things that made me smile recently

really great piece about public libraries as public infrastructure shout out to @casualpasta.bsky.social and the amazing work they do with the Library Newsroom Project 🌟

finally had time to read this great new article from Defector about the top-down push for AI in higher ed! it also links to our AAUP report on ed tech and its impact on academic labor, which you can read here: www.aaup.org/reports-publ...

UC faculty and the @aaup.org demand the end of mandatory surveillance software use across the UC system. The future belongs to people, not to big brother! www.science.org/content/arti...

🔥 from @hellobrittparis.bsky.social Lindsey Weinberg, and Emma May around the weaponization of AI in higher ed. academeblog.org/2025/07/22/f...

For better part of this year, I've been working on this report as part of AAUP's committee on AI and Academic Professions. We surveyed over 500 members across ranks, job types, and institutions about AI deployment in higher ed. You can read more about our work here: academeblog.org/2025/07/22/f...

Digital IDEAS has entered the chat. 🌎 36 scholars 🌡️ 1 heat wave 💥 Infinite ideas about productive malfunctioning Let’s make (and break) things — critically. #DigitalIDEAS

🚨 abstracts are due April 15th! 🚨

when we were in Seattle, @gelsworld.bsky.social spoke with Dean Spade for Lux Magazine about Spade's new book—a radical guide on "love, sex, romance, and friendship" ❤️‍🔥 you can read it online here: lux-magazine.com/article/dean...

📝 CfP 📝 @hellobrittparis.bsky.social & I are editing a special issue of the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies on labor organizing in libraries and information fields. We greatly encourage contributions from library workers. More info here: journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jc...

“This isn’t about streamlining government or reducing waste. This is about consolidating power at the expense of working people.” - Todd Wolfson, AAUP President @higheredlabor.bsky.social @aftunion.bsky.social @neatoday.bsky.social @uaw.org @unitedfaculty-uaw.bsky.social

If you're thinking about participating in 4S in Seattle this year, consider submitting an abstract to Open Panel 69 Reconfigurations: Care, Labor, and Social Movements within STS. Fieke Jansen and I are running it – we love good company!

Submit by 1/31 📥 Please feel free to reach out with any questions ✨

"why did you become a librarian?" i love answering questions. there is no question i don't want to find the answer to. can't get enough of it. also i like throwing things away.

🌟new publication🌟 in Journal of Documentation explores how insights from critical disability studies can disrupt dominant ideas around access in Library & Information Science research www.emerald.com/insight/cont...

🚫 How do we make space for refusal in research and practice? 🚫 We're welcoming submissions for the panel "Disrupting Power: Practices of Refusal in STS" at #4S2025 (Sept 3-7, Seattle). Abstracts are due January 31st. Please share & submit: www.4sonline.org/call_for_sub...

excited to present about the economic function of (mis-/dis-)information in relation to disability at #EASST4S2024 in Amsterdam🌷 July 16, 11-12:30

Despite how bleak it is out there, Death Panel is such an oasis right now, hope this conversation between Bea, Jules, Mariame + me is the balm for you it was for me getting invited to be in it soundcloud.com/deathpanel/t...