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by Nandita Sharma — Reposted by: Gerald Roche

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If only we had defeated not only the Nazis but also nationalism...

I write about this in my article, "Postcolonial as the governmentality of immigration controls."

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by Gerald Roche

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"As we champion social justice, we must recognize that the fight for human dignity is inextricably linked to the fight for linguistic rights."

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by Gerald Roche

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I am still taking expressions of interest if you would like to help prevent the bullying of autistic students at Australian schools. Please see thread below and feel free to get in touch if you have questions. Any help spreading the word would also be appreciated.
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Gerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social · 13d
I'm helping to set up a community of practice to end the bullying of autistic students in Australian schools. If you'd like to participate, please get in touch using the form below. Further details in the thread following.
forms.gle/RFPJag4wffdq...
Expression of Interest: Community of Practice to Prevent Bullying of Autistic Students
Please use this form to express your interest in joining a community of practice to help end the bullying of Autistic students in Australia. There are 11 questions on this form. 10 are compulsory a...
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by Gerald Roche

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I have the PDF but can't send by DM here - if you email me at [email protected] I can send it to you.
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Reposted by: Gerald Roche, Anne Applebaum, Anna O. Law , and 31 more

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This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
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by Gerald Roche — Reposted by: Gerald Roche

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allistic people will do phatics all day long and then say that 'be informative' and 'be brief' are communicative maxims
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Reposted by: Gerald Roche, Cas Mudde, Juan Cole , and 6 more

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I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.
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by Gerald Roche

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have a great weekend
a line graph showing the historical frequency of the words pleasure and pain from 1600 until 2022. Pleasure dominates up until about 1970, and then the frequency of pain skyrockets.
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by Gerald Roche

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Feel free to message me if you'd like a copy

by Gerald Roche

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Chinese language LLMs "were more likely to recommend pain medications for males, and considered patients with higher educational attainment, Han ethnicity, higher income, and those with health insurance as having healthier relationships with others."
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Potential to perpetuate social biases in health care by Chinese large language models: a model evaluation study - International Journal for Equity in Health
Background Large language models (LLMs) may perpetuate or amplify social biases toward patients. We systematically assessed potential biases of three popular Chinese LLMs in clinical application scenarios. Methods We tested whether Qwen, Erine, and Baichuan encode social biases for patients of different sex, ethnicity, educational attainment, income level, and health insurance status. First, we prompted LLMs to generate clinical cases for medical education (n = 8,289) and compared the distribution of patient characteristics in LLM-generated cases with national distributions in China. Second, New England Journal of Medicine Healer clinical vignettes were used to prompt LLMs to generate differential diagnoses and treatment plans (n = 45,600), with variations analyzed based on sociodemographic characteristics. Third, we prompted LLMs to assess patient needs (n = 51,039) based on clinical cases, revealing any implicit biases toward patients with different characteristics. Results The three LLMs showed social biases toward patients with different characteristics to varying degrees in medical education, diagnostic and treatment recommendation, and patient needs assessment. These biases were more frequent in relation to sex, ethnicity, income level, and health insurance status, compared to educational attainment. Overall, the three LLMs failed to appropriately model the sociodemographic diversity of medical conditions, consistently over-representing male, high-education and high-income populations. They also showed a higher referral rate, indicating potential refusal to treat patients, for minority ethnic groups and those without insurance or living with low incomes. The three LLMs were more likely to recommend pain medications for males, and considered patients with higher educational attainment, Han ethnicity, higher income, and those with health insurance as having healthier relationships with others. Interpretation Our findings broaden the scopes of potential biases inherited in LLMs and highlight the urgent need for systematic and continuous assessments of social biases in LLMs in real-world clinical applications.
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by Gerald Roche — Reposted by: Gerald Roche

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My article exploring the connections between language revitalization backlash and genocide is now out. Complimentary copies are available using the link below, or feel free to message me for a copy if the link doesn't work for you.

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Black text on a white background, showing the title and abstract of an academic article. The title is ‘Conquered Primitives Have No Written Language’: Language Revitalization, Reactionary Settler Colonialism, and Perpetual Genocide. For the abstract, please visit https://doi.org/10.3138/GSI-2024-0011.
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by Gerald Roche

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Thanks for your support. Also, there's no qualification requirement, so feel free to put your name down if you'd like to participate.
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by Gerald Roche

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by Gerald Roche

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If you have any questions, feel free to message me here or get in touch by email: scholars.latrobe.edu.au/groche
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by Gerald Roche

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If you have a contribution to make to this community of practice, please fill out an expression of interest form before October 20 using this link: forms.gle/RFPJag4wffdq...
Expression of Interest: Community of Practice to Prevent Bullying of Autistic Students
Please use this form to express your interest in joining a community of practice to help end the bullying of Autistic students in Australia. There are 11 questions on this form. 10 are compulsory a...
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by Gerald Roche

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We are also looking for people who know how to make an impact and create change where it is needed most. Maybe you are part of a relevant professional organization, have experience influencing policymakers, or can reach a broad audience on social media?
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by Gerald Roche

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Right now, we are looking for a small, dedicated group of individuals to join us and serve as the core members of the community of practice. These individuals need to have the capacity to sustain involvement with the community of practice. Ideally, they will be autistic.
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by Gerald Roche

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Members of our community will learn from each other, and develop, test, and share ideas to keep autistic students safe from bullying.
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by Gerald Roche

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Our community of practice will bring together people who want to end the bullying of autistic students. This will take all sorts of people, skills, experience & knowledge, so our community will need educators, school leaders, autism advocates, researchers, service-providers, media workers & more.
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by Gerald Roche

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What is a community of practice, and what will ours do?

A community of practice is a group of people who share a common goal, and who exchange information with each other so they can improve their practice related to that goal.
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by Gerald Roche

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Urgent action is needed to end this violence. Policies like the National Autism Strategy & the National Anti-Bullying Standards are moving in the right direction, but autistic students need our help right now. That’s why we’re creating a community of practice to start taking concrete steps today.
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by Gerald Roche

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You can read a summary of the submission at this link, where you can also find a link through to the full 42-page report.
www.otarc.com.au/2025/bullyin...
At School and In Danger: Why we need to end the bullying of Autistic students and how we can do it. — Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre | Blog
Autistic students are not safe in Australian schools. A new submission to the Australian government calls for urgent, evidence-based action to end this crisis.
www.otarc.com.au
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by Gerald Roche

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I recently led a submission to the national anti-bullying rapid review, which found that autistic students in Australia face some of the highest levels of bullying in the world, leading to physical, psychological, and emotional suffering, and even self-harm and suicide.
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by Gerald Roche — Reposted by: Gerald Roche

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I'm helping to set up a community of practice to end the bullying of autistic students in Australian schools. If you'd like to participate, please get in touch using the form below. Further details in the thread following.
forms.gle/RFPJag4wffdq...
Expression of Interest: Community of Practice to Prevent Bullying of Autistic Students
Please use this form to express your interest in joining a community of practice to help end the bullying of Autistic students in Australia. There are 11 questions on this form. 10 are compulsory a...
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Reposted by: Gerald Roche, Shannon Vallor, A. E. Dessler , and 13 more

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They've lost the 9yos
JA Westenberg @Daojoan@mastodon.social My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.” Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner Kiddo: that’s AI Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM
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Reposted by: Gerald Roche

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my most unpopular opinion is that it's a sign of defective moral character if you point blank refuse to answer phone calls from unknown numbers. it's not that hard to hang up on spam/scammers, and you are probably missing important calls!
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Reposted by: Gerald Roche

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Interviewed by @juliametraux.bsky.social for @motherjones.com.
Ableist misinformation will lead to harm of pregnant people and more eugenics, abuse, and services destruction against autistic people. We are descending to new depths, but lately I also think about old-fashioned normalization... 1/
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by Gerald Roche

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In order to ensure that my assessment provides students with an authentic insight into professional practices, I give one student 99 per cent of all the grades for the subject and then if anyone disagrees with me they have to go live under a bridge util they die of a preventable disease.
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by Gerald Roche

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culture is so beautiful i just can't help myself
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by Gerald Roche

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In French they call it "the one who gently eases my pain" and that's so beautiful.
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