I really like my current job (it's still research) and I am gonna note that I 'failed' on the academic job market before winding up where I am now!

Question for anyone who makes things (professionally or personally or somewhere in between):

What would you do if you had a whole year, fully funded, with the one requirement that you NOT make anything for public consumption during that year?

The average person doesn’t give a fuck if AI has some niche use where it actually excels if used properly. In fact, that is what a tool is *supposed* to do and none of us will have a problem if it is used like that. What we see is AI fucking up real life in a massive way.

The Constitution doesn't prohibit reparations or universal healthcare or universal housing or universal free childcare or Landback.

But - and I know this might be an unpopular opinion, but I don't care - if it does, we should just amend it.

People are more important than words on paper.

This deal is still going!

ugh I am sorry.

The bad news: most autistic adults who use both AAC and speech related to having intermittent, unreliable, insufficient, or expensive speech are probably NOT getting their AAC through professionals: pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/studentsympo...

Augmentative and Alternative Communication for Speaking Autistic Adults: Overview and Recommendations | Autism in Adulthood In recent years, technologies used for augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) have seen increasing development and availability. As a result, more and more autistic people are using AAC. With the increased use of AAC by autistic people, research on autism and AAC has also increased. However, the vast majority of this research focuses on nonspeaking autistic children. AAC use by autistic adults and by speaking autistic people has received limited academic attention. Speaking autistic adults often use AAC and many have publicly shared information about their strategies and experiences. In this article, we provide an overview of the speech differences autistic adults choose to support through AAC, including varying difficulties with speech depending on environment and content. We also discuss the technologies and strategies adopted by autistic adults, including free or low-cost tools that are not specific to AAC, mobile technologies, and signed languages or gestures. We explore barriers to AAC use, including a lack of awareness of relevant options, misconceptions about who AAC supports are for, and the cost of dedicated AAC applications or devices. We then provide suggestions for autistic adults, people supporting autistic adults, and researchers. Overall communication—rather than speech—should be prioritized. Mainstream communication technologies can support communication for autistic adults and a variety of tools can support communication across contexts. Further research into the use and effectiveness of AAC for autistic adults is needed, as is research on barriers to AAC use.

I mean in my case it is not even a little bit secret but:

Identity-first language is literally why I submitted doi.org/10.1089/aut.... to @autisminadulthood.bsky.social first and not the International Society for Augmentative for Alternative Communication (ISAAC) journal first.

Non-binary gender identities – autchat View a past chat on this topic: Jan 13, 2019. Nonbinary generally refers to gender identities (or lack thereof) that don’t fully and/or don’t always fit into the binary gender system of men/women. #Au...

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When Ableism Supplants Evidence: Federal Autism Guidance in the United States - Kristen Bottema-Beutel, 2026

Autism researchers & service providers "often neglect to consider the potential for interventions to cause harm... and they communicate more confidence regarding the possibility of benefits for autistic people than is warranted given the evidence" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... editorial, free

A 5-Year Update of Conflicts of Interest in Autism Intervention Research in Applied Behavior Analysis Journals - PubMed Researchers' false, incomplete, or missing disclosures of conflicts of interest (COIs) can introduce bias into research, can erode public trust in research findings, and represent ethical violations of most academic journal policies. A 2020 study discovered that publications in applied behavior anal …

“we found that 78% of authors (of studies on ABA) had a conflict of interest (COI)

Some worked in ABA clinics, some offered paid consulting to other ABA providers, and some did both

Almost all papers (93%) had at least one author with these kinds of connections.”

🫠 #AutRes

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

what's your ai strategy?
what's your quantum computing strategy?
what's your ww3 strategy?
what's your collapse of consensus reality strategy?
what's your restructuring of global supply chains strategy?
what's your pedophile billionaire cabal blackmail ring strategy?

You had one job 😫

AACs are truly magnificent tools, and they are cheaper and more flexible now than they have ever been. Everyone who needs one should have one. #Momvocate

Every day brings another org that has thrown you under the bus.

You go out (quickly, because you can't pee safely any more) and see ads for the wizardslop that is responsible.

You log on to bsky to vent and are scolded for being judgy about it.

They can't live without it. You can't live with it.

This post clearly articulates why folks MUST boycott this franchise. It is *extremely* documented what she's doing with her money.

I used to cosplay Narcissa Malfoy back in the day. I met some of my closest friends at HP cons. We're still friends. We walked away from HP entirely. Please walk away.

This is also why people should stop RTing the underlying account

AAC users deserve more than crumbs - AssistiveWare This is a transcript of Dr. Alyssa Hillary Zisk's keynote, delivered at ISAAC’s Virtual Conference 2025 Opening Ceremonies.

AAC users deserve better: "About one person in ten who should have access to aided AAC actually does, or about one person in ten who should have access to aided AAC has been properly evaluated for it." Alyssa Hillary Zisk, for @assistiveware.bsky.social:

www.assistiveware.com/blog/aac-use... #AAC

One thing that's been frustrating me INTENSELY this last few years is a pattern of brilliant Autistic autism researchers, doing important & fascinating work, struggling to get jobs in academia, or being pushed out of jobs they had before.

Most universities seem unable to see how valuable they are.

“It’s a circle jerk. What, I should write something more widely quotable?”—Xavier Penn

Nope, no description more succinct and more accurate applies. It is now my dearest hope to meet Mr. Penn, a real person, at one of those conferences IRL.

The State of the Science: On Tokenism in Autism Research — THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM Autism research is a revolving door which Autistic people virtually never get to enter and allistics virtually never bother to exit.

Autism research is a revolving door which Autistic people virtually never get to enter and allistics virtually never bother to exit. On tokenism in autism research, from autistic AAC user, side-eyer, and conference-goer Xavier Penn. New, at TPGA:

thinkingautismguide.com/2026/03/the-... #INSAR2026

A flight-tracking account notes 35 C-17s flying out of airfields including those used by Delta Force (Bragg), SEAL Team 6 (Oceana), two of the three Ranger battalions (HAAF and JBLM), and the 160th SOAR.

Looks a lot like staging JSOC in case it’s ordered to do the uranium recovery mission in Iran.

There was ONE ATC in the tower at LGA during last night's crash.

ONE ATC, at LGA!, dealing w ALL air and ground traffic, including a plane filling w a strange smell and no gate to return to.

The Pentagon wants $200B for a vanity war, but our ATC towers are empty.

Budgets are moral documents.

China to help Cuba with solar energy amid US oil blockade and total power outage Beijing will ‘intensify its support’ to Havana after around 10.9 million people were left without power amid an ongoing energy crisis.

"Donors from China have already given 5,000 “household” solar energy equipment sets for installation at three Cuban clinics and a home for the elderly, Chinese official news agency Xinhua said on Thursday."

www.scmp.com/economy/chin...

i uh, am hoping it's not the dam, for obvious reasons

If you’re interested in this kind of contextual work, I teamed up with the wonderful @asoskic.bsky.social for a chapter that captures some of these perspectives: “That finding may not apply here! Lessons from teaching developmental psychology in non-WEIRD contexts”

teachpsych.org/ebooks/teach...

Here’s my deal. Somewhere between 5% and 15% of my class have no (or very little) imagery. There is a whole chapter of the textbook that describes effects that make zero sense to a LARGE chunk of our students! I can’t teach this subject ‘straight’ without addressing this gap first.

So why do we do this task? We’re learning cognitive psychology not individual differences… or are we?

We are about to learn that imagery is involved in memory, mental rotation tasks and mental ‘walks’. We learn that imagery can be mistaken for vision and triggers similar neural activations…

We have got to be willing to try hard and do real things.

Real things always fall short in some way. Cynicism falls a lot shorter.

As it sinks in this energy crisis is neither temporary nor contained, it’s worth repeating:

The US can’t promise to stand down while Trump leads, bc the US can’t make promises, full stop.

Trump is incapable of honoring promises. US media & Dems choose to pretend otherwise. Iran cannot afford to.