Julia M. Wright

@juliamwright.bsky.social

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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.

theconversation.com

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

What if I told you that the problem with #cdnpse budgeting isn't the range of academic programs, but the massive growth of senior admins who rely heavily on consultants. Together, they siphon millions out of university budgets for non-academic purposes. Our prov govts might try reining that in.

a person is holding a red pill and a blue pill in their hands and says what if i told you .

Alt: the famous scene from The Matrix offering the alternative between fiction or reality--the red pill or the blue pill--with the caption, "What if I told you..."

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Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 16h

You've heard of the Friday night news dump. Here's the Friday night of Thanksgiving wknd dump. For special circumstances, like when the faculty assembly votes 595-4 against paying to end a shakedown and you do it anyway. Link to agreement here: bulkmail.northwestern.edu/trk/click?re...

Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 16h

BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university

Full statement from NU below:

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GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 1d

I showed my scientific illustration students this example a few weeks ago. Told them they may yet have jobs. Their confidence grew a bit, they seemed reassured.

Ai generated anatomical image showing completely impossible anatomy.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 1d

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

Reposted by Julia M. Wright

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

Reposted by Talbot Imlay, Julia M. Wright, Ryan K. Brook

Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 1d

Steven Guilbeault just QUIT CARNEY'S CABINET (but not the Liberal caucus) following the Alberta-Canada MOU.

Yowza.
www.ledevoir.com/politique/ca...?

Steven Guilbeault démissionne de son poste de ministre

Il claque la porte du cabinet Carney, mais pas du caucus libéral.

www.ledevoir.com

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

"From Long Flu to Long COVID: A Brief History of Postviral Illness" by Emily Mendenhall and Philip Finkelstein.

From Long Flu to Long COVID: A Brief History of Postviral Illness | Think Global Health

Despite centuries of examples, long-term maladies after flu and other viruses remain absent from mainstream policy

www.thinkglobalhealth.org

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

Debbie Martin: "The lasting harm of universities’ rush for Indigenous identity policies" policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/11/indi...

The lasting harm of universities’ rush for Indigenous identity policies

Universities are cracking down on pretendians, but poorly designed policies are harming people with legitimate claims to Indigeneity.

policyoptions.irpp.org

Reposted by Peter Ullrich, Julia M. Wright, Aidan O’Sullivan

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 4d

Prosecutors in California used A.I. to argue that a 57-year-old man should be held without bail, his lawyers say, filing a brief that included wholesale misinterpretations of the law, as well as quotations that do not actually appear in the cited texts. nyti.ms/3M1bVye

Prosecutor Used Flawed A.I. to Keep a Man in Jail, His Lawyers Say

The case is among the first in which a prosecutor is accused of filing court papers marred by A.I.-generated mistakes.

nyti.ms

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

www.canada.ca/en/public-he...

Call out: Member recruitment for the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Services - Canada.ca

Recruitment call for experts to join PHAC’s Expert Roster for the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Services.

www.canada.ca

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Sam Pizzigati @sgp.bsky.social · 5d

@scottishgreens.org are urging the rollout of a 10:1 pay ratio across the public and private sectors in Scotland. That move would “force those at the top to improve the salaries of their lowest paid staff if they wish to increase their own payslips.” #inequality www.thenational.scot/news/2564362...

Plans lodged for crack down on 'obscene' pay of university principals

Propsals have been lodged to crack down on the 'obscene' pay inequality across Scotland's universities and colleges

www.thenational.scot

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

Agree--all taxes should be better scaled. A 20% increase on my property taxes would be the cost of a takeaway coffee/day. Cutting jobs might also lead to people losing their homes, and all because cutting jobs seems to be the answer to every tough question these days because of consultants.

Julia M. Wright @juliamwright.bsky.social · 6d

I'm sure some companies want lower taxes but, as a property taxpayer and voter, I'd like to see more jobs and more services (e.g. housing) as ways of a) increasing the tax base; b) reducing demand on health and emergency services; c) improving lives. I'd 100% pay 20% or more property tax for that.

Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 8d

I ask again, as a property-tax payer, is Andy Fillmore the WORST mayor ever, or THE worst mayor EVER?

A snip from a news item, highlighted, that reads, “However, Mayor Andy Fillmore said the property tax hike is ‘simply too high’ and put forward a motion asking staff to find more savings.
He proposed a 10 per cent reduction in program grants, reducing the climate action tax by one-third, and implementing a hiring freeze.”

Julia M. Wright @juliamwright.bsky.social · 6d

More expensive AI slop undermining the quality and credibility of key information and, it appears, generating what its user wants to read rather than actual facts… theindependent.ca/news/lji/maj...

Major N.L. healthcare report contains errors likely generated by A.I. – The Independent

$1.6 million Health Human Resources Plan from Deloitte cites research papers that don’t exist, making it the second major government policy paper called into question in as many months

theindependent.ca

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

Forced AI for PCs should be the tech industry’s New Coke fiasco.

Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 10d

My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨

ABI Bouhmaida
@forgoodcode
Every Windows 11 PC is now an Al
PC with Copilot at the center of
it all.
Here's how to get rid of Copilot
completely from your computer
(1/3)

ABI Bouhmaida
@forgoodcode
1/ Settings App
> Personalization
> Taskbar
> Other System Tray Icons
> Switch "Microsoft 365 Copilot App" Off
This hides Copilot from your
taskbar

$(9) ABI Bouhmaida @forgoodcode 2/ Press Win + R > Type in ‘regedit’ > Navigate to "HKEY _CURRENT_USER\ Software \ Policie s\Microsoft\ Windows" > Right-click on the "Windows" Key > New > Key > Name the new key "WindowsCopilot’ > Right-click on the new key EY > DWORD (32-bit) Value$ @forgoodcode
3/
> Name the value
"TurnOffWindowsCopilot’
> Double-click the name of the value
> Set the "Value Data" to 1
> Restart your computer
Congrats! Copilot is now completely
gone from your computer.
Hope this helps

@forgoodcode
3/
> Name the value
"TurnOffWindowsCopilot’
> Double-click the name of the value
> Set the "Value Data" to 1
> Restart your computer
Congrats! Copilot is now completely
gone from your computer.
Hope this helps

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Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 8d

I ask again, as a property-tax payer, is Andy Fillmore the WORST mayor ever, or THE worst mayor EVER?

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

In related news, I've uninstalled MS Office and switched over to a free replacement because #Microsoft no longer allows us to remove its AI ("Copilot"). The transition was seamless. I wish I'd dumped MS Office years ago!

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 8d

The second report of the UK COVID Inquiry is out. The two volumes are here: covid19.public-inquiry.uk/documents/mo...

The section on "The focus on handwashing over ventilation" begins in section 12.32 of the second volume (page 167 in the PDF of voume 2).

#itsairborne #COVID #longCOVID #aerosol

Module 2, 2A, 2B, 2C Report - Core decision-making and political governance UK Covid-19 Inquiry Archives

A report by The Rt Hon the Baroness Hallett DBE, Chair of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry on the core decision-making and political governance, dated 20 November 2025.

covid19.public-inquiry.uk

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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 9d

I wrote a little thing.

Alt title: the Hypocrisy in Having Value(s)

Carney’s calamitous course causes consternation at climate summit

Canada arrived at COP30 with empty hands, expressly moving backwards on almost every climate policy we’ve put in place since Paris.

www.nationalobserver.com

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Elisabeth Bik - Perpetrator 5, a fraudulent microbiologist @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 9d

Good morning from Sydney! Today is Day 2 of the @aimosinc.bsky.social conference

I am attending one of the discussion sessions: Addressing journal editors' failure to retract fraudulent and misleading publications
Speaker/Chair -Jon Jureidini, Leemon McHenry & George (Skip) Murgatroyd
#AIMOS2025

Reposted by Julia M. Wright, David Murakami Wood, Greg Linden

Natasha Tusikov @ntusikov.bsky.social · 9d

In GenAI bubble news, only 2% of Canadian firms are seeing a return on their investment in GenAI. Firms are struggling to find an effective use for the tech & to see promised gains. Maybe time to reconsider the AI hype?
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Just 2% of Canadian businesses got return on generative AI investments, survey shows

KPMG poll finds only a handful of businesses seeing benefits from technology despite widespread adoption

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 10d

My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨

Reposted by Julia M. Wright

UK Covid-19 Inquiry @ukcovid-19inquiry.bsky.social · 10d

Tomorrow at 4pm the Inquiry will publish its second report: Core decision-making and political governance (Module 2, 2A, 2B and 2C).

Reposted by Julia M. Wright, Dana R. Fisher

John Woodside @woodsideful.bsky.social · 10d

At COP30 Canada just got awarded the fossil of the day — first time since 2014 (the harper years). Clear sign of how Carney’s pro fossil fuel agenda and backsliding on climate policy is being noticed internationally.

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

For some reason, that movie sets events about six decades later than the novel--perhaps just to have more spectacular clothing. I don't expect movies to accurately adapt novels, but that one struck me as rather too much in love with visuals (esp. sets and costumes), at the cost of Shelley's ideas.

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

Your semi-regular reminder that Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein is subtitled “Or, The Modern Prometheus.”

These guys like sf but seem to skip all the bits about morality, social responsibility, and unintended consequences. 📚

NYT headline “Jeff Bezos creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive” with “Called Project Prometheus, the company is focusing on artificial intelligence” below.

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Christophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 12d

Superb 🧵 by Dr. @evonnetcurran.bsky.social on Twitter earlier today about the (dubious) statement that "80% of infections diseases are spread by contact..."

Full 🧵 (12 tweets):
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19900...

Since the nonsense yesterday when a public health body erroneously stated that 80% of infections diseases are spread by contact....
I promised a thread....
Lets start with the
@WHO
Hand hygiene guideline
@LazarusLong13

Julia M. Wright @juliamwright.bsky.social · 13d

Thanks to all the amazing folks at @src-rsc.bsky.social for another wonderful #COEE, and congratulations to all the new Fellows and Members! #cdnpse #ArtsandHumanities

a group of people applauding with barbarosgif written in the corner

Alt: a group of people applauding

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