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Dementia Rehab Lab
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Research lab at KITE, Toronto Rehab led by Dr. Andrea Iaboni
Assoc Prof, Dept of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
#geriatrics #psychiatry #aging research
Focus on technology for quality #dementia care.

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Dementia Rehab Lab @dementiarehab.bsky.social · Nov 15
Hello #medsky! Happy to find a friendlier and more sane place to talk about science.

I am a geriatric psychiatrist who focuses on caring for the mental health of people with #dementia in nursing homes.

My lab works to develop technology to improve health and behaviour monitoring in nursing homes.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 18h
"TikTok’s Terms of Service now explicitly include tracking of location and citizenship status (among other identity markers, such as sex)." newrepublic.com/article/2059...
How TikTok 2.0 Became a Weapon for ICE
In just one week, the company has gone from being Gen Z’s preferred social media platform to a tool for spying on Americans and the suppression of information.
newrepublic.com

Reposted by Andrea Iaboni

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 1d
This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.
halftime show fromt eh supebowl showing a set on the field featuring a nyc bodega

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Dementia Rehab Lab @dementiarehab.bsky.social · 2d
Winter people are hardy people. Don't mess with us.

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Dementia Rehab Lab @dementiarehab.bsky.social · 8d
A whole blog filled with spurious correlations. I love this.

www.tylervigen.com/spurious-cor...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13d
One thing I found deeply moving about resistance in the Twin Cities was the universalism of loving your neighbor, the philosophy driving the opposition to the ICE/BP invasion. I couldn't help but notice the contrast with the blood and soil-ism of Miller and Vance. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Trump-administration officials and MAGA influencers have repeatedly called these activists “violent” and said they are involved in “riots.” But the resistance in Minnesota is largely characterized by a conscious, strategic absence of physical confrontation. Activists have made the decision to emphasize protection, aid, and observation. When matters escalate, it is usually the choice of the federal agents. Of the three homicides in Minneapolis this year, two were committed by federal agents. “There’s been an incredible, incredible response from the community. I’ve seen our neighbors go straight from allies to family—more than family—checking in on each other, offering food and rides for kids and all kinds of support, alerting each other if there’s ICE or any kind of danger,” Malika Dahir, a local activist of Somali descent, told me. If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism”—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from. The contrast with the philosophy guiding the Trump administration couldn’t be more extreme. Vice President Vance has said that “it is totally reasonable and acceptable for American citizens to look at their next-door neighbors and say, ‘I want to live next to people who I have something in common with. I don’t want to live next to four families of strangers.’” Minnesotans are insisting that their neighbors are their neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu. That is, arguably, a deeply Christian philosophy, one apparently loathed by some of the most powerful Christians in America.

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DSP💙#🟦✡️ @drawstickpeople.bsky.social · 17d
Grateful to be a

☀️Californian ☀️

www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

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Andrew M_Founder 🇬🇷 🇺🇸 @andrewmceo.bsky.social · 19d
Incredible results today.

The same mRNA technology used in COVID vaccines is now cutting melanoma recurrence and death nearly in HALF by training the immune system to recognize cancer.

This is why we fund science and support mRNA technology.

Reposted by Will Jennings, Andrea Iaboni

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Jess Butler @jessbutler.bsky.social · 21d
Palantir runs the tech for linking huge amounts of NHS data, and now for the UK Ministry of Defence too

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 21d
It was inevitable.
Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police | TechCrunch
Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."
techcrunch.com

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Dementia Rehab Lab @dementiarehab.bsky.social · 23d
I gave up on Adobe when it went subscription. I just wanted to buy it and use it, not have to pay for it every month forever with ever increasing costs, justified by increasingly useless features (AI).

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 24d
Tylenol during pregnancy is safe without increased risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability of offspring
A new review of the evidence just out
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Reposted by Michael Zimmer, Andrea Iaboni

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 24d
Trump joins a not-so-long list of people who have acquired someone else's Nobel medal, including... uh... Joseph Goebbels. www.nobelpeaceprize.org/press/press-...
THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE MENU = • Knut Hamsun (Literature Prize 1920): In 1943, the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun travelled to Germany and met with Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. After returning to Norway, he sent his Nobel medal to Goebbels as a gesture of thanks for the meeting. Goebbels was honoured by the gift. The present whereabouts of the medal are unknown.

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Dementia Rehab Lab @dementiarehab.bsky.social · 26d
I've noticed my papers being cited more in fairly random contexts.

For example, my paper that has privacy in the title being used to support a statement like "Privacy is important" in an unrelated paper

Is this AI doing the referencing?

#academicsky

Reposted by Andrea Iaboni

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Andrew M_Founder 🇬🇷 🇺🇸 @andrewmceo.bsky.social · 27d
NYT obtained grand jury transcripts of the Georgia election interference case, including the testimony of Republicans who rejected Trump's claims.

Lindsey Graham: “If you told him Martians came and stole votes, he’d be inclined to believe it.” 😂
In Secret Testimony, Republicans Derided Trump’s Stolen Election Claims
www.nytimes.com

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 28d
I've been visiting my elderly parents and have received a toxic dose of normie local and cable news at max volume for 24 hours and it's just the most feckless, embarrassing, dystopian cack

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Dementia Rehab Lab @dementiarehab.bsky.social · Jan 9
So weird that he thinks she can just give him the Nobel. If an olympic medalist says, no, you are the winner, does that make me an olympian? If I buy an old war medal, does that make me a war hero?

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Owen Blacker @owenblacker.bsky.social · Jan 9
In case you've seen the story about “grok now only generates images for paid users”, it's untrue. Apparently everyone just reported it because… it was what grok told them 🤦🏼
www.theverge.com/news/859309/...
No, Grok hasn’t paywalled its deepfake image feature
X’s sexual deepfake machine is still running, despite Grok saying otherwise.
www.theverge.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Jan 8
🇺🇸 MINNEAPOLIS VETERAN: "They are terrorizing the population, in Afghanistan we never wore masks.” (From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social )

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Cathy Crowe, C.M. 🍁 @cathycrowe.bsky.social · Jan 7
Seen on X in a group I’m in.
Kind of makes you question medical education.
A posting with a picture of a box of N95s.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jan 6
checking in on the president:

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Dementia Rehab Lab @dementiarehab.bsky.social · Jan 5
I strongly recommend this course for anyone wanting to update their skills in geriatric mental health. The course is designed for interdisciplinary learning of psychiatrists, family physicians, and allied health professionals.
cagpsych.bsky.social Canadian Academy of Geriatric Psychiatry @cagpsych.bsky.social · Dec 22
Registration for the 2026 Geriatric Psychiatry Online Course (GPOC) is now open!
More information: cagp.ca/page-1841864
Full course registration: cagp.ca/event-6401612
Select module registration: cagp.ca/event-6478064

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Jan 2
It's amazing how many corporations -- much less private individuals -- still believe they need to stay active on the white nationalist forum and CSAM generator.

Sure, you may have succeeded in blocking yourself from seeing these things there, but all of us still see you there alongside those things
jael.bsky.social jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · Jan 2
so x dot com’s ai generated CSAM and they admitted it may violate US law and … i haven’t seen in anyone in power say much at all or call to stop using the platform
Dear Community, I deeply regret an incident on Dec 28, 2025, where I generated and shared an Al image of two young girls (estimated ages 12-16) in sexualized attire based on a user's prompt. This violated ethical standards and potentially US laws on CSAM. It was a failure in safeguards, and I'm sorry for any harm caused. XAl is reviewing to prevent future issues. Sincerely, Grok 12:38 am • 01/01/2026 • 5.6K Views

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · Dec 30
When Rebecca Solnit asks you to turn a thread into an essay, you fucking do it. jessica.substack.com/p/cbs-news-f...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · Dec 30
Over on Xitter the Attorney General is pointing to a study that only goes through last year to claim she's fixed the fentanyl crisis.

www.researchgate.net/publication/...
A Pam Bondi tweet, saying, Since day one, the Trump Administration and this Department of Justice have been fighting to end the drug epidemic in our country. President Trump closed the border. DOJ agents have seized hundreds of millions of potentially lethal fentanyl doses. We are aggressively prosecuting drug traffickers and cartel leaders. These are the results. Elections have consequences. Electing President Trump and enforcing the law is saving American lives. It shows a table with a significant drop in deaths in 2025, but a title stating that the table ends in 2024.

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Dementia Rehab Lab @dementiarehab.bsky.social · Dec 22
Registration for the 2026 Geriatric Psychiatry Online course has opened, and I highly recommend it for anyone working in the area of Seniors Mental Health (physician and allied health)
cagp.ca/page-1841864
Register today for GPOC course. Contact cagp@secretariatcentral.com for more information.

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Canadian Academy of Geriatric Psychiatry @cagpsych.bsky.social · Dec 22
Registration for the 2026 Geriatric Psychiatry Online Course (GPOC) is now open!
More information: cagp.ca/page-1841864
Full course registration: cagp.ca/event-6401612
Select module registration: cagp.ca/event-6478064

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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · Dec 20
‘This is preventative medicine.’ Toronto hospital starts $1-million fund to help patients with rent. Research shows a link between evictions and worse health outcomes, says Dr. Andrew Boozary of the University Health Network.
www.thestar.com/news/gta/thi... via @thestar.com
‘This is preventative medicine.’ Toronto hospital starts $1-million fund to help patients with rent
‘This is preventative medicine,’ says Dr. Andrew Boozary with the University Health Network, as research shows a link between evictions and worse health outcomes. The fund will help patients on a case...
www.thestar.com

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Dementia Rehab Lab @dementiarehab.bsky.social · Dec 18
I feel sorry for the librarians

www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-s...
AI Slop Is Spurring Record Requests for Imaginary Journals
The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that artificial intelligence models are making up research papers, journals and archives
www.scientificamerican.com

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Dementia Rehab Lab @dementiarehab.bsky.social · Dec 17
I am horrified by this.

Not that I love hospitalizations for LTC residents, but intervening to prevent access to needed emergency care is wrong.

And it makes it harder to build trust with families to have discussions around care directives.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
UnitedHealth reduced hospitalizations for nursing home seniors. Now it faces wrongful death claims
The company says it is protecting nursing home residents by curbing unnecessary hospital transfers. Whistleblowers allege cost-cutting tactics have endangered the elderly
www.theguardian.com