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BW @besswww.bsky.social · Nov 13

Great to see that so many people are joining bsky. A little hard to sort the people I know from followers via starter pack so if you joined recently and know me (IRL or thru the old place/other networks) pls like, comment or dm so I don't miss you!

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BW @besswww.bsky.social · 14m

Nope, no one I am in circles with jokes like this. Please stop normalizing it and note that if you joke like this, you are not just being a regular human.

BW @besswww.bsky.social · 17m

Need more detail on research spaghetti

BW @besswww.bsky.social · 3h

Can we retire the "father of.."? (Mother Jones' headline not the author's). Especially for Disability Rights where interdependence, not individual leadership is key, and where there are many prominent mother/advocate figures, notably Zona Roberts. As well as many problematic parents (not her though)

BW @besswww.bsky.social · 3h

Great to see this new bio of Ed Roberts, one of the key figures in the US Disability Rights Mvmt. Looks like great detail on the legislative and politics work he did beyond what he's best known for in Berkeley.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The radical life of the father of independent living

A new book explores disabled activist Ed Roberts' revolutionary career.

www.motherjones.com

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BW @besswww.bsky.social · 4d

Following this thread!

Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 4d

Do you have a favorite academic book cover?

BW @besswww.bsky.social · 4d

Am a fan of the Vibe Check podcast just to get to listen to these 3 great friends who are super smart, caring, knowledgeable, and love dogs and music and poetry.

And if you need a super cathartic, absolute takedown of Bari Weiss today, go to about 35 min
pca.st/episode/daa5...

An Abundance of White Mediocrity

pca.st

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 21d

I think…people’s obsession with “a cause”…is precisely because autism’s genetic randomness is hard to stratify by social class……………..

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BW @besswww.bsky.social · 11d

truly. the book is a model for me as a non autistic person writing about neurodiversity, for exactly those reasons.

BW @besswww.bsky.social · 11d

fascinated by the fine print of this

Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 12d

The Trump-Epstein statue is back up: 'Like a toppled Confederate general'

A statue of President Trump and Jeffrey Epstein has been reinstalled in the National Mall after being taken down by the National Park Service a little over a week ago.

www.latimes.com

BW @besswww.bsky.social · 19d

Agree. I am a bumbling (clumsy/disorganized) woman Prof and I don't think it adds positively to my profile. Margaret Price actually writes about this in the brilliant Mad at School about mental disability & academia.

BW @besswww.bsky.social · 19d

People will say the younger generations aren't tough but I'm at an outdoor concert where it's upward of 80 F and people are wearing sweatshirts and tweed jackets.

Horrors for my perimenopausal eyes.

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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 23d

I'm thinking of this piece I wrote way back in June 2014, about the problematic assumption that when you're a starting PhD student or PGR who is disabled, you'll know what access support you'll need, even though you've never done a research degree before

phdisabled.wordpress.com/2014/06/11/t...

The Adjusted PhD: What Accommodations Work(ed) For You?

Today I initiated conversations with my new institutional home’s Disability Support Services. As a disabled postgraduate researcher returning to PhD study after a previous unsuccessful attem…

phdisabled.wordpress.com

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BW @besswww.bsky.social · 26d

We're having a whole emergency town hall about it based on student demands and I'm so excited / relieved

BW @besswww.bsky.social · 27d

I've gotten so many spam calls lately I've started answering them to see what kind of calls they are. Scary thing is not knowing if this corny sounding dude is just really skilled at trying to turn this conversation around to get my personal info, or if that dude is a bot that is very good at that.

BW @besswww.bsky.social · 27d

Oh I didn't know this!

Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 27d

When creating PDFs, avoid using "Print to PDF." A screen reader user may still be able to access the text of PDFs created this way, but heading structure, alternative text, and any other tag structure will be lost. Using "Save As" or "Export" can preserve these tags.

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BW @besswww.bsky.social · 28d

It's been interesting to read, and I have it set up as "pick 2" assignment (pick 2 out of a possible 6 weeks to do this) so they come in small batches that help me get to know them a little more since I can spend more time, plus they have a bit of personality writing-wise.

BW @besswww.bsky.social · 28d

in my search for more writing that is less AI susceptible and engaging in general, I had a new type of assignment this semester - "week in review," where students look back over class notes, slides, and our online whiteboard to summarize what we discussed and their assessment of what they learned.

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