Jeremy Snyder
@jsnyder.bsky.social
Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. Interested in public health ethics, bioethics, philosophy, crowdfunding, and exploitation, among other things.
These campaigns raised CAD$939,861 (median CAD$2,488) from 11,429 (median 24) donors. Most (53.3%, n = 32) campaigns fell into COVID-19-related topics, which raised CAD$807,659 (median CAD$11,753) out of a total requested goal of CAD$3,974,054 (median CAD$53,527) from 9,900 (median 99) donors.
September 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
These campaigns raised CAD$939,861 (median CAD$2,488) from 11,429 (median 24) donors. Most (53.3%, n = 32) campaigns fell into COVID-19-related topics, which raised CAD$807,659 (median CAD$11,753) out of a total requested goal of CAD$3,974,054 (median CAD$53,527) from 9,900 (median 99) donors.
Fantastic day to watch the Vancouver Canadians. Thanks to @miss604.com for the tickets!
August 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Fantastic day to watch the Vancouver Canadians. Thanks to @miss604.com for the tickets!
It was intended as a joke/bait.
July 23, 2025 at 11:04 PM
It was intended as a joke/bait.
You love to see it @sfu-fhs.bsky.social
July 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
You love to see it @sfu-fhs.bsky.social
These are representative donor comments calling for more government involvement in the provision of health care in the US and regulation of large corporations - not GiveSendGo's usual user base. At the same time, for example, you can donate to buy new tires for a white nationalist's 'Hitlermobile'.
December 11, 2024 at 6:33 PM
These are representative donor comments calling for more government involvement in the provision of health care in the US and regulation of large corporations - not GiveSendGo's usual user base. At the same time, for example, you can donate to buy new tires for a white nationalist's 'Hitlermobile'.
My daughter is on a trajectory to have made her weight in friendship bracelets by the time Taylor Swift arrives here in Vancouver.
December 3, 2024 at 4:36 AM
My daughter is on a trajectory to have made her weight in friendship bracelets by the time Taylor Swift arrives here in Vancouver.
GoFundMe will now allow you to "enhance... your story with AI", including your "word choice" and "tone". Will be interesting to see how biases in large language models are replicated in this context.
October 31, 2024 at 6:24 PM
GoFundMe will now allow you to "enhance... your story with AI", including your "word choice" and "tone". Will be interesting to see how biases in large language models are replicated in this context.
Film crew setting up at my son's high school. Fortunately I don't think any teams are flying to Nationals this weekend.
October 18, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Film crew setting up at my son's high school. Fortunately I don't think any teams are flying to Nationals this weekend.
And apparently you can pick up a discounted copy of my book while you're at ASBH. (But, pssst, it is also available free online in an open access version). #bioethics
September 18, 2024 at 4:36 PM
And apparently you can pick up a discounted copy of my book while you're at ASBH. (But, pssst, it is also available free online in an open access version). #bioethics
My kids are in a camp this week at a community centre that was formally an Olympics venue. Very cool to see posters from past Olympics on display, but I'm not sure I would put Germany 1936 at the front.
August 29, 2024 at 6:55 PM
My kids are in a camp this week at a community centre that was formally an Olympics venue. Very cool to see posters from past Olympics on display, but I'm not sure I would put Germany 1936 at the front.
An important update.
August 24, 2024 at 11:44 PM
An important update.
Summer project with one of my kids is building a Raspberry Pi bartop arcade. So far I've been able to say "measure twice, cut once" and " this is why we never throw out any electrical cords" without a trace of irony.
August 13, 2024 at 6:02 PM
Summer project with one of my kids is building a Raspberry Pi bartop arcade. So far I've been able to say "measure twice, cut once" and " this is why we never throw out any electrical cords" without a trace of irony.
Dropped my son off for a class this morning and found myself driving through filming for the Last of Us season 2 in Vancouver.
July 9, 2024 at 4:05 PM
Dropped my son off for a class this morning and found myself driving through filming for the Last of Us season 2 in Vancouver.
I couldn't find the 3x spicy version banned in Denmark, but here to find out if Canadian regulators are asleep at the wheel.
June 15, 2024 at 8:45 PM
I couldn't find the 3x spicy version banned in Denmark, but here to find out if Canadian regulators are asleep at the wheel.
Since Natalie Harp is in the news again, here's a thread I wrote during the 2020 Republican National Convention explaining why she was speaking there and how she came into Trump's orbit making up a story about her life being saved by Trump and federal 'Right to Try' legislation.
April 16, 2024 at 3:26 AM
Since Natalie Harp is in the news again, here's a thread I wrote during the 2020 Republican National Convention explaining why she was speaking there and how she came into Trump's orbit making up a story about her life being saved by Trump and federal 'Right to Try' legislation.
A GoFundMe campaign to pay Trump's $355 million fraud penalty in NY has raised $1 million (or .3%). GoFundMe has allowed it go forward despite a ban on fundraising for the legal defense of financial crimes. Right wing competitor GiveSendGo has been unsuccessfully advocating for it to move there.
February 23, 2024 at 12:34 AM
A GoFundMe campaign to pay Trump's $355 million fraud penalty in NY has raised $1 million (or .3%). GoFundMe has allowed it go forward despite a ban on fundraising for the legal defense of financial crimes. Right wing competitor GiveSendGo has been unsuccessfully advocating for it to move there.
Meanwhile, GoFundMe is celebrating lifetime $30 billion in donations - though oddly framing it as an investment.
February 6, 2024 at 5:44 PM
Meanwhile, GoFundMe is celebrating lifetime $30 billion in donations - though oddly framing it as an investment.
If you're wondering why it would be awkward to name a medical school that "confronts the colonial history of medical education" after Simon Fraser, here's Fraser describing anointing the heads of sick Indigenous children with Laudanum in order to not "to disappoint them".
February 2, 2024 at 5:27 PM
If you're wondering why it would be awkward to name a medical school that "confronts the colonial history of medical education" after Simon Fraser, here's Fraser describing anointing the heads of sick Indigenous children with Laudanum in order to not "to disappoint them".
The geographical distribution of abortion access campaigns favoured the Northeast, California, and Texas. These are generally areas that have faced the fewest new post-Dobbs restrictions. This raises the question of whether post-Dobbs support of abortion access campaigns will be long lived.
January 23, 2024 at 5:19 PM
The geographical distribution of abortion access campaigns favoured the Northeast, California, and Texas. These are generally areas that have faced the fewest new post-Dobbs restrictions. This raises the question of whether post-Dobbs support of abortion access campaigns will be long lived.
GiveSendGo, a Christian 'freedom loving' platform blocks abortion access campaigns. Abortion restricting campaigns on their site performed much worse than campaigns on rival GoFundMe.
January 23, 2024 at 5:16 PM
GiveSendGo, a Christian 'freedom loving' platform blocks abortion access campaigns. Abortion restricting campaigns on their site performed much worse than campaigns on rival GoFundMe.
My employer is running sponsored content about a new medical school it is building and this is quite the sentence.
October 10, 2023 at 10:14 PM
My employer is running sponsored content about a new medical school it is building and this is quite the sentence.
Over on Xitter, GiveSendGo has responded by complaining that I chose to bash them on social media rather than contact them directly. To be clear, I flagged this campaign directly using their own reporting system two weeks ago and then followed up directly again last week. The campaign is still live.
September 19, 2023 at 9:35 PM
Over on Xitter, GiveSendGo has responded by complaining that I chose to bash them on social media rather than contact them directly. To be clear, I flagged this campaign directly using their own reporting system two weeks ago and then followed up directly again last week. The campaign is still live.