@carolyndavison
PhD candidate at University of Toronto and Baycrest Academy—interested in cog neuro (aging/memory) 🧠🧪, higher ed pedagogy 📚, ballet 🩰, embroidery 🪡, and cats 🐈. Autistic ♾, HoH 🦻, Long-COVID caregiver 😷. She/her. #AcademicSky #HigherEd
If Senate Democrats decide to support the administration tonight, that means every bit of suffering over the last month and change belongs on Democrats: who shut the government down to defend health care, but don't actually give a shit about the ACA's stability. If it was for nothing, it was evil!
Reasons I will wear an N95 when teaching this fall 2025:
- WHO still classifies COVID-19 as a pandemic
- WHO still recommends masking in indoor public spaces
- 5 years watching long-COVID progressively disable my husband
- don't like participating in eugenics
- want to protect my cats and your kids
🎉 Exciting news! #BrainArt 2025 blew us away with stunning submissions across 4 categories.
🗳️ Now it’s your turn to vote for your favorites!
🌐 Check out the gallery & cast your vote here 👉 forms.gle/aZr92u3K1vAH...
#OHBM2025 #Brainart #neuroart #sciart #neuroscience
Exactly this. Null findings can be very informative!
I wear a mask in public. 🤷♀️
Pedro Pascal Blasts J.K. Rowling as a 'Heinous Loser' for Her Anti-Trans Views, Backs Harry Potter Boycott
he’s right and he’s right to say it
This time last month the Guardian put out a video about my life with #LongCovid.
In it, I talk about how people with long covid are invisible.
I'm sick of being invisible & I'm sick of the lack of action to find treatments to get us well.
How do we get the government to listen? 👇
Exactly 3 years ago; I'd been Covid positive for 10 days in a row.
I didn't know that blood clots had formed in my leg.
2 days later, getting out of bed and going for a walk on the beach would dislodge these clots, sending them through my heart and into my right lung.
#PulmonaryEmbolism
Really helpful guide for healthy allies, friends and family about how to help people with long Covid in your life. www.longcovidadvoc.com/post/how-to-... by @longcovidadvoc.bsky.social
1 in every 4 kids will develop #LongCovid symptoms following Covid infection.
It is the result of an analysis of 8373 publications with a total of 80,071 children and adolescents.
Anyone denying this cannot be a Health Secretary anywhere.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"The brain microbiome: could understanding it help prevent dementia?"
The answer to this question is yes.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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📣 I am excited to co-edit a book w/ Fabrice Jaumont on embracing the imperfection of language learning. Do you have a story, a case study, a biography that challenges the paralyzing "gold standard" of achieving native-like fluency in an L2? For submission guidelines, visit
calec.org/2024/11/28/b...
Last week, in a panel discussion, I mentioned an approach to pedagogy that’s been in my mind for a while … so here’s The (very simple) Pedagogy of Letting Go lydiaarnold.net/2024/11/24/t...
In assisted dying debate - people with disabilities are being talked over, shouted at & told their concerns are invalid
Ironically - those doing this are proving our point
Our lives are not considered worth saving. Our concerns go unheeded. We’re seen as expendable.
We have a right to be scared
"The Covid narrative has always been that ‘only the vulnerable need to worry.’
As though the ‘vulnerable’ are completely expendable.
Because to those in power - we are."
I appreciate liberals suddenly caring about disinformation again, but those of us that've been tending this home fire for the past four years are gonna need y'all to recognize the covid disinformation you need to undo in your own mind if you want to stand in solidarity with disabled people.
Types of psych paper: 1) my honours student needed a publication; 2) I have this enormous dataset that I don't know what to do with but isn't it cool? 3) people on MTurk can sometimes learn things; 4) children are like weird adults; 5) my model does the same thing as previous models but is Bayesian; 6) people make silly decisions; 7) I found random noise in my data and made up a big theory to address it; 8) my research doesn't need math but if I have equations people will think I'm smart; 9) my model doesn't explain things but has nice fits, see? 10) things get weird as soon as you have people in groups; 11) all of cogsci is like undergrads at my university; 12) humans, what the heck?!?
This is going around again! Clearly it's time to resurrect this which I made for twitter back when it was less evil.
Types of Psych Papers
[Note: it is slightly more cynical (for humour value) than I actually am]
🌟We've made one more Starter Pack focusing on #LongCovid & #MECFS researchers
go.bsky.app/Pb49nmb
🌟We will add as more people come over. If we've missed anyone let us know!
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Fantastic explanation of the anatomy of the human #Hippocampus! Great video and visualizations!👌 #neuroscience #PsychSciSky vimeo.com/323365182
I just want to get this out there: Democrats lost because they ignored the pandemic's sequelae.
Joe Biden whiffed the debate because he was actively sick and brainfogged with c19! And people—rightly!—hate the economy because they are sick. Many can't work!
This matters—because it won't get better.
A black-and white tuxedo cat sleeping on a cat-sized couch.
A small bengal kitten stretching after a nap.
Happy #caturday from Caya and Rippley!
If you stopped wearing a mask, it’s a great time to start again. We need to be in solidarity with immunocompromised and disabled folks, plus your own health is important too! COVID can cause so much damage to every system in your body. It’s ok to change your mind when you learn new info! 💕
University administrators appear unconcerned that COVID is increasingly rampant on #Ontario campuses — 'We are witnessing a failure in public health as vulnerable people are being left to self-organize around a larger systemic problem'
ricochet.media/justice/heal...
#onpoli #COVID #Health
‘University administrators appear unconcerned that COVID is increasingly rampant on Ontario campuses’
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Thanks to everyone who voted! 🥰
Do you like brains? Do you like art? Check out the #OHBM2024 brain art competition! My submission is #1.6 and there are lots of other great entries! Voting closes tomorrow.
ohbm-brainart.github.io/competition....
A great way to “stick it to the man” and rebel is to mask. They want you to fit in, rebel by protecting your and other people’s health by masking.
Survival of us queer folk especially will piss the fascists off. Help by wearing a well-fitted n95 or better.
Dartmouth faculty just voted to censure President Beilock, 183 to 163, for her use of tactical police and a SWAT unit to violently break up the peaceful Gaza solidarity encampment 2 hours after it was set up. As Prof. Melanie Benson Taylor said, “Everything you claim to have prevented, you created.”
