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Julia M. Wright

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FRSC Professor in Halifax🍁. Member of @dalfaculty.bsky.social . Locked out for 30 days in 2025. Views here mine only. Rebleats≠agreement. "it is not Air / That from a thousand Lungs reeks back to thine" (Armstrong 1744). Silence=Spread🦠 #COVIDisAirborne .. more

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Julia Margaret Wright is a professor in the Department of English and University Research Professor at Dalhousie University. Wright is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. .. more

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Julia M. Wright @juliamwright.bsky.social · Apr 12

As #cdnpse institutions compete for domestic students after decades of funding cuts and new limits on int'l enrolment, I'm curious to see if we get recruitment campaigns based on pandemic safety: e.g., "Breathe Easier: We Know Your Health Matters to Your Success." theconversation.com/we-can-and-m...

We can, and must, do more to protect students in higher education from the risks of post-COVID condition

Postsecondary students are particularly vulnerable to repeated COVID-19 infections, putting them at risk for post-COVID condition, or long COVID. Campuses can take action to protect them.

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Julia M. Wright @juliamwright.bsky.social · 16h

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16h

Big Tech deploys Orwellian doublespeak to mask its democratic corrosion | Peter Lewis

As AI asserts its power to shape social evolution, regulation is decried as ‘state control’ rather than the expression of our collective will

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16h

Big Tech deploys Orwellian doublespeak to mask its democratic corrosion | Peter Lewis

As AI asserts its power to shape social evolution, regulation is decried as ‘state control’ rather than the expression of our collective will

www.theguardian.com

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404 Media @404media.co · 18h

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced in a post on X Tuesday that ChatGPT is officially getting into the fuckable chatbots game, with “erotica for verified adults” rolling out in December.

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ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck

As recent reports show OpenAI bleeding cash, and on the heels of accusations that ChatGPT caused teens and adults alike to harm themselves and others, CEO Sam Altman announced that you can soon fuck t...

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Julia M. Wright @juliamwright.bsky.social · 19h

💕💕 public vaccines! I don't have a precise count, but today I got about my 15th annual flu shot and my 10th COVID shot. I've likely had about 50 vaccinations during my lifetime. "Vaccines cause adults," indeed.

a poster that says vaccine access for all with a cartoon earth

Alt: a cartoon of the earth surrounded by vials (all with faces on them) with the words "Vaccine Access for All"

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Linsey Marr @linseymarr.bsky.social · 1d

Healthy indoor air is a proven prescription for public health that can help fortify our buildings and enhance people’s health, protecting against respiratory diseases and illnesses, cardiovascular disease and cognitive decline.

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Julia M. Wright @juliamwright.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, hard agree. Also, IMHO, no government should base complex public policies on a *survey*. Get experts to work on researching and writing a public report based on the evidence and a solid interdisciplinary understanding of these policy questions. Then we can have a meaningful public debate.

Alison Creekside @alisoncreekside.bsky.social · 2d

The Gov of Canada is running a public survey until Oct 30 to:
"Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership".

I'm pretty sure it's written by AI.

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renew...

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Julia M. Wright @juliamwright.bsky.social · 1d

I have been waiting longer than this reddit poster has been alive for my brain to overwrite the phone number we had when I was 8. It is still there. Curse you, 224-0001, the easiest phone number I ever had to memorize.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

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Julia M. Wright @juliamwright.bsky.social · 2d

Squint a little, and all of that investment in AI starts to look like subsidies to keep an unsustainable service afloat--so they're starting to charge for it. Will they get enough ongoing revenue to pay for all of the server farms burning down the planet, as more and more talk about "AI Slop"?

a woman in a hat says anyone else curious in a forest

Alt: someone in a forest saying "anyone else curious?"

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Alison Creekside @alisoncreekside.bsky.social · 2d

The Gov of Canada is running a public survey until Oct 30 to:
"Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership".

I'm pretty sure it's written by AI.

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

ised-isde.canada.ca

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 3d

Well done Shafaq Aftab. When a reviewer stole her work and published it under his own name, she fought for a YEAR to get the journal to retract the paper. Just wondering why it took Wiley a YEAR to do this. 🧪 #academicsky

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Wiley retracts study stolen by reviewer, following Retraction Watch coverage

A Wiley journal has retracted a paper more than a year after a researcher reported the work was hers and had been stolen by a reviewer for another journal. As we reported in July, Shafaq Aftab, now…

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Julia M. Wright @juliamwright.bsky.social · 3d

Wiley retracts study stolen by reviewer, following Retraction Watch coverage retractionwatch.com/2025/10/03/w...

Wiley retracts study stolen by reviewer, following Retraction Watch coverage

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 4d

💉 2024–25 Covid-19 vaccine effectiveness

In U.S. veterans, the updated vaccine reduced 6-month risks of Covid-related ED visits (-29%), hospitalisations (-39%), and deaths (-64%) vs flu-only group.

🔗 doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa2510226

#SciComm #COVID19 #Vaccines 🧪

Association of 2024–2025 Covid-19 Vaccine with Covid-19 Outcomes in U.S. Veterans | NEJM

Amid the declining clinical severity of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and diminishing public uptake of annual coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccines, ...

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 4d

Suggested protest chant: WHO LET THE FROGS OUT (WHO WHO WHO WHO)

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Julia M. Wright @juliamwright.bsky.social · 4d

🎶"Everything old is new again"

Non-Confidence Motions: Saskatchewan and New Brunswick (2013-14)

In 2013-14, there were a series of attempts to pass non-confidence motions against upper administrations: they were successful in New Brunswick, and failed in Saskatchewan. September 2013: a motion…

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Julia M. Wright @juliamwright.bsky.social · 5d

It's baffling how public health continues to center short-term illness not long-term risks to health. The vax is available now in NS, but perhaps the best time for it, re: wastewater info, was early August--esp. since that would have been protective against infection at the start of the school year.

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Shira Lurie @shiralurie.bsky.social · 6d

Covid and flu vaccine bookings now open in NS #halisky

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.bsky.social · 7d

We did the #HigherEd math:

35 hr/w x 40% = 168 teaching hrs/semester
- 36 hrs in class
- 24 hrs prep
- 12 hrs student hrs
- 15 hrs TA meetings
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= 81 hrs for individual student support
/400 students per semester = 12 min/student/semester

Last year: 280 students = 17 min

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 7d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Julia M. Wright @juliamwright.bsky.social · 8d

The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, “My country, right or wrong.” In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.
--Senator Carl Schurz (1872)

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Carl Schurz (1829–1906) The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, “My country, right or wrong.” In one sense I say so too. My country; and my

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 8d

“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 9d

Being on Dal’s Senate right now asking Senate leadership who/which body actually refused to give the students a refund for the lockout—knowing Senate did not even discuss it, let alone decide on it, despite reports otherwise—is like:

A two-column, three panel meme, with three rows of text on the left tied to three rows of images of Lisa Simpson on the right.

Row 1: text, “me asking for clarity”; image, Lisa sitting at a table looking innocently inquisitive.

Row 2: text, “how others perceive me asking questions”; image, Lisa with hands raised, looking angry and shouting into a microphone.

Row 3: text, “me still with no clarity”; image, Lisa with arms outstretched, looking confused, frustrated, and generally perplexed.

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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 9d

Global News: 'Photo exhibition highlights reality of Canadians with long COVID'

'The Living with Long COVID exhibition is a collaboration by the Museum of Vancouver and SFU's Faculty of Health Sciences - offering a glimpse into the daily lives...'

globalnews.ca/video/114650...

Photo exhibition highlights reality of Canadians with long COVID | Watch News Videos Online

Watch Photo exhibition highlights reality of Canadians with long COVID Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca

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Susan Joudrey @sujo.bsky.social · 10d

The Covid vaccine rollout across Canada, but especially in Nova Scotia, is about administrative ease, not infection control, population health, or public health. We know there's an annual wave around September, yet nothing changes. Another year of failure.

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Julia M. Wright @juliamwright.bsky.social · 10d

If I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard “post-pandemic” since the WHO ended the emergency phase… I hope there are, or soon will be, studies of how that 2023 WHO statement got so quickly and widely mangled so public health can better guard against inadvertently feeding misinformation.

From https://www.who.int/europe/emergencies/situations/covid-19: “
On 5 May 2023, more than three years into the pandemic, the WHO Emergency Committee on COVID-19 recommended to the Director-General, who accepted the recommendation, that given the disease was by now well established and ongoing, it no longer fit the definition of a PHEIC. This does not mean the pandemic itself is over, but the global emergency it caused is – for now.”

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Julia M. Wright @juliamwright.bsky.social · 11d

We all need to laugh at the shiny massive pickups. They’re clearly not work vehicles. At best they’re conspicuous consumption.

The shot I missed was the driver who reversed five car-lengths up the sidewalk to get into a better position to turn into the gas station at Quinpool and Oxford.

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Julia M. Wright @juliamwright.bsky.social · 11d

Another pic in the irregular series, “Halifax Drivers Who Think the Sidewalk is an Extra Lane.”

A picture of a stopped car, half on the sidewalk.

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Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 12d

The cover of the print edition of our student paper this week. The image doesn’t appear to be on the online version.

A cartoon version of our president standing atop a pile of money in front of Dalhousie’s Hicks building, with a large headline reading “No tuition cuts despite three weeks of class lost.”

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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 13d

It's unreal the level of hatred for masks that AHS and AB Gov't has.

It's a safety tool that works to protect patients and staff. Why won't we use it?

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Alberta hospital’s mask mandate for measles ended a day after it alerted province, health officials

Internal e-mails show AHS staff fielded questions about mandate from province

www.theglobeandmail.com

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