I am appalled and outraged to wake up to the news that riot police dismantled York Universityโs encampment this morning. Who made the decision to do this? Why did the police act in the absence of an injunction, something they refused to do at U of T?
@sdbaral
@metromorning
You are in Baltimore, answering a question posed to Torontonians about an Ontario vax pass requirement, dropped by a govโt trying to appease a right-wing convoy but widely supported in this city. Let us have our own conversations about these issues, please.
reading
#hautalk
has forced me to recognize that I donโt know what anthropology is if not bullying, harassment, exclusion, and the star system, held together by a fetish for alterity and limit situations. Or at least US anthropology, which tends to define the others.
@DrTobyGilbert
@piaowens
And experiencing significant harm as a result. The convo should really push doctors to question the role functional diagnoses play in their practice, not just how to soften the blow of such diagnoses.
@DrTobyGilbert
@piaowens
The problem is that functional diagnoses are often garbage bin diagnosesโwe havenโt found the cause in your body so we assume it must be in your mind. The
#doctorsaredickheads
convo is about patients given functional dx that should have been organic.
After a difficult year
@YorkUniversity
, with a strike and strife over academic freedom, the admin wants to make things worse with extraordinarily aggressive bargaining. Do they really believe yet another ugly labour dispute will improve Yorkโs enrolment crisis or morale?
Concerning development at
@YorkUniversity
. Bargaining was in the very initial stages when a "no board" was inexplicably requested. We ask that the Employer bargain with hardworking colleagues in good faith for a fair deal.
@DavidPiccini
@OCUFA
#OnLab
#BackToBargain
@apoorva_nyc
@LymeScience
What do you think chronic Lyme is if it does not exist? Are you saying that 100% of Lyme patients treated with 28 days of doxy are 100% recovered? If not, what do you call the condition of those patients who donโt meet that standard?
So pleased to announce that this is out, and open access to boot!
Social Analysis Volume 64 Issue 4: Theopolitics in/of the Americas. Guest editors: Carlota McAllister and Valentina Napolitano (2020)
I'm delighted that the special issue of
@AmRelJournal
that I coedited with
@CaManrique4
and Ana Mariella Bacigalupo on "Subversive Religion and More-than-human Materialities in Latin America," is out!
I love my discipline and all, but itโs interesting to contemplate the possibility that that love is born out of Stockholm syndrome rather than the disciplineโs brilliance or rigor.
Watching as my academic colleagues at other institutions read, debate, publish, take up new projects, or just rest for the fall while
@YorkUniversity
wastes its employeesโ precious time with dangerous contract negotiation brinkmanship. Infuriating!!
@CaulfieldTim
@jonathanstea
@peakpilot
@psychunseen
@DrJenGunter
So work on the real health issues. Honestly, the Goop hating is such a ridiculous, time-wasting distraction. And actually, it is policing womenโs choicesโyou debunkers conflate expensive beauty regimes with antivax propaganda. Itโs offensive nonsense.
@TechnoWormMusic
@CoreyRobin
Their homes have been obliterated along with everything they own. Many of them have lost relatives, including their entire families. What exactly do you imagine โgoing backโ looks like in these circumstances? Disgusting to be so blithe about a collective catastrophe on this scale
Esta lista fue compuesto en pocos dรญas por amistades de Chepe. Por favor si quieres agregar tu nombre haz un re-tuit y afirmas tu apoyo.This list was hastily put together by a few friends If youโd like to add your name please re-tweet and express your support for Chepe Zamora๐ช๐พ๐ฌ๐น
For our students, for our university, and yes for ourselves and our labour conditions, I really hope my
@YUFAyorku
colleagues are voting to give our union a strong strike mandate. Enough of this bullying!
NEW POST: With 'no board' report in hand,
@YorkUnews
will be able to lockout faculty or impose its final offer on them by start of August.
Here's an explainer why, "Without a Successful Strike Vote, York Faculty are Sitting Ducks"
#LabourLaw
@DrTobyGilbert
@ozaliced
@jenbrea
@piaowens
But... maybe youโre not hearing? If functional diagnoses are actually โreally commonโ then they might often be wrong, motivated by systemic blind spots, prejudices, and lacunae of knowledge rather than
#science
. Functional dx should actually be quite rare if you use DSM criteria.
@pkbwood
My graduate students told me yesterday (over Zoom) that they felt the stream of emails from profs telling them to keep calm and carry on was aggressive and upsetting.
Awoke to a bulletin from
@YorkUniversity
detailing everything it will withhold from its faculty in the event of the lockdown toward which they are aggressively driving if we don't totally capitulate to their stingy and concessionary bargaining demands
@oliviachow
This is a shocking violation of collective bargaining rights in the part of
@TPSOperations
. If you do not act immediately to rein in the out of control policing in this city you will be betraying those who voted you into office, as mayor and throughout your career.
๐งตFor the past week, CUPE3903 members have been operating a picket line at Sentinel and Assiniboine as part of our LEGAL strike action. The past week has gone by mostly without incident, and this location has been used for pickets during previous 3903 strikes without issue.
@jonathanstea
@psychunseen
@DrJenGunter
@CaulfieldTim
Your answer confirms my suspicion that you donโt do a lot of engaging with feminist arguments. As someone who doesโagain, I am the expert hereโboth articles are fully legible as good feminist arguments.
Coming soon: American Religion vol. 5, no. 2 (Spring 2024) is both a special issue and a Special Issue titled "Subversive Religion and More-than-Human Materialities in Latin America."
1/X
@YUFAyorku
This level of aggression is unprecedented, but for the last three rounds of bargaining, the admin has been growing ever more intransigent, pushing our union to take ever stronger stances to defend students' learning conditions and our jobs.
Some Employers never met the super power that is
@YUFAyorku
. We have the best minds in labor, strike action, creative activism, solidarity movements, equity, justice, childcare, and cooking on our side. We will prevail.
#ComeToTheTable
#OurStrengthOurUnion
#YUFA
@AlexUsherHESA
The next question should be, why so high? York claims sectoral factors, and sure thatโs some of it, but why is the impact so much worse at York? (And also, what accounting tricks are behind this particular number? CFO of York comes from Laurentian.)
How funny would it be if someone takes
#YorkUniversity
โs offer of
@YUFAyorku
experts only to find theyโre
#LockedOut
! Does the upper admin think it is competent to fill all the voids that will open at York without any full-time faculty working?
From Canada soccer spying controversy to equity in sport to history of bball in Canada, York experts are available for comment on the Olympics, including Prof. Hernรกn Humaรฑa, who is in Paris cheering on his daughter, York alumna Melissa Humana-Paredes.
@jonathanstea
@peakpilot
@psychunseen
@DrJenGunter
@CaulfieldTim
Honestly, womenโs bodies are subjected to so many forms of violence so much more egregious than jade eggs everyday. Including from medical doctors and science, which have well-documented gender biases. If you really care about your patients, take *that* on.
@jenbrea
@DrTobyGilbert
Me, by a โbrilliant, eminentโ infectious disease specialist who spent 15min with me and ran no tests. Turned out to be a Bartonella infection. Now treated, but Iโm still experiencing sequelae because his dx delayed treatment by 6 months.
@CanadianTom341
@AlexUsherHESA
But also, Pres Hache under whom collapse happened was previously a vice-president at York. Lots of other shared personnel between the two institutions. Gotta wonder why there's no media interest in covering broader questions about how Ontario universities are run...
@MoriartyLab
@LymeGen
I'm an anthropologist, so I find it intellectually interesting, even amusing, to see how clinical experience is discounted as evidence. But as a patient I also find it enraging and deeply disillusioning when doctors are willing to sacrifice my health to have the last word. Fin.
@LymeScience
@apoorva_nyc
Uh, yeah, I know. Not a fake disease. So you just donโt like the words people are using for it? Patients continue to have symptoms, which makes the disease chronic. You can argue about the etiology of those symptoms, and people do, but they have an organic not a psychogenic basis
@CaulfieldTim
@jonathanstea
@peakpilot
@psychunseen
@DrJenGunter
Oh, ya got me!! Goop is why so many women are failing in their duty to themselves and their children! Thank you for protecting us weak vulnerable suckers from ourselves! I just donโt know how Iโd sort it all out for myself!!
@bennessb
I went GF a number of years ago at what was, in retrospect, the initial stages of becoming ill. It helped so much then that itโs become second nature. But it didnโt stop me from becoming ill, and doing anything diet-wise on top of it now seems so burdensome, even if it might help
@MoriartyLab
@LymeGen
For a patient like me this is obviously a better outcome than continuing to undergo testing for things my symptoms don't warrant (or being told I have nothing) while my health continues to be devastated. 8/n
@sketchbookmd
@medicalaxioms
I think the point here is not just to fake-listen to make patients feel good, but to consider that they may conceivably be on to something.
@apoorva_nyc
@LymeScience
Which data donโt you believe? The recent Hopkins study showing chronic glial inflammation in people treated as per IDSA guidelines for well-characterized Bb infection?
@bigstorypodcast
@goop
@DrJenGunter
We know why people listen to Goop: because doctors donโt listen to people, especially women. Healing is not achieved by bludgeoning people over the head with
#science
, but rather by creating a therapeutic context in which science can be rigorously and sensitively deployed.
@YUFAyorku
I am absolutely mystified by this bargaining strategy, especially since we're still recovering from the CUPE strike this spring and are hoping to convince more students to come to York, not something that's likely to happen with another labour disruption.
@CaulfieldTim
@jonathanstea
@peakpilot
@psychunseen
@DrJenGunter
Oh my god! You just did it to me!! Incredible! Of course there is a role for regulators and good public health policy. Of course people should be vaccinated! What ffs does Goop have to do with it? Itโs a lifestyle website for (mostly) white women with too much money to spend?
@tdsb
@TPSOperations
I just heard about the lockdown from my son, who is at Rawlinson, not listed here. Why was I not informed of this situation and why are there no updates?
@libertysong1
@aurabogado
"geological"? That doesn't mean what you think it does. And don't get me started on the rest of your ridiculous and uninformed account of latinx racial formation. More education indeed.
@Mikeggibbs
@Velvetpage
This isโฆ utterly fanciful. Positive lab results are critical to accessing care for
#longcovid
, as they are for all kinds of chronic health conditions. The experience of people with other conditions is that our medical systems have no interest in inventing new tests when 1/2
Obviously, this is to scare off
@YUFAyorku
colleagues from voting to give the union a strike mandate, which is our only tool to protect ourselves from this lockdown!
NEW POST: With 'no board' report in hand,
@YorkUnews
will be able to lockout faculty or impose its final offer on them by start of August.
Here's an explainer why, "Without a Successful Strike Vote, York Faculty are Sitting Ducks"
#LabourLaw
I'm struggling to properly articulate my thoughts on all this, but here's one half-formed one: why is the
#hautalk
problem getting framed as an ethical one, to be resolved with more "care" or whatever? surely this is inadequate to demands for refounding being expressed...
@MoriartyLab
@LymeGen
If arguments like this are preventing doctors from taking patients seriously and treating them (and in my experience they are), it is scandalous and contrary to the Hippocratic oath. 2/n
@MoriartyLab
@LymeGen
As a patient, this article strikes me as a) very silly; b) totally beside the point; and c) operating with a definition of โevidence-basedโ that demands a degree of certainty from the science that isnโt yet there. 1/n
@SarahMaslinNir
@SherOnHealth
@Justin_Ling
Except that this is not, actually, a โpretty goodโ piece as it totally fails to mention the well-documented multiple ties to far-right groups and funders among the protestors. These are โconservativesโ like Timothy McVeigh was a conservative. Do better, NYT!
@MoriartyLab
@LymeGen
For both Bartonella and a borrelliosis that the tests are not currently showing. Do they have absolute certainty that I have been infected with B. burgdorferi? or that Bart is a TBD? No. But they believe me when I say I had a known tick attachment followed 6/n
@MoriartyLab
@LymeGen
It may not fully work for many reasons, including the fact that my autoimmune system has clearly (serologically as well as symptomatically speaking) been triggered by my infection. But for crying out loud, why argue that you shouldn't even try cuz we don't know "what to call" it?
@sdbaral
@metromorning
I appreciate the equity concerns you raise here, and your on-the-ground experience. At the same time, I would argue that (as an arm of the state) all public health is policing, and it's a question of who gets policed and to what end 1/
@MoriartyLab
@LymeGen
Fortunately, I have the resources to be treated by highly doctors at Columbia (hardly a sketchy institution) who have extensive clinical as well as research experience with TBD. They think my clinical picture + Bartonella serology warrant treatment. 5/n
@Mikeggibbs
@Velvetpage
the standard ones donโt provide the expected results. Your advice re testing risks condemning people to a horrible netherworld of medical uncertainty and gaslighting for years to come. 2/2