@emmamay.bsky.social and I have an article in the pipeline on this very topic, but focused on how techs “accessibility” narratives are insidiously used by higher ed admin who refuse to provide meaningful accommodations for students, staff, and faculty. Stay tuned.

David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 3mo ago

EdTech: rich kids get humans poor kids get tech EdTech: you’re welcome

went to the combination computer and model train museum in Wall, New Jersey ...and it was (as expected) incredibly sick

ICYMI — I am looking for short abstract submissions for a panel on technosolutionism in higher ed at 4S Submissions are open until 4/30 Please feel free to reach out to co-organizer @hellobrittparis.bsky.social or me with any questions! More info in the quoted post -->

emma may@emmamay.bsky.social · 5mo ago

#CfA I'm organizing an open panel "Resisting the Datafied University" at #4S2026 in Toronto Please share widely & submit! www.4sonline.org/call_for_sub...

I know a lot of researchers who should know AAT exists. “A disabled-led, unapologetically intersectional transcription and closed captioning social enterprise offering transcription support for researchers, by researchers.”

Academic Audio Transcription Ltd@aat-transcribes.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Research doesn’t always begin with writing; it often starts with speaking ideas out loud. If you’re working on a book, article, or long-form project, dictation can be a great way to capture your thinking as it develops. We turn recorded material into clear, structured transcripts, ready for use:

#CfA I'm organizing an open panel "Resisting the Datafied University" at #4S2026 in Toronto Please share widely & submit! www.4sonline.org/call_for_sub...

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Dis/engaging the ‘common sense’ of AI: Labor strategies from the 2023 SAG-AFTRA around data-driven technologies” by Emma May, Britt Paris, and Serita Sargent. 🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #reconfiguration #feministSTS #ethicsofcare

"AI is not simply a discursive formation that stands as a ‘common sense’ foregone conclusion, it also obfuscates large-scale, transnational coordination of resources, labor & people who make up the infrastructures that are required for artificial intelligence." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Dis/engaging the ‘common sense’ of AI: Labor strategies from the 2023 SAG-AFTRA around data-driven technologies - Emma May, Britt Paris, Serita Sargent, 2026

Forecasts around AI portray its intrusion into everyday life, relationships, and work as inevitable—as an unexamined, foregone conclusion, a type of ‘common sen...

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britt paris@hellobrittparis.bsky.social · 5mo ago

@emmamay.bsky.social, Serita Sargent, and I analyzed the 2023 SAG AFTRA contract on AI to inform bargaining around AI across sectors as a lever for more meaningful worker control technology in the workplace. Out today in Big Data & Society journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

@emmamay.bsky.social, Serita Sargent, and I analyzed the 2023 SAG AFTRA contract on AI to inform bargaining around AI across sectors as a lever for more meaningful worker control technology in the workplace. Out today in Big Data & Society journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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New article by Britt Paris, Serita Sargent and me in Big Data & Society We discuss collective bargaining around AI and how organized labor can meaningfully push back on—and even refuse—the pervasive narrative of AI inevitability journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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things that made me smile recently

really great piece about public libraries as public infrastructure shout out to @casualpasta.bsky.social and the amazing work they do with the Library Newsroom Project 🌟

Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I wrote about public libraries as spaces of civic solidarity, common knowledge, and public infrastructure — all endangered by commercial and federal saboteurs

finally had time to read this great new article from Defector about the top-down push for AI in higher ed! it also links to our AAUP report on ed tech and its impact on academic labor, which you can read here: www.aaup.org/reports-publ...

Justin Raden@jraden.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Wrote a thing on the hot summer of uni AI adoption for @defector.com A huge thanks to @nathankhensley.bsky.social and @anniemcc.bsky.social. @brandyjensen.bsky.social is a legend. And anything smart in hear is thanks to hours of discussion, texting, and draft reading by @smosment.bsky.social

UC faculty and the @aaup.org demand the end of mandatory surveillance software use across the UC system. The future belongs to people, not to big brother! www.science.org/content/arti...

University of California faculty push back against Big Brother cybersecurity mandate

School officials defend software as bulwark against ransomware, but professors fear potential surveillance of their devices

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🔥 from @hellobrittparis.bsky.social Lindsey Weinberg, and Emma May around the weaponization of AI in higher ed. academeblog.org/2025/07/22/f...

For better part of this year, I've been working on this report as part of AAUP's committee on AI and Academic Professions. We surveyed over 500 members across ranks, job types, and institutions about AI deployment in higher ed. You can read more about our work here: academeblog.org/2025/07/22/f...

AAUP@aaup.org · last yr.

Today, the AAUP released a new report, "Artificial Intelligence & Academic Professions." The report calls for policies that prioritize economic security, faculty working & student learning conditions as AI tech accelerates. www.aaup.org/news/new-rep... 🧵1/9

Digital IDEAS has entered the chat. 🌎 36 scholars 🌡️ 1 heat wave 💥 Infinite ideas about productive malfunctioning Let’s make (and break) things — critically. #DigitalIDEAS

🚨 abstracts are due April 15th! 🚨

emma may@emmamay.bsky.social · last yr.

📝 CfP 📝 @hellobrittparis.bsky.social & I are editing a special issue of the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies on labor organizing in libraries and information fields. We greatly encourage contributions from library workers. More info here: journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jc...

when we were in Seattle, @gelsworld.bsky.social spoke with Dean Spade for Lux Magazine about Spade's new book—a radical guide on "love, sex, romance, and friendship" ❤️‍🔥 you can read it online here: lux-magazine.com/article/dean...

It's Not You, It's Us - Lux Magazine

Mutual aid activist Dean Spade gets personal with a book of self-help for radicals.

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📝 CfP 📝 @hellobrittparis.bsky.social & I are editing a special issue of the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies on labor organizing in libraries and information fields. We greatly encourage contributions from library workers. More info here: journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jc...

“This isn’t about streamlining government or reducing waste. This is about consolidating power at the expense of working people.” - Todd Wolfson, AAUP President @higheredlabor.bsky.social @aftunion.bsky.social @neatoday.bsky.social @uaw.org @unitedfaculty-uaw.bsky.social

If you're thinking about participating in 4S in Seattle this year, consider submitting an abstract to Open Panel 69 Reconfigurations: Care, Labor, and Social Movements within STS. Fieke Jansen and I are running it – we love good company!

Submit by 1/31 📥 Please feel free to reach out with any questions ✨

emma may@emmamay.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚫 How do we make space for refusal in research and practice? 🚫 We're welcoming submissions for the panel "Disrupting Power: Practices of Refusal in STS" at #4S2025 (Sept 3-7, Seattle). Abstracts are due January 31st. Please share & submit: www.4sonline.org/call_for_sub...

"why did you become a librarian?" i love answering questions. there is no question i don't want to find the answer to. can't get enough of it. also i like throwing things away.

🌟new publication🌟 in Journal of Documentation explores how insights from critical disability studies can disrupt dominant ideas around access in Library & Information Science research www.emerald.com/insight/cont...

🚫 How do we make space for refusal in research and practice? 🚫 We're welcoming submissions for the panel "Disrupting Power: Practices of Refusal in STS" at #4S2025 (Sept 3-7, Seattle). Abstracts are due January 31st. Please share & submit: www.4sonline.org/call_for_sub...

excited to present about the economic function of (mis-/dis-)information in relation to disability at #EASST4S2024 in Amsterdam🌷 July 16, 11-12:30

Despite how bleak it is out there, Death Panel is such an oasis right now, hope this conversation between Bea, Jules, Mariame + me is the balm for you it was for me getting invited to be in it soundcloud.com/deathpanel/t...

Taking Back the Library w/ Mariame Kaba & Melissa Gira Grant (11/09/23)

Beatrice and Jules speak with Mariame Kaba and Melissa Gira Grant about the importance of understanding the library as a site of political contestation and a rare expression of the commons in contempo

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