Roxanne Shirazi
@roxanneshirazi.bsky.social
Archives and dissertations, labor and libraries. Too much service. Shepherding CUNY history at @cdha.bsky.social. AAUP Council. Views my own. She/her, white/Mexican. Not actually Iranian. Queens is the future 💫 https://roxanneshirazi.com/
this is phrased to obscure agency the same way they do for cops. "driver released after pickup truck kills 2" makes it sound like the truck is the one to blame an accurate headline would say "woman drives into kids soccer game, killing 2 and injuring 10"
Reuters@reuters.com · 17h agoDriver released after pickup truck kills 2, injures 10 at Kansas youth soccer game reut.rs/3UzFqvF
“Tech, AI and gambling companies facing legal scrutiny from states holding elections this year have donated at least $3.8mn to the rival attorneys-general organisations since January 2025, according to an FT analysis of IRS filings.”
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2d agoCorporate donations flood US attorneys-general election races ft.trib.al/3xtfL5X
I don't find that video of those young Black people walking back to their campus uplifting or inspiring in the least. It should enrage every person and all of us of a certain age should be embarrassed that they have to do this in 2026.
Surveilling students AND workers. Things like this are why we at @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social put across an article in April to address surveillance, the lack of oversight or thoughtful governance in tech decision making at Rutgers. Mgmt has not responded in nearly 6mo... www.nj.com/news/2026/10...
Rutgers is quietly surveilling its students like never before. Here’s what the AI tech can do.
The software can recognize faces, read license plates and identify objects across campus, meaning employees, visitors and anyone who sets foot on a Rutgers campus could be tracked. The purchase never ...
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"The adoption of an agentic AI platform should require a faculty governance review equivalent to that required for changes in tenure policy or the curriculum." 👏
The Academic Panopticon Arrives
Agentic AI is not a student plagiarism problem. It is a faculty surveillance problem.
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Thought experiment. What if the degrees were thoroughly worthwhile, because they were educational experiences? But then the economic circumstances on graduation were difficult? What if the degrees are not the problem?
Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 5d ago'He referenced Alan Milburn’s government-commissioned review investigating the rising number of young people in the UK who are not in education, employment or training (NEETs), saying it was “frightening” that “there are more graduate NEETs now than there are NEETs having finished A levels”.'
I used to think I was an educated person, but today I learned that Ursula Le Guin is the daughter of Alfred Kroeber and this Berkeley grad apparently knows nothing 🤯
A haunted house where every room has several colleagues to whom you owe work, or email responses
Pixie Thinks🧚🏽♀️@pixiethinkss.bsky.social · 7d agoA haunted house where every room has several men trying to explain to you something you already know in excruciating and erroneous detail.
Glad to see this. NYC Comptroller Mark Levine is official investment adviser to, custodian and a trustee of, the 5 NYC retirement systems that "are substantial long-term Target shareholders." He's demanding independent, 3rd-party review of their policies, property use, and any cooperation with ICE.
Office of NYC Comptroller Mark Levine@nyccomptroller.bsky.social · 6d agoTuesday morning, we rallied outside the Target on 225th Street alongside community leaders and elected officials to demand answers and transparency. Last week, Oscar Belgal was shot by @ICEgov agents while sitting in his car, his five-year-old child in the backseat.
My kid has started a Letterboxd list called Killer Sweaters for films where the killer wears a great sweater and they've asked me to throw it out to Bluesky for more because "that's the kind of thing those weirdos like to do"
We can no longer rely on our own institutional leaders and governing boards to "defend higher ed from political capture, fight to restore public investment, respect worker rights, and recenter student learning." I'm proud to be part of an organization of professionals stepping up to the moment.
AAUP@aaup.org · 6d agoAAUP ENDORSED! These candidates are fighting to make higher education a public good—affordable, accessible, and a driver of democracy. They will defend higher ed from political capture, fight to restore public investment, respect worker rights, and recenter student learning.
AAUP ENDORSED! These candidates are fighting to make higher education a public good—affordable, accessible, and a driver of democracy. They will defend higher ed from political capture, fight to restore public investment, respect worker rights, and recenter student learning.
These endorsements are the next step in a political strategy adopted last summer at the 2026 AAUP Biennial Meeting when members voted unanimously to help better position our union to fight back against systemic threats to higher education & build power to win a future for our democracy under attack.
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🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: Today, the AAUP announced a slate of 12 national political endorsements for the 2026 midterm elections. These candidates will champion higher education as a public good, protect academic freedom, advance debt-free education, & protect the collective bargaining rights of workers. 1/
AAUP Endorses Midterm Election Candidates
Today, the AAUP announced a slate of twelve national political endorsements for the 2026 midterm elections. The endorsed candidates for Senate and congressional races will champion higher education as...
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Twenty-eight years ago today, after sustaining a vicious antigay assault, Matt Shepard succumbed to his injuries in a Colorado hospital. He should still be with us, as should so many other LGBTQ+ people lost not only to sudden, brutal attacks like this one, but also to the slow violence of hatred.
What is the current landscape of #AI use and rejection in #Library #Instruction? How do we meet students and patrons where they are, wherever they are on this spectrum? Join us as we discuss! Learn more & register: libraryjuiceconnections.org/events/persp...
This afternoon @hellobrittparis.bsky.social, @roxanneshirazi.bsky.social, & @nathanckim.bsky.social are leading an @aaup.org webinar on bargaining related to AI and EdTech.
Intervening in Local Policy and Bargaining Around Technology
Learn about how to bargain for better shared governance around technology, about recent wins for higher education, and how to develop community labor tables around technology issues.
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“Posters opposing the use of automated license plate readers (ALPRs) have appeared on the University of Kentucky’s campus, drawing attention to concerns about surveillance technology and its use by law enforcement.”
DeFlock posters raise questions about campus surveillance
Posters opposing the use of automated license plate readers (ALPRs) have appeared on the University of Kentucky’s campus, drawing attention to concerns about surveillance technology and its use by law...
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Letting men have podcast mics was a mistake
Love to see a youth movement challenging the Modi government in India. Also, I can’t keep reading the word cockroach without leaping out of my skin. Visceral reaction with every headline 😵💫
This pinned post has been updated! Banned Books Week annoys me because so much attention comes to this crucial constitutional issue for only 5-7 days. In an era when our freedoms are being attacked and books–and the people they represent–are disappearing, it's necessary to fight every single day.
kelly jensen@heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 2y agoA massive thread of resources, history, information, and material to help you not only fight and understand book censorship but protect the incredible democratic institutions of public libraries and public education. This is updated regularly!
Back in the very early 2000s, the UK's digital learning agency Jisc made a deal with what was then a startup called iParadigms for plagiarism detection, giving an immediate market advantage to what became Turnitin wonkhe.com/blogs/a-hist...
A brief history of plagiarism and technology
David Kernohan takes the long view in considering the history of technological efforts to prevent student plagiarism in the UK.
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please join the 4th webinar of our @aaup.org AI Toolkit series, "Intervening in Local Policy and Bargaining Around Technology," featuring @roxanneshirazi.bsky.social & Nathan Kim Monday 10/12 3-4 pm ET www.aaup.org/event/interv...
Intervening in Local Policy and Bargaining Around Technology
Learn about how to bargain for better shared governance around technology, about recent wins for higher education, and how to develop community labor tables around technology issues.
aaup.org
The Graduate Center is proud to welcome the inaugural class in Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies (BRES), our first new Ph.D. program in more than 25 years www.gc.cuny.edu/news/graduat... @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social
Trying to conjure a future where “start up” is no longer a thing
This document is going to be an assigned reading in college classes that cover this moment in time, there's a lot happening in a few paragraphs... www.ahmath.org/statements
Editors of journals published by Taylor & Francis - hi! - may be alarmed to learn there is an emerging view T&F will get bought by private equity after Informa announced it's dropping it. And we know what private equity does to its acquisitions. Guts them. As if academic publishing wasn't bad enough
Where does that leave us? Private equity. T&F has high margins, recurring subscription and transformative agreement income, a distinct business to separate, and a sale to PE would face the least competition law risk. Overall, this might be an attractive option for Informa.
![On Oct. 16, 1962, the Cuban missile crisis began as President John F. Kennedy was informed that reconnaissance photographs had revealed the presence of Soviet nuclear missile sites in Cuba.
Also on this date: In 1758, American lexicographer Noah Webster was born in Hartford, Connecticut.
In 1793, Marie Antoinette, the queen of France, was beheaded during the French Revolution. In 1859, radical abolitionist John Brown and his small force raided the U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry in what was then western Virginia. […] in 1923, Walt and Roy Disney found the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, signing their first contract for an animated series and launching what would become The Walt Disney Co. In 1934, Chinese communists, under siege by the Nationalists, began their "long march" lasting a year from southeastern to northwestern China. The 6,000-mile retreat saved the communist force from destruction, allowing them to regroup in the remote north. In 1964, China set off its first atomic bomb, code-named "596," at the Lop Nur test site in Xinjiang. In 1968, American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos sparked controversy at the Mexico City Olympics by giving "Black power" salutes during a victory ceremony after they had won gold and bronze medals in the 200-meter race. In 1978, the College of Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church chose Cardinal Karol Wojtyla to be the new pope; he took the name John Paul II. In 1984, Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his decades of non-violent struggle for racial equality in South Africa. In 1987, 18-month-old Jessica McClure was pulled from an abandoned well in Midland after being stuck there for more than two days. The efforts to rescue "Baby Jessica" captured the attention of the nation. In 1991, a gunman opened fire at a Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, killing 23 people before taking his own life. In 1995, the Million Man March, a gathering of](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ijk7rzillg364zzub4jev6fr/bafkreia4iapeukc6col4xd2xadtqw4dfvetoxrebiivb3dwe35o5ybplui)
