Devon Greyson
@greyson.bsky.social
Academic & writer. 🇨🇦Applied Public Health Chair. I study health information practices & interventions, often pertaining to vaccination and/or gender. I also bicycle & drink coffee a lot, and write fiction a little. Recovering classical bassist.
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Devon Greyson
@greyson.bsky.social
· Mar 5
Prospective students: Here's what you need to know if you think you might want to work with me (a thread):
1. I'm not looking to recruit new students at the moment. (There could be some exceptions, especially for research-oriented Master's students in my school or interdisciplinary studies.)
1. I'm not looking to recruit new students at the moment. (There could be some exceptions, especially for research-oriented Master's students in my school or interdisciplinary studies.)
2025 update because I'm not seeking to hire anyone or sponsor any new students right now. Possible exceptions for people who are *really* allied with my funded work (e.g., on mpox vax, vax misinfo) and/or have access to external funding (e.g., fellowship, home nation). Lab is at capacity for now.
This is an incredible story
Feels like a good morning to tell Bluesky the story about when I overdosed on my underwear, so let’s do this! 🧵
January 6, 2026 at 9:48 PM
This is an incredible story
Important context: “Considering that titers wane in vaccinated people and that mpox cases among vaccinated individuals are generally less severe, immunity to mpox likely extends beyond antibodies”
#Mpox antibodies wane 2 years after infection or vaccination, study finds
Participants with prior infection were more likely than vaccine recipients to retain some detectable antibodies.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/m...
Participants with prior infection were more likely than vaccine recipients to retain some detectable antibodies.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/m...
January 6, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Important context: “Considering that titers wane in vaccinated people and that mpox cases among vaccinated individuals are generally less severe, immunity to mpox likely extends beyond antibodies”
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Call for Proposals: Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS) 2026 Annual Conference librarianship.ca/news/cfp-cai...
Conference Dates: June 22-26, 2026
Theme: Information in Repair
Location: Online
Deadline for proposals: January 31, 2026
Conference Dates: June 22-26, 2026
Theme: Information in Repair
Location: Online
Deadline for proposals: January 31, 2026
January 5, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Call for Proposals: Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS) 2026 Annual Conference librarianship.ca/news/cfp-cai...
Conference Dates: June 22-26, 2026
Theme: Information in Repair
Location: Online
Deadline for proposals: January 31, 2026
Conference Dates: June 22-26, 2026
Theme: Information in Repair
Location: Online
Deadline for proposals: January 31, 2026
Didn’t have this on our bingo card. Russia has announced sanctions against 28 Canadians it claims promote “neo-Nazism,” targeting people it links to anti-Russian activism, including our lab’s researchers @gruzd.ca and @philipmai.com. You can see the complete list here news.zerkalo.io/world/117383...
January 6, 2026 at 3:07 AM
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anyways i think it's kind of wild how quickly we went from "be careful, that shark in the flooded city is from a different hurricane" to "nearly every piece of media about this world event is fake and also we took the fake media and made it nude also we added more explosions"
January 5, 2026 at 9:19 PM
anyways i think it's kind of wild how quickly we went from "be careful, that shark in the flooded city is from a different hurricane" to "nearly every piece of media about this world event is fake and also we took the fake media and made it nude also we added more explosions"
Canada (among others) take note:
TAPPER: Can you rule out the US is going to take Greenland by force?
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
January 6, 2026 at 12:03 AM
Canada (among others) take note:
I was thinking of them too!
January 5, 2026 at 11:54 PM
I was thinking of them too!
Obviously, this can not replace a trained specialist. I'm hoping someone, though, can take (or has already taken) a stab at quantifying how in/accurate major LLMs are with DNA interpretation, much as has started to be done on other topic areas.
January 5, 2026 at 11:52 PM
Obviously, this can not replace a trained specialist. I'm hoping someone, though, can take (or has already taken) a stab at quantifying how in/accurate major LLMs are with DNA interpretation, much as has started to be done on other topic areas.
And, while I'm not a geneticist or LLM expert, I assume these embedded assumptions are also easily lost by a content machine that strings together likely sequences of words.
January 5, 2026 at 11:50 PM
And, while I'm not a geneticist or LLM expert, I assume these embedded assumptions are also easily lost by a content machine that strings together likely sequences of words.
Yeah. I recognize this is a huge red flag for unmet needs of patients (I observed this in a rare genetic disease community, so patients on the margins for whom personalized info/interpretation may actually be needed) and also YIKES is the LLM actually better than nothing? I honestly don’t know.
January 5, 2026 at 10:37 PM
Yeah. I recognize this is a huge red flag for unmet needs of patients (I observed this in a rare genetic disease community, so patients on the margins for whom personalized info/interpretation may actually be needed) and also YIKES is the LLM actually better than nothing? I honestly don’t know.
Sharing this not because it's breaking news, but b/c it was kinda buried under holidays and I am increasingly aware US colleagues don't know that the Canadian Minister of Health said on record in Dec that the US is no longer a reliable source of health info: www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Health minister says she worries about U.S. public health decisions harming Canadians | CBC News
Health Minister Marjorie Michel says she worries about how recent actions by U.S. public health agencies, like removing a universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for American infants, could harm ...
www.cbc.ca
January 5, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Sharing this not because it's breaking news, but b/c it was kinda buried under holidays and I am increasingly aware US colleagues don't know that the Canadian Minister of Health said on record in Dec that the US is no longer a reliable source of health info: www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Anyone publishing yet about accuracy of chatGPT or other publicly available LLMs in helping patients interpret their DNA? Seeing more and more reports of people feeding LLMs their sequencing from 23 and me or other source and acting on the interpretation, and...I have concerns.
January 5, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Anyone publishing yet about accuracy of chatGPT or other publicly available LLMs in helping patients interpret their DNA? Seeing more and more reports of people feeding LLMs their sequencing from 23 and me or other source and acting on the interpretation, and...I have concerns.
New year, still feeling that Xennial horror that "AI" has come to mean GIGO LLMs and not robots with the ability to feel love.
January 5, 2026 at 6:42 PM
New year, still feeling that Xennial horror that "AI" has come to mean GIGO LLMs and not robots with the ability to feel love.
Sadly, the propaganda related to recent Maduro abduction by USA serves as a cautionary tale about taking photos/video at face value. Combo of old (out of context real images) & new (fictitiously generated w “AI”) tactics at play.
THREAD: Viral misinformation on US capture of Nicolas Maduro - 4 January
This video, shared by Alex Jones and others, falsely claims to show millions of Venezuelans in Caracas celebrating Maduro's capture.
In fact, it shows anti-Maduro protests in July 2024 over a highly disputed election.
This video, shared by Alex Jones and others, falsely claims to show millions of Venezuelans in Caracas celebrating Maduro's capture.
In fact, it shows anti-Maduro protests in July 2024 over a highly disputed election.
January 5, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Sadly, the propaganda related to recent Maduro abduction by USA serves as a cautionary tale about taking photos/video at face value. Combo of old (out of context real images) & new (fictitiously generated w “AI”) tactics at play.
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In a study following 23 million people age 18-59 (pretty young) for 4 years…despite the fact that the ones who got the COVID vaccine were overall older and sicker at baseline, they not only had 74% lower risk of dying from COVID than the unvaccinated but 25% lower risk of dying from any other cause!
January 4, 2026 at 8:59 PM
In a study following 23 million people age 18-59 (pretty young) for 4 years…despite the fact that the ones who got the COVID vaccine were overall older and sicker at baseline, they not only had 74% lower risk of dying from COVID than the unvaccinated but 25% lower risk of dying from any other cause!
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If you or someone you know have been a victim of the sexualized deepfakes created by Grok and would like to discuss your civil legal options, DM me or reach out on Signal at riot.95. I can connect you with excellent free legal counsel.
Unless I'm missing something, and I'm pretty sure I'm not, Twitter's AI is cranking out CSAM deepfakes, Elon Musk is making jokes about it, and nobody is doing anything to stop it or hold anyone at Twitter accountable for its creation and distribution.
Is that right?
Is that right?
January 3, 2026 at 4:00 AM
If you or someone you know have been a victim of the sexualized deepfakes created by Grok and would like to discuss your civil legal options, DM me or reach out on Signal at riot.95. I can connect you with excellent free legal counsel.
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Based on data from 27 reports, basic income recipients are more likely to find long-term employment, and not a single pilot has resulted in reduced work. Recipients also experience less stress, because of course they do.
Basic income pilot programs have distributed over $335 million in economic relief to Americans, according to a coalition of lawmakers.
Nearly 30,000 Americans have received about $335 million in basic income. Here are 5 takeaways.
Basic income pilot programs have distributed over $335 million in economic relief to Americans, according to a coalition of lawmakers.
www.businessinsider.com
January 1, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Based on data from 27 reports, basic income recipients are more likely to find long-term employment, and not a single pilot has resulted in reduced work. Recipients also experience less stress, because of course they do.
Fellow PIs, what non-technical lab practices or procedures do you have policies about? Trying to assess what is not covered by my school or university level policies but not so technical that it's project/method specific. Things like records/data mgt, authorship guidelines, outside work/collab, etc.
December 31, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Fellow PIs, what non-technical lab practices or procedures do you have policies about? Trying to assess what is not covered by my school or university level policies but not so technical that it's project/method specific. Things like records/data mgt, authorship guidelines, outside work/collab, etc.
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Journal invitations to peer review over the last 2 weeks of the year: Hi! Wanna do some free work?
My out of office:
My out of office:
a man is laying on a couch wearing a blue shirt and making a funny face .
ALT: a man is laying on a couch wearing a blue shirt and making a funny face .
media.tenor.com
December 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Journal invitations to peer review over the last 2 weeks of the year: Hi! Wanna do some free work?
My out of office:
My out of office:
I have never understood the (over)confidence some profs put in the reliability & validity of their exams. Many exams are not particularly well crafted, few are ever validated scientifically, some don’t even seem to align well w overall course learning objectives.
I had a class on Joseph Conrad and on the first day the professor said that the only grade for the class would be the final, and that it would be passage identification. I never showed up to class again, read nine of the ten books the day before the final and aced the test.
I skipped out on a Music Theory class and showed up for the final, and passed it! Of course, that was just one grade for the semester, sooo.... 😆
I feel like if I can pass your final without showing up, I deserve the credit though. Cause isn't the point to prove I know the material? 😆
I feel like if I can pass your final without showing up, I deserve the credit though. Cause isn't the point to prove I know the material? 😆
December 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I have never understood the (over)confidence some profs put in the reliability & validity of their exams. Many exams are not particularly well crafted, few are ever validated scientifically, some don’t even seem to align well w overall course learning objectives.
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Committee Royale
December 27, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Amazing that after the Massachusetts experience that journalists are still reporting as if this would happen.
December 27, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Amazing that after the Massachusetts experience that journalists are still reporting as if this would happen.
Yet another study finds vaccination associated w lower odds of persistent post-Covid conditions (PCC), even after mild Covid. New Thai study looked at impact of mRNA vaccination on PCC after mild cases; found vaccination is protective & 3 doses were better than 1. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
Redirecting
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December 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Yet another study finds vaccination associated w lower odds of persistent post-Covid conditions (PCC), even after mild Covid. New Thai study looked at impact of mRNA vaccination on PCC after mild cases; found vaccination is protective & 3 doses were better than 1. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
The real pizzagate is the doxing of those perceived to oppose Trump along the way.
"Judges who ruled against Trump say harassment & threats have changed their lives. More than 100 pizzas were delivered to the homes of judges & their families this year, some with signs of foreign involvement. Judges say the message is clear: We know where you live." www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Judges who ruled against Trump say harassment and threats have changed their lives
More than 100 pizzas were delivered to the homes of judges and their families this year, some with signs of foreign involvement. Judges say the message is clear: We know where you live.
www.nbcnews.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The real pizzagate is the doxing of those perceived to oppose Trump along the way.