Julia M. Wright

@juliamwright.bsky.social

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FRSC Professor in Halifax🍁. Member of @dalfaculty.bsky.social . Locked out for 30 days in 2025. Views here mine only. Rebleats≠agreement.

"it is not Air / That from a thousand Lungs reeks back to thine" (Armstrong 1744). Silence=Spread🦠 #COVIDisAirborne .. more

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Julia Margaret Wright is a professor in the Department of English and University Research Professor at Dalhousie University. Wright is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. .. more

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Julia M. Wright @juliamwright.bsky.social · Apr 12

As #cdnpse institutions compete for domestic students after decades of funding cuts and new limits on int'l enrolment, I'm curious to see if we get recruitment campaigns based on pandemic safety: e.g., "Breathe Easier: We Know Your Health Matters to Your Success." theconversation.com/we-can-and-m...

We can, and must, do more to protect students in higher education from the risks of post-COVID condition

Postsecondary students are particularly vulnerable to repeated COVID-19 infections, putting them at risk for post-COVID condition, or long COVID. Campuses can take action to protect them.

theconversation.com

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 10h

You can only pick one. I’m sorry.

Jane Austen or Mary Shelley

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The Royal Society of Canada // La Société royale du Canada @src-rsc.bsky.social · 20h

A new @ca.theconversation.com article, co-authored by @juliamwright.bsky.social (FRSC), explores how updated CSA standards for respirator use can better protect health-care workers and patients — and why adopting evidence-based safety measures is vital for all Canadians. #RSCVoices

The CSA’s revised standard on respirators should help us all breathe easier

The CSA Group — a not-for-profit standards organization — released for review a new draft standard on the “Selection, Use, and Care of Respirators” (CSA Z94.4:25) for workplaces, specifically includin...

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Julia M. Wright @juliamwright.bsky.social · 1d

Could this… save the Humanities? It would be a massive transfer of capital from tech to writers. 🍿🍿

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Canadian Covid Society @cancovsoc.bsky.social · 1d

The 3rd Long COVID International Conference 2025 (Nov 19–20, Boston, MA) is nearly here! Join global experts, in person or virtually, to advance long Covid care, research, and public health solutions. Learn more & register: virology.eventsair.com/long-covid-i... #LongCOVIDIntl

Photo of woman at a conference, speaking into a microphone while wearing a black respirator mask.

Text to the right of the photo reads:
3rd Long Covid International Conference 2025
Hybrid meeting
19-20 November
Boston, United States

Bridge the knowledge gap in Long Covid
Register Now!
#LONGCOVIDINTL

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Trump getting booed at the Commanders game

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Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 1d

Had a great panel and launch for the Broadview Anthology of Science Fiction at #Halcon2025! But we totally forgot to get pictures! :(

Thanks to @heleninwords.bsky.social @kalahirtleclarke.bsky.social @juliamwright.bsky.social and Cher Hann! @halconscificon.bsky.social @broadviewpress.bsky.social

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Anne Margaret Daniel 🌻 @annemargaretdaniel.bsky.social · 1d

Dylan Marlais Thomas died on this day in 1953 at St. Vincent's Hospital in Greenwich Village, NYC. He was just 39 years old.

Read some of his poems today. Treat yourself to A Child's Christmas in Wales.

www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/dylan-...

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 2d

If only there was something public health could recommend that would be effective at stopping influenza transmission regardless of strain...

If it doesn't get inside you, it can't make you sick. It's amazing that they still have trouble understanding that concept.

Masks and respirators for prevention of respiratory infections: a state of the science review | Clinical Microbiology Reviews

SUMMARY This narrative review and meta-analysis summarizes a broad evidence base on the benefits—and also the practicalities, disbenefits, harms and personal, sociocultural and environmental impacts—o...

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 2d

Today is National Indigenous Veterans Day.
This day honours the contributions of the First Nations, Inuit and Metis who served in the Canadian Armed Forces.
They fought for Canada despite being denied rights by the country.
This is the story of some of those veterans.

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Black-and-white group portrait photo of 19 men in three rows against a draped backdrop. Back row: 9 men in military uniforms with peaked caps. Middle row: 5 men in traditional Indigenous attire with feathered headdresses and blankets, plus one man in a suit at center. Front row: 5 seated men in suits and traditional clothing, some with necklaces; three hats on the floor in front.

Julia M. Wright @juliamwright.bsky.social · 3d

Are boards run by lemmings? We saw this kind of thing at Dal, and the damage to the credibility of the senior admin and board is beyond the telling of it. Why any group a few weeks later would take a page from that playbook is 😱.

SMUFU @smufu.bsky.social · 3d

CUPE 3912 is still waiting to meet with the employer to negotiate a new and fair contract. The employer could swiftly put an end to this by meeting immediately with the PT faculty.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 3d

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.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 4d

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...

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.

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Julia M. Wright @juliamwright.bsky.social · 4d

The loss of potential grant money also means that other universities will get a bigger slice of the tri-council pie--and so have more resources to recruit graduate students, while Dalhousie has less and less. This is going to harm graduate programs for years.

Julia M. Wright @juliamwright.bsky.social · 4d

There are also non-$$ investments that would help #cdnpse, e.g.:

1. Legislate significant transparency on consultants and put caps on their use--total cost no more than .01% of tuition, say.

2. Better IAQ standards for crowded campus spaces.

3. Something like this: www.caut.ca/bulletin/rou...

Julia M. Wright @juliamwright.bsky.social · 4d

Also, way to rub our noses in the fact that we don't have time for long reads because she locked us out for a month and we're scrambling to catch up...

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Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 4d

So great to see my uni's president has recovered enough from the lockout to send an email about how much she supports PhD programs, especially while the graduate programs in my faculty are being rapidly defunded, effectively ending all but self-funded or otherwise externally funded graduate work.

a man says just when i thought i was out in a kitchen

Alt: Michael Corleone saying "just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!"

media.tenor.com

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Clean Air Classrooms #CleanAirForLife @cleanairclassrm.bsky.social · 5d

🇦🇺 Academy of Science

#IndoorAir #IAQ
The science of indoor air
& Pathways to improve
Indoor Air Quality
In Australia

November 2025 Report

www.science.org.au/supporting-s...

Screenshot cover page to Australian Academy of Science

Indoor Air
The science of indoor Air
& Pathways to improve indoor Air quality in Australia

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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 5d

The 🇨🇦 Standing Committee on Science and Research passed a modified resolution this afternoon that the requested ricouncil applicant and reviewer data can be aggregated and anonymized. Thanks to the many researchers who signed letters pointing out legitimate data privacy concerns. 👏👏

Julia M. Wright @juliamwright.bsky.social · 5d

Some cool light effects out at Lawrencetown a few weeks ago (from the trail that goes along the coast and then up the big hill).

$Lawrencetown beach, with a blue and partially cloudy sky above and the sun behind a cloud: it caused a refraction effect, so there are triangles of light emanating from the cloud and nearly perpendicular to the ground.$ Lawrencetown beach, with the sun behind a puffy cloud in a mostly blue sky, creating a soft, diffused lighting effect.

Lawrencetown beach, with the sun behind a puffy cloud in a mostly blue sky, creating a soft, diffused lighting effect.

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Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 5d

The print version of my anthology is out in a few weeks, but the electronic version is now available and on sale at the link.

In the free preview (linked) you’ll also be able to read all of the front matter—including the futurisms and thematic tables of contents—and the full intro.

The Broadview Anthology of Science Fiction

The Broadview Anthology of Science Fiction takes a “broad view” of science fiction in terms of its histories, themes, forms, and communities. Covering over two hundred years, the anthology focuses on ...

books.google.ca

Julia M. Wright @juliamwright.bsky.social · 5d

We seem to be in a cultural moment when this needs to be said:

We now have policies, regulations, and laws that provide a process for handling the occasional professional who isn't ethical or competent. *They do not replace the fundamental need for everyone to be ethical and competent.*

a man wearing a green and white shirt that says cafe tropical

Alt: an actor from Schitt's Creek wearing a green and white shirt that says cafe tropical but, more relevantly, with the caption "That's a given."

media.tenor.com

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Dr ShinyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 6d

We now go live to Andrew Cuomo's motorcade

Homer Simpson covered in garbage driving out of New York City: New York is a Hell Hole. Yes this quote is from this episode, no this isn't when he says it

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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 6d

As a Canadian researcher/academic, it's beyond discouraging that the federal gov't is rolling out the welcome mat for foreign assistant professors, doctoral students and postdocs, while *cutting* domestic research funding and doing nothing to support those of us who are already here, doing the work.

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CAUT/ACPPU @caut.bsky.social · 6d

As universities and colleges cut academic programs, close programs, and slash 13,000+ jobs, Budget 2025 halves international student enrolment without boosting core funding.

Reposted by Jesse M. Shapiro, Jacalyn Duffin, E. Richard Gold , and 2 more Jesse M. Shapiro, Jacalyn Duffin, E. Richard Gold, Julia M. Wright, Lisa A. Kramer

André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 7d

How much are MPs entitled to know about research grants? Not as much as they think. A parliamentary committee is asking for researchers' personal information in what seems like an anti-DEI crusade, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com

Opinion: How much are MPs entitled to know about research grants? Not as much as they think

A parliamentary committee is asking for academics’ private information on a strange anti-DEI crusade

www.theglobeandmail.com

Reposted by Tuomas Mattila, Julia M. Wright, Carlos Moreno

Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 7d

Congratulations to Lidia Morawska, the Aussie scientist who alerted the world to the airborne nature of COVID-19. Winner of the Prime Minister’s Prize for Science. I’ve learnt so much from being a (very minor) part of Lidia’s team. Brilliant, incisive, generous.

www.industry.gov.au/publications...

www.industry.gov.au

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 7d

Canada is showing global leadership in preventing airborne virus transmission with the CSA's new draft standard for respirator use (especially in healthcare) 🎉

theconversation.com/the-csas-rev...

The CSA’s revised standard on respirators should help us all breathe easier

New draft standards for respirator use recognize the importance of protecting workers and patients in health-care settings, where there is a higher risk of pathogen exposure

theconversation.com

Reposted by Julia M. Wright

Ryan Tennant @ryantennant.ca · 7d

Canada is leading in safety with the new draft of the CSA standard on respirators.

@dickzoutman.bsky.social, @juliamwright.bsky.social, @mark-ungrin.bsky.social, and I explain key updates that bring protections up to date with the evidence on respirator use against airborne disease transmission.

The CSA’s revised standard on respirators should help us all breathe easier

New draft standards for respirator use recognize the importance of protecting workers and patients in health-care settings, where there is a higher risk of pathogen exposure

theconversation.com

Reposted by Julia Lynch, Julia M. Wright

The Conversation Canada @ca.theconversation.com · 7d

The CSA’s revised standard on respirators should help us all breathe easier

New draft standards for respirator use recognize the importance of protecting workers and patients in health-care settings, where there is a higher risk of pathogen exposure

theconversation.com

Julia M. Wright @juliamwright.bsky.social · 7d

New from The Conversation, by @dickzoutman.bsky.social, @ryantennant.ca, @mark-ungrin.bsky.social, and myself: "The CSA's revised standard on respirators should help us all breathe easier." #OH&S #cdnhealth Simple tools can have big benefits--when we use them.

The CSA’s revised standard on respirators should help us all breathe easier

New draft standards for respirator use recognize the importance of protecting workers and patients in health-care settings, where there is a higher risk of pathogen exposure

theconversation.com

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