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I know academic orgs are mostly bs, but I'm on the SDS Board and I actually think we are trying to combat the general harms of academia. If youre also in #DisabilityStudies I really hope you can help us sustain the org!

To be clear since the headline isn't: a study that claimed GenAI was good for learning, actually, turns out to have been bullshit.

Historical research does not need to be done faster or in greater volume for any social or intellectual purpose whatever; if anything, it needs to be done more slowly and deliberately than at present, by people allowed the training, time, space, and resources to do it that way.

I guess I'm glad this is out there, but also I am infuriated that people have to spend their time doing this. OF COURSE synthetic text extruding machines are going to output something that *looks like* but is not an analysis. >>

that’s my arm, hair, and name tag in this photo. And I have to say that the vast majority of people were cool about our masks required policy. The best was how many people came in already wearing masks! I have friends who are chronically ill — some by Covid — and events like this make a difference!

9 months ago, the US Department of Labor withdrew a 2024 proposed rule to end subminimum wages for disabled people. They said it’s still needed bc 40,000 disabled people were paid less than $7.25/hr in 2024. Too much ongoing discrimination to end discrimination??? www.govinfo.gov/app/details/...

Does burying a result that you don't like count as scientific fraud? Just wondering...

Pulitzer-worthy reporting here from Minnesota immigrant news @sahanjournal.bsky.social. 70+ children detained during Operation MetroSurge. 30 sent to Dilley. Two dozen held >20 days, a Flores violation. 7 still detained as of March 10. ~20 have been deported. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

Trust me, disabled people feel this hostility acutely.

Israel is using America's war as cover to conquer Lebanon. They've forcibly displaced 1 million civilians while striking dozens of villages daily - far more than they strike Iran. Today, we saw the first report of IDF forces attempting to cross the Litani River. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...

Watch the full Long Covid in Children webinar, featuring leading pediatric Long Covid physicians and researchers Dr. Rachel Gross and Dr. Alexandra B. Yonts: covidsociety.ca/priorities/l... #LongCovid #pediatriclongcovid #LongCovidAwareness

Attacks from our immune system are a cause of long covid. "The immune system going rogue and attacking healthy tissue seems to behind some cases of long covid, a discovery that could open doors towards treatments" #LongCOVID Source: archive.md/rm5aa

lamenting all the tiny deaths of scholarship we’ve seen over the past few decades: folks being pushed out of abusive PhD programs; schools refusing to hire full-time faculty; “austerity” measures designed for program cuts; general defunding of education; forced AI adoption; etc.

Strong recommendation to teaching faculty to just say no to this stuff, even if you are AI curious/enthusiastic. This is meant to reduce faculty autonomy and capture human labor with automation. You're selling out your future self and the profession as a whole. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

Concentration camps. Use the term. Do not stop using the term until this current American regime falls and the camps are liberated. Then use the term in The Hague. This is Trumpism. This is white nationalism. This is he moral gutter into which America has fallen.

I got really into the game Daybreak this winter, which is a cooperative board game about reversing global warming. It’s based in science and you learn about things people are already doing. I notice articles like this all the time now. It just took a little education and hope to see them.

in 3 months, the essay will be posted on my blog. asylum allows for reposts so if you haven’t asked for a copy or can’t pay for a subscription, it will eventually be on my blog. but i do encourage you all to purchase a subscription. @asylummagazine.bsky.social is worth paying for and supporting.

It’s like that old proverb: “If the US starts a war and tax payers are not there to see the bombs explode do they still make a sound?” (The answer is yes and also the tax payers are paying for it)

Every day more and more reasons to move back to Philly.

A classic anti-masker tactic is to claim that if you don't wear a mask 100% of the time, it isn't worth it. Untrue. Every single time you wear a mask, you reduce the chances for viruses to spread. Wearing a mask always improves public health, even if you only do it occasionally.

"As I work towards finally publishing the March post that I have been working on all month, here is a reprint of my 2020 Huffington Post debut essay, which escalated white supremacist workplace harassment at Canada's largest university, resulting in a 5-day suspension without pay by August 2021." 👀

Disability Studies Quarterly (DSQ, dsq-sds.org) is seeking an Assistant Editor. This position is best suited for a graduate student who is interested in writing and editorial work in disability studies or a related field. Deadline: 15th April 2026 More info here: disstudies.org/call-for-app...

I have watched 6 hours of a DOGE bro deposition. The whole thing, start to finish. It's a fascinating, and horrifying, look at the people who caused so much damage, didn't really achieve anything at all, while still being so sure they are right. Here's what they said: www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...

Six years ago WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Despite tens of millions of deaths, the world has not sufficiently addressed the ongoing impacts of COVID-19, and we are more vulnerable to future pandemics due to anti-science officials leading government agencies around the world.

We're putting together an article summarizing advocacy and awareness efforts for #LongCOVID Awareness Day and Month 2026. Please share this form with advocates organizing events and actions! bit.ly/4sxqtpg

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

Everything is gender, because I do see this happening to professional/expert women a lot. At least some of this is ‘surely you, a woman, can’t be right when this LLM is saying otherwise’

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"The COVID-19 pandemic at 6 years: Mass death, debilitation and media silence" "The pandemic has killed over 30 million people worldwide, left more than 400 million suffering from Long COVID... It is one of the most catastrophic events in modern history—and it is not over."

Time to bring #yallmasking back? 🙋‍♀️

Donald Trump has always vilified disability in this way. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Waiting on the pod bros to tell us this doesn’t matter.

New from me at @motherjones.com: Today, @ericswalwell.bsky.social said he's working to help the family of a Deaf kid seek humanitarian parole so he can continue attending CA School for the Deaf–and his staff brought his hearing aids to Colombia for him to use. www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

Honestly I need historians to be the plaintiffs in every case I cover because if they make it to discovery you just KNOW those primary sources are going public. Exhibit A: The American Historical Association uploading video depos of the DOGE bros to YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkCz...

In our latest, Mariame Kaba @prisonculture.bsky.social & Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social on how to understand the spectacular violence of Trump’s ICE surges as an extension of the violence of everyday policing, and why to abolish ICE we must abolish the police www.patreon.com/posts/152641...

College writing teachers have spoken, y'all. The CCCC resolution affirming students' and teachers' right to refuse generative AI in the writing classroom passed by an overwhelming majority at the #4C26 Annual Business Meeting this past Friday, March 6. Link to the full resolution below.

“New research from The Ohio State University College of Medicine is the first to objectively measure multisensory losses in COVID-19 patients.” Multisensory loss has been linked to brain damage & the possible development of Alzheimer’s. #MaskUpFightBack medicalxpress.com/news/2026-03...

Want to help disabled people living in isolation? New project will help disabled people make phone buddies with other disabled people and allies!

Literally the first thing academics pointed out about LLMs YEARS AGO was that they would be used for catastrophic levels of fraud—how nice that now the AI bros are confirming what we all knew by running fraud experiments to tell cheats which LLM to use to cheat

really tired of conversations about how we need to get people to spend more time offline that don't acknowledge that one of the reasons people ARE online is their access needs aren't being met in physical spaces. This is especially true for queer people and disabled people.

This (2020) is fascinating to read now: "What is about to be unleashed on American society will be the greatest campaign ever created to get you to feel normal again. It will come from brands...from government...from each other...from the left and from the right." archive.is/uiC06

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

Hiring the dregs of Liberty Law School for the DOJ is the legal equivalent of drafting 13-year-olds into the infantry

SCOOP: An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. This surveillance can happen through all sorts of apps, such as video games, news apps, weather trackers, and dating apps.

Today the paperback of THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US is out. It's arriving in a country once again waging war—a country that can spend tens of billions on bombs without blinking, while millions of Americans are one missed paycheck, one rent hike away from homelessness. Let's take stock of where we are.

“There can’t be that many people with Long Covid, I never see them” as though we don’t know post-infectious syndromes cause many patients to become housebound and bedbound, (the worst of whom can rarely or never post online) the same with previous post-infectious syndromes for millennia

is everyone on glue

Would really appreciate it if a greater percentage of people liking and replying in agreement to this take (which is correct) were still masking, getting boosted, and otherwise engaging in any level of covid mitigation. The virus is very much still around and still causing harm.