THREAD: Universities are rolling out new anti-protest policies intended to suppress popular student demands for divestment from Israel. Here are the trends we’re seeing and how we plan to support students facing higher stakes for their activism. palestinelegal.org/news/2024/9/12…

College administrators across the country spent the summer crafting new free speech policies designed to discourage students from continuing their historic protests over the war in Gaza. motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

Carnegie Mellon’s PR team is regularly hard at work spinning the university’s image, but here’s a story that covers the university’s active repression of free speech: motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

If the Westboro Baptist Church picketed CMU with “god hates f***” signs tomorrow, as in 2017, CMU's new rules on “expressive activity” would prevent us from holding a counter-protest, as ~100 of us did in 2017. pghcitypaper.com/Blogh/archives…

you’ve heard about CMU, but did you know that pitt also changed our “free speech” policies? guess what - unions have power to negotiate for reversals of changes like these (and i’m ready to see us use that power PittGradUnion)

ATTENTION ALL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCHERS: workshop series to integrate disability theory into your research agendas and protocols. If you study technology and disability, this workshop series is for you. Find details and registration at tinyurl.com/DTHCISeries

Updated this list a bit this AM. It’s now at nearly 100 different campuses.

hello friends! this is tomorrow, and i'd love to have you join us! please sign up asap if you haven't already - signups will close later today!!

We are witnessing a resurgence of repression on college campuses that we haven’t seen since the late 1960s.

This is one trend CMU shouldn't be leading. Just call me #11

I'm going to be at TAPIA this week with lisa! We will be co-facilitating a panel titled "Decolonizing Tech: Interrogating the Impacts of Generative AI on BIPOC Communities" If you're attending, stop by and say hello! Looking forward to meeting everyone :) CMU School of Computer Science

thank you to everyone who came to the workshop. i really appreciate your solidarity and determination.

🫠🫠🫠 this is 20 minutes from my hometown

The Three Mile Island nuclear facility plans to reopen in 2028 to supply Microsoft’s AI data centers. It was the site of the worst nuclear disaster in US history. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

interested in accessibility, visualization, and data ethics? i'm recruiting phd students to join cudatadesign. we're building a collaborative and inclusive space for people to grow into interdisciplinary researchers of technology and society. data-and-design.org/recruiting

📢If you're applying to CMU School of Computer Science PhD and come from a traditionally underrepresented group, current students are here to help! Apply to the Graduate Applicant Support Program (GASP) by Oct. 8, 2024 to receive feedback on your application materials: cs.cmu.edu/~gasp

I spent the last few months talking to grad workers + students about how/why they've researched university ties to militarism and the war on Palestine. Lots in here. It's a long LittleSis piece with many visuals. I hope it will be useful for organizers. littlesis.org/news/power-res…

This Monday at 8am PT/5pm CET, we'll have 3 anonymous data workers in our Data Workers' Inquiry series, speaking out in spite of NDAs designed to silence them. ➡️Register at tinyurl.com/DWI-Telus to hear from them.

"What Is a ‘Bug’?" by David Gray Widder ✨ is on the job market!✨ (@Cornell_Tech) and @CLeGoues (CMU School of Computer Science), says that subjectivity and judgment surrounds what a bug is, and how and whether it should be fixed. bit.ly/3ZKdRjt