15% of the world's population have a disability. Jennifer Rode's poem Imposter offers a powerful insight into living with a disability while working in academia. Let's improve #DisabilityAwareness UCL. #WeThe15 #WeAreIOE Global Disability Innovation Hub 💜

Honored that UCL is sharing my poetry about disability.

Congratulations to my UCL Institute of Education #UCL colleagues (Prof Allison Littlejohn, L. Gourlay, Eileen Kennedy, K. Logan, Tim Neumann, M. Oliver & John Potter 💙) on the journal article "Moving Teaching Online: Cultural Barriers Experienced by University Teachers During Covid-19"jime.open.ac.uk/article/10.533…

Polytope is home UCL UCL Knowledge Lab thanks to Crown Fine Art!

Universities are sitting on £40,000,000,000 in reserves. Just 3% of that would settle our pay claim. Don’t listen to anyone who tells you the sector can’t afford to pay staff properly. It’s a lie. Jo Grady on BBC Newsnight: #ucuRISING

RT IF YOU ARE A STRIKING UNIVERSITY WORKER, POSTIE, TEACHER OR ANYONE ELSE ON THE PICKET LINE TODAY. ALSO RT IF YOU BACK THEM. Let’s cut beyond the media and show people they have mass support. #ucuRISING #StandByYourPost

I support the #UCU strike and eliminating the #disability wage gap. #UCL needs to stop penalizing staff by failing to meet its obligations under the Equalities Act. For instance, I need reliable step-free access to my office. #ucustrikes

Employers said it would cost £1.5bn to deliver an inflation-level pay rise to all university staff That's 3.75% of £40bn reserves That's 1/3 of a £4.6bn spend on new buildings That's half of last year's surplus cash We aren't stupid. We know what we are worth. #ucuRISING

I NEED ALL MY FOLLOWERS TO RT THIS AND EXPOSE WHAT OUR MEMBERS ARE FACING On the back of of the biggest pickets in UCU history, some bosses have reached for the punishment stick to intimidate us We aren’t having it. Are you with us? #ucuRISING theguardian.com/education/2022…

Threatening emails to students Threatening emails to staff Breaking up pickets Threatening pay deductions Misleading press statements That's after 1 week of action They are rattled, but we have to keep going Next strike day and NATIONAL RALLY in LDN on 30 Nov #ucuRISING

…And we are proudly displaying our favourite banner ‘Against the Slow Cancellation of Our Future’ UCL-UCU Stop the Destruction of Higher Education Birkbeck UCU #ucuRISING #ucustrike

You know you are living in the dystopian present when Margaret E Atwood cancels a graduation speech in solidarity with marginalized academics. Thank you Ms. Atwood! #ucu

I support the #UCU strike and eliminating the #disability wage gap. #UCL needs to stop penalizing staff by failing to meet its obligations under the Equalities Act. For instance, I need reliable step-free access to my office. #ucustrikes UCU at IOE

We just stopped traffic between the British Library and King’s Cross marching down the middle of the street with UCU at IOE & UCL-UCU Stop the Destruction of Higher Education for #ucuRISING #UCUstrike

Went to two amazing talks by Rua M. Williams at CHI.

Excited that my paper “Does Robotic Telepresence Make the Classroom Accessible” with Dr. Houda Elmimouni / د. هدى الميموني, Cooper Young and Selma Sabanovic will be presented at DIS! dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114…

#CoCreatorAI spotlight: Jennifer Rode joined forces with @KahnLily UCL Hebrew & Jewish Studies and Riitta Valijärvi UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies They work with two students to examine antisemitic #bias in personal statements for university applications brought about by an increased use of #AI Large Language Models. pic.x.com/gQdjndSmx6

Had a fantastic time at my first in-person UbiComp in Cancun! Huge shout out to the accessibility chair Jennifer Rode for her efforts in arranging Halal food for the very first time at a conf. Let's hope ACM SIGMOBILE ACM SIGCHI consider adopting this tradition for all future conferences.

"Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at UbiComp/ISWC: Best Practices for Accessible and Equitable Computing Conferences," by Jennifer Rode (@UCLKnowledgeLab) et al., on @UbiComp / ISWC.NET initiatives that show how to support a global computing community. bit.ly/4fMSse0