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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 22h

Award-winning pain researcher here. This is not something that can be done. Hope this helps.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23h

“In nursing homes, neonatal units, and ICU wards, researchers are racing to turn pain—medicine’s most subjective vital sign—into something a camera or sensor can score as reliably as blood pressure.”

AI is changing how we quantify pain

Artificial intelligence is helping health-care providers better assess their patients’ discomfort.

www.technologyreview.com

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 14h

And I use the metaphor of a parent and child very intentionally because paternalism is a core value for anyone who believes white supremacy is a morally superior system of social organization.

They truly think we should be thanking them for all their domination.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 14h

I think we need to talk more about entitlement in the “do fascists feel shame?” debate.

Fascists aren’t ashamed of oppressing people. But they do feel entitled to adoration for their oppression.

When we reject them, they act like an abusive parent, mortified that their kids don’t really love them.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19h

some colleagues have suggested to me that shame is irrelevant because the people on the "other side" don't know or care what "we" (on whatever "this side") think of them. I have...not gotten that impression

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 20h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 21h

The other thing is all these apps are brand new, none of these are research-based, long-running apps with a robust background or staff. I've been in education for decades and worked in edtech and these honestly look like scams.

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 21h

The way men continue to find ways to *not believe a single thing a woman says about her pain* shouldn't be this astonishing.
You can be sobbing in pain and told you're wrong.
You can be completely stoic and told you're wrong.
Our medical establishment cannot accept that women experience pain.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23h

Facial expressions common to all humans! 🙃

PainChek is one of these behavioral models, and it acts like a camera‑based thermometer, but for pain: A care worker opens the app and holds a phone 30 centimeters from a person’s face. For three seconds, a neural network looks for nine particular microscopic movements—upper‑lip raise, brow pinch, cheek tension, and so on—that research has linked most strongly to pain. Then the screen flashes a score of 0 to 42. “There’s a catalogue of ‘action‑unit codes’—facial expressions common to all humans. Nine of those are associated with pain,” explains Kreshnik Hoti, a senior research scientist with PainChek and a co-inventor of the device. This system is built directly on the foundation of FACS. After the scan, the app walks the user through a yes‑or‑no checklist of other signs, like groaning, “guarding,” and sleep disruption, and stores the result on a cloud dashboard that can show trends.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 2d

Another good time to remind people that “tear gas” is a term of copaganda that police, the military, and its manufacturers use to obscure that it is a dangerous chemical weapon internationally banned for use even in warfare.

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 1d

There was just a report a few months ago about lead in cassava (tapioca) products as well which comes in a lot of gluten-free products. It's really disheartening.

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 1d

I thought I was hip with the kids and all that and this has me seriously doubting that now 😂🫠

Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 1d

The way I just sang this out and it's a banger! LOL

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 1d

Honestly, this sounds very connected to white US Christianity weirdness. White US Christians created a pledge to the Bible and the joke is that most US Christians replace the Holy Spirit in the trinity with the physical Bible. It is quite literally worshipped (not really read, funny enough).

Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 2d

One of the posts that got me flamed back in the old place was when I said I didn’t fetishise books as objects and wasn’t bothered if their owners wanted to rip them in half to make their baggage lighter or chuck them in the recycling once they’ve read them or whatever. Some people went ballistic

Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 2d

The veneration of Books As Objects misses the point entirely. If you're reading a book, turn the corners down, break the spine, spill soup on it. It's your book, go nuts. A pristine, unread book is a tragedy in a way that a beloved, much-read book that looks like the dog's been at it could never be.

Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 1d

I love that The Onion caught that vibe and extended it 😂
theonion.com/orlando-bloo...

Orlando Bloom Spotted At Dinner With Angela Merkel

BERLIN—Just weeks after announcing his split with fiancée Katy Perry, English actor Orlando Bloom was photographed Friday dining with former German Chancellor Angela Merkel. “Angela kept Orlando laugh...

theonion.com

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 2d

Not only did the immigration people misread & mishear my great-great grandmother's name, by the time my mother learned of her birth name it had been thoroughly mangled by three generations of family who didn't know Czech. I was the first one to look at the papers & go, wait, her name was "Božena"?

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 3d

It was easy to leave because:
1. All my professional contacts had left due to harassment and having their content throttled.
2. The site literally didn't work. Wouldn't load or would load accounts I didn't follow, force disgusting content on me.

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 3d

I'm sorry, this man spent significant time workshopping with a plagiarizing machine to get "Hey Sarah, lovely to meet you" 😭😭

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 4d

No money in the red kettles. Mutual aid instead.
(And no, I'm not taking questions about this.)

kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 4d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 4d

Some of these people have now been fired and rehired TWICE since January. The current state of dysfunction is mind boggling.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4d

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 4d

He looks like a prince right out of a fairy tale! Literally dreamy!

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 4d

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 4d

He was hated within his own lifetime for good reason!
Why spend time and energy rehabilitating the bad reputation of a sadistic man who died 420 some odd years ago?

Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 4d

Let's be clear on who Christopher Columbus was, a conquerer who spread disease & slavery who was so sadistic in the ways he treated natives he appalled the architects of the Spanish Inquisition. That's the fact of him there is to reclaim.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 5d

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 4d

Exactly. This is also why military spouses are often targets for MLMs and scams as they are desperate and isolated from their support system.

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 5d

I had tax residency in Latvia last year and on one day in March, everyone can do their taxes at the same time (it takes like 20 minutes tops) and most people get a refund. I forgot to hit "submit" & 6 months later the government contacted me & was like "we have money for you". 😭

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 6d

Evangelical adults spent our childhoods preparing us for what happens *when* the government shoots & arrests Christians & now that it's actually happening (see Dr. Barber being arrested at the Capitol or Rev. Black being shot in the head by ICE), the same people are bloodthirsty for the violence. 😭

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