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!"

Frog and Toad looked into a mirror. “We look brave,” said Frog. “Yes, but are we?” asked Toad.

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.

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

MS student passed her proposal defense 🥳

Hello, science has never been apolitical and I wrote a book about one of the ways that USians came to think that it was. Please read it and stop saying stupid shit. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

triple checking my syllabus math to make sure it adds up to 100% 😅

Sex-reversal in birds (genetically male/female but appear female/male) is surprisingly common. Best detail: A genetically male bird called a laughing kookaburra had recently laid an egg. (1/2) By @phiejacobs.bsky.social on @science.org

Every time admin talks about "future-proofing our degrees," I die a little inside and then remind them that critical thinking is the only skill that does this

thrifting blazers counts as course prep, right? 😅

💡 New tool alert! EDGI has created guides on how to FOIA in *all 50 states*. FOIA (the Freedom of Information Act) helps ensure the government operates in the interest of the people. Learn more about community-led FOIA & the state-by-state guides in our new blog: envirodatagov.org/community-le...

lotta Discourse on here today conflating print reading and critical thinking. Signers and signed languages exist! People can engage w ideas and others + critically think in lots of languages and modalities...

my Aug 1 vibes

Another semester, another moment to thank that guy from Rice University who made that syllabus maker thing. I love you wcaleb.rice.edu/syllabusmake...

finding a feminist wildlife media author quoting c0yn3 😬

AI shaming | patreon.com/lubchansky

making friends in the park

Thank u Vanessa for this excellent photo of my proposed classification scheme for Coleoptera

DOJ directing government that application forms and processes must only be in English, on the grounds that it reduces administrative burdens. I wrote the book Administrative Burdens w @pamherd.bsky.social and this policy does the opposite www.justice.gov/ag/media/140...

in a summer ASL class and had storytelling hw this AM, decided to share the time a coworker + I went chickee backpacking in the Everglades and our canoe was almost flipped by dolphins 😅

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We're pairing up contingent historians with contingent scholars in other fields for a face off! Click through to learn more and let us know if you want to participate.

Exciting news over here 🥳🎉 www.rit.edu/news/carolin...

Black American Sign Language is distinct from American Sign Language—and it developed because Black Deaf students were segregated in their own Black schools for the Deaf.

thumb injury from folding so many pamphlets for this community event tmw 😅

A deaf and mute Mongolian man seeking asylum has spent more than 80 days at an ICE facility. During that time, he has not had an opportunity to see a judge or communicate with anyone who understands Mongolian Sign Language, according to his sister and lawyer.

Heyo! New piece by me, @ashleyshoo.bsky.social and @wolvendamien.bsky.social on our syllabi and teaching philosophies around our class Technology and Disability is out! blog.apaonline.org/2025/06/18/t...

"As climate-related disasters, including wildfires, floods, and heatwaves, occur more frequently, planning for the millions of disabled Americans must become a priority." - Abigail Block and @kstackwhitney.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/05/23/c... #heatwave #fema #uspoli #disabilityrights

“The idea of a flag that unites us all is no different than a universally designed product that is intended for all. Both require the totalizing force of colonization to unify the masses through homogeny.” Read my and @fractalecho.bsky.social latest: buttondown.com/TYFYFL/archi...

Q&A on AI and Disability - sharing the notes I made for an interview, in which I was trying to challenge the disability-washing of AI. danmcquillan.org/ai_disabilty...