Nik Stimpson, RCC

Counsellor, entrepreneur, web dev, globetrotter, very amateur musician. Tweets typically about mental health research or digital rights. I wear a lotta hats

[Nik Stimpson, RCC @NikStimpson]

Feeling overwhelmed by all the negativity in the world? You're not alone. It's easy to fall into the spiral of pessimism!

Here's why a negative outlook isn't always accurate and how to rationally embrace a more positive mindset https://t.co/v0UlM4vUnK
#Optimism #Hope #Positivity

[Nik Stimpson, RCC @NikStimpson]

After reflecting on recent events, I'm uninstalling this app for the foreseeable future. It's no longer what it once was, hasn't been a valuable use of my time, my feed has become useless, and Musk's "awkward gesture" was the final straw. Feel free to connect with me elsewhere.

[Steve Mills @smmills1960]

NEW: What homeless people lose when their encampments are swept away -- everything they need. A powerful project by a remarkable team of @propublica reporters and editors.

https://t.co/glIerBwlu6

[Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea]

The plural of anecdote is misinformation.

Problems with anecdotal medical evidence:

- Regression to mean
- Self-limiting illnesses
- Multiple treatments
- Reporting bias
- Confirmation bias
- Vague outcome measures
- Placebo
- Memory fallibility

https://t.co/q8F3oelhhK

[Nik Stimpson, RCC @NikStimpson]

I vividly recall an undergrad class where I learned that glial cells, the boring "glue" of the brain, actually had signalling functions and played complex roles in memory circuits. The brain is infinitely fascinating. Exciting new issue from @NatureNeuro!
https://t.co/agbJfz5PyU

[Nik Stimpson, RCC @NikStimpson]

@Naptown_HTown All great ideas! Five Minute Journal by Intelligent Change is the best gratitude journal I've come across.

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

Why is it that we are so drawn to monocausal explanations of complex social phenomena?

[Nik Stimpson, RCC @NikStimpson]

@JamesOd97890181 @Cosmic_Ranter @BGatesIsaPyscho Has the teapot orbiting the sun somewhere between Earth and Mars been 100% disproven?

[guyfelicella🇨🇦🍁 @guyfelicella]

The first sanctioned supervised consumption site in North America is in Vancouver.

It’s called Insite and it opened in September 2003. Staff there have reversed about 12,000 overdoses, and referred people to treatment and health care services over 70,000 times, AT THIS ONE SITE ALONE.

My own life was saved there.

Over 20+ years, the evidence has piled up: supervised consumption services are one of the most effective tools we have to prevent harms, save lives, and guide people toward treatment.

With the facts clear and the evidence indisputable, these services have rolled out across the country, saving lives from coast to coast. Today, public officials and media from all over the world come to Vancouver to visit Insite, to learn about this incredible place that builds connections and saves lives, both literally and figuratively.

So it was shocking to hear @PierrePoilievre call them “drug dens” today. It was only weeks ago that he was promising to provide yoga at beautiful rehab centres to bring our loved ones home drug-free.

Today he dropped the act, ditched the compassionate language entirely, and showed he really doesn’t care about our loved ones at all, promising to defund, close or prevent these services from operating … one of the very few tools we have against the toxic drug supply.

GETTING RID OF SUPERVISED CONSUMPTION SITES WILL NOT MAGICALLY SOLVE THE DRUG CRISIS OR ELIMINATE DRUG USE FROM CANADIAN COMMUNITIES.

What kind of campaign promise is THIS?? What Pierre is suggesting is the same problematic path Alberta chose to follow, and we can all see what’s happening over there: unprecedented rates or injuries & deaths, and zero reduction in drug consumption or community chaos. People definitely won't recover if they are dead! #HarmReduction #supervisedconsumptionsites #toxicdrugcrisis

[Nik Stimpson, RCC @NikStimpson]

Notes to self.
Also the line "pain is data on where you need to get stronger" applies to more than just running!

[Jeremy Singh @singhcredible]

10 common running mistakes I made in my 20s that I’m avoiding in my 40s:

[Nik Stimpson, RCC @NikStimpson]

Support indie ISPs and challenge the big monopolies. Thankful to @OpenMediaorg for this 30-second one-click email template to ask the CRTC to open up fair wholesale fibre rates!
Via https://t.co/6jSGnkaxSv

[Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea]

It has been estimated that the anti-vaccine online industry accumulates annual revenues of $35 million, and that their audience of 62 million followers may be worth upward of a billion dollars a year for the big social media platforms.

https://t.co/p1hus1gV86 By @johnfocook @stworg @UlliEcker @NaomiOreskes @Sander_vdLinden & @roozenbot cc @CaulfieldTim @PeterHotez

[Nik Stimpson, RCC @NikStimpson]

@ZeerohBovine @jonathanstea This was, of course, a demonstration of contrast phenomena and optical illusions arising from rod/come fatigue and normal impairments in edge-detection... right?? 😩

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Wild times in the 90s when you’d leave the house for 8-10 hours and be completely unreachable (and have a few quarters to make any emergency calls).

[Nik Stimpson, RCC @NikStimpson]

This is interesting. We know social media is generally bad for mental health, but it's more naunced!
Study finds documenting your life online "is sequentially linked to positive impacts on global self-continuity and psychological well-being"
#Psychology
https://t.co/K1Wdu6dBAE

[Nik Stimpson, RCC @NikStimpson]

peoples' responses to items on any psychometric device are organized in terms of their underlying self-images. Thus all these tests, at the level of individual item responses, are indirect measures of personality."

[Nik Stimpson, RCC @NikStimpson]

"What constitutes looking good or bad depends upon one's view of the expectations of the audience"
— 1981 article on the relsp between personality testing, self-presentation, moral judgments, and political attitudes.
#Psychology #AcademicTwitter
https://t.co/6tNYSKXjbp

[Nik Stimpson, RCC @NikStimpson]

"People use their responses to items on tests and questionnaires as a means of telling an audience (which must be defined either by the subject or the test administrator) how he or she wants to be regarded;

[Nik Stimpson, RCC @NikStimpson]

@pnetworker Probably shouldn't harp before I try it but seems a dangerous path. Harm can arise from giving patients what they want instead of what they need, and ignoring the relational component which is often the most healing. https://t.co/d6kz9U3XKP

[Nik Stimpson, RCC @NikStimpson]

What's the weirdest spam list you're on?

#Academia never warned me that after publication I will—for the rest of my life—receive weekly emails pitching "high-quality" "research grade" stem cells or even live mice shipped direct to my doorstep. 😂

#AcademicChatter #Research

[Nik Stimpson, RCC @NikStimpson]

I just made a donation to the late maestro @ryuichisakamoto's "MORE TREES" worldwide initiative.
"Ryuichi Sakamoto left us with the gift of music. Let’s give a gift back to him by planting trees all over the world as he would have wanted."
Check it out: https://t.co/2rapxkDrZm