A flyer showing textual information for a NIHR Policy Research Unit study The text reads: Have You Experienced Both Cardiovascular Disease Risk and Mental Health Challenges? Share Your Story What’s the study about? Have You Experienced Both Cardiovascular Disease Risk and Mental Health Challenges? Share Your Story Researchers from the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Behavioural and Social Sciences are exploring how integrated care can be improved for people with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk and mild-to-moderate mental health concerns You can take part if you: • Are aged 18 or over • Have experience with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, obesity, smoking, or physical inactivity AND • Mental health concerns such as anxiety, depression, or low mood What’s involved? • A 1:1 online interview (up to 60 minutes) • Questions about your experiences with care • A £20 online shopping voucher as a thank you Why take part? Your voice will help shape national recommendations for improving integrated care for hearts and minds. The findings will be shared with the Department of Health and Social Care. Are you interested in taking part? To express interest scan the QR code or click this link Or email us at fani.liapi@beds.ac.uk We’ll send you more information and answer any questions

Have you experienced both cardiovascular disease risk and mental health challenges?

We're keen to hear from you.

We're interviewing people to explore how integrated care can be improved.

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In a normal week, the Future Homes Standard launch would be a huge announcement in and of itself. This is a Lab Gov ensuring future housing stock come with solar panels and heat pumps as standard, helping tackle energy bills and bolstering our national energy security. 🧵

Must read from Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @thenerve.news

The BBC have fallen for the tech bro snake oil. The recent deal with YouTube is just the lumpy precursor.

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When you get sick and don’t get better, those who once cared how you were doing no longer know how to respond when you tell the whole truth - so either you stop being honest, or they stop asking. Many of them, I’ve found, just stop knowing you".

School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books - Index on Censorship A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women

This is utterly jaw-dropping.

A school that bans Atwood, Zadie Smith, Terry effing Pratchett and *literal George Orwell* is actively harming its pupils.

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here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

It doesn't have to have an immersive sensory component to be a flashback. Emotional & somatic flashbacks ("body memories") often fly under the radar as "flashbacks," because they lack that distinctive visual "wipe" effect-- we think we're just suddenly feeling small or sick.

If you’re an overthinker & find it difficult to unlatch the burdensome thoughts there’s one thing I found the works more than meditation, breathing & other things. That’s humming. Sing or hum a song or a tune. Impossible for worrying thoughts to maintain their possession of you while humming.

#beingtheother

Phenomenal and freely available article highlighting once again the ways in which women's bodies are pathologised añd the damage this does. Fantastic writing and I learned a lot, would recommend a read!

This is brilliant writing. Thank you.

This paper might be of interest to people working in women's health and/or sport, especially in considering the 'ontological pervasiveness' of women's bodies, also check the acknowledgements for a rant: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #sociology #health #qualitative #socialscience

I cannot reiterate enough with the frequency and gravity it deserves that every reinfection increases the cumulative risk of Long COVlD.

Our PMC survey data (n>2,000) suggest it is rare to avoid LC after 5+ known infections. I'll talk more about that again Sunday night in Becky's Space.

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This is crucially important point.

1) "No quarter" is indeed specifically war-crime term

2) Under Geneva Conventions, after sinking an enemy ship, the attackers must "take all positive measures" to find and rescue any survivors. Text in next post

No evidence US sub did so after attack, AFAIK

Turns out practicing 'making memories about memories' develops a functionally different pathway focused on the striatum 👇

Wondering if a similar pathway might be active during REM sleep where previously encoded memories are paired in weird ways to form new dream memories...

#neuroskyence

Proud to have worked with the brilliant @drmfreire on this new study looking into spike protein in #LongCOVID. The most important part of this study that doesn't just look for spike protein in folks with LC and healthy controls, but it also uses a technique called
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Thank you so much for this important work and for all you're doing to raise awareness

evidence that antigen persistence is a legitimate driver of symptoms and organ system dysfunction for #LongCOVID and vaccine injury. We need to be studying targeted mitigation strategies for persistent SARS-CoV-2 antigen YESTERDAY.

@Invivyd let's make it happen 👀

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Luis Flores found that the combination of reappraisal and handholding led to greater reductions in negative affect and negative self-beliefs than either strategy alone @affectscience.bsky.social

Making sense of the widening gender mental health gap: what teenage girls told us Girls said that visual platforms, such as Instagram and TikTok, particularly reiterate gendered expectations for girls on how they should present themselves.

"Girls described how sexist stereotypes shaped their lives from an early age" theconversation.com/making-sense...

Gordon Brown calls for international criminal court for crimes against children Former PM says schools ‘deserve same moral status as hospitals’ after 168 schoolgirls killed in US-Israel war on Iran * Gordon Brown: ‘Children killed, a school turned into a graveyard: even in wartime, we can’t accept this’ * A school turned into a graveyard * Minab school bombing: a visual guide Gordon Brown has called for the creation of an international criminal court for crimes against children, saying “no child should ever become collateral damage in a conflict”. Writing for the Guardian, the former prime minister drew on the tomahawk missile strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh school at the start of the Iran conflict, which killed 168 schoolgirls, to argue that “schools deserve the same moral status as hospitals – protected places – and the same protection under international law”. Continue reading...

Gordon Brown calls for international criminal court for crimes against children

💔 Boys and men take 15-20 years on average to disclose sexual trauma.

New review found masculine norms, shame & fear of disbelief create unique barriers.

Disclosure less likely when perpetrator was someone close.

Gender-sensitive support needed.

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#SexualTrauma #MensMentalHealth

6. Masks are key NPIs, all the more critical due to lack of clean air.
7. Respecting the impact of infection on fellow human beings and awareness of NHS capacity is not "panic".
8. Awareness that millions of vulnerable folks don't have reasonable adjustments is also not "panic".

It was a privilege to be in the chamber earlier to witness this incredibly powerful and effective speech from Charlotte Nichols.

This is pretty much bang on 🤣🤣🤣
#ModernDayThreats

This is very important and a major pet peeve of mine. If you don’t know what you’re doing- and if you learned on the internet, then sorry, you don’t know what you’re doing- please leave old gravestones well enough alone.

👀 Did you post this to my office? Written with pink/purple ink? I'd really like to talk to you if so, I can protect your identity but what you sent was really important but not enough on its own. Get in touch via DM email etc... Pls RT.

Celtic and Scottish Studies Seminar Series: Petra Poncarová | Celtic & Scottish Studies | Literatures Languages and Culture An online seminar by Dr Petra Poncarová (Charles University, Prague), titled 'Folklore Material in Ruaraidh Erskine's Gaelic Magazines'.

Folklore Material in Ruaraidh Erskine’s Gaelic Magazines
13 March, free online

Dr @poncarova.bsky.social discusses materials on Scottish & other Celtic #folklore published in Ruaraidh Erskine of Mar’s Gaelic magazines from 1900 to the 1930s
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New paper! We show how diet culture & weight stigma are baked into eating disorder treatment—leading to missed diagnoses in higher-weight people, BMI-based denial of care, thin-centric programs, and clinicians unintentionally reinforcing fear of weight gain.

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