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#AssociateProf #CompBio #Omics #WomenInScience #LGBTQ+Ally #Scottish #PrecisionMedicine #HealthCare #MDx #ME/CFS #RareDisease #Informatics #SciFiNerd #LongCovidAffected sites.uab.edu/cgds/ she/her

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love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

09.03.2026 02:01 πŸ‘ 19149 πŸ” 4795 πŸ’¬ 229 πŸ“Œ 141
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61 years ago today at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, Alabama.

07.03.2026 13:01 πŸ‘ 1875 πŸ” 835 πŸ’¬ 49 πŸ“Œ 42

The Diagnostic Challenge of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

www.latimes.com/doctors-scie...

Screenshot from AMMES March 2026 Newsletter

#MEcfs #CFS #PwMEΒ #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome

07.03.2026 01:47 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Information is Power – HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology

And by later - not years later. I'm hoping to work out how to find people interested in covering costs for others.. I used to run InformationIsPower in northern Alabama: www.hudsonalpha.org/information-... and this is how it was set up. Would very much like to do something similar for ME/CFS.

07.03.2026 02:01 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If you would interested in learning more about what we are trying to do; happy to answer questions. lworthey@uab.edu. Hope to really help people.

07.03.2026 01:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If you would interested in learning more about what we are trying to do; happy to answer questions. lworthey@uab.edu. Hope - at least for what we do - to really help people now.

07.03.2026 01:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I agree - this is a huge need. Hoping to try to work this out on a later phase of the project! If you would interested in learning more about what we are trying to do; happy to answer questions. lworthey@uab.edu. Hope - at least for what we do - not to leave anyone behind :(

07.03.2026 01:55 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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This is amazing.

www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

27.02.2026 17:49 πŸ‘ 37037 πŸ” 11959 πŸ’¬ 497 πŸ“Œ 799

Does anyone (maybe @longcovidadvoc.com @longcovidsupport.bsky.social @longhaulerspodcast.bsky.social @mecfsskeptic.bsky.social) know if genomic data is being generated for the #LongCOVID #Recover study? I thought it was, but have been told a few times that it is not currently being generated. Ta!

25.02.2026 17:55 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

It will be awful.

23.02.2026 18:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Read this thread and article. RFK Jr. is a eugenicist pushing experiments on vulnerable black populations.

21.02.2026 18:40 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

The fact that is it quakers-town is not lost on me. A central tenet of Quakerism is the commitment to peace, which has in the past compelled Quakers to protest against war, militarism, and violence.

21.02.2026 20:52 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Let's hope that Prince Andrew - sorry Andrew Mountbatten -Windsor - is a big enough fish that they can't murder him in custody like the others..

19.02.2026 13:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And he might be someone that they couldn't murder... Maybe.

19.02.2026 13:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Here's a visual representation of how many times Trump's name appears in the Epstein files... so far.

www.instagram.com/p/DUgiBD_EiSP

18.02.2026 19:39 πŸ‘ 644 πŸ” 237 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 13

If anyone is around HSV/BHAM USA & interested in helping stand up a data driven precision medicine #ME/CFS #LongCOVID clinic; please drop a line.. I am certain that there are things that can be done to help if we can get the right team together.. Not easy, but doable. Help is needed. Please share.

18.02.2026 18:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Do we know their reasoning?

17.02.2026 12:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

100% agree. This is exactly what precision medicine was supposed to be :(.

17.02.2026 03:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

51% Long Covid is ME.
Research the Canadian Consensus Criteria for best diagnostic tools available for #ME @sabrinapoirier.bsky.social is also a great resource πŸ™πŸ» as is @sunsopeningband.bsky.social πŸ™πŸ»πŸ™πŸ» particularly on understanding how #PEM Trump's everything in symptom management.

15.02.2026 20:46 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Sanders: The American people do not want this country to be an authoritarian society or an oligarchy. We have our differences, that’s what democracy is aboutβ€”we argue it out. We don’t throw people who disagree in jail. We don’t intimidate the media. We don’t send ICE agents to shoot people.

13.02.2026 20:20 πŸ‘ 18394 πŸ” 5812 πŸ’¬ 492 πŸ“Œ 242

We are all kind of waiting for RFK to actually, finally pick up an easily preventable disease and then die in agony of it while he tries to use it as justification for an array of snake oils.

Everyone like "it's tuberculosis, just take antibiotics!" and he's like "no, urine inhalation therapy"

13.02.2026 13:53 πŸ‘ 252 πŸ” 47 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 3
083 - A precision approach to understanding ME/CFS
083 - A precision approach to understanding ME/CFS YouTube video by Jarred Younger, PhD

Dr. Jarred Younger explains E. A. Worthey’s lab latest eye opening research paper: A precision approach to understanding #ME/CFS

Uncovering the genetic architecture of ME/CFS: a precision approach reveals impact of rare monogenic variation
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

@lizworthey.bsky.social

11.02.2026 06:12 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

No prob. It really got me thinking about the meaning of rest. In general and to me.. So thanks for this!

11.02.2026 05:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Uncovering the genetic architecture of ME/CFS: a precision approach reveals impact of rare monogenic variation Journal of Translational Medicine - Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a disabling and heterogeneous disorder lacking validated biomarkers or targeted therapies....

6) Link to the study:

Birch et al. Uncovering the genetic architecture of ME/ CFS: a precision approach reveals impact of rare monogenic variation.
link.springer.com/ar...

Discussion on S4ME:
www.s4me.info/thread...

26.12.2025 16:31 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

OK I did both. There were tow different versions. So I filled it twice; hope that was correct. It was very helpful for me to think about "rest" in this way. Had not done that before... Really good questions!

10.02.2026 18:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Happy to lend brain power/thoughts. How best to do that?

10.02.2026 17:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

To be clear, I know RECOVER includes many deeply committed researchers, clinicians, and patients. My concern isn’t the people but the process and timeline. When there is so much to do and people in need of answers, holding tightly to embargoes feels like a missed opportunity for collective progress.

10.02.2026 17:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Patients (including me) enrolled to advance knowledge. Honoring that commitment means enabling discovery at scale, responsibly and securely of course; that is critical, but now. I hoped for a more inclusive approach. It’s not too late to get there, but will take opening the doors wider a bit faster.

10.02.2026 17:51 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Progress in complex disease comes from many teams asking different questions, applying different models or the same types of models differently, and challenging assumptions. Can we not try to expedite this process by working out a new way of doing this not one after the other, but concurrently?

10.02.2026 17:48 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I know very well as a researcher that this is β€œhow research usually works.” But Long COVID is not usual. The scale of the global impact is enormous, the heterogeneity and complexity is real; finding the answers will require a village.

10.02.2026 17:46 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0