Sharla Berry
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Higher education professional, dessert lover, occasional yogi.
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Janet Donavan đ
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This one resonated. As NTT faculty, only systematic raises are merit raises which range 0-<3%. I am not eligible for retention raises- food workers can get retentions, but not me. Also, different rules for different TT people- some people get retentions, others told similar offer doesnât count.
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Natalie Bennett
6 days ago
Important education message: "independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schoolsâand often impairs it." A few profit and the most vulnerable pay
www.economist.com/united-state...
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Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless
Independent research identifies few learning gains
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2026/01/22/ed-tech-is-profitable-it-is-also-mostly-useless
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tru
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âBlack women started 2025 with an unemployment rate of 5.4%. They ended it at 7.3%âthe highest rate in 4 years. Black womenâs unemployment is now equivalent to White womenâs rate during the bleakest moments of the Great Recession.â âBlack women also suffered job loss across sectorsâŠâ
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Black women's unemployment has skyrocketed. Hereâs what happened.
The rate is now equivalent to White womenâs during the bleakest moments of the Great Recession.
https://19thnews.org/2026/01/black-women-unemployment-rate-skyrocketed-2025/
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Anna Gifty
15 days ago
THE SEGMENT ABOUT BLACK WOMEN'S UNEMPLOYMENT IS UP ON CBSNEWS.COM!!! Thank you
@cbsmornings.bsky.social
and Jericka Duncan for bringing me on!
#blacksky
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Black women face prolonged unemployment
While the U.S.' overall unemployment rate fell to 4.4% in the most recent jobs report, it rose to 7.3% among Black women. Jericka Duncan spoke with two women who have faced prolonged unemployment to f...
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/behind-rise-in-unemployment-for-black-women/
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we hereÂźïž
17 days ago
BACK BY DEMAND đč after 2 sell out print runs The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities by
@dorothyjberry.bsky.social
is back Feb 4, 12p ET! don't miss your chance to grab this important piece of writing on libraries+archives+memory+black history
www.weherepress.org
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Prisonculture
about 1 month ago
We're only $150 away from $10,000 which puts us at 50% of what we need to raise for the Black Zine Fair. Donations are tax deductible.
gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f...
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Black Zine Fair Returns in 2026 â Help Us Bring It to Life
The Black Zine Fair was founded by Mariame Kaba and Neta Bomani in 2023 to address a clear gap: Black publishers and artists have long shaped independent publishing, yet we were still underrepresented...
https://gogetfunding.com/black-zine-fair-returns-in-2026-help-us-bring-it-to-life/
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OlĂșfáșčÌmi O. TĂĄĂwĂČ
about 1 month ago
a useful starter pack:
go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e
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Louise Seamster
2 months ago
The university-surveillance component of this piece is !!! I had missed the Qualtrics shift and acquisition and wow. We really need an ed-tech key players power-map, does anyone know if this exists?
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Chabeli Carrazana
3 months ago
We finally have jobs numbers out this morning from September and take a look at this: big jump again in Black women's unemployment, now 7.5% from 6.7% in August. This figure has been ticking up all year. This is now the highest unemployment rate Black women have faced in 4 years, since mid-2021.
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Melissa Gira Grant
3 months ago
"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."
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Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.
The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/697382/record-numbers-younger-women-leave.aspx
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Lauren Woolsey
3 months ago
This will be my thread for thoughts while reading Disabling Intelligences by
@fractalecho.bsky.social
this week. I'm all wrapped up in a fleece blanket, I have my highlighter and page flags, and on page 2 I'm already love their writing style. đ§”
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Lex McMenamin (they/them)
3 months ago
here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol
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Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
âWhat Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.â
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/zohran-mamdanis-advice-for-election-results-anxiety-go-talk-to-your-neighbors
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s. e. smith
4 months ago
I knew Kodak had a history of pollution, but this read goes much deeper than that and into their work for the military!
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Buoyed by a retro revival, Kodak's dark environmental past is coming to light
A snapshot of Kodakâs long history includes cameras, military contracts, and decades of pollution and environmental degradation.
https://grist.org/accountability/buoyed-by-a-retro-revival-kodaks-dark-environmental-past-is-coming-to-light/
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The EDU Ledger
5 months ago
Views | The exodus of 300,000 Black women from the workforce is not just a labor statisticâit is the latest reminder that civil rights remain unfinished, and that silence cannot be its price.
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Rule 56: An Appeal for Justice from the Margins
In higher education, Black women are showcased on websites and brochures yet undermined in daily practice. Research confirms we are disproportionately bullied, mobbed, and harassed.
https://www.diverseeducation.com/opinion/article/15754540/rule-56-an-appeal-for-justice-from-the-margins
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Joshua Goodman
5 months ago
My son is taking a college class where students use an AI tool to review their own (ungraded) assignments. The tool turns out to make elementary math mistakes, including telling him his correct answer was wrong. I use LLMs in my work but boy do I keep failing to see their educational value.
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Kay Coghill, PhD.
6 months ago
My city is currently being marketed for data centers. They are calling it âVIRGINIA'S I-64 INNOVATION CORRIDOR: RICHMOND REGION AND HAMPTON ROADS The World's Next Global Internet Hubâ
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Prisonculture
6 months ago
I think that people in this country really need to push themselves to be more social and to combat this avoidance culture that has arisen over the past 2 decades and has been exacerbated by the pandemic. Should I go to this dinner with friends? Nah, I should just stay home to play video games.
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Good morning
#ASA2025
. I'll be on a wonderful panel today about life without a job. I'll be exploring how Black women on YouTube express anti-work sentiment, and how they leave formal employment. Join us at 10am today.
6 months ago
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It is painfully cold in the swissotel
#ASA2025
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Headed to
#ASA2025
... any recs for things related to edtech and/or labor that I should check out tomorrow or Monday?
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Prisonculture
6 months ago
TODAY in DETROIT!
blackzinefair.org/detroit/
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Hey y'all, check out my latest publication... it's a fun one about race/gender/age and educational attainment. I'll do a thread another day, but for now, here it is!
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Chalkbeat
6 months ago
A Common Sense Media study found that prominent teacher assistants that use AI generated recommendations that appeared to be rooted in racial stereotypes based on studentsâ names. About a third of teachers report using AI weekly, according to a recent survey.
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Annie and Lakeesha struggle in school. AI teacher assistants treated them very differently.
A Common Sense Media study found that prominent teacher assistants that use AI generated recommendations that appeared to be rooted in racial stereotypes based on studentsâ names. About a third of teachers report using AI weekly, according to a recent survey.
https://bit.ly/3J0X31v
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Hypervisible
6 months ago
âInside the heel of the shoe, a small insert can be lifted to reveal the compartment. Then, parents can track the location of their child â or, at least their childâs shoes.â
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Skechers is making kids' shoes with a hidden AirTag compartment | TechCrunch
Skechers launches kids' shoes with built-in AirTag holder.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/30/skechers-is-making-kids-shoes-with-a-hidden-airtag-compartment/
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Matt Seybold
7 months ago
Print is a rent strike.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
7 months ago
*taps sign*
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Anna Gifty
8 months ago
Happy
#Juneteenth
! This is your loud reminder that the only policy that completely closes the racial wealth gap is REPARATIONS! According to Drs. Sandy Darity and Kristen Mullen, giving every Black American a direct payment of $267,000 closes the racial wealth gap.
#econsky
#blacksky
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Haymarket Books
8 months ago
âThese are the things that organize global commerce? Run governments? Fly planes? My second-grade soccer team was more carefully recruited and managed.â
@lclaberge.bsky.social
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Her Job Was Real. So Why Did Her Work Feel So Fake?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/books/review/fake-work-leigh-claire-la-berge.html
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Michelle Ma
9 months ago
Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water. A đ§”on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places:
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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The AI Boom Is Draining Water From the Areas That Need It Most
A Bloomberg News analysis finds that roughly two thirds of new data centers built or in development in the US since 2022 are in places with high levels of water stress.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-impacts-data-centers-water-data/?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc0NjcxOTEwOCwiZXhwIjoxNzQ3MzIzOTA4LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTVlhRQ1NEV0xVNjgwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJGRjMyOTZDMzVFNEI0QTRBQjFFRTVDQzEzQ0YzMUNDQiJ9.hRbwH8cwxYpZ4VuVP4hF8zLEUbfss9VTCROxf5OkFMk
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What ever happened to Medium? How did substack replace it as the writer's platform of choice?
9 months ago
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Brian Merchant
10 months ago
I know it is Friday, but I felt that this story wasn't getting enough pressâagain, there's a lot going onâbut therapists in LA went on a hunger strike! Because Kaiser wouldn't come to the table for 6 months, and because they've recklessly automated crucial parts of the mental healthcare system.
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Contexts Magazine
11 months ago
â°đââïžHurry! One week left to read, download, and share
@contexts.org
's Winter issue for free at
journals.sagepub.com/toc/ctxa/24/1
-- So much fresh
#Sociology
, from men's marital affairs to Black women and the anti-work movement, grief and gun violence to the 2024 U.S. presidential election!
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Dr Abeba Birhane
12 months ago
an old co-author emailed me looking for a confirmation a non-existent paper supposedly authored by me that one of her students has cited in an essay... so i got curious and prompted gpt-4o âpapers by abeba birhaneâ. it listed 9 papers none of which I authored
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Hey yâall, please read my latest in Contexts, the American Sociological Associationâs magazine. In âBlack women, YouTube, and the anti-work movementâ, I explore the ways in which Black women are publicly engaging in anti-work discourse and creating post-work futures.
#blacksky
bit.ly/contextswork
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
https://bit.ly/contextswork
12 months ago
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Hello higher ed folks! Join me this Thursday for an ACPA session about creative methods for engaging broad audiences. I'll be speaking about how I use zines in my academic and social justice work. Come through!
bit.ly/4idXdPf
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Omar Wasow
12 months ago
How does colorismâracial discrimination by skin colorâinfluence menâs soccer? Study finds âa skin tone penalty, where darker-skinned players face lower fan-driven market values and ratings.â Also, using âgeolocated penalty kicks data,â finds more evidence of bias.
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Hypervisible
12 months ago
âAfrican Tech Workers Rising is organising for better wages, mental health protections and professional standards in Kenya and beyond. We are doing this because AI is not magic. Behind every algorithm are thousands of hidden workers labelling, training & moderating data under precarious conditions.â
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Tech firms must invest in and respect the people who filter social media and label the data that AI relies on, says Sonia Kgomo, an organiser with African Tech Workers Rising
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/12/moderator-facebook-real-cost-outsourcing-digital-labour
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why are open access fees so much? I feel like I ask this question monthly... I came across a journal and the open access fee is $3900!! What!
12 months ago
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@alexhanna.bsky.social
I enjoyed your presentation at LMU today on AI. In particular, I loved the notion of ridicule as a tool for resisting AI. So much of what we are seeing is just silly, let's just call it out!
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about 1 year ago
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Center for Democracy & Technology
about 1 year ago
âA recent report, Screened Out: The Impact of Digitized Hiring Assessments on Disabled Workers, from the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), found that âmost of the digitized assessments were discriminatory and perpetuated biases.ââ
www.cnbc.com/2025/01...
cc:
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Disabled workers are getting screened out of digital hiring
Big questions are emerging about the equity of digitized hiring assessments and the impact they have on disabled people.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/30/disabled-workers-are-getting-screened-out-of-digital-hiring.html
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Excited for
@asanews.bsky.social
virtual conference on the Future of Work. Is there a hashtag for the event?
about 1 year ago
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Civics of Technology
about 1 year ago
MLK on technology and justice: "We must keep our moral and spiritual progress abreast with our scientific and technological advances. This poses another dilemma of modern man. We have allowed our civilization to outdistance our culture..." 1/5
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David Imel
about 1 year ago
At this point it's not just about interoperability, it's about keeping your spaces in your control and safe from billionaires enshitifying your experience for more capital extraction. The internet isn't as fun as it used to be and it's pretty obvious why.
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I received a desk reject for a journal article... it reads like it was written by Chat-GPT. It's frustrating because they write that I don't have a theoretical framework, but there is a whole section titled theoretical framework. Same thing for analytic plan. The review system is broken.
about 1 year ago
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it's been a very hard week in LA.
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about 1 year ago
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surprise surprise. the same way that early elementary teachers discourage calculator use is the same way I feel about AI... you need to learn the thinking behind your thinking.
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Quarter 1 Reading List (in no particular order) 1. Racial Capitalism by Cedric Robinson 2. Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life by bell hooks 3. Freedom Dreams by Robin D.G. Kelley 4. Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It by Adia Harvey Wingfield
about 1 year ago
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