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Name: People’s First Aid Workshop Date/time: May 9, 10am-12pm Where: Falls of Schuylkill Library Meeting Room, Midvale Entrance Description: Please join the Friends of the Falls of Schuylkill Library for a two-hour workshop on essential lifesaving training for crisis situations in which bystanders can make a difference. This non-certified training will include instruction and hands-on training including CPR, AED, Stop the Bleed, and Narcan administration. The goal of the workshop is to empower people with skills to intervene and save someone’s life in the immediate aftermath of a cardiac arrest, overdose, and other emergency situations. The training will be provided by The University of Pennsylvania Medical Emergency Response Team (Penn MERT) and is open to ages 16 and over. Additional details: Sponsored by the Friends of the Falls of Schuylkill Library. Refreshments will be provided. Registration: Free, but registration required by May 8. Registration link: https://forms.gle/duoTs6dcKp1cL7jd7
Philly! I’ve organized People’s First Aid workshop for May 9 at the Falls
of Schuylkill Library in East Falls. Please come out and learn some lifesaving skills!
Comic cover with the title "What Does HIV Mean?" by Jordan Collver & Jaime Garcia Iglesias featuring a patchwork quilt.
![Comic Page 1: A young man accompanies his boyfriend in a clinic waiting room. His phone pings with a reminder for an upcoming Queer Sewing Club session. He kisses his boyfriend goodbye outside the clinic and arrives at the sewing club, holding a Vintage City bag and waving to the instructor. He pulls out an old denim jacket from the bag and and excitedly tries it on. It's covered in badges/patches and a bit tattered but still cool. He feels good in it, but the instructor notices and appears shocked with recognition.
TEXT:
Most gay men in the UK have been touched by HIV in the UK in some way, whether they live with the virus or not.
A central strand running… through the community… but unique to each person.
Today, people with HIV can live full and healthy lives. Although there is still no cure…
[background sign]: CLINIC
thanks to medication like pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and effective anti-retroviral treatments, HIV is a preventable and manageable condition.
[phone message]: Reminder: Queer Sewing Club - 1hr
And people living with HIV can’t pass on the virus.
[building sign]: CLINIC ENTRANCE
For many young gay men who have grown up having these options, it’s the only reality they’ve known.
[handbag]: VINTAGE CITY
“When I first came out… coincided with PrEP becoming more available.” (Caleb, 30, white, HIV– on PrEP)
Clinic visits for testing, prevention and treatment are part of everyday life.
“The issues of sexual health […] lots of people in the queer community go through as a rite of passage” (Tyler, 35yo, HIV neg)
Seen as a matter of routine and responsibility.
But it wasn’t always this way.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qi5vqvpv3oj3ycqac5ypxhw4/bafkreifcbca2xsyihrfo523thmflhbjj27i7s54dzmkebkq6mm2nh6p6tm)
Comic Page 1: A young man accompanies his boyfriend in a clinic waiting room. His phone pings with a reminder for an upcoming Queer Sewing Club session. He kisses his boyfriend goodbye outside the clinic and arrives at the sewing club, holding a Vintage City bag and waving to the instructor. He pulls out an old denim jacket from the bag and and excitedly tries it on. It's covered in badges/patches and a bit tattered but still cool. He feels good in it, but the instructor notices and appears shocked with recognition. TEXT: Most gay men in the UK have been touched by HIV in the UK in some way, whether they live with the virus or not. A central strand running… through the community… but unique to each person. Today, people with HIV can live full and healthy lives. Although there is still no cure… [background sign]: CLINIC thanks to medication like pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and effective anti-retroviral treatments, HIV is a preventable and manageable condition. [phone message]: Reminder: Queer Sewing Club - 1hr And people living with HIV can’t pass on the virus. [building sign]: CLINIC ENTRANCE For many young gay men who have grown up having these options, it’s the only reality they’ve known. [handbag]: VINTAGE CITY “When I first came out… coincided with PrEP becoming more available.” (Caleb, 30, white, HIV– on PrEP) Clinic visits for testing, prevention and treatment are part of everyday life. “The issues of sexual health […] lots of people in the queer community go through as a rite of passage” (Tyler, 35yo, HIV neg) Seen as a matter of routine and responsibility. But it wasn’t always this way.
![Comic Page 2: A colourful 80s flashback of the instructor as a younger man wearing the same jacket... it was his! He looks up anxiously at an imposing hospital building and is ushered in through the back entrance by medical staff in PPE. He sits alone in the waiting room.
We next see him standing in the middle of a lively dancefloor surrounded by men dancing and chatting. He turns to his right and sees a man unravelling like a spool of thread, followed by a closeup of him stitching a badge onto his jacket with that same colour thread. He turns to his left to see another man in a different colour also unravelling, followed by another badge in the same colour. He is left holding several different coloured threads with a jacket covered in badges.
Now he is sitting at a table with a small group of other men who are happily painting some protest signs. Some chat, while one lovingly puts some paint on another's nose.
TEXT:
Far from it, when HIV was first identified in the early 80s…
[sign]: HOSPITAL
it was a matter of life and, very often, death.
[sign]: STAFF ONLY
[sign]: DON’T DIE OF IGNORANCE
For many gay men who lived through the 80s and 90s, HIV represents fear, loss, grief – “The AIDS Crisis.”
“Literally loads of my mates died in the eighties… I was just going onto the scene at that time and the people that you would bump into…”
“…suddenly they just wouldn’t be there…”
“and no-one really talked about it.” (Brian, 56yo, white)
“It was a fear-filled time… But…”
“…there were still times when people showed incredible love to each other… I think it would be wrong to see the whole of the 80s and 90s in one big black cloak of doom and gloom. It wasn’t that.” (Paul, 64, white)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qi5vqvpv3oj3ycqac5ypxhw4/bafkreigwcb7d4d5qcepsddd2z7pnllma2pp3elb3k4put4bj63tktig4pu)
Comic Page 2: A colourful 80s flashback of the instructor as a younger man wearing the same jacket... it was his! He looks up anxiously at an imposing hospital building and is ushered in through the back entrance by medical staff in PPE. He sits alone in the waiting room. We next see him standing in the middle of a lively dancefloor surrounded by men dancing and chatting. He turns to his right and sees a man unravelling like a spool of thread, followed by a closeup of him stitching a badge onto his jacket with that same colour thread. He turns to his left to see another man in a different colour also unravelling, followed by another badge in the same colour. He is left holding several different coloured threads with a jacket covered in badges. Now he is sitting at a table with a small group of other men who are happily painting some protest signs. Some chat, while one lovingly puts some paint on another's nose. TEXT: Far from it, when HIV was first identified in the early 80s… [sign]: HOSPITAL it was a matter of life and, very often, death. [sign]: STAFF ONLY [sign]: DON’T DIE OF IGNORANCE For many gay men who lived through the 80s and 90s, HIV represents fear, loss, grief – “The AIDS Crisis.” “Literally loads of my mates died in the eighties… I was just going onto the scene at that time and the people that you would bump into…” “…suddenly they just wouldn’t be there…” “and no-one really talked about it.” (Brian, 56yo, white) “It was a fear-filled time… But…” “…there were still times when people showed incredible love to each other… I think it would be wrong to see the whole of the 80s and 90s in one big black cloak of doom and gloom. It wasn’t that.” (Paul, 64, white)
I've just been given the go-ahead to share the new comic I made with @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social about his research!
"What Does HIV Mean?" 1/2
Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that.
Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best.
Welcome home, Integrity crew!
Philly area people:
The CHOP garage collapse in Grays Ferry has (probably) killed 3 people, and all the animals at the Grays Ferry Philly Paws location have been evacuated.
They desperately need cat foster homes until the shelter can reopen. Please help if you can!
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As a reminder: I am hiring a postdoc and at least one research assistant for a project on VTA circuits and cognitive function that starts this summer. Get in touch if interested!
We noticed something interesting (and frustrating) this winter because we had a number of cold spells here in Florida - when humidity drops, the food in our cages loses moisture and therefore weight, artificially increasing our food consumption measures. Curious if anyone else has noticed this?
Asking an LLM to provide step by step instructions on how to disable the LLM is one of only a few legitimate use cases.
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Let's empower each other.
If your institution, like mine, complied in advance with the unenforceable "Dear Colleague" letter, I hope you're asking leadership how these programs are being reinstated.
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This training was excellent. We did 2 roleplays of an ice raid. We did so much better in round 2. It was helpful both in concrete learning terms but also in confidence building.
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#PA #Pennsylvania #ICE Finally got it neatly in a doc. These are collected from various sources so that way it's in one place
Please add on in the replies if you have leads as well. Wishing you safety, PA Peeps
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Some clinician friends have told me that for them, this means seeing patients, but not billing - still participating in the good, impactful aspects of work but while having economic impact. This is the energy I'm trying to channel.
I'm trying to figure out what participating in a general strike looks like as an academic scientist in the current climate. Some thoughts, but I'd love to see more -
- declining admin tasks (sorry not sorry to Concur)
- not placing orders/spending money
- working on anti-AI policies for lab/syllabi
“This cruelty will be measured in lives lost… We are witnessing the dismantling of our recovery infrastructure in real-time, and the administration will have blood on its hands for every preventable death that follows.”
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Given the current news... for people not in Philly, this is just a reminder that you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them."
Talk is one thing, but it hasn't kept my neighbors safe.
My experience with this is that I can *always* access in incognito, so i do this for compulsive checking. But it also works if I clear my cookies, so for e.g., section day or RPPRs or something, this has consistently helped.
Heads up I will be hiring a postdoc and some techs in the new year! Lots of ephys and fiber photometry. If you've got soon to graduate PhD students or undergrads, send 'em my way!