Devon Greyson

@greyson.bsky.social

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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. .. more

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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · Mar 5

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.

Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · Feb 11

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.)

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 14h

If we ignore Canada’s mental health crisis, AI companies will exploit it canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/22/i... @spichaksimon.bsky.social

If we ignore Canada’s mental health crisis, AI companies will exploit…

Canada’s mental-health system increasingly pushes people toward AI “alternatives.”

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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 14h

This is what a genuine threat to academic freedom looks like

Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 1d

An absolutely shocking letter from the House Committee on Education and Workforce to Berkeley, demanding, among other things, info on internal processes and syllabi.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 15h

evergreen

Tweet from @PPathole

Tech enthusiasts: my entire house is smart

Tech workers: the only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don’t recognize

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Matthew Noe 🔜 MICE @noethematt.bsky.social · 17h

"Countries with state subsidies for abortion, transgender-friendly policies for children, hate speech laws and affirmative action policies will now be considered to be violating human rights under rules imposed at the [US] State Department..."

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Abortion And DEI Policies Now Considered Violations Of Human Rights, U.S. Says

The Trump administration has overhauled how the State Department conducts its annual Human Rights Report.

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Adam R Houston @healthlawadamh.bsky.social · 1d

Lots to like in this #pharmacare report (it's feisty!) tho I still worry its approach to WHO #EssentialMedicines lets fall through the cracks the many drugs on the WHO EML💊📜, from #albendazole to #tuberculosis drugs, that aren't actually sold in Canada despite being the recognized standard of care.

Screenshot of the cover of the Final Report of the National Pharmacare Committee of Experts 2025 from this link: https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/hc-sc/documents/services/publications/health-system-services/health-system-services-report-national-pharmacare-committee-experts/report-national-pharmacare-committee-experts.pdf

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 3d

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.

There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.

Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Finds Bank Analysis

City of Madrid significantly boosted the takings of its shops and restaurants last Christmas by banning cars from the CBD, finds an analysis by Spain's second largest bank.

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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 3d

(Or even if not quite =, good enough that the loss in learning is outweighed by the greater # served. For ex, it’s only 60% as good but we can teach 3x as many so it’s a net gain in terms of instructor time. A very quant way to think about it, but larger classes are driven by economic pressures.)

Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, are you aware of anyone using online interactive modules successfully for graduate level qualitative methods training? (Maybe Master’s level, since it seems unlikely at PhD level.) I’d love to hear from instructors who feel they’ve been able to give equivalent instruction in large groups.

Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 3d

Heading to Montréal for CBRC Summit! If you are too, I’d love to connect about queering pandemic preparedness, gender health misinformation, public health surveillance ethics, and related topics.

Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 4d

#QualitativeHealthResearch #QualitativeMethods
Talk to me abt course size for grad level qualitative methods.

I have always believed small is important for these courses. But, am I out of date?

Are people offering semester-long, effective, graduate-level quali methods courses w 50-100 students?

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 6d

"Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o model by default...tests repeatedly showed that the AI toy dropped its guardrails the longer a conversation went on, until hitting rock bottom on incredibly disturbing topics."

AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With Children

FoloToy says it's suspended sales of its AI-powered teddy bear after researchers found it gave wildly inappropriate and dangerous answers.

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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 6d

But at least that whole process happened in relatively appropriate locales! No beds to be seen! (Low bar, but…)

Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 6d

Oof, that’s so rough.

I had one in the midwestern USA where everything/everywhere was sooooo fragranced. Including/worst of all the personal vehicle someone was driving me from place to place in. My allergic self was…not at my best. 😵‍💫

Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 6d

I had at least one (as a job candidate) somewhere around 2016/2017.

Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 6d

I thing I sometimes thing about is that university departments were still doing job interviews in hotel rooms in the mid aughts

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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 6d

I thing I sometimes thing about is that university departments were still doing job interviews in hotel rooms in the mid aughts

Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 6d

😮Whoa. I was not expecting that. I have questions.

Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 6d

#Canada #MediaStudies folks: Was there ever any sort of assessment of the impact of the famed Canadian House Hippo? (Thinking about the original, but the 2019 redux and associated campaigns also interesting.) I see wide cultural impact, but the intended media literacy impacts...?

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Rachel Herzl-Betz ❌👑 @rachelherzl-betz.bsky.social · 7d

My social media is wall-to-wall love for the incomparable Alice Wong, and I need more words. What captures sadness and/also affection for a community that knows what's been lost?

Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 8d

Alice could not eat food for years.

And yet at Christmas she would bake cookies and mail them to me—such was her desire to provide care for the people she loved.

Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 7d

Here in Canada, where sometimes we conceptualize the info ecosystem as a structural determinant of health (& misinfo exposure, like racism exposure, a social DoH), I have a part of some proposals to work with community groups on community specific interventions that seem promising. (🤞for funding!)

Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 7d

I am a fan of structural interventions for higher impacts, generally. But the ecosystem/infrastructure aspect really *requires* that level of intervention (e.g., gov’t regulation, investment in public media platforms) whereas misinfo exposure can be acted on at multi levels.

Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 7d

Ah, the thread hadn’t fully unfolded when I posted this—clearly you have already seen it.

Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 7d

As an info scientist in pop & public health, I think misinfo exposure & the info ecosystem/comms & info infrastructure are related but different measures.

Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · 7d

Interesting to compare w www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Misinformation, trust, and health: The case for information environment as a major independent social determinant of health

We argue for the inclusion of information environment as a major independent element in social determinants of health (SDoH) models. During the early …

www.sciencedirect.com

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Miriam Krause @mirk47.bsky.social · 7d

So sad to hear that Alice Wong has died. Her work has informed my understanding of disability and disability advocacy for as long as I can remember, and we just listened to her on this episode of Radiolab a few weeks ago: www.wnycstudios.org/story/voice/