Jim Vanderwal

Before becoming captivated by a certain tech-governance issue I wrote stuff. This piece is making the rounds again and it's worth resurfacing now. 1/3

Help shape how we teach those in healthcare about Long COVID in BC! Our interdisciplinary team at SFU, UBC, and PHSA are recruiting people living with Long COVID as well as healthcare providers working in ED/UPCC settings to participate in 75-minute focus groups. #LongCOVID #BChealthcare #BCCOVID

My new research is out. "Long Covid perspectives" addresses the recognition of #LongCovid as disease entity and patient-led advocacy movement, the paradigm shifts driven by LC advocacy-research, and challenges ahead (Perego 2026, preprint 2023) www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

A new report is forecasting a warmer and wetter future for northeastern B.C., as well as more extreme weather emergencies for communities battered by some of the province's biggest natural disasters over the past decade. https://ow.ly/nEUa50ZRRLz

Don’t share AI slop videos even if it’s for lols like a cringy Pierre Poilievre video It’s all creating more eyeballs on this crap which is exactly the point

Wake up, Vancouver, Nardwuar is currently losing!!!

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Here's something I've been working on for a while, that I'll be getting into a lot more soon. This is where Land Acknowledgements come from, this is what they mean, and this is how you've all been doing them wrong.

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For @thesicktimes.org, I covered a petition that over 1,700 people have signed calling for a pause to a trial that's applying for ethical approval to test a psuedoscientific program for #LongCOVID called The Lightning Process. thesicktimes.org/2026/09/22/p... 1/n

We can talk about the broader reasons why (society is ableist, want to forget “the pandemic” etc). However! Primary care providers could play a key role - and many aren’t aware and think that Long Covid is “over” or psychosomatic. Lots of tools exist eg bc-clmf.org/primary-care...

It seems like there's a new round of "stochastic parrots has been proven wrong" discourse going on, so I'm going to re-up this: medium.com/@emilymenonb... >>

Yes exactly. Very apt to describe as equivalent to a boil-water advisory … meant to be temporary until permanent measures are taken.

At a certain point I have to ask myself if I got all this pedigree and spent decades doing research and building things to then spend the rest of my life attempting to come up with good arguments as to why the Cookie Monster isn't real.

Today @thesicktimes.org: Lots of details from me on the Department of Defense grant funding a new Long COVID clinical trials program. The story includes context on past DOD medical research funding, comments & slides from Michael Peluso (PI of the new program), and more:

If you want to understand the indirect economic impacts of wildfire, imagine losing *7 weeks* of business during the busiest part of the summer season. Not just the area affected by fire, but the entire area from Cache Creek to Hope The economic impacts of climate change playing out in real time.

Please be mindful about what you say online right now about climate change — especially if you are a scientist. Young people on TikTok, Instgram, and Reddit are giving up on their activism and future education/careers because they are interpreting our posts as saying that things are truly hopeless.

Justin has succeeded in creating some BC community drama, just the tonic we needed to take our minds off all the stupid things going on in BC and around the word. Thank you for your service 🫡

🏰🏰🏰 ENCHANTED FOREST 🍑🍑🍑 KEREMEOS FRUIT STANDS INTERIOR ROADSIDE ATTRACTION FINAL IS HERE

Excellent government messaging on AI 🎯

STORY: After my 93-year-old grandmother was evacuated from a Summerland seniors home, no one could tell us where she was. My family wasn't alone. I went hunting for answers for how this happened.

I have no words

If Mike Flannigan is scared about potential for new fire starts, pay attention ⬇️

**BC has experienced more area burned during 2017-2026 (red) as compared to 1950-2026 (green)**

British Columbia's premier David Eby is about to do a press conference on the wildfire situation, including Summerland. Officials from BC Wildfire Service, Ministry of Emergency Management & Climate readiness, etc., will also be in attendance. #bcpoli

I mourn for the Okanagan that once was. As a kid in the 70s and 80s, fire was always a part of the landscape, but now it rapidly engulfs and consumes. Sending strength to those who have been evacuated, and comfort to those who have lost homes and places they love.

You can find a whole set of pre-order links on my webpage, here: www.astrokatie.com/book-htbau And I can also now share this VERY DRAMATIC cover reveal video, made for me by the awesome folks at Scribner!

Last day of the Riley Creek Fire near Lillooet

Pretty crazy how much of the Thompson-Nicola Regional District has burned in the past 10 years. Kamloops is in the middle of the TNRD (Source: Michael Grenier on Facebook)

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

Bradley Creek fire is now well north and east of Hwy 97 into Spallumcheen. Fire is moving quickly … areas previously under alert have switched to evac orders over the day. Throughts and 🙏 with friends & family in Vernon area who have evacuated, heartbreaking to see my hometown in this state💔 ❤️‍🩹

Wildfire jumps Highway 97 at north end of Okanagan Lake, entire OKIB reserve evacuated #VernonBC

Nearly a day later, expanded evacuation order zone near Lillooet not showing up in the BC Wildfire app. Not great!

BC's Mental Health Act violates Charter rights (sections 7 and 15), court finds: You can't assume an involuntarily hospitalized person lacks capacity to consent or withhold consent to treatment. Win for disability rights activists: www.bccourts.ca/jdb-txt/sc/2... ht @ivacheung.com

I’d go as far as saying this headline is dangerous misinformation.

I don’t understand how this got published. It would be akin to saying “seatbelts don’t save lives” because of a study when people who didn’t use them properly had just as bad injuries as people who didn’t use them at all.

Touching tribute to Michael Coyle. Not mentioned in the article - he was a knowledgeable and thoughtful advocate for covid awareness and clean air, and made many positive contributions here to share information and help others.

This 👇🏽 is terrific news! Now we need to replicate this across all of Ontario and Canada!!

Not the kind of climate change column I’ve normally written, or want to write, but I felt I had to. www.thestar.com/business/opi...

Ontario's jails are using an artificial intelligence tool that disproportionately places Black prisoners in maximum security The government anticipated its tool AI would produce biased outcomes, but used it anyway My latest @breachmedia.ca investigation breachmedia.ca/black-prison...

Hey ChatGPT, can you take away the towers and replace them with single family homes?

Cory Doctorow argues that the best way to reclaim our digital sovereignty is to jailbreak Canada. @doctorow.pluralistic.net

I appreciate that he’s addressing this head on and for the most part I think he at least makes a reasonable argument, whether or not one agrees with it. But one bit that I think is dubious and reckless is claiming that sticking with the existing plan would’ve made life more expensive for Canadians.