; it is to intimidate people for doing research they do not like. Targeting scientists for studying a disease is not scepticism; it is intimidation. On the facts: the claim that our work "has not been replicated" is untrue. Independent groups have confirmed or applied these findings: - the same aggregates were confirmed in pulmonary embolism (Baker et al., Communications Medicine, 2023); - amyloid-fibrinogen aggregates predicted disseminated intravascular coagulation and mortality in sepsis (Schofield/Toh et al., Blood Advances, 2024); -increased fibrinaloid microclots were found in Long COVID by an independent UK group (Dalton et al., Sheffield Hallam, preprint, 2024); - and the methods have been taken up in paediatric Long COVID (Steifman, Yonker et al., Pediatric Research, 2026). This is now a field with dozens of independent papers. One thing to make very clear: I have no involvement in any apheresis or plasmapheresis treatment for these conditions. Why? It is simply not my field of expertise. I cannot control how others use published methods, and it is wrong to attribute their choices to me. On Biocode, our start-up company: public universities have a clear responsibility to translate research into public benefit, and commercialising discoveries through spin-out companies is a core part of that mandate. That is precisely what Biocode was created to do. It is an early-stage university spin-out, it is not profitable, and repeated insinuations that I am personally enriching myself are false. I welcome robust scientific criticism; that is how science works, and II have actively reached out to colleagues who see the field differently. Harassment, account stalking, impersonation and personal attacks are not criticism. I am documenting it, I am taking advice on my options, and I will not be engaging with it further. Just because biological researchers are targeted in this way does not mean we will stop. If anything, it strengthens our resolve to understand diseases and to serve the millions of patients who are waiting for answers.

Reform are now piling in on Kemi Badenoch because they say it was bad taste for her to make a quip about Count Binface whilst the party are in mourning. But apparently the death of a dear colleague wasn’t enough to cancel your summer party 48 hours later? The usual selective faux outrage.

@MichaelCWilder @resiapretorius @PutrinoLab Believe me so do I… #TeamClots if philanthropists are reading this.

@dbkell @resiapretorius @PutrinoLab I agree. Your work is an underrated part of the picture. This clotting mechanism is underappreciated for the long term damage it can cause. I really wish somehow researchers were funded enough to take these important discoveries through validation and into clinical use.

ChatGTP says that the @resiapretorius and @PutrinoLab studies on microclots could be used as a biomarker of disease activity in #LongCovid vascular subtypes. I guess one biomarker is better than none. I wonder why nobody has sought to "validate" this research and make at least one biomarker test for vascular #LongCovid

@MichaelCWilder @resiapretorius @PutrinoLab OK, noted. I am travelling now but will ask around. If folk reading #TeamClots know who is doing kosher microclot test DM or email me.

@dbkell @resiapretorius @PutrinoLab Yes, that list would be good to add to the website. Most patients dont know how these tests are actually very important. I can tell you from personal knowledge.

Wow. Keir Starmer has become first UK PM to be presented with Légion d’honneur by French president, in recognition of his work on security of Europe. Emmanuel Macron awarded the historic honour to Starmer for his leadership in setting up coalition of the willing at a critical moment for the continent in early 2025 theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

Reform has directly incited the violence they complain about, now they’re trying to play the victim. To quote Farage “nobody cares!” They don’t have to live in communities ruined by race riots because they’re multimillionaires. Seriously, the self victimisation shit doesn’t wash.

Just about EVERY provider @HenryFordHealth refutes, dismisses, maligns and treats patients with #MECFS, #Longcovid, #POTS, #Dysautonomia etc with contempt, disdain and disrespect. Even with expert clinician DX, you are maligned, written off, dismissed and gaslit. Do BETTER!

Politics often looks like a spell. For years Boris Johnson seemed untouchable. Then, almost overnight, the illusion vanished. Nigel Farage has enjoyed a similar aura of inevitability. But once voters start seeing politicians as ordinary, flawed and accountable, it’s remarkably difficult to recreate the magic. Politics can change much faster than people expect.

@Annaisaac @pearceyp78 He has been by the billionaires bunging their useful idiots

The Guardian has now been told by three sources that in March 2024 Nigel Farage told senior Reform insiders that if he were to resume leadership of the party, and run to be an MP, he would need to be compensated for the financial harm of giving up his City career to spend 20 years campaigning and standing for election again. Insiders and donors were insistent that Farage needed to return and to take Reform into not only a 2024 general election but a 2029 one, too. He argued that would cost him £5m, the sources said. No mention was made of security costs in the discussions about needing to replace lost earnings, sources said.

@MichaelCWilder @resiapretorius @PutrinoLab And there are of course a variety of more nuanced versions based e.g. on proteomics. But the staring point is just size and number per mL. And of course the systems biology plus therapies that get rid of them (lower formation, increase degradation).

@dbkell @resiapretorius @PutrinoLab Thats wonderful Dr. Kell, and I'm familiar with it, and thank you for responding. So, you agree that your research could be used to produce a mainstream clinical biomarker for the vascular phenotype of #LongCovid patients? Its already being used in Alabama, right?

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Scandals don't come much bigger than wasting £10bn of £15bn spent on unusable PPE during Covid. The Tory VIP lane for donors, cronies and chums was a rip-off door. Hunt them down and grab back the £10bn no matter whatever that costs. mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/c…