Higher ed friends: students are hit with a lot of rules, deadlines, and policies when classes started. Reminders don't mean they aren't taking college seriously. Your ADHD students will appreciate the reminders and I'm guessing they won't be the only ones. Extend some grace these first few weeks!

It's really interesting when you get accommodations letters for disabled students and you can say to them (and yourself), "All of these are already addressed in my course for all students because I run an accessible classroom." Just sayin! #HigherEd #FacDev #AcademicSky

Our Education Pathway maps paths through our immense website for those seeking to challenge existing systems and build neuroaffirming education. stimpunks.org/pathways/edu...

Folks in higher education, on September 3rd there's a virtual discussion of @margaretprice.bsky.social's new book "Crip Spacetime" organized by the Society for Disability Studies. Panelists include Aparna Nair, Benjamin Reiss, and Helen Rottier. us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

This is a public health failure. Again. The public health emergency (which provided funding) was rescinded with Biden saying “we have the tools” to manage COVID. But the tools are inaccessible. Vaccines are expensive. Masks are being banned. Support & get mutual aid, including free n95s and tests:

This is story is one of the nearly 200 (that we know about) of cops exploiting young people they encounter through the "Explorer" program. The program is supposed to foster an interest in policing in young people, but the cops are using it to recruit victims. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Enraging and exhausting. I hate it here.

I'm glad this little tip resonated with lots of people. I do want to clarify a couple of things. 1) I meant this tip for people who actually have ADHD. Not in that way that people sometimes use it informally to just talk about forgetting or being a little scatterbrained. bsky.app/profile/polo...

How do you organize your sources? Mine were a hot mess until I discovered citation management software in grad school (back when Mendely was good). Now that it's not, what systems/software do you use? #PhDsky #AcWri #AcademicSky

#ADHD students, there are a whole bunch of formal accommodations that can help you, even in classes without exams. Don't assume test accommodations are it in higher ed. See this table of potential accommodations by type and how each may be useful: theadhdacademic.weebly.com/learning--ad...

This is one of my favorite resources that I'm sharing with students so far. From Slow Factory. There are so many ways we can contribute. Our activism doesn't have to look like their activism. #HigherEd #FacDev #ClimateAction

Retraction Dashboard https://retraction-dashboard.netlify.app/

We've just released an updated version of our AI Handbook! This work centers critical media literacy. (co-created with Trevor Aleo) Updated version includes information on digital humanities, AI incidents, and more. Download for free: https://www.humanrestorationproject.org/resources/ai-handbook

I think “twice exceptional” created because too many people thought someone who was a strong reader or good student couldn’t have ADHD or some other learning issue. So many people denied ADHD diagnosis because they were in college! But, yes, people have made it very weird.

🆓🔓Horlin, C., Hronska, B. & Nordmann, E. (2024) I can be a “normal” student: The role of lecture capture in supporting disabled and #neurodivergent students’ participation in higher education. doi.org/10.1007/s107... #bskySPEECHIES

"ADHD does not erase the awareness that you are making mistakes all the time. I do not exist in a carefree but chaotic bliss where I am unphased by the impact my actions have on other people. I exist in a constant state of deep anxiety..." YES

I think EVERY student, graduate students included, should register with the disability office, and here's why. #HigherEducation #ADHD #Neurodivergent theadhdacademic.weebly.com/learning--ad...

I want to put together a feed for useful #adhd info & support for people here in the UK. Who should be on this list please? @theadhdacademic.bsky.social can you help? Seems most people still on the 'other place'?

Oh right, I made an Instagram account. I remember that.

Google forms that automatically email you a copy of the answers you just submitted = #ADHD -friendly. My brain is ten steps ahead in multiple directions and no, I have no idea what I just entered in that damn form 2 min ago.

“Campus administrators who think that they can appease right wing politicians by ostentatious abuse of their own students and faculty aren’t just abandoning the mission of higher education and betraying their purpose for existence — they are also wrong.” abuaardvark.substack.com/p/a-new-acad...

Higher education friends, if you include 988 on your syllabus, maybe rethink this. Include a warning about the risk of using 988 and having the police show up without the caller's consent. Alternatives include: Trans Lifeline, Black Line, and Samaritans. theadhdacademic.weebly.com/other-bits/9...

New post in my newsletter about open source software. This post discusses what to use instead of Microsoft Office and how you're using Microsoft Word for things it shouldn't be used for. opensauce.simonxix.com/microsoft-of...

I will be on a panel at the NSF AGEP Conference happening on October 8-10, 2024 in Arlington, VA! If you are interested in supporting the next generation of scientists from historically excluded and underrepresented backgrounds, learn more & register www.eventsquid.com/mobileapp.cf... #WomenInSTEM

Well, that was short-lived.

oooh the title of this article makes me so mad "[ADHD] hasn't adapted to modern life" implies a failure on the part of ADHD genes/ppl with them. 'modern life' has been designed piece by piece, both consciously, subconsciously, and accidentally, to be incredibly hostile to ppl with ADHD

Teachers! Some advice “about how to get ready for an autistic child who might be coming into your class, [plus]key tips that can make a classroom autism friendly and yet suitable for all children.” By Lynn McCann: reachoutasc.com/preparing-an...

The US Access Board has partnered with @cendemtech.bsky.social & the AAPD and they're soliciting public comments on the topic of developing "AI" from a disability-centered perspective, working in the vein of "Equity, Access & Inclusion for All." So check here if you have something you'd like to add:

You've probably heard that ADHD may have been useful for our ancestors in their environment. In new research, they asked folks to virtually pick berries and looked at foraging efficiency. The folks who scored above a threshold for ADHD did better. www.discovermagazine.com/mind/prehist...

"the legal system will traumatize you for no reason*" is a pretty accurate lesson, tbh. *to flex power

I brought a couple of complaints to my HR recently & damn, I'm happy. They confirmed what I thought (yes, this looks an awful lot like disability discrimination) & are investigating. Fingers crossed folks. HR is not always the friend of disabled folks in #HigherEd so I had to share the news.

There's a new paper titled, "Contributors to Underdiagnosis of ADHD among Asian Americans: A Narrative Review" focusing on the reasons for the disparity in estimated prevalence rates of #ADHD. (1/n) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I’m gonna say this once: gender identity is an achievement. It is the outcome of a process of identification that can take longer or shorter depending on the resources available and the space to explore how to use those resources to achieve a desired outcome. It is a thing EVERYONE deals with.

Multi-part questions, inconsistent deadlines, and other seemingly harmless choices can make a BIG difference for ADHD students, even in higher education. Check for ADHD-unfriendly practices in your course. #AcademicSky theadhdacademic.weebly.com/teaching--ad...

Here's my advice on how to design your course to be more ADHD-friendly. Strategies like scaffolding for projects and being very consistent with instructions will likely help all students, not only those with #ADHD #UDL #HigherEd #Teaching #DisabledInSTEM theadhdacademic.weebly.com/teaching--ad...

This is ridiculous. It's all ridiculous. And cruel.

What the fuck what the FUCK WHAT THE FUCK

Some folks see #ADHD as a superpower, others find it to be incredibly disabling, and plenty of people fall somewhere in the middle. All of these experiences are valid. ADHD is very heterogeneous.

Call for Chapters: Decolonizing Universal Design for Learning –Innovations, Promising Practices, and Calls for Change from the Global South and Indigenous Communities. #UDL #Education #Educators #Decolonization #Teaching #Pedagogy www.csmflpublications.com/cfp-decoloni...

🗺🍎 I have been making classroom contracts for 19 yrs. Last year, I switched things up: I used this FHAO framework, a Lauren Porosoff values lessons, and a value sharing sheet idea from @marcusluther.bsky.social We truly used our contract and values all year. www.facinghistory.org/resource-lib...

The rhetoric of decolonisation is supposed to make, even the most progressive white person, feel super uncomfortable. The rhetoric of decolonisation is one that understands and supports armed resistance from decolonised people, land back, and the dismantling of white supremacy in all its forms.

Surprising no one with ADHD, having our prescribed medications is important for our quality of life (note: I am not shading the research. We need the peer-reviewed research otherwise no one believes us when we tell them this). www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2024/08...

I’m watching the transmedicalist discourse on here and making the executive decision to keep my goddamn mouth shut and I strongly recommend other cis people do the same. We definitely should sit this one out.

#AcademicSky 🧪👩🏿‍🔬 I thought this was SUPER interesting: “They discovered that [external] letters that discussed URM women candidates’ scholarship in greater detail could partially mitigate the disadvantages they face in the P&T process.”

These weird ass motherfuckers are at it again. The books on this list are fucking tame compared to what else in the public school library. Deeply unserious bullshit.

cc #DisabledInSTEM #AcademicSky #academia #EduSky

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