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Sasha

@sashanimmo

Medical research, clean energy, sustainability. Mostly recumbent. 5% off iHerb code: BWH243

 Australia
MEAustralia.net
Joined October 2010
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One year since ME Australia met with Health Minister @greghuntMP, asking for biomedical research funding & new clinical guidelines. @MyalgicE invited Alison Hunter Memorial Fdn, Hummingbird Fdn for ME, @emergeaus and Prof Paul Fisher @latrobe. #pwME meaustralia.net/wp-content/u…
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What helps #pwme with your cognitive impairment?
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It’s 2022 yet Australian guidelines treat #pwme and anyone with a CFS diagnosis like they are lazy, lying who wrongly think they are sick. #pwme #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #MEICC @MyalgicE meaustralia.net/difference-b…
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Australia's CFS guidelines say there’s nothing physically wrong so look for psych causes: “no abnormal physical findings". "Excluding other disorders" makes it a diagnosis of exclusion or rubbish bin diagnosis. meaustralia.net/difference-b… #pwme #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis @MyalgicE
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If you haven’t read this, you’ll enjoy it seizureonline.com/content/ho… I like to give an annual reminder! #pwme #chronicillness @seizureonline
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If anyone in #Canberra or nearby areas is taking all precautions against Covid and has a room they want to rent out please let me know.
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We are hiring. Post-doc on exciting 3 year project focused on gut brain axis. Would like to work with someone with experience in afferent nerve recordings if possible. See position outline herehttps://www.seek.com.au/job/57249258
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Starting master thread of threads on the many ways even mild Covid infection causes damage to vascular system, brain, heart, liver, kidneys, eyes, ears, nerves, endocrine system, immunity, fertility & more. I'll continue to add here & to all category threads as info emerges.
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Anna Episheva: My niece was supposed to graduate this year from her high school. She and her friends bought dresses and were looking forward to this day. Then Russians came. Her school was directly hit and destroyed. Today she came back to what is left of her school and her plans
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Samsara is an enviro-tech start-up backed by the ANU which will "infinitely" recycle plastic to help solve the global plastic pollution crisis. They use new technology to break down plastic to its core elements to create new plastic.
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I can confidently say… I am not qualified to do this. Nor are my fellow journos. This is awful. – at Paterson, New South Wales
Richard Willingham (@rwillingham) profile pictureRichard Willingham@rwillingham8 Jun 2022
ABC to abolish 58 librarian and archivist jobs with journalists to do archival work theguardian.com/media/2022/j…
ABC to abolish 58 librarian and archivist jobs with journalists to do archival work

ABC to abolish 58 librarian and archivist jobs with journalists to do archival work

A further 17 contract positions will also be axed with many of the staff affected based outside Sydney and Melbourne

theguardian.com
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To the #pwME and #LongCovid communities - what are your thoughts on using "Post-exertional symptom exacerbation (PESE)" over "Post-exertional malaise (PEM)"? Pros/cons? Please RT, this will have an impact on something significant!
47%PESE
30%PEM
23%Either
1,106 votes • Final results
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The Miegunyah Distinguished Fellowship Public Lecture with Prof Christopher M Jewell from @UMDBIOE is starting in less than 30 mins. Drop into the auditorium or join us on Zoom: unimelb.zoom.us/j/8577231437… @JewellBioE @UniMelbMDHS @UniMelb
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Lovely to meet Yolandi from @Wombat_Rescue to hear about the challenges wombats face & their amazing work rehabilitating then releasing them back into the wild. We have such incredible wildlife here in 🇦🇺 (most of it found nowhere else) & can do more to look after it.
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The dog never answers when I ask him where the TV remote is, even when he’s lying on it.
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He gave it away when he went to snuggle up on it and turned the volume up to frighteningly loud.
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PZ@pzneedsrest7 Jun 2022
Replying to @RFH1955
"...ME has acquired medical legitimacy." 🤔 Just like all over the world, in Australia there has been complete erasure of any recognition that may have existed 40 years ago.
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Sydney Morning Herald, 24th November 1987.
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Throwback to the time I found out about how Australia squandered what little money there was for medical research into ME and CFS. Christine Hunter, the mother of Alison Hunter who died from ME, gave me this info. #pwme #Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
Sasha (@sashanimmo) profile pictureSasha@sashanimmo4 Jun 2018
Replying to @sashanimmo @TomKindlon
Part 3:...we don’t want a repeat of the last process: a million dollars given to a psychiatrist who studied neurathenia’ and ‘melancholia’ then wrote the Australian CFS guidelines. #pwME meaustralia.net/2018/05/06/m…
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Makes me mad that @ian_hickie got involved, he’s a psychiatrist and should have said “no, this isn’t my area”. #pwme
Eliza Charley | Actress on Pause (@ElizaCharley) profile pictureEliza Charley | Actress on Pause@ElizaCharley4 Jun 2022
Replying to @sashanimmo @KathyCollett7
Indeed the self-perpetuating cycle in Australia of misjudging viral-onset disease as psychiatric, therefore consulting mental health industry, thus re-inforcing the same bias, without ever consulting the robust biomedical research, is excruciatingly frustrating.
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"Exercise should never be undertaken where #ME is suspected as this worsens symptoms" 12th September 1986 They knew back then. If this had been the basis for biomedical research & the education of all Drs & HCPs an incalculable amount of suffering could have been avoided #pwME
Royal Free 1955 (@RFH1955) profile pictureRoyal Free 1955@RFH19552 Jun 2022
Ayrshire Post and Troon Herald, Scotland, 12th September 1986. "Exercise should never be undertaken where M.E. is suspected as this worsens all symptoms".
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