Travis Chi Wing Lau (劉志頴)

The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.

One of the biggest impacts I’ve seen from the unproven idea that people are wrongfully using disability accommodations is that people stop trusting people with disabilities and in fact further restrict, remove, and demonize accommodations for people with disabilities in general

HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.

Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT

Great to see @winnipegfreepress.com discussing AI and art from a Winnipeg perspective. More reporting on the impact of this technology on artists and others from people in different communities would add a lot to larger discussions happening here and elsewhere . . .

lol the ACIP committee let Aaron Siri speak for some 90 minutes and cut off CDC experts and scientists off after two minutes (sometime yelling at them to shut them up). Incredible stuff.

tapping the sign

Irish Minister for Health calls the UK's descent into transphobia out for what it is.

In lieu of affordable universal health insurance, Texans will now be given better access to de-worming medication.

getting the onion newspaper is worth it alone for the ads

"a society rediscovering the value of quiet reflection"

buddy our fridges have ad screens on them

The Experience of Disability and Becoming Disabled in the Hundred Years’ War ‘In our said service he was and is mutilated in one of his arms’ (‘en notre dit service il a este et est mutile dun de ses bras’), is the text justifying the pardon by the council of the King of Engla...

Really pleased to have my short article out with @epoch-history.bsky.social on the experience of disability during the Hundred Years' War! The rest of the issue is a fantastic read and it was lovely to work with the editors and @joshcoulthard.bsky.social.
www.epoch-magazine.com/post/the-exp...

this is the thing.
I DONT CARE if *some* students have managed to get accommodations by allegedly "gaming the system" or "doctor shopping"
I DON'T CARE.
Because my experience tells me how hard it is to be disabled in higher ed, as both a disabled student, and disabled faculty member now.

A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury

Going off this, I think there's a major philosophical difference with some profs and why they treat disabled students the way they do.
Do you want to trick your students or do you want them to succeed?
You can challenge students and focus on success, but tricking and success are mutually exclusive

AGAIN!!! Support your public libraries. LIKE ACTUAL POLITICAL SUPPORT. I do not want to hear "I looooovveee my public library" from people who don't actually pay attention to whether they are being adequately funded and sustained, lol...

So here’s the thing: I, a certified Disabled™️ Person, do not actually care if anyone fakes for an extra 20 minutes on the test. I care deeply about how the fear of that very thing puts up flaming hoops disabled people have to jump through.

Maybe listen to disabled folk on this one.

When Autoimmune Disorder Ravages Your Face (and How That Led to My Body Dysmorphic Disorder) Julia Métraux shares how she developed body dysmorphic disorder due to autoimmune disorder, where she couldn't recognise herself one day.

"I can look at a #selfie of myself without worrying myself sick, but I often need to catch myself when I see a pimple. #Vasculitis & #BodyDysmorphicDisorder were both unexpected surprises..but I’m strong & I’ll pull through.": buff.ly/LTDK1id

#spoonie #ChronicIllness
by @juliametraux.bsky.social

Gov. JB Pritzker signs law on Illinois vaccine guidelines amid ongoing tumult with Trump administration The new law, part of the Illinois governor’s ongoing battle with the Trump administration, expands pharmacy access to COVID-19 and other shots for young children across Illinois, among other …

Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday signed legislation that formally establishes a process for state-level vaccine guidelines and expands pharmacy access to COVID-19 and other shots for young children across Illinois.

I bet they'll embrace your vulnerability. They did mine, and I think they'll thank you for it.

It's the cordoning of this stuff to "therapy" and other private places that sometimes I find so challenging: like we're supposed to act like this stuff isn't devastating because we have to do our jobs and remain accountable to everyone and everything but there is loss and hurt. Real loss and hurt.

It saddens me how many friends and colleagues have lost folks. I've kept a silent count of how many incense sticks I've lit in memory, and it's staggering. But we hold vigil for each other because it matters.

as a grantwriter, the lack of unrestricted funding is a MASSIVE burden on nonprofits. everyone wants to fund a new shiny pilot program that makes them look like innovators. they don’t want to help make your tried and tested programs that have served the community for 50 years more sustainable

Lighting incense in his memory.

Fear of the False by Mitra Sharafi | Paperback | Cornell University Press Fear of the False uncovers colonial South Asia's critical role in the development of forensic science. Around 1900, the government of British India created a web of institutions for the scientific det...

I'm very excited to share my new book's cover design: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... It is bloodstain-inspired because species-of-origin bloodstain testing is a big part of the story. Out on 15 April 2026 & Open Access as part of the Corpus Juris book series @cornellupress.bsky.social

And "accommodation/accessible" does not mean "make the thing easier" and it definitely doesn't mean "make the thing so easy it's meaningless." It means "meet the student's access needs so that they can engage with the material in the same way as their peers, as far as is practicably possible."

If you have enjoyed my writing, used one of the my disability history resources, or benefitted from my reading lists, I would really appreciate it if you could make a donation to @DSQJournal this #GivingTuesday at paypal.com/giving/campaig… 1/5

The American attitude to everything becomes transparent when you realize we would, as a society, rather let 99 people go without something they indisputably need to keep 1 person who doesn’t need it from getting it.

It's also hilarious that there's this belief that people who qualify for accommodations automatically pursue them. There's a lot of stigma behind asking for one + figuring out the process for requesting one.

We need to be able to see that the line "accommodations have gone too far" is an expression of the ableist notion that disabled students do not belong in higher ed. Its fundamentally an anxiety about the fact that disabled students get an "advantage" over abled students.

Writers you know how it be. You know it's about the long game. Tell me why I got a rejection of my manuscript from a publisher yesterday, two years after my submission to them, a month & a half after this book's publication by another publisher. Keep fighting for your work.