🚨 “They want no one stopping them from making as much profit as they can.” — Paul Osadebe, a federal attorney and union steward, speaking out.
Musk & Trump are gutting public services so corporations can pollute, scam, & exploit without accountability. Workers are fighting back.
We launched a podcast! May the reviews of the reviews commence. 🫶🏻
So as long as you study white male collectives critially, it's fine? Hmmmm
list of banned keywords
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
Grieving a living person is harder than a dead person. Maybe because we still share the same time and space. #Notes #OnGrief
"Trust isn't rebuilt through systems. It's built through individuals."
Someone's comment on rebuilding trust in systems thar continue to fail people in delivering justice. I disagree because after individuals are part of the systems... wdyt?
Grateful to @archive.org for downloading climate & environmental data as we re-enter an era of censorship & climate denial: www.cnn.com/2024/11/19/s...
5. Bluesky's team consists of about 20 full-time employees. That's a million users here per employee now 🤯
Also, we're hiring!
bsky.social/about/join
total users mean nothing if people aren’t coming back or really engaging
We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how:
docs.bsky.app/docs/advance...
#AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
If you're working on home lesson plans for your kids -- or just need a distraction from doomscrolling -- here are links to all the content from our #MOOC on epidemics:
On Coursera: coursera.org/learn/epidem...
On Youtube: www.youtube.com/@centerforin...
Starter pack for those working on misinfo, disinfo, information integrity, digital authoritarianism, propaganda etc. Definitely a work in progress, reply if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/V4Po9wB
Starter Pack on Colonialism, Decolonisation & Race 👇. Interdisciplinary and not limited to academics. Set it up last week so I may have missed people who joined recently - pls let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed). ..Overlapping starter packs v.welcome!
go.bsky.app/NypyY8Q
A dear friend of mine - a queer & Black business owner in our community - just got hate mail on their business account.
Report all hate. Don’t be silent. Listen without judgment. Leaders: send “no hate tolerated” messages to your orgs.
Southern Poverty Law Center: www.splcenter.org/reporthate
Summer internships for PhD students.
Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. A better alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform. And before y’all start, you can transfer all your Goodreads data to Storygraph so you literally have no excuse.
I would support pay what you can. Considering some countries still might not have an epayment setup in place to make it easy and it could be a potential barrier for their participation.
Help me fight censorship.
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#FreePalestine
Time to find your new friends who will keep you critically informed about different aspects of the tech industry.
Add the critical tech starter pack to your following deck!
