New OnlineFirst article: "Design, Disability, and Critical Pedagogy in STS" by Kaitlin Stack Whitney, Kristoffer Whitney, Katie Healey, Jessica Hardin, Anna Carter, Angeline Hamele, + Lee Smith @kstackwhitney.bsky.social #criticalSTS #pedagogy #technoableism journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

first snow of the season

these bubs are everywhere around now

rust belt riverway

spending the time change extra hour figuring out if the thing found in the woods is bone or rock 🤔

look down

looking down

look up

look up

ecology of a half dead mall

took a long walk in the woods. saw a red tail take a squirrel.

this is the website for elder millenials with humanities degrees. everyone has done the reading on why people invest meaning in public buildings. you can’t fool me

If you want a good laugh, you will find Reuters' AI assistant pop up the minute you click on this link from Reuters about how AI assistants make widespread errors about the news

yellow was the color of the day

someone left william gibson quotes in my office mailbox 🤔

As a deaf person with a deaf kid, I'm the first to admit IDEA isn't perfect. I fight people's (often willful) misinterpretations of the Least Restrictive Environment every day. Just gave a lecture at BU about how change is needed. Deleting all legal oversight in the middle of the night isn't it.

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

the sidewalk has questions for passerby

@rebeccapscales.bsky.social lolsob

saw the poster for @mw-m.bsky.social upcoming Conable Futures lecture and cackled, very excited: "Thanatocapitalism, or, the death drive of complacency and accumulation in the Anthropocen"

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welp, just got a peer review probably written by AI (comments on things not in the paper and full of headers/bullet point lists not in the review Qs). sucks that student-led work is treated so poorly by colleagues.

sigh. (seen in a kid toy section of store)

Oct is when the reality of a changing climate and local traditions are in stark contrast. Stuff starts "closing for winter" and it's 80 degrees out.

a beautiful if alarmingly warm fall day in #ROC

welp, a new first - scheduling a guest speaker months ago + realizing today, the day of the visit, that I scheduled them not for the class time 😱🙃😭

The Erie Canal was an engineering marvel, and an important vector for economic growth and urbanization. It also played a large role in Indian removal, something most modern Americans associate with the West, or even the South, but not New York State. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/n...

We pulled up to the Rochester, NY, Amtrak station and tried to get around without a car. The buses were pretty great, actually! But they weren't very frequent. Sometimes we walked instead. Paying with @transit.app was a nice surprise. howdoyou.guide/transit-gett...

It’s not that it should surprise you. We know prisons, surplus population, wage theft go hand in hand. It’s just an elegant little case — as employers terrorize workers with AI replacement threats, and compel them back to the office imprisoned people are “WFH” www.mainepublic.org/2025-08-29/i...

Disability accommodation represents a failure to plan and build accessible infrastructure —work structures, public spaces, events. We force people thru appts, paperwork, mtgs w their boss and HR…bc of structural failures. The work of being included too often falls to individual disabled people.

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Sign seen along the #ROC marathon route this AM: "keep going! you're running better than the government!"

Sign seen along the #ROC marathon route this AM: "keep going! you're running better than the government!"

New faculty book alert! Dr. Jenifer Barclay's new volume Cripping the Archive, co-edited with Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy, is out now from @illinoispress.bsky.social! This important text considers how and why disabilities are underrepresented, erased, or distorted in the historical record. #dishist

just because a work mtg is scheduled for a long time does not mean it's a "retreat" ...

I'm excited to share with you all a conference I'm planning Oct. 10-12: Dialectical Biology Today: Legacies of Richard Lewontin. It will be hybrid in Toronto and on zoom, so please join us however you can! Register for zoom link here: ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/diale...

NEW: Federal funding for organizations that help students with hearing and vision loss across eight states will stop at the end of the month, according to letters sent by a top Education Dept. official and obtained by ProPublica. By @jodiscohen.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

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There is a lot for disabled people to be enraged about. I partnered with artist Finnegan Shannon on #DisabledRage public art. All graphics are downloadable & feel free to share and wheatpaste all over your community disabilityvisibilityproject.com/disabled-rage/

I'm starting to look into how inflammation is being misused by MAHA types in a way that very much distracts from chronic illness-inflammation problems people actually have. If you're an academic, doctor, immunologist etc with thoughts on this, please be in touch at [email protected]

yet opposing the integration of genAI into the classroom and other critical societal infrastructure somehow makes one a 'pessimist', 'anti-progress' & 'anti-innovation'

excited to see the license plate 4DABIRDZ -- only after realizing it was probably about Eagles football 😅🐦

reading this while getting *institutional* emails inviting me to a training on how to have AI write syllabi and assessments...

every time I try to finish the syllabus for this intro STS course focused on AI (b/c tech school), end up reading some new horror and lying on the floor. so, it's going slow. 😅

In 1977, Disabled activists occupied the Federal Building in San Francisco to demand the passage of Section 504— legislation to protect against disability discrimination.When the building was cordoned off, in an effort to starve activists out, The Black Panthers *Broke In* to deliver them hot meals.