Dr. Kathryn Woodcock

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Deaf professor, human factors engineering especially amusement rides and attractions, error/ investigation/ inspection. Also accessibility! equity!
TorontoMetropolitanUniversity · woodcock.blog.torontomu.ca
Dr. Kathryn WoodcockJan 20, 2023
Steve SilbermanJan 20, 2023
Still masking and trying to avoid #COVID19? Then you deserve to be shunned and ridiculed... unless you're a billionaire at #Davos, in which case OF COURSE YOU ARE, because rich people deserve not to die. https://thegauntlet.substack.com/p/billionaires-at-davos-dont-think
Billionaires at Davos don't think COVID is a cold

A few weeks ago, the New York Times called mask-wearers "the last holdouts". This week, the world's richest people went to great lengths to protect themselves from COVID

The Gauntlet
Show threadDr. Kathryn WoodcockJan 20, 2023
@jahleesu Stumbled over this post. I had the same! I had chronic pains that chiro/ massage were chasing all over my back, same pain but different spot every time. Had big surgery and those 12 hours just relaaaaaxed it all. And despite surgery related pain, and not being able to stand upright for 6+ weeks, the back behaved itself for quite a while.The brain fog from the anaesthesia, though - couldn't manage my brain to drive for many months. Hope your recovery goes smoothly and pain relief holds.
Show threadDr. Kathryn WoodcockJan 2, 2023
@billchilds Toronto Star says there is now 425 in Toronto, compared with 421 Tim Hortons (the it's-everywhere coffee and donut place). Too too too many.
Show threadDr. Kathryn WoodcockJan 1, 2023
@billchilds You should see Toronto. Seems like it’s squeezed out a lot of other retail.
Dr. Kathryn WoodcockDec 23, 2022
Happy #Festivus
Dr. Kathryn WoodcockDec 20, 2022
Dr. Lucky Tran Dec 19, 2022

"10% of the planet's population may become infected over the course of the next 90 days."

No matter where you stand on COVID policies, this is horrible news for everyone.

#COVID #COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver #PublicHealth

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/12/15/1143002538/china-appears-to-be-facing-what-could-be-the-world-s-largest-coronavirus-outbrea

COVID spreading faster than ever in China. 800 million could be infected this winter

Scientists predict China will see the largest COVID surge of the pandemic this winter, with hundreds of millions of people infected. But some experts say that it could have been even worse.

NPR
Show threadDr. Kathryn WoodcockDec 17, 2022
@ProfSnarky We're advised not to have ex parte discussions or riot-act readings, but go to the system in case of suspicion of academic misconduct. (This avoids students dropping a course to evade discipline.) The system-generated notice indicates that no decision has been made but if the student does not attend a scheduled fact-finding meeting, the prof will make a determination without their input. If they don't care to attend, the consequent penalties tend to get their attention.
Dr. Kathryn WoodcockDec 16, 2022
Show threadJyByDec 16, 2022
@jensimmons Every university should have their mastodon instance, and an account created automatically for each of their faculty member and student.
Dr. Kathryn WoodcockDec 16, 2022
Jen SimmonsDec 16, 2022

Every news outlet should stand up a Mastondon instance for their reporters & staff.

It’ll be great to see [email protected] or whatever domain they want to use.

Built in verification. Every reporter for the Washington Post on a washpo domain. Every reporter for the New York Times on an NYTimes domain. Etc, etc.

Plus the “local” feed for each instance becomes a feed of all the posts from that institution mixed together — providing extra discovery.

Dr. Kathryn WoodcockDec 15, 2022
Autistic Science PersonDec 14, 2022

One of the reasons the phrase "with autism" irks me so much, on just a very basic level, is that

It.
Doesn't.
Make.
Sense.

It's how our brain exists/developed. Not separate.

If autistic people are seen as being literal, then why make the standard term not make concrete sense?

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