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Dr. Nicole Sandblom
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Calgary. Halifax: born and raised. She/hers. Lots of Canadian 
tweeting about my amazing brothers, pondering about being parental, & musings about academia.
tweeting about my amazing brothers, pondering about being parental, & musings about academia.Calgary, AlbertaJoined May 2011
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We have to talk about this Cochrane review of masking and handwashing that found “little to no evidence” masks (surgical & N95) reduce viral infections at the population level and some evidence that handwashing may help. Let’s dive in to understand why 1/ cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.10
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Are you following ? Even better, supporting them? delivers up a lovely series!! We call Home Road “the water slide” because of horrible storm on the first time kids remember driving down it. I was muttering bad words but they recall the good ones 😆
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The Twitter account is @GiantBlueRing... while others call it the "big blue ring"... and still others have more colourful descriptors. What's in a name? New from @calgaryhester sprawlcalgary.com/the-names-we-u
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I am super proud of my “baby” brother 🥰 give his latest a listen and make the algorithms do their thing for open.spotify.com/album/0IHqpifL
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16yrs in; very exciting to get my first @TheJUNOAwards nomination! thanks kindly and congrats to the other nominees. twitter.com/TheJUNOAwards/…
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Woo hoo this news is good news! Congrats 💖🥳
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ELECTRONIC ALBUM OF THE YEAR
↳ NOT OK | Mecha Maiko
↳ Spectrums | @OdonisOdonis
↳ Nightmare on Rezz Street 2 Mix | @OfficialRezz
↳ Synthetic Season One | @RichAucoin
↳ Interior | @TeenDaze
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I’m snippy about this b/c public health and infectious disease MD hubris has killed and disabled a lot of people globally. Started with the WHO refusing to say airborne and continues with thinly disguised droplet dogma today.
Science is about truth, not power and control. Fin
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It was six years ago, and my mate, Pink, had just been told he was going to die. He accepted the news with a grace I can only marvel at, but he said he’d a list of things he’d still like to do.
We sat in a pub one night and read it over. Eight things? Four months? Ok. Deal.
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THIS THREAD. all the likes. Thanks
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I'm seeing that meta-analysis about class attendance going around, including pleas to use our scholarly training to make evidence-based decisions, which would include designing teaching policies based on "the science." Totally on board. I teach my stats students to do this. 1/7
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Fun fact: The Public Service Commission is not an "independent" body. Staff there report to the Minister of Finance.
They are non-partisan, professional, talented, great people. (Full disclosure: I worked there.)
But they're not independent of government. They serve it. #ableg
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Most of us at some time in our lives will suffer from a catastrophic health crisis which will make us feel isolated and afraid. But it is as if we want to believe that we live in a world of many healthy and well-functioning people. We do not.
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Woo hoo Yann!
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The Beaumier Award for High School/CÉGEP Chemistry Teachers is presented in recognition of excellence in teaching chemistry at CÉGEP level & encourage chemistry at CÉGEP level. Congrats @ChemCurious of @college_dawson on being the recipient of this award buff.ly/3W2Jhfr
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Today is Thomas and Jude's birthday. Thomas is 9! He loves reading, video games, LEGO, and running everywhere.
Jude is forever 2. We still hear his laugh in ours and carry him with us in everything we do. He should have had a whole life ahead.
We miss you.🦁
#ForJudeForEveryone
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We begin another year without Jude, in the middle of a rough flu season. We'd give anything to have him back.
If you get your #FluShot now you can develop immunity by Jan 16th, helping to protect your family and everyone around you. Please go.
I miss you.
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“A loaf of bread, a container of milk
and a stick of butter.”
An iconic moment from Sesame Street
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All of Canada needs to stop what they are doing, spare a thought for the child whose jawbone was found on the grounds of the Qu’Appelle Indian Residential School in Lebret, Saskatchewan. Bone is about 125 years old, Sask coroner says. Child was btwn 4 to 6 years.
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Read the whole thread. Lots of important information. Thank you
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The bottom-line/TLDR:
- Long-COVID is big & bad.
- We must stop covid transmission through airborne measures, supported test/trace/isolation, and let Air Scientist direct our strategy.
- We must radically change family med and our whole system.
- We must research & train up.
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C. Ramp up research and training in long-COVID:
We need a massive federal/provincial/territorial investment in research in long-covid treatment and secondary prevention of associated conditions, and in structural/system innovation.
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So what do we have to do?
A. Stop/slow SARS-CoV-2/Covid.
B. Change the way we work.
C. Ramp up research and training in long-COVID.
Read on for how we do these three things:
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Some of you know that at the outset of the pandemic I emphasized the importance of historical thinking to navigate what was coming. Unfortunately, our response to a new virus has demonstrated a failure of science literacy, but also a complete inability to think historically. 1/5
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Stephen King: hey what’s going on? It looks like there’s some commotion happening over at the romance writers campfire
Poe: hmm
King: you think we should go check it out?
Poe: no I don’t think that would be a good idea
Poe: things can be a little, uh, volatile over there
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The moral panic about AI & cheating is the same as the panic over proctoring & cheating is the same as the panic that led to plagiarism detection software.
People, the vast majority of students DO NOT want to cheat. They want to learn. The lack of trust undermines education.
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More than 5km today with Daisy. In 3 walks. She detests her boots. #yycweather
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Happy goat in a winter coat! ❄🐐
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Today was a typical December Saturday: wake, eat, mark, walk dog, mark, eat, play video games for a break, mark, walk dog, mark, eat. Now I’m just marked-out for the evening. So pleased that others handled the food prep. Time for some more video games and novels. #AcademicTwitter
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Back in June, I help my mom clean out her pool shed. There's a strand of old twinkle lights with plastic flamingos. "Throw them out," she says. "They don't work." But I see that the flamingos came off easily, so I start to pull them off. "I can do something with these."
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1/ A large part of my job is producing detailed reports for commercial clients regarding how the ongoing pandemic will affect the market in the future. Weeks, months, years.
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Perhaps everyone who follows me already is doing so. But #MaskUp and do your part. Thank you for sharing your story.
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*Reason 153*
: How AB Healthcare is affecting our vulnerable children. I've just spent the last 4 days being my child's GI, Endo, Immune and Complex care Docs AND I'm exhausted. I've been dancing to balance his sugars, hydration, inflammatory GI system and horrible nausea.
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: How AB Healthcare is affecting our vulnerable children. I've just spent the last 4 days being my child's GI, Endo, Immune and Complex care Docs AND I'm exhausted. I've been dancing to balance his sugars, hydration, inflammatory GI system and horrible nausea.
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Great to see this thread, but it seems you've missed an important opportunity to reassure folks that masks can help prevent sickness! Maybe I can help (here's part of a letter I sent to about this subject)
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I got special permission from the warden to drop off a copy of the newspaper to Helen Naslund in prison so she could see the story.
I’m very grateful the request got approved, because Helen has no internet access and the printout I mailed won’t arrive for several days.
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In a world that includes medically complex and palliative care pediatric patients, it should be stated as well that one persons somewhat benign experience with a virus is another child’s trip to the ICU. No amount of Tylenol weans a child off a vent. They need our support too.
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Smith: "Is this on topic, Becca?"
"Yep."
The premier apparently disagreed.
#ableg #abpoli twitter.com/meksmith/statu…
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Thread: I’ve seen a lot of terrible takes and misunderstandings about the role of hospice in the lives of some families the past few days. I think however it goes deeper than the political and has been an issue for some time.
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Some people in Alberta think that kids are in hospice because they don’t wear warm enough coats outside. I can’t stress this enough pls send help 
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It's been 3 weeks since our new CMOH was announced while the public health crisis worsens. We have yet to see an interview, a presser, a new policy or regulation.
It's been 180 days since our last CMOH presser by anyone. June 9th, 2022.
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Canada's Healthcare Crisis:
Pediatric hospice discharges respite patients, so staff are redeployed to children's hospital where there's not enough staff for the surge in patients
Dr. says he doesn't recognize the society he's living in
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A Northern Night
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Rest in Peace, Bob McGrath.
Thank you for being a person in our neighborhood 💔
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When persons with disabilities have the same opportunities as everyone else, we build stronger communities – and a stronger country. Today, let’s recommit to making our country a more inclusive, equitable, and accessible place to call home. #IDPD2022
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