Dr. Ben Mitchell

Using Unfolding Comic Narratives as an Innovative Teaching Strategy in Nursing Education - PubMed The integration of unfolding comic narratives proved to be a valuable and effective pedagogical tool for enhancing student engagement and understanding of conflict management strategies in nursing education.

Using Unfolding Comic Narratives as an Innovative Teaching Strategy in Nursing Education

#GraphicMedicine

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The story of how Stanislav Petrov saved the world from Nuclear apocalypse in 1983 always being me to tears.

The Hidden History of Women Game Designers - JSTOR Daily Nineteenth-century women turned music lessons into interactive entertainment, complete with spinning wheels and ivory counters.

Via @jstordaily.bsky.social daily.jstor.org/the-hidden-h...

The Government of Canada launched an AI Register which collects information about AI systems in use by the federal government.

The data set was partially collected via Access to Information requests, validating the approach I took with the Canadian Privacy Library.

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Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.

Yes good

I am instantly transported back to a Canada Day where we discussed the potential for Prozac shipping at length

And then I laughed so hard I fell off the couch and hurt my shoulder.

“One person is an autocratic president of the university for decades” certainly wasn’t a flawless system but it’s clear that “admins hop from job to job scaling the career ladder by filling their CV with ‘accomplishments’ that are expensive burdens to the schools they leave behind” is even worse.

Blogging (French) history: conversations and reflections amongst historians Abstract. In 2014, the French History Network Blog was launched with the aim of ‘connecting people and ideas’. Ten years later, it has shared hundreds of b

“I enjoy the way that by contrast blogging, once daringly futuristic, now seems quaintly retro—a bit like one of those early TGV prototypes from the 1970s.”

Daniel Gordon in the new piece in @frenchhistory.bsky.social celebrating ten years of the French History Network doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...

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Thomas King: As we learn another ‘hero’ is non-Indigenous, let’s not ignore a broader cultural problem Indigenous people are more than stories. We deserve a future where our identities are not commodities, and accountability is measured by actions that build trust and repair harm.

By McGill Assoc. Provost Indigenous Initiatives, Celeste Pedri-Spade

"These heroes were largely created by settler-controlled industries like publishing, media and academia — not by us. Their success was sustained by gatekeepers who valued marketable versions of Indigeneity over authentic voices."

On a vaguely optimistic note, maybe the great botslop flood will make people think more about the importance of attribution and citation... maybe? Hopefully? Art, scholarship, news, etc. were always about human relationships, now it's even more important than ever.

Organized labour in science fiction Discussion of Hugo Award nominees for best novel, other science fiction novels, and analysis of the awards. We read all the nominees before we vote.

Everyone enjoying this slide should follow @hugobookclub.bsky.social for more excellent takes that balance shitposting and thoughtful criticism. And occasionally full deep dives like this hugoclub.blogspot.com/2018/12/orga...

Diagnosed but not believed: Autistic women and the medical gaze A GP I met for the first time three minutes ago is glancing over my electronic health record, trying to match it with the woman before him…

I wrote about systemic medical bias, chocolate medals and Eamonn Holmes

'It opened up something in me': Why people are turning to bibliotherapy "Bibliotherapy" has been soaring in popularity as a means of improving people's wellbeing. But getting it right depends on the book, and the person.

The pros and cons of bibliotherapy. Fascinating (and long, but pls try to read it all). No answers here, but a great overview. #BookSky
www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Hi! I'm someone who has the audacity to be brown and autistic on the Internet, and I wrote this piece because I'm also too audacious to care about whether I make certain people uncomfortable. It's not about you! But if you THINK it's about you, then it most definitely is. Hope this helps!

"I must tell you that a horoscope which has been cast for my younger son shows that he will be pope, but I'm very much afraid he's more likely to be the antichrist."

That's it.

That's the *entire* letter.

Really proud to have been involved in this piece of work exploring what co-production in research means to different communities and how we can do it better.

It Starts With a Whisper A celebration of the strength, wisdom, beauty and humour of Native women; of Native culture and people, surviving and thriving.

A collection of environmental films made by Indigenous filmmakers that I've screened in Ecocinema over the years (shared today for obvious reasons):

1. It Starts with a Whisper (Shelley & Gronau Niro, 1993) vucavu.com/en/cfmdc/199...

Doing research in services for autistic people with complex support needs: Challenges and considerations based on UK experiences - Sarah Donald, Holly Elizabeth Anne Sutherland, Sue Fletcher-Watson, 2...

Really proud to share this editorial co-authored by me, @suereviews.bsky.social and @heasutherland.com
We discuss some of the complexities of doing research in service settings which support autistic people who have complex support needs.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Post by @libraryben 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Barbara Mackenzie ·  "In a 1994 article, Chris Raible identifies an insane asylum inmate with the actual full name of Barbara Mackenzie. She was a patient in the Provincial Lunati…

"The fire in which Barbara Mackenzie died, according to Raible, "cannot have been major [....]." Yet this fire most certainly was major -- to Barbara Mackenzie who suffered such a horrible fate, and to those people in her personal life who loved her" #TorontoHistory

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Slowly, tediously, editing out all my ummms, ahhhs, ya'knows, in a video presentation for OLA 2026 after months of not doing any video or sound editing and thinking of @brennacgray.bsky.social

Just read a 1889 Ontario Asylum report that described patients working in a "piggery," which is not a term I've heard before for a pigsty.

New Shakespearean-inspired insult unlocked: "Get the to a piggery!"

YouTube video by Dr. Fatima Should Scientists and Engineers Run Society?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAmz...

Calling all contingent historians and their editors--if you haven't submitted for this year's lists, why not? Seriously, these are our most highly read pieces of the year. They are a great way to get your scholarship in front of people and SELL YOUR BOOKS.

Join us on Monday for this online symposium 'Towards Tourettic Studies' 👇

I definitely added a gratuitous A to that acronym. But it feels like it should have an A at the end?

OCUL Accessibility Symposium 2.0 - YouTube Hosted by the OCUL Accessibility Community, this three-day online event features presentations and panels on topics shaping accessibility in the post-seconda...

The Ontario College and University Library Association (OCULA)'s 2025 Accessibility Symposium www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

How can European history be integrated into global history? This is the question at the heart of „Globalizing Europe“ edited by @davidmotadel.bsky.social. Here is my review.

Disability Visibility Project "Creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture"

Alice Wong was a visionary leader who left an indelible mark on the disability justice movement. Her legacy lives on in her work to ensure that people with disabilities are represented, as seen in the Disability Visibility Project. Alice's powerful words & relentless advocacy will be greatly missed.

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