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emma may @emmamay.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#4S2026 #4SToronto I will be at the "Resisting Generative AI in Higher Education" workshop this afternoon to share a bit about strategies to support disabled students, staff, and faculty beyond the use of corporate tech

Image of a white paper with text layered on top. The text on the white paper reads: Accessibility cannot simply be outsourced to for-profit tech. AI is often promoted as a solution to inaccessibility. These narratives obscure the very real labor, surveillance, and environmental costs of AI. As university admin and higher ups push AI into the classroom, disabled students, staff, and faculty face new types of surveillance, exclusion, and increased pressure to adopt these for-profit, corporate technologies. As organized labor, we have the power to push back.

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emma may @emmamay.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm sorry, Stephen!! I'll be at 4S too—would love to catch up in Toronto

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emma may @emmamay.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

👋 i'll be at the AAUP conference & hoping to stop by Labor Notes too!!

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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

@allegramk.bsky.social and I got to see the Slim Jim Computer IRL and in the flesh!

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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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emma may @emmamay.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

sending love & solidarity 🫂❤️‍🔥

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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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emma may @emmamay.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I have a late February birthday and I've decided I'm just going to celebrate it later in the summer hahaha

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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 · 18/02/2026

when i saw this article & the surrounding discourse last week:

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emma may @emmamay.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

that makes sooooo much sense hahahaha

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emma may @emmamay.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

let's go!!!! ❤️‍🔥

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emma may @emmamay.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

don't be afraid to be yourself ❤️

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emma may @emmamay.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

this is the content I live for

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emma may @emmamay.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I worked with Shannon as an undergrad at Barnard! She's lovely and it's great to hear she's now at the labor archives at NYU (:

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emma may @emmamay.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

yes—"AI literacy" is just another way of manufacturing consent for stuff that no one asked for!

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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 · 05/11/2025

that's my oomfie!! ☝🏻

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emma may @emmamay.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

any reference to this album is like a bat signal for me, specifically

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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 · 28/10/2025

don't know what you're talking about, but love this for you ❤️

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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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emma may @emmamay.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

those videos of people getting sucked in by corn silos are terrifying!

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emma may @emmamay.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

the wool sweaters and long slip dresses from uniqlo are great ~layering pieces~ for work stuff in a pinch. the realreal is also good for nice sweaters and tailored blazers, although sizing can be kinda iffy!

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emma may @emmamay.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I will not click I will not click I will not click I will not click I will not click I will not click I will not click I will not click I will not click I will not click I will not click I will not click...

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emma may @emmamay.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Thank you so much for your interest in the panel—your work has greatly shaped my thinking! (:

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emma may @emmamay.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

very tempted to make this a sticker on my phone...

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emma may @emmamay.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

one of my favorite places to work is the cluttered basement of the Jefferson Market Library—it has interesting exhibitions about the neighborhood's history, and I really enjoy how you can find random relics from the library stored seemingly haphazardly throughout the room

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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...

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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

I think you'll like the report, then—that's what it's about (:

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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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emma may @emmamay.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

this isn't doing the numbers it should be!!!

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