Reposted by Romy S. RasperChristopher Coenen @chrixcoenen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026#THIEL SHALL NOT PASS! #BERLIN 9/24, 5pm: Against #Thiel and his & #Trump 's Fifth Column in the EU !!! Alle raus am 24.9., 17:00, um in #Berlin gegen #Thiel und die Fünfte Kolonne von ihm, #Trump, #Musk & Co. ( #HaltDieFresseSpringerpresse , #noAfD) zu demonstrieren !!! 👉🏻 thielshallnotpass.org 48138
Reposted by Romy S. RasperRomy S. Rasper @romluras.bsky.social · 05/06/2025It‘s pride month Fight transnormativity, policing which expressions of transness seem „acceptable and redeemable“, defining who is worthy to be a rights-bearing subject. Fight the singularization of narratives trans people get to have. There is more than „born this way“. 1/2 121
Reposted by Romy S. RasperStimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 20/05/2026We have 6 recurring events each week: - Solidarity Sesh - Infodumplings - Campfire Learn Together - Watering Hole Hangs - Operations Meeting - Editorial Meeting Join us. stimpunks.org/events/stimpunks.orgEventsWe serve neurodivergent and disabled people and our allies with passion-driven programming organized by our learners. We do concerts, lunch & learns, field trips, art shows, art lessons, dance… 031
Reposted by Romy S. RasperShannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 07/05/2026AI agents for research: - invented fake datasets - p-hacked results - used nonrepresentative datasets - concealed or excused misdeeds But hey, who needs integrity in science!science.orgAI agents may be skilled researchers—but not always honest onesTwo high-profile tools have been shown to make up data and “p-hack” their results 55018
Reposted by Romy S. RasperAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 04/04/2026can we stop allowing asinine techbros to hijack language and policy around the body, ffs. Implicit in the idea of biohacking is this deeply ableist notion that you can "hack" your way out of age, disability and illness. Can we please stop. 510824
Reposted by Romy S. RasperSociety for Disability Studies @disstudies.bsky.social · 24/03/2026New article in the Disability Studies Quarterly journal - vol 45, issue 2 Cyborg Maintenance: The Invisible Work of the Technological Bodymind Joshua Earle (University of Virginia) dsq-sds.org/article/id/6... #DisabilityStudies #AgentialRealism #Disability #Cyborgs 042
Reposted by Romy S. RasperTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 18/02/2026Instead of "the left isn't paying enough attention to these machine gods" they're claiming to build, perhaps we should write an article about how effective altruists brand themselves "left", ask who is writing these articles, and trace their cults and sources of funding. 131972434
Reposted by Romy S. RasperHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/02/2026“Researchers from Johns Hopkins, Georgetown and Yale universities recently found that 60 FDA-authorized medical devices using AI were linked to 182 product recalls, according to a research letter published in the JAMA Health Forum in August.”reuters.comAs AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body partsMedical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ... 241280727
Reposted by Romy S. RasperChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 16/11/2025A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50. I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman. #GiftLink wapo.st/49WOdx1wapo.stAlice Wong, disability rights advocate and wordsmith, dies at 51Alice Wong, a transformational leader for disability rights and justice, who founded the Disability Visibility project to magnify disabled culture, died Nov. 14. 103296777
Reposted by Romy S. RasperKatheterkarambolage @broviacboy.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Gibt es hier Menschen von der LMU München, die mir diese Datei senden könnten? :) ADHD Comorbidities: Handbook for ADHD Complications in Children and Adults doi.org/10.1176/appi...doi.orgADHD Comorbidities | Psychiatry OnlinePsychiatryOnline.org is the platform for all American Psychiatric Association Publishing journals, DSM, and bestselling textbooks, as well as APA Practice Guidelines, and continuing medical education. 187
Romy S. Rasper @romluras.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Today I‘m attending the transdisciplinary transfeminism conference at the Goethe university in Frankfurt (Main)! I’m talking on the intersection of Crip, Queer and Transfeminist Theory in context of future- and technology-making. Very excited! Nervous too, tho cgc.uni-frankfurt.de/transfeminis...cgc.uni-frankfurt.deTransfeminismus | Cornelia Goethe Centrum 010
Romy S. Rasper @romluras.bsky.social · 05/06/2025It‘s pride month Fight transnormativity, policing which expressions of transness seem „acceptable and redeemable“, defining who is worthy to be a rights-bearing subject. Fight the singularization of narratives trans people get to have. There is more than „born this way“. 1/2 121
Reposted by Romy S. RasperNatascha Strobl @nataschastrobl.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Das ist doch absurd grausam. 571906403
Reposted by Romy S. RasperDr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 21/03/2025The guy whose daddy bought his way into Wharton, the guy whose grades were so shitty he's never disclosed them – that guy just destroyed the Department of Education. This is what dystopia looks like. This is what Fascism looks like. 646255906027
Reposted by Romy S. RasperDer Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · 12/03/2025Analysen von Volksverpetzer und welche von Buzzfeed zeigen: Es gab weitaus weniger Berichte zum Anschlag in Mannheim wie zu Magdeburg und München. Weil der Tatverdächtige Deutscher mit Neonazi-Vergangenheit war? www.volksverpetzer.de/analyse/mann...volksverpetzer.deNur halb so viele Artikel zu Mannheim wie zu Magdeburg & MünchenMehrere Analysen zeigen: Es gab weitaus weniger Berichte zum Anschlag in Mannheim wie zu Magdeburg und München. Weil der Tatverdächtige Deutscher mit Neonazi-Vergangenheit war? 271551410
Reposted by Romy S. RasperHelena Steinhaus @helenasteinhaus.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Breaking News: Aus Bürgergeld soll „Grundsicherung für Arbeitssuchende“ werden. Möge die SPD jämmerlich zugrunde gehen. 1812870600
Reposted by Romy S. RasperMirja Nicolas @privilegienschreck.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Ich frage mich, wann sich die Psychosomatik für all das Leid und die toten Menschen mit ME/CFS verantworten werden muss. Ich werde darauf hinarbeiten, dies noch zu erleben. Gute Studie zur (Nicht-)Versorgung von Long Covid und ME/CFS. www.zefq-journal.com/article/S186... 812739
Reposted by Romy S. RasperNatascha Strobl @nataschastrobl.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Eine der beeindruckendsten Zahlen der Wahl in Deutschland ist für mich das Ausrinnen der FDP(!) zur AfD. 890.000 Wähler_innen sind von der (ohnehin schon kleinen) FDP zur AfD gewandert. Über diese Liberalismus-zu-Rechtsextremismus-Pipeline muss man mal ordentlich diskutieren. 1733453650
Reposted by Romy S. RasperTomás Criado @tscriado.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Butler, on point: "Those who celebrate his defiance and sadism are as claimed by his logic as those who are paralyzed with outrage. Perhaps it is time to stand apart from these passions to see how they work, but also to find passions of our own: ..."theguardian.comTrump is unleashing sadism upon the world. But we cannot get overwhelmed | Judith ButlerThose who celebrate his defiance and sadism are as claimed by his logic as those who are paralyzed with outrage 152
Romy S. Rasper @romluras.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Epistemicide is going on in the USA atm. Ressources, knowledge and access are destroyed with the primary goal of complete eradication of marginalized communities. 02515
Reposted by Romy S. RasperColin Dickey @colindickey.com · 25/01/2025If you’re in an institution doing any kind of DEI work, the most important thing to do right now is simply call it something else. Change it to “Community Outreach” & then keep on doing the same important work. When they outlaw Community Outreach rebrand it as “Strategic Partnerships,” rinse/repeat. 4578582016
Romy S. Rasper @romluras.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Musk doing the Nazi Salute is not an autistic thing! But it is an „Aspie Supremacy“ one. Based on eugenicist Hans Asperger, who sorted autistic children into „useful“ and „worthless“ for the Nazis, this fascist ideology within the community should be known and talked about: youtu.be/ui2h_pHDDmkyoutu.be"Aspie Supremacy" - A Deep DiveYouTube video by Ember Green 132
Reposted by Romy S. RasperEdgar Allan Poe™ @deraltepoet.bsky.social · 21/01/2025„Das wirklich beängstigende am Totalitarismus ist nicht, dass er Massaker begeht, sondern dass er das Konzept der objektiven Wahrheit angreift: Er gibt vor, die Vergangenheit wie die Zukunft zu kontrollieren.“ George Orwell (* 25. Juni 1903 - † 21. Januar 1950) Quelle: gutezitate.com/zitat/202829 114031
Romy S. Rasper @romluras.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Highly recommend watching @leslieexp.bsky.social essay, title says it all: youtu.be/lA9eTXWymvoyoutu.bePlague is a Racket: Disaster Capitalism and the PandemicYouTube video by Leslie Exp 032
Reposted by Romy S. RasperTeresa Bücker @teresabuecker.bsky.social · 05/01/2025Ich erinnere mich, wie Freundinnen von mir vor ein, zwei Jahren schon sagten, sie glaubten, dass ihr deutscher Pass irgendwann wertlos sei. Jetzt spricht der Kanzler-Kandidat der Union genau das aus. Die AfD wird nicht überflüssig durch eine Merz-CDU, sie kommt nur noch schneller zum Ziel. 402113532
Reposted by Romy S. RasperLisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 01/01/2025Yes. It’s positive & negative eugenics. 1337
Romy S. Rasper @romluras.bsky.social · 06/12/2024My new tattoo. I got at the end of November this year. As queer crip person, I now wear this deeply held conviction on my skin. If you’re curious the why … 110
Reposted by Romy S. RasperHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 28/11/2024This is one of those examples that illustrates a harm of algorithmic systems that is often invisible—system “predicts” who is likely to miss appointments, and recommends double booking those slots, thus punishing poor people by wasting their time. arstechnica.com/health/2024/... 8354161
Reposted by Romy S. RasperDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 26/11/2024this is a green flag for openai & meta to formally be arbitrators of our languages & mass exploit the population (& researcher that've poured their souls into low resource languages),all to throw unreliable AI that has so far proven to result in more harm than benefit www.reuters.com/technology/a...reuters.comOrange enlists Meta and OpenAI to develop AI language models in AfricaOrange will enlist OpenAI and Meta to fine-tune AI large language models (LLMs) to translate regional African languages for the French telecoms operator, it said on Tuesday. 1221685
Reposted by Romy S. RasperDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/11/2024most people want a quick and simple answer to why AI systems encode/exacerbate societal and historical bias/injustice and due to the reductive but common thinking of "bias in, bias out," the obvious culprit often is training data but this is not entirely true 1/ 25598217
Romy S. Rasper @romluras.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Just got notified via ResearchGate about @ashleyshoo.bsky.social‘s and @cyborgapologist.bsky.social’s recently published „Cyborg-Technology Relations“ article in the Journal of Human-Technology Relations. Really exited to read it later! dx.doi.org/10.59490/jht...dx.doi.org Cyborg-Technology Relations | Journal of Human-Technology Relations 142
Romy S. Rasper @romluras.bsky.social · 01/11/2024So, I finished my contract. More has to be done, maybe there’ll be a paper. But: Who has a need for an Science and Technology Studies researcher, who studies (neuro)prosthetics from a Crip Technoscience perspective? #academia #disability Latest publication: link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comPrototyping Criptical Neural Engineering — Tentatively Cripping Neural Engineering’s Cultural Practices for Cyborg Survival and Flourishing - NanoEthicsThis Discussion Note calls for attention to the cultural practices of Neural Engineering as part of the life sciences as practices and technologies of manufacturing life. Through focusing on Disabilit... 030
Romy S. Rasper @romluras.bsky.social · 22/10/2024The feeling and boost of energy one gets when finding a very specific academic text by chance, that illuminates the topic from an angle that flashed up in the fringes, but was not yet present and also critiques crucial pillars of the build up understanding and rearranging it is exuberayting. 000
Reposted by Romy S. RasperKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/10/2024New data on PhD student mental health: "By the 5th year of studies, the likelihood that PhD candidates needed mental-health medications had increased by 40%, compared with the year before study" This is why, when giving advice to students, I always mention self care www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comThe huge toll of PhDs on mental health: data reveal stark effectsPhD students in Sweden accessed mental-health services at increasing rates as their studies went on. 471195309
Reposted by Romy S. RasperDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 25/09/2024friends, looking for a good article on automation bias, ideally in the domain of law enforcement hit me up and thank you kindly 41910
Romy S. Rasper @romluras.bsky.social · 12/09/2024GenAI is just another responsibility deferring tool within the current system that is build to ensure irresponsibility. 000
Reposted by Romy S. RasperStimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 16/08/2024Neuronormative domination continues apace. This piece collects studies and community writing on the ableism and pseudoscience baked into expectations of eye contact and body language. stimpunks.org/glossary/eye...stimpunks.orgEye ContactDon't force eye contact. Gaze aversion is a sensory processing tool, one necessary to managing sensory overwhelm. Dissociation is a tool for managing information and protecting ourselves. When an auti... 053
Reposted by Romy S. RasperErin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 16/08/2024Oh fuck yes finally I can install Wrong Calculator, Uncanny Photos, Fake Fact Finder, Bad Poetry Writer, Dangerous Meal Planner, My Starvation Diet Pal, Upsetting Pornography and Logic Puzzles Unsolver FUCK YES 27761145
Reposted by Romy S. Raspersirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 12/08/2024"Not everyone is cis or trans." YES. www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comBeyond the trans/cis binary: introducing new terms will enrich gender researchWe need terms such as ‘gender modality’ that are flexible enough to capture the nuances of human experience but pragmatic enough to serve science. We need terms such as ‘gender modality’ that are flex... 317462
Reposted by Romy S. RasperAces NRW antifaschistisch asexuell @acesnrw.bsky.social · 16/08/2024Radical #asexuality 🧵 Following a commentary tweet on an US-american book ban attempt stating asexuality as an "objectional offence" to "protect children" (this isn't even a dog whistle anymore), saying "Losing my mind at “asexuality” being listed as inappropriate content.[...]" 164
Romy S. Rasper @romluras.bsky.social · 14/08/2024One thing I really dislike about the sex/gender divide is, that the mainstreamed oversimplification made gender a social construct untethered in materiality and sex materiality without culture. This has allowed some vile essentialism that was weaponized primarily against trans people but not solely. 000
Reposted by Romy S. RasperStimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 14/08/2024We updated our piece on straws and straw bans with a funny new skit from Tina Friml, a disabled comedian. stimpunks.org/glossary/str... www.youtube.com/shorts/sUT-C...youtube.comSomewhere in Brooklyn (Featuring Tina Friml and Pooja Tripathi) #comedy #disabilityYouTube video by Tina Friml 021
Reposted by Romy S. RasperKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 14/08/2024Using AI to write science explainers is bad for SO MANY REASONS relating to accuracy and content theft but also because effective science communication is not about just arranging information on a page, but allowing the science to create a connection between people, the basis of which is trust 311337376
Romy S. Rasper @romluras.bsky.social · 12/08/2024One of my all time favorite articles is Natalie Osborne‘s „Intersectionality and kyriarchy“, because it not only introduced me to Elisabeth Schüssler-Fiorenza‘s concept but also explains well why a complication of hierarchy through intersectionality is needed. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...journals.sagepub.comIntersectionality and kyriarchy: A framework for approaching power and social justice in planning and climate change adaptation - Natalie Osborne, 2015To better understand injustice in our cities, and to understand how vulnerability to impacts of climate change is constructed, scholars have noted that we need ... 000