Christopher Lyon
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Christopher Lyon
@christophlyon.bsky.social

Academic. Personal. Posts about research (work), life, and societal issues.

CW: some posts about euthanasia/assisted suicide.

https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=6M6Qd0sAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Canada-US relations imiating art.

Canadian Bacon: youtu.be/VcPyKQIfNSs?...
February 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Thomas et al. found that family members in one region in Canada are permitted to kill their loved one .
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The 2018 CAMAP conference report quotes a veterinarian working as MAID provider (see bottom of page 40). camapcanada.ca/wp-content/u...

All illegal.
February 2, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Slight correction: There is legally a choice between self-admin (oral, usually) and injection MAID outside of injection-only Québec, but some provincial and local health authority documents suggest the former is simply unavailable or not offered.

www.saskhealthauthority.ca/your-health/...
February 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Only three provinces are publicly known to track apparent non-Criminal Code compliant deaths in MAID.
1 Québec's annual reports list over a dozen every year.
2 Ontario's new MDRC rpts some. Privately maybe >400.
www.thenewatlantis.com/publications...
3 BC www2.gov.bc.ca/enSearch/det... 👇
February 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Fab to see this last night. And in such a gorgeous venue.

Also, I learnt the Merchant Taylors' arms feature 'camel leopards' drawn like spotted camels. We know them as giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis). Early taxonomists called them 'camel leopards'.

Paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
December 3, 2024 at 12:24 PM
Here's Ontario guidance.
www.cpso.on.ca/Physicians/P...
October 10, 2023 at 1:12 PM
Everyone should read this book.
October 6, 2023 at 11:46 AM
I'm doing some reading on 'time' these days and am struck by this passage from Mykaela Saunders essay 'Everywhen: Against ‘the power of now’ in the Griffith Review.

www.griffithreview.com/articles/eve...
October 5, 2023 at 3:55 PM
Chaotic evil, lab edition. Tape notes to random computers with warnings like:

"Remote working, do not turn off"

"Model running, do not touch"

Nobody will touch these machines or the desks they sit on - for YEARS.

Unrelated: Be nice to your PhDs and postdocs before they leave. #phdchat

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October 2, 2023 at 2:12 PM