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Dr. Christine Purdon @christinepurdon.bsky.social · Aug 2

Thank you! I am not entirely sure - I might suggest you contact @ocdukcharity.bsky.social

Dr. Christine Purdon @christinepurdon.bsky.social · Jul 24

@ocdukcharity.bsky.social is a fabulous organization for people with OCD and their families. I am really pleased to be giving a webinar on overcoming common difficulties in ERP!
#ocd #obsessions #compulsions #ERP #CBT

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Dr. Christine Purdon @christinepurdon.bsky.social · Jul 10

George Monbiot nails it again. Trump referring to my country the 51st state is not a joke to me.

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Jul 10

Obscene ideas are injected into public life with "humour" ... and then enacted. My column this week is pegged to the recent calls in the Spectator to murder people at Glastonbury, and on GB News to starve and shoot disabled people.
You could call it wink murder.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How does the right tear down progressive societies? It starts with a joke | George Monbiot

Whether it’s bloodshed at Glastonbury or starving people on benefits, their ‘irony poisoning’ seeps obscene ideas into the range of the possible, says Guasrdian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Jul 10

Obscene ideas are injected into public life with "humour" ... and then enacted. My column this week is pegged to the recent calls in the Spectator to murder people at Glastonbury, and on GB News to starve and shoot disabled people.
You could call it wink murder.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How does the right tear down progressive societies? It starts with a joke | George Monbiot

Whether it’s bloodshed at Glastonbury or starving people on benefits, their ‘irony poisoning’ seeps obscene ideas into the range of the possible, says Guasrdian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Christine Purdon @christinepurdon.bsky.social · Apr 14

Given my background in anxiety research and treatment I have been asked by media of late to speak about how to manage the stress of these current times. I wrote an Opinion piece for The Toronto Star which appeared today:

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

The news has stress levels soaring. I have strategies to keep you grounded

We have deep reserves of strength and resilience. Now is the time to ensure we tap into them by focusing on the here and now, taking action, and living our

www.thestar.com

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · Apr 13

This is a good watch.

Interesting to see farmers realizing they can get further ahead with water needs by helping the endangered fish (more fish=water rules relaxed)

Indigenous knowledge & practice shown here is the way.

"We are all connected to the land. People in cities have forgotten that"

After the dams: What’s next for the Klamath River? | Oregon Field Guide

YouTube video by Oregon Public Broadcasting

youtu.be

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · Apr 12

Let's do this.

And I don't know what mine is yet.

alison (she/her) FREE LINK @alisonborealis.bsky.social · Apr 11

Canadians!

I have an assignment for you this weekend.

What is THE MOST CANADIAN thing you own?

It can be anything. A book, a garment, a food item, a tool, a decorative object, a cd, anything.
#CanCon #Canada

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Dr. Christine Purdon @christinepurdon.bsky.social · Apr 2

"The first step...is clear: stop collecting student teaching evaluations. To knowingly use measures that do not meet the construct validity standards in research, while sacrificing social justice objectives and undermining educational goals in the classroom, is simply unjustifiable."

Chanel Meyers @chanelkmeyers.bsky.social · Apr 2

this is nothing new to me, but i actually recently had my own control group comparison for once! co-taught with a male colleague. same content, same opinions, etc. guess which one of us got the derogatory comments about their personality and warmth! 🙃

Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · Apr 2

It is time to abandon student evaluations of teaching

Comment by Gordon Hodson (@gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social)

Web: go.nature.com/4jfAzXo
PDF: rdcu.be/ef9y5

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Dr. Christine Purdon @christinepurdon.bsky.social · Apr 2

oh how this tracks!

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Dr. Christine Purdon @christinepurdon.bsky.social · Mar 28

Teams transcripts certainly used to require a lot of editing but is much better now - although maybe that's just by compaison!

Dr. Christine Purdon @christinepurdon.bsky.social · Mar 27

Hello, we do a fair bit of qualitative research. We use Teams because it's approved by our ORE for collection of sensitive data. The transcription has improved immensely in the past couple of years and we are able to enter text transcriptions straight into NVivo

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · Mar 26

Just a couple of more days to get the best price on my original art ever.

JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · Mar 3

March Madness time!

For me that means I'm doing a blow out sale of old originals.

First Time Ever!

Savings up to 40% on selected originals for the month of March.

earthskyart.ca/product-cate...

#art #painting #bsnm

painting of a colourful swirling mothership storm over a field of canola with some tree in the distance.

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Dr. Christine Purdon @christinepurdon.bsky.social · Mar 22

This makes my day!

Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · Mar 22

In this corner of the internet, hope and optimism abounds so here is your weekly round up of good things you may or may not have heard about.

A thread/

Dr. Christine Purdon @christinepurdon.bsky.social · Mar 19

deanblundell.substack.com/p/the-disinf...

The Disinformation War Against Mark Carney Begins: A Coordinated Global Attack

How a US-Russian Propaganda Machine is Targeting Canada’s Leading Political Threat

deanblundell.substack.com

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Meredith Jones, Ph.D. @meredithjones.bsky.social · Mar 19

Amazing idea. We are so used to sticking to our own world- wish we had more training in #scicomm but excited to try anyway! #academicsky

This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · Mar 18

I sincerely think that universities should suspend their productivity standards for scientists and ask them instead to hold town halls in schools, public libraries, museums, shopping malls, and anywhere else and communicate what is being lost with the collapse of the research ecosystem.

James Sims @simsjames.bsky.social · Mar 16

“The ecosystem of research and the creation of new knowledge in universities has been so powerful for American prosperity, American freedom, American ingenuity. To have that disrupted by government overreach is a disaster for this country.” —Wesleyan University President Michael Roth on
@msnbc.com

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Sarah Raughley @sraughley.bsky.social · Mar 18

Trump is threatening academic freedom in Canada. The Canadian Association of University Teachers just put the word out. This is very troubling.

#Academiasky #Academicsky #Elbowsup #Canadastrong

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Dr. Christine Purdon @christinepurdon.bsky.social · Mar 14

Sigh. ChatGPT cover letters are not well-written, informative, or impressive - but are easily identifiable bc if you run our ad through ChatGPT it spits out the same puerile template, wording, and phrasing for you as it does for all the other applicants who do same.

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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · Nov 18

and back to the top of the thread you go!

bsky.app/profile/did:...

Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · Nov 18

An #Archaeology flamingo thread in 16 skeets

One day, I saw this Egyptian pot 🏺 from 5000+ years ago (now @metmuseum.bsky.social ). Maybe it represents the famous Dance of the Flamingos?

Wanting to see if that hunch was true, I dug in. The research-hole didn’t take me where I thought it would…
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a simple ceramic jar with a light red on tan decoration. In the center is a row of birds drawn in a simple, stylized fashion. They have long legs and a long neck ending in a curly-q shaped head. The color and shape gives them a strong resemblance to a line of flamingos doing their famous dance shown frequently in nature documentaries often voiced by David Attenborough

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Dr. Christine Purdon @christinepurdon.bsky.social · Mar 12

And be careful what you give up for it, as you will never get it back.

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Dr. Christine Purdon @christinepurdon.bsky.social · Mar 11

First slowly, then all at once

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Dr. Christine Purdon @christinepurdon.bsky.social · Mar 3

ELBOWS UP Canada!

www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

#notforsale #resistance #Canada #fight #boycott

Mike Myers wears ‘Canada is Not for Sale’ shirt during SNL return, taking aim at Donald Trump

Mike Myers made a memorable return to Saturday Night Live, taking a subtle yet clear jab at U.S. President Donald Trump.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Dr. Christine Purdon @christinepurdon.bsky.social · Feb 28

#clinicalsky #behavioralsky #OCD

Dr. Christine Purdon @christinepurdon.bsky.social · Feb 26

Insecure attachment can be a factor in development and persistence of anxiety difficulties, including OCD. Why and how though?

A thread...

#OCD #fearofcompassion #attachment

Dr. Christine Purdon @christinepurdon.bsky.social · Feb 26

Study 2 replicated these findings + effects were significant even when controlling for negative mood. These findings suggest that further investigation of fears of compassion in people with OCD is warranted

To read more, see our paper, just out!

bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

<em>British Journal of Clinical Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library

Objectives The most successful psychological treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). However, treatment success remains around 50% when refusal and ...

bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Dr. Christine Purdon @christinepurdon.bsky.social · Feb 26

Lo and behold, controlling for trait compassion there was a significant indirect effect of attachment anxiety on OCD symptom severity via fear of self-compassion, and a significant indirect effect of attachment avoidance on OCD severity via fear of receiving compassion...

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Dr. Christine Purdon @christinepurdon.bsky.social · Feb 26

We did a preliminary investigation of the relationships between attachment insecurity, FOC, and OCD symptoms in a large unselected sample, and then did a second study to replicate and extend findings by controlling for negative mood...

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