Why is @bmc.springernature.com so bad at processing manuscripts? You have had mine at BMC_PH since Sept 2024 and after 3 rounds of reviews you still can't make a decision on a very simple study on a highly neglected tropical disease. You are adding to the neglect. Shame on you #tungiasis #BeatNTDs
My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.
Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
Report of the eighteenth meeting of the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Neglected Tropical Diseases
www.who.int/publications...
Protesters writing on blank placards during a protest
Peaceful protesters yesterday, writing the words on their placards which will convert them from ordinary citizens to terrorists in the eyes of the government and the law. Words which put them in the same legal group as Osama bin Laden. The rank absurdity of Cooper’s decision captured in one photo.
For a while after grad school I worked on the histories of famine in Madras and I have never forgotten the cruelties of what it does to the human body. To know that this is an intentional, manufactured and now irreversible famine, and that no one seems to care makes my stomach churn.
"“We are overwhelmed. Every day, we see more children arriving with extreme weight loss, anemia, and symptoms of immune deficiency."
Urgent community action needed by Monday!
“DOE wants to remove 12 civil rights rules. Part of these are disability access protections. They say the rules are unnecessary & outdated”
This will mean buildings aren’t accessible to disabled people. Another step towards eliminating us from society
Great to see this ground breaking study on the control of tungiasis published. Now we urgently need govts to get #NYDA to the people who need it. #beatNTDs #NTDs journals.plos.org/plosntds/art...
#DYK there is a water-borne infection that can lead to #infertility ,📈 risk to HIV & is often misdiagnosed as an #STI? Our cross-sector coalition tackles the neglected issue of #FGSchisto across #SRHR, #HIV, #HPV, #NTDs & #WASH.
🎥 Watch our explainer video: youtu.be/TJD9_3DQwsY
#EndTheNeglect
The age of extinction
‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects
@tessairini.bsky.social in @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Great to see this guideline for the treatment of tungiasis from PAHO published. Glad to have been able to contribute. www.paho.org/en/documents...
In the UK I'm petitioning for a ban of fossil fuel ads and sponsorships– for too long these corporations have had unlimited £££ to greenwash their dirty reputations in schools , sports and everywhere in between – it must change govpetition.uk/700024
Nothing like an exhibit of iron lung machines to remind us how life was before polio vaccines
Absolutely amazing that a 10-year-old wrote this!!
Good for her, it's absolutely lovely. ❤️
Do have a quick read. 👇
Cory Booker has now been speaking on the floor of the Senate for almost 14 HOURS.
An epic filibuster.
A protest against Trump’s violation & trampling of the Constitution.
Thousands tuned in online overnight. 16,000 are still watching.
Nice work @booker.senate.gov
👏🫡
Attacking ambulances, executing medics, then tossing their bodies in a mass grave.
If Hamas had committed this crime, it would trigger deafening global outrage.
But Israel did it, and so most people are left unaware it even happened 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/why-isnt-t...
Excited to see launch WHO SkinNTD LabNet which is designed to enhance & support quality diagnostics for control, elimination and eradication of Neglected Tropical Diseases throughout Africa www.who.int/groups/skin-... We are currently working to help setup standardised SOPs for yaws diagnostics.
All you need to know about Twitter
CEPR had ~1500 followers on X...
Follow and repost if you reckon can we beat that on Bluesky!
UK economy loses £118bn a year to poor mental health.
Causes ignored - anxiety, insecurity, low incomes, high cost of living, poor housing, perinatal depression, bullying, social isolation of people.
Cutting benefits, bashing people is not the answer.
To be fair, it looks like all medical research is no longer allowed.
Good luck everyone! 🙃
epiellie.substack.com/p/in-trumps-...
Some countries are so wealthy that even a rounding error in their budgets could mean the difference between life and death for people in the poorest parts of the world.
(This Daily Data Insight was written by @simonvanteutem.bsky.social.)
A bar chart displays the percentage of national income that various developed countries allocated as Official Development Assistance (ODA) to the least developed nations in 2022, compared to a target of at least 0.15%. The bar for Luxembourg shows the highest percentage at 0.46%, followed by Sweden at 0.28% and Norway at 0.2%. Other countries listed include Iceland and Denmark at 0.14%, Belgium at 0.13%, Switzerland, Netherlands, and Japan all at 0.12%, each followed by Germany, France, and Ireland at 0.11%. Canada provides 0.1%, while the United States and the United Kingdom each contribute 0.08%. Austria gives 0.07%, Slovenia and South Korea both provide 0.06%, and Italy is at the lowest at 0.05%. Data source: OECD (2024). The note indicates that it represents the 20 OECD nations providing the most aid, percentage-wise, to the poorest nations.
Most OECD countries fail to reach the UN’s target for aid to the poorest countries
I know people hate being told to wear a mask, I know they want to forget about Covid.
But there’s never been a more important time to mask up
The U.S. is dismantling social supports, stripping healthcare & research funding & embracing fascism
safeguard your health. No one else will do it for you
It's hard to comprehend the scale at which supertrawlers are murdering life in the oceans.
Mural featuring a woman in blue hijab standing holding a keyboard to her chest while a row of ominous looking men with guns in black stand in a row behind her
" I believe there are many who forget all the tragedy women face in Afghanistan, that is why I use my paintings as a mean to remind the people"
- Shamsia Hassani
Afghan Artist #InternationalWomensDay
Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside down Flag thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.
Also move your information ecosystem away from things owned by billionaires. Build networks off social media, donate to independent news outlets, etc
