“This is regulation exercised through discretion rather than administrative procedures that allow for public notice, comment, and judicial review.”

Cheryl Rofer@cherylrofer.bsky.social · last mo.

This is an important article. It is about Trump industrial policy beyond AI as well.

If you were lucky enough to finish most of your cognitive development before widespread GPS adoption ? Try to use a paper map now as often as you can so that you keep that ability. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Habitual use of GPS negatively impacts spatial memory during self-guided navigation - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Habitual use of GPS negatively impacts spatial memory during self-guided navigation

nature.com

Linda Holmes@lindaholmes.bsky.social · 4w ago

The thing is yes, paper maps, but also: You naturally learned how to get around more than people do now. I knew my way around my early neighborhoods where I drove a lot better than I have in the ones where I had GPS all the time.

Hi all, @ethicsofai.bsky.social @dim-ah.bsky.social @francescaorfw.bsky.social @octopusfiles.bsky.social @josemariacasas.bsky.social @ethankutlu.bsky.social hope you are well ✨ New CAIL paper you may find of interest, too 😊 cc @marentierra.bsky.social @altibel.bsky.social @joostvossers.bsky.social

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · last mo.

New preprint! So honoured to have worked with Ishani Ray on providing vital critique on "AI literacy" & correctives for those interested in understanding why "just use the newest version of an LLM" is nonsense Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/

Finally received a hard copy of our new book, Race Talk in Institutional Settings: A Language and Social Interaction Perspective. ✨ @natshri.bsky.social Thank you to everyone who supported and poured into us along the way. Link: www.peterlang.com/document/131... #LSI #RaceTalk #EMCA

Peter Lang Verlag - Race Talk in Institutional Settings

Language and social interaction scholars have increasingly explored the consequentiality of language use for the production and reproduction of race, ...

peterlang.com

Having kids in grad school comes with more costs for women than men. "Citation scores for women who started to have children before the age of 30 were 14% lower than comparable men and 21% less than women who waited until their late 30s to start having children." www.science.org/content/arti...

Having a child during grad school is especially hard on women

New study highlights the need for more institutional support for parents

science.org

My trip to Radboud University this week overlaps with ICCA, so I’ll miss the conference (again). But I’ll be there in spirit with my co-author, @natshri.bsky.social 💬.

Finally recovered from ICA Cape Town! Hosted an awesome pre-conference on discourses of racial inequality and presented my and @francescaorfw.bsky.social book about what @ica-lsi.bsky.social can bring to studies of race and communication! A link to the book!: www.peterlang.com/document/131...

Random but the great migration was a refugee crisis. They were refugees fleeing a collapsed war-torn country (the Confederacy) to seek asylum elsewhere.

This news gutted me. I don’t won’t go into details, but Raul was publicly, bravely KIND to me at a very low point in my professional life when so others were cowardly, weak, and mean. He owed me nothing. He gave because he wanted to. A rare occurrence in my life. jovanevery.co.uk/in-memoriam-...

In memoriam: Raul Pacheco-Vega - Jo VanEvery

Raul had been conscious of his mortality for a long time. Many years ago he came to terms with his workaholism and took serious steps to change his behaviour for the sake of his health. I know he stil...

jovanevery.co.uk

Savoring this from Toni Morrison. “We really have to learn to love thinking again. Not fretting, not worrying, but thinking. Life really is thrilling. But many people are unaccustomed to enjoying the problematics of life…you can use your mind to learn, to change things and to think things through.”

Wrapping up a wonderful visit to Loughborough University for the “Constructing Vulnerability” symposium yesterday and the “Entextualization” workshop today. Always grateful to share new work and ideas on Race Talk (📕 loading) @natshri.bsky.social. And I’m leaving with new curiosities ✨. #EMCA

I was so working class and Black and nontraditional that I felt remarkably blessed to write and read for a living. More than once a fancier academic sneered at me about it, like my gratitude was the mark of the beast lol

Leaving soon for a summer research fellowship in England (my first time there!). I’m looking forward to exploring and writing/thinking. But I’m most excited about getting caught up on my reading list. First up: Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People by Imani Perry.

anti-Blackness structures social life so deeply even movements that claim to fight oppression often reproduce anti-Black assumptions without realizing it.

Here’s something I will say about books, social media, and media more broadly: People are more interested in Black anger and pain than they are in Black joy People love engaging with me when I’m angry and sad and are far less engaged when I am happy and finding joy in something

I'm not as down on students pursuing PhDs as some folks, because there are legit reasons to do so, but you have to have a research reason . Otherwise, there's nothing to discuss. No one is going to call you doctor anyway. 😂

"The Future Will Prove Us Right." These are not easy times for climate activists. An interview I did in 2023 with the Chadian activist Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim. Happy Earth Day. #Greensky #Africasky #climate culturescapes.ch/en/magazine/...

“Black people who play video games talk about the games in the terms that they are familiar with, then other, non-black people who play games pick up these terms and run with them.”

Aftermath@aftermath.site · 4mo ago

That's not what unc means: aftermath.site/unc-aave-afric...

If you grew up in the 90s and early 2000s , it’s pretty surreal to see anybody on the right calling for teen pregnancies. These are also just Nazis, but it’s still weird.

Erin C.@erincikanek.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I’m old enough to remember when teen pregnancy was seen as a bad thing and the main disagreement was what policy to prevent it was best.

“Importantly, we must reject all talk about policing and the overall criminal punishment system being “broken” or “not working.” By rhetorically constructing the criminal punishment system as “broken,” reform is reaffirmed and abolition is painted as unrealistic and unworkable.” — Mariame Kaba🌸🌸🌸

Spring is finally here.

On top of everything else going on I simply cannot text with someone on android right now. Please respect my issues. (This is vague posting my family group chats)

you have to let go of or seriously critique your idea of democracy if you were raised in the U.S. or other Western countries.

The paper “shows that women, particularly those early in their careers, were disproportionately affected by terminations, even though they receive less funding from the NIH in general.”

NIH grant terminations affected women scientists more than men, study finds

A new paper shows that women, particularly those early in their careers, have been disproportionately affected by NIH grant terminations.

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It was a great choice to wake up early Saturday morning to hear Professor Kishonna Gray talk at the Critical Play conference. 😍

Proofs! @natshri.bsky.social ✨

The people who only read shorter pieces in the past read nothing now, they only watch videos. The only readers left are those who like reading, and they’ll read anything.

I personally like it when people who have never had to work a third shift job a day in their life like to tell me how elite I am. It’s a top ten favorite.

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 6mo ago

One thing that's fun is that if you're black and you don't have much experience, it's woke dei if you get the job, and if you're black and you have all the experience in the world, you're an out of touch elite who is not really black and doesn't deserve the job.