For folks who are reading our zine: What resonates with you? See an article written by maz in the Consilience Journal: consiliencejournal.substack.com/p/the-geolog...

🪐👁️ It’s here!! 🪐👁️ The inaugural issue of DiG is out in time for Disability Pride Month! PDF files are available on the project's Tumblr in full color and greyscale, and various sizes. digzinehq.tumblr.com/issues 1/4

I wrote my first guest post on Substack today! 🎉 I'm so grateful to be involved with Consilience as a poetry reviewer. 🙏 Issue 21, Chaos, came out today, as did the Substack articles reflecting on the editor's picks. You can read my post below if you're interested. 💛

1/2 Did you know that the IAGD is present on other social media platforms? Follow us at any of our other handles! Bluesky: @accessiblegeo.bsky.social Instagram: @accessiblegeo Facebook: accessiblegeo LinkedIn: The International Association for Geoscience Diversity

We are accepting applications for the GeoFutures program. The program provides mentoring & travel support for geoscience undergrads attending the 2025 @sacnas.bsky.social conference. Priority app deadline 06-16-25 @cientificolatino.com @official-bweems.bsky.social environment.uw.edu/about/inclus...

We would like some information from our community about how we can better serve you! If you'd like, please take a few minutes to fill out the survey at the link below. It will remain open through June 10th, 2025. forms.gle/EeAZR3uRGwCh...

Yall wanna hear something extremely embarrassing? Before Trump’s election, a bunch of academics who lumbered rightward after being criticized by the left (Pinker, Dawkins, Krauss) wrote essays for a book that is coming out in July about the threats to academia from the left. YALL, THE TITLE!!

We agree with this morning’s @sciam.bsky.social's op-ed: science organizations must speak up. That’s why AGU joined a lawsuit challenging the unlawful firings of federal scientists. Silencing science threatens our economy, environment, public health & national security.

My lily of the valley is blooming, and it smells wonderful. 🌱

Science doesn’t improve by cutting Black, Hispanic, and women experts. But that’s exactly what happened—38 out of 43 removed from NIH boards were just that. And they wonder why trust in institutions is fading.

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

🎉 We're making progress at DiG Zine towards launch! 🎉 Follow @digzine.bsky.social to join our community and stay in the loop re: our progress. All are welcome—geologists and creators with disabilities & allies alike! 🤟

@skypeascientist.bsky.social is looking for a geologist who knows ASL to volunteer with them! If that's you and you're interested in signing up, please do so here: www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html 🤟👩‍🔬

Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING #handsoff

These useless tariffs will disproportionately target disabled people. You know what comes from overseas? Wheelchairs, medications, hearing aids, medical supplies. It will all be more expensive and many disabled people are on a fixed income, which means many will die. This is eugenics at play.

Just sent out more responses! Keep 'em coming!! Our EIC @kellyesparza.bsky.social responds within 24 hours!! #callforsubs #litmags

Great news! Issue 21 (Chaos) of Consilience is now taking submissions of #SciencePoetry and #ScienceArt! 🎨🔬🖊️ www.consilience-journal.com/submit

It took me over a decade to realize I was disabled. Internalized ableism is no joke. It can lead us to push our bodies and deny our reality. A 🧵 about ableism, disability, covid caution and finding your voice. We aren’t expendable. Activism is more important now than ever before /1

All these amazing people jumping in to build the @nationaltab.bsky.social this a.m. is amazing. We've raised $165 in just the last 2 hours! Let's keep up this momentum, friends. Accessible national news. Facts. No paywalls. Let's do this! givebutter.com/c/EAMP2024/m...

The Office of Special Education Programs *does not* belong in the Dept. of Health and Human Services. I have a lot of concerns, one being how this move will most likely reinforce the medical model of disability to the American public. www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

“Good things often happen to those who stick to their principles, take a stand, and speak out.”

I couldn't attend a #StandUpForScience rally this year unfortunately, so here's my poster from the 2017 March for Science. ✊🗺️ I'm still astounded that I free-handed North America so well. It was a scientific miracle! (Upon further inspection, some of these ages are wrong... 🧵 1/2

What people in every part of higher education need to understand is that Republicans now want to do to universities what they’ve tried to do to labor unions: erase them from the institutional landscape. The question is how much you want to collaborate in your own destruction.

We would condemn the same ableist nickname/joke if it had been applied to Sen. Tammy Duckworth, also a wheelchair user, instead of Gov. Greg Abbott. Ableism is ableism, full stop. Read what @vilissathompson.bsky.social has to say:

Its not that using ableist language is "offensive" alone, it is in that using ableist epithets, we normalize the idea that disability is a state of undesirable, laughable inferiority and otherness, and that disabled people deserve to the butt of the joke for some intrinsic reason--its insidious

🔬Science must remain free from political interference. As Editors-in-Chief of AGU Publications, we reaffirm our commitment to rigorous, independent, and inclusive Earth and space science research. A diverse scientific community strengthens discovery and solutions for society.

So excited to continue to follow this wonderful person on her equally wonderful journey. She's doing great work in the #DisabledInSTEM community!

Major update over the weekend to our spreadsheet tracking terminated NIH grants. 👇 Improvements include: - more grant metadata, including Congressional reps and their phone numbers - data from more sources to complement PI-submitted information - better data integrity and reproducibility 1/

Issue 20 (Change) of Consilience is live! Take a look at the link below for some wonderful #ScienceArt and #SciencePoetry! 🎨🔬🖊️ www.consilience-journal.com/issue-20

Don't forget that in this crisis, we scientists have two equal responsibilities 1. To stand up for science, for continued government funding & 2. To support the next generation of scientists, ensuring they're trained to sustain the future. Without the second we may win the battle but lose the war.

Carleton University and the IAGD are putting on an accessible geology field trip on May 11, 2025. We hope you can join us! Details on the attached flyer. Apply at shorturl.at/DkBOO or contact [email protected] for more information.

Today is the 35th anniversary of the Capitol Crawl, in which disabled activists discarded their mobility aids at the foot of the Capitol steps to climb them in support of passage of the Americans with Disabilities Ac. Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins, 8, told reporters "I'll take all night if I have to!"

I can’t emphasize enough how much accessibility benefits everyone. Ramps, elevators, ventilated air, automatic doors. You caring about accessibility is literally caring about your future. You will become disabled unless you die young. Investing in the disability community is investing in yourself.

🪐 While we wait for DiG edition #1 to be published…🪐 ❤️ Why not get to know our staff a little better? ❤️ 👁️ These are some of our favorite minerals from our staffs’ collections! 👁️ (Image descriptions in alt text!) 1/7 #geology #geoscience #disability #zine #minerals

Today is Disability Day of Mourning. Please take a moment to remember those who have been lost at the hands of family and caregivers. We are also mourning those lost to COVID. Many disabled people are afraid for their lives right now, reasonably so. Please, just a moment, just remember them.

GeoSPACE is the only accessible for-credit geology field course in the US and we need your help! Help us keep this camp financially accessible for students by donating at the link below through 2/20 and typing "geospace" in the text box at the bottom of the form. givingday.ufl.edu/campaigns/ge...

Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand. #resist

If you're a creator with a disability who is studying, or working or interested in #geoscience, consider submitting to the #DisabilityInGeoscience #Zine! Learn more @ t.co/NLmeRsZGtL. Feel free to reach out in my DMs as well! 🙂

Not insanity. Racism. White supremacy. Re-segregation. Eugenics. Exclusion. Hating Black people. Call it what it is. Stop giving these fools cover by calling it insanity. Note: I reskeeted this & then deleted because I can't have this fool's face on my skyline so I just put the original skeet.

Here are some nice mushrooms

And that means we need every platform possible to be what? ACCESSIBLE. 🗣️ Make your posts accessible, like alt text. If a platform prevents you from making content accessible, yell at them. LOUDLY. 🔊 Bonus fun: the yelling helps people me get paid accessibility work ☺️

Hi everyone. Just a reminder that it's okay to not be okay. I'm overwhelmed by everything and very much LIVID at what's happening. Things are bad and unprecedented. Know I love you all. Science is real. Trans people deserve life and happiness. Your feelings are valid. YOU are valid.

Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share Don't let science be hidden

Wars end, dictatorships end. We have a future. Everything you do or don't do matters. Choose faith, hope, collective power. Do whatever you can, where you are, with whatever you have. You matter and together our voices will make a difference.

🧠🔍 Right-wing authoritarianism and perceived threats to minoritised groups New research finds that right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) is strongly linked to seeing minoritised groups as a threat. Higher marginalisation strengthens the RWA-threat link. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/bjso... #SciComm 🧪

Include disabled people in your resistance planning. In many ways we’re built for resistance, as we have to find creative and sustainable ways to survive every single day. This is the time for intersectionality and community care. We need to work together and save one another.

Hey fellow 🧪 people, just a reminder that when you share screenshots of the emails and such you're getting, you need to INCLUDE THE FULL TEXT IN THE ALT TEXT. Your disabled colleagues are under attack rn, so it's literally the least you can do.

Whatever you are feeling, it's OK to feel it. Terror? Rage? Grief? Remember you're not alone. Drink some water, shake your body, call a loved one, pet an animal, paint a picture. Connect and care. Connect and care. Connect and care. Connect and care. Connect and care.

I finally took a picture of the beautiful #mushrooms I can see from my window. it's my offering to bluesky in this difficult time. nature persists. we're part of nature (even thought we sometimes forget), so, so will we 🙏🍄