thewellbeingscientist
A newsletter that reimagines wellness through an inclusive, community-first lens, weaving evidence-based science, social justice, and the lived experience of a mother and emerging scholar into one transformative conversation.
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Why I stopped believing wellness at work was impossible in healthcare (opens the original)
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Many of us frontline healthcare workers have lost faith in finding “wellness at work,” having been personally burned by corporate slogans that promise wellness Wednesdays or free yoga at lunch, only to find ourselves swimming in high caseloads, vicarious trauma, short staffing, chronic overtime, or facing a boss who doesn’t take no for an answer. In these instances, such wellness efforts feel deeply disconnected from the chronic stressors that seem to have no end in sight. We have come to resent
What Macklemores “one-sided political agenda” teaches us about how power protects itself with 4 careful words (opens the original)
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The Israeli American Council called for Macklemore to be removed from Ed Sheeran’s tour, claiming his statements raised the question of “where the line should be drawn when an opening act uses a global concert platform to advance a one-sided political agenda.”I couldn’t help but notice the careful framing of those 4 words by the Israeli American Council (IAC), as illustrated within <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/sep/14/macklemore-dropped-ed-sheeran-tour-fre
7 things your advisor might forget to mention about defending your dissertation (opens the original)
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In this 15 minute video Dr. Karli Elizabeth, provides 7 unconventional tips for undergraduate, masters or doctoral thesis students planning to defend their dissertation, based on her raw and authentic experience defending her PhD dissertation as a first-generation student mom. “Typically, advisors prepare for the content needed to successfully defend our projects, but there were some areas that I figured out on my own that I wish I knew!” In this video Dr. Karli Elizabeth covers the cognitive, p
Science Isn't Neutral. It's Human First. (opens the original)
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I’ve always taken issue with the phrase “all science is neutral”….as if objectivity were the gold standard of rigour, and that the highest achievement of a scientist is to disappear from their own work. As a PhD candidate studying population health, I want to stake a claim that sounds like heresy in the current climate. I contend that one of the most rigorous acts a scientist can do is to locate themselves in their work.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/i
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