It's been six weeks and I still expect to see him when I turn around. I miss his sweet face so much. Some days are harder than others, and today is really hitting me. It doesn't help that FB thinks I need ads from four different pet insurance companies. 🙃 (Yes I tried muting. It didn't work.)

Call for Chapter Proposals for Disability Justice in Libraries. deadline December 1, 2025 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

A new special issue of English Studies I'm really keen to put together! Please consider submitting and circulate widely! @drchrislouttit.bsky.social bookshoplit.com/cfp-booksell...

Deaf and Deaf-adjacent folks, I need some help. I have a student who needs to hire a writing coach that specialises in helping folks who are primarily ASL speakers write in English. Where do I look to find one who is able to assist with dissertation-level academic writing? Does anyone know someone?

I'm very grateful that my postdoc fellowship comes with money for research travel. However... booking said travel is testing the limits of my patience. 😅 No, I do not want a layover when direct flights are available. I especially don't want a layover when the direct flight is only an hour??

Researchers at the University of Alberta are looking for people 18+ in Canada who speak Punjabi, Arabic, Ukrainian, or Tagalog to participate in the study "Language translation of knowledge mobilization resources: A randomized trial" #ParticipateInResearch redcap.ualberta.ca/surveys/?s=P...

The new Children's Booker Prize is brilliant for kidlit - did you know that even more brilliantly, translations are included? This is a big step towards recognising the contribution translation makes to UK children’s literature. Read my article with Emma Page here 👇 tinyurl.com/52uva3mr

PhD Opportunity at UCL – Tactile Sign Language & DeafBlind Communication. Funded PhD at DCAL exploring tactile BSL and DeafBlind interaction. UK only. Deadline 1 Dec 2025. www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...

My students and I were really lucky to have a visit from @ellenforget.bsky.social yesterday to talk to us about the history of tactile scripts and how Braille works, and show us her wonderful collection of Braille texts and devices! One student: "How did you get into doing SUCH COOL RESEARCH?"

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

As we come to the end of our @edicaucus.bsky.social funded 'Divergent Minds in the Archive' project, we're delighted to invite you to 'Accessing Archives and Collections: Disability, Neurodivergence, Chronic Illness' - a free online symposium on 17th and 18th November. 1/n

Still no word from my baby sister. If you see news from St. Mary’s parish or Gayle specifically please tag me. #MelissaAftermath #Jamaica #HurricaneMelissa

It's official! I had my doctorate convocation yesterday at University of Toronto. It feels good to have finally celebrated this milestone. Defending on Zoom just didn't feel quite final and celebratory.

#BookHistory friends, any tips for an archives/museums research trip? I'm already in contact with all locations, dates planned, materials planned. Looking for tips for when I'm there and doing the work. Thanks!

Don’t assume that you know the access and accommodation that are needed by disabled people. Ask disabled people.

Shoutout to the #Dyspraxia Reddit community for doing the good work of recommending books on dyspraxia by #Dyspraxic authors to the rest of the #DCD community that are actually good, including my own! www.reddit.com/r/dyspraxia/...

Sometimes, the devil is in the details. When scanning this book from 1531, something went wrong badly. Not one page is complete, only nonsense scans. This is #bookhistory too. A story of mistakes and #digitization gone wrong.

The news is out and so is the Call for Volume 5 of the Electronic Literature Collection. Thanks to an army of translators it's available in a bunch of languages 🎉 Questions: contact @zachwhalen.bsky.social @videlais.bsky.social Dani Spinosa or me @ elcvol5 [at] gmail [dot] com Please share widely!

EXCITING NEWS: Accessibility Standards Canada's Plain Language Standard is now out, just in time for #InternationalPlainLanguageDay! Since 2020, I've been on the technical committee that developed this standard, so it's great to see it out in the world. accessible.canada.ca/news/accessi...

[TW pet death] It's snowing. The first snowfall of the season. My only wish when we found out that Moscato was sick was that he'd make it to the first snowfall. He loved snow so much. He missed it by only two weeks. I miss him. I'm not okay.

With our new issue, we are making the sad announcement that this will be the final year for On Spec. See www.onspec.ca for details.

I've got a student who would love to do some #PhD research on #TouretteSyndrome and the dismantling of the invisible/visible disability binary. Is there anyone in my network in the UK who is accepting #SocialScience PhD students / sponsoring them for #ESRC funding? #TS #AcademicSky

I would LOVE to chat with anyone who has read decarcerating disability, I am trying to wrestle with stuffs in it, it’s my first time reading it

Can anyone recommend an academic audiobook that was well done? Looking for a good example of how to handle citations, footnotes, bibliography, etc. in audiobook format. Ideally an academic monograph. Please only recommend if you've read the audiobook and thought it was well done.

Can anyone recommend an academic audiobook that was well done? Looking for a good example of how to handle citations, footnotes, bibliography, etc. in audiobook format. Ideally an academic monograph. Please only recommend if you've read the audiobook and thought it was well done.

I’ve been reviewing a lot of EPUBs for publishers lately and have noticed some themes. If making digital content is part of what you do, maybe you’ll find it useful. #a11y #eprdctn laurabrady.ca/blog/ebook-a...

Reminder to spread the word about exciting OPPORTUNITY as PKP's Managing Director! It's a very exciting time at @pkp.sfu.ca. So much going on! A true scholar-led open infrastructure project, supporting 55,000+ journals. Read more: pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h... #scholcomm #openaccess #openscience

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

A friendly reminder to please use alt text when you post images. Some of you are posting really cool things that I'd love to share, but I won't repost anything without alt text. If you struggle to remember, there's a setting you can turn on that will remind you to add it before you post.

October is blindness awareness month and you might have noticed that recently I've been talking more about vision in general lately. I'm going to answer some common questions and give you some facts. First, blindness is a spectrum. Only 10% of us see nothing, most have residual/some usable vision

Only one of us is going home happy tonight. 🏒

"Too often people underestimate what people with disabilities are really capable of ... the false belief that disability somehow limits intellect or ambition, in reality those assumptions say more about their own biases than they do about the individual." 👏

“Friction comes when that reach for recognizability gets tangled up in trying to represent minoritized identity.” Getting ready to give a lecture on book cover design and re-reading this excellent essay. thewalrus.ca/the-hidden-r...

Really unfortunate side effect of the Canada Post strike.

Totally agree with this - I use a foot brace to help me walk and had to buy 2 different size trainers to make it work… Just do it: Why I'm challenging Nike, Puma and Adidas over single shoes - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cewnje717rqo

I won't be viewing or supporting the new HP HBO show. We already had a definitive adaptation of the wizarding world. I truly wish those resources had gone to adapt another fantasy series. There are SO many genre authors who deserve that kind of high budget visibility.

Grief is so odd. Sometimes I can think about Moscato and look at pictures of him and feel joy and love for the time we had together. Other times I completely break down. Friends have told me that returning to normal routine can help, but my routine revolved around caring for him.

JOB ALERT: Assistant Professor of Art at Smith College, focusing on artists’ books and artist publications: apply.interfolio.com/173234?fbcli...

The house feels lonely and wrong without him. I'm not sure which is worse: seeing an empty dog bed or seeing empty space where there used to be a dog bed.

I just finished recording my course materials for @albertocairo.com's Open Visualization Academy. 🎉 I'm looking forward to being able to share the first-ever comprehensive online course on Accessibility in Visualization. Stay tuned for this January! openvisualizationacademy.org

[TW pet death] We said our final goodbyes to our sweet, loving Moscato this morning. I am heartbroken, but he was surrounded by love in his final moments. Please give your pets extra love and hugs today.

It's wild for disability to be such a mainstream topic in the news just week. I just hate that it's because of dehumanizing of autistic people.

Alt text doesn't have to be anything elaborate, just 5-10 words that explain what you wanted people to know about. You don't need to describe everything unless it's relevant. And alt text doesn't need to be written in formal writing style either! Just chill.

Hey #DisHist and #CanHist friends! My student wants to write about faith healing! Do you know of any good secondary sources? I'm so excited to learn about this with her. 🎉🎉🎉 #History please share 💕

Alexa Heinrich's Accessible Social is a free resource for digital marketers, communication professionals, content creators, everyday social media users, and anyone who wants to learn how to make their content accessible for people with disabilities. www.accessible-social.com

wonderful alt text imo--descriptive/functional and also hilarious--also i am aiming for a fish 1 kind of day

Interesting. This post is the first time I've used braille characters on BlueSky. On my computer, the characters look correct. On my phone, one character looks incorrect. The apostrophe is dot 3. The closing single quote mark is dot 6, then 356. On my phone, the 6 looks like a 3. I wonder why.

Does anyone have any good recommendations for speech to text software for Linux? The systems on Android work pretty well but I'd really like to use it on my desktop computer.

I'm proofreading a braille text. I noticed that the software coded most apostrophes as closing single quote marks, which is an entirely different character(s) in braille. ⠄ = apostrophe ⠠⠴ = closing single quote mark This is why we proofread. Don't trust automated transcriptions (or translations).

Very cool to see Amanda Leduc's newest book on the Giller longlist! Wild Life is Leduc's third book published as a born-accessible book—in traditional commercial formats as well as accessible digital formats and braille. Love to see support for disabled authors and stories and accessible books.