Sheila Pankhurst
Followed the science exodus from Twitter. Interested in wildlife conservation, climate change. European at heart. Lucky to live in Cumbria. Banner pic is the Rannerdale bluebells. She/her. #covidisnotover
- Reposted by Sheila PankhurstAs I've said before the lack of focus on A&E in govt plans is bewildering even just from a political perspective. For many people it's their most viseral and memorable interaction with the state.
- On my list to explore - possibly this autumn. Goes through some beautiful countryside. #Cumbria #https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2xeexn3w4o
- When I retired, one of my resolutions was to try to learn more about identifying mosses and lichens. I’m making some progress with mosses, but finding lichens tricky .. Great respect for the experts involved in this work. #cumbria www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Reposted by Sheila PankhurstPeople experiencing homelessness were given £2,000 with no conditions through the Personal Grants Project. Early findings show the money went on rent deposits, furniture, courses and childcare. We’re proud to be funding this UK-first trial with CHI. Read more: loom.ly/ufqFIqg
- Reposted by Sheila PankhurstNo Covid infection is mild. We need layered mitigations because Covid vaccines were designed to reduce disease severity not necessarily prevent infection and any infection can cause long covid. Yet we are still being gaslighted on this!
- Unpaid, but a wonderful place to be. www.welshwildlife.org/volunteer-sk...
- Happy Christmas everyone. And thank you to Jay Mistry. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Reposted by Sheila PankhurstA Winter Walk - by one of my favourite artists and printmakers, Hester Cox @hestercoxprint.bsky.social More of Hester's stunning artwork, here: www.hestercox.com #art #printmaking #fox #winter
- Reposted by Sheila PankhurstOne of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.
- Reposted by Sheila PankhurstFellow parents! Carers! Anyone looking after children over half-term! Here is a thread of videos showing TOYS you can MAKE at home from scrap stuff you probably have lying around. First, the utterly delightful "balancing bird" alomshaha.com/balancing-bi...
- Small glimmers of hope - the restoration of UK access to Erasmus, a transformational educational exchange scheme www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4...
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- Excellent as always.
- ✨Please share! My newsletter is out. 🤒Flu, COVlD, RSV info 💨Fat = COVlD viral reservoir 👁️Retina FAZ increases in Long COVlD (microvasc) 💥LC pain- autoAb & spike prot peptides 💉Hep B vax at birth policy change w/o new data 😮Immunotx cure for HIV? & much more buff.ly/VsGSekx #medsky #IDsky 🛟😷🧪
- More than 1,000 people have lost their lives .. barely a mention in the mainstream media
- The Beaver Trust is advertising for a new Chief Executive. Not easy finding a link to the job advert other than via Facebook, but here’s the link to the recruitment pack. Closing date for applications is 10th December. #wildlife #beaver #speciesreintroduction beavertrust.org/wp-content/u...
- I’ve only just seen this. A really good wildflower-rich hay meadow is a wonderful thing. #Cumbria www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Reposted by Sheila PankhurstSnacktime! 🐿️😍 During autumn, red squirrels scour their habitats for nuts, berries & other vital energy sources. They don't hibernate, so they cache lots of this foraged food in shallow holes and tree crevices to keep them going through the cold winter months. 🎥 Paul Burke #NatureInFlux
- Reposted by Sheila PankhurstNow published! My edited book ‘Long COVID and Society’ - my introduction is free to read for everyone. Download from the link below and check out the others chapters too (Chapter 14, about LC children and families, is also open access) link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
- Reposted by Sheila PankhurstJapan live: Sanae Takaichi elected as Japan's first female prime minister reut.rs/4ne1PXy
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- Reposted by Sheila PankhurstNobel Peace Prizes have often been awarded to people who fight autocracy. Maria Corina Machado fits right into that tradition www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
- Reposted by Sheila PankhurstA ladybird first for Britain www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Reposted by Sheila PankhurstWe’re heartbroken to learn that Dr Jane Goodall has passed away, aged 91. Dr Goodall was one of the true conservation giants of our time. Let’s honour her legacy by choosing to make a difference in the world - by protecting it. Thank you, Jane, for everything you did for our planet. 💚
- Reposted by Sheila PankhurstWithin the first year of my daughter’s life, the Lionesses have won the Euros and the Red Roses have won the World Cup in front of sell-out crowds and huge tv audiences and it’s so wonderful to know she will grow up thinking that of course women play sport and of course everybody watches it
- I think I can hear eider ducks calling in the background? Or am I imagining it? Lovely anyway.
- Lovely.
- Reposted by Sheila PankhurstSmall boats: TV coverage - day after day after day after day.... PPE scandal: TV coverage - let's stick this powerful, enraging documentary on at quarter past ten on a Sunday night.
- Reposted by Sheila PankhurstI strongly second this! 👏🏾 When talking about science communication, I also always stress that *all* forms and forums of communication matter 🔄 Whether it’s a big, factually correct but details-lite TV show or movie…or just chatting to granny or your mates in a pub 🗣️
- Fantastic piece in Nature Reviews Neuro by @nicolecrust.bsky.social on the importance of science communication. My take? Everything matters - just do something. It will make a difference for how science is valued and trusted, how community understands. Let's get out there and communicate! 👏
- Reposted by Sheila PankhurstSome hopeful weekend reading. “This is nature’s emergency recovery mechanism. We’ve buggered almost everything up but this will still bring them back.”
- A new (and fully accessible) pathway for Cumbria. Very good news for those of us whose knees are no longer quite as resilient as they once were. #Cumbria www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Reposted by Sheila Pankhurst"A refreshingly pragmatic and undoomy book." The Guardian just published a great review of @hannahritchie.bsky.social's new book 'Clearing the Air'. The book will be out in 2 days. If you are unsure whether you want to read it, the review gives a good overview: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
- Reposted by Sheila PankhurstMary Edwards Walker worked as a surgeon for the Union Army during the Civil War. She was captured by Confederates after crossing enemy lines to treat wounded civilians & arrested as a spy. She's the only woman to ever receive the Medal of Honor - pictured here, wearing it.
- Reposted by Sheila PankhurstHot off the press: We can provide for the first time a systematic attribution of recent #heatwaves to the emissions of #carbon_majors. Essential new #Nature article coordinated by @yannquilcaille.bsky.social at @ethz.ch, with numerous contributors @usyseth.bsky.social: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- This is sad news. Donald MacIntyre’s book is wonderful and a treasure trove of information about wildflower meadows. And our very small patch of meadow owes a great deal to Emorsgate Seeds. wildseed.co.uk/we-are-deepl... #meadows #wildflowers
- This is good news I think. But I suspect that there will be much quibbling over the 30cm depth threshold. Who will check this in marginal areas?
- Great to see that government WILL ban moorland burning on peat deeper than 30cm, and over a much greater area than previously Big win for communities who've suffered the smoke + floods stemming from this Victorian practice Only losers are ~150 wealthy grouse moor owners www.gov.uk/government/n...
- Reposted by Sheila PankhurstThere are 178 MPAs in English waters, covering 51% of inshore and 37% of offshore waters. Most of these MPAs are paper parks and don't really protect much.
- This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it? Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Reposted by Sheila PankhurstFor over 25 years, science and discovery centres have been at the heart of inspiring millions of people to explore, question, and be part of UK science and technology. But they're seriously under threat… 1/3
- Reposted by Sheila PankhurstOnly 12 days until the Lunar Eclipse. Link with info. 🔭 🧪 www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/luna...
- Reposted by Sheila PankhurstInterested in getting involved and becoming a seed superhero? Find more info here ⬇️ www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/news/bringin...
- Reposted by Sheila PankhurstSaxicolous (stone) lichens, in some places thought to live for 11,500 years, challenge basic concepts like species, and some consider them more akin to actual ecosystems. Their symbiotic relationships can be viewed as metaphors for resistance, resilience, and interconnection.
- Reposted by Sheila PankhurstWatched a while ago and really enjoyed it. Getting from A to B doesn’t have to be soul-destroying, stuck in a prison of your own choosing. It can be wind-in-the-hair enjoyable. People look upon bicycles as childish, toy-like. Duh, yeah - toys are fun - being a kid again is fun - hence biking is fun!
- I needed this in my feeds this morning. A moment of calm amidst the madness.
- Reposted by Sheila PankhurstMount Sinai Health System has made the first clinical manual in the US for infection-associated chronic illnesses, including long COVID, long Lyme disease, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome www.beckershospitalreview.com/quality/pati...
- Reposted by Sheila Pankhurst✨Please Repost! My newsletter is out. 🌊 Summer COVID wave is accelerating just in time for school 🛟 RFK Jr cancels $500 million for mRNA vax research 🧬 8 genes linked to ME/CFS in huge study 🧠 Low Lithium and Alzheimer's & much more! buff.ly/AuGVuk9 #medsky #pedsky 😷🧪
- Reposted by Sheila PankhurstI do bloody love this chart. Who'd have thought, 20 years ago, that solar would be ~10% of world electricity generation by 2024 - and over 20% in some countries, rising rapidly in others? Definitely not me. When I started this job I hoped to be part of a solution for maybe 1% of global electricity.
- Reposted by Sheila PankhurstTrying to capture the beautiful light on the canal tonight
- Reposted by Sheila PankhurstDuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.
- Reposted by Sheila Pankhurst‘What is great about evidence based policy is that it has a wonderful habit of working’ The 20mph policy has reduced casualties by over 25%, paid for itself already, and reduced insurance premiums…. Win, win, win!
- My children loved Each Peach Pear Plum. Bedtime favourite.
- Sad to hear of the loss of #AllanAhlbergRIP His poetry books “Please Mrs Butler” “Heard it in the Playground” were actual life-savers when I started teaching. Having children I realised how wonderful his picturebooks and stories were. A great children’s writer and a big loss.
- Reposted by Sheila PankhurstThis slope on this chart is INSANE
- Reposted by Sheila PankhurstBig day for the matriarchy! 🥳 Huge congrats to the awesome Prof. Doughtery, lead on the Jupiter-bound ESA JUICE mission & STFC Exec Chair. If anyone's confused on the astro royal hierarchy: Michele and I are the astro equivalents of 🇬🇧Westminster and 🏴Holyrood 🤗 ℹ️: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 👩🔬🔭🧪
- Reposted by Sheila PankhurstThis is a great thread about lencapavir, the new PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis, aka take it before you’re exposed and you hopefully won’t get the disease) for HIV. Taken every six-ish months, it almost completely protects from HIV. And Gilead will license it as a generic, $40 a shot, worldwide.
- Just joyous.
- Reposted by Sheila PankhurstIn 2020, Arundhati Roy wrote a gorgeous, prescient essay called “The Pandemic is a Portal”. In this piece, I discuss who actually walked through it: the COVID conscious community, and why I’m proud to be a part of it. www.thegauntlet.news/p/the-pandem...
- Reposted by Sheila PankhurstYou are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳
- Reposted by Sheila Pankhurst🚨BREAKING🚨COOL SHREW FOUND insideecology.com/2025/07/03/o...
- Reposted by Sheila Pankhurst1.5 ha of natural colonisation next to small wood. Mostly willow, hawthorn, blackthorn pioneers, some oak, dogwood, apple. Mosaic colonisation towards natural open shrub/woodland leaves lots of rich flowery grassland, full of Lady’s Bedstraw, scabious, Knapweed. Smells amazing, teeming with insects.
- #Cumbria This is great - a film festival celebrating cinema with links to Cumbria. Not just the locations (Ennerdale features in 28 Days Later) but music scores and links with Cumbrian film directors and writers. kirkgateartsandheritage.org.uk/film-festiva...
- Good things happening, and not such good things. In the artist’s home town of Aix-en-Provence there is a major new exhibition of works by Cezanne cezanne2025.com/en/ But a number of the museums in the city are closed this week ‘because of the heatwave’ #ClimateChange
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[This post could not be retrieved] - Reposted by Sheila PankhurstA century ago, Janet Lane-Claypon laid the groundwork for several methods we still use in public health and epidemiology today. (Photo below from Lister Institute in 1907.) Let's look at what she pioneered...
- Reposted by Sheila PankhurstThanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...
- Free access (paywall lifted by the FT) to an excellent piece on Trump, Miller and the protesters in Los Angeles by Pulitzer-winning novelist and academic Viet Thanh Nguyen. email.newsletters.ft.com/c/eJyMkE2O1D...
- Reposted by Sheila PankhurstTop of my list of missing native species we should be looking at reintroducing to Ireland? Lynx!! • Never attack people • Rarely attack livestock • Aren't pack animals • Help regulate deer • Help regulate smaller predators, like fox • Are a huge tourist draw • Are just GORGEOUS!!
- Lovely photos. Smardale is one of my favourite nature reserves. Well worth visiting at any time; great for butterflies too, especially mid-summer for the beautiful velvety brown Scotch Argus.
- Today's #walk was @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social Smardale always lovely today the #wildflowers were fantastic I have never seen so many rock roses.Lots of birds including Redstart visiting its nest Brilliant #wildlife @keswickboot.bsky.social @fellsandlakes.bsky.social
- Always worth reading. Concise, clear summaries, references.
- ✨Please share! My newsletter is out! In this issue: 🧠Neuro Syndrome in 35-55% of kids w/Long COVID 👃Paxlovid reduces loss of smell and taste 💊Low dose Rapamycin in ME/CFS 👀Making HIV inside cells visible 🦀BRCA cancer discovery and much more buff.ly/ZDCw1fh #medsky #IDsky #pedsky #hemesky 🛟 😷🧪
- More of this please, much more. And welcome shade for parked vehicles and bicycles.
- Reposted by Sheila PankhurstOh my goodness - this is incredible. I’m always cautious about using the term “breakthrough” but this could be a real game-changer - forcing blood cells to reveal that they are infected with HIV. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
- Reposted by Sheila PankhurstMore walks coming up, for everyone to get out and enjoy the outdoors this summer. What’s stopping you? Can I help?
- Reposted by Sheila PankhurstCancer Research UK today published a report which highlights changes in cancer survival rates over the last 50 years. Many headlines (like this one from the Guardian) have chosen to report the ‘doubling of cancer survival rates’ since the 1970s. But that's misleading... 1/18
- Reposted by Sheila PankhurstThe latest Covid variant (razor blade throat) seems to have increased transmissibility resulting in more people ending up in hospital. Most healthcare systems haven’t adopted clean air standards or mandatory respirator use. Hospital acquired COVID has a 10% fatality rate My guide to avoiding it
- Reposted by Sheila PankhurstAt a time when the criminal justice system is closer than ever to complete collapse, those electronic books people have made the Sunday Times No.1 bestseller #StoriesOfTheLawAndHowIt’sBroken a Kindle Monthly Deal - an absurd 99p. Read. Learn. Get freaking furious. www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B075...
- So much good writing about the natural world (and more), and better still, absolutely free. This book of essays is open access and easy to download and read. I particularly enjoyed the chapter by @elinetabak.bsky.social on the monarch butterfly. #conservation
- The wonderful volume Narrating the Multispecies World: Stories in Times of Crises, Loss, and Hope (ed. by Michaela Fenske; fully OA) is out My contribution is on monarch butterflies and the spectacle (and banality) of extinction. Have a read! 🦋 www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
- Reposted by Sheila PankhurstThe vast fire on #Dartmoor should alert us to the ecological disaster there. This should not be a fire-prone landscape. Were it not for the elimination of trees by grazing, the vegetation type on the high moor would be temperate rainforest, which is extremely hard to burn. But only specks remain.
