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🧑‍🎓@UCL |⚖️Values-based leadership |✊Educational dialogue & agency | 🌍Humane intelligent responses to global threats |💕 Carer for #LongCovid-affected family

Reading, England
Joined May 2011
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Hi everyone - I'm starting my switch to the less toxic air of BlueSky. I'll be here less and there more. Come on over! bsky.app/profile/ruperthigha…
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📻 Superb George Monbiot Interview on LBC with Natasha Devon. "A long & vicious history in this country of dismissing predominantly female diseases & calling them hysterical." 🔥 Thank you George & Natasha 🙏
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This is trending! #ME people do keep sharing or posting or quoting if possible. We’d love to get out of the bubble.
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TONIGHT 🧚‍♀️🧌 at 7pm UK time! On Fairy Tales & Disability with Amanda Leduc. Apt seeing the amount of people trying to convince us we can cure ourselves by the fairy tale trope of magical thinking! 📺 Livestreaming on our twitter, YouTube & Facebook Recording will be available.
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💙Long Covid Advocacy in Liverpool on an outreach mission at the International Congress of The Royal College of Psychiatrists. #RCPsychIC As always, our aim was to engage politely and openly with those present. It was a resounding success... 👇️ 🧵
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🗞️ Stop Press: MON 15th - We are coordinating an outreach campaign to the Royal College of Psychiatrists Congress to ensure the community's concerns about the framing of Long Covid are heard. This is a powerful opportunity for them to #HearOurVoices Template to C+P below 👇️
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Sharing is caring ♥️ 🔁 Any help in boosting us on the algorithm train would be appreciated 💫🚉
SOCIAL MEDIA OUTREACH TOMORROW! At 10am Paul Garner, Trudie Chalder & Alan Carson are presenting on Long Covid at RCPsych Congress. The community have serious concerns about this framing. 58 orgs & 1200 signed an open letter. Template to C+P below 👇️
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This explains A LOT. Levinovitz's new book is called 'Demons by another name: Biology, belief & stories make us sick.' It is clear that brain retaining fits the argument that he is making: that what was deemed as demons are still making us sick & the mind can miracle cure 1/8
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We have guest writer Dr Elke Hausmann examining the controversial Levinovitz WIRED article which has sparked significant concern for its portrayal of Long Covid, recovery narratives, and brain retraining approaches. 🎙️Audio available open.substack.com/pub/longco…
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Dr Elinor Cleghorn on how women have been set up to fail & be disbelieved in medicine... 📺 Full interview: youtube.com/live/mfR-HhT86JM…
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📝 NEW BLOG POST Leading schools in challenging times? All hands on deck! Mari-Ana Jones, Norwegian University of Science and Technology @rupert_higham @UCL_IOE @CEL_IOE Alex Gardner-McTaggart, University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China Read here: bera.ac.uk/blog/leading-scho…
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5️⃣days to go and our total today is 945 signatures! We're nearly at 1000. ⚡AIM: Remove Garner, Chalder & Carson from influencing the next generation of psychiatrists with harmful views for patients. Sign up 🖇️✍️👇 tinyurl.com/yzk9m7et
🩵On #MEAwarenessDay we are sending an open letter to @rcpsych calling for alignment with current evidence. Supported by 20 organisations. +35 advocates, clinicians & academics! In democratic spirit we are offering a public sign-on opportunity 🔗👇️ #RCPsychIC #Garner
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Tonight, Council buildings will light up blue in support of International ME Awareness Day💙 This is an opportunity to stand in solidarity with everyone living with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME), as well as their families, friends and carers. #MEAwarenessDay #MeSupport
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🩵On #MEAwarenessDay we are sending an open letter to @rcpsych calling for alignment with current evidence. Supported by 20 organisations. +35 advocates, clinicians & academics! In democratic spirit we are offering a public sign-on opportunity 🔗👇️ #RCPsychIC #Garner
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📺️ Fantastic interview with Dr Rupert Higham from the Institute of Education at UCL and Prof David Putrino 'On Medical Education for Long Covid, ME and IACI' It is divided into short named chapters for accessibility and there is also a transcript. #LongCovidAwarenessDay youtu.be/S5amDZFaVeE?si=DILX…
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This is Emily Mendenhall’s Substack piece which lays out her dealings with Wessely. Superb comment on the article by @LongCovidAdvoc underneath. #ME #LongCovid open.substack.com/pub/emilym…
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🧵PUBLIC HEALTH SHOULD NOT BE A CULTURE WAR 😷 It’s bizarre watching politicians, like Kemi Badenoch perform trauma around masks while millions live with the reality of not masking; death, disability, ME, Long Covid. The Guardian are asking for opinions on masking 🖇️👇 /1
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Boris Johnson Faces COVID Inquiry as Long Covid Children Demand Recognition and Accountability. He's called Long Covid: 👉 B*ll*cks 👉 Made up like "Gulf War Syndrome" It's time for answers... Our #PressRelease: longcovidadvoc.com/borisjohn…
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⚡Please watch this powerful, emotive, furious speech by Violet Affleck She rightly states that for children there has been a neglect of the highest order even though we have the tech "Our present is being stolen in front of our eyes" 👉Clean Air is a human right #UNGA80 /1
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📢 Our Campaign Guide is out! It deals with common media traps that we need to know how to deal with 🗣️ Part One covers the ‘Bait & Switch' tactic: ‘Its not ALL in you Head But…’ Easy-to-read download incl 💌 Help shift the paradigm and share away! longcovidadvoc.com/post/not-…
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