Paleobiologist/oceanographer; Hutchinson Fellow @Yale; Former Harvard Society Junior Fellow; Fish teeth, ancient marine ecosystems. Circus artist. she/her
Mar 20, 2019 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
#AcademicTwitter - did you know that there's free, reliable software that will close-caption your powerpoint presentations, on screen, in real-time while you give them? This #accessibility tool should be implemented everywhere! 1/n
The traditional academic talk (and conferences) excludes people with disabilities (e.g. Deaf, hard of hearing, auditory processing disorder), as well as folks who don't speak the language natively. These tools can really level the playing field and make science accessible! 2/n
