I've really enjoyed collaborating with @mcdglobalhealth.bsky.social on the development of their Screening for All resources: mcd.org/screening-fo...

BIG NEWS! DUAL: The True Cost of Care is a Webby nominee (Video & Film: Public Service & Activism) and a honoree (Podcasts: Documentary). This belongs to the people who trusted us with their stories 🧡 Vote for DUAL here: vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting... Watch DUAL here: youtu.be/UqBuozWHdgs?...

[email protected] Less than a week until #pubday! Congrats on this coverage and safe to say you are a WRITER without the quotes 😂 I'll never understand headline "writers" when disability is involved!

Brutal.

I'll be moderating tomorrow's Health and Society Session-join me! adata.org/sos-2026

New Substack article from me with an update on changes to accessible parking policy in 2026-1 good, 2 bad: open.substack.com/pub/mindramp...

Othering and Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley has a free two-day conference on eugenics in April that looks so cool. belonging.berkeley.edu/eugenics

Abuse isn’t enough, they have to silence kids too: “They threw away all my drawings,” said 15-year-old Cariexis Quintero… . Her mother, displaying a pile of colorful paper scraps, detailed how the guards “stormed into her room looking for drawings and letters” & then “destroyed what they found”

Welcome to bluesky @ccos-ctsa.bsky.social I've enjoyed my time on the working group focused on inclusion of ppl with disabilities in research.

Being a Disability Rising Fellow for @disabilitylab.bsky.social is changing my life! I am going to be sad when it ends in June!

Gaelynn's writing is such a joy to read. Absolutely worth getting on the pre-order bandwagon!

Excited to purchase the upcoming memoir from @gaelynnlea.bsky.social fellow OIer and incredible musician/artist/worldchanger. Preordering books is a meaningful way to support authors.

I don't want to think about how many many many hours we all poured into opposing this inhumane attempt to eliminate important work...when we could have instead been doing the important work.

Narratives that excuse or justify murder based on the perceived burden of disability are not only disrespectful and ableist to the victims but they devalue the lives of the living. Push back on these narratives. Solidarity with my Australian disabled friends💗

Gymnastics meet, diving meet, and 2 indoor softball games on the books tomorrow! Enjoy the weekend y'all!

I didn't used to mind going to the dentist-now I dread it. They never fail to make ridiculous comments about how well I operate my wheelchair 🙄 I've considered many times finding a new place but how do you query for that?! "Yes-hello-new patient here. Do you routinely insult your patients?"

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Can comfirm from MN, as can anyone who lives here, that not a THING has changed except little Bovino isnt peacocking around the streets anymore. And there hasn’t been a third high-profile murder of a white person yet. But the gestapo attacks haven’t stopped. At all! bsky.app/profile/jyse...

Offline moments this weekend: 1) Valentine shopping with my youngest while waiting for softball practice across town 2) a long overdue workout complete with cardio and weights 🏋️‍♀️3) baked and iced cookies 4) attempted a new pork loin recipe that was admittedly pretty terrible, but I tried!

Memorable College Classes [undergrad edition]: 1. Short Story Writing 2. Middle Eastern Studies 3. Psychology 101 4. Adapted Strength Training 5. Physiological Psychology-still traumatized by the requirement to perform an ovariectomy on a mouse

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Are you in NYC and rely on functioning elevators in order to access the subway? Check out www.transitaccess.org, which provides real-time service information on all of the elevators in the subway system! Doing what the MTA somehow can't do! Pass it on! ✨

Today I'm presenting to the Northwell Health System as part of their Health Equity Event about "Beyond Accommodations: Anti-Ableism in Psychology Training and Supervision". It's a new talk for me and I'm excited to share some practical strategies and try out Aha Slides as well.

We had eradicated this disease. And now because of targeted disinformation, children, immunocompromised people, elderly folks, and so many others become victims in this proxy war and we have a new avoidable pandemic.

New studies show unexpected, long-term health issues from covid, including increased risk of autism in children, cancer relapses, and brain damage. Meanwhile, Trump officials have narrowed covid vaccine recommendations and cut research. @stephaniearmour.bsky.social reports ⤵️

Millions of people who bought health plans on the Obamacare marketplaces face soaring 2026 premium payments. Some are considering going without insurance, taking on extra jobs, or even postponing marriage. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

What would you add to this list? 6 underreported disability stories we hope get more coverage in 2026 discojourno.com/featured-spe...

Starting my day earlier with my European colleagues for the Welcome Anti-Ableist Research Cultures. This webinar is discussing how organizations can OWN accessibility and be accountable for social inclusion as well as environmental. Learn about their work here: sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/waarc

Some days I feel like-100 years from now people will still say "We've never had a disabled person do xyz" or "I'm the first disabled person to do xyz (when they often aren't)" and also "there's no work done in this area (when there is)......not because any of this is true but this is the default.

The National Disability Center for Student Success has a new research page and I like the design. Here are 10 study sets to support disabled student success: nationaldisabilitycenter.org/research/

Our OH225 Taskforce met about next steps towards phasing out subminimum wage for Ohioans with disabilities. Around 3000 people with disabilities in OH get paid less than minimum wage. Is your state working on this (or are you living within this century and already did)? www.ohioapse.org/about-us

Important to highlight: This move is coming from African health officials. It signals that “the institutions are getting stronger” by pushing back on unethical and exploitative studies in Africa, @boghuma.bsky.social said. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Just pondering how much I miss the great cicada invasion of 2025.

For your own good and for the good of humanity I am making it my personal mission to get you all to become good fact checkers.

This is it. The murderer's video shows two women not appropriately deferential to the Big Manly Cops. The goal is to pathologize women who seem unafraid of men. Arguing that medication causes people to break Nature's Laws is an old, established tactic of reactionaries and fascists everywhere.

The tag on its vest only makes me want to pet it MORE.

If you're a family member of an autistic person, you are more likely to have autistic traits. Research says so, which is nice because autistic people have also been saying so just about forever. ;) www.vanderbilt.edu/autismandinn... #autism #neurodiversity #autistic

The only way the next democratic administration is going to do anything even somewhat resembling reforming and rooting out lawless thugs from ICE and elsewhere is due to sustained popular pressure. Otherwise, the instinct from the Dem elite to just turn the page and move on is going to be massive

Two pharma companies have invested millions and multiple years in what many had hoped would be the first treatment for Osteogenesis imperfecta. On Friday, December 26, the companies announced the trials had failed. I wrote about what this means: mindramps.substack.com/p/rare-disea...

✍️New publication alert (co-authored by me)Psychiatric Comorbidities and Treatment Modalities in Children With Osteogenesis Imperfecta: A Systematic Review of Mental Health - Morales - American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

If a clinical trial company can't even use the right wheelchair in their ads, what else are they getting wrong? New piece on why those weird stock photos should make you suspicious—and the 7 questions to ask any recruitment company. open.substack.com/pub/mindramp...

Good advice for Thanksgiving discussions but also some good scripting for tough talks in general: theunbiasedscipod.substack.com/p/a-survival...

I would rather live next door to someone who speaks another language than live next door to someone who doesn’t want to live near people who speak other languages. I know nothing about Person A but I know person B is a shitbird.

Agree with Adams (keynote at #ASBH25) that we should always be aware of the role of money driving everything. Disagree that we can’t/don’t ever imagine better ways beyond hyperfixation on capitalism.

Thought provoking keynote by Jerome Adams for #ASBH25 abt finding where we can work together w ppl w different viewpoints….but I’d like to ask-at what point are you complicit in the harm?

VACCINES ROCK www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

People before power. Always. Support truth-telling journalism: buff.ly/pbcGNpl

Annnnd I’m in Portland for the #ASBH25 annual meeting. Speaking on ableism at the bedside and how hospital visitation policies impact disabled people.

Just watched this awesome youth and autistic led video at #PCORI2025 which provided a study update in plain language: notless.org/research/