So many autistic people use (or don't use but could benefit from) AAC apps, whether symbol, text, or typing-to-speech. And now @assistiveware.bsky.social is having an app sale, in which all their AAC apps will be 50% off, from October 8-15. www.assistiveware.com/aac-app-sale #AACawarenessMonth

Good morning. Black oystercatcher on the rocks. 🪶

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

“the government cannot condition a benefit on a recipient having to give up a constitutional right.” Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Speaking of institutions collapsing in the face of actual fascism...

Wow, NEA, have far you've fallen.

Cordelia Fine has a new book ✨

We know that nonspeaking people have #MoretoSay. October is AAC Awareness Month, and AAC app maker @assistiveware.bsky.social is celebrating with a short AAC understanding video. Please watch, take to heart, and share. youtu.be/jGpglhW7I54?... #AACawarenessMonth #nonspeaking #neurodiversity

Much as I dislike Newsom in general, this is the way. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Instead of asking specific undergrads to join some of my academic projects I just tell my class that in undergrad I completely did not understand I was being invited to join a professor's project and was too shy and weird to know to accept and get that experience. I regret it, but I'm here anyway 1/

In classes I constantly say, "My grandmother was two years old" or "my mother was born that year" or "when I was six" to anchor dates in the field for students. Numbers don't do much for me, but if you tell history like that I can figure out how "far" away it is or how close. It has it's limits...

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That and I may have written something about this too. I'm really pro kids having books.

Gonna say it again, assign asking question to your students. It's so helpful. They need the practice in loosening up and wondering. It helps teachers figure out what students are confused by &interested it. The interaction is personal and caring. #EduSky

I have mixed feelings about this...

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RACISM COSTS EVERYONE, SHE SAID WE ARE AT THE COSTING EVERYONE PART www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/564989...

The basic infrastructures that allow women to be participants in public life—birth control & abortion access, no fault divorce, childcare access & affordability, civil rights law in employment and public accommodations, the minimal efforts to mitigate sexual and domestic violence—are all crumbling.

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Updating lecture for tomorrow and look who I found in my photos! Such a cutie! Carcinus maenas is native to the Mediterranean Sea. This curious littel one was photographed in Rapallo, Liguria! #LaMiaLiguria #MediterraneanSea 🦀🦑

I really want to like this podcast and they keep starting with 5 minutes of in the middle of the conversation before going to the intro where they tell you what the conversation is about --- and I hate it.

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Did he (not his estate) give the rights for this? Because otherwise it feel so deeply disrespectful.

What a time to teach Counseling Div Pops and pretty much another other counseling class...

Undergrad instructors, please warn your students going into clinical field about the clusterf-ck that is going to a non-accredited graduate program. They don't know how much work it will be to prove the board that you meet the edu reqs. It's too new and too far in the future.

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Surprise. (sarcasm)

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Excellent Mooncake press!! ✨

Yeah, not listening to damn thing Ezra Klein has to say anymore.

This is kinda incredible that renters from multiple units in a realtor's portfolio are organizing for tenants' rights.

Brahms tomorrow

I took the Corsi-Rosenthal box from my classroom on campus so I could put new filters on it because the ones on it look like they have been on it for years

And yet, we're all paying for it. With our money, our culture, our safety, our privacy, our labour, and our planet's ecosystem.

Rebranding recorded presentations as "assets" is ridiculous.

Just in case you are still take commercial genAI seriously

The latest version of The Lost Art of Listening has changes in it that are disappointing. Both ignoring a way that autistic people communicate and that text based communication can be a positive form of communicating and listening.