Gregor Wolbring
@wolbring.bsky.social
lifelong wheelchair user; disability activist; University of Calgary, ability studies, disability studies, sustainability studies and science and technology governance studies scholar; link to my academic work https://wolbring.wordpress.com/about/
Ableism, Disablism, and other Ability Judgment terms: Mapping out the Academic Literature to support ability judgment justice research, teaching and advocacy; dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRI...; using other hashtags (100 pages, 28 tables). #disability; #socialjustice; #justice
Part 2 Thank you to my students and my collaborator Dr. Dana Mahr from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) for being part of the ableism mapping.
Ableism, Disablism, and other Ability Judgment terms: Mapping out the Academic Literature to support ability judgment justice research, teaching and advocacy; dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRI...; Used Scopus, 80 databases from EBSCO-Host and Web of Science (over 100 pages, 28 tables). #ableism #disablism
part 2 Thanks to Esha and Mahakprit for joining this project. Both approached me after I gave my yearly ableism lecture to medical students whether they could do research with me. And this is our product!. Thanks again.
Part 1 due to the stupid character limit. And here the first for 2026. Wolbring, G.; Dhaliwal, E.; Kaur, M. Incivility, Ostracism, and Social Climate Surveys Through the Lens of Disabled People: A Scoping Review. Societies 2026, 16(1), article number 12. doi.org/10.3390/soc1...
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Wolbring, G.; Deloria R. Ally Burnout: Views of Disability Studies Students. Societies 2025, 15(12), article number 359; doi:10.3390/soc15120359. open access
without typo 5)Wolbring Gregor and Paquette, Alex (2025) Social Factors Causing Burnout of Disabled Students: Views of One Group of Allies of Disabled People in Trends High. Educ., 4(4), 60; doi.org/10.3390/high... In this we also introduce concept of "Ability judgment justice"/"Ability justice"
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5) Wolbring Gregor and Paquette, Alex (2025) Social Factors Causing Burnout of Disabled Students: Views of One Group of Allies of Disabled People in Trends High. Educ. 2025, 4(4), 60; doi.org/10.3390/high... In this one we also introduce the concept of "Ability justice justice"/"Ability justice"
Wolbring Gregor and Dhindsa Parneet (2025) Adverse Childhood Experiences of Disabled Children and Youth Resulting from Ableist Judgments and Disablist Treatments: A Scoping Review in Youth 2025, 5(4), 125; doi.org/10.3390/yout...
3) Oana Branzei, Anica Zeyen, Susanne M Bruyère, Eline Jammaers, Nidhil Singal, Gregor Wolbring (2025) Ethical Dilemmas of Disability Inclusion—Emerging Ethics of Activism and Care: Introduction to the Special Issue in Journal of Business Ethics 201, 781–795 doi.org/10.1007/s105...
2) Wolbring, G. Chatbotting about energy transition and related concepts (... not enough space for full title) through a disability studies and ability studies lens: A teaching and a gap analysis tool DOI: dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRI...
Chatbotting about energy transition and related concepts (energy poverty, energy security, energy insecurity, energy equality, energy inequality, energy inequity, energy equity, energy justice, and en...
This document is myself chatbotting with Chat GPT, Kimi2 and Claude AI about the topic of energy transition and related concepts (energy poverty, energy security, energy insecurity, energy equality, ...
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new since may (a few mails to come) 1) Wolbring, G. (2025) Ethics and Equity/Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Through an Ability Studies and Disability Studies Lens. In Diversity and Discrimination in Business Ethics, Higher Education and Society, Poff, D.C., Ed. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-77665-6_8
Wolbring Gregor and Fast Victoria (2025) A briefing paper on the state of the art of accessibility research focusing on disabled people, including research on attitudinal accessibility and attitudinal barriers Briefing paper, Prism University of Calgary; DOI: dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRI... ;
may be of interest ? Wolbring, Gregor; Mahr, Dana; Lamoureux, Rochelle (2025) “Teaching about the intersectionality of disabled people using an intersectional pedagogy framework: a primer”; at hdl.handle.net/1880/121054; DOI: dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRI... #disability #disabled
From Lisa Meeks In 2016, 2019, and 2021, we published the first prevalence studies in JAMA and JAMA Network Open on learners with disabilities... www.linkedin.com/posts/lisame...
Lisa Meeks, PhD, MA on LinkedIn: Prevalence of Disability and Use of Accommodation Among Medical School…
In 2016, 2019, and 2021, we published the first prevalence studies in JAMA and JAMA Network Open on learners with disabilities in #MedEd and their use of…
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www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/faus... and this means if this is correct that AI bots will return also more biased data in the future
Opinion | CDC Researchers Ordered to Retract Papers Submitted to All Journals
Banned terms must be scrubbed from CDC-authored manuscripts
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Besides the differences in life expectancy, the analysis also revealed ADHD to be linked with a higher risk of mental health issues — such as anxiety, depression, self-harm, suicide and personality disorders. edition.cnn.com/2025/01/23/h... But why ? Due to how they are treated by society?
Well, the White House has taken down its web accessibility statement www.whitehouse.gov/accessibility/ And then they say "Every single day I will be fighting for you .... ." www.whitehouse.gov My comment: We are obviously not the "you".
FEDERAL EVIDENCE AGENDA ON DISABILITY A Report by the DISABILITY DATA INTERAGENCY WORKING GROUP of the NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL January 2025 www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u... #disability
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Your kids are sick all the time because public health leaders chose to let it happen. There are details, and there are more in-depth explanations, but in the end that's what it boils down to. They listened to their egos instead of experts, and made bad choices. canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/01/11/w...
Why are kids sick all the time? Experts weigh in
Canada Healthwatch | The most important health news, in one place. 🍁
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“'Sign language is woke now': Outrage over right wing's new culture war” Erik De La Garza January 10, 2025 www.rawstory.com/right-wing-2...
'Sign language is woke now': Outrage over right wing's new culture war
Add sign language to the growing list of right-wing culture attacks sprouting up among conservative voices as Donald Trump's inauguration fast approaches.Critics began to pounce after conservative inf...
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Amplifying this application for microgrants for disabled creatives affected by LA fires: form.jotform.com/250107007947... If you want to donate to the grant program, you can do so here: www.pledge.to/la-wildfire-...
LA Wildfire Relief Microgrant Fund by Infinite Flow Dance
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Remote controlling robots a form of remote working tele working interesting mentions it as an opportunity for disabled people www.independent.co.uk/asia/japan/t... Here tele driving German startup Vay is pushing teledriving— vay.io www.wired.com/story/a-snea...
How a robot cafe in Tokyo aims to empower – not replace – human workers
Inventor Kentaro Yoshifuji’s robots allow people to work at the Dawn cafe from anywhere in the world – ‘teleportation’ technology that could open up new demographics for Japan’s flatlining economy. Ad...
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Heartbreaking this culture of neglect. www.latimes.com/california/s... like my 2009 paper "A culture of neglect: Climate discourse and disabled people "https://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/view/173 Hurricane Katrina quote on wheelchair user drowning (not evacuated)
Altadena family says disabled father and son were left to burn: 'Nobody was coming'
Anthony Mitchell Sr., an amputee who used a wheelchair, and his son Justin, who had cerebral palsy, died due to slow evacuation efforts during the Altadena fire, relatives said Friday.
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They won't be happy until we're all dead. During the first years of covid, the Scottish government had terps at every press conference, while Deaf people had to beg for them from the UK government, and it rarely worked. People with hearing impairments were four times more likely to die.
If you're looking to hire people with accessibility knowledge and experience, the Accessibility Skills Hiring Toolkit created by Teach Access can help you. The toolkit provides language to use when writing job ads, and questions to ask when interviewing. teachaccess.github.io/accessibilit...
About the Toolkit
Teach Access provides the Accessibility Skills Hiring Toolkit to help organizations build internal capacity for producing accessible digital products by developing a knowledgeable and skilled workforc...
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Thanks @heydonworks.bsky.social for publishing your Principles Of Web Accessibility: github.com/Heydon/princ... Lots of great ideas in there.
GitHub - Heydon/principles-of-web-accessibility: How to approach accessible web interface design
How to approach accessible web interface design. Contribute to Heydon/principles-of-web-accessibility development by creating an account on GitHub.
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