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 doesn’t count.

Important education message: "independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it." A few profit and the most vulnerable pay www.economist.com/united-state...

“Black women started 2025 with an unemployment rate of 5.4%. They ended it at 7.3%—the highest rate in 4 years. Black women’s unemployment is now equivalent to White women’s rate during the bleakest moments of the Great Recession.” “Black women also suffered job loss across sectors…”

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

BACK BY DEMAND 🌹 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

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...

a useful starter pack: go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

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?

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.

"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."

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. 🧵

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

I knew Kodak had a history of pollution, but this read goes much deeper than that and into their work for the military!

Views | The exodus of 300,000 Black women from the workforce is not just a labor statistic—it is the latest reminder that civil rights remain unfinished, and that silence cannot be its price.

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.

check it out!

My city is currently being marketed for data centers. They are calling it “VIRGINIA'S I-64 INNOVATION CORRIDOR: RICHMOND REGION AND HAMPTON ROADS The World's Next Global Internet Hub”

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.

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.

It is painfully cold in the swissotel #ASA2025 🥶🥶🥶

Headed to #ASA2025 ... any recs for things related to edtech and/or labor that I should check out tomorrow or Monday?

TODAY in DETROIT! blackzinefair.org/detroit/

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!

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 students’ names. About a third of teachers report using AI weekly, according to a recent survey.

“Inside the heel of the shoe, a small insert can be lifted to reveal the compartment. Then, parents can track the location of their child — or, at least their child’s shoes.”

Print is a rent strike.

*taps sign*

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

“These are the things that organize global commerce? Run governments? Fly planes? My second-grade soccer team was more carefully recruited and managed.” @lclaberge.bsky.social

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 🧵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...

What ever happened to Medium? How did substack replace it as the writer's platform of choice?

I know it is Friday, but I felt that this story wasn't getting enough press—again, there's a lot going on—but 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.

⏰🏃‍♂️Hurry! 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!

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 “papers by abeba birhane”. it listed 9 papers none of which I authored

Hey y’all, please read my latest in Contexts, the American Sociological Association’s magazine. In “Black women, YouTube, and the anti-work movement”, I explore the ways in which Black women are publicly engaging in anti-work discourse and creating post-work futures. #blacksky bit.ly/contextswork

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

How does colorism—racial discrimination by skin color—influence men’s soccer? Study finds “a skin tone penalty, where darker-skinned players face lower fan-driven market values and ratings.” Also, using “geolocated penalty kicks data,” finds more evidence of bias. scholar.google.com/citations?vi...

“African 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.”

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!

@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! #civicsoftech

“A recent report, Screened Out: The Impact of Digitized Hiring Assessments on Disabled Workers, from the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), found that ‘most of the digitized assessments were discriminatory and perpetuated biases.’” www.cnbc.com/2025/01... cc: @writingsofrachel.bsky.social

Excited for @asanews.bsky.social virtual conference on the Future of Work. Is there a hashtag for the event?

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

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.

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.

it's been a very hard week in LA.

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.

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