beth semel
@bethmsemel.bsky.social
AI killjoy, prednisone hater, writing about voice analysis AI and the labor of technosolutionist listening in American mental healthcare
🎉 Congratulations to Assistant Professor Hanna Garth on receiving the 2026 Setha M. Low Engaged Anthropology Award from the American Anthropological Association. The award recognizes anthropologists whose work advances social justice and community engagement. 👏 🔗https://bit.ly/4hA2OCo
@laurenheidbrink.bsky.social and I curated this collection of short essays from a group of committed scholars and lawyers on what we learn from observing and accompanying in immigration court. The pieces are excellent, both accessible and powerful. @culanth.bsky.social bit.ly/4bm4LOW
On and Off the Record: Ethnographic Witnessing and Accompaniment in Immigration Court
This collection brings together ethnographers engaged in court-watching, accompaniment in and beyond detained settings, expert witnessing, and co...
culanth.org
I'm looking to interview anyone who has worked at an electronics assembly (components or systems) factory, anywhere in the world, before 1990. I can offer $100CAD / hour, though I don't think my questions will run the full hour. If you know anyone who is still able and willing to answer, plz lmk
I’ve created a repository of the university & college Flock audit logs analyzed in this article. You can access them here: doi.org/10.15139/S3/.... The full article is available #openaccess here: tinyurl.com/3d8bftts. #Flock #ALPR #Deflock #ICE #FOIA
Flock on campus: university police as appendages of a national policing apparatus
Dangerous new forms of networked surveillance are gaining traction with police departments across the United States. One popular example is Flock Safety’s Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR)...
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🚨New article:🚨 “Flock on Campus: University Police as Appendages of a National Policing Apparatus.” Based on #FOIA requests & reviews of audit logs, this article documents at least 150 colleges & universities using #Flock. Unis have also permitted #ICE searches, even in sanctuary states. #openaccess
Flock on campus: university police as appendages of a national policing apparatus
Dangerous new forms of networked surveillance are gaining traction with police departments across the United States. One popular example is Flock Safety’s Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR)...
tinyurl.com
UT President interfering with faculty tenure. Just the latest egregious example of administrator overreach and political capitulation. Non-paywall follows.
UT border surveillance scholar was a shoo-in for tenure. UT denied him.
American Studies scholar Iván Chaar López fears UT’s unexplained tenure denial violated his academic freedom amid scrutiny of controversial fields.
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One of the defining lines of contemporary conservatism is that there is no detente, no live and let live, no peaceful coexistence between groups. My way or the highway. Good Democrats in higher ed leadership assume they can hide or help out a bit and thereby excuse themselves. They're wrong.
Texas Conference of the AAUP@texasaaup.bsky.social · 2w agoUT Austin doubles down on denial of tenure to leading borderlands tech scholar: “In an emailed statement to Inside Higher Ed, a UT spokesperson said, ‘Tenure is privilege, not a right.’” www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
so excited/nervous that I will be doing my first in-person presentation since 2021, (and my first-time sharing my dissertation work in-person ever)! It will be next month in LA and I'm so happy that I will be joined by some of my wonderful collaborators ❤️ RSVP: fccwla.org/peer2peer-ga...
I am deeply and truly sorry to share the passing of Andrew Lakoff last week. Andy was an extraordinarily generous colleague in addition to his excellent scholarship. My heart goes out to his family. Announcement from our campus STS center, which he founded: t.e2ma.net/message/xx3p...
amidst the unending slop wars and the life-worsening text extruding machinification of everything there still really is nothing like peer reviewing a really great article and imagining what it'll be like to read and engage with it in your own work once it's published
This is an important thing to pay attention to: through “fusion centers,” Feds & local police share information. Despite not being under the president’s authority, local police are following Trump’s directive to investigate “Antifa” under NSPM-7. Often using far-right sources to look into activists
How Local Cops Are Running With Trump's NSPM-7 Attacks on Antifa
Local police accused the same legal assistance group targeted by Joseph McCarthy of being part of a vast antifa conspiracy.
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Ricci@riccisergienko.bsky.social · 4w agoThe FBI raided a Texas activist’s house — then offered her $200,000 to become an informant. The feds were asking about the woman and possible links to the Prairieland case & furtherance of "Antifa" conspiracy. “They are stress-testing the limits of NSPM-7.”
pre-order this book now now now!!!! a must-read especially for linguistic anthropologists and sociologists of language studying LLMs/NLP/language automata. discount code in thread. do itttttt
xiaochang@xiaochang.bsky.social · last mo.Resurfacing online to mention: my book on the history of Speech Rec, NLP, and data-driven AI is coming out in a couple of weeks! Just got my author's copy from @uchicagopress.bsky.social and it finally feels real! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
My article on SIGCIS 2026. Org. Cmt: Morgan Ames, @babintsevak.bsky.social, @honghongtinn.bsky.social, Jason Ludwig, @cperold.bsky.social, & Gili Vidan. Honored to Chair session of @bethmsemel.bsky.social, @maidino.bsky.social, @lukestark.bsky.social & Kelsey Ichikawa! cse.umn.edu/cbi/news/sub...
A Sublime SIGCIS Meeting in Berkeley (SIGCIS 2026)
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (06/24/2026) — The Special Interest Group in Computing, Information and Society (SIGCIS) held its annual meeting at the Information School at the University of California, Berke...
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When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
We're hiring! See our job opening for a Research & Policy Associate in our Low-Wage Work Program. Apply by July 3 for full consideration. laborcenter.berkeley.edu/job-opening-...
Job Opening: Research & Policy Associate, Low-Wage Work Program (Assistant/ Associate/ Full Specialist)
The UC Berkeley Labor Center seeks applications for a Research & Policy Associate in the Low-Wage Work Team.
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see you soon @sigcisconf.bsky.social ! i'll be sharing some material from my book on a panel I organized, "Nightmare Textures: The Ambiguity of Administrative Listening and Classificatory Torque," alongside @maidino.bsky.social, Kelsey Ichikawa, @lukestark.bsky.social, and discussant Jason Ludwig
the letter describing princeton reversal of its 2021 divestment pledge is a long way of saying, 'we refuse to do anything that might, in any way, negatively affect our investment returns' & shows what happens when hedge funds & stock portfolios run universities rather than the other way around
Update on Net-Zero Endowment Goal – PRINCO
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"The very leaders who are complicit in this decision are the same ones who consistently remind us about the University’s values and the perpetual importance of adhering to them" @princeton.edu shame on you!
In reversing divestment, Princeton chooses moral cowardice
As the world burns, Princeton will continue to be confronted with the eternal question: Which side are you on? With this decision, the University demonstrates that it remains squarely on the side of t...
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have I mentioned that I teach first year writing here and that I am being laid off
Sarah Osment@smosment.bsky.social · 2mo agoHahahahahahahhahahahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
This validates nearly everything that Adrienne Williams wrote about in our report, "Driven Down: How Workplace Technology Enables Amazon to Steal Wages, Hide Labor, Intensify Poor Working Conditions, and Evade Responsibility." dair-institute.org/projects/dri...
Worker Surveillance and Wage Theft
How algorithmic management and workplace surveillance allows corporations to steal wages, intensify poor working conditions, and evade responsibility.
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Bombshell reporting by Josh Eidelson, showing that Amazon is very much THE direct employer of Amazon delivery drivers, and that it uses its Delivery Service Partners as a liability shield to prevent unionizing, even though Amazon directs so much of drivers' daily activity.
Josh Eidelson@josheidelson.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew Businessweek feature: A landmark case was unearthing new revelations about Amazon's intimate, intensive regulation of drivers it claims aren't its employees. Then Trump put Amazon's former lawyer in charge www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... Based on 1000s of pages of records and 50+ interviews
I'm looking for a new PhD student to come join me at UAlberta & Amii to study trans perspectives on AI policy & the future of AI as part of my new lab. The position is fully funded and offers access to a range of supports - more details in the poster below!
Our employer, the University of Southern California, is asking Donald Trump to overturn the results of our democratic union election before the count is even finished.
Ryan Boyd@ryanboyd.bsky.social · 2mo agoTonight, hours before our election count begins, USC's admin formally ran to the Trump federal NLRB asking them to overturn democracy. This shit is wildly cynical and has huge implications for academic workers nationally and I am begging my journalist followers to get in touch
