It's been 7min into the first assignment of the term. I already have a paper cut. This workplace hazard has yet to be addressed in my workplace safety training...

Pondering the Canadian paradox of wanting to get home quickly on a snowy day but driving so recklessly that none of us will get home alive. Did these people never learn the adage "haste makes waste"?

A real honour to sit in solidarity with some wonderful advocates on CBC's The National last night. Reminder: service dogs are necessary accessibility tools and to deny someone a ride who requires one violates their rights as a disabled person.

Well it appears as though I’ve unintentionally conditioned my dog to believe that books mean it’s time to go outside. So, now, whenever I touch a book she loses her marbles, runs around the house and excitedly barks. I’ve accidentally made a literacy cheerleader… #CorgiLife

Two of the four major federal political parties have called me this afternoon to poll my voting intention. Will I run the board? Only a few hours left for the PCs and Greens to pick up the phone!

Friday Round Table! @jeffpreston.bsky.social and Jared Zaifman joined me at the Covent Garden Market studio to talk LTC blow up, Ark Aid funding debate and federal election round up! #ldnont classicrock981.com/blogs/thecra...

Just achieved inbox 0 for the first time since 2023... 😱

JOIN THE BLUE-vement! Letter to city council of #LdnOnt Ontario to stop using X (formerly Twitter) for official city communication> Letter here: www.inthemargins.ca/london-stop-... City council contacts here: london.ca/government/c... Big shoutout to @sameervasta.bsky.social. 👏

We really are just going to repeat the 1900s eh?

Is Office down for anyone else or is just me living a blissfully disconnected Monday...?

The toxic trait of saying "no" to an opportunity feeling like cutting off a finger...

REMINDER: Applications are due TOMORROW (Feb 18th) for the 3-year LTA position in #DisabilityStudies at King's. Spend your Family Day submitting an app to join our little DS family 🥳 Apply at: kingsuwo.hiringplatform.ca/processes/20...

Friday Round Table! @jeffpreston.bsky.social, Cheryl Miller and Shawn Lewis joined me to talk #ldnont council homelessness plan, rising rents and provincial election campaign! Good conversations, listen in! classicrock981.com/blogs/thecra...

Had a blast recording this with Hollis. A perfect listen for a snowy Thursday afternoon!

It's official folks, I have an above the fold level face! Not included in the article: thoughts on how the current sidewalk clearing in London is an excellent recruitment method for the #disability population 😅

Does @londonjazzass.bsky.social have the best handle in the skies? Definitely possible. Do I have the maturity of a pre-teen? Also, definitely possible.

Okay obvious Kanye's most recent antisemitism Nazi/Hitler love meltdown on the other site is deplorable but this one legitimately made me giggle. If I find out this is a fake tweet I'll be so disappointed...

Free and online: On February 27th I'll be doing a session about the digital #accessibility legal landscape at the Axe-Con Accessibility conference. Session page with link to register: www.deque.com/axe-con/sess... #a11y #disability

Doug Ford speaking with supporters about Trump at an event on Monday: “On Election Day was I happy this guy won? 100% I was. Then the guy pulled out the knife and f**ing yanked it in me”

Made an absolute rookie mistake today when I left for campus to do some afternoon grading and didn't bring any snacks

I don’t always synchronize my tea mug with my lecture content but today I had no choice but to bust out this custom beauty 🥰 #PissOnPity

Anyone else missing the golden age of video games? youtu.be/ybgMO_nzDsg?...

Pretty tired of the nanny state smh

The bluesky experience: Oooh I have a new follower 😍 Oh...it's an OF spam account 😮‍💨

Well, friends, with today's announcement of the Canadian Parliament being prorogued until late March and the end of Justin Trudeau's Prime Ministership, we can only ask one thing: Can Parliament actually fix the CDB before July 2025 or are disabled people being set last? /1

My inbox upon realizing it's day 1 of winter term...

Had a great time catching up with Hollis and continuing our convo on media & disability! Check it out when it drops!

My pups all day: sleep sleep sleep very tired and quiet My pups the moment I am called for a radio interview:

...restart the count...

As someone who grew up with #StarWars, it was *very* cool seeing some complex disability representation in this week's episode of #SkeletonCrew. I hope they continue to build on these explorations of dis/ability and it wasn't just a one-off episode...

Here is an article I had published a number of years ago in the Postgraduate Journal of Medical Humanities titled ‘The Development of the Subject: Conjoined Twins and Development Discourse in the National Geographic Channel’s The Girl with Eight Limbs’: www.exeter.ac.uk/media/univer...

Some balanced reporting from @theglobeandmail.com, including references to our 2024 #accessibility / accommodations review of Queen's. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Need mentors in AEST! #DisabledInSTEM

Me, as Dept Chair, approving the final grade submission for my own class

Profs in December be like

[1/2] The Federation is proud to announce this year’s five #CanadaPrizes recipients, representing the most inspiring, impactful, and transformative scholarly books in the #HSS recently funded by the Scholarly Book Awards. @cottonlizotte.bsky.social @celesteeorr.bsky.social @priendeau.bsky.social

Me, this morning: First in-person exam since COVID. So excited! Me, 10min into exam: I hate proctoring this is the worst when will this end why is this happening please let it stop

Some great reporting by @cbc-news.bsky.social in #ldnont re: accessibility and snow removal. I was able to get out and about yesterday downtown but outside of the core still looks preeetty dicey. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Why does #Canada spend billions more than other nations building subways, commuter and light rail? Because it's too parochial to peek outside its Anglosphere rut. That's the conclusion of @chittimarco.bsky.social + other researchers... 🧵

Am I the only one a little leery about the notion of "patenting" #accessibility? Glad that EA is making these tools available for free but boy howdy does this make my skin crawl... www.windowscentral.com/gaming/ea-do...

Hi, #BookSky! I’m an autistic, queer, and disabled award-winning author and anthology editor. Here are three books featuring disabled heroes! Iris and the Crew (S1): books2read.com/iatcS1 Nothing Without Us: books2read.com/nwu Nothing Without Us Too: books2read.com/nwutoo #Disabilty #SFF #CanLit

Officially the hobbit of snow days. Snow Day 2: Icey Boogaloo!

Me, totally a serious and legitimate adult, when the "Campus is closed" email hits my inbox this morning

In 1906, Harvard's president suggested universities should "purge themselves" of the "monstrous evils" of college football. Instead, last week, an Alabama A&M player died from a foreseeable injury suffered on the field. We explain why it's time to listen in @us.theguardian.com.

I’m a disabled person living in Canada. My conditions are incurable - but there ARE treatments. I would be considered a “high cost health user” because I’m medically complex. The first time a doctor brought up assisted dying - it was in response to my requesting an expedited GI consult /1 🧵

The whiplash of going from lecture mode to marking mode in ~24h is just one of the joys of being a professor in December.

Continuing evidence that we're trapped in a Black Mirror episode...

Everyone panicking about the rapid snowfall to start December and I'm like "Y'all go outside...?" #JustWinterCripThings