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The Last Walk
The latest in my digital self-portraits and landscape series’. It depicts me walking in my doctoral regalia in the day of commencement. The walk (and plants/building in the background) was a familiar and wheelchair accessible route from the nearest parking garage to my office/classroom building.
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Mask Week of Action 2023
Masks belong in healthcare because Covid is not over, Covid is airborne, and patients deserve to be safe. Last week we called on medical professionals to remember why they joined the profession in the first place, the oath they took to “Do No Harm”, and that they CAN choose to be kind and protect their…
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Exploratory Analysis of Google Search Trends for ‘microclots’ from 2015-2023: Part 1
This analysis is part 1 of a response to an increase in Google searches for “microclots” between April 25, 2023 to May 1, 2023.
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Build and Interpret a Basic Structural Topic Model in R
Now I am ready to build my structural topic model using my new corpus object containing the prepped documents, vocabulary, and metadata. There are some important considerations for the structural topic model.
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Household Chores with Ehlers-Danlos and MCAS Means Getting Creative
The one downside is the spray bottle that comes with the Force of Nature machine–it absolutely soaks paper-based packaging, so…most packaging. I decided to buy a misting bottle* to see if it would help with the soaking. The original spray bottle is also tough on my finger joints so I would get about three sprays…
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Combining Dataframes and Manipulating Variables with dplyr in R
You can add columns to dataframes with the dplyr “mutate” function. I have five dataframes, and I want to combine them, but I also want to be able to identify the cases (rows) by query in my new dataframe. Before I combine the five dataframes, I will add a new variable
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Hidden Lake at Dusk
A digital “oil on canvas” painting of a lake surrounded by trees.
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Is your Accommodation Policy Sending the Right Message to Disabled Students?
It is common knowledge in the disabled community that “accommodations” for disability in higher eduction are often unreasonable, putting immense burden on disabled students to navigate a class environment that does not meet their access needs. When professors fail to provide reasonable accommodations, they are rarely forced to change course–honestly, you’re lucky if your disability…
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What Behaviors do you Consider Deviant?
Before the lecture – Write down 5 behaviors you would consider deviant
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A Brief Introduction to the Sociological Study of Deviance and Social Control
A brief overview of the sociological perspectives on deviance and social control.
Medical Sociology on Wheels
Comments on Health Beliefs, Risk, Mitigation, and Sociological Research Methods, a Disabled Perspective