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Jeff Preston, PhD

@jeffpreston.bsky.social
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Associate Professor, Disability Studies @ King’s University College. Combobulating students since 2014. Interested in | 🎥 media representation | 💻 technoculture | ♿️ accessibility

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Jeff Preston, PhD @jeffpreston.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Very cool opportunity for #disabled #creators. Get your apps in, people!
dso-orphe.ca
Call For Applications: Toronto International Film Festival 2026 Delegation
Building an accessible and inclusive Canadian screen industry where disabled creatives thrive. Learn more about our work.
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Jeff Preston, PhD @jeffpreston.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Preparing for my mid-week "Man, I should really be writing that article" pontification. An effective way to never actually write anything!
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Manjit Minhas: That's Capital-Efficient!
Alt: Manjit Minhas: That's what you call Capital-Efficient!
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Jeff Preston, PhD @jeffpreston.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Spending the afternoon with the fine folks of the Canadian Musculoskeletal Rehab Research Network, running a workshop on preparing and delivering a TED Talk
Agenda for Day 2 of the MSK Rehab Summer school
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Jeff Preston, PhD @jeffpreston.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Very cool online exhibit on #Disability in the US by the National Museum of American #History. You can check it out for free at:
americanhistory.si.edu
EveryBody
The EveryBody exhibition is an introduction to the history of disability in America, covering politics, relationships, work, technology, health and more.
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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Happy National Indigenous Peoples Day to all Indigenous people across Turtle Island, and beyond! This year marks the 30th anniversary of National Indigenous Peoples Day, a call to celebrate the history, cultures and traditions of First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples across Turtle Island. (1/5)
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Jeff Preston, PhD @jeffpreston.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Sure, Happy Father’s Day…but what about Sons & Daughters Day?? Why we never celebrate THAT? (This post is brought to you by cry baby men who complain about Mother’s Day)
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Jeff Preston, PhD @jeffpreston.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Never thought I’d see #CANMNT win on home soil, let alone a 6-0 blow out. Oh Canada! #WorldCup
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Jeff Preston, PhD @jeffpreston.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Happy @wintersleeptheband.bsky.social Day, #LdnOnt! Hard to believe the first time seeing them live was like 2 decades ago at Call the Office.
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Jeff Preston, PhD @jeffpreston.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
After a couple years learning on #TinkerCAD I've finally taken the plunge, upgrading to #Shapr3D. Really looking forward to digging into this platform! Any other #3DPrinting nerds out here trying new things over the weekend?
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
📣 Last chance to register! Please join us tomorrow at 17:30 for the inaugural lecture of Professor Mercedes Bunz @mrsbunz.bsky.social, Professor in Digital Cultures and Societies @kingsdh.bsky.social. Get your tickets ⬇️
kcl.ac.uk
Culture as Calculation: Technology, Language, and the Machine Learning Turn in Times of Polycrisis | King's College London
Inaugural Lecture: Mercedes Bunz, Professor in Digital Culture and Society
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Society for Disability Studies @disstudies.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Want to help the SDS grow and sustain our yearly activities? We need your help to maintain Disability Studies Quarterly, host an accessible yearly conference, and provide access supports like CART and ASL at our events! The best ways to get involved? #DisabilityStudies #AcademicSky 1/6
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Austin McCoy @austinmccoy.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Does anyone know of any grassroots radical political groups that focus on organizing disabled folks/disability justice? Could also be support groups too. Would be great if they were based in Philly, NYC, or NJ, but they don’t have to be. Please share!
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Jeff Preston, PhD @jeffpreston.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
"An afternoon of zoom meetings" hits differently when it's +28°C vs when it's -15°C
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Gone To The Snow Dogs Husky Wants To Go Outside
Alt: Husky looking out the window, yawning, and asking "Can we go outside yet!"
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Jeff Preston, PhD @jeffpreston.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Apparently Death Cab for Cutie has a new album out because apparently it's Y2K. Expect me to be a very different person in about 60min.
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Tobey Maguire's Edgy Look
Alt: Tobey Maguire looking edgy in Spiderman 3, flicking his emo banks with a grin
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Jeff Preston, PhD @jeffpreston.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
#SummerGoals -- actually start using this app on a consistent basis. Will I succeed? Will I fail? Only one way to find out...
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Cute Bird Singing on Branch
Alt: Bird perched on a branch, chirping away
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Jeff Preston, PhD @jeffpreston.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
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Rat Yummers
Alt: Rat chewing happily with the text “yummers”
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Jeff Preston, PhD @jeffpreston.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
It's been 7min into the first assignment of the term. I already have a paper cut. This workplace hazard has yet to be addressed in my workplace safety training...
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a man is sitting in a bus with his eyes closed and a caption that says `` it hurt real bad gosh `` .
Alt: Napoleon Dynamite sitting in a bus, turning his head and a caption that says "It hurt real bad gosh".
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Jeff Preston, PhD @jeffpreston.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Pondering the Canadian paradox of wanting to get home quickly on a snowy day but driving so recklessly that none of us will get home alive. Did these people never learn the adage "haste makes waste"?
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Jeff Preston, PhD @jeffpreston.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
A real honour to sit in solidarity with some wonderful advocates on CBC's The National last night. Reminder: service dogs are necessary accessibility tools and to deny someone a ride who requires one violates their rights as a disabled person.
youtu.be
Uber drivers called out for leaving service dogs at curb | Go Public
YouTube video by CBC News
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Jeff Preston, PhD @jeffpreston.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Well it appears as though I’ve unintentionally conditioned my dog to believe that books mean it’s time to go outside. So, now, whenever I touch a book she loses her marbles, runs around the house and excitedly barks. I’ve accidentally made a literacy cheerleader… #CorgiLife
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Jeff Preston, PhD @jeffpreston.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Two of the four major federal political parties have called me this afternoon to poll my voting intention. Will I run the board? Only a few hours left for the PCs and Greens to pick up the phone!
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Craig Needles @craigneedles.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Friday Round Table! @jeffpreston.bsky.social and Jared Zaifman joined me at the Covent Garden Market studio to talk LTC blow up, Ark Aid funding debate and federal election round up! #ldnont classicrock981.com/blogs/thecra...
classicrock981.com
Craig Needles Podcast Episode 364: Friday Round Table With Jeff Preston And Jared Zaifman
LTC is officially in council’s hands, we have a new plan for battling London’s homelessness crisis (again) and the Liberals seem to be in control of the federal election. Advocate Dr. Jeff Preston and...
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Jeff Preston, PhD @jeffpreston.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Just achieved inbox 0 for the first time since 2023... 😱
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a man is screaming with the words " unlimited power " behind him
Alt: Emperor Palpatine screaming "unlimited power" while shooting lightning from his fingers.
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Lincoln McCardle @canucklehead-ca.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
JOIN THE BLUE-vement! Letter to city council of #LdnOnt Ontario to stop using X (formerly Twitter) for official city communication> Letter here: www.inthemargins.ca/london-stop-... City council contacts here: london.ca/government/c... Big shoutout to @sameervasta.bsky.social. 👏
inthemargins.ca
Letter to city council of London, Ontario to stop using X (formerly Twitter) for official city communication - Flashing Palely in the Margins
Sameer Vasta is an epistolarian, anthropologist, urban explorer, and over-user of the discretionary comma.
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Jeff Preston, PhD @jeffpreston.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
We really are just going to repeat the 1900s eh?
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Jeff Preston, PhD @jeffpreston.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Is Office down for anyone else or is just me living a blissfully disconnected Monday...?
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Jeff Preston, PhD @jeffpreston.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
The toxic trait of saying "no" to an opportunity feeling like cutting off a finger...
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Jeff Preston, PhD @jeffpreston.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
REMINDER: Applications are due TOMORROW (Feb 18th) for the 3-year LTA position in #DisabilityStudies at King's. Spend your Family Day submitting an app to join our little DS family 🥳 Apply at: kingsuwo.hiringplatform.ca/processes/20...
kingsuwo.hiringplatform.ca
King's University College
Three-year Limited Term Appointment – Disability Studies
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Craig Needles @craigneedles.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Friday Round Table! @jeffpreston.bsky.social, Cheryl Miller and Shawn Lewis joined me to talk #ldnont council homelessness plan, rising rents and provincial election campaign! Good conversations, listen in! classicrock981.com/blogs/thecra...
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Craig Needles Podcast Episode 348: Friday Round Table With Shawn Lewis, Cheryl Miller And Jeff Preston
Council changes direction on homelessness, Londoners can’t afford rising rents and the provincial election continues – with Doug Ford in Washington. Craig is joined in the studio by London Deputy Mayo...
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Jeff Preston, PhD @jeffpreston.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Had a blast recording this with Hollis. A perfect listen for a snowy Thursday afternoon!
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Jeff Preston, PhD @jeffpreston.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
It's official folks, I have an above the fold level face! Not included in the article: thoughts on how the current sidewalk clearing in London is an excellent recruitment method for the #disability population 😅
Front page of Friday's London Free Press, featuring Jeff sitting in the middle of a snowy sidewalk and the headline "'Nightmare,' 'ice rink' sidewalks frustrate Londoners, advocate"
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Jeff Preston, PhD @jeffpreston.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Does @londonjazzass.bsky.social have the best handle in the skies? Definitely possible. Do I have the maturity of a pre-teen? Also, definitely possible.
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a cartoon of lisa simpson sitting in a classroom with the words giggling above her
Alt: Lisa Simpson sitting in a classroom giggling
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Jeff Preston, PhD @jeffpreston.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Okay obvious Kanye's most recent antisemitism Nazi/Hitler love meltdown on the other site is deplorable but this one legitimately made me giggle. If I find out this is a fake tweet I'll be so disappointed...
Kanye tweet that reads "I TURNED DOWN 3 PHOTOS THIS WEEK WITH MAKE A WISH KIDS IN WHEELCHAIRS"
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Lainey Feingold @lflegal.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Free and online: On February 27th I'll be doing a session about the digital #accessibility legal landscape at the Axe-Con Accessibility conference. Session page with link to register: www.deque.com/axe-con/sess... #a11y #disability
deque.com
The Digital Accessibility Legal Landscape - axe-con
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Mark McAllister @markmcallister.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Doug Ford speaking with supporters about Trump at an event on Monday: “On Election Day was I happy this guy won? 100% I was. Then the guy pulled out the knife and f**ing yanked it in me”
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Jeff Preston, PhD @jeffpreston.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Made an absolute rookie mistake today when I left for campus to do some afternoon grading and didn't bring any snacks
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a man in a pink shirt and tie sits at a desk with dang it written on the bottom right
Alt: A man in a pink shirt and tie sits at an office desk, sighing to himself, with "dang it!" written along the bottom
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Jeff Preston, PhD @jeffpreston.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I don’t always synchronize my tea mug with my lecture content but today I had no choice but to bust out this custom beauty 🥰 #PissOnPity
Tea mug with a “Jerry Lewis Pity Party” logo sitting before a computer screen with lecture slide titled “DS1010 Week 4 — The Charity Model of Disability”
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Jeff Preston, PhD @jeffpreston.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Anyone else missing the golden age of video games? youtu.be/ybgMO_nzDsg?...
youtu.be
Video Demo: Guitar Praise
YouTube video by Christianbook.com
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Jeff Preston, PhD @jeffpreston.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Pretty tired of the nanny state smh
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Jeff Preston, PhD @jeffpreston.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
The bluesky experience: Oooh I have a new follower 😍 Oh...it's an OF spam account 😮‍💨
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Disability Justice Network of Ontario @djno.ca · 06/01/2025
Well, friends, with today's announcement of the Canadian Parliament being prorogued until late March and the end of Justin Trudeau's Prime Ministership, we can only ask one thing: Can Parliament actually fix the CDB before July 2025 or are disabled people being set last? /1
1: Slide on red base colour with Justin Trudeau waving good bye and the text below "Bye, Justin. Can Parliament actually fix the CDB before July 2025?" in the foreground. In the background, on a projector screen, text from the Fall Fiscal Update 2024.
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Jeff Preston, PhD @jeffpreston.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
My inbox upon realizing it's day 1 of winter term...
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Greys Anatomy Amelia Shepherd GIF
Alt: Greys Anatomy Amelia Shepherd saying "I'm..I'm, uh...I'm going to explode."
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Jeff Preston, PhD @jeffpreston.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Had a great time catching up with Hollis and continuing our convo on media & disability! Check it out when it drops!
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Jeff Preston, PhD @jeffpreston.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
My pups all day: sleep sleep sleep very tired and quiet My pups the moment I am called for a radio interview:
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Muppet Family Christmas Rowlf GIF
Alt: Two dog muppets saying "Woof woof! Bark Bark!"
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Jeff Preston, PhD @jeffpreston.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
...restart the count...
Cartoon sign that reads "0 days since last writing 2024 on official document".
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Jeff Preston, PhD @jeffpreston.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
As someone who grew up with #StarWars, it was *very* cool seeing some complex disability representation in this week's episode of #SkeletonCrew. I hope they continue to build on these explorations of dis/ability and it wasn't just a one-off episode...
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Ellena D @eld208.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Here is an article I had published a number of years ago in the Postgraduate Journal of Medical Humanities titled ‘The Development of the Subject: Conjoined Twins and Development Discourse in the National Geographic Channel’s The Girl with Eight Limbs’: www.exeter.ac.uk/media/univer...
exeter.ac.uk
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Jeff Preston, PhD @jeffpreston.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Some balanced reporting from @theglobeandmail.com, including references to our 2024 #accessibility / accommodations review of Queen's. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
theglobeandmail.com
As demand for disability accommodations in universities grows, professors contend with how to handle students’ requests
More than 6,000 of the roughly 28,000 students at Queen’s University last year were approved for accommodations by the disabilities office
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