A race is on to produce statistical evidence of the effects of AI in education. It's leading to a rush of viral studies that play well on social media but don't stand up so well to methodological scrutiny. New post codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2025/05/28/e...

Very sad 😢

Sad to lose this wonderful journal and thanks to all who did the work and care that made it so special

SILICON LANDSCAPES. Imaginationen, Materialitäten und (Geo-)Politiken eines Rohstoffs 🗓️ Workshop vom 22. - 23.5.25
 📍 IfEE, Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Str. 40-41, 10117 Berlin
 Restplätze: www.euroethno.hu-berlin.de/de/das-insti...

Great episode on a fantastic and important book — very much looking forward to discussing it with @williammparis.bsky.social himself tomorrow in Berlin!

In 1925, Berta Lask wrote a play to mark the 400th anniversary of the German Peasants’ War. In it, she imagines Thomas Müntzer waking up every hundred years to address the contemporary political situation. Sam Dolbear has translated it - happy May Day 🌈🌈🌈 www.rabrab.net/titles/muntzer

now do emails

The thread below captures my point why the end of 'The Substance' with its blood spilling and screaming makes sense to some - and not to others.

#MichelAglietta passed away. He was a crucial figure in the 1970s and early 1980s for those working at the intersection of #Marx, #money, #unequaldevelopment, #stagesofcapitalism (and later international currency). The early #regulationschool was in dialogue with #SuzannedeBrunhoff. /1

what a cool book cover. and our chapter is there at the top 🙌🏾 details here: www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/rob...

Looking forward to speaking at @britsoci.bsky.social "Science, Technology & Digital" Plenary this Wednesday, April 23rd. Come along if you're attending the conference.

Nothing really exists in education until there is an OECD test for it. So we can now expect the international "AI literacy" ranking results in 2030, in case any countries wanted yet another way to be seen to perform on a made-up education metric. www.oecd.org/en/about/pro...

The number of shoppers visiting Target stores has fallen for nine weeks in a row since it pulled back from DEI initiatives it had long promoted In contrast, footfall has kept growing at Costco, which fought a shareholder proposal aimed at undermining DEI initiatives www.ft.com/content/268a...

Join our livestream at 11am BST to hear more about the unique work of the IAERC advocating for workers rights for over 30yrs m.youtube.com/@ImprovingWo...

Proudly announcing the launch of our report on the work of the Inverclyde Advice and Empliyment Rights Centre, first finding from our Amplifying Workers' Voice project improvingworkinglives.org

Proudly announcing the launch of our report on the work of the Inverclyde Advice and Empliyment Rights Centre, first finding from our Amplifying Workers' Voice project improvingworkinglives.org

"we should shed the idea that AI is a technological artifact with political features & recognize it as a political artifact through & through. AI is an ideological project to shift authority & autonomy away from individuals, towards centralized structures of power" i finally read this & it's 🔥🔥🔥

Tonight: 5.00pm #SCOGRE

Very thrilled to announce the publication of a special issue of the Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal, titled "New Perspectives on Worker Subordination." Edited by Valerio De Stefano, Sara Slinn, & Eric Tucker (Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto). 🧵👇

I mentioned this @amoorelouise.bsky.social article to my grad students recently bc the more I think about it, the more important it seems. LLMs make decisions by altering parameters until you get a desired outcome, not by reasoning through principles. + www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🗓️ Updated events, would love to see u if I’m in your neck of the woods! For details, www.ruhabenjamin.com/events

How do engineers and tech workers cope with the digital transformation, how far do they show similarities or different es? New paper by my colleagues and me in www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum... @ursulahuws.bsky.social

Terrific special issue editorial on time, temporality and datafied governance of education "we need to know more about how futures (and pasts) are enacted in data and how the resulting anticipated or forecasted futures (and pasts) govern the present" doi.org/10.1080/1750...

This is exactly what I wanted:

Walther Müller-Jentsch ist verstorben: www.isb.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/mam/content/... @onachtwey.bsky.social @camlinger.bsky.social

"Er...I'm no economist, you understand. But from whit I've seen it should be called craptocurrency."

A dear feminist science studies mentor passed on March 5. Have a good journey Sandra Harding. ❤️ Harding was UCLA Distinguished Professor Emerita of Education and Gender Studies, former Director of the Center for the Study of Women. Link is an oral history interview with Sandra on her career.

March 13th in Edinburgh: AI Literacy and Institutional Responsibility w/ Liz Losh.

We are working on launching an ALT DOGE website. It will soon feature a team page listing all of Elon’s staffers, our own wall of receipts (tracking the money he’s taking from America), and a section to help Americans keep tabs on the false claims on Doge’s website—which now exceed 52%.

Today at @cu-cardiffbusiness.bsky.social it's happening! Fantastic scholars on Agents and Agency in the Implementation of Tech at Work, with Kendra Briken @unistrathclyde.bsky.social Dean Stroud and Caroline Lloyd @cusocsci.bsky.social Looking forward to it 🎉🎉🎉

Wed 5 Mar, 12.00–1.30 pm, Online Hosted by the Centre for Commons Organising Values Equalities and Resilience, @davidharvie.bsky.social, Simon Lilley and I will discuss our book about the purge of Critical Management Studies at Leicester. #CriticalManagementStudies www.essex.ac.uk/events/2025/...

Excellent new editorial on rentiership, assetization and digital education for a special issue about to publish in @lmt-journal.bsky.social - and do come along to the whole SI launch events online on 20 and 27 March srhe.ac.uk/networks/dig...

Please read & share the February 2025 issue of RC44's February newsletter, including our call for action regarding the exclusion of RC44’s flagship publication, Global Labour Journal, from journal rankings by the multinational corporation, Clarivate #labour #workers

Consumer genetic IQ tests are now easily available if parents want to buy polygenic intelligence scores for their children. A short 🧵

If buying a polygenic IQ test, you'd be paying to put your social class and privileges under the microarray scanner rather than your kids' DNA. Companies selling genetic IQ tests are predatory on parents' anxieties and ambitions regarding their children

Chuffed our paper on edtech market forecasting - we called it "algorithmic futuring" - made it into this special issue on digital assetization in education doi.org/10.1080/1743...

of demands written a few weeks later that included access to the commons, the right to freedom, and the reduction of rent and “compulsory labor.” On my back is a tribute to the rebellion: a woodcut by the German artist Hans Holbein, created during the Peasants’ War (1524–25). 2/3

Really touching tribute Michael Burawoy from Ruth Milkman jacobin.com/2025/02/mich...

Very happy to learn that our paper "Platform Labour Unrest in a Global Perspective: How, Where and Why Do Platform Workers Protest?" has been shortlisted for the 2025 Sage Prize for research. Several years of work went into this- You can read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Beaming still from my star-struck experience: a recorded session with my hero Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social for Radio @bbcscotland on AI.

A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education 🧵

The International Sociological Association (ISA) deeply mourns the tragic passing of Michael Burawoy, a leading sociologist, Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley, and the 17th President of ISA. Michael was fatally struck in a hit-and-run accident on February 3rd. His loss is immeasurable.

"What has transpired in Gaza is of such epochal monumentality and obliterating significance that it troubles every distinction, every category..." Tobi Haslett 'On a Painting by Hamishi Farah' canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/on-...

I’m devastated that Michael Burawoy is no longer with us. Even though I wasn’t formally his student at Berkeley, he was a mentor to me and so many others. A model of intellectual rigour and political commitment, and a kind, generous person. ¡Michael Burawoy, Presente!

RIP to the legendary sociologist and comrade, Michael Burawoy.

So excited to co-organize this joint Seminar of the universities of Amsterdam and Rojava, on Abolition and Democratic Confederalism. If you are in Amsterdam, you can apply before February 10th ! asca.uva.nl/programme/se...

📢 Tell us, #Telus: Why are you punishing content moderators in Turkey for unionizing? We're calling on Canadian multinational, #TelusDigital, to put an end to the vicious union busting at its operations in #Turkey and urgently reinstate 15 fired union members. uniglobalunion.org/news/telus-r...

The Global Labour University has arrived on Bluesky. The GLU is an amazing, truly global network offering MA programmes for trade unionists and labour activists with an international outlook. Spread the word and follow the GLU channel! #Tradeunions #Laboureducation