aley o'mara (they/them)
omaraphd.bsky.social
aley o'mara (they/them)
@omaraphd.bsky.social
So-called purveyor of handcrafted, artisanal writing.

Author of ASEXUAL MANIFESTO 2022 (Art Over Chaos).

Not an institutional spokesperson (Article 9.3 Agreement Between the State of NY & UUP)

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Since no one else has pointed it out in the replies: In addition to being torture devices, these also are unsafe for air (or any other) travel, as they immobilize. There's no putting on your oxygen mask or using your seat cushion as a flotation device.
December 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Share deets, we need a NOLA trip someday
December 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
(I sincerely don't know if I'm being sarcastic or not)
December 12, 2025 at 11:08 PM
No, you don't understand, that's a handcrafted, artisanal literature degree. It will be worth millions in a few short years.
bsky.app/profile/sees...
Carnegie Mellon’s literature PhD is being liquidated in favor of “computation,” casualized labor, and AI.

That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.

I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).

www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
Opinion | A Coup at Carnegie Mellon?
The university is replacing the humanities with more computers.
www.chronicle.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I haven't!
October 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
(more later, prepping for a local news appearance!)
September 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
You know what severe fevers are known to cause? Brain damage & death. It's dangerous to tell pregnant people and children not to take any fever reducers (he tells people, don't take Tylenol or any others like aspirin and Advil because they're "bad"!). That's how you get more disability & death. /11
September 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
IF prenatal fevers are a driver for autism (more on the causes of autism later), then not taking a fever-reducer line Tylenol would cause MORE AUTISM. /10
September 23, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Essentially the very limited research suggesting a CORRELATION doesn't prove causation by failing to account for the factors leading to taking Tylenol during pregnancy, like fever, which does have some correlation (again, not necessarily causation) with developmental disorders. /9
September 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Correlation is conflated with causation again with the accusations that Tylenol causes autism in utero. Autism Science Foundation released a good statement on this.

autismsciencefoundation.org/press_releas... /8
ASF Statement on White House Announcement on Autism - Autism Science Foundation
New York, NY (September 22, 2025) We are deeply concerned by today’s announcements from President Trump and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy suggesting that taking acetaminophen (Tylenol) during pregna...
autismsciencefoundation.org
September 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
It's not that Cuban and Amish people aren't autistic; it's that they haven't been assessed for autism in the same way that the (rest of the US) population has been. Research on autism outside the US, and the Anglophonic world more broadly, is SEVERELY lacking, as is (culturally competent) care. 7/
September 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Correlation does not imply causation, but that's exactly what he tries to do anyway by claiming that autism virtually doesn't exist in Cuba and in Amish communities. He does not account for the ways that research can't confidently claim these things because there's no evidence to support it. 6/
September 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Lack of access, as well as lack of access to culturally competent care, are major drivers here. 5/?
September 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
He also doesn't mention race, but researchers estimate that, in the US, Black and Latine folks experience autism at a rate equal to white folks. But they're wildly underdiagnosed due to medical racism, though the CDC (2023) has noted that rates are finally starting to increase. 4/?
September 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
He blessedly doesn't mention trans people, but we're 4.1 to 17.5 more likely to be autistic than cis people (Strang et al, 2018). 3/?
September 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM