If you live in the U.S. or eastern Canada, this is your annual reminder that Frederick Law Olmsted designed half of the things you think are great: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

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Oh, academia. I dream of the day that I will be on a flight *not* working on a paper, presentation, or recommendation letter. What’s it like to watch an in-flight film?? Are they nice?

at facct this week? wondering if "political economy" is a rich collection of intellectual tendencies and critical sensibilities, or concerned that it's yet another academic branding tactic?curious about the background text of this flyer? join us!! sat 7-9 at co-op BMP!!

What’s happened to income-group gaps in parental spending on children in the U.S.? For the last 45 years, they just. keep. getting. wider. In a new @socarxiv.bsky.social working paper, I present updated evidence on trends in spending on childcare, education, and extracurricular activities.

Two papers coming up at @facct.bsky.social 2026! Who'll be in Montreal? facctconference.org/2026/accepte... ➡️ Guardrails vs. Gatekeepers: Understanding Product Managers' Ethical Decision-Making in GenAI ➡️ Reimagining Open Source and Openness in AI: Co-Creating Responsible Technological Futures

One of my growing pet peeves is people clearly using AI to write an email that just needed to say: “Got it, thanks” but instead is a 200 word essay that sounds like it was written by a diplomatic mission

danah boyd recently argued that social media (as we knew it) is mostly dead; what we have now is parasocial media: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... I agree. Networked social media is disappearing, replaced by a new logic/structure of content creator, creator-centered community, & algorithm.

Social Media Is Now Parasocial Media - danah boyd, 2026

When practitioners used the term “social media” to describe the internet tools that emerged in the mid-aughts, they were giving a name to the kinds of platforms...

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‼️New resource alert ‼️ At the Berkeley AI Research Lab, we developed the Transparency in GenAI Playbook – a free resource for organizations deploying genAI with 10 plays to put transparency in action 📍 Check it out! re-ai.berkeley.edu/projects/tra... #AI #ResponsibleAI #EthicalAI

This is an incredible and ambitious resource mapping the data work landscape across companies, countries, and continents from @techequity.bsky.social ✨ Six of my undergrad students worked on this for their research project for my AI & Society seminar. Proud of them!

Tim Newman@tnewmsblues.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Excited to share V2 of our project mapping the data work part of the AI supply chain. This update includes: 📍A new interactive network graph including data work companies, their clients and investors; 📍Profiles of some of the major companies: 📍47 new companies in the database. DataWorkLandscape.org

Against the constant pressure of *genAI, genAI, genAI*, I am really appreciating @ai2.bsky.social 's work on creating tools for critical needs -- like crop maps and forest loss analysis. They just did a nice release on @hf.co. huggingface.co/blog/allenai...

OlmoEarth v1.1: A more efficient family of models

A Blog post by Ai2 on Hugging Face

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"By organizing, they are insisting that people closest to AI’s development should have a voice in its direction. Listening to them is not just a matter of workplace fairness. It is essential to our ability to govern AI" Ft @js-tan.bsky.social @nataliyan.bsky.social @emilymazo.bsky.social research!

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3mo ago

“Across the tech industry, the people who understand A.I. most intimately — the ones who write its code, train its models and watch its capabilities expand in real time — are increasingly alarmed by what they are building and for whom,” Kate Andrias writes.

@ninabegus.bsky.social trained an LLM on Finnegan’s Wake and I think thats pretty cool! latentspacecraft.antikythera.org/finnegan/ “A way a lone a last a loved a long the”

A sociologist and psychologist walk into a bar… This is not the setup for a bad joke but a real event happening in April. Come here me speak with Dr. Wendy Rasmussen on the Future of Work at the Women in AI Salon, unpacking productivity, gender, and more! Wed. April 22nd in SF luma.com/tdpjc605

Women in AI Salon: Lightning Talks Series #1 - Responsible AI · Luma

A new monthly gathering for founders, operators, researchers, and builders thinking seriously about AI. We're keeping the format tight: one lightning talk to…

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A big morning for archiving and advocacy in tech! This project by @cellllla.bsky.social and others documents workplace surveillance incidents across the U.S., as well as resources for action: wsit.work

Sharing a fantastic #transparency resource NOW OUT from the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard. Dynamic archive of tech company legal and privacy policies over time— hub.transparency.berkmancenter.org

Most of the Washington Post’s tech reporters were laid off today, including me. I have loved my time at the paper, which is where I wanted to work from age 15. I take some consolation in not being among the survivors who will have to work harder with less for fewer readers. On to better things.

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

My time with @equitablegrowth.bsky.social as a Dissertation Scholar was among the most pivotal moments in my PhD career– so grateful this is continuing with the support of @russellsagefdn.bsky.social! $15k in funding for dissertation candidates available: www.russellsage.org/apply/grants...

Excellent new paper from @js-tan.bsky.social and Kathleen Thelen, on the political economy of the cloud company business model and how it feeds the AI race and techno-nationalism journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Great opportunity for someone in the AI and labor space at @partnershipai.bsky.social! ats.rippling.com/pai-job-boar...

Very cool to see the paper @js-tan.bsky.social, @emilymazo.bsky.social & I wrote in @nytimes.com by @noamscheiber.bsky.social. TLDR; worker voice matters. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/b... Thx @ilrreview.bsky.social, @equitablegrowth.bsky.social, @techactions.bsky.social for making this possible!

Despite Crackdown on Activism, Tech Employees Are Still Picking Fights

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📢 Policy colleagues — the Responsible AI Initiative at UC Berkeley, is conducting a study to understand genAI transparency needs among policymakers, experts, and advisors. If that’s you, consider filling out our (20 min) survey. Compensation $6.25 gift card: berkeley.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

From 2014 to 2022, tech workers’ social activism over #MeToo and Trump spurred the rise of bread-and-butter labor fights. Our article of the week examines the sources of class consciousness and labor activism in tech. By @js-tan.bsky.social et al. in @ilrreview.bsky.social buff.ly/DOl6IBm

@cellllla.bsky.social and I spoke with Eva Thiebaud for Options Magazine (France) about how the tech industry has changed politically since the Trump presidency and why techno-solutionism no longer holds any weight www.media-options.fr/2025/10/10/e...

États-Unis : face à Donald Trump et aux géants de la tech, se soumettre ou résister ? Media-Options Media Options

Depuis plusieurs mois, des salarié·es de la tech s’opposent à la vente à Tel-Aviv ou Washington d’outils facilitant la surveillance de masse. Retour sur une mobilisation, alors que Microsoft vient de ...

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📢 New article alert 📢 "Unlikely Organizers: The Rise of Tech Worker Labor Activism" is out with @ilrreview.bsky.social @js-tan.bsky.social, @emilymazo.bsky.social, and I find tech cos with political and social activism in the workplace saw 1.3x more labor activism in the next 6-12 months (1/2)

So excited to share our new article on tech worker activism, co-authored with @nataliyan.bsky.social and @emilymazo.bsky.social, just published in the @ilrreview.bsky.social!

Emily Mazo@emilymazo.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Baby’s first published academic article! @js-tan.bsky.social and @nataliyan.bsky.social and I analyzed the @techactions.bsky.social archive and find that tech worker labor organizing stands on the shoulders of prior struggle- conflict begets class conflict journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Fantastic opp to be a defining voice on tech policy!

Tech Policy Press@techpolicypress.bsky.social · 11mo ago

📢2026 Fellowship applications are OPEN!📢 If you are someone looking to inform technology policy through rigorous original reporting or policy analyses, we want to hear from you! Apply here: airtable.com/appIrc1F9M5d...

📝 🎓 ✨ New year. New semester. New syllabus for my undergraduate seminar (AI & Society) at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social 📝 🎓 ✨ Link here: drive.google.com/file/d/1xquO...

Two amazing resources on worker voice and AI that you should know about: (1) ILO’s Global Case study of AI and algorithmic management by @vdoellgast.bsky.social and team The single best compendium of international law and union cases I’ve seen on this topic www.ilo.org/sites/defaul... (1/2)