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Happy to be helping out at today’s #SciDis #HistoryLab at @SciHistoryOrg. We’re digging into how disability is and is not visible in the practice of science. Beginning with some personal reflection. sciencehistory.org/event/history-… 
.@bioethistorian discussing the medical v social model of disability and introducing the big questions that’s driving the #scidis #oralhistory project. Group will dig into some of these questions soon.
We’re going to talk about the role of vision in modern science and how folks with low or no vision practice science. “Seeing is believing” is a modern saying! #scidis #historylab
0.1 percent of people receiving PhDs in the sciences has a vision impairment (2005 data). What do we miss when folks with low or no vision are excluded from STEM fields? Judith Summers-Gates is here in the audience and participated in the #SciDis #OralHistory project.
Judith’s identity as a person with a disability and her identity as a woman shaped her career and enabled her to ask different kinds of questions than her male and able-bodies peers. #SciDis #oralhistory at today’s @SciHistoryOrg #historylab
Dr. Cary Supalo became blind as a child in the 1980s. He’s relied on his ability transform information from verbal and hands-on instructions to create a mental image of what’s in front of him. #SciDis #oralhistory at today’s @SciHistoryOrg #historylab
Supalo talked about how important @IUPAC’s naming conventions are to his ability to visualize. Multiple ways of knowing and “seeing” produce all kinds of valid and useful scientific knowledge. #SciDis #oralhistory at @SciHistoryOrg #historylab
How can we creat a scientific culture that embraces new ways of knowing? What questions can that raise? #historylab #scidis #oralhistory
We’re now getting our hands on some scientific apparatuses from the @SciHistoryOrg collection. How does this work? How would you make it work for you?
I’m noticing a real generational divide in the room around who knows how to use a slide ruler. I am firmly in the “this might as well be Ancient Greek” camp. #SciDis
.@ZackBiro sharing some images of scientific tools that have been intentionally designed to be easy to use by people with low or no vision. #SciDis at the @SciHistoryOrg
Not only instruments need to change. Universities are making accommodations for service animals in labs. A round of “awww”’for these dogs in lab protective gear. #SciDis #OralHistory
