Robin Stevens

Bright announcement for ICPSR Summer Program scholarships with a March 1 application deadline and over $400K available.

Scholarship applications the 2026 ICPSR Summer Program close Sunday! Over $400k in scholarships available! Apply by March 1. For more details: myumi.ch/ICPSRscholarships

#SumProg26 #ICPSR #QuantitativeMethods #ScholarshipOpportunities #GraduateStudies #DataScienceEducation #ResearchTraining

This is such a poignant read. I relate with this. A lot.

And congratulations on tenure, Dr. Nock!!!!

Expert insight: U.S. withdrawal from WHO could affect global health - Western News History professor Mitchell L. Hammond explains how the U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization could affect global health and disease threats.

HORRIFYING -
Dismantling USAID & cancelling >80% of aid caused ~750,000 deaths by mid-2025

🧸Most were children
⌛️ Many died within the first year

😰 Preventable deaths were mainly from:
- HIV, TB, malaria
- Maternal & fetal deaths
- Malnutrition

news.westernu.ca/2026/01/u-s-...

Dell has been on this beat since the very beginning and points out a thing often missed: the cost to all of us for Amazon’s loss prevention strategy is a nationwide surveillance network.

Google recovers "deleted" Nest video in high-profile abduction case Users only get three hours of free Nest video storage, but Google can retrieve videos much later.

“…this is something to keep in mind if you’re using a Google camera. Even if you aren’t paying for storage, every event recorded by the camera is going to Google’s servers, and it’s probably recoverable long past the deletion timeline stipulated in the company’s policy.”

Try here: www.msn.com/en-us/societ...

Guidelines for Contributors to The Black Scholar Journal and Blog - The Black Scholar spe. Founded in 1969 by Robert Chrisman and Nathan Hare, the BLACK SCHOLAR (TBS) is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the exploration of cultural, political, social, and economic ...

Anyone potentially interested in writing a review of Bad Bunny's halftime show for The Black Scholar (750-1,500 words)?

www.theblackscholar.org/submission/

👍🏾

Amazon Found ‘High Volume’ Of Child Sex Abuse Material in AI Training Data The tech giant reported hundreds of thousands of cases of suspected child sexual abuse material, but won’t say where it came from

Please tell anyone who cheers on the big AI companies that LLMs are including sexually explicit images of children in their training data. None of them seem to care except Amazon. Yet Amazon won’t talk about what it’s doing about it. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

SWORN TESTIMONY!!!

June 18, 2016
"I personally witnessed defendant trump telling the plaintiff that she shouldn't ever say anything if she didn't want to dissappear like the 12 year old female ⬛️⬛️⬛️ and that he was capable of having her whole family killed."

WaPo’s tech desk was one of the best in the business, and I relied on @nitasha.bsky.social’s reporting countless times in my work. Journalists like her and others laid off today were a source of vital insights into SV politics, helping us in the EU understand who and what we’re facing

The New Edition Cinematic Universe tour is thee way to kick off BHM. 10/10

Since last year, we’ve been reporting on ICE extensively. But every week brings new information, and it’s getting harder to keep track of what’s happening, let alone remember what’s already happened.

So here’s a quick thread to help.

Journalism organizations condemn the arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort as vindictive attacks on press freedom • The TRiiBE Two Black journalists were arrested by federal agents days after both filmed an anti-ICE protest inside a Minnesota church.

NEW — Two Black journalists — Don Lemon and Georgia Fort — were arrested by federal agents days after both filmed an anti-ICE protest inside of the Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, where an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement director serves as a pastor.

thetriibe.com/2026/01/jour...

Meta CEO Zuckerberg blocked curbs on sex-talking chatbots for minors, court filing alleges Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg approved allowing minors to access AI chatbot companions that safety staffers warned were capable of sexual interactions, according to internal Meta documents file...

“Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg approved allowing minors to access AI chatbot companions that safety staffers warned were capable of sexual interactions, according to internal Meta documents filed in a New Mexico state court case and made public Monday.”

Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’

When I teach research ethics and medical mistrust, I remind them it’s not all the past (Tuskegee). ABCD study used by social media eugenicists, amplified by maga. There are reasons not to trust.

Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’ www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’

When I teach research ethics and medical mistrust, I remind them it’s not all the past (Tuskegee). ABCD study used by social media eugenicists, amplified by maga. There are reasons not to trust.

Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’ www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

Not enough

Your reminder that cops in LA maje $20 to $30k more than starting tenure track faculty in the CSU system. In case you’re curious about priorities.

Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out.

As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.

Here's what happened:

Delete your #TikTok accounts and uninstall IMMEDIATELY

DO IT NOW

His friends are officially in the driver seat now

They will absolutely use this for TRACKING and other stuff

I’ve been talking about this for YEARS!!

Mounting debt crisis means global South governments are spending on average 15% of their revenue servicing external debt. This figure has doubled since 2010.

More than 3.4 billion people now live in countries that spend more on interest payments than on health or education.

Opinion | AI Isn't the Solution for Every Problem Health organizations should step back and understand what communities want

🔈 My first op-ed as a Public Voices Fellow on Technology in the Public Interest with The OpEd Project, out today, encourages health organizations to remember that AI is not the solution to every problem; instead, community priorities, not technology, should come first. 🔈

The cover of the book Black Girls and How We Fail Them, by Aria S. Halliday.

@drariahalliday.bsky.social joins us to share her new book Black Girls and How We Fail Them, pub by @uncpress.bsky.social.
#BookSky #AcademicSky
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social @americanstudier.bsky.social
@womenknowhistory.bsky.social

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

‘We Are Looking at a Massive Crisis’ Health-care costs are about to spike in a way that Americans can’t afford.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Social Media & Tech Solidarity Workshop at Harvard University — Media and Data Equity (MADE) Lab

Excited to release my project from my year as a visiting scholar at BKC Harvard! This report and the accompanying podcast asks: how can communities come together on social media platforms, and what barriers stand in the way of solidarity?
www.madelab.org/programs/soc...

"AHH! OOH! Get outta there." 😭

Fulbright students at our university got only a few days notice that their stipends would be affected by a pause at Dept of State. Then they received only 25% of their regular stipend. Cruel treatment of young scholars and we are scrambling to help. #AcademicSky

#NIH is still being stalled.
please keep contacting your elected representatives to let them know the #economic impacts to their regions.

#academicsky