'We academic outsiders know & want others to know that people w/ marginalized backgrounds are people worthy of respect who can contribute to our chosen disciplines in multiple ways. They are wanted & belong to the academy despite daily messages to the contrary.' -Victoria Reyes, Academic Outsider 😭🖤

Pacing and finding energy, brainpower & time for all the things that I need or want doing are so hard. Good luck to us all!

As the only other trans member of staff there through the whole period in question: I want to be absolutely clear that Bentley's account coheres with my own experience and that they have my total and unapologetic solidarity. medium.com/@n2iy2mc/on-...

'Patterns that encourage peace, cultural upliftment, love, collaboration, and creativity are constructive'. 1/2

Such important work by @mariemarm.bsky.social #SLT #Neurodiversity #NoLanguageIsBad

'Cognitive scientists instead can learn from past mistakes with the petrochemical and tobacco industries and consider the harms to cognition from LLMs.' 💯 Congrats @samhforbes.bsky.social @olivia.science!!! Very useful! 😊 philarchive.org/rec/FORTIL

It's the time of the year when my music buddies and me get "out there" and perform. Two gigs lined up, both at the Good Hope Café (Ladywell Fields Park,London, SE13 7UZ). 1st one is "The Subtle Chord" instrumental music (originals + some covers). Sunday, May 25 from 1PM. #LiveMusic #London 1/2

My complaints manifesto / MSc thesis is now published hihihi Salamat, Jon & @deafkilljoy.bsky.social and more! 💜 academic.oup.com/jdsde/advanc...

I now get requests to review articles submitted to international journals and if I can be honest, the worst kinds are those submitted by "inclusive/special education" folks. I'm reviewing another paper today. Sadly, I will have to reject this one again. So many layers of coloniality and ableism! 🤢😖

I feel like egg is the most versatile food we humans got lucky to discover???

My adulthood is becoming more of an inescapable cycle of deciding what I will not do out of all the things I do want to do. The more useful stuff I manage to do, the longer the wishlist becomes! Heartbreaking but such is life. Sorry, friends. 😔

Thanks so much! 🥹 A friend also suggested this in case this might be useful to you: www.makevisible.com/pacing

I really enjoy the work of www.DrAliceNicholls.com when it comes to advice about burnout

#AskingAutistics Does anyone here know of free resources/tools on #AuDHD spoon pacing systems like this? I'm asking for me because well.. spoon management is hard on a tight budget while living in a draining society.. 🫠 neurodivergentinsights.com/blog/the-neu...

The threshold seems higher and harder to reach now before something can hurt or infuriate me to the point of tears. These things happened so many times before that I think way way way more is required now to cross that threshold one more time? 🤷🏻‍♀️

🎶 Start over again. This time, let's do it right. Start over again but this time let's keep the fires burning 🎶 🧘🏻‍♀️ youtu.be/rgerYmu4dXk?...

TIL that I really like teaching adults & the elderly more than kids & young people. 🤓

Unfortunately, if you want quality meaningful outputs from me, you have to pay me decently. 🤷🏽‍♀️

"You will receive your official acceptance date from Oxford University Press once you have signed your license to publish." Mapagpalayang Bagong Taon, mga kasama!!! hihi 🤭✊🏼🥰💜

"There is no use case for AI in anything that requires communal thought from human beings." - My dad, a 50-year veteran of IT and computing.

Joyful Xmas from Bataan, Katagalugan! 🥥😊

It's interesting how all the people who complain about how disabilities or illnesses have become identities seem fine with people identifying as well, healthy, or normal. I think if anything there is a much larger identity politics of this latter sort.

So EXCITED to announce our (free!) conference, Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Directions/Intersections/Contradictions in Durham in 24-26 June (fully hybrid). Focusing on the idea of a 'critical' ND studies via arts/humanities/social science approaches. Absolutely buzzing.

SUBMITTED! Please please please, dear Editors! 🥺 🎶 With you and I defying gravity. They'll never bring us down 🎶 🙈 youtu.be/qeqj5GnoFUY?...

My revision for an accepted paper for publication is due Dec 25. Just 2 minor suggestions to address! Will work on it tomorrow. Friends, gimme a push!!! 🥺

I've been told to never let the 'perfect' be the enemy of the 'useful' or 'good enough'. I need to be constantly reminded.. 🫠

💜🌟🌈 My neuro-affirming starter pack includes a collection of wonderful individuals and organizations dedicated to supporting autistic individuals and effecting positive change. Please follow and share. 💜🌟🌈 go.bsky.app/9N5UEUC

📖 Excited to share our new article, out now in @elife.bsky.social: elifesciences.org/articles/102... Our annotated readling list on neurodiversity is a result of the collaborative efforts of a fantastic, multidisciplinary & neurodiverse team

This work is now published!!! Woohoo!!! 🥳🎉💃🏽 elifesciences.org/articles/102... x.com/iammirela/st...

Just an episode or two of Bob's Burgers then will dry my laundry.. 🙃

most people want a quick and simple answer to why AI systems encode/exacerbate societal and historical bias/injustice and due to the reductive but common thinking of "bias in, bias out," the obvious culprit often is training data but this is not entirely true 1/

At this point in my healing process, I think I'm finally learning to not take those who think I'm inferior seriously.

I'm still hoping that one day, my jokes won't be too obscure anymore? 🙃

Is tiramisu meant to have a strong kick? I don't like! I want mild yumminess!

I just watched 'We Bought a Zoo' again and I'm in tears of joy again. I want it to be like my love story lol ♥️🥹

🎻 Sabihin mo na kung babalik ka pa. Para di na maghintay 🎤 😿 youtu.be/8ASYXK8STZY?...

I want to get inked!!!

Not me telling my partner that one of the reasons I want to visit the Netherlands is because I want to openly and legally do edible weed? lol

🎤 Ang daming bawal sa mundo (ang daming bawal sa mundo) Sinasakal nila tayo (sinasakal nila tayo) Buksan ang puso at isipan (buksan ang puso at isipan) Paliparin ang kamalayan (paliparin) 🎼 youtu.be/yWeS2Ts4Du0?...

I'm very grateful to have found friends from different fields. 🥹 I can talk to them much deeper about issues we face in our communities and this is something I rarely experience with those in my field.. 😔

I wish I can share this skeet to experimental psycholinguists who are nasty to me 😑

So excited for my upcoming Hong Kong holiday!! It's been a while! 🤭🤭🤭

I don't care what my partner says. Bob's Burgers will always entertain me!! 😌

ugh why is there still no bookmarking feature here?? 😩🔖

Oh that sweet sweet 'We are pleased to recommend your manuscript for publication, with a few requested revisions.' AAAAHHHHH!!! 🥹😭💜✊🏽🌈♾️🤟🏽😊

Focused interest on the unknown which may be the hardest interest to find joy from 🥴

I have a talk this Saturday and still don't have slides 🤢

🎶 I wanna heal, I wanna feel what I thought was never real I wanna let go of the pain I've felt so long Erase all the pain 'til it's gone I wanna heal, I wanna feel like I'm close to something real I wanna find something I've wanted all along Somewhere I belong 🎶

🎶 There's something inside me that pulls beneath the surface. Consuming, confusing. This lack of self-control I fear is never ending. Controlling, I can't seem to find myself again. My walls are closing in.. 🎶