Excited to receive this fabulous book edited by @melaniesage.bsky.social and @laurelhitchcock.bsky.social 101 Things to Do with a Social Work Degree. It’s a great resource for any #socialwork student or social worker — This degree opens up so many paths for making a difference in people’s lives

Calling all educators & community partners! @nathaliejp.bsky.social @melaniesage.bsky.social & I are updating our Community-Engaged Learning Student Workbook & are looking for reflective tasks, case studies & more. Due: June 30, 2025 Details: bit.ly/43XFbwS Submit: forms.gle/V7A6uA2pWGJb...

Glad to have Jonathan and 100 other social workers tell us about work they do! This 400-page book is a great collection for people considering social work and social workers considering a job shift!

New resource out from OASH on Ethical Review and Inclusion of LGBTQI+ Participants in Human Subjects Research: www.hhs.gov/sites/defaul... Includes recs on ethical, legal, regulatory, & contextual considerations; research environment; & design, review & conduct of LGBTQI+ research

Social workers - Join me on February 4, noon-1pm CT, for a dynamic and interactive webinar "Chat Bots and AI Image Generators: Practical Tools for Today’s Social Work Practice" @jcreswellbaez.bsky.social @laurigoldkind.bsky.social naswwi.socialworkers.org/Events/NASW-...

Check out this paper that I helped write with great colleagues who evaluated ways to use AI as social work profs.

This needs to be EVERYWHERE - LOUD AND CLEAR!! #ChuckandJim #ThePoor

If you didn’t order free Covid tests through the mail this Fall, now would be a good time to do so. I’m not holding my breath on this program continuing next year. covidtests.gov

North Carolina’s Atrium Health says it will forgive the debts of 11,500 people — less than a week after NBC News reported that the company has aggressively pursued former patients’ medical debts, placing liens on their homes to collect on bills.

An important read! Great issue brief @kff.org ! Medicare Spending was 27% More for People who Disenrolled from Medicare Advantage than for Similar People in Traditional Medicare. No surprise given all those #Denials @signaturedoc.bsky.social #MedicareAdvantage #Accesstocare

Very excited to share this from my colleague at SJU, Dr. Delgado! #SocialWork #Liberation Working with Dr. Delgado is one of the reasons I'm excited to come to work every day. We're hiring one more faculty this spring! (and next year if recruitment keeps up) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Struggling to teach social policy for social workers amid current political events? Keefe’s 1978 article offers a historical-materialist framework that can help: Beyond Radicalism: An Historical-Materialist Framework for the Social Policy Curriculum. www.jstor.org/stable/23038...

Ok here are the four books I’m debating between for my community practice class. Given the election I want to focus on social change, building community, and community care. What do folks think? #SocialWork #SocialChange #Macro

Don't let the name fool you - #selfcare is a community effort and an organizational responsibility. Listen to Erlene Grise-Owens, Jay Miller, and Mindy Eaves talk about planning, dedication, and support partners on Ep 118. Transcript on the website: socialworkpodcast.blogspot.com/2018/03/self...

The murder of the Unitedhealth CEO has served as a lightening rod for how people feel about healthcare. People didn’t know the name of this guy and are now heckling his death. This is the level of powerlessness and grief that otherwise reasonable people have about our health insurance system.

Congrats to Dr Desmond Patton, keynoting at SSWR! I don’t know a social work prof who has balanced research innovation, external service, mentoring, and leadership the way that Dr Patton does. You can’t bottle that talent! @dupatton.bsky.social #swtech

Fellow social work policy educators - please join us in conversation next week to support each other and share ideas and resources as we start preparing for the Spring semester. We'd love to know what you're most hoping to hear & talk about - feel free to share in the replies

I had a gut reaction too when I heard the CEO of United Healthcare was murdered this morn in a targeted attack before a shareholder meeting in nyc. The assassin escaped on a bike. We can only speculate but possible motives seem clear.

This is the most extreme anthromorphization I've seen. Even if LLMs or some future magical model that doesn't yet exist even in research can experience suffering, the meaning and reasons of that suffering would be completely alien compared to how animals experience it

Confession- I still go to x to monitor Trump posts and bc I am a community note rater/writer, which allows me to review/write fact checks on Trump/Elon posts. I use this fairly w accurate sources and fact checks, but these guys post a lot of disinfo that require community notes.

As a society we believe that safety exists on the other side of change but my firmest belief is that it's almost impossible to change unless you create safety first. This backward approach shows up a lot with addiction and homelessness and recidivism, and it's often rooted in eye for an eye thinking

Chris Rufo, architect of the conservative takeover at New College Florida, will present President-elect Trump with a plan to strip colleges of federal funding if they do not pull back campus diversity initiatives, the WSJ is reporting. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

We really need to sound an alarm re: this trifecta: (1) the Trump admin’s pro-AI stance; (2) rejection DEI, aka need to correct for bias; (3) deregulation led by billionaires that think ai can improve govt decision-making #aibias #fairai

House MD gave me unrealistic expectations about doctors wanting to discover the cause of my symptoms.

Zuckerberg met with Trump at Mar a Lago this week. Seems he’s been warming up to Trump. I worked at Meta for a year before Zuck laid off the whole safety-equity team (to bump the stock price and reduce protections, as far as I’m concerned).

* Calling all social work educators who are grappling with tough questions about how to support their students while teaching social welfare policy and social change courses in 2025. *

I do think Florida/Texas is going to be the model for anti-dei/inclusive education. We have a blueprint there and in project 2025 text. We can plan instead of respond. These schools have banned bad words, you aren’t allowed to have “diversity” on your website in tx higher ed. It’s bad.

Nobody: Me: yes, just preparing to go back to the public health and social services systems ancient times

I am not sure yet what Bluesky shall be for me. Like, should I still talk politics and say “we told you so” about project 2025, or just lean in to the peace of my polite echo-chamber and tell you I am on my way to Italy right now?

I am using TweetDeleter to delete my 17k twitter posts. A few months ago I went to retweets only, and then likes only, and this is my third stage of withdrawal. I know I should just delete my acct. But I want to post something to point people here for a while.

If you click on any list like this, click subscribe button and click block, it will block all members and they won’t see you/can’t comment on your stuff/you won’t see them. #MakingPeacefulSpaces

Researchers play a critical role in the fight for accountability of automated hiring tools, write Marissa Gerchick and Olga Akselrod, but a lack of transparency that creates a barrier for regulators and litigators likewise creates barriers for researchers.

We felt this, right? Algorithmic ethics- is it ok for ai to promote political ideology without transparency about it? Some say ChatGPT has a liberal bias. Should they have to tell us? #aiethics

I left academia 2 yrs ago after 12 years tt. I took a senior research job at Meta to work on tech equity. Was part of a mass layoff after a year. I started a training center/consultancy specializing in (1) motivational interviewing training for non-profit/govt staff (2) tech consulting. 👩‍🏫

Watch this video: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYLUNS2w/ Russia has never been pro Trump- their goal is to support misinfo so that we don’t trust our govt or each other so we are divided, apathetic about voting, and easy to manipulate. Trump is a puppet that supports this. They’re succeeding.

I am in the process of deleting X and moving this way! Looking for my #swtech friends and social work academics.

@melaniesage.bsky.social I just got here, where are my people? Talk to me about tech for good, fair AI, social work, motivational interviewing, leaving academia, user experience research, building things.