iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Elizabeth Toon @eblucyclio.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

@matthewcobb.bsky.social look what I saw in the (absolutely amazing) Oodi public library in Helsinki! That's reach 😁 (am having wkend break in architecture and park paradise)

000

Elizabeth Toon @eblucyclio.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

This morning is one of my favourite sessions to teach - postgrad hist of tech seminar on domestic technologies. So much fun to talk tech and kitchens, industrial design, food prep, cleanliness, consumerism, craft and hobbies, feminism and gendered work, energy use, and the list goes on...

030

Elizabeth Toon @eblucyclio.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Ok my brain is clearly fixated on rewriting my pharma & risk lecture. Just saw a bus go by and at first thought it said 'Zoloft is our sacred duty." Obviously it said 'Zakat' not Zoloft!

010

Elizabeth Toon @eblucyclio.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

On way to conference sessions in Berlin walked through Bebelplatz. There's a plaque reminding us this is where the Nazi burned books containing scientific and scholarly knowledge they didn't agree with. I wish this was not relevant to our contemporary situation.

0102

Reposted by Elizabeth Toon

Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

“Every time you go to your doctor or get treated by a nurse, there’s a chorus of researchers, public health workers, policy experts, epidemiologists and advisory panels arrayed behind them, aided by laboratories, databases, websites… Our current government seems determined to wrench this away”

nytimes.com

Opinion | What Happens When Doctors Can’t Trust the Government?

6367124

Elizabeth Toon @eblucyclio.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Treating myself to coffee shop coffee and pastry to build strength before multiple hour Canvas (vle) training session

000

Elizabeth Toon @eblucyclio.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I don't care if the OED says it was first used in 1839. 'Unputdownable' should not be a word.

100

Elizabeth Toon @eblucyclio.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Today's topic in health comm is 'What did we learn about health comm from the pandemic?' Sorely tempted to just put this quote from Burn After Reading on repeat.

reddit.com

From the HighQualityGifs community on Reddit: What did we learn Palmer?

Explore this post and more from the HighQualityGifs community

000

Elizabeth Toon @eblucyclio.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Still a bit chilly but gratifying hint of spring on the way

020

Elizabeth Toon @eblucyclio.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

In one class this week I will be talking about the weird, weird world of US direct-to-consumer pharma ads for my UK students. Such an accepted background part of US life to have the tv shouting stats and happy patients at us, but to folks from elsewhere they are just utterly insane.

3374

Elizabeth Toon @eblucyclio.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Work at home day meant a lovely breakfast at my fave local cafe over lecture plan and now a brief sit down in the park. Gotta rebuild my calm before diving back in

020

Elizabeth Toon @eblucyclio.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Great piece on The Hill by @jgolden08.bsky.social : thehill.com/opinion/heal...

thehill.com

000

Elizabeth Toon @eblucyclio.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Have been quiet on the birdie app for a while in prep for leaving it. But yeah, definitely closing that account out now, and hoping that (once my marking is done!) I'll be back to enjoying this lovely place.

130

Elizabeth Toon @eblucyclio.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I have 3 other lovely pens in my pen case today, all of them pricier, but the one that appeals this morning is my trusty Platinum Prefounte. First fountain pen I bought, still going very strong at least 3 years later, worth many times the £8 I paid for it! #fountainpens #cheapthrills

020

Elizabeth Toon @eblucyclio.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Is baking the famous NYT plum tart, the official tart of OMGtoomuchmarkingandotherwork season

000

Elizabeth Toon @eblucyclio.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Apply! This is an excellent thing

010

Reposted by Elizabeth Toon

Ken Armstrong @bykenarmstrong.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

So, @propublica.org reports that Georgia's maternal mortality review committee determined that two women died after being denied access to care under the state's abortion ban, and Georgia's response is to dismiss all members of the committee. www.propublica.org/article/geor...

propublica.org

Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths

In a letter, the state’s public health commissioner said the action was taken because “confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outs...

36749375

Elizabeth Toon @eblucyclio.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Wow. I could search starter packs all day...

000

Elizabeth Toon @eblucyclio.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

We have reached the point in the semester / autumn / November / world crisis timeline where I'm putting hot cocoa mix into my morning coffee. Try it, it works!

170

Elizabeth Toon @eblucyclio.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Treat lunch for Friday, while I read student drafts. Almost too lovely to eat!

050

Elizabeth Toon @eblucyclio.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Well hello hey howdy to all the new folk streaming in.

000

Elizabeth Toon @eblucyclio.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Just utterly depressed and crushed. Sadly not that surprised, though I'd been trying very hard to be hopeful.

030

Elizabeth Toon @eblucyclio.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Very glad to have a WFH day after v busy week. Esp as it means lunch at fave local cafe and a bit of park time before returning to laptop.

010

Elizabeth Toon @eblucyclio.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

Even on holiday there's no escaping history of medicine - although this is outside a scan clinic, not a scholarly library

000

Elizabeth Toon @eblucyclio.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

Sitting in the sun, reading a new cookbook, drinking a pint, and listening to the geese on the canal go nuts

000

Reposted by Elizabeth Toon

Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 15/08/2024

New crowdsource project to help describe National Museums Scotland's stereographs of the 1862 International Exhibition - join the fun here: www.zooniverse.org/projects/jul... (when resting from transcribing the comings and goings of chronometers here: www.zooniverse.org/projects/too... !) 📚📜

zooniverse.org

Stereovision | Zooniverse - People-powered research

Help make our collections at National Museums Scotland more accessible by classifying 19th century stereographs of the International Exhibition of 1862, through creating keywords and alternative descr...

32314

Elizabeth Toon @eblucyclio.bsky.social · 15/08/2024

does not need another fountain pen. Does not need another fountain pen. Even if it is the best shade of blue ever.

5170

Elizabeth Toon @eblucyclio.bsky.social · 16/07/2024

I give up. Was there a giant volcanic eruption on the other side of the earth we didn't hear about, and that's why there is no summer? I like cool weather and rain, but it's getting to be a bit much.

020

Elizabeth Toon @eblucyclio.bsky.social · 08/07/2024

I think I missed some crucial meeting where everyone decided 'lessons' would now be 'learnings'.

010

Elizabeth Toon @eblucyclio.bsky.social · 16/05/2024

Wandered thru a cloud of very tall Dutch guys skeptically examining the rental bikes in Salford. Hope our bike lanes are up to their exacting standards. (And yes I know "very tall" and "Dutch" is unnecessary repetition)

010

Elizabeth Toon @eblucyclio.bsky.social · 04/04/2024

Spending my WFH time as it should be spent, arguing with the cat about whose chair this is.

000

Elizabeth Toon @eblucyclio.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

Latest sign I am slowly becoming kinda almost British: last night I voluntarily descaled the kettle, and had a little sigh of satisfaction when I was finished at a job well done.

000

Elizabeth Toon @eblucyclio.bsky.social · 11/02/2024

Progress, though: many old cables to nonfunctioning things now tossed, as well as iPod mini. Because obviously it was the iPod mini taking up all the space.

010

Elizabeth Toon @eblucyclio.bsky.social · 11/02/2024

I'm gonna have to wrap next year's Christmas gifts not in ribbon, but in USB cables.

010

Elizabeth Toon @eblucyclio.bsky.social · 11/02/2024

How in the name of all that is holy have I acquired so many cables (power, USB, audio, and otherwise)? ::looks at 3 ex-laptops (some semi-functional still), 3 external hard drives (all functional thankfully), iPad2, iPod mini, sad dead droid phone, battery charger...::

010

Elizabeth Toon @eblucyclio.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

In keeping with my habit of being incredibly late to every online fad and insight, wow, background lo-fi music really makes marking more pleasurable and productive. Especially when combined with hot chocolate.

010

Elizabeth Toon @eblucyclio.bsky.social · 23/01/2024

Back in my office (been WFH since Christmas) and have thrown out all the old tea bags and ground coffee of doubtful vintage and replaced with a plethora of fresh. The semester may now begin.

020

Elizabeth Toon @eblucyclio.bsky.social · 28/12/2023

I have a cold. A low-level but annoying cold. The cat has a cold. A low-level but annoying cold. Being a historian of medicine and the media, I can't help but think this is the prologue to some horrible cross-species global health disaster film. (Worry not, cat and I are both pretty much ok now.)

070

Elizabeth Toon @eblucyclio.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

Thwack-thwack, in case you haven't heard it, is the sound of umbrellas blowing inside out and back in the Manchester wind and rain. Autumn has arrived.

000

Elizabeth Toon @eblucyclio.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

When I pass the geese on my canal on November mornings, esp the aggressive guy at the front, I hear the words of Les Nessman: "It was almost as if they were...organized!"

010

Elizabeth Toon @eblucyclio.bsky.social · 29/10/2023

In cafe listening to Brit, Greek, and I think Spanish group trying to make sense of the Boston Tea Party. Very interesting.

010

Elizabeth Toon @eblucyclio.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

72 hours since booster and my arm is still warm. Not fussed but does make me think of how a medieval physician might have interpreted this. Or an early modern one. Or a Victorian one. #nerdoutwmedicalhistorians

010