This pod starts the moment I met Emily Burns for the first time after being mutual Twitter followers over the past two years. We set aside time after learning that we had each chosen to allow our torn ACLs to self heal (unthinkable to most). Emily and Alli talk about COVID-19 pandemic policies which failed to risk-stratify the population, what an empowered community can accomplish (Emily moved from Boston to Texas last year), raising curious minds who can shape their own tendencies to create vs consume content, podcasts to enjoy while traveling, and ACL self repair (vs surgery). A wide-ranging episode!
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Today's conversation picks up where Dr. Rohan and I left off - the catastrophizing of the pandemic, rhetoric and the response to the pandemic, words which convey little of value because we define them differently (eg, novel, flatten the curve, the new normal), and being outliers (educators who think we may have over-reacted).
Guests:
Lelia Glass Ph.D. Coordinator of Linguistics Program, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Georgia Tech
Dr. Lelia Glass is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics in the School of Modern Languages. She earned her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2018, where she won the Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching, and held a dissertation fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the American Council for Learned Societies. Lelia works on lexical semantics (word meaning), compositional semantics (sentence meaning), pragmatics (inferences drawn in context), and sociolinguistics (how people use language in their social identity), from an empirically rich perspective, with a particular interest in how our knowledge of the (physical, social) world affects our interpretation of language. Education: Ph.D. in Linguistics, Stanford University (2018) M.A. in Linguistics, Stanford University (2014), B.A. in Linguistics, University of Chicago (2012), with honors
Liz Rohan Ph.D. Professor of Composition and Rhetoric, University of Michigan-Dearborn
With Gesa Kirsch, Dr. Rohan edited Beyond the Archives: Research as Lived Process (Southern Illinois Press, 2008). Her research, which reflects her ongoing interests in pedagogy, feminist research methods and America’s progressive era, has appeared in journals such as Rhetoric Review, Composition Studies, Pedagogy, JAEPL, Reflections, Composition Forum, Peitho, and also in several book chapters. She edited the diaries of a historical college student, John Price, that is published online in cooperation with Denison University and the Five Colleges of Ohio Digital Depository. Education: B.A. in American Culture, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, M.A. in Writing, Depaul University-Chicago Ph.D. in English, with a concentration in Writing Studies, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
Liz Rohan is a Professor of Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. She has a Ph.D. in English/Writing Studies from the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign. Her research reflects her interest interests in pedagogy, feminist research methods and America's progressive era and also diary studies. She is on Twitter @runwritethink
Links: P Doshi article in Am J Public Health re influenza pandemics and preparedness (2008).
- Discussion about risk tolerance and values, both on a continuum and difficult to define, shapes how we respond to policy
- Bias and writing - understanding your bias, owning it, and how it shapes your writing and research
- What is Kairos? Hitting the nail on the head is as important as when you say it. Examples of kairotic moments, past and present.
- How can public health move forward?
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We talk about how the semester is proceeding, how being in person and singing together again has made an impact on the overall academic experience. Nicola notes that for some students, being able to sing together again made coming back to campus a priority. Alli talks about the challenges of starting a hockey season during Delta with two groups - vaccinated and unvaccinated - sharing the same rink space. Good communication and collaboration allow for trust and individual responsibility to replace protocols. Enjoy! We'll meet up with Nicola again next month to hear how her Wed performance went :)
A report from the rink our first month into the hockey season and the COVID homie system, how this informs our transition to a post COVID world, immunity via vaccine vs natural immunity, the question of vaccine induced myocarditis (ie young men matter), and scaring people at Food Lion with my open ended street epi questions...
Here are the protocols we are currently using in our hockey rink:
Vaccinated person – exposed to COVID:
UNvaccinated person – exposed to COVID:
Cold symptoms – no known COVID exposure, any vaccination status:
If you have changes/suggestions, please drop me a line akrug@abcmedicalwriting.com.
Thank you!
Let's talk about something beautiful - Meet Prof of Choral Studies Nicola Bertoni Dedmon for an unscripted chat about resuming activities which bring people and their passions together while preventing unnecessary risks.
Choral singing and hockey - the two highest risk activities in a respiratory pandemic. We found each other on Twitter and instantly realized we had much in common. Prof Dedmon has been seeking to harmonize pandemic precautions with student needs to continue engaging in one of the most beautiful of human art forms: choral singing. Listen to her thoughts about trying to assimilate an avalanche of guidance, learning to love science, and making new friends in the process. Nicola is an absolute delight, a highly intuitive and intelligent being who treads forward carefully and compassionately, yet with the courage and conviction to interpret science and help her students navigate through this tail phase of the pandemic. Enjoy this conversation...and hopefully next time we'll get to hear some choral singing, too!