Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 1hThinking also of Katalin Karakó, I wonder how many Nobel laureates, particularly female ones, have had careers in which they were denied tenure, had their work defunded, labs closed, forced out of academic positions, etc. 042
Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 2hWhew; windy morning in Vancouver! A gust blew my front wheel right off the ground on the Burrard Bridge en route to work. Thank goodness (and I guess Gregor Robertson/city council c.2009?) for protected bike lanes keeping us safe in this weather. 020
Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Update: Potential new PhD co-supervision opportunity w/in a qual project focused on Two Spirit, trans, & nonbinary youth substance use & mental health. Priority consideration to those w lived TTNB + relevant rsch experience. If this may be you, reach out now following these instructions: 021
Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026A lunchtime bike commuting seminar changed my life. HUB now has a free online version of their Streetwise biking course for novice/intermediate adult cyclists: hubcycling.ca/education/pr...hubcycling.caStreetWise Cycling Online | HUB Cycling: Bike Events, Education, Action in Metro Vancouver 011
Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Sorry, did someone say grant applications and scientific manuscripts? #SameProblem #MoreFasterIsNotBetter 24110
Reposted by Devon GreysonButlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf 9962542442
Reposted by Devon GreysonEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Okay, I propose a slogan for this: "Janky until proven functional, period." And note that that assumes HIGH standards for functionality, established in the specific use case. 821447
Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I 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. 040
Reposted by Devon GreysonTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026Oh look. More things that makes sense happening in these United States. 1530662
Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Perfect 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.) 000
Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Congrats 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/...healthresearchbc.caMeet the 2026 Research Trainee awardees | Michael Smith Health Research BCCongratulations to 30 emerging researchers who are advancing research and building careers in BC. 010
Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026When the pandemic shifted appointments to phone or online, care providers without pre-existing relationships with their pregnant patients faced additional barriers to establishing rapport, and in the future we can consider how transparency may help fill in where honesty hasn't yet been established. 020
Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If you're a midwife, nurse practitioner, family doc, or OB, you may have time to build rapport and establish yourself as honest with your patient/client. If you're an immunizer at a vaccination clinic you may see ppl just 1ce & have to show trustworthiness through other means (e.g., transparency). 120
Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026One of the most interesting findings in this to me, personally, was the distinction people made between honesty and transparency when talking about trust in their healthcare providers. There are implications here both for clinicians who are and are not longitudinal care providers. 120
Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This new article, lead-authored by Greyson Lab trainee Alex Krug-Mushey (MSc '25), explores the importance of different forms of trust in pregnancy vaccination decisions of people who gave birth in BC or ON in 2020-2021: doi.org/10.1016/j.jo... 2/2 (Open access as always!) 153
Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The 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? 1/2 161
Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The # 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. 133
Reposted by Devon Greysontaenia @taenia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Goooooood 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 5339109
Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Mine keeps falling down! Maybe I need stickier notes. 200
Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Just lighting it up isn't enough, though; they have to make it distracting? 000
Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026My 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?! 350
Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is not to say universally mandating masks today would necessarily be my public health recommendation, but that it does little harm & if a business—especially one catering to popln disproportionately impacted by long covid—chooses to do this out if an abundance of caution I can understand why. 120
Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I think many long covid groups and many queer communities that strive for equity/justice are aware of the stats (in USA at least) that long covid is disproportionately diagnosed in LGBTQ populations and among people with preexisting disabilities. 140
Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I don’t think this story was about Covid at all, but rather part of the US backlash against trans people, queer people, and women who don’t follow a specific prescribed version of femininity. (Look at what happens when women look/act “like men”, let’s poke fun at a small-community dispute, etc.) 130
Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026That this focused on a lesbian bar in Western Mass—a vanishingly rare type of institution/business in a region pundits love to punish fir being “woke” (second only to Oberlin College?) is what I think should have gotten focus. 120
Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This. The ”long Covid community” and others with chronic disabilities that they are concerned about being worsened by Covid infection are those most likely to still want fully masked spaces. I think it’s not death people fear as much as miserable life in a society with minimal social safety net. 180
Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I don’t know what discourse, but it’s a tragedy that C19 wasn’t the catalyst for an indoor air quality paradigm shift. We shouldn’t need to be individually running air filters in schools, offices, and most other workplaces. 030
Reposted by Devon GreysonJehannine (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 🧪sciencepolicy.caResponding to Backlash to Defend Evidence-Based, Inclusive Research Funding - CSPCPolitical 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... 2107
Reposted by Devon GreysonHisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Alert 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 03220
Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Another example of the GIGO problem in so-called AI, this time with automated classification/resume screening. 020
Reposted by Devon GreysonBethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 17/09/2026People are using AI to impersonate real science journalists. And one even got PUBLISHED. In Science. www.linkedin.com/posts/caroli...linkedin.comFake Caroline update: The person who was impersonating me managed to get an article published in Science, under my by-line. And they got paid for it! I've seen the pitches (bad), and the email…...Fake Caroline update: The person who was impersonating me managed to get an article published in Science, under my by-line. And they got paid for it! I've seen the pitches (bad), and the email chai... 716884
Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026My understanding of STCA is that it disqualifies applicants inside USA (independent of intake quotas). Do you have differing information? In the case of the 827 Haitians in the article above, there‘s already a community of 140,000 Haitians in QC so not sure why harsh climate would be a concern. 110
Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I hear you asserting that Canada should limit immigration. Setting aside whether I agree, can you make clearer what that has to do with whether the USA should be deemed a "safe third country" for refugees? 100
Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This 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. 020
Reposted by Devon GreysonAsher Leeks @asherleeks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Come 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...ppvlab.sites.olt.ubc.caBrowser Verification | UBC Cybersecurity 02635
Reposted by Devon GreysonFrankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026We have no use for satire anymore when reality is like this 45714
Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026We may now commence discourse around whether generative "AI" qualifies as reality media. I think there is a case to be made. 000
Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Personally, I'd credit this more to "reality" media more broadly, but this is catchy. 100
Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I don't think full membership is on the table, but I'm curious whether you are opining this as a Canadian or as a current/former EU member state citizen? (Or neither, although I'm not sure why others would have opinions on this?) 000
Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Vast 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.abacusdata.caAs Carney Heads to Europe, 4 in 5 Canadians Support Closer Integration with the EU - Abacus Data% 072
Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I 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?ici.radio-canada.caCanada urged to welcome Haitians fleeing U.S. deportations as Trump ends protected status | RCIQuebec refugee advocates say Canada's border rules could block asylum seekers from staying 111
Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Years 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. 062
Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Heartbreaking 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.comPennsylvania officials report fourth measles-associated death in 'surge' of casesThe US has this year experienced the highest number of deaths from the virus since the 1990s. 000
Reposted by Devon GreysonKate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Deaths 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:bookshop.orgPregnancy Interrupted: The Science and Stories of How Pregnancies Really EndA 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... 02711
Reposted by Devon GreysonKatie 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...wired.comOne 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. 302667907
Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Had 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. 140
Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Our own Mike Marin has fantastic YouTube biostats using R (@marinstatlectures)! 030