The state of #science and #research in the US: I have started to get “Choose Europe” ads on LinkedIn as a 2nd year PhD student.

Time to get in gear again for disability rights... www.lflegal.com/2025/06/ener...

A very interesting read about the intersections of disabled and queer identities! www.disabilitydebrief.org/debrief/goin...

I don’t usually open up about disability on a personal level, but this article gets a little bit into it. Creating accessible environments for learning/research for all (diagnosed or not yet) can help people reach their goals and dreams.

Wonderful op-ed on accessibility and the importance for advocating for disabled people’s rights by @jcmankoff.bsky.social www.seattletimes.com/opinion/the-...

@dangaristo.bsky.social recently shared that the NSF graduate research fellowship program got wacked by 50% @standupforscience.bsky.social @phlscienceaction.bsky.social I took a deeper dive here - call your senator, 202-224-3121. Revive and expand the NSFGRFP open.substack.com/pub/eduardoe...

Announcing the “Unheard” Initiative -- together with @fractalecho.bsky.social and with the sponsorship of AccessSIGCHI, @acm-sigchi.bsky.social and @sigaccess.bsky.social we're launching a new talk series for folks with disability/travel restrictions. Please volunteer! tinyurl.com/unheard-init...

A win for student expression on college campuses! Let’s keep it going. www.law.com/texaslawyer/...

🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen. Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it. Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Following inquiries, we are extending the deadline to the 20th. We look forward to your submission!

Oh, that's concerning. nih.gov

People, including my husband, survive cancer because of NIH research!

This is no time to run academia as if it were immune to sociology-political and environmental crisis. It is time to learn from each other how to put academia - and intellectual life more generally - at the service of society. My deepest thanks to all who continue to provide models and inspiration

As of today, more NIH study sections have been cancelled in 2025 then held. What does this mean for groundbreaking research that urgently needs funding? Critical proposals in aging, cancer, health outcomes, and bacterial virulence are now left without review. #standupforscience2025

Introducing the workshop on Generative AI and Accessibility (GAI+A11y@CHI25)! Come join us to build a community and discuss the opportunities and risks of GAI+Accessibility. More information on accessgaichi.com. #CHI2025 #accessibility #disability

We got the OG data team up in here! So excited to have the Library of Congress @altlofc.bsky.social back in the fam. 📚🏛️📚

“This tech could revolutionize how we experience sound”: Check out this #NSF video featuring research led by @uofwa.bsky.social #UWAllen prof @gshyam.bsky.social creating #AI headphones that amplify sounds you want to hear and mute ones you don’t. 🎧 youtu.be/ovZ-9BzwP-0?... #NSFfunded #UWdiscovers

I want to see every scientific society going into emergency mode. This is a good example of how an organization can flex its specific power in a time of great need. What else is possible?

There are so many reasons university endowments can't make up for the dramatic cuts the Trump administration has planned for science. Here are a few. Thanks to @donmoyn.bsky.social for the platform.

Science is not like your average tech startup or software co. There is no move fast and break things in science: progress takes years of meticulous work to document and validate so we can trust its accuracy. Disrupting this just means more years of waiting for patients. www.9news.com/article/news...

A great article in NYTimes about what recent #DEIA rollbacks mean for research involving #disability (gift link) #DisabledinSTEM www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/s...

The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.

“The professor noted that many faculty members voiced concerns about how the University’s actions will impact Penn’s “educational mission” and were upset about a “lack of proportionality between the relatively small percentage of the lost income versus the large 35% cut in [graduate] programs.”

Reposting with full ALT text.

"Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage." -- @govpritzker.illinois.gov

There are only *checks notes* one genders.

Really? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Was digging into data about the number of k-12 students currently benefiting from 504 accommodations. I found 2017 state by state enrollment and school attendance data. ocrdata.ed.gov/assets/downl... and nces.ed.gov/programs/dig... and the nationwide average is 2.6%, but Texas is *highest* at 6.1%.

🔴 Happening now: Disability Community Briefing: What You Can Do to Stop the Attack on Section 504 dredf.org/event/disabi... Will live-post some info in the thread below 👇🏻 #1. A recording of the session WILL be shared by DREDF (@dredf.bsky.social) 🧵 1/

Opportunities to help safeguard publicly available research and data: safeguarding-research.discourse.group

Reminder! Science IRL mini-grant applications are due February 14! These grants are to support IN PERSON science communication projects in the US that reach science disinterested people, and ideally encourage concrete action in the audience. Apply here! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Anyone else notice that men are not included in this list but women are?!

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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