Ian G. Williams

New paper: "Opportunities, challenges, and conspicuous absences: An integrative review of the social work literature on artificial intelligence." For a special issue of critical perspectives on technology and social work. Check it out: anzswjournal.nz/anzsw/articl... #SocialWork #SWTech #CriticalAI

Support striking graduate workers. Searching for videos of Solidarity Forever, I came across this 1970's version by Leonard Cohen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gceY...

Bluesky has four kinds of users

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

Hats off to thousands of students and teachers who protested in the streets across Greece demanding higher pay and better workplaces. Folks in Greece are now echoing protesters in other European ​countries who are sticking together to create a new status quo!

And someone else is mine. We're all weird. It's fine.

Oligopoly also exists in academic publishing! Not just mass media!

Huge fan of @dairinstitute.bsky.social's work and communities they've nurtured. I'll be celebrating this anniversary.

Recently, I was pleasantly shocked when invited to become an affiliate of @datasociety.bsky.social, a fantastic organization & network: datasociety.net/network-memb... Much important work to contribute to & connect w/ @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @cunygcdi.bsky.social @cunyailab.bsky.social

Every so often, I am reminded of my experiences as a social worker in COVID-19 pandemic, including running a weekly online grief support group for 18 months. It all feel so far removed from the later stage PhD student life & acadmia, but the lessons & wisdom it taught me come in handy sometimes.

holy shit this guy rocks and maybe is the patron saint of Operations

The Archives Education Institute is back! This year’s multi-event institute culminates with “Resistance through Creativity,” a half-day workshop with materials from Third World Newsreel, Lesbian Herstory Archives, and Interference Archive. Details: www.nycarchivists.org/event-6881379

This looks like it will be quite useful. Here's a recent piece published at the @accountabilityji.bsky.social investigating the dark money networks bankrolling the platforming & sanewashing of far-right academics through "manufactured prestige": www.accountabilityjournalism.org/featured-inv...

Disability justice organizers are turning to immigrant rights groups to guide their interventions and show up for their neighbors amid Trump's anti-immigrant crackdown.

Tonight was fun. CUNY's digital humanities community is lovely & I am grateful to be a part of its capacious self-definition & porous boundaries. Lots has changed since I did my first DHI lightning talk in April 2023, when I was a HASTAC Scholar exploring AI image generation & social work Twitter.

Tonight! Among the many short talks and topics in the lineup, I'm giving a brief pitch for CUNY digital humanities (and humanistic social sciences) scholars to submit their stuff to #NYCOpenDataWeek & @schoolofdata.nyc @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @beta.nyc @cunypitlab.bsky.social

More of a summit than an assembly, but good & necessary, if a bit cold inside Webster Hall. Last panel w/ @karenhao.bsky.social, @naomiaklein.bsky.social, & Arundhati Roy was definitely my favorite: www.youtube.com/live/ttrrVou... Roy's essay she read from: www.equator.org/articles/aru...

More to come, soon, but we have OFFICIALLY opened the nomination form for the #PublicAI University Chapters leadership program to recruit our first cohort in the spring. 🎉 If you know students we should notify when the application form goes live, please nominate! www.aspendigital.org/project/publ...

These only holds if you 1) think US public services should divert precious human capital to satisfy your agents 2) that this infra already exists or can be built swiftly 3) that somehow removing these frictions are a good thing at breakneck pace. The cited paper doesn't even say this.

"An October 2nd story in the University of Michigan student newspaper, The Michigan Daily, revealed that a conservative PAC called America Next offered College Republicans $200 to travel to an upcoming El-Sayed town hall in Flint to “boo” him and ask him inflammatory questions"

A moment of zen. There are at least four different kinds of bees collecting pollen from this aster I planted this year.

A useful side by side comparison of 2022 vs 2029 CSWE EPAS, shared by @suzannepritzker.bsky.social over on LinkedIn: drive.google.com/file/d/1fy44... <See her post here on the power of language and what is being removed & watered down: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Another event organized by the Social Worker Equity Campaign (SWEC) on 10/27 at 7pm ET: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Remember our history. Learn from it. Refuse to let it repeat itself. Keep fighting for a just world. #SocialWork

"The overpasses are designed for larger animals, but through surveys and trail cameras, biologists have spotted even smaller ones, like bunnies and northern leopard frogs — which have seen dramatic declines in population over the last few years earning a protected status — using the crossings."

The U.S. federal government is enlisting artificial intelligence to help decide what public records you get to see, reports Nate Jones for the Washington Post. .

As a PhD student designing my first survey, I added what I thought was a throwaway question at the end. To my surprise, thousands of academics answered it! The paper is out today: doi.org/10.1093/pnas...