Rupert Higham

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

[Rupert Higham @rupert_higham]

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!

https://t.co/1pc7sD0FQn

[Long Covid Advocacy 💙 @LongCovidAdvoc]

💙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... 👇️ 🧵

[Long Covid Advocacy 💙 @LongCovidAdvoc]

🗞️ 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 👇️

[Long Covid Advocacy 💙 @LongCovidAdvoc]

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Any help in boosting us on the algorithm train would be appreciated 💫🚉

[Long Covid Advocacy 💙 @LongCovidAdvoc]

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

[Long Covid Advocacy 💙 @LongCovidAdvoc]

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
https://t.co/p2Tpc5lq4j

[Rupert Higham @rupert_higham]

@RBMD1982 @AlanLevinovitz It is the opposite of curious and careful. It is a long and incoherent justification of his prior, unevidenced hunches.

Many patients and families feel betrayed by their representation in this piece. They know much more about the condition than the author.

[Rupert Higham @rupert_higham]

@awaisaftab @AlanLevinovitz It reads like Daily Express journalism:
"Can it be a coincidence that...?" "Then there's the amazing story of..." and best of all:
"Here I am, writing in a major publication, being silenced!!!"

Astonishing from a philosopher of education.

[Long Covid Advocacy 💙 @LongCovidAdvoc]

Dr Elinor Cleghorn on how women have been set up to fail & be disbelieved in medicine...

📺 Full interview:
https://t.co/WvNPrApRnv

[BERA @BERANews]

📝 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: https://t.co/tBSFHPSpaq

[Rupert Higham @rupert_higham]

@SharonG08622863 @MichaelRosenYes Not all cultural boycotts are wrong. The one against South African sport was very successful in helping bring down Apartheid.

[Long Covid Advocacy 💙 @LongCovidAdvoc]

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 🖇️✍️👇
https://t.co/7g8uKnnxBe

[Mayor Derry Strabane @mayordcsdc]

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

[Long Covid Advocacy 💙 @LongCovidAdvoc]

🩵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

[Rupert Higham @rupert_higham]

@TallyCat8 @BBCNewsnight I voted for him as a Labour member, believing he would fulfil his pledges. He lied strategically, cynically and comprehensively. He destroyed internal democracy in Labour. No wonder I and at least half the membership has joined the Greens.

[Rupert Higham @rupert_higham]

@phil_1965 @SunlitUplandsUK @Telegraph I also have an electric car, which I can charge entirely at the 7.5kW/h rate. This means 2p/mile driving costs (negligible tax and servicing).

Together, it makes huge savings. Vehicle to Grid (V2G) technology will utilise car batteries soon to even out supply peaks nationally.

[Rupert Higham @rupert_higham]

@phil_1965 @SunlitUplandsUK @Telegraph The system cost was 8k. I estimate it will pay for itself in 4 years.

[Rupert Higham @rupert_higham]

@phil_1965 @SunlitUplandsUK @Telegraph Combined with battery storage. I can get overnight cheap energy, and sell back surplus production to the grid.

[Rupert Higham @rupert_higham]

@phil_1965 @SunlitUplandsUK @Telegraph Yes we are. Combined with battery storage, I pay nothing for electricityv for 6 months of the year.

[Long Covid Advocacy 💙 @LongCovidAdvoc]

📺️ 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
https://t.co/M2U9gng36K