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emma may @emmamay.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
the @aaup.org toolkit for activism on AI is now live! it includes a state policy tracker, tech divestment guide, a zine, & more --> www.aaup.org/issues-highe...
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Toolkit for Activism on AI
The AAUP ad hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions developed the following toolkit resources to fight against the top-down adoption of technology by colleges and universitie...
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Britt Paris @hellobrittparis.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
@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.
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emma may @emmamay.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
went to the combination computer and model train museum in Wall, New Jersey ...and it was (as expected) incredibly sick
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emma may @emmamay.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
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 -->
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
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.”
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emma may @emmamay.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
#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...
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Big Data & Society @bigdatasoc.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
🚨 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
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Tim Newman @tnewmsblues.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
"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/...
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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 · 03/03/2026
@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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emma may @emmamay.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
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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emma may @emmamay.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
things that made me smile recently
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emma may @emmamay.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
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 🌟
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emma may @emmamay.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
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...
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Britt Paris @hellobrittparis.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
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...
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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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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
🔥 from @hellobrittparis.bsky.social Lindsey Weinberg, and Emma May around the weaponization of AI in higher ed. academeblog.org/2025/07/22/f...
Join the Fight
The issue is not whether you personally use Microsoft CoPilot to help with slogging through emails, and it’s not about punishing students. Rather, it is about the value of your work, being paid appropriately for it, the importance of learning and intellectual curiosity, being able to have control over your working conditions, and caring about the future of participation in a democratic society.
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emma may @emmamay.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
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...
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UM Digital Studies Institute @umichdigital.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Digital IDEAS has entered the chat. 🌎 36 scholars 🌡️ 1 heat wave 💥 Infinite ideas about productive malfunctioning Let’s make (and break) things — critically. #DigitalIDEAS
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emma may @emmamay.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
🚨 abstracts are due April 15th! 🚨
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emma may @emmamay.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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...
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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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emma may @emmamay.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
📝 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...
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CfP Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies (JCLIS) Special Issue Strike Wave: Changing Tides of Labor Organizing in Libraries and Information Fields | Journal of Critical Librar...
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AAUP @aaup.org · 25/02/2025
“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
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Britt Paris @hellobrittparis.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
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!
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emma may @emmamay.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Submit by 1/31 📥 Please feel free to reach out with any questions ✨
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annalise @casualpasta.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
"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.
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emma may @emmamay.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
🌟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...
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emma may @emmamay.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
🚫 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...
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emma may @emmamay.bsky.social · 13/07/2024
excited to present about the economic function of (mis-/dis-)information in relation to disability at #EASST4S2024 in Amsterdam🌷 July 16, 11-12:30
Quote in black text on a white background. The quote is from writer and disability rights activist Marta Russell, and it is from the essay Capitalism and the Disability Rights Movement. It reads: a turn to class politics and historical materialism, fully cognizant of its risks and limitations, is what the disability rights movements need most.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 09/11/2023
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...
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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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