The research fairy @bgcarlisle@scholar.social

This month, we will be reading "Relationships Between Poverty and Psychopathology" by Costello et al, JAMA, 2003.

https://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.290.15.2023

The submitter is welcome to de-anonymise themself and introduce the paper and why it was suggested—or not!

Try to keep #JournalClub to a single thread by replying to this post to add your thoughts

I just saw someone in the US (not here) telling people that if it's over 90 degrees and you see homeless people in distress you should call 311 and the police are "legally required to give assistance".

DO NOT DO THAT.

Please do not call the police on homeless people.

Or anyone, really.

Research your local shelters, resources, cooling center, etc. Do not call the police.

Mastering #R and #ggplot2 - jitter plots are doing really good job imo

This has made me do a think

*sitting at a restaurant, sees two people walking by the window*
Me: 😐
*sitting at a restaurant, sees the same people walking the other way with ice cream*
Me: 😊

Time Bandits is underappreciated.

#bravetoot

You ought to be thankful a whole heaping lot
For the places and people you're lucky you're not.
You could be the branch from a #parkdale elm tree
Which this afternoon at a quarter past three
Came tumbling down on some poor fucker's car.
Did I ever tell you how lucky you are?!

Here's my hot "Devil Went Down to Georgia" take:
I feel like agreeing to a contest with the devil, alone, is probably the trick. The second Johnny said yes his soul was hell-bound.

This is great news! BCcampus (a provincial organization working on higher ed issues in British Columbia, Canada) is piloting an #accessibility tool to help faculty and staff check materials they put on their course websites: https://bccampus.ca/2018/06/26/automating-accessibility-a-bccampus-sandbox-pilot-project/

#a11y

From: @CutestOtters@twitter.com

https://t.co/qNA8GeSCTh

---
* Origin: Twitter (https://twitter.com/CutestOtters/status/1013121726228492288)
#bot

I've been too disabled to go to Pride for a few years running. Looks like it's shaping up to be that way this year too. I'd honestly need a wheelchair to go and that's fraught for a lot of reasons; intermittent mobility problems means everyone thinks you're faking always plus I don't have one. So if you're headed to a Pride celebration today keep us disabled queers in your thoughts, work to make Pride more accessible for us materially and socially.

To be real, I'm not really concerned with how someone else manages their instance. If they want to give space to sexists and racists, that's their choice.

What I do want people to know is that behavior will not be tolerated on mine. Period.

Social will be space for people to talk, not for bigots to indiscriminately harass the lovely people who choose to use my instance.

I will block an entire instance and sleep well at night.

Taking care of my members is just a part of why I'm here.

"What Is Improbable Research?

Improbable research is research that makes people laugh and then think.

We collect improbable research. Real research, about anything and everything, from everywhere. Research that's maybe good or bad, important or trivial, valuable or worthless." https://www.improbable.com/about/

STOP 👏 MAKING 👏 SHOWS 👏 ABOUT 👏 COPS

if the (discourse|pol) is ever too much for you, you can use this regex to remove posts mentioning them from your timeline: "discourse|pol"

you can add more terms to exclude by using another |, like "discourse|pol|jort"

it's ok to prioritize your health and safety when things are Too Much.

SWARM OF BEES

🐝

🐝
🐝 🐝