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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 11h

I mean I’m not a fan of the marketing term “AI” either, but I’m suffuciently educated in information science to know it isn’t the A that is the problem.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Oh look. More things that makes sense happening in these United States.

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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Perfect example of malinformation, of the context-stripping type. Did this exchange happen? Yes. Is there critical context missing? Also yes. (There were no such texts, hence why Smith was so stunned by this "gotcha" exchange.)

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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Congrats to this year's @healthresearchbc.bsky.social Trainee Awardees! I am personally excited to work w Dr. Jorden Hendry & about the whole cohort of early-career scientific excellence highlighted and supported by this important career development program. www.healthresearchbc.ca/news-events/...

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Meet the 2026 Research Trainee awardees | Michael Smith Health Research BC

Congratulations to 30 emerging researchers who are advancing research and building careers in BC.

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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The C19 pandemic shifted a lot of healthcare in Canada to phone/online & limited support people at clinics. At the same time, we asked pregnant ppl to get both routine + new Covid vaccination. Amidst this uncertainty & shifting support landscape, how did pregnant ppl make vaccine decisions? 1/2

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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The # of ppl who suddenly have a lot of opinions about the policies of a small town lesbian bar they’ve never even considered patronizing echoes the # w strong opinions about women’s sports who have never bought a ticket to a girls’/women’s game/match/event that didn’t feature their own daughter.

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taenia @taenia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Goooooood morning, pika fans It's September, and you know what that means! That's right, we are Making Hay, we are Perching On Rocks, we are Squeaking

An American Pika carrying a branch across rocky terrain

This is a small brown mammal that looks like an extremely cute cross between a rabbit and a mouse. It has short, round ears, large dark eyes and long whiskers.

Am American Pika crouched on a rock at a 3/4 view towards the camera

This is a small brown mammal that looks like an extremely cute cross between a rabbit and a mouse. It has short, round ears, large dark eyes and long whiskers.

An American Pika with a mouth full of dried vegetation sitting on a rock

This is a small brown mammal that looks like an extremely cute cross between a rabbit and a mouse. It has short, round ears, large dark eyes and long whiskers.

An American Pika perched on a rock and calling

This is a small brown mammal that looks like an extremely cute cross between a rabbit and a mouse. It has short, round ears, large dark eyes and long whiskers.

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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My institution's zoom has started with "AI transcription" and when someone has it on in their meeting the icon constantly flashes at the top of the screen. In looking for how to hide this, so far I've only found other people complaining to Zoom UX about this. So I'm here asking HOW DO WE HIDE THIS?!

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Jehannine (J9) Austin @j9austin.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

🇨🇦 If you care about the evidence demonstrating that EDI makes for better science and more useful outputs - please read and share this response to the recent happenings at the parliamentary standing committee on science and research sciencepolicy.ca/posts/respon... #canpoli #cdnpoli #AcademicSky 🧪

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Responding to Backlash to Defend Evidence-Based, Inclusive Research Funding - CSPC

Political Restrictions on Funding Decisions in the USA Started with Attacks on EDI The dismantling of research infrastructure and funding from STEM (and other fields) has occurred at a precipitous rat...

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Hisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Alert to Canadian Academics: The parliamentary committee report on criteria for grants (i.e. EDI) is out. It’s not good. So not a time to get too comfortable with how things are going here compared to elsewhere. Need to push back on this. EDI makes for better science. It’s not a tradeoff

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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Another example of the GIGO problem in so-called AI, this time with automated classification/resume screening.

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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is such a slap in the face of scientists who have been diligently conducting vaccine safety surveillance, working to investigate adverse events following immunization, & developing safer vaccines. Give them more $; don’t pull their grants & fund an ideological stream of useless work instead.

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Asher Leeks @asherleeks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Come work with @viromehunter.bsky.social and myself at UBC! We have a postdoctoral position available for someone with an interest in bioinformatics and genomics, using sociovirology to understand disease dynamics in plant viruses. Advert: ppvlab.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2026/0...

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Browser Verification | UBC Cybersecurity

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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We have no use for satire anymore when reality is like this

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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Personally, I'd credit this more to "reality" media more broadly, but this is catchy.

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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Vast majority of Canadians in favour of closer ties with EU; nearly half in favour of becoming an EU member state. It’s hard to imagine Carney not coming out of this w some affiliation agreement, which hopefully will benefit young Canadians with mobility, education, and career opportunities.

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As Carney Heads to Europe, 4 in 5 Canadians Support Closer Integration with the EU - Abacus Data

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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I don’t understand how Canada can continue to abide by the Safe Third Country Agreement, when the 3rd country in question has become so unsafe. Is it due to xenophobia rising domestically? Concern over retaliation from USA? Something else?

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Canada urged to welcome Haitians fleeing U.S. deportations as Trump ends protected status | RCI

Quebec refugee advocates say Canada's border rules could block asylum seekers from staying

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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Years ago I made a calendar note to schedule my shingles vaccine the day after I turn 50 & am eligible. I’m lucky enough to have extended health coverage & ability to pay regardless. One’s job or $ shouldn’t determine protection from a preventable illness that can cause longterm neurological damage.

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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Heartbreaking to learn there's now been a 4th reported death in the Pennsylvania #measles outbreak, this time an unvaccinated 18-year-old. www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.com

Pennsylvania officials report fourth measles-associated death in 'surge' of cases

The US has this year experienced the highest number of deaths from the virus since the 1990s.

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Deaths from pregnancy are up in: sepsis, miscarriage, and even homicide. Explainable by an anti-abortion legislation (yes, even homicide - see the Turnaway Study for what happens when people don't get wanted abortions). The science of all of this is in my book:

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Pregnancy Interrupted: The Science and Stories of How Pregnancies Really End

A compassionate, evidence-based look at pregnancy loss--how and why it happens, and why the assurances of the medical industry don't reflect the reality One of the most prevalent myths about human pre...

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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...

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One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’

Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.

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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Had a wonderful conversation with some "early career" faculty in my school today about working together for culture change to be more humane and mutually supportive in our little corner of academia. Felt good. We can build better ways, even in neoliberal institutions and times of austerity.

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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If you're Going Through It (e.g., serious illness) but don't want to deal with Qs, weirdness, etc., consider letting your network know what's up through someone else who can filter communications/field Qs. Those who care about you would like to tell you how great you are & send you love & support.

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Roland Pierik @roleo.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.com

No cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in Scotland

A study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective".

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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Last day to tell CoV how you feel about the summer’s pedestrianized Granville downtown!

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury.

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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Hey folks, I'm teaching an upper level doctoral seminar on mixed methods in health research and we're doing a mock CIHR-style peer review exercise. Do you have an old 10p mixed method research proposal for CIHR or NIH you'd be willing to let my students review? Funded & unfunded are both useful!

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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I appreciate the implication that US influencers calling a film “woke” has little bearing on its success. However, while one could argue the *film* wasn’t a sequel, the case for it not being a remake baffles me. (How many previous Odyssey/Ulysses films & miniseries have there been?)

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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

As someone who works in public health emergency preparedness I am already bracing for the misinfo generated by LLMs people will consult for answers amidst the uncertainty of the next pandemic. It is infuriating that tech companies are allowed to function like this.

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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I have taken to auto-responding to any email trying to sell my anything AI-related with: unsubscribe. It's oddly satisfying.

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Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Influenza spreads faster in a crowded barracks or prison. Ebola proliferates when hospital beds run short. A new paper in Biology Letters, led by SFI's Brandon Ogbunu, introduces "structural causal influence," quantifying how social inequality shapes disease spread and whether interventions work.

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Modeling social inequality in epidemics

For decades, researchers have rigorously documented the way social inequality shapes the spread of disease. In parallel, mathematical models have emerged for forecasting epidemics and weighing differe...

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Are you funny? Do you relish the idea of accidentally deceiving American news outlets into quoting a satirical article? Do you have niche regional jokes about central Manitoba that the world must hear? Come write for the Beaverton with me!

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UBCIC @ubcic.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Joan was a fearless warrior and inspirational leader, and we will miss her dearly. The family asks for privacy at this time, and in lieu of flowers, please make a donation to the B.C. Cancer Society.

Top of graphic is Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, and his wife, Joan Stewart Phillip. They are outside at a demonstration, with their fists raised.

Text reads: The family of MLA Joan Phillip, Amshen, is deeply saddened to share that Joan passed away peacefully this afternoon, surrounded by her the love of her life, Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, her children, grandchildren and family at the age of 74. Joan was a fearless warrior and inspirational leader, and we will miss her dearly. The family asks for privacy at this time, and in lieu of flowers, please make a donation to the B.C. Cancer Society.

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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

PhD candidates/new grads: Postdoc opportunity with me focused on political economy and tech. See details here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32502

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Cornell University, Department of Communication

Job #AJO32502, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US

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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Wake up, babe. The Prime Minister just dropped “hydronym”.

The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.

The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.

We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.

Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.

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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Heartbreaking news this week (already a sad week due to losses of beloved celebrities) that 2 people died of measles in Pennsylvania. Measles is preventable w high vaccination levels & PA had not had a death in 35y. It seems likely that at least 1 may have been an infant too young to be vaccinated.

nbcnews.com

Infant in Pennsylvania is one of two people reported to die of measles this week

The deaths were the first associated with measles in the state in 35 years.

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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

mRNA COVID vaccine linked to lower risk of myocarditis in teens, young adults Being unvaccinated and getting COVID-19 were associated with a higher risk of heart disease and death than receiving a vaccine. Read more: bit.ly/3UhXOJ8

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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

B1 visas are required to attend scientific or scholarly conferences in the USA for people from many countries. Cutting tourism and event hosting in the USA is quite the strategy. Might I suggest holding that international mtg in Canada instead?

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Back to school. ❤️

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 24/08/2026

Meat proxy (noun): “A person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay between the AI system and the intended recipient.” [sfisms.org]

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Meat proxy

A person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay between the AI system and the intended recipient.

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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Many, both local and far-flung, are feeling the impact of our comrade barbara findlay’s passing. If you didn’t have the chance to know her, or you did but haven’t seen the film, I recommend watching in particular, barbara findlay for a small glimpse at her remarkable life: youtu.be/lEfpl1cXRUc?...

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OUTspoken Biography | in particular, barbara findlay Trailer

YouTube video by OUTtv

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Zero. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BBC News headline: "Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine."

Passage from BBC News article:
"Around 200 lives have been saved in England so far thanks to a vaccine which protects against cervical cancer, according to analysis published in the Lancet.

The first study of its kind, external showed that deaths have fallen sharply since school-age girls were offered the human papillomavirus (HPV) jab in 2008.

Between 2020 and 2024, no cervical cancer deaths were recorded in women aged 20 to 24 - the first time that had happened over a five-year period.

Without vaccination, around 23 deaths would have been expected."

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

ICYMI yesterday: On why we need to approach MAHA as a form of extremism that stands in a long tradition of paranoid conspiracism on the Far Right, how it channels vague grievances into a radical project – and why we must stop it. Some thoughts from my piece: 🧵

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The Assault on Public Health and the Self-Sabotage of a Nation

MAHA channels vague grievances into a radical project. It’s a form of extremism that stands in a long tradition of paranoid conspiracism on the Far Right. We must stop it

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