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.

Poster inviting Survey Participants to "Share your thoughts on a community-generated research agenda" through the "Healthy aging among trans people using hormone therapy: Setting the research agenda" study, seeking survey respondents who work with or study midlife transgender adults in a health-related context, including as clinicians, healthcare providers, researches, community organizers, and non-profit/NGO workers. Survey is being conducted by Dr. Devon Greyson at University of British Columbia and Dr. A. J. Lowik at University of Lethbridge. Images include a computer monitor and two cartoon people with grey hair.

Close up of sleeping ginger car face with pink tongue lolling out of its mouth. A paw is up by its face showing pink foot pads. A ray of sunshine falls across the cat’s face.

Poster Seeking Survey Participants for the "Healthy aging among trans people using hormone therapy: Setting the research agenda" study, seeking survey respondents who are transgender, transsexual, Two-Spirit, nonbinary, intersex, gender queer, agender, or people with trans experience. Survey is being conducted by Dr. Devon Greyson at University of British Columbia and Dr. A. J. Lowik at University of Lethbridge. Images include a trans flag and two cartoon people with grey hair.

Arnold Lobel’s Frog and Toad riding a tandem bicycle

screenshot of google search results for the search "disregard -ai" showing fairly normal looking search results defining the word "disregard".

Oxford dictionary screenshot defining “quintessential” as “representing the most perfect or typical example of a quality or class.”

ResearchNet website login page with "spinning" icon in a blank pop-up box over the page.

Fluffy white cherry blossoms against a blue sky

Screenshot of time zones converter webpage showing that on Dec 1, 2026 Toronto will be on EDT, 3 hours ahead of Vancouver.

Cherry tree in full, floofy, pale-pink bloom, with sports fields in the background, and concrete steps and a metal railing off to the side.

Screenshot of pop up reading "Please sign in. Sign into your Microsoft account to continue."

Screenshot of a MS Teams "Shared" folder called Projects 2, with the only contents being a folder also named "Projects 2" thanks to the recent MS Teams update.

Screenshot from social media of DJ Trump sharing a photo of people gathered in a meeting in the oval office around a poster showing a map with uSA, Canada, and Greenland all having US flag pattern superimposed on them.

Cat sitting in a large dent in the top of a caved-in carport.

Screenshot of a Bluesky error message on a red background, "Do not have authorization to set preferences: app.bsky.actor.defs#personalDetailsPref"

Screenshot of office265 MS word with Copilot. Prompt "How do I disable copilot?" is in the "Ask copilot anything" search box, resulting in Copilot's suggestion "Let's organize your thoughts", showing the prompt "How to disable copilot" and suggesting in response, "Create an image of description" and other things that in no way address the question.

Screenshot of MS Word Copilot answering the question "How do I disable copilot" by suggesting other questions.

Boston Tea Party, an engraving in The History of North America, a 1799 book by William Cooper

Cat sitting in the dent of a caved in carport. Meme implies correlation does not equal a causation; it is unlikely the cat sitting on the carport caused the dent.

Screenshot of Reuters article (linked in last post) zoomed in on FL surgeon general Ladapo's quote "Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery...Who am I as a government or anyone else, or who am I as a man standing here now to tell you what to do with your body?"

Tall fir tree along the seawall in Vancouver’s Stanley Park with an odd brown mass at the top.

Screenshot of survey question asking: "At what age should children be able to access materials with sexually explicit content in school libraires?"

This webinar, Cripping Conferences – Rethinking Accessibility and Participation in Academic Spaces, will feature Rhys Dreeszen Bowman and Leah Dudak, co-authors of Cripping Conferences: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Disability in Academia. Drawing from their personal and scholarly insights as disabled scholars, they will critically examine how academic conferences often fail to meet accessibility needs and how these experiences illuminate broader inclusion issues within academia. Attendees will learn about the nuanced challenges disabled academics face in conference spaces and engage in a dialogue around actionable strategies to make conference participation more equitable. This session supports SIG-HLTH’s ongoing advocacy for hybrid access and aligns with broader ASIS&T initiatives to foster inclusion.

June 19, 2025 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (EDT)

Northern lights in green & pink vertical streaks behind silhouette of treeline.

Screenshot of FB post from Mark Carney (PM of Canada) from today, reading: “ I spoke with President Zelinsky this afternoon. Ukraine has shown its commitment to peace. Russia must come to the table in good faith.
I look forward to welcoming President Zelinsky to the G7 in Kananaskis, Alberta this summer. This war must end — and Canada will continue our efforts among allies to bring about freedom, peace, and security for Ukraine.”

Screenshot of webpage that is a copy of the CBC webpage with a fake article about Mark Carney's "surprise announcement"

Screenshot of fake sponsored post from "Canada Votes" with a big photo of Mark Carney, and caption text suggesting that the CBC has posted BREAKING news that "PM Carney's stunning retaliatory tariff announcement this morning sent shock waves across the globe"

Photo of a laptop on a desk with a mug of tea & a deli cup with hamantaschen next to it.

Screenshot of reportable diseases showing – for Mers coronavirus in six columns.

Screenshot of linked page showing a dash indicating no cases of Mers coronavirus in each column.

Screenshot of a webpage from congress.gov showing H.R.1611 - To authorize the President to enter into negotiations to acquire Greenland and to rename Greenland as “Red, White, and Blueland”.

Screenshot of Google maps from Jan 2025 showing the Gulf of Mexico labelled "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)"

Photo of 2 great horned owls on a mossy rock.

Screenshot of estimated single year loss of NIH funding under 15% indirect cost rate for University of TX MD Anderson Cancer Ctr, totaling $38,789,679.

End of the AI Overview from Google, reading, "
Where does the term "Greyson" come from?

Dr. Jeffrey Long: The "Greyson" part of the term refers to Dr. Jeffrey Long, a prominent researcher on near-death experiences, who has extensively documented cases of "activated patients" in his research, particularly focusing on the unexpected clarity of perception in seemingly unresponsive individuals. "

Google's AI Overview at top of search results for [Greyson activated patient paradox] reads, "The "Greyson Activated Patient Paradox" refers to a phenomenon observed by Dr. Jeffrey Long in his research on near-death experiences (NDEs), where seemingly unresponsive or heavily sedated patients exhibit sudden, unexpected moments of lucidity or awareness, often displaying detailed descriptions of their surroundings or even conversations with deceased loved ones, just prior to death or during a critical medical situation."

Photo of grocery store, coolers for eggs, completely empty. A sign on the door explains the shortage of “Egg Availability.”

Photo of empty supermarket coolers with signs on the doors saying that due to supply chain issues the availability of eggs will be affected for the near future.

Screenshot reading, "While puberty blockers have been scrutinized by some due to their use in caring for transgender children, these drugs have been in use since the 1980s and are overwhelmingly safe if used appropriately. Side effects such as bone health risks typically only occur with prolonged use past the age of puberty."

Screenshot of NYT article mentioned in Hobbes’ post above, highlighting on the phrase “and a man’s diminished by pairing with a more successful woman.”

Study recruitment image with QR code leading to community member study response page.

Study recruitment poster with QR code leading to the worker response webpage.

Screenshot of children’s book titled “The value of believing in yourself: The story of Louis Pasteur”

Screenshot that shows the negativity scores associated with specific phrases in my prior earthquake post, as described in the post text here.

Screenshot of sentiment analysis of a Twitter-like content (my above tweet) from https://text2data.com/Demo, which coded it as quite negative, in part because I said "I do not live with a dog" and ignored the emoji entirely.

Meme of olympic shooter with all the fancy gear & silver medalist guy from Turkey shooting casually in t-shirt. Fancy shooter caption is « grad school ». Turkish shooter caption is « grad school as a parent ».

Photo 5 very positive covid rapid antigen tests lined up on a counter, labelled with dates Aug 9-13 ‘24 and d2 to d6.

A gary oak seedling pokes up through moss.

Screenshot of "hanging" page eternally loading. Page shows Clarivate Web of Science Welcome!/Sign In page for ScholarOne, a scholarly journal platform.

Screenshot of conference program app saying “An unexpected error occurred.” And suggesting the user try again later or contact the app maker for support.

Low-light photo of me standing on a snowy urban street at night, smiling. I have short brown hair, pale skin, dark eyebrows, a dark coat and a red scarf on. It doesn’t look that cold. A concrete or brick building is in the background.