The first film of this year’s DisMovie screenings is Sympathy For Delicious Sat. Jan. 24 at 2pm ET FREE on Hyperbeam: hyperbeam.com/v/dis-movie-...

October is spooky season, so the Multi DISciplinary Screening is old school disability horror What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? Sat. Oct. 18 at 2pm ET Free on Hyperbeam: hyperbeam.com/v/dis-movie-...

Celebrate September with the latest Multi DISciplinary screening Little Monsters (2019) Sat. Sept. 20, 2pm ET Miss Caroline (Lupita Nyong’o) keeps her class safe by killing zombies & pretending it’s a game. Disabled kids are not left out!

Yeah.... that was me. Fuck AI ❤️

UK readers, if you can't afford to buy any of these books, order them from your local library. The authors will see your support through loan figures and PLR. You don't even have to finish reading them if you don't want!

A Common Sense Media study found that prominent teacher assistants that use AI generated recommendations that appeared to be rooted in racial stereotypes based on students’ names. About a third of teachers report using AI weekly, according to a recent survey.

It may seem hard to believe but there is a group of Infectious Disease doctors who signed an affidavit to restrict nurses' access to N95s early in the pandemic

Deskilling is real. This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service. Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.

1/ Respiratory protection (including respirators) The Canadian Standards Association (CSA) has released CSA Z94.4, a draft revision of its standard on respirators and respiratory protection. For the first time they are including healthcare settings in the new draft standard.

I can't even begin to describe how angry it makes me that so many people in positions of power in the medical world are fighting against this. Nobody should be getting sicker or dying because they had to go to a medical appointment or be hospitalized. Why is that so hard for people to understand?

It’s amazing to see so many infection control professionals stand up in defence of the right to get infections in healthcare.

I was in the first cohort that got the Hep B vaccine in school in Ontario. To prepare us for this momentous occasion, the province commissioned an educational video featuring a “rap” song. The chorus was “hepatitis b is a real bad rap” over and over again. It still gets stuck in my head.

As long as we can fight off the ID cosplay-scientist types who figure they are so much smarter than everyone else that they have nothing to learn, and the rules should not apply in their little empires (no matter how much harm they do).

Canada might actually bring science back to healthcare. Word is: aerosol protections are coming. This draft respirator standard? Might be the canary. www.ohcow.on.ca/wp-content/u...

Gosh, I wonder why the 'mansplaining as a service' machine doesn't appeal to women as much?

“If I don’t help fund hate, someone else will, and I won’t even get a paycheque! Plus I’ve offset the hate with hate credits earned by performing allyship, so…”

I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.

The Atlantic should be ashamed of publishing this nightmare piece from Liz Bruenig, whose callous dismissal of Adriana Smith's dignity is one of the most shocking things I've ever read.

Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024

😷 "It’s time we abandon the paradigm of symptomatic spread that leaves us trapped in endless waves of infection, and embrace a proactive, holistic view of airborne disease control that begins with clean indoor air and encourages people to adopt measures like masking and testing." 😷 #COVID

This article is FUN and w imagine the book is even more fun

This interview is so clarifying of the current state of research, and how Long Covid is starting to be understood. The heterogeneous nature of this condition, and the pathophysiology of it. Also, great to see the interviewed wearing a respirator. Really great explanations from Dr Duncan.

Shout out to my fellow Covid-avoiding millennials and the covid-avoiding Gen Xers. We’ve got young W rizz (H/T @daorcey.bsky.social) www.torontotoday.ca/local/health...

As someone who has spent more than 12 years on weather and climate services: I have never seen a fully private service work economically. All effective, affordable services are built on public data. If NWS is privatized, you’ll be paying more for less effective forecasts.

It’s getting extremely “We’re all going to need to wear masks” out there

We aren't united enough to #MaskUp during a pandemic. We aren't united enough to provide access to clean water to every community in Canada. We aren't united enough to stop murders that are plentiful enough to need a red dress to represent them. We aren't united enough to feed hungry children.

Just so we're clear was it not a crisis when it was the other way around?

I heard this on the radio today 3 times on two separate stations, lol youtu.be/LT3cERVRoQo?...

I found a random bruise on my leg… and I mean the only possible reason behind it has to be the great lockdowns of 2020.

Even today, more children will fall into this trap, and they don’t have to. Safer air strategies and adopting respie wearing habits would massively change the course of this problem.

Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?

There is absolutely no excuse (no GOOD excuse, at least) as to why air filtration devices such as this are not ubiquitous throughout society, by now. At an absolute bare minimum, it should be in place within all healthcare/medical facilities, perhaps supplemented with upper room UVGI.

Timeline cleanse Photo courtesy of Lincoln Park Zoo

SUNDAY RANT: I was on call today. 100% of the patients seen had a respiratory infection ...some had COVID-19. ER's are overwhelmed. Hospital beds are at 200% capacity. And yet - MASKS ARE STILL NOT REQUIRED in primary care settings.

A better view of the gorgeous Purple Sandpiper* *Not actually purple, obviously. There's a tiny bit of pinkish on some of the wing feathers. #birds 🌿

You’ll probably see this screenshot floating around a lot but it really was wonderful to see Lynch put a scene in Twin Peaks: The Return where he has his character literally stare at the camera and say that you should either support trans people or die. I needed to hear that in 2017

INKCAP GANG RISE UP

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The link between Alzheimer's and respiratory viral infections is constantly ignored by the "correlation doesn't equal causation" crowd of minimizers, who equally ignore there's only a correlation link to genetic causation. #MedSky #IDSky #EpiSky #NeuroSky #NeuroCovid espace.inrs.ca/id/eprint/79...

Enjoy the new year’s Multi DISciplinary screening series, filled with movies that represent multiple disabilities. First up is Thelma (2024) Sat. Jan. 18 at 2pm EST Playing free: hyperbeam.com/v/dis-movie-...

Absolutely. The first ones to change course are going to be in a way better liability position than the ones that follow. And the ones that hold out and keep gaslighting until the bitter end are going to be the people our great grandkids read about in the history books, for all the wrong reasons.

I just gave. Support accessible science & health journalism that you won’t find elsewhere. Even 10 a month will get you matched the year

I'll add this to the thread... from @dupuisj.bsky.social "This bonus issue is themed around how the Covid pandemic is transforming the world around us, even if most people aren’t really paying attention." johndupuis.substack.com/p/holiday-bo...