@veenadubal.bsky.social AAUP legal update: "We have shown that when the government tries to turn fear into policy, AAUP will answer with law, with organizing, with solidarity, & with the oldest commitment we have: the defense of academic freedom for the common good" academeblog.org/2026/06/15/a...

"gonna go watch my bigoted team lose another game" i say, sitting down to watch the giants

i finally submitted my book draft !!!!!!!!! it took AGES but i survived it.

gas leak summer

See y'all at the making & doing sessions 💃

(me, with great shame, deleting every use of the word "recently," from my book draft)

just got a letter in the mail from USPS kindly letting me know they've been investigating me for voter fraud, but don't worry we closed the case so you're fine

this is literally my class's learning objective

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super excited to be part of this project :) tell your students to apply !!

ANNOUNCING OUR 2026 AWARDS! Please nominate yourself + your colleagues for our Book, Graduate Student Paper, and Social Justice Awards. More info on our website: labortechresearchnetwork.org/awards

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somebody please help. i have 60 undergraduate theses to grade and they are taking me 30 MINUTES EACH, give me your speedy grading tips PLEASE my family is dying

who could have guessed 🫠 www.mercurynews.com/2026/03/12/g...

AI as a War Issue, War as a Workers’ Issue www.aaup.org/ai-war-issue...

i hate this shit

bruh i spend $150 for an mlbtv subscription and these assholes are making me **pay netflix 7.99 for a month long subscription** to watch opening night. the INJUSTICE

“The VA General Assembly voted to give over half a million public sector workers collective bargaining rights. But not me. I'm an adjunct faculty member who was just left behind to endure the exploitation of higher education.” @abigailspanberger.com, please correct course & add us back in.

a bomb threat and evacuating two libraries but UVA still wants everyone to "continue normal operations." making students walk towards/around the bomb threat to get to class.

*19 months and *fourth threat of violence

UVA Emergency Alert: Avoid the area of Shannon Library Bomb threat reported at Shannon Library 160 McCormick Rd. The building is being evacuated. Avoid the area.

“A university is researchers, it’s graduate assistants, it’s students & that is the beating heart of a university. No one cares more about the university than we do. This is why faculty & graduate assistants need collective bargaining rights.” —Tim Gibson, @aaupvirginia.bsky.social President

Campus unions across Virginia are fighting to ensure their inclusion in pending legislation to repeal the state’s ban on public employees’ collective bargaining rights.

tHe DeMs NeEd tO Be MoRe CuLtUrAlLy NoRmaL

today, unbidden, i remembered an ice breaker question at an event during my postdoc that was "if you could have one thing in infinite abundance, what would it be?" my lovely, smart colleagues said things like "patience" and "creativity." my dumbass poor person brain said "potatoes"

i think this is the first time that i have written multiple FAccT reviews that say "should we be doing this at all?"

Hey #Charlottesville #cville folx. This weekend, Sat Feb 21 from 2-3:30 (with social time afterwards) UCW is hosting a town hall about collective bargaining and keeping UVA honest. Flyer below with an RSVP QR code with more information. Let your folx (esp other unionized folx) know! Tags incoming.

we're hosting a town hall on restoring collective bargaining for public sector workers in virginia! ANY AND ALL encouraged to attend! Sat Feb 21, 2-4pm Charlottesville's a Union Town: Collective Bargaining For All Town Hall. Take action here: actionnetwork.org/forms/charlo...

happy anniversary to me &myself !! six years ago i got a secret bank account &secret apartment &packed up my dogs &left my ex husband. i only get 1/3 the nightmares i used to. i still find joy in doing silly things he wouldn’t let me do (like use chapstick. or wear color. fr) i love my new life 🩷

i am ON THE FLOOR

today is feb 2 and my neighbors' xmas decorations are frozen in 2 ft of ice

dog update: - 17.5 year old: has started eating his own poop, managed to acquire a tick in january - 15 year old: now pees *inside* his water dish at 3am every night - 2.5 year old: found a dead rat yesterday, made me pull it out of his mouth

doing some editing on my book manuscript draft and found that I mistyped “pro bono” as “bro bono” and i need to find some way to make this a thing

i hate the democrats with the heat of a thousand burning suns

New in Books! @kaareeenah.bsky.social on Worn Out and Data Driven. 📚 ➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.1177/15365042251377368

i've been at uva for 15 months and this is my third lockdown.

active shooter at UVA, close to our building. i am hiding and terrified. the things this university and its students have had to suffer through. 🩵💜💙

it's really difficult to communicate what it's like to be hungry and not be able to eat bc you have $4 left in your bank account. when there's literally not a single dollar to buy anything to eat. to sit and continue working while starving. to look forward to sleep--at least then you aren't hungry

🎶anything can happen on halloween🎶 🎶has anyone seen my tambourine🎶 youtu.be/SSZYVFc6BqI?...

Another great issue from the @contexts.org crew! Check out @kaareeenah.bsky.social's review of @karenlevy.bsky.social's Data Driven and Madison Van Oort's Worn Out! - journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.... - I really appreciate the part on moving from an either/or to a both/and approach to organizing.

over ONE THOUSAND undergrads, grad students, staff, faculty, alumni, and community members showed up today and *made this happen*. it took a LOT of work. and we did it

we MADE them say no. hours and hours and hours of organizing over a very short period of time made this happen. union power ✊ www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

prepping for class this week on race & tech. can't do last year's class without taking major risks. plan B was to ask students to use gov data to explore a particular issue, but can't do that either because datasets no longer exist/the shutdown means websites aren't working.

oh my goddDDDDDDDDDuhhhhhh

even after all these years of teaching, i still have not figured out how to teach ANT without boring the students to tears

one "little fight" i had with my ex husband involved him squeezing me until i couldn't breathe :) ya know, just lil fights

someone threw up the bat signal!! it's time for me to remind everyone that david brooks thinks poor people are too stupid to understand sandwiches.

hey #4s2025! did you enjoy the panels on technonationalism and technofascism as much as i did? you might also like these panels on the 'network state' that i'm hosting today on tech billionaires' efforts to build successors to the nation state. First @ 1:30, second @ 3:30. Sheraton, Jefferson B!

my entire flight to seattle has been full of people hacking and coughing and wheezing