Jill Dosso

Why permanent DST makes sense for B.C. In summer 2019, the Province conducted a public engagement on time observance that saw participation from a record 223,000 people, with 93% supporting adopting year-round DST. Similarly, across all industry groups and nearly all occupational groups, support for year-round DST observance was higher than 90%. Evidence suggests there are many benefits to ending the seasonal time change, including: • more consistency and fewer disruptions to sleep patterns, school schedules, and daily routines • more usable light in the evenings in winter, allowing more leisure time, participation in outdoor activities and consumer activity • reduced administrative burden for small businesses and service providers, who may require less system reprogramming, schedule shifts and operational resets every spring and fall • more consistency for planning across transportation and technology services. How the change will be made The Interpretation Amendment Act, which is the legal framework that enables the Province to adopt permanent DST, became law in 2019. At the time, government chose not to bring it into force in order to coordinate timing with neighbouring U.S. states in the same time zone. Recent actions from the U.S. have shifted how B.C. approaches decisions that merit alignment, including on time zones. Making this change now reflects the current preferences and needs of British Columbians and helps ensure the province is well‐positioned to thrive, even when circumstances across the border evolve. Regulation will bring the amendments into effect after March 8. Government will work closely with organizations, small businesses, and public-sector partners between March and November 2026 to ensure a smooth, well-coordinated transition to permanent DST.

Seven years after passing legislation to make it possible, BC will make the shift to permanent Daylight Saving Time this year

On March 8, clocks will spring ahead for the last time

There will be no time change in November

BC will be on Pacific Time (PT) #bcpoli

The knight and the moth!

Mesmerising Science: The Franklin Commission and the Modern Clinical Trial Benjamin Franklin, magnetic trees, and erotically-charged séances — Urte Laukaityte on how a craze for sessions of “animal magnetism” in late 18th-century Paris led to the randomised placebo-controlle...

I live-read portions of this piece, which is quite... striking:

"...the setup is such that “the two faces almost touch, the breath is intermingled, all physical impressions are felt in common, and the reciprocal attraction of the sexes must consequently be excited in all its force."

We talked about Mesmer in my #HistPsyc a few weeks ago! Bookmarking this one for next time.

I also keep a blog, and host a large bibliography of newspaper, magazine, and academic articles about the ethical, moral, financial, environmental, and practical questions surrounding GenAI: catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...

A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education 🧵

Teachable Readings - AGAINST AI Image: Bride of the Wind, Oskar Kokoschka

I feel like you're less interested in MY running list and more interested in this one: against-a-i.com/short-readin...

Every once in a while I see mention of someone's running list of articles about AI and education. Does anyone have that bookmarked that they could share?

Questioning AI Resource List wExcellent summary of major problems with companies’ focus on AI written by expert in machine learning: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/ Another ...

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

An elderly woman with short, light-colored hair and glasses, wearing a royal blue dress with large buttons, sits at a dining table eating a slice of cake with a fork. She holds a delicate blue and white teacup in her other hand. The table is set with an assortment of colorful desserts, including a fresh fruit tart topped with berries and kiwi, chocolate-frosted pastries, and more cake. Small vases of pink and yellow flowers decorate the table. In the background is a cozy living room with a white sofa, framed by family photos on a light blue wall and a glowing table lamp.

Jean Paré took her love of cooking and turned it into an empire.
She oversaw the publication of 17,000 kitchen-tested recipes in over 200 cookbooks.
Her Company's Coming cookbooks have sold 30 million copies.
This is her story.

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We draw a parallel to WEIRD, proposing that CogSci is DEAD (Decontextualized, Engineered, Anonymized, and Disembodied). This is meant to be provocative, of course, but, like WEIRD, it is in the spirit of illuminating limitations and striving for better science 6/

AI Surrogates and illusions of generalizability in cognitive science Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have generated enthusiasm for using AI simulations of human research participants to generate new know…

Can the human sciences exist w/out the human? Proposals for using AI as human research subjects suggest yes. But @mjcrockett.bsky.social and I respond with, ‘not so fast.’ In fact, silicon subjects say more about the problems of the research paradigm than the promises of AI. 🚨New article, thread 1/

Assistant / Associate Professor: Cognitive Resilience UBC seeks a CRC Tier 2 Chair in cognitive resilience for dementia prevention within Psychiatry and DMCBH supporting research teaching and inclusive leadership

UBC seeks a CRC Tier 2 Chair in cognitive resilience for dementia prevention within Psychiatry and DMCBH supporting research teaching and inclusive leadership.

www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/assistan...

🚨We're hiring! A tenure track position at McGill University in the area of #bioethics and / or philosophy of science, with a special focus on the ethics of medical technologies. Please share widely. #philsky #ethics #philsci philjobs.org/job/show/30402

I'm back! In this experiment we had 39 participants choose between 8 different PhD programs which varied in terms of region, application materials, prestige, and fees. Importantly, two of the programs had a GRE requirement and two were equivalent but did not:

We're hiring! @univie.ac.at is seeking a TT Assistant Professor in the Psychology of Digitalization. If your work is about automation, AI, or immersive technology (e.g., VR) in the context of work and organizations (broadly defined), we’d love to hear from you. 👇

When robots promise love: What people really want from AI and smart tech - Faculty of Arts From robotic pets to wearable health devices, UBC psychologist Dr. Jill Dosso explores how people experience these tools and why user perspectives must guide their design.

From genAI to wearable health tech, are emerging technologies truly meeting people’s needs for better well-being? 🤖💭

@ubcpsych.bsky.social lecturer @jilldosso.bsky.social explores how people experience these tools and why user perspectives must guide their design. Read more ⬇️

Great reading for instructors of History of Psych (me)

Photograph of Galton's anthropometric lab at the International Health Exhibition. More info: https://galton.org/anthropologist.htm

Description of the Galton's Anthropometric Laboratory (More info: https://galton.org/anthropologist.htm)

It's a full house in Atelier 4.500 where dozens of people have gathered for a panel on measurement, labor, statistics & AI.

Our first presenter is @nicole-lee-sch.bsky.social, whose talk focuses on Francis Galton's Anthropometric Laboratory, which she recreated in a #DisHist class.

#SHOT2025

if you were to teach a class on the pre/history of AI in terms of key concepts ideas, what would they be? the mind/body problem? abstraction vs materialism? history of the database? automation?

An array of 9 purple discs on a blue background. Figure from Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt.

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue.

The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.

From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

When Dementia Steals the Imagination of a Children’s Book Writer

I loved this piece. God, gorgeous. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

A Neurologist Investigates His Own Musical Hallucinations Neurologist Bruce Dobkin started hearing a phantom choir singing on a loop after he received a cochlear implant. He’s not the only one.

What happens when a neurologist gets a cochlear implant and then starts hearing a choir singing “The Star Spangled Banner” on repeat?

At the risk of sounding like I'm doing a prompt thing for engagement: What's a great piece of writing (non book category) you've read online recently? Feel like discovery outside of my usual networks is hard right now! Just wanna read some good shit!

Finally, a bandwagon I can join.

One like = a super interesting tidbit from developmental biology

Trust me. #DevBio will blow. your. mind. 🤯

Computer-vision research powers surveillance technology - Nature An analysis of research papers and citing patents indicates the extensive ties between computer-vision research and surveillance.

New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance

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Listen. The only way you can become a good writer is by being a shitty writer and doing it anyways. You can’t magically become a good writer by having a machine do some of the work for you. That just makes you a fraud.

This is a really fun question to throw at your colleagues when you’re a biologist

Use of these devices is very (!!) widespread and products are sometime expensive. Their use has consequences for mental and physical health in the household during a vulnerable period. But many healthcare providers don't ask about it and don't know what to recommend to families.