Alan J. Card
@alanjcard.bsky.social
PhD / MPH. Assistant Professor. Systems design and improvement for health and care. #PatientSafety, #QISky #riskmgt, #designthinking, occupational safety/wellbeing, #academicsky. Also puns.
Don’t worry, it’s just a spyware blocker! I’m sure you’d never let advertisers try to steal my data—you’re just letting them show me their ads, after all. So I’m sure it won’t affect anything. 😊
Patrick Cosmos@veryimportant.lawyer · yesterday"it looks like you're using an adblocker to visit our site." yep! ha ha! it rocks!
My name is Indiana Montoya. You kidnapped my father. You have chosen… poorly.
🌈Jessie!🌈@jessisamess.gay · 21h agomy name is indiegogo montoya. you backed my father. now prepare to back my latest project.
I honestly can’t believe they trust random people with these murder weapons just because they happen to be wandering around a college library…
alix e. harrow@alixeharrow.bsky.social · yesterdayi don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys
Just your regular reminder that: 1) Almost everyone has an underlying health issue if you look hard enough 2) People with underlying health issues don't deserve to die for eating lettuce 3) We should be strengthening, not weakening our regulatory processes. And properly funding them.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d agoBreaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.
100%!! And if you need a peer reviewed paper to help you make this point to senior management—or the board—here it is: “Patient safety professionals as the third victims of adverse events”
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Patient Safety Learning@patientsafetylearning.org · 3d agoJulie Plumridge, a Senior Safety Partner at Great Ormond Street Hospital, talks about the importance of supporting staff doing emotionally challenging patient safety work.
Ooh, this looks really interesting!
Anna Kirkland@annakirkland.bsky.social · last yr.Publication day for HEALTH CARE CIVIL RIGHTS: How Discrimination Law Fails Patients from @ucpress.bsky.social! 118 in depth interviews, analysis of 1500 health insurance plan documents and dozens of legal cases, 8 years of research to explain why our laws fail us when we need them most.
I wonder if students today would be less likely to lean on AI for writing assignments if schools had made sure they could touch-type (at least 60wpm) before having them submit all their assignments online. 1/🧵
Dear car companies: Murderbot wasn’t an instruction manual, actually.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6d agoCompanies are all in on selling folks the idea that it’s in your best interest for your products to “know you” as if you are getting a dedicated servant but what you are really getting is a spy.
One thing I haven’t seen in this discourse* is that the film was shaping her reputation. People associated it with her & her work, even though she had nothing to do with it and thought it wildly missed the mark. It’s not surprising she said something! *Though I’m sure I’m not the 1st to mention it
Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · 5d agoNo one would ever, ever, demand that a man be grateful and quiet after selling any number of books because of an unsolicited shout-out, and Wilson is right in this interview with the brilliant @katekilla.bsky.social to not even engage that argument.
Dear Excel, Please stop asking me if I want to save changes when I haven’t MADE any changes. It’s very disconcerting! Sincerely, Alan
As we say in my field: “Regulations are written in blood. And sometimes diarrhea.”
malort d'arthur🏳️⚧️@kiraculous.net · 7d agoever single regulation is in place because capitalists will poison you and everyone you know to save a few pennies on every single unit they make. they will cut every corner when not forced to be safe by goverments. "costly regulation" is lifesaving regulations
There is a real sense that they were supposed to be grateful the pandemic was “over,” but all of these things in their lives were worse than before. And now, the way things got worse feels unspeakably permanent.
One more thing I want to be clear about: Most people are not talking about the trauma of lockdowns. They’re overwhelmingly talking about the trauma of being forced “back to normal” when “normal” had a new level of danger and cruelty.
I think about this a lot. Used to assume the Spanish Flu was just wedged in a busy, intrawar historical spot. Now I'd bet it was direct psychic fuel for the rise of fascism and the outbreak of WWII.
Pre-Covid, I always thought the 1918 flu memories were just overshadowed by WWI. But now, it’s clearly something about pandemics that just do things to collective memory. I don’t know whether this is unique to modernity but it‘s clear that humans react differently to this type of trauma.
A huge, huge pet peeve of mine as an intervention scientist is "checklists" or "codes" that just say: "having a problem? Don't" I loathe them. Stuff like, "never get lost, always know where you are" ok like that is not solving the getting lost problem
Oh boy, we're all going to pay for this when people reach retirement age without savings.
Catherina Gioino@catgioino.bsky.social · last wk.I wrote about how much Americans wagered on sports betting in 2025 and how it’s more than they spent on movies, art, museums and music combined. Read my article @fortunemagazine.bsky.social fortune.com/2026/07/26/g...
A follow up on this thread for anyone who wondered. The editors of the journal agreed with my assessment that the author(s) perpetrated digital sexual violence.
Nicole Bedera@nbedera.bsky.social · last mo.I just did a peer review for one of the most horrifying studies I’ve ever read. I won’t go into details, but it included putting participants through an “AI simulation” of being raped at a party.
It is amazing, isn’t it? And can only be more true now than when written
I’m very late to the party, but I just finished @nbedera.bsky.social’s brilliant, powerful, and well-researched book “On the Wrong Side,” about institutional betrayal in(stead of) Title IX investigations. Highly recommended.
Jack Iwashyna@iwashyna.bsky.social · 2y agoI am far enough in to be able to recommend: www.ucpress.edu/books/on-the...
And “clinical trial results that included patient names!” I feel very certain they told their IRB that a document like that would never exist, much less be entered into an LLM and then shared online the Internet for all the world to see. 😳
Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · last wk.NEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...
Summer academic: 1) I'm not getting enough writing done 🥲 2) Huh, I just wrote 12K words in the last 4 days, reviewing other peoples' work. 😵💫
It's infuriating. As #GenX we were literally defined around being poorly understood and it continues to the present. How anyone who understands anything about how Xiennials grew up imagine we have tons in common with people born in 1966 is just unfathomable to me
1 point I emphasize in my classes is that the ancient city of Rome for centuries had 6 aqueducts. Only 4 were necessary to supply enough drinking water for the ~1 mill pop. In rotation, 1 would be under repair & 1 was extra (used for other water purposes) in case of breakage. Redundancy saves lives!
Thomas Lecaque@tlecaque.bsky.social · 2w agoWhen the Roman Empire "fell", one of the big parts that was an actual problems was the end of aqueduct maintenance. Clean water is life.
I heard a story on @npr.org today about FDA approval of sunscreens and they discussed the case for “peer approval” (automatically approving drugs if a sister agency in another country had). I was shocked they didn’t mention this story for context:
Admirable Women@admirablewomen.bsky.social · 2w agoDr. Frances Oldham Kelsey single-handedly blocked the "wonder drug" thalidomide (US, FDA, 1960) & saved American children from severe birth defects. The first woman to earn a PhD in pharmacology, she used her expertise & immense courage to defy intense industry pressure. #WomenInSTEM (1/2)
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