‘You lose yourself’: inside the mental health crisis hitting gen X women My generation had great role models, free university and the morning-after pill. We should be running the world. Instead, two-thirds of us are facing mental health problems – and it’s not all about the menopause

‘You lose yourself’: inside the mental health crisis hitting gen X women

ELCHA x NANAS Research Seminar: Dr. Jacob Jewusiak YouTube video by UBC Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Aging

Missed Dr. Jacob Jewusiak's fantastic talk "Orientalizing Older Age" as part of NANAS Anti-Racism and Anti-Discrimination Speaker Series? Fear not! It's available to view on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArQv...

Don't miss your chance to join our Sustain Stream of podcasters! We're accepting applications until May 18th. Read more and apply here: amplifypodcastnetwork.ca/2025/03/21/a...

Radical Relationality and Aging:
Creativity, Community, Connection

Concordia's ACTlab and engAGE Centre for Research on Aging are hosting the Canadian Association for Gerontology's annual conference this year!

Submit your abstract! It is going to be a great Conference

www.cag2025.ca/abstracts

NEW on @wrinkleradio.bsky.social

🧮 What Algorithms Do📊

Kim Sawchuk talks to Sally Chivers about data harms and what older adults--and all of us--can do to combat them. Learn more about how to make the most of aging in data, safely.

podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...

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"The newest way to think about biological age:
Aging is far more erratic than many of us might expect." This may be new for WaPo but come on, a lot of us who go through it already know about the erratic nature of aging! (Sally @sallychivers.bsky.social should dig this, though.)

Yes!

I have made the suggested starter pack go.bsky.app/8b8j4G3 Please do suggest yourself or others.

This looks fab! If I wasn't likely to be still off sick, I would sign up. Might be of interest to other #CriticalGerontology #CulturalGerontology people

Please listen

NEW podcast episode on ☎️ @wrinkleradio.bsky.social📱what does it mean to age in a digital world? Professor Kim Sawchuk challenges the assumption that older adults are hesitant users of digital technology. Available at podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w... and wherever you listen to podcasts.

‘Wrinkle Radio’ by Trent University’s Sally Chivers is changing the conversation around aging ... By Megan Gallant. Season two of the award-winning professor's podcast will explore topics like the role of music in aging, the future of nursing home care ... and wrinkles.

'Wrinkle Radio' by Trent University's Sally Chivers is changing the conversation around aging. Season two of the award-winning professor's podcast will explore topics like the role of music in aging, the future of nursing home care ... and wrinkles.

New episode!

Read more about my #podcast @wrinkleradio.bsky.social and stay tuned for season 2, launching this week!

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fun big news from keeping it 101

we’re officially part of the amplify podcast network, which is dedicated to open access and critical scholarship!

My friends are smart as hell, and they're equally as funny. Listen to their podcast. Use it in your classes.

One secret to happy aging? Learn to stop fearing it Multiple studies show a positive attitude toward one’s own aging is associated with better physical health and well-being

You can’t smile your way to a good old age! But I enjoyed talking with Wency Leung about what we can do individually and collectively about what there is and isn’t to fear about growing older. Intrigued? Have a listen to my #podcast Wrinkle Radio www.theglobeandmail.com/life/style/a...

A small off-white dog with big sad eyes stares at the camera from her comfy, soft grey and white bed on a dark hardwood floor.

🐾 Daisy to everyone who finds #back-to-school tough: “I see you. Keep water in your bowl. Walk as slowly as you want. The telephone pole will wait for your nose, & the sniffing only gets better with time. Focus on those meatballs of happiness. Everything else is a distraction.”🐾

Pleased to share what I worked on for a lot of the summer: our Generative AI in Education website for the TRU community (and beyond). I hope educators will find it to be a useful, balanced, unhyped and unpanicked resource. aieducation.trubox.ca

The Received Wisdom Podcast — Shobita Parthasarathy The Received Wisdom is a podcast about how to realize the potential of science and technology by challenging the received wisdom. Join Shobita and Jack as they talk to thinkers and doers from around...

For those of you racing to finish syllabi, The Received Wisdom podcast might help! We interview thinkers and doers working on science, tech, society, and policy (and offer transcripts, study questions, and relevant links too!) Interviewees include Mary Gray, Ruha Benjamin, Amy Moran-Thomas and more!

Nice to meet you ::waves back::

Good morning it’s a great day to turn on required alt text for images and ensure that text is always contextual, and if it’s funny then it’s at least also accurate! 🫶🎈

I don’t have an account, so I’ll have to wait til next month for my NYT freebies :)

Multi-modal pedagogies in action: graphic cultures syllabus As part of a faculty fellow program for innovative teaching at Stony Brook University, I will be embarking on a two-year project that I am calling “Multi-modal Pedagogies in Action.” In conjuncti...

I have posted the syllabus for my Graphic Cultures class on my website. Check it out!
#GraphicCultures
#MultimodalPedagogies
lisadiedrich.org/2023/08/14/multi-modal-p...

Looking for my age studies people in this beautiful blue sky. Anyone else interested in anti-ageism, cultural gerontology, social gerontology, age equity? Let’s skeet!

Some Peterborough residents will have new weekly waste collection dates starting October 31 | kawart... By kawarthaNOW. Change coincides with city's new green bin organic waste collection program and shift to every-other-week garbage collection.

Some #Ptbo residents will have new weekly waste collection dates starting October 31. Change coincides with city's new green bin organic waste collection program and shift to every-other-week garbage collection.

Groundbreaking for Havelock’s new 128-bed long-term care home ‘a long time coming’ | kawarthaN... By kawarthaNOW. AON Inc. will develop and operate the facility at 628 Old Norwood Road in Havelock.

Groundbreaking for #Havelock's new 128-bed long-term care home 'a long time coming'. AON Inc. will develop and operate the facility at 628 Old Norwood Road in Havelock.

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Severe thunderstorm watch in effect for Kawarthas region for Thursday | kawarthaNOW By kawarthaNOW. Possible wind gusts up to 90 km/h, damaging nickel size hail, and heavy rain with amounts approaching 40 mm.

Severe thunderstorm watch in effect for Kawarthas region for Thursday. Possible wind gusts up to 90 km/h, damaging nickel size hail, and heavy rain with amounts approaching 40 mm. kawarthanow.com/2023/08/10/severe-thunde...