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Sharla Berry

@sharlaberry.bsky.social
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Higher education professional, dessert lover, occasional yogi.

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
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Civics of Technology @civicsoftech.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
We are excited to announce our fifth annual online conference! We are accepting session proposals until June 14. Read all about it here👇 www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/announc...
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Announcing the 2026 Civics of Tech Conference — Civics of Technology
Against Tech Hype Hype, hope, disappointment.  Hype is the rhetoric of tech billionaires, of VCs, of tech-pushers, of AI boosters and AI doomers. Hype is about attention, grabbing it, holding...
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
My university uses Google products and these same aggressive prompts bombard me and my students every minute as we try to use our unique human brains…what I had foolishly thought was the entire point of “education.”
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Sharla Berry @sharlaberry.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
wow, this sounds very cool! Do we need to bring our own supplies?
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Sharla Berry @sharlaberry.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
preparing for #AERA2026 ... I miss the twitter days... where/how do academics connect before conferences these days?
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Tech jobs suck right now. Teaching jobs suck, nursing jobs suck, higher ed really sucks. Non-profit jobs suck in a way that was unimaginable two yrs ago Jobs that were once good are bad; jobs that were never great are worse than ever. Do *all* jobs suck right now? www.patreon.com/posts/152879...
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Do All Jobs Suck Right Now? | Culture Study
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
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'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
"Women adopt AI at rates 25% lower than men. This isn’t a guess. It’s the finding of a Harvard Business School meta-analysis examining eighteen studies, over 140,000 participants, across multiple countries." "Every AI Company Is Building a Different Wife" abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built...
Every AI Company Is Building a Different Wife
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Janet Donavan @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
This one resonated. As NTT faculty, only systematic raises are merit raises which range 0-<3%. I am not eligible for retention raises- food workers can get retentions, but not me. Also, different rules for different TT people- some people get retentions, others told similar offer doesn’t count.
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Important education message: "independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it." A few profit and the most vulnerable pay www.economist.com/united-state...
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Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless
Independent research identifies few learning gains
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tru @thetrudz.photo · 26/01/2026
“Black women started 2025 with an unemployment rate of 5.4%. They ended it at 7.3%—the highest rate in 4 years. Black women’s unemployment is now equivalent to White women’s rate during the bleakest moments of the Great Recession.” “Black women also suffered job loss across sectors…”
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Black women's unemployment has skyrocketed. Here’s what happened.
The rate is now equivalent to White women’s during the bleakest moments of the Great Recession.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 23/01/2026
THE SEGMENT ABOUT BLACK WOMEN'S UNEMPLOYMENT IS UP ON CBSNEWS.COM!!! Thank you @cbsmornings.bsky.social and Jericka Duncan for bringing me on! #blacksky
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Black women face prolonged unemployment
While the U.S.' overall unemployment rate fell to 4.4% in the most recent jobs report, it rose to 7.3% among Black women. Jericka Duncan spoke with two women who have faced prolonged unemployment to f...
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we here®️ @wehere.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
BACK BY DEMAND 🌹 after 2 sell out print runs The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities by @dorothyjberry.bsky.social is back Feb 4, 12p ET! don't miss your chance to grab this important piece of writing on libraries+archives+memory+black history www.weherepress.org
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
a useful starter pack: go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e
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Sharla Berry @sharlaberry.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
this is a relatively naive question, but is there a way we can add more metadata to our iphone photos/storage?
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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
The university-surveillance component of this piece is !!! I had missed the Qualtrics shift and acquisition and wow. We really need an ed-tech key players power-map, does anyone know if this exists?
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"Qualtrics XM is a Software As A Service (SaaS) platform (mayday, mayday) which markets heavily to colleges and universities. According to their website, Qualtrics XM is “trusted by over 1,200 Higher Education partners.” Qualtrics started primarily as a digital survey tool, utilized by both non-academic staff and social science researchers, but in 2018, at the same time Qualtrics XM was launched, Qualtrics rebranded themselves as an “experience management company” (that’s what the XM stands for). In other words, they became a technofeudal surveillance operation. Qualtrics still provides survey tools, but the XM platform also delivers dynamic multimedia that measures and metricizes user engagement.

Qualtrics XM quickly became the company’s signature product, and Qualtrics became a trendy tech brand, with investors circling. Among them was a private equity firm focused on technology, Silver Lake Partners, who took a $500 million stake in Qualtrics upon its IPO in 2021. That purchase qualified for a seat on Qualtrics’ board of directors, which would be occupied by Silver Lake’s current co-CEO, Egon Durban. Within two years, Durban would help convince his fellow board members to accept a leveraged buyout led by Silver Lake to take Qualtrics private again. By the Summer of 2023, Silver Lake owned outright what was then probably the largest and most powerful privately-owned platform for aggregating HigherEd data.

At $12.5 billion, the Qualtrics buyout was, briefly, the largest deal in Silver Lake’s history, but it was a lower valuation than the 2021 IPO and part of a trend of Silver Lake directors, particularly Durban, converting board seats at…"
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Chabeli Carrazana @chabeli.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
We finally have jobs numbers out this morning from September and take a look at this: big jump again in Black women's unemployment, now 7.5% from 6.7% in August. This figure has been ticking up all year. This is now the highest unemployment rate Black women have faced in 4 years, since mid-2021.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 13/11/2025
"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."
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Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.
The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.
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Lauren Woolsey @cgsunit.com · 11/11/2025
This will be my thread for thoughts while reading Disabling Intelligences by @fractalecho.bsky.social this week. I'm all wrapped up in a fleece blanket, I have my highlighter and page flags, and on page 2 I'm already love their writing style. 🧵
A hand holds a book called "Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about Al" by Rua M. Williams. The cover is burgundy with orange leaves, and behind the book is a blanket with similar colors.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 05/11/2025
here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol
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Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 09/10/2025
I knew Kodak had a history of pollution, but this read goes much deeper than that and into their work for the military!
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Buoyed by a retro revival, Kodak's dark environmental past is coming to light
A snapshot of Kodak’s long history includes cameras, military contracts, and decades of pollution and environmental degradation.
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Sharla Berry @sharlaberry.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
ok gotchu! well, generally digging the vibes... the colors and the messages are great!
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Sharla Berry @sharlaberry.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
this is dope... I love love love the words. I don't get the fork though...
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The EDU Ledger @theeduledger.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Views | The exodus of 300,000 Black women from the workforce is not just a labor statistic—it is the latest reminder that civil rights remain unfinished, and that silence cannot be its price.
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Rule 56: An Appeal for Justice from the Margins
In higher education, Black women are showcased on websites and brochures yet undermined in daily practice. Research confirms we are disproportionately bullied, mobbed, and harassed.
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Sharla Berry @sharlaberry.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
cute! but can we get some stickers for the crafty folks? and maybe a tote bag? I do love the green too!
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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 03/09/2025
My son is taking a college class where students use an AI tool to review their own (ungraded) assignments. The tool turns out to make elementary math mistakes, including telling him his correct answer was wrong. I use LLMs in my work but boy do I keep failing to see their educational value.
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Sharla Berry @sharlaberry.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
check it out!
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Kay Coghill, PhD. @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team · 25/08/2025
My city is currently being marketed for data centers. They are calling it “VIRGINIA'S I-64 INNOVATION CORRIDOR: RICHMOND REGION AND HAMPTON ROADS The World's Next Global Internet Hub”
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a woman in a leather jacket is sitting in a classroom with her finger on her forehead .
ALT: a woman in a leather jacket is sitting in a classroom with her finger on her forehead .
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Sharla Berry @sharlaberry.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Ima message you!
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Sharla Berry @sharlaberry.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
ha! that's awesome! where are your folks from? mine are from Kansas.
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Sharla Berry @sharlaberry.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
This is beautiful! When will it be released?
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Sharla Berry @sharlaberry.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
This is beautiful! When will it be released?
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Sharla Berry @sharlaberry.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Good morning #ASA2025 . I'll be on a wonderful panel today about life without a job. I'll be exploring how Black women on YouTube express anti-work sentiment, and how they leave formal employment. Join us at 10am today.
A flyer for Dr. Berry's presentation at the American Sociological Association. The presentation is Monday August 11th at 10 and is entitled "Not Working: Life Without a Job" .
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Sharla Berry @sharlaberry.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
It is painfully cold in the swissotel #ASA2025 🥶🥶🥶
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Sharla Berry @sharlaberry.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
yess these titles look amazing
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Sharla Berry @sharlaberry.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Headed to #ASA2025 ... any recs for things related to edtech and/or labor that I should check out tomorrow or Monday?
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Sharla Berry @sharlaberry.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Hi! you should be able to download a copy here, lmk if you have any issues www.postworkblackgirl.com/research
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Reviews 1 — PostWorkBlackGirl
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Sharla Berry @sharlaberry.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
thank you Dr. Brit!!!
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Sharla Berry @sharlaberry.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Hey y'all, check out my latest publication... it's a fun one about race/gender/age and educational attainment. I'll do a thread another day, but for now, here it is!
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Chalkbeat @chalkbeat.org · 06/08/2025
A Common Sense Media study found that prominent teacher assistants that use AI generated recommendations that appeared to be rooted in racial stereotypes based on students’ names. About a third of teachers report using AI weekly, according to a recent survey.
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Annie and Lakeesha struggle in school. AI teacher assistants treated them very differently.
A Common Sense Media study found that prominent teacher assistants that use AI generated recommendations that appeared to be rooted in racial stereotypes based on students’ names. About a third of teachers report using AI weekly, according to a recent survey.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/07/2025
“Inside the heel of the shoe, a small insert can be lifted to reveal the compartment. Then, parents can track the location of their child — or, at least their child’s shoes.”
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Skechers is making kids' shoes with a hidden AirTag compartment | TechCrunch
Skechers launches kids' shoes with built-in AirTag holder.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Print is a rent strike.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
*taps sign*
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 19/06/2025
Happy #Juneteenth! This is your loud reminder that the only policy that completely closes the racial wealth gap is REPARATIONS! According to Drs. Sandy Darity and Kristen Mullen, giving every Black American a direct payment of $267,000 closes the racial wealth gap. #econsky #blacksky
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Mapping a Plan for Reparations in the Twenty-First Century - AAIHS
As the U.S. reckons with systemic racism in the wake of global protests over the murder of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, reparations for Black people has resurfaced as a part of the...
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 16/06/2025
“These are the things that organize global commerce? Run governments? Fly planes? My second-grade soccer team was more carefully recruited and managed.” @lclaberge.bsky.social
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Her Job Was Real. So Why Did Her Work Feel So Fake?
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Sharla Berry @sharlaberry.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
wow! love this format! and this journal looks delightful!
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