Heather Bamford
@mshbee.bsky.social
Mom, partner, teacher, coach, cat lover, reader, sewist
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Pretty much ANY statistic you see cited to frighten you about vaccines comes from the VAERS database. (Including the recent evidence-free missive from Vinay Prasad). Here's why VAERS can NEVER be a proper source for population-level vaccine risk estimates.
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November 30, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Pretty much ANY statistic you see cited to frighten you about vaccines comes from the VAERS database. (Including the recent evidence-free missive from Vinay Prasad). Here's why VAERS can NEVER be a proper source for population-level vaccine risk estimates.
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Have your say on the priorities for Ontario’s budget: www.ontario.ca/page/budget-...
Budget Consultations
Share your ideas for the 2026 Budget on what matters most to you.
www.ontario.ca
November 30, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Have your say on the priorities for Ontario’s budget: www.ontario.ca/page/budget-...
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It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
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The Ontario government: every student needs to learn to code and use technology!
Also the Ontario government: We can’t waste money by giving school boards money to buy technology for students to use.
Also the Ontario government: We can’t waste money by giving school boards money to buy technology for students to use.
a man wearing a suit and tie is standing in front of a display of ties .
Alt: a man wearing a suit and tie is standing in front of a display of ties and staring into the camera
media.tenor.com
April 27, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The Ontario government: every student needs to learn to code and use technology!
Also the Ontario government: We can’t waste money by giving school boards money to buy technology for students to use.
Also the Ontario government: We can’t waste money by giving school boards money to buy technology for students to use.
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Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:
April 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:
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I almost forgot. Today is the perfect date. 😀
April 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I almost forgot. Today is the perfect date. 😀
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April 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Let’s all take a moment to read about the 1930’s Tariffs and how they worsened the Great Depression and made life unaffordable.
We teach history so that we don’t have to repeat our mistakes.
It looks like Donald did not show up to class.
corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/ec...
We teach history so that we don’t have to repeat our mistakes.
It looks like Donald did not show up to class.
corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/ec...
Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act raised around 900 import tariffs by an average of 40% to 60%. Also referred to as the U.S. Tariff Act of 1930
corporatefinanceinstitute.com
February 3, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Let’s all take a moment to read about the 1930’s Tariffs and how they worsened the Great Depression and made life unaffordable.
We teach history so that we don’t have to repeat our mistakes.
It looks like Donald did not show up to class.
corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/ec...
We teach history so that we don’t have to repeat our mistakes.
It looks like Donald did not show up to class.
corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/ec...
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Toronto parents have to pay full daycare fees instead of $10/day because the Province cancelled thousands of school-based daycare spots! They want private operators, not non-profit ones. Note how the Ford government hid from this interview. www.thestar.com/life/most-pr... #topoli #onpoli
Most provinces have dropped daycare costs to $10/day. Why are some Toronto parents still paying full fees?
For-profit daycares continue to join the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care program at much lower rates, particularly in the GTA.
www.thestar.com
January 19, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Toronto parents have to pay full daycare fees instead of $10/day because the Province cancelled thousands of school-based daycare spots! They want private operators, not non-profit ones. Note how the Ford government hid from this interview. www.thestar.com/life/most-pr... #topoli #onpoli
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"The allure of the conspiracy theory is that you, Joe Nobody, understand a topic far more than the experts who spent their lives working on this issue."
www.salon.com/2024/12/26/c...
www.salon.com/2024/12/26/c...
QAnon fell out of headlines in 2024 — but only because conspiracy theory is the new normal
The single biggest reason Trump won? The median voter ignores real news to consume endless disinformation
www.salon.com
December 26, 2024 at 11:36 AM
"The allure of the conspiracy theory is that you, Joe Nobody, understand a topic far more than the experts who spent their lives working on this issue."
www.salon.com/2024/12/26/c...
www.salon.com/2024/12/26/c...
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Cat Clinging To Side Of Christmas Tree Admits That Was Extent Of Plan
theonion.com/cat-clinging...
theonion.com/cat-clinging...
December 23, 2024 at 8:07 PM
Cat Clinging To Side Of Christmas Tree Admits That Was Extent Of Plan
theonion.com/cat-clinging...
theonion.com/cat-clinging...
Listening to the audiobook of Mind the Science by @jonathanstea.bsky.social
I teach #appsych and open the course with #scientificthinking and the warning signs of #pseudoscience - this forms the foundation of the course
I will be using his book as a mentor text to frame our learning!
I teach #appsych and open the course with #scientificthinking and the warning signs of #pseudoscience - this forms the foundation of the course
I will be using his book as a mentor text to frame our learning!
December 21, 2024 at 8:53 PM
Listening to the audiobook of Mind the Science by @jonathanstea.bsky.social
I teach #appsych and open the course with #scientificthinking and the warning signs of #pseudoscience - this forms the foundation of the course
I will be using his book as a mentor text to frame our learning!
I teach #appsych and open the course with #scientificthinking and the warning signs of #pseudoscience - this forms the foundation of the course
I will be using his book as a mentor text to frame our learning!
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One of the central jobs of everyone who works in education but is not a classroom teacher should be ensuring classroom teachers have enough (time, energy, knowledge, training, resources).
If you nurture and value teachers, you nurture and value the children in front of them.
If you nurture and value teachers, you nurture and value the children in front of them.
November 20, 2024 at 6:37 PM
One of the central jobs of everyone who works in education but is not a classroom teacher should be ensuring classroom teachers have enough (time, energy, knowledge, training, resources).
If you nurture and value teachers, you nurture and value the children in front of them.
If you nurture and value teachers, you nurture and value the children in front of them.
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Two “feral and not trained” emus named Thelma and Louise are on the loose in South Carolina about three hours from the 43 monkey escape that happened days earlier
"Feral and not trained" emus Thelma and Louise on the loose in South Carolina as state's monkey search continues
Police in Horry County, South Carolina, said this week that they are searching for two missing emus that have been evading capture for months: "We are not emu-sed."
www.cbsnews.com
November 15, 2024 at 11:04 PM
Two “feral and not trained” emus named Thelma and Louise are on the loose in South Carolina about three hours from the 43 monkey escape that happened days earlier