lol as a nonbinary person who's gender is super queerly disabled it complicated and isn't not on trans hrt but who needs to take both levothyroxine and hydrocortisone i'm definitely gonna add the idea of my meds being hrt to the 'is fine who needs an endocrine system just regulate it yourself'
Hello everybody I bring a politer-then-I-feel "hey consider citing blogs and such" in the neurodiversity context; if you want to read it and don't have access please feel free to poke me for An Copy. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... Link image is part of the book cover this is a chapter in
Substantively engaging with work by neurodivergent people at all stages of research, including at the level of research questions and hypotheses, is important. Academic work increasingly incorporates ...
I have had research of mine posted (after several rounds of revisions from my fellow modmins). I have also had AAC research that I didn't even ask about posting. I recognized that a survey asking for responses from professionals didn't fit a group about asking AAC users stuff.
Ask Me, I'm an AAC User modmins review all research that people want to post in our group. Lots of it has IRB approval on the basis that surveys are ... somewhat exempted in many countries? We approve very little. Most approvals take multiple rounds of revisions.
do what you can to keep Black disabled people alive. stop watching us die. stop letting us die. stop killing us.
An email from De Gruyter-Brill today saying that if authors opt out of having their work fed to the AI LLM sausage machine it will reduce the visibility of their work. Eh? And also, no. Very fed up with all of this.
The challenge is that we might have to leave the country to protect my younger child (a trans boy) but most countries won’t accept us because my elder child has down syndrome and so is perceived as a drain state resources. This is what I think about it 2 AM.
If you ever discover a bat in your house, GET THE RABIES SHOTS AS SOON AS YOU CAN. The "oh, they're super painful shots in the stomach" thing is not true anymore! They are normal regular shots and they will stop you from dying miserably if the bat bit you in your sleep and you didn't notice!
"Bats have tiny teeth so a bite mark may not appear, according to the Department of Environment, Health and Safety at the University of Michigan. Sometimes victims don’t even feel themselves being bit." Rabies: www.nytimes.com/2024/09/28/h...
The death, which was reported on Friday, is only the fifth fatal human rabies case in Minnesota since 1975, health officials said.