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Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate actor & advocate with #Parkinsons disease Michael J. Fox & #Deaf Canadian #geologist Dr. Donald J. Kidd!

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#Parkinson's #MichaelJFox #HearingLoss #DisabledInSTEM #DeafInSTEM #geology #Gallaudet #Canada #PhD #accessibility

Michael J. Fox in a dark suit and shirt and short brown hair raises his fists and smiles. He is seated next to Muhammad Ali in a dark jacket, purple shirt, and patterned tie.

Cover of geological report by Dr. Donald J. Kidd. The title reads Iron Occurrences in the Peace River Region, Alberta.

June 15, 2025 at 7:10 PM Everybody can reply

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Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate #deaf #physicist, #engineer & co-inventor of the #teletypewriter Robert Weitbrecht! #GoAhead

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#TTY #DisabledInSTEM #DeafInSTEM #AtomicHands #telephone #history #EduSky #STEM #A11Y #UCBerkeley

An aging Robert Weitbrecht sits at a desk and points to his TTY device as an older man, James Marsters, looks at it over his shoulder. Weitbrecht wears a long-sleeved plaid shirt and glasses and has wispy graying hair and male-pattern baldness.

April 12, 2025 at 5:51 AM Everybody can reply

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Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we remember #Deaf #Norwegian #astronomer Olaf Hassel & the #coronation speech of King George VI.

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#TheKingsSpeech #stuttering #stammering #stutter #DisabledInSTEM #DeafInSTEM #HearingLoss #DeafGain #Oslo #accessibility #EduSky #stars

Olaf Hassel on a deck with two telescopes.

King George VI wearing royal regalia seated on a throne as the Archbishop of Canterbury places a crown on his head. He is surrounded by dignitaries and members of the clergy. The scene is set in a grand ceremonial hall.

May 17, 2025 at 11:37 PM Everybody can reply

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Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate #Deaf American agricultural #bacteriologist Dr. Harold J. Conn!

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#accessibility #a11y #DeafGain #HearingLoss #bacteriology #agriculture #DeafInSTEM #DisabledInSTEM #microbiology #CropHealth #plants #SoilMicrobiology

Harold J. Conn in a dark suit, tie, and glasses sitting at a desk with a glass container and dropper. Next to him is a microscope and several glass bottles.

June 2, 2025 at 1:03 AM Everybody can reply

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Photos: Sue Thomas F.B.Eye Wiki; Yousuf Karsh (Taussig)

#a11y #DeafInSTEM #SueThomasFBEye #MedicalHistory #medicine #HistoryOfMedicine #TetralogyOfFallot #BlueBabySyndrome #JohnsHopkins #Harvard #UCBerkeley #thalidomide

June 1, 2025 at 6:18 AM Everybody can reply

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Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate #Deaf American #scientist, science educator, and #historian, Dr. Harry Lang!

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#accessibility #a11y #captions #ASL #TTY #technology #DisabledInSTEM #DeafInSTEM #RIT #NTID #ROC #meningitis #StephenHawking #physics #DisHist

Harry Lang with short blonde hair in a dark suit, white shirt, and striped tie sits next to a young Stephen Hawking.

Book cover of Turn on the Words! Deaf Audiences, Captions, and the Long Struggle for Access by Harry G. Lang. The cover features a historical black-and-white photograph of a group of people holding signs while marching in the rain, advocating for captioned programs. In the background, a classroom is shown with students watching a film with captions.

June 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM Everybody can reply

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Photos: Democrat and Chronicle (Bongiovanni); Gallaudet University (Wooten); Kekalove website (Kekalova); Google Doodle (Macnamara)

#vaccine #medicine #urology #HistMed #DeafInSTEM #biology #EduSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky #fashion #AdaptiveFashion #Australia #Gallaudet #RIT #DeafGain

April 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM Everybody can reply

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Tony

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I’m Tony, a deaf med student in Germany.
I share what it’s like to move through medicine without hearing – and why inclusion starts with how we listen.

#MedTwitter #DeafinSTEM
#InclusionMatters

May 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM Everybody can reply

Jennie Pyers

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Ran into this Wellesley College alum while visiting Gallaudet University 😍 #WomenInSTEM #DeafInSTEM

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