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I love this resource and recommend it all the time!!

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If you’re in the disability justice world, you should be following the new @blackdisabilityins.bsky.social account. So many good things ahead and you’re gonna wanna be in the loop!

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DID YOU KNOW ? 1 in 5 students in the US has a disability. R&D in assistive tech created tools that empower students with disabilities to participate fully in education. Examples include screen readers, speech-to-text software, and adaptive keyboards. Source: Ed.gov Office of Civil Rights (2020-21).

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“The freeze has continued even after top NIH officials acknowledged that continuing to block the funding would violate a federal court order.”

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From the UW-Madison student newspaper, about the cancellation of a Teacher Quality Partnership grant (to one of my colleagues) that supported training of special education teachers for the Milwaukee Public Schools. badgerherald.com/news/campus/...

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Are you going to the CEC Convention in Baltimore? Come to our annual Division reception- Thursday, March 13th at 7:00pm. @DR is hosting with friends from @DLD, @DCDT, @TED, & @DEBH. food, drinks, and free access to the American Visionary Art Museum! 🍷🪩🎨 alt text: flyer with details from above

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Hey BlueSky! Looking to get more involved with policy and advocacy? The TED Policy Committee invites members to apply for a $1,000 sponsorship to attend the Special Education Legislative Summit in Washington DC, July 13-16, 2025. Apply by March 1 at tinyurl.com/TEDSELS25

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👩‍⚕️CDC and Disability Rights 🦼 Before we talk more about disability, we need to address the history of eugenics, ableism and racism that haunts US public health work.

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kansasreflector.com/2025/02/20/k...

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WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

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I talked to the only Department of Education Office for Civil Rights investigator in Alabama, who was terminated in DOGE cuts, for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Special education researchers 🔔 Join us this Thursday at 2:00pm EST for townhall organized by CEC and hosted by leadership from Division for Research, Teacher Education Division, and Division on Career Development & Transition. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Congratulations to Dr. Jenny Kurth! Dr. Kurth has recently won the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Special and Inclusive Education Research (SIER) Special Interest Group Distinguished Researcher Award for 2025. She was nominated by her colleague, @alisonzagona.bsky.social

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My research group is well funded, and I'm terrified. All scientific labs run on slim margins, typically 12-24 months from running out of $. NIH is not reviewing proposals right now- the wave of labs shutting down is looming closer. All scientists are anticipating a major precipice. Options? 1/5

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Kudos to the school administrator who wrote this letter for making it clear to families what happened and who they should blame. This is the way to build a coalition--with a shared adversary and a reason to fight.

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Over the weekend, the Department of Education threatened to pull federal funding from public schools that don’t dump DEI by the end of the month Though the letter lacks the force of law, advocates are warning about this latest attempt to squash diversity efforts

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My favorite from today’s 50501 March in Boston.

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New RiSE publication alert! riseopenjournal.org/article/id/2...

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The WWC is not just a website; it was a promise: a promise that we could do better for our kids by understanding what actually works. Its absence will leave a void that will be deeply felt.

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"The COVID-19 pandemic has been especially hard on individuals with disabilities. New research from [KU] shows that this population is also experiencing long COVID at significantly higher rates than the general population..."

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If people are archiving data and resources, can y’all post osf and other links? So this way we can crowdsource and work smarter not harder about downloading and scraping all the files off the gov websites? #academicchatter On another note this feels like a dystopia 🥲

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Education scholar friends: People don’t necessarily understand the value of education research in the same intuitive way they understand the value of research into cancer, etc. Drop examples of high-impact edu research in the thread below. #edusky apple.news/Atlzcr6jARYG...

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DOGE has cut nearly $1 billion in federal education research, affecting projects to understand challenges such as post-Covid academic recovery; disability issues; behavior problems; and the sharp rise in student absenteeism. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...

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If analyses of disability/ableism are not integrated into the social justice work you’re doing, they need to be.

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The federal changes and cuts to Institute of Education Sciences and other federal Department of Education directly threaten the ability to address the teacher shortage crisis in Kansas and in the US. See more here and consider telling your legislators: exceptionalchildren.org/takeaction?v...

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Very good source to understand indirect costs by Sally Rockey, former Deputy Director for Extramural Activities at NIH. Very thorough and clear. If you want to understand indirect costs or have family or friends who are pestering you to explain IDC, send them this... www.aau.edu/key-issues/i...

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Understanding NIH’s 15% Overhead Cap - by Delip Rao deliprao.substack.com/p/understand...

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UW–Madison responds to announcement about cuts to NIH funding news.wisc.edu/uw-madison-r...

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dear reporters: please try to add alt text on your images! lots of disabled folks use bluesky (along with the rest of the internet) and many others allied in their struggle do not want to share posts that ignore them. i won’t share your posts if you don’t use alt text!

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I am one of these NSF postdocs. NSF has frozen everyone’s access to their salaries and research stipends (that were already awarded) with no information about when they might be expected to be unfrozen. It still appears like we are expected to continue doing our work though.

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I've spent the last decade chronicling how the lies of people like RFK Jr. has actively harmed #ActuallyAutistic people and their loved ones. I spent Kennedy's confirmation with his biggest fans as they repeated his lies. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Why do many disabled people urge you to wear a mask? Because we know how the system works. Viruses can disable you and once you become disabled, doctors won't listen to you, you'll have to fight to receive any assistance, and you'll get denied over and over again. We want you to mask to spare that.

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Today in Hell Yes, Research! Please know that "It is not autism itself that leads to a poor quality of life, but instead, a lack of social support and acceptance." Not awareness. Acceptance. This where our work lies, and we're glad to have you here with us. www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

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Fellow scientists, please consider speaking w/ media about what this means for "regular Americans." The link below is to contact a reporter who's collecting stories about the unfolding NIH situation - pls share anonymously or on record. @anniewaldman.bsky.social www.propublica.org/people/annie...

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By @metrauxjulia.bsky.social "Project 2025’s Plan to Dismantle Public Education—And Screw Over Disabled Kids" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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If you’re not following Aice Wong already, do it. Now.

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SUBMISSION DEADLINE for our special issue of JREE focused on using longitudinal data to address questions related to disability & education. Please submit or reach out before February 1: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

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New research finds that seeing scientists as intellectually humble increases public trust in them, their research, and their recommendations, highlighting the importance of humility in science communication across various fields. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #scicomm

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I'm excited to chat about accessibility and how we can all be #A11y allies! Join me for #EduSkyChat this Tuesday at 6pm PT / 9pm ET. Let’s share ideas and make a difference together! 🌟 #EduSky @karlymoura.com @catetolnai.bsky.social @scandela9.bsky.social @alicekeeler.com

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Even if you have the greatest autism/disability content ever, we're 500% less likely to share it if you don't have alt-text (we don't share stuff without alt-text so we have to write it ourselves). Here are some GOOD guidelines for creating alt-text! www.levelaccess.com/blog/alt-tex...

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Dear society. My disabilities are not “superpowers”. I don’t do things “despite” my disabilities, nor “overcome” them. I manage them as best as possible and suffer the consequences. I am not your inspiration porn. I just want a quiet life, to be accepted. & supported.

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Some of my brilliant colleagues developed a new tool for contextualizing effect sizes for social & behavioral outcomes! ebcontextualizer.shinyapps.io/EmpBench/ described in this article www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Is there a behavior analyst faculty/researcher and/or sped faculty/researcher "starter pack" here? I am just coming over from the other place and need to re create my happy bubble.

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49 states reported a shortage of special ed teachers in 2021, per @usedgov.bsky.social. The need for qualified educators has never been greater. SPARC Center co-directors outline potential solutions here. tsa.ed.gov#/reports edresearchforaction.org/research-bri...

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@lmasonwms.bsky.social shares the vision behind the #SPARCCenter in a recent article with @binghamtonu.bsky.social News. Learn how the center is working to transform and support the #SpecialEducation workforce! 🔗 Read more here: www.binghamton.edu/news/story/5...

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Congrats to #SPARCCenter Co-Principal Investigator Dr. @lizbettini.bsky.social for being awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers by President Biden! Her research is making strides in improving the special educator workforce and advancing inclusive education! 🎉

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Adventures in disabled pregnancy and parenting, a🧵: You need a car seat or you can’t leave the hospital, whether you drive or not.

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