My colleague and friend @elainagmamaril.bsky.social has produced this podcast as a part of the @wellcometrust.bsky.social Anti-Ableist Research Cultures project! Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss any of Cripping Research Culture - Ep 1 releases October 2025! 😍 open.spotify.com/show/0f38to7...

Everything is burning and I'm underwater, but does anyone want to do an Andor podcast with me? 😅

"A return to the normalcy of 2019 is a death cult, a fever dream—it is not a sustainable option for anyone in this ongoing pandemic. Disabled or not, those who aren’t taking precautions against COVID infection are living on borrowed time." thisisrachel.substack.com/p/a-trip-to-...

'As masking crip killjoys, we hold together the dual realities that masks are an important, scientifically proven, part of a risk-mitigation protocol and that disabled people have an ambivalent relationship to masking' Hugely valuable points re: the complexities of access friction & crip worlding.

@danielpjones.bsky.social and I wrote a thing!

I have reached the point in grant-writing when I am seriously considering devoting my career to advocating for the One Reference Style to Rule Them All Theory.

Some of my favourite foods and recipes have come from friends. I first had chicken and sweetcorn soup at my best friend's house when I was like 12, a Spanish friend taught me to make tortilla when we both briefly lived in Prague, and most recently my adobo fixation c/o @elainagmamaril.bsky.social 🥰

I was just told single-anonymous reviewing, where the reviewer knows who the author is but not the other way around, is a thing. Is this true? This would be so counterproductive.

I lost my phone on the bus and tracked it to the bus depot. The company couldn't find it and has closed my claim. I guess it is stuck in Bus Limbo.

You should be aware that this aromatic identifies as tired. Life is a spectrum: I'm both liquifying and on a deadline. I think you should know this. #AromanticAwarenessWeek

A very thoughtful and reflective session. Message of the day: nurture your inner crip killjoy! Credit to @elainagmamaril.bsky.social

The damnatio memoriae in the latest Severance episode hits too close to home.

Are you disabled, chronically ill, deaf and/or neurodivergent? Do you work in professional, technical, and/or maintenance services in higher education? Well, do I have a survey for you: forms.gle/FQ21ZGsheRCp... Help me plan an online series of activities where we can dream up better workplaces.

The only one who is not required to apologise is my cat. The rest of all y'all best step up.

Congratulations to Dr @danielpjones.bsky.social !! You did it!

Hit me up if you want to discuss the acting choices of 50-ish y/o male Welsh actors.

I'm just a tired crip, asking Gousto to sponsor me.

"There is nothing more crip than crip practicality." - Stacey Park Milbern, in "Crip Genealogies"

Attention @yrfatfriend.bsky.social and @michaelhobbes.bsky.social: Rachel Hollis has published a new book.

i will never enforce or respect a bathroom ban because i simply do not care about legality over morality. you can put w/e you want in your evil little law book and i'm still going to tell you to fuck off, accompany ALL my women friends to the bathroom and if you try to stop us i'll kick your ass

Maintenance Phase released a bonus taste-test episode. Today is a good day.

The work: research Also, the work is translating the research for: - students - own discipline - other disciplines - grant committees - the REF - affected and involved communities -industry partners - portfolios - academic CVs -non-academic resumes - friends & family - people at the pub

I need non-disabled disability studies scholars to check themselves. Your ideal theory and refusal to be "functionalist" is causing harm. Real people need direct action.

The board will not be contributing to this meeting vocally.

The anti-climatic win of toggling "article under review".

I got depressed by MAiD statistics this morning, but now it's time to grant write to the tune of Kendrick's entire discography.

I'm in my feverish, sci-fi, SD Signifier, tattoo window-shopping era. Does anyone want to buy a pet portrait?

Me: I'm writing a grant proposal, a keynote abstract, a co-authored chapter, and I'm working on a co-edited anthology, producing 2.5 podcasts and 2 #Workers4Palestine union events. Also me: I'm in a flare-up brought on by cognitive strain. I will lie down for the foreseeable future.

"To this day, analytic philosophy is the ideology of the status quo. It may seem arcane and largely removed from the real world, but analytic philosophy is a crucial component in upholding liberalism"

Urgent callout for local support (individual/group/mutual aid orgs) from ME allies in *Manitoba, Canada* - please repost. TW DV ⬇️

In 2025, I will dissociate as a treat.

Here's a call for help I did not expect to be making Do I know any medical practitioners or medical historians on here with expertise in STDs? Because I'd just *love* to ask your opinion on an 18thC autopsy report, & exactly what disease it might indicate Who could resist that ?! #18c

To write, I need to find joy in reading. Today, the intro to Crop Genealogies is giving me life. What source do you go to when your writing well is dry?

I'm in my grant-writing era and I'm looking for a soundtrack. I'm currently sampling Mustafa because the vibe is it, but I also need instrumental options. What are you listening to?

My friend Jack and I decided this was the best time to start a spoiler-free Severance podcast. Tune in to the Break Room if you dare. open.spotify.com/episode/4a4D... #SeverancePodcast #RecapPodcast #SpoilerFree

This was my favourite non fiction book of the year! I highly recommend it.

'UK doctors and nurses with long COVID to sue for compensation' 'They say their lives have been devastated by a host of severe health complications. Most cannot return to work and many are housebound' www.context.news/socioeconomi...

Happy first day of #PhiDisSocCh5 ! I attended a wonderful session on Afrocentric Disability. You too can benefit from this all-online conference by registering here: www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/philo... And you can come hear me talk on Friday! @shelleytremain.bsky.social

I'm thinking of running away to become a sticker maker.

The anti-LGBTQ+ account was suspended after just nine days on Bluesky—and users are applauding the X alternative for its actual content moderation.

Dancing through life, having a bed day, resting in soft duvets Life is more painless If my cripness Is left undisturbed So keep dancing through

Day 5: I want other people to know just how demoralising, bureaucratic, and ableist the NHS ethics process is as an openly autistic autism researcher. So there’s currently a thesis chapter about it, but I might be turning it into a journal article. Watch this space (for months) #ResearchAdvent

This was a great read this morning. The choices we make matter. For example, measuring the quality of assessment feedback by counting the characters typed would be a very bad idea, but is very doable. We need to guard against measuring things because we can.

Deadline smashed, time to crash.

Shout-out to @danielpjones.bsky.social who introduced me to body doubling on Twitch. I already have 240 words down on the page today. 😱

2157 more words to go. Send Christmas cookies.

#longCOVID kin, I'm putting together a list of advocacy groups/movements in the US and UK. Comment below if you know of any and if you have found them helpful!

The deadline for this issue of _Feminist Philosophy Quarterly_ on the theme "Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches" is fast approaching! Submit an abstract of your pathbreaking work soon! biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2024/11/22/c...

"The contradiction of having to survive in the oppressive world you are trying to change is always complicated and dehumanizing." - @miamingus.bsky.social , in Forced Intimacy, 2017

Why is it on me as a person constantly worn down and harmed by ableism to change the hearts of people who have decided not to care? As someone forced to confront the reality that people do not care about my immunocompromised self, why is it on me to find magic words that melt people at less risk?