4) We will share a list of actionable items for early career scientists and researchers in the next blog post!

3) At the same time, this will increase competition between research labs and tech companies and magnify the zero sum game mindset. @sheilaxu.bsky.social and I wrote this chapter in less than a month, fueled by rage.

2) All of these political actions will have a downstream effect on the hiring of deaf and disabled scientists and engineers in the US, and ultimately, slow down scientific progress and dampen creativity and innovation.

1) We feel compelled to share some of the preprint content, especially with what is happening in the US today, with federal grant funding cuts and plans to overhaul and re-structure publicly funded healthcare.

@nationaldeafcenter.bsky.social
’s report on Deaf, DeafBlind, and DeafDisabled workers is cited in this paper — please continue this important demographic work!

Thanks for sharing! I hope this opens up discussions on checking
our motivations and ethics while doing science, fostering more cross-lab collabs & finding other avenues for supporting early career disabled scientists in the academy and industry