Dr. Martina Svyantek

This is why, w my PhD, I pursued a job working in a DSO. So I can use research! benchmarking across peer institutions! to highlight where the systems are broken and what we can fix immediately, and in the long term.

A #PlainLanguage summary of "Six Ways of Looking at Fractal Mechanics" (Full article: catalystjournal.org/index.php/cata…) This will be both a plain language summary and a plain language story about why I wrote this paper, and how I wrote it.

We need to talk about how often disabled instructors, attempting to provide radical access with flexible deadlines & participation requirements, wind up with their courses deprioritized by students who are desperately trying to shoulder other instructors’ hostile pedagogies.

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Wishing a malicious compliance typewriter kid on every micromanaging professor with ableist classroom policies. vm.tiktok.com/ZMFAg9q4q/

I've spent more than 5 yrs documenting US politics on here. My archives contain video clips/threads of just about every big political event that's happened since the early days of the Trump WH. It didn't occur to me until very recently that all that could just be lost. So it goes

If you're a disabled or high risk scholars who can't or doesn't want to network over dinner or drinks at every major conference and campus event - that's cool. I'd love to network virtually. And I'd be happy to think up more accessible networking opportunities. 1/2

Everything that used to be a product (or just a public good) is being turned into a subscription service. They want you renting your entire existence

"We are completely committed to providing an accessible experience to protest the lack of accessibility. That is why we have employed one person to look at you with a worried grimace while you figure out how to reach our room." mcsweeneys.net/articles/our-m…

@Pixelfish @AudleyZDarke @iSmashFizzle The first one was my Dissertation Goblin. I think I've just found the nickname for #2, who is currently stealing bones as I type. Thank you!

Preference will be given to applicants based locally and working actively within the community. Deadline: The deadline for proposal submissions is 28 November 2022. For more details about the grant, including FAQs, head to tinyurl.com/grantcall22-23 (4/n)

In 7th grade, my friends and I convinced a large number of students to put the name “Heywood Jablome” in the school raffle and when the principal read the name in the gym, we all screamed for five straight minutes. Everyone got a detention. That’s how Twitter feels now.

It would’ve been really easy for the Fetterman campaign to lean into ableism after his stroke, And instead he and the campaign addressed the reality that millions of Pennsylvanians and Americans have had health crises, just like he did, and deserve the life saving care he got —

On Wednesday, November 30th, at 7pm EST, I will be hosting an online webinar for neurodivergent academic burnouts on Executive Function, Metacognition, and Hacking yourself to Get Shit Done. Free and Public with optional fundraiser. forms.gle/xBTEhf2oJR7dv4…

Hey academic twitter, can you please connect me to folks researching grad students, mental illness / neurodiversity / disability and writing? Especially interested in research methods and/or grads writing dissertations on these topics! #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter

I am officially no longer the Engineering Manager for the Accessibility Experience Team at Twitter. I have words. 🧵

Makeup being “professional” is so weird. It’s like “please complete a painting before work every day. Also the paint is super expensive and the canvas is your face.”

@jmhenner @SueReviews I would definitely want mine with the side of queso.

@SueReviews They literally looked at levels of hearing loss and were like, yeah, that’s the ticket. You got mild autism. You got moderate autism. You got severe to profound autism. You got autism with chips n dips.

Livid about most of the views contained in this piece - blog incoming as I think the issues raised need a proper analysis and rebuttal.