Kate Louise Mathis
@drmaudbailey.bsky.social
Scottish European | #GreenYes | Academic | Lace knitter | Concrete enthusiast | Gaelic women's poetry | Celtic/Gaelic Revivals | Still acknowledging ongoing pandemic (She/her)
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I’m living a ghost of a life. I may never eat normally again. And it makes it so hard to watch people expose themselves to Covid over and over knowing that THIS could be not even the outcome, but some kind of midpoint.
Please do not get this disease, and please do not give it to anyone else.
Please do not get this disease, and please do not give it to anyone else.
November 12, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I’m living a ghost of a life. I may never eat normally again. And it makes it so hard to watch people expose themselves to Covid over and over knowing that THIS could be not even the outcome, but some kind of midpoint.
Please do not get this disease, and please do not give it to anyone else.
Please do not get this disease, and please do not give it to anyone else.
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I regret to inform you that Microsoft are AT IT AGAIN.
If, like me, you let Microsoft update in the last 24 hours and discovered they've found a new way to shoehorn in a Copilot icon that just... sits there, watching... You can uninstall Word and install the version from Nov 4th or earlier: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office...
November 12, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I regret to inform you that Microsoft are AT IT AGAIN.
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Given that the far right hates Black and Brown people, hates women, hates immigrants, hates liberals, leftists and greens, hates students and universities, hates civil servants, hates disabled people, hates gay and trans people and hates Jews and Muslims, what is this country it claims to love?
November 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Given that the far right hates Black and Brown people, hates women, hates immigrants, hates liberals, leftists and greens, hates students and universities, hates civil servants, hates disabled people, hates gay and trans people and hates Jews and Muslims, what is this country it claims to love?
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Honestly, this is just awful. We HAVE to stand up against this stuff.
First #EAA, now this???
#Archaeology 🏺
First #EAA, now this???
#Archaeology 🏺
🚨The @college-de-france.fr just canceled a conference on Palestinien history organized by one of its faculty.
Absolute shame on them for caving in to Zionist bullies and, thereby, betraying the values of academic freedom they claim to uphold 1/
Absolute shame on them for caving in to Zionist bullies and, thereby, betraying the values of academic freedom they claim to uphold 1/
⚡️📄 Lettre au Collège de France suite à la censure de l’événement « La Palestine et l’Europe ».
Nous proposons d’accueillir ce colloque dans l’enceinte de l’Assemblée nationale et de le placer ainsi sous le patronnage de la représentation nationale.
Nous proposons d’accueillir ce colloque dans l’enceinte de l’Assemblée nationale et de le placer ainsi sous le patronnage de la représentation nationale.
November 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Honestly, this is just awful. We HAVE to stand up against this stuff.
First #EAA, now this???
#Archaeology 🏺
First #EAA, now this???
#Archaeology 🏺
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I'm told this will be out in early to mid December. Please forgive coming episodes of shameless self-promotion and make a note of launch dates in your diaries!
UCC 19 February
Boston College 11 March
NYU Glucksman House 12 March
Royal Irish Academy 25 March
www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...
UCC 19 February
Boston College 11 March
NYU Glucksman House 12 March
Royal Irish Academy 25 March
www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...
Irish Romanticism | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
www.cambridge.org
November 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I'm told this will be out in early to mid December. Please forgive coming episodes of shameless self-promotion and make a note of launch dates in your diaries!
UCC 19 February
Boston College 11 March
NYU Glucksman House 12 March
Royal Irish Academy 25 March
www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...
UCC 19 February
Boston College 11 March
NYU Glucksman House 12 March
Royal Irish Academy 25 March
www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...
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The SNP's wrecking amendment to this motion has sadly passed, confirming that the Scottish Government no longer opposes the Rosebank oil field application. A huge step backwards and a sad day for Scotland's reputation on climate action.
Under Nicola Sturgeon & Humza Yousaf the Scottish Government rightly opposed the proposed Rosebank oil field.
John Swinney has sadly dropped that opposition and tried to avoid taking a position at all.
That's not good enough, so tomorrow the @scottishgreens.org will force a vote.
John Swinney has sadly dropped that opposition and tried to avoid taking a position at all.
That's not good enough, so tomorrow the @scottishgreens.org will force a vote.
Greens to force vote at Holyrood on Rosebank oil development
MSPs will have their say in a symbolic vote on the project on Wednesday.
news.stv.tv
November 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The SNP's wrecking amendment to this motion has sadly passed, confirming that the Scottish Government no longer opposes the Rosebank oil field application. A huge step backwards and a sad day for Scotland's reputation on climate action.
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Solidarity to all of Dundee’s workers as they strike in the face of some of most caricaturishly mismanagement this sector has seen to date (although god knows the competition is heating up). May this venerable institution survive and thrive; victory to the strikers!
Day 1 of our 5 day strike done. Thanks to STV for coming along and interviewing members.
Come and have a chat with us at the front of the Tower any day this week.
news.stv.tv/north/dundee...
Come and have a chat with us at the front of the Tower any day this week.
news.stv.tv/north/dundee...
November 11, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Solidarity to all of Dundee’s workers as they strike in the face of some of most caricaturishly mismanagement this sector has seen to date (although god knows the competition is heating up). May this venerable institution survive and thrive; victory to the strikers!
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The Interim Principal clearly said on STV News there would be no redundancies. Now he is trying to make hundreds of us redundant. Was that misleading people? Was it lying? Total ineptitude?
Whatever it is, staff and students have no trust in this ‘leadership’.
Whatever it is, staff and students have no trust in this ‘leadership’.
Do you think staff at the University of Dundee were misled when we were told there would be no redundancies? Or when he told us they hadn’t said there would be no redundancies?
November 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The Interim Principal clearly said on STV News there would be no redundancies. Now he is trying to make hundreds of us redundant. Was that misleading people? Was it lying? Total ineptitude?
Whatever it is, staff and students have no trust in this ‘leadership’.
Whatever it is, staff and students have no trust in this ‘leadership’.
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You guys wanna see a dead body?
November 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
You guys wanna see a dead body?
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Living with Long COVID often feels like living in a horror movie. Along with your disease comes a creepy Hive Mind refusal to acknowledge the dangers of COVID infection. In Vince Gilligan's new Apple TV show Pluribus, the Hive Mind comes to life:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/pluribus-c...
www.thegauntlet.news/p/pluribus-c...
"Pluribus" captures the isolation of COVID-awareness in a COVID denialist world
For years I've described having Long COVID as living in a horror movie. Now that horror movie (well, prestige Apple TV show) is here.
www.thegauntlet.news
November 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Living with Long COVID often feels like living in a horror movie. Along with your disease comes a creepy Hive Mind refusal to acknowledge the dangers of COVID infection. In Vince Gilligan's new Apple TV show Pluribus, the Hive Mind comes to life:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/pluribus-c...
www.thegauntlet.news/p/pluribus-c...
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Glad I wasn’t the only one to see the parallels with Covid awareness.
It feels like there are fewer and fewer of us who haven’t become rhinos. 🦏
It feels like there are fewer and fewer of us who haven’t become rhinos. 🦏
November 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Glad I wasn’t the only one to see the parallels with Covid awareness.
It feels like there are fewer and fewer of us who haven’t become rhinos. 🦏
It feels like there are fewer and fewer of us who haven’t become rhinos. 🦏
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It may have taken 2.5 months for us to edit, but you get a 2.5 hour-long pod in exchange! Learn about the multitude of early Irish professions and lower classes in Episode 15: Up the Workers, wherever you get your podcasts ✊ (Image: law text about physicians, Bretha Déin Chécht)
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
It may have taken 2.5 months for us to edit, but you get a 2.5 hour-long pod in exchange! Learn about the multitude of early Irish professions and lower classes in Episode 15: Up the Workers, wherever you get your podcasts ✊ (Image: law text about physicians, Bretha Déin Chécht)
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Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
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Sometimes when people ask me why I’m wearing a mask I say I’m traveling or have some important thing soon and can’t afford to get sick and miss it and that’s pretty much always true but I think it would be nice if it were more normalized to just say “I don’t want to get sick” and leave it at that
November 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Sometimes when people ask me why I’m wearing a mask I say I’m traveling or have some important thing soon and can’t afford to get sick and miss it and that’s pretty much always true but I think it would be nice if it were more normalized to just say “I don’t want to get sick” and leave it at that
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Agência FAPESP: SARS-CoV-2 uses similar strategy to HIV to infect defense cells #ThatCovidLife #CovidIsNotOver
SARS-CoV-2 uses similar strategy to HIV to infect defense cells
Experiments conducted by Brazilian researchers with lymphocytes isolated from COVID-19 patients showed the virus using the protein CD4 to invade cells that play a key role in coordinating the immune response.
agencia.fapesp.br
November 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Agência FAPESP: SARS-CoV-2 uses similar strategy to HIV to infect defense cells #ThatCovidLife #CovidIsNotOver
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A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon
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Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:16 AM
A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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WHO: 16,500 Palestinian patients waiting to be evacuated from Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/who-16500-palestinian-patients-waiting-be-evacuated-gaza
WHO: 16,500 Palestinian patients waiting to be evacuated from Gaza
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<div class="field field-field-text"><p>The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt to be reopened for urgent medical evacuations of 16,500 Palestinian patients in Gaza. </p>
<p>“The Rafah crossing is a vital exit for medical evacuations and a key entry for health supplies into Gaza. Egypt remains one of the main destinations for patients needing urgent care,” WHO wrote in a post on X.</p>
<p>The agency said about 4,000 Palestinian patients have left Gaza through Rafah for treatment in Egypt and elsewhere.</p>
<p>Medical supplies for Gaza, meanwhile, “are on standby at the border”, it added.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">The Rafah crossing is a vital exit for medical evacuations and a key entry for health supplies into <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gaza?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Gaza</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Egypt?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Egypt</a> remains one of the main destinations for patients needing urgent care.<a href="https://twitter.com/WHO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WHO</a> has transferred around 4 000 patients through Rafah for treatment in Egypt and beyond.… <a href="https://t.co/Jzp0KThnC4">pic.twitter.com/Jzp0KThnC4</a></p>
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November 8, 2025 at 4:35 PM
WHO: 16,500 Palestinian patients waiting to be evacuated from Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/who-16500-palestinian-patients-waiting-be-evacuated-gaza
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Long Covid is common - ~1 in 5 people have it, and it's on the rise. Reinfections add to the burden. It's the most common chronic condition in children.
Actual coverage on this at last from CBC
Actual coverage on this at last from CBC
November 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Long Covid is common - ~1 in 5 people have it, and it's on the rise. Reinfections add to the burden. It's the most common chronic condition in children.
Actual coverage on this at last from CBC
Actual coverage on this at last from CBC
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The simple, honest public health messaging we should’ve seen everywhere from early on in the pandemic. Instead—as with almost every other aspect of modern life—profits & politics were put before people & their health. Protect yourself from #COVID to preserve your long term health.
Long COVID includes a wide range of symptoms and can affect anyone, no matter your age or other health conditions. Learn more, and prevent #LongCOVID by preventing COVID-19!
November 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The simple, honest public health messaging we should’ve seen everywhere from early on in the pandemic. Instead—as with almost every other aspect of modern life—profits & politics were put before people & their health. Protect yourself from #COVID to preserve your long term health.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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"Casting [AI] errors as valuable for self-reflection without providing concrete examples of how that reflection has been beneficial does little more than create a permission structure for the failures of this technology." www.artforum.com/features/gen...
MACHINE YEARNING
Sonja Drimmer critically examines art historians’ recent embrace of generative AI as a tool for humanities research.
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November 8, 2025 at 5:23 AM
"Casting [AI] errors as valuable for self-reflection without providing concrete examples of how that reflection has been beneficial does little more than create a permission structure for the failures of this technology." www.artforum.com/features/gen...
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🚨➡️ “SARS-CoV-2 is able to persist for a long period of time in various tissues across the body…the gut, the bone marrow, the brain, and other deeper tissues that are…very difficult to sample... There [are] profound changes in immune responses and inflammation in these tissues as well.” #COVID
🚨🚨🚨from @polybiorf.bsky.social on Nov 2 on Twitter:
"UCSF researcher Dr. Tim Henrich describes how the PolyBio-supported PASC tissue program is changing the game: “What we’ve really been finding is that SARS-CoV-2 is able to persist for a long time in various...”
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"UCSF researcher Dr. Tim Henrich describes how the PolyBio-supported PASC tissue program is changing the game: “What we’ve really been finding is that SARS-CoV-2 is able to persist for a long time in various...”
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November 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
🚨➡️ “SARS-CoV-2 is able to persist for a long period of time in various tissues across the body…the gut, the bone marrow, the brain, and other deeper tissues that are…very difficult to sample... There [are] profound changes in immune responses and inflammation in these tissues as well.” #COVID