Devon Greyson
@greyson.bsky.social
Academic & writer. 🇨🇦Applied Public Health Chair. I study health information practices & interventions, often pertaining to vaccination and/or gender. I also bicycle & drink coffee a lot, and write fiction a little. Recovering classical bassist.
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Devon Greyson
@greyson.bsky.social
· Mar 5
Prospective students: Here's what you need to know if you think you might want to work with me (a thread):
1. I'm not looking to recruit new students at the moment. (There could be some exceptions, especially for research-oriented Master's students in my school or interdisciplinary studies.)
1. I'm not looking to recruit new students at the moment. (There could be some exceptions, especially for research-oriented Master's students in my school or interdisciplinary studies.)
2025 update because I'm not seeking to hire anyone or sponsor any new students right now. Possible exceptions for people who are *really* allied with my funded work (e.g., on mpox vax, vax misinfo) and/or have access to external funding (e.g., fellowship, home nation). Lab is at capacity for now.
Who likes to talk methodology, pedagogy, and mixed methods research design? I want some buddies in this area to bat ideas around with. #MixedMethods #ResearchMethods #CommunityOfPractice
November 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Who likes to talk methodology, pedagogy, and mixed methods research design? I want some buddies in this area to bat ideas around with. #MixedMethods #ResearchMethods #CommunityOfPractice
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Let's keep sharing these amazing stories about how vaccines have transformed our lives
November 26, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Let's keep sharing these amazing stories about how vaccines have transformed our lives
💔
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough.
Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough • Kentucky Lantern
A third unvaccinated infant in Kentucky has died of pertussis as public health officials urge Kentuckians to get vaccinated against the disease.
kentuckylantern.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
💔
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Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
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X rolled out a new feature that accidentally exposed a massive covert foreign influence operation — more than one, actually — that is currently live on the platform. It’s a huge story and I wrote about it — and what it means for America — here:
open.substack.com/pub/weaponiz...
open.substack.com/pub/weaponiz...
X Just Accidentally Exposed A Vast Covert Influence Network Targeting Americans
How a new X feature led to the most sweeping public exposure of covert foreign activity on a major platform since 2016.
open.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:17 AM
X rolled out a new feature that accidentally exposed a massive covert foreign influence operation — more than one, actually — that is currently live on the platform. It’s a huge story and I wrote about it — and what it means for America — here:
open.substack.com/pub/weaponiz...
open.substack.com/pub/weaponiz...
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This is what a genuine threat to academic freedom looks like
An absolutely shocking letter from the House Committee on Education and Workforce to Berkeley, demanding, among other things, info on internal processes and syllabi.
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November 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
This is what a genuine threat to academic freedom looks like
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If we ignore Canada’s mental health crisis, AI companies will exploit it canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/22/i... @spichaksimon.bsky.social
If we ignore Canada’s mental health crisis, AI companies will exploit…
Canada’s mental-health system increasingly pushes people toward AI “alternatives.”
canadahealthwatch.ca
November 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
If we ignore Canada’s mental health crisis, AI companies will exploit it canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/22/i... @spichaksimon.bsky.social
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"War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength"
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength"
"Countries with state subsidies for abortion, transgender-friendly policies for children, hate speech laws and affirmative action policies will now be considered to be violating human rights under rules imposed at the [US] State Department..."
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
Abortion And DEI Policies Now Considered Violations Of Human Rights, U.S. Says
The Trump administration has overhauled how the State Department conducts its annual Human Rights Report.
www.forbes.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
"War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength"
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength"
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Lots to like in this #pharmacare report (it's feisty!) tho I still worry its approach to WHO #EssentialMedicines lets fall through the cracks the many drugs on the WHO EML💊📜, from #albendazole to #tuberculosis drugs, that aren't actually sold in Canada despite being the recognized standard of care.
November 22, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Lots to like in this #pharmacare report (it's feisty!) tho I still worry its approach to WHO #EssentialMedicines lets fall through the cracks the many drugs on the WHO EML💊📜, from #albendazole to #tuberculosis drugs, that aren't actually sold in Canada despite being the recognized standard of care.
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Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Finds Bank Analysis
City of Madrid significantly boosted the takings of its shops and restaurants last Christmas by banning cars from the CBD, finds an analysis by Spain's second largest bank.
www.forbes.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
Heading to Montréal for CBRC Summit! If you are too, I’d love to connect about queering pandemic preparedness, gender health misinformation, public health surveillance ethics, and related topics.
November 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Heading to Montréal for CBRC Summit! If you are too, I’d love to connect about queering pandemic preparedness, gender health misinformation, public health surveillance ethics, and related topics.
#QualitativeHealthResearch #QualitativeMethods
Talk to me abt course size for grad level qualitative methods.
I have always believed small is important for these courses. But, am I out of date?
Are people offering semester-long, effective, graduate-level quali methods courses w 50-100 students?
Talk to me abt course size for grad level qualitative methods.
I have always believed small is important for these courses. But, am I out of date?
Are people offering semester-long, effective, graduate-level quali methods courses w 50-100 students?
November 19, 2025 at 12:45 AM
#QualitativeHealthResearch #QualitativeMethods
Talk to me abt course size for grad level qualitative methods.
I have always believed small is important for these courses. But, am I out of date?
Are people offering semester-long, effective, graduate-level quali methods courses w 50-100 students?
Talk to me abt course size for grad level qualitative methods.
I have always believed small is important for these courses. But, am I out of date?
Are people offering semester-long, effective, graduate-level quali methods courses w 50-100 students?
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“Marketed for kids 3-12, Kumma gave step-by-step instructions on a common “knot for beginners” who want to tie up their partner. Another time, the AI explored the idea of introducing spanking into a sexually-charged teacher-student dynamic, which is obviously ghoulishly inappropriate for young kids”
"Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o model by default...tests repeatedly showed that the AI toy dropped its guardrails the longer a conversation went on, until hitting rock bottom on incredibly disturbing topics."
AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With Children
FoloToy says it's suspended sales of its AI-powered teddy bear after researchers found it gave wildly inappropriate and dangerous answers.
futurism.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:10 AM
“Marketed for kids 3-12, Kumma gave step-by-step instructions on a common “knot for beginners” who want to tie up their partner. Another time, the AI explored the idea of introducing spanking into a sexually-charged teacher-student dynamic, which is obviously ghoulishly inappropriate for young kids”
I had at least one (as a job candidate) somewhere around 2016/2017.
I thing I sometimes thing about is that university departments were still doing job interviews in hotel rooms in the mid aughts
November 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I had at least one (as a job candidate) somewhere around 2016/2017.
#Canada #MediaStudies folks: Was there ever any sort of assessment of the impact of the famed Canadian House Hippo? (Thinking about the original, but the 2019 redux and associated campaigns also interesting.) I see wide cultural impact, but the intended media literacy impacts...?
November 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
#Canada #MediaStudies folks: Was there ever any sort of assessment of the impact of the famed Canadian House Hippo? (Thinking about the original, but the 2019 redux and associated campaigns also interesting.) I see wide cultural impact, but the intended media literacy impacts...?
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Watching disabled people around the world mourn Alice is a reminder of the good aspect of the internet. 30 years ago, few people outside of SF would ever have known Alice existed. I never would have met her. The internet connected us all. Let’s honor Alice’s memory by using that power and community.
My social media is wall-to-wall love for the incomparable Alice Wong, and I need more words. What captures sadness and/also affection for a community that knows what's been lost?
Alice could not eat food for years.
And yet at Christmas she would bake cookies and mail them to me—such was her desire to provide care for the people she loved.
And yet at Christmas she would bake cookies and mail them to me—such was her desire to provide care for the people she loved.
November 16, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Watching disabled people around the world mourn Alice is a reminder of the good aspect of the internet. 30 years ago, few people outside of SF would ever have known Alice existed. I never would have met her. The internet connected us all. Let’s honor Alice’s memory by using that power and community.
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So sad to hear that Alice Wong has died. Her work has informed my understanding of disability and disability advocacy for as long as I can remember, and we just listened to her on this episode of Radiolab a few weeks ago: www.wnycstudios.org/story/voice/
November 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
So sad to hear that Alice Wong has died. Her work has informed my understanding of disability and disability advocacy for as long as I can remember, and we just listened to her on this episode of Radiolab a few weeks ago: www.wnycstudios.org/story/voice/
If gen "AI" is so GREAT whyyyyy do you need to force it on people so strongly? It's such a pain to have to type -AI or scroll through garbage at the top of every search, delete inaccurate auto-insertions in my emails, etc. If it were helping me I would opt in. Let me opt out.
November 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
If gen "AI" is so GREAT whyyyyy do you need to force it on people so strongly? It's such a pain to have to type -AI or scroll through garbage at the top of every search, delete inaccurate auto-insertions in my emails, etc. If it were helping me I would opt in. Let me opt out.
#Qualitative #ResearchEthics question!
With online interviews in particular, participants are now able to easily record and create "AI" transcripts of their own interviews.
Have you encountered this? Do you have policies or protocols about it?
With online interviews in particular, participants are now able to easily record and create "AI" transcripts of their own interviews.
Have you encountered this? Do you have policies or protocols about it?
November 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
#Qualitative #ResearchEthics question!
With online interviews in particular, participants are now able to easily record and create "AI" transcripts of their own interviews.
Have you encountered this? Do you have policies or protocols about it?
With online interviews in particular, participants are now able to easily record and create "AI" transcripts of their own interviews.
Have you encountered this? Do you have policies or protocols about it?
Hey Canadians, it’s respiratory illness season again! I hope you stay as healthy as possible. 😷
IWK hospital to require visitors, patients to wear masks https://www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nova-scotia/article/iwk-health-centre-to-require-all-visitors-patients-to-wear-masks/
𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter
𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter
November 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Hey Canadians, it’s respiratory illness season again! I hope you stay as healthy as possible. 😷
I saw a flyer for a health research study for which it appeared I was eligible, but it didn't say who was doing the study or how results would be used. I wrote to the contact named and asked, and was told "We cannot answer these questions, as our studies are always anonymized on both sides." (1/?)
November 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I saw a flyer for a health research study for which it appeared I was eligible, but it didn't say who was doing the study or how results would be used. I wrote to the contact named and asked, and was told "We cannot answer these questions, as our studies are always anonymized on both sides." (1/?)
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CAN LLMs write about science? @science.org decided to find out, and they did it the curious, scientific way. They did an experiment.
Love this thoughtful convo. www.lastwordonnothing.com/2025/11/12/w...
Love this thoughtful convo. www.lastwordonnothing.com/2025/11/12/w...
The Last Word On Nothing | Why AAAS won’t be using AI to write press releases anytime soon
www.lastwordonnothing.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
CAN LLMs write about science? @science.org decided to find out, and they did it the curious, scientific way. They did an experiment.
Love this thoughtful convo. www.lastwordonnothing.com/2025/11/12/w...
Love this thoughtful convo. www.lastwordonnothing.com/2025/11/12/w...
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"The great majority of users have no awareness [that] their chats are being grabbed off their screen, sent over a network, packaged, and resold"
AI chats aren't private? 🤔
Profound is allegedly collecting & licensing sensitive ChatGPT & Google Gemini prompts via extensions, selling the data privacy risk to marketers. #AIChatbots #TechNews
Read more on PCMag 🔗 bit.ly/3LyZz0g
Profound is allegedly collecting & licensing sensitive ChatGPT & Google Gemini prompts via extensions, selling the data privacy risk to marketers. #AIChatbots #TechNews
Read more on PCMag 🔗 bit.ly/3LyZz0g
November 11, 2025 at 9:16 PM
"The great majority of users have no awareness [that] their chats are being grabbed off their screen, sent over a network, packaged, and resold"