#DisabledInSTEM

Evan Spotte-Smith (they/them)ewcss.info@bsky.brid.gy
2025-12-18
Ele Willoughby, PhDminouette@spore.social
2025-12-11

Day 11 #ArtAdventCalendar: Happy birthday to trailblazing US #astronomer Annie Jump Cannon (1863 – 1941), here with her stellar classification system which sorted stars based on spectral types, revealing their temperature from hot blue to cool red stars: O,B,A, F, G, K & M. Named the Harvard Classification after the university, her tremendous contribution was less visible. 🧵

#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #DisabledInSTEM #linocut #mastoArt

My linocut of Annie Jump Cannon shows her in a 3/4 profile view wearing a shirt with a lace collar and her hair up. She is printed in a gradient of violet at the bottom to green at the top, printed on white 11” x 14” paper. The background is printed in a gradient (left to right) of dark blue, light blue, yellow, pale yellow, pale orange, orange and red. The background block excludes her silhouette of shoulder and head with the exception of a smattering of small dots in a swath from upper left to lower right (which extends to white spots on the coloured background). Also along the bottom are a series of circles of decreasing size (left to right, blue through red) labelled O, B, A, F, G, K, M. There’s a axis line along the bottom with 6 tick marks. Vertically from top to bottom along the left side are 15-, 10-, 5-, 0, 5, 20, 15.
2025-12-02

A few days left to apply for the #DisabledInSTEM Mentorship Program

Mentee form: forms.gle/um5DvYnBi3tnMMRg6
Mentor form: forms.gle/BvaxnQm8uhUR7aLz8

Applications due December 5th!

Ariel M. (she/her)byarielm.fyi@bsky.brid.gy
2025-11-25

match with meeeee! or get one of the other cool designs / colors / items. each design is listed once and then you can see the sweaters / shirts / etc. and their color options inside :) #ShopSmall #Gifts #Disability #DisabledInSTEM

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2sxtouh2t4xq2dc37isuwcly/post/3m6fqkuefd22y

Ariel standing with her arms spread wide and in a x=y line. She is wearing a purple reenact sweatshirt with a white disabled in STEM logo on the front. It is very cozy 10/10 would recommend.
2025-11-23

Two weeks left to apply for the #DisabledInSTEM Mentorship Program

Mentee form: forms.gle/um5DvYnBi3tnMMRg6
Mentor form: forms.gle/BvaxnQm8uhUR7aLz8

Applications due December 5th!

Ele Willoughby, PhDminouette@spore.social
2025-10-21

For Day 21 of @spacetober_challenge #spacetober_challenge prompt star: trailblazing US #astronomer Annie Jump Cannon (1863 – 1941), here with her stellar classification system which sorted stars based on spectral types, revealing their temperature from hot blue to cool red stars: O,B,A, F, G, K & M. Named the Harvard Classification after the university, her tremendous contribution was less visible. 🧵1/

#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #DisabledInSTEM #linocut #mastoArt

My linocut of Annie Jump Cannon shows her in a 3/4 profile view wearing a shirt with a lace collar and her hair up. She is printed in a gradient of violet at the bottom to green at the top, printed on white 11” x 14” paper. The background is printed in a gradient (left to right) of dark blue, light blue, yellow, pale yellow, pale orange, orange and red. The background block excludes her silhouette of shoulder and head with the exception of a smattering of small dots in a swath from upper left to lower right (which extends to white spots on the coloured background). Also along the bottom are a series of circles of decreasing size (left to right, blue through red) labelled O, B, A, F, G, K, M. There’s a axis line along the bottom with 6 tick marks. Vertically from top to bottom along the left side are 15-, 10-, 5-, 0, 5, 20, 15.
2025-10-20

It's that time of year again... time for #DisabledInSTEM 2026 Mentorship applications! I'm so excited to be running this program for the sixth year and seeing the growth over the years!

Mentee form: forms.gle/um5DvYnBi3tnMMRg6
Mentor form: forms.gle/BvaxnQm8uhUR7aLz8

Applications due December 5th!

Promotional graphic for the DisabledInSTEM 2026 Mentorship Program. The background is a dark blue gradient with flowing wave-like patterns in blue and gold. At the top, white text reads: “DisabledInSTEM 2026 Mentorship Applications Now Open.” Below, a yellow box with black text says: “Seeking Disabled Mentees and Dedicated Mentors to Champion Inclusion in STEM.” At the bottom, white text states: “Applications due December 5th.” In the lower right corner, there is the DisabledInSTEM logo.
2025-09-24

I’m very grateful to @cenmag for dedicating this year’s Trailblazers issue to disabled scientists.
Representation matters, and so does giving grad students the chance to contribute to these stories.
Honored to be part of this powerful collection.
#DisabledInSTEM #SciComm #RepresentationMatters

cen.acs.org/synthesis/medicina

Evan Spotte-Smith (they/them)ewcss.info@bsky.brid.gy
2025-09-11

At one point, preparing for my qualifying exam (an oral exam/dissertation proposal), I had psychosomatic pains that made me (and several medical professionals!) think I was having a heart attack. It felt like there was no way to slow down and take care of myself. #MentalHealth #DisabledInSTEM (2/4)

2025-07-31
2025-07-30

Fascinating look into #iTeachChem in ASL 🧪🍎 #DisabledInSTEM

2025-04-30

Want to learn more about all of the amazing work that has been part of #DisabledInSTEM?

Check out this recent @NatureEcoEvo interview with Alyssa Paparella to see the insights of starting this platform while being a graduate student!

nature.com/articles/s41559-025

David WakehamwakehamAMR
2025-03-31

Despite declining to lodge an official complaint, here I am, seven years later, still being ghosted (and gaslighted).

timeshighereducation.com/news/

2025-01-13

I guess I hadn't posted this yet and didn't even know it had come out-- I was interviewed for (and co-wrote w/Daniel Rabosky) a Trends in Ecology & Evolution "TrendsTalk" article on "Disability in ecology and evolution" -- cell.com/trends/ecology-evolut #DisabledInSTEM #academicchatter #academia

Ele Willoughby, PhDminouette@spore.social
2024-12-11

Day 11 #ArtAdventCalendar: Happy birthday to trailblazing US #astronomer Annie Jump Cannon (1863 – 1941), here with her stellar classification system which sorted stars based on spectral types, revealing their temperature from hot blue to cool red stars: O,B,A, F, G, K & M. Named the Harvard Classification after the university, her tremendous contribution was less visible.
🧵1/n

#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #DisabledInSTEM #linocut #MastoArt

My linocut of Annie Jump Cannon shows her in a 3/4 profile view wearing a shirt with a lace collar and her hair up. She is printed in a gradient of violet at the bottom to green at the top, printed on white 11” x 14” paper. The background is printed in a gradient (left to right) of dark blue, light blue, yellow, pale yellow, pale orange, orange and red. The background block excludes her silhouette of shoulder and head with the exception of a smattering of small dots in a swath from upper left to lower right (which extends to white spots on the coloured background). Also along the bottom are a series of circles of decreasing size (left to right, blue through red) labelled O, B, A, F, G, K, M. There’s a axis line along the bottom with 6 tick marks. Vertically from top to bottom along the left side are 15-, 10-, 5-, 0, 5, 20, 15.
2024-12-02

Moneybags Elsevier has offered me a gift card to do accessibility testing -- not cash that I could use for practical things or a professional hourly rate, but a lousy gift card. My expertise is worth more and I hope other #DisabledInSTEM folks will consider not accepting this disrespectful offer.

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