Julia M. Wright

Julia M. Wright

@juliamwright.bsky.social

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FRSC, Munro Chair in Literature & Rhetoric. Views here mine only. Rebleats≠agreement. "Living with COVID" by taking reasonable precautions 😷💉🪟--not accepting its harms. Academic: http://irish-literature.english.dal.ca/JMWright/publications.html

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This essay is an important read in support of a meaningful public discussion about school safety during the pandemic in the context of children's rights: t.co/wviwaPjn0R . School returns in Canada in less than 2 months, but there's time to do something. Here's the nub of the matter. 1/3

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You can tell your milk is bad if it’s curdled You can tell your cartoon villain is bad because of the black hat You can tell your epidemiologist is bad if they think randomized trials are the only tool in the toolbox 👊✋🎤⬇️

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Great 🧵 by Dr. Noor Bari: "No… medical professionals aren’t “struggling to prevent transmission”. Where airborne disease guidelines are followed, outcomes are outstanding. (E.g. infectious disease hospital in Italy 2020.)..." threadreaderapp.com/thread/18115... #Covid #Airborne #IAQ #CleanTheAir

Thread by @NjbBari3 on Thread Reader Appthreadreaderapp.com @NjbBari3: No… medical professionals aren’t “struggling to prevent transmission”. Where airborne disease guidelines are followed, outcomes are outstanding. (E.g. infectious disease hospital in Italy 2...

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Wake up babe new Canadian national holiday just dropped H/t @juliamwright.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1...

Conrad Black, who battled Chrétien over British peerage, removed from U.K. House of Lords(external link)(external link)(external link)(external link)(external link)(external link)(external link)(external link)(external link)(external link)(external link)(external link)(external link)(external link)(external link)(external link)www.cbc.ca Catharine Tunney | CBC News | Posted: July 10, 2024 10:08 PM | Last Updated: 15 hours ago

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Violet Affleck: "To confront the Long COVID crisis I demand mask availability, air filtration and far-UVC light in government facilities, including jails and detention centers and mask mandates in county medical facilities. And most importantly, the county must oppose mask bans for any reason." 🔥🔥🔥

Violet Affleck made a public comment opposing the proposed mask ban in #LosAngeles! 🔥 #LA #healthyoutube.com

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Just updated our preprint assessing the 2022 study that claimed medical masks to be noninferior to N95s for COVID. In addition to issues identified previously, a closer examination of the data revealed unexpected patterns unlikely to occur in nature: osf.io/preprints/me...

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Some Silk, Great Value plant-based beverages recalled across Canada over listeria concerns | CBC Newswww.cbc.ca Several Silk and Great Value refrigerated plant-based beverages have been recalled due to a listeria contamination, according to officials.

Excellent shade on a hot day: "All Quebecers are encouraged to continue to take precautions as authorities have largely stopped talking about improving air ventilation in buildings, which would greatly reduce the spread indoors of SARS-CoV-2 and other respiratory viruses."

Analysis: Quebec in midst of new COVID-19 summer wavemontrealgazette.com Vaccine manufacturers are racing to develop COVID-19 shots to guard against the dominant KP.3 sub-variant.

#cdnpse www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Management consultants and university futures: Academic capitalism and the capture of UK public higher educationwww.tandfonline.com This article shows how management consultancy firms, particularly the Big Four, leveraged their position to become key brokers in English higher education, expanding their influence across multiple...

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Well this is grim

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Briefly opened up LinkedIn intending to post something but I had to close it again before the overwhelming weight of the achievement porn put me in danger of quitting my job and going to live in a cave

Watching the new UK govt take shape, and wondering... What if the politics of division primarily serves party fundraising rather than reflects real disputes, and the vast majority of us just want from our governments what we want from our co-workers--competence and accountability?

From 2020-23, employers, institutions, and unions had some cover re lack of pandemic measures because of PH pushing hand hygiene, vaccination, etc. But now the WHO and the CDC are both talking about indoor air quality. That cover is dissolving. #RiskManagement partnersplatform.who.int/tools/aria

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I need to write the whole piece about this, but the thing to understand is that the NYT is now just Facebook. The platform dictates narrative to normies, is totally gamed by the right, and is still so ubiquitous as to be unavoidable even by those who see how broken it is. It's just Facebook.

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Wow, @AHS_media, what's happening in Lamont? At the Foothills Hospital? Is this ok? Why not just do mask mandates in hospitals? The plan isn't working. Source: www.albertahealthservices.ca/assets/info/...

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Tight deadline (July 17th) for this 2-year visual culture, film/media, or art history Career Development Fellowship in the School of Modern Arts and Languages at Durham University - which is full of nice people! #ECR 📜🗃️📷 #ArtHistory #academicsky www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DIM456/c...

Career Development Fellow in Visual Studies at Durham Universitywww.jobs.ac.uk Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Career Development Fellow in Visual Studies on jobs.ac.uk!

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HIV researchers and activists hail 'the best news ever': Results from a large clinical trial in Africa showed that a twice-yearly injection of a new drug gave young women total protection from the virus. #ShareGoodNewsToo www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/h...

New Drug Provides Total Protection From H.I.V. in Trial of Young African Womenwww.nytimes.com An injection given just twice a year could herald a breakthrough in protecting the population that has the highest infection rates.

A 🧵about safer conferencing during the pandemic. In addition to encouraging people to wear N95s indoors, what can conference organizers do to reduce spread (besides go online...)? Some thoughts based on seeing conferences of 300ish become significant spreaders of COVID-19 in 2022-24: 1/3

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The "delete it, who cares?" mindset of a lot of studios now reminds me of how the BBC didn't think it was important to save their history either and mindlessly destroyed millions of pounds worth of their own IP.

Wipe Out: When the BBC Kept Erasing Its Own Historywww.mentalfloss.com In the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, the BBC was so intent on erasing its original programming that employees could wipe a show with just three words on a generic form:

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UWaterloo isn't just seeking an injunction, it's also suing encampment participations for $1.5M in "damages". I can't even with this.

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Hey all! Time for a quick @cancovsoc.bsky.social Canadian Covid Society update. Specifically: introducing our new website! And boy is it beautiful, and getting to be the resource we are striving for! covidsociety.ca 1/

Home - Canadian Covid Societycovidsociety.ca making your business profitable for today & tomorrow We are working to protect your health and make living in a world with Covid safer. Learn more Advice You Can Trust The Canadian Covid Soci...

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“Since Texas’ ban on abortion went into effect, infant deaths in the state increased by nearly 13%, according to a new analysis published on Monday in JAMA Pediatrics. In the rest of the country, infant mortality increased less than 2% over the same period.”

Infant deaths increased after Texas banned abortion in early pregnancywww.statnews.com Since Texas’ ban on abortion went into effect, infant deaths in the state increased by nearly 13%, according to a new analysis published on Monday in JAMA Pediatrics.

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nails it: www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Coronavirus FAQ: Is the 6-foot rule debunked? Or does distance still protect you?www.npr.org At a congressional hearing, Dr. Anthony Fauci said the CDC recommendation to stay 6 feet from others to ward off infection was not based on data. Does that mean keeping a distance won't protect you?

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Someone asked if AI / LLMs would make my research easier by, e.g., helping me to collate large volumes of research instantly, sparing me a lot of grind & struggle. I told them that struggling w/ the research is actually essential to forming the insights that make the project interesting or valuable.

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Study Confirms One Type of COVID Mask Is 'Significantly Better' Than Others. -zero surprises here. Good work Don et al. www.sciencealert.com/study-confir...

Study Confirms One Type of COVID Mask Is 'Significantly Better' Than Otherswww.sciencealert.com They're not all the same.

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The pandemic continues... 'Daily overview of COVID-19 confirmed cases in Acute Hospitals across Ireland (29 in total). 460 Confirmed cases in hospital. 97 New confirmed cases in past 24hrs. Recorded at 8am on 20 June 2024.' @hpscireland #irishpublichealthHPSC @COVIDisNotOver

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Our forthcoming journal, American Gothic Studies, is seeking submissions! Find more information here: www.psupress.org/Journals/jnl... #Gothic

American Gothic Studieswww.psupress.org

Leveraging the Humanities for Better Healthmedium.com We need more than science to protect our health. Cultural history gives us important information about how people think about their health…

Crucial recommendations here that shouldn’t be tough to implement (mostly because two simply “abandon” recent changes): www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | An epidemic of scientific fakery threatens to overwhelm publisherswww.washingtonpost.com More than 10,000 scientific papers were retracted last year as “paper mills” exploit the system.

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Some friends at the University of Freiburg are organising a wonderful conference for PhD candidates and Early Career Researchers on Popular Culture and Democracy - see their CfP below :)