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Melanie “Lemony” Gregg she/her

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Health humanist ◆ Intersecting Minds: A NeuroHumanities Collective (neurohumanism.com) ◆ 🦻🏳️‍🌈♿️ #Neuroqueer #crip ◆ #communicationequity & #disabilityjustice advocate ◆ literary scholar/translator ◆ professor of humanities & #narrativemedicine ◆ happy weirdo🦖

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Melanie “Lemony” Gregg she/her @lemonylemons.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
🧠🎨 "Sensing the Unseen": A virtual exhibition hosted by Art Neureau (of Intersecting Minds: A NeuroHumanities Collective), launched July 7, 2025. #Art #NeuroHumanities #IntersectingMinds #Perception #NeuroArt #ArtAndNeuroscience #HealthHumanities #MedHums #ArtAndNeuroscience #Exhibition
Poster for “Sensing the Unseen: An Art Neureau Virtual Exhibition,” launching July 7, 2025. The design features layered, asymmetrical dark panels on a gray background with floral and organic motifs. The title appears in distressed, art nouveau uppercase lettering at the top. Below it, the tagline reads: “art • perception • human experience.” Centered prominently in bold beige text is the launch date: “July 7, 2025.” At the bottom, “Art Neureau” is written in decorative text. The logos for Art Neureau and Intersecting Minds appear in opposite corners.
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Melanie “Lemony” Gregg she/her @lemonylemons.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Please join Intersecting Minds this Friday at 1:00 PM EST for a conversation with Dr. Bradley Irish. We will be talking with Dr. Irish about his new book Literary #Neurodiversity Studies: Current and Future Directions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025).   Zoom link: emory.zoom.us/j/8811564472
Flyer for an online event. The top left section has black text on a light gray background that reads:
"5/9/2025 AT 1:00 PM EST ON ZOOM
LITERARY NEURODIVERSITY STUDIES
A Conversation with Dr. Bradley Irish, PhD
https://emory.zoom.us/j/8811564472"

The left side of the flyer features a gray circular design with white sparks radiating outward onto a background of gradient blue tones. In the bottom right corner, there is a photo of Dr. Bradley Irish, a white man, smiling, wearing a black short-sleeved t-shirt.  He has a shaved head and awesome tattoos on both of his arms. He is sitting in front of a bookshelf filled with books.
 
 
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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
See WeAreHigherEd.org for a clearinghouse of ways higher ed is fighting back.
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We Are Higher Ed
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Melanie “Lemony” Gregg she/her @lemonylemons.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
REMINDER: #Neuropoetics Conversation this Friday with poet Matt McBride Date: Friday, March 21, 2025
Time: 1 PM (EST)
Location: emory.zoom.us/j/8811564472 #AcademicSky #NeuroSky #NeuroHumanities #MedHums #HealthHumanities #NeuroArt
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Melanie “Lemony” Gregg she/her @lemonylemons.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
This is an enthusiastic reminder that the submission deadline for Art Neureau’s inaugural virtual exhibition, Sensing the Unseen is fast approaching! The deadline for submissions is March 31, 2025. neurohumanism.com #art #artexhibition #academicsky #neuroart #NeuroHumanities #cfs
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Melanie “Lemony” Gregg she/her @lemonylemons.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
IM invites you to join us for a works-in-progress talk today at 1:00 PM (EST): Alison Marie Yelsma (she/her), an epidemiology student in the MPH program at NYU School of Global Public Health, will be speaking about Nutritional Epidemiology & Neurodiversity.  ZOOM: emory.zoom.us/j/8811564472
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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Next week, the brilliant Prof. Tracey Loughran is running a series of online sessions for early career people in the medical humanities. I'm speaking on publishing, but there's also webinars on career opportunities and job applications. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/career-opp...
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Career Opportunities Within and Beyond the Health and Medical Humanities
What career opportunities are available for health and medical humanities researchers?
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Melanie “Lemony” Gregg she/her @lemonylemons.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
📣 Reminder: Art Neureau’s CALL for SUBMISSIONS #CFS #SciArt #Neuroskyence #AcademicSky #EmergingArtists #Neurodiversity #CallForSubmissions #Poets #Artists #ArtAndScience #NeuroArt #NeuroHumanities #MindAndArt #Perception #Multimedia #Choreography #IntersectingMinds #AccessibleArt #InclusiveArt
A digital art poster for “Art Neureau: Sensing the Unseen – Call for Submissions.” The background has a dark, textured appearance with abstract, misty visuals. At the center, there is an abstract rendering of a blue brain with intricate folds, resembling a tree with its stem extending downward like a trunk. The text is in bold, white, slightly distressed font, with the submission deadline stated as “March 31, 2025.” The website “neurohumanism.com” is listed for more information.
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Melanie “Lemony” Gregg she/her @lemonylemons.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
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ACT Training 1: Cutting Through the Chaos · MoveOn
MoveOn’s Action Community Training (ACT) program is an opportunity to join a network of passionate changemakers across the country and gain valuable skills that will supercharge your organizing effort...
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scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Here's a fuller version of that Bertrand Russell quote that's been going around: "The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity..." 1/2 —>
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Ryan Wiggins @ryan-n-wiggins.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Um, hi. Congressional Democrats, exactly WHAT IN THE FUCK (!!!!) ARE YOU DOING?! Can we PLEASE wake up and get this foreign actor the God fearing fuck out of our government?! What exactly are you waiting for? Here is your actual formal invite to this fight. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
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michelle obama is giving a speech in front of a microphone and says `` do something '' .
ALT: michelle obama is giving a speech in front of a microphone and says `` do something '' .
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Whitney Alese @thereclaimed.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Happy: Black history Black present Black future Black love Black joy Black health Black healing Black people Black community Black family Black kids Black culture Black creativity Black ingenuity Black legacy Black innovation Black liberation Black resistance Black existence ...month🖤
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Lindsay Cummings @lindsaybc.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
www.aaup.org/report/again... “Unfortunately, troubling recent events suggest that some administrations are … engaging in what scholars of authoritarianism call anticipatory obedience—that is, they are acting to comply in advance of any pressure to do so.” Absolutely true. #AcademicSky
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Against Anticipatory Obedience
The statement that follows, prepared by a joint subcommittee of the Association’s Committee on College and University Governance and Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, was approved for public...
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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Trying to collect info in one place for folks. Things are moving quickly. The multiply marginalized will be disparately impacted, especially BlPOC, immigrant, and/or queer disabled folks. Here's the round up from week 1.
Week one disability rights watch. What happened? Removal of the accessibility page and all content in ASL from the White House website. The administration sets the tone for what it does and does not value on its official website.Executive Order "ending radical and wasteful government DEI programs and spending". this seeks to terminate all DEI related programs and work within the federal government in the text DEI is sometimes written to include accessibility as DEIAExecutive Order "Ending illegal discrimination and Restoring Merit based Order". Expands the reach of Anti-DEIA tasks including investigating private sector businesses that have any DEI or accessibility initiatives
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Women's Studies Group 1558-1837 @wsguk.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Another great #CFP for our followers - please share. #WomensHIstory
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Melanie “Lemony” Gregg she/her @lemonylemons.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Millions of disabled students rely on federal protections and funding. It is scary to think about those disappearing. #DisabilityJustice
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Melanie “Lemony” Gregg she/her @lemonylemons.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
“Photo-Elicitation with Autistic People.”Join us for a fascinating talk with Dr. Ariel Cascio, Friday, Jan 24 at 1 PM EST. #IntersectingMinds #NeuroHumanities #AutismAndWork #Neurodiversity #SocialJustice #DisabilityResearch #InclusiveWorkplace #Autism #AcademicSky #AutismResearch #AcademicResearch
Flyer for an Intersecting Minds Works-in-Progress Talk featuring Dr. Ariel Cascio, an Anthropologist, Bioethicist, Autism Researcher, and Assistant Professor at the Center for Bioethics and Social Justice in the College of Human Medicine at MSU. The talk is titled “Photo-Elicitation with Autistic People: Exploring Meanings of Autism and Work.” The event is scheduled for January 24, 2025, at 1:00 PM EST, and will be held online via Zoom at https://emory.zoom.us/j/8811564472. The background of the flyer is dark blue with subtle tie patterns, and it includes a photo of Dr. Cascio in professional attire, smiling, on the bottom right. The top features the Intersecting Minds logo.
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Melanie “Lemony” Gregg she/her @lemonylemons.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Preventive healthcare is the foundation of a healthier, more equitable society. This Supreme Court case could unravel decades of progress by allowing insurers to deny coverage for essential services. The well-being of millions is at stake. #HealthEquity #HealthJustice
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Has your professional society spoken out? Time for all medical, public health and scientific organizations to speak up. Silence buys you nothing and it tells power what it can do, what it can get away with. We need to act fast.
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Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Disabled and senior people constitute the highest number of deaths in climate disasters like wildfires and flooding due to poor planning and lack of investment by the govt. Something I wrote about wildfires in Northern CA: sf.curbed.com/2018/11/13/1... #LAFires #LAFirestorm2025
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In California wildfires, disabled people may be left behind
"Our lives are at stake and thoughts and prayers are not enough"
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
I read a post earlier from a doctor who was explaining how they saved a life by truly listening to their patient. The problem? They listened because the patient was a young, fit, cishet white man. They described him as “strong”, a father & employed … so they took him more seriously. 🧵
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Melanie “Lemony” Gregg she/her @lemonylemons.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Reminder: Submissions are open for Art Neureau’s juried event, Sensing the Unseen. Interdisciplinary creatives are invited to explore the invisible dimensions of perception, cognition, and the mind. Visit www.neurohumanism.com #CallForSubmissions #ArtAndMind #ScienceAndArt #NeuroHumanities
A promotional graphic for Art Neureau's call for submissions titled "Sensing the Unseen." The text reads: "Art Neureau: Sensing the Unseen. Call for Submissions. Deadline March 31, 2025." The design features an abstract, organic pattern resembling intertwined branches or neural structures on a textured background, framed in an ornate green border. The bottom left corner displays the website URL "www.neurohumanism.com" alongside a circular logo with intersecting lines and a red dot at the center. The phrase "Intersecting Minds" appears in red script near the lower edge, and a QR code is placed in the bottom-right corner.
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Zachary Weeks | Disability Advocate ♿️ @zacharyweeks.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
🎁 Accessible Wrapping Hack for the Holidays! Gift-opening joy is for everyone! 💚 Make presents easier to open for loved ones with disabilities: 1️⃣ Add a ribbon handle. 2️⃣ Wrap lightly with minimal tape. 🎥 Watch the video for the full hack! #AccessibleWrapping #HolidayHack #CerebralPalsy #yeg
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
1. A teacher in Ohio who has worked at the same public school for 34 years was suspended without pay and threatened with termination for offering four books in her classroom library that contained LGBTQ characters. She's fighting back.
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Ohio teacher suspended for including four books with LGBTQ characters in her classroom library
Karen Cahall has been a teacher in the New Richmond School District in Ohio for 34 years.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 12/12/2024
1. Today, 81 Democrats voted for the NDAA, which pulls care from the trans kids of military service members, in what is seen as a betrayal of trans people by the Democratic party. EITM has published a full, easy to read list of their names, and how to contact.
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81 Democrats Voted To Pull Care From Service Member's Trans kids. Here Are The Names.
81 Democrats have voted for the NDAA bill, which has an anti-trans amendment pulling care from trans youth enrolled in TriCare, the first national anti-trans bill of the modern era.
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Christine D. Baker @klaxoncomms.com · 11/12/2024
I would like a Bluesky setting where it didn’t show me images without alt-text.
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Kevin Howarth @mycodeismyart.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Someone made a LEGO model of a tokamak (a style of magnetically-confined fusion device) and I want this so badly, please please support this project so I can buy it for myself for Christmas 🥹🥹🧪 ideas.lego.com/projects/80e...
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MAST Upgrade
MAST-U Tokamak: A Fusion Energy Wonder in LEGO Form!What is it?This LEGO model is a meticulously crafted representation of the MAST Upgrade ...
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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
The access of disabled people should not be at the discretion of nondisabled people.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Witnessed a fight where a disabled person asked folks to stop saying "special needs". Parents of disabled kids screamed it's a better word then disabled. A good reminder that abled parents of disabled children can do a lot of harm by assuming they know just as much about disability as the disabled.
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nwnphoto.bsky.social @nwnphoto.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
We are the #Photography Workshop for people with #intellectualdisabilities. Our goals are 1) #inclusion, both socially and labor; 2) Increase our self-esteem; 3) Give visibility to people with #disability. We are happy to be at #Bluesky and we are ready to build a #community! #BillionStrong
Photograph of a group of six people. They are in an empty office. Three young people are sitting on a white table: on the left a dark-haired girl with glasses, one eye covered by a bandage, wearing a flowered shirt, waving with one hand; in the middle a young girl in a white sweatshirt, waving with both hands; on the right a young boy, with red glasses and a black sweatshirt, smiles and gives his thumbs up. In front of them, on the left, there is an adult woman sitting on a black chair, with a blue ribbon in her hair, the same colour as the scarf she is wearing, dressed in grey sportswear, making the sign of the heart; on the right a boy in a wheelchair. A dark-haired boy with glasses, wearing a green jumper, looks at the camera. On the floor, a young boy, dark-haired with glasses, with Down syndrome, wearing a black T-shirt and jeans, gives his thumbs up.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I mention this all the time in conversations and no one I speak to seems to have heard about it. theconversation.com/ai-is-a-mult...
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AI is a multi-billion dollar industry. It’s underpinned by an invisible and exploited workforce
Data labellers are the lifeblood of the AI industry. Yet they are often paid very low wages, work in unsafe environments and lack basic workplace protections.
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Melanie “Lemony” Gregg she/her @lemonylemons.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
🧵 We’re delighted to announce that our jury for the inaugural Art Neureau Virtual Exhibition, Sensing the Unseen, has been selected! Our 10 interdisciplinary experts in arts, health, and neuroscience are working on establishing the judging criteria. 🎨🧠 #art #neuroscience #NeuroHumanities #medhums
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Melanie “Lemony” Gregg she/her @lemonylemons.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Wow, such an important piece. 💗
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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Compelling CFP for a queer history conference in Copenhagen in May! nors.ku.dk/english/rese...
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Queer Pasts: What’s Queer in Queer History?
International conference.
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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I've been reading more about the hysterectomies among women in Maharashtra for a piece I'm writing and cannot think of a more upsetting example of reproductive oppression at the intersections of gender, capitalism & coloniality Without their periods, the plantations can extract more labor from them
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The Brutality of Sugar: Debt, Child Marriage and Hysterectomies
An investigation into the sugar-cane industry in the Indian state of Maharashtra found workers ensnared by debt and pushed into child marriages and unnecessary hysterectomies.
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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 23/11/2024
“Autistic people should always be involved in research in a meaningful way and should be listened to at every stage of a project. By doing that, researchers can avoid inadvertently doing research that is either harmful to autistic people, or which misinterprets the findings." 🫠
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Why autistic people must be at the heart of autism research
A research project led entirely by autistic people aims to change the way autism research is conducted.
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Ian Kremer @wolverinebear.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
“Loneliness one day may decrease cognitive performance the next day. Then, experiencing decreased cognitive performance can lead to increased #loneliness a few hours later, which may create the long-term relationship between cognitive decline and loneliness.” #Alzheimers #dementia #mentalhealth
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Cognitive decline and loneliness linked in older adults over short time periods | Penn State University
Loneliness and cognitive performance were related in the short term for older adults, according to a new study from researchers in the Penn State College of Health and Human Development.
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Melanie “Lemony” Gregg she/her @lemonylemons.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Health isn’t just the absence of illness; it is a harmony of rest, curiosity, and play. 🐾 #cats #mindfulness #healthhumanism
A collection of digital watercolor and paper-cut out cat illustrations by Lemony arranged in a grid. Each cat is presented within circular frames. Top row: A black-and-white cat with a green watercolor background, a black cat in a red circle resembling a ladybug, and three black cats in a heart-shaped frame. Middle row: A ginger and gray cat duo on a beige background, a sleek white-and-black cat on mauve, and a spotted cat on green with polka dots. Bottom row: A black-and-white cat curled on blue, a Siamese cat against white columns with a blue flower, and a pair of cats—red and black—on a snowy blue background. Playful, abstract designs with soft textures and harmonious colors.
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Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics @pennchibe.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
"People with disabilities are the most extreme example of some of the failures of the health care system. It is definitely leading to health disparities,” Dr. Lagu said at a @pennldi.bsky.social lecture. Read more for suggestions on how to improve patients' experiences. ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/res...
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Lack of Data Hinders Research on Disparities For People With Disabilities
Despite the group’s size—67 million—disabled Americans were not recognized by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) as an official disparities population until 13…
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Melanie “Lemony” Gregg she/her @lemonylemons.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
"Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible." — Paul Klee On Modern Art. Trans. by Paul Findlay (Faber & Faber, 1966). Intersecting Minds “Sensing the Unseen” neurohumanism.com/call-for-sub... #CallforSubmissions #ArtAndPerception #IntersectingMinds #ArtNeureau #NeuroHumanities
A textured abstract artwork by Lemony featuring a grid of nine sections, each with colorful circular and semi-circular designs. The circles and arcs overlap in dynamic compositions, using shades of orange, teal, yellow, black, and white. The image has a distressed, painterly look with visible brushstrokes, scratches, and a rough, handmade feel. The background is beige with subtle grain patterns, enhancing the organic, layered aesthetic. The design emphasizes symmetry and contrast, blending geometric precision with artistic spontaneity.
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Shannon Palus @shanpalus.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
"Congratulations! You didn’t die of measles." @laurahelmuth.bsky.social on the miracle of vaccines are, and the dangers of RFK Jr. slate.com/_pages/cm3qc...
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There Are Three Main Reasons You Are Alive Right Now. RFK Jr. Is Fighting Tooth and Nail Against One of Them.
Things could get really bad.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 19/11/2024
A brief thread on alt-text. Alt text is descriptive text that conveys the meaning of an image. It's designed to make visual content accessible to people with vision disabilities. When a person uses assistive technology such as a screen reader, the screen reader will read the onscreen text aloud 1/7
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Okay, one of the things Twitter was really good for was sounding the alarm & driving calls to Congress when terrible legislation came up for a vote. Bluesky, IT'S TIME. H.R. 9495 would allow Trump to shut down any nonprofit by claiming they're "terrorists" www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/no-o...
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SuzyQ @suzyqfit4u.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Family includes everyone! ❤️
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jess rauchberg @jessrauchberg.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
my latest with @jessmaddox.bsky.social is out this morning in @femmediastudies.bsky.social! We propose influencer snark as a feminist media practice to address concerns of credibility, authenticity, and representation in the influencer industry. please share!!! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XZSZD...
The abstract for Jess and Jess's article on influencer snark
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Melanie “Lemony” Gregg she/her @lemonylemons.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
As a user of AI-powered #AAC (Assistive and Augmentative Communication) technologies, I recognize both their potential and the significant risks they pose. These devices collect vast amounts of sensitive, extractable data—everything from basic usage patterns and location to detailed biometrics.
A two-column infographic titled "Data Collected by AI-Assistive AAC Software and Devices" and "Information That Can Be Used for." The left column lists data collected: Device usage, User location, Facial recognition, Voice recognition, Heart rate, Galvanic Skin Response, and Touch Dynamics. The right column lists potential uses of this information: Identity theft, Tracking movements/routines, Revealing health conditions, Revealing emotional state, Manipulation, Device hijacking, and Discrimination. A pixelated design separates the two columns, and citations are listed in small text at the bottom right, referencing various sources from 2016 to 2023. The background is a gradient of black and red tones. The author of the infographic/slide is Melanie E. Gregg
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Puneet Singh Singhal @puneetsiinghal.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Accessibility is constantly evolving. Don’t fall into the trap of thinking you’ve learned it all. The needs of people with disabilities vary, and so do the tools and solutions available to meet those needs. Stay curious, stay humble. #Disability #SDGs #HumanRights #Accessibility #Technology #a11y
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