This morning I had the last project I had been working on with @jmhenner.bsky.social accepted for publication. I'm really excited to share it with the world, but also feeling sad to let it go.
Representatives from Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service have fed sensitive data from across the Education Department into artificial intelligence software to probe the agency’s programs and spending, according to two people with knowledge of the DOGE team’s actions.
list of banned keywords
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
Yay!! I’m so excited to work with you in this way for the next couple of years! ❤️❤️
or paid me a compliment and then had to deal with how, awkwardly, I am not that able to accept them with grace. And to all my co-presenters this year, I’m sorry you had to do the lions share of the work! You have my immeasurable gratitude. (4/4)
There is no organization that has my heart quite like this one. We have evolved so much from that first conference I attended, but we still have so much more growing that I am excited to be present for. Thank you to everyone this week who co-planned with me, empathized, chatted, (wrong! 3/4)
to finding some of my dearest and most treasured colleague/friend/co-conspirators at Association of College Educators - Deaf and Hard of Hearing, to suddenly as of tonight being the organization’s president. (2/~3)
I’ve been doing a lot of reflecting this weekend as I became the person in charge of planning & executing (along with an essential/committed team) a conference I first attended in 2011. I started as a shy grad student scared of making a fool of myself in front of the biggest names in my field (1/~3)
Saaaaaame
Got called radical by a dear colleague today at #acedhh2025 - still one of my favorite things to be called!
Thoroughly enjoyed Day 1 of #ACEDHH2025 even though I'm running on fumes, sleep-wise. So grateful for the incredible presenters sharing their work with us all this week!
Well, keep your eyes peeled for a locale reveal on Saturday for 2026!
Next year???
If you see me come say hi! I should be easy to find, I'll be the one running around with a wild look in her eye and making non-stop announcements.
Oh, that IS a great idea! We usually recognize first timers at the banquet but a gathering is a stellar idea.
Anyone have any good news to share? My mental state could really use it.
NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
if you went to college
1. what was your career goal when you started? Teacher
2. initial major? Deaf ed
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to? Had a crises of confidence in my signing & switched to gen ed 1 semester, but switched back
4. what do you do now, professionally? Deaf ed prof!
Think I had some friends previously attend and they loved it.
The absolute shining bright spot among all the hectic planning is getting to see you along with some of my other favorite academic friends <3
Had my first ACEDHH planning stress dream last night. Honored to be organizing this conference, and very excited for it to be over!
For some reason I began the post-holiday tentative dip into my email on a Saturday (rookie mistake) and the volume of highly stressful things I need to attend to is absurd. So anyway, if you need me I'll be playing Mario Kart.
First goal was artist, but second was teacher so I guess I'm doing pretty well at that.
Oh yay, thank you!!
Started drafting the first chapter of a book project I'm working on with @michaelskyer.bsky.social, @heidigasl.bsky.social, Amy Efron, and Martin Musengi and I am SUPER excited about it! Can't wait to be able to share it even though that's an awfully long way away.
Yes, agreed! I work with a colleague who does a lot of work in health literacy as well, and while arguably reading/writing is involved, it is again more about information access/processing and critical thinking.
Developing a book for Gallaudet University Press about Vygotskian deaf pedagogy principles and applications.
This will be an expansion of the work that Jessica Scott, the late (Rest In Power) Jon Henner, and I did, which you can read and view here: gallaudetupress.manifoldapp.org/projects/six...
Had my students design their dream schools today - no financial limits. An interested product is that 100% of them described the arts as an essential part of learning - and yet in life they are often de-emphasized and even absent from the curriculum.
My department is hiring a tenure track professor in special education/dyslexia! See the link for a description and feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions about the position or my department!
jobs.chronicle.com/job/37523099...
