Ashley Shew

@ashleyshoo

The Morn, The Mirth, The Legernd. Disabled person. Philosopher of technology. Strong opinions and typos argh my urn. Reskeets are not endorsements. #PhilTech #STS #DisabilityStudies #Cyborg #Bioethics #DisCoTec.

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Ashley Shew@ashleyshoo· 5d

Just some pictures of the best dog.

Tilted shot on a walking path with a white woman in bright glasses and a cute tawny dog who both have their tongues out

Long short tawny dog on a walking path with greenery and a blue sky behind her. She wears a pink harness and leash.

Sleepy dog on a blue and white blanket looks into camper with a cute blep

Ashley Shew@ashleyshoo· 5d

I would lie for my dog’s safety. That’s a no-brainer. Look at her.

Close up of a tawny dog staring into the camera

Ashley Shew@ashleyshoo· 13d

I think about this quote from Paul Jaeger pretty regularly, especially when I’m trying to do things in Canvas and Teams.

Quote from Paul Jaeger: The best platform isn’t the one with the most features. It’s the one everyone can use without needing a tutorial.

Ashley Shew@ashleyshoo· 15d

Any students at VT: please come take my class! It’s offered for both grad and undergrad levels. @virginiatech.bsky.social

Course ad for Fall 2026 STS 4304/5242: Bodies as Science and Spectacle features a freak show line-up framed by hyped headlines like “Step Right Up” and “Amazing Education!”

STS 4304 Bodies as Science and Spectacle, Fall 2026, TTh 9:30-10:45am, CRN 91890 co-convening with STS 5242 CRN 91901. Serving DS, STS, MSOC, bioethics, and any student who seeks interest, intrigue, and fascination.

Freak show line up includes professor’s body on the left where she sits holding her leg prosthesis as part of the line up.

Ashley Shew@ashleyshoo· Jul 12

The gentlecats who understand the cat exchange system here:

Gray and white cat on top of a teal pillow looks at the camera in portrait mode

Black and white tuxedo cat with asymmetrical mustache on top of a box looks at the camera

Ashley Shew@ashleyshoo· Jun 2

And he’d do it again.

Sleepy Gray and white cat slightly curled to a crescent on a blanket with a tiger print

Ashley Shew@ashleyshoo· May 8

Setting up for students with paper quizzes and a tote bag from Wired that read “You can’t hack a tote bag.” I’ve been using this as my class materials bag all semester but feels a little braggy in light of Canvas being held for ransom.

Bright yellow bag with words saying You Can’t Hack a Tote Bag with a stack of pens on one side and a stack of quizzes on the other.

Ashley Shew@ashleyshoo· May 8

The Wallflowers still have the juice. Enjoying their play through of the entire Bringing Down the Horse album at the Harvester between my teens right now!

Ashley Shew@ashleyshoo· Apr 22

I had my port removed this morning after nearing 13 years with it. September 2013 to April 2026. I am accepting ideas for jewelry that it could be fashioned into.

Biohazard bag on a countertop. There’s a purple double lumen port catheter in the corner of the bag

Ashley Shew@ashleyshoo· Apr 8

She sleeps well.

Red-brown dog on a light brown couch, her chin rested on a tall pillow. She sleeps without worry.

Ashley Shew@ashleyshoo· Mar 24

How your email finds me

Gray and white cat sleeps while stretched sideways along the inside of an office chair

Ashley Shew@ashleyshoo· Mar 18

Enjoy this business cat for the meme-ing.

Mustachioed tuxedo cat sits in an office chair at my table and looks knowingly at me

Ashley Shew@ashleyshoo· Mar 15

More cute visitor pictures, my child’s ward for the past week. Happy Caturday!

Black and white tuxedo cat with fat white whiskers and a lopsided mustache looks into the camera, as if posing for a portrait but also alarmed

Mustachioed tuxedo cat with lopsided mustache screams at a houseplant

Portrait mode pic of black and white tuxedo cat looking handsome sitting on top of table near plants

Ashley Shew@ashleyshoo· Mar 13

Big tuxedo cat visitor selfies for the internet. This fancy fella feline belongs to a graduate student who is traveling, so he’s my kid’s ward for Spring Break. I gave him lots of treats to make these pics happen.

Big tuxedo cat and I look up and away from camera, me joyfully and him grumpily. Fridge with lots of magnets behind us

Selfie of white woman with lopsided mustachioed tuxedo cat in kitchen space

White woman in gray top holding a big tuxedo cat who is trying to push away from her, in kitchen.

Ashley Shew@ashleyshoo· Feb 24

Gray and white cat laying on the seat of a desk chair and looking out from below the arm rest

Ashley Shew@ashleyshoo· Feb 2

2 years ago, one of my teens made these memes. I had never been more proud. Please enjoy them, internet. More relevant than ever!

A Gorn (bipedal lizard creature) in the dessert with the word Diarrhea

Baby gorn (bipedal lizard, scary, form Star Trek) and the words happy birthday I crapped all over the couch

A gorn (bipedal star trek lizard creature) pokes its head over a rock in the desert and the words Shit your pants.

Ashley Shew@ashleyshoo· Jul 1

Wild that a “modern and contemporary” museum has no elevator access + stairs to even enter the ground floor. Image on the floor after a full flight of stairs after the first set of stairs to get in. From Robbie Williams.

A black and white sketch-style painting called Off to A Nervous Breakdown by Robbie Williams has a figure in a hall in his underwear and the words in a bubble “just off to a nervous breakdown, does anyone want anything?”

Ashley Shew@ashleyshoo· Jun 27

#SPT2025 Lifetime Achivement Awards for Li Bocong and Bernadette Bensuade-Vincent.

Bright stage at TU Eindhoven with slide of Li Bocong and a speaker at the podium

Ashley Shew@ashleyshoo· Jun 26

It’s rad.

Slide behind Shannon Vallor quotes: “playing with your kid or making a work of art is intelligent human behavior, but if you view either one as a process of finding the most efficient solution to a problem or generating predictable tokens, you’re doing it wrong.”

Ashley Shew@ashleyshoo· Jun 26

#SPT2025 keynote by Shannon Vallor, author of the AI Mirror and a former SPT president. *Buddy the Elf voice* I KNOW HER!!!!!

Fancy stage with slide that says De-coding Our Humanity begin a podium with Shannon Vallor

Ashley Shew@ashleyshoo· Jun 26

At #SPT2025 early panel today, chose postphenomenolgy panel with exciting presentations from Richard Lewis on AI Literacy and writing, Shigeru Kobayashi with a cool proposal about temporal multistability w ref to disability studies, and Andrew Zelny on phronesis and AI.

Big auditorium with person at the front with slide of crowd

Ashley Shew@ashleyshoo· Jun 10

If anyone knows this dog named Nova - now Dame Nova - who was knighted at the WV Ren Faire this weekend, please share this pic with her person. She was definitely in character at the Faire.

A man in a king costume holds a sword above the head of a black dog in a pink vest who is sitting very still, while a dude in a Hawaiian shirt takes her photograph.

Ashley Shew@ashleyshoo· May 20

I am wearing my fall risk earrings so maybe they thought it was overkill, but I was expecting a matching bracelet.

Side of masked white woman’s head with earring shaped like a floor slippery caution sign read Caution: Slippery when wet

Ashley Shew@ashleyshoo· Apr 1

Everyone is busy bewaring people about autism for April, but it's also limb loss awareness month, so please be sure to prune your bushes and trees to prevent injury and destruction to property.

Picture of yellow sign with black lettering Warning Limbs May Fall with image of a stick figure under a tree where a branch is about to fall on him

Ashley Shew@ashleyshoo· Feb 7

I just want to have spoopy names and silly memes. While also having trans kids and immigrants safe. And not have my data stolen by some 22 year old musk rat without a security clearance. And while being able to trust the CDC and NIH. With competent bureaucrats at the helm.

Classic doge meme riffing on DOGE with misspelled words and wow:
wow, musk ratz, no sekurity cleerances, a coo, much illegal, violatin teh rool o law, so projuck 2025, wow, cheeto cheato

Ashley Shew@ashleyshoo· Nov 28

I don’t have anything nearly so festive, but I treasure this potato that took its natural course on my counter. I used it as a centerpiece for Halloween.

Shrunken potato with a lot of roots growing out of it, on a white plate on a skeleton placemat

Shrunken potato with purple roots on a white plate from the side

Ashley Shew@ashleyshoo· Nov 23

Out there on LinkedIn doing my best philosophy of technology work:

Question from LinkedIn: Your team is struggling with learning new AI technologies. How can you address their frustration? Answer from Ashley Shew: You can get rid of AI technologies that have been ill-considered. By getting off the AI hype train, you can maintain regular workflows and address your team's frustrations. Explain you were caught up in the bubble and understand that the bubble is just that -- full of air, slippery, and exciting for babies and children.

Ashley Shew@ashleyshoo· Sep 26

Beautiful location for @gwmt.bsky.social 2024. Learning about science & activism, and also getting a workout for my translation app.

Half a classroom scene with high up windows overlooking a foggy forest

Ashley Shew@ashleyshoo· Jul 18

Joe-ever, like fo'ever or Jover, like rhymes with over? I feel like this trending word is very confusing.

Screenshot from Twitter treading: Joever with 9370 posts.

Ashley Shew@ashleyshoo· Jun 19

Oh, and an image to share! Don't miss Anita Cameron @anitacameron.bsky.social on June 27 at 7pm EDT! Registration: bit.ly/3Rs5pk8