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Sarah T Roberts, PhD

Sarah T Roberts, PhD

@ubiquity75.xyz

24K followers 2.3K following 13K posts

Professor, researcher, author.

Prez, Assoc of Internet Researchers (AOIR), synth lover, fan of many things, gay lady.

Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (YUP 19), and Meta stole it to train its LLM. .. more

Public Health 45%

Medicine 22%

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · Oct 22

A thread…

Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · Oct 20

There are so many elements that have made his ascension possible: co-opted corporate media; social media’s unregulated environment; the overwhelm from the sheer number of misdeeds; coordinated foreign interference; destruction of K-12 education; racist grievance culture; unchecked gross inequity.

Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 4h

You said what you said.

Reposted by Sarah Roberts

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 4h

Enough people are saying this on tiktok that I'm going to fully go on main with my one and only true conspiracy theory

I do not think Katie Miller, Stephen Miller's wife, is white.

Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 4h

www.reddit.com/r/complaints...

From the complaints community on Reddit: Kristi Noem: “We can't trust our government anymore.” Bash: “You are the government.” Noem: “Yes, that’s what I’m saying.” She is dumb

Explore this post and more from the complaints community

Reposted by Sarah Roberts

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 7h

It’s all about access.

President Trump
Do you think Biden would do an interview like this? I don't think
So.
Karoline Leavitt
Let's wrap it up, guys.
President Trump
You know where he'd be, right now? He'd be on the floor.
Katie Rogers
He did not do one.
David E. Sanger
We never had an interview with President Biden.
Karoline Leavitt
He changed his phone number after Tyler called him.
Tyler Pager
I did call him and he did change his number.
President Trump
I didn't.
David E. Sanger
But Tyler called you and you didn't change your number. If Putin
rejected the 20-point plan or just drags it out, are you prepared to
go rearm Ukraine?

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 10h

What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?

Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 11h

“(It shouldn’t be lost on anyone that the two most prominent terminations at Harvard in this era—Mary Bassett and Claudine Gay—have been two Black women.)”

Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 11h

“Those on campus who want to make university life safe for misogyny, racism, and transphobia again are feeling empowered. The academics among Epstein’s men, like Larry Summers, who yearn for a past in which we all knew our place in the pecking order, see their fortunes rising.”

Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 11h

And survival, but of what and of whom?

“Universities are no longer about open inquiry and debate if they are willing to close programs, shutter departments, shift away from priorities that arouse the ire of the state, and purge those who run afoul of those in power.”

Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 11h

It’s hard to know how to move forward under these conditions. I suppose it was fine when we could all pretend to at least be nominally committed to the same mission, but now all of that has been cast aside. Expediency and survival, but at what cost?

Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 11h

Making austerity demands, refusing to reimburse faculty for their research and scholarly dissemination travel, freezing hiring and creating star chamber-like conditions under which such decisions are made with no accountability to the Senate…whether purposeful or simply opportunistic, it’s shameful.

Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 11h

I have lost respect for so many over the past year and a half. It’s actually deeply painful when it’s not just simply disgusting.

Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 11h

I am struggling in my own post because of what I view as a lack of defense of the university at the highest echelons. At UCLA, the chaos from the feds has given cover to those who, for reasons known only to themselves, wish to interfere with the work of faculty research and teaching.

Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 11h

“ I am sure Baccarelli and Garber have also told themselves they are saving their school by making these concessions, but what is left in capitulation and collaboration’s wake?”

Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 11h

“Trump is trying to reshape higher education for an authoritarian era…You need cowards to do this: people who will sell out their colleagues and their principles to promote their own safety or advancement, even as they claim they are doing it because they have no choice.”

Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 11h

“Baccarelli and Garber have sacrificed one of the leading public health figures of our time out of deep moral cowardice. They’ll go down with those who turned in their friends and colleagues during the blacklist in the 1950s, substituting a dubious expediency for any self-respect.”

Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 11h

“The second, and more likely, reason is that the leaders at Harvard are cowards. Under pressure from the White House and the far right, they thought the sacrifice of Bassett was simply worth it to appease their critics, even bad-faith ones.“

They are cowards. All of them. No moral authority.

Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 11h

“Christopher Rufo willingly exposed his strategy in his use of antisemitism in an interview with Politico, gleefully admitting he used it to bring down university presidents by cultivating allies among the liberal press who were credulous enough to take the charges he was making at face value.”

Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 11h

“Elise Stefanik, a key architect of the ouster of Harvard’s former President Claudine Gay and others on the basis of their response to campus antisemitism, was called out by her own hometown newspaper in 2021 for her invocation of the Great Replacement theory —she is clearly no friend to the Jews.”

Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 11h

“But on college campuses, Bassett’s firing is about something more. Antisemitism has been mobilized by antisemites to assert control over higher education in America.”

Reposted by David H. Kaye

Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 12h

“It was abrupt, unceremonious, and cruel. But cruelty is the point nowadays, isn’t it?”

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Harvard’s Ouster of Mary Bassett Is a Revolting Act of Cowardice

The public health icon was brutally removed from her job for one reason: her opposition to genocide in Gaza.

www.thenation.com

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Lisa Rowe 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @txvoodoo.bsky.social · 17h

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Trump now a tyrant restrained only by ‘my own morality.’ We stop him with our own. | Will Bunch

After a monumental week that changed America, Trump believes there is no limit on his powers. We can prove him wrong.

share.inquirer.com

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 18h

In a week when a century happened, from VZ to MN, the biggest story was Trump's vow that nothing can stop him but 'my own morality' and 'my own mind'

But a dictatorship that relies on brute force, alternate truth can be stopped. By our morality. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

Trump now a tyrant restrained only by ‘my own morality.’ We stop him with our own. | Will Bunch

After a monumental week that changed America, Trump believes there is no limit on his powers. We can prove him wrong.

www.inquirer.com

Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 1d

“'The University of California has all the resources it needs to address the affordability crisis plaguing its frontline workers and students,' said AFSCME Local 3299 Executive Director Liz Perlman. 'UC’s failure to act reflects a lack of respect and morality, not a lack of money.'"

Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 1d

"Alongside the doubling of UC revenues over the last decade, the average salaries of UC’s highest paid Chancellors, Medical Center CEOs and other executives have also doubled, from an average of $540,000 per year to more than $1.2 million per year."

Reposted by Alan Richardson

Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 1d

A new analysis of the UC’s financials, records, policies, acquisitions and investment assets shows it's likely in the strongest financial position in its 150-year history, and calls into question the claims of financial distress made last year to justify hiring freeze, layoffs, and tuition hikes.

Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 1d

Silent Molehill

Gord Little @gord.games · 1d

Slightly diminish a game.

Continuing Fantasy

aXL99 _(:3 」∠ ) @axl99.bsky.social · 1d

Slightly diminish a game.

No Mas Effect.

Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 1d

oh.

afscme3299.org/media/for-im...

For Immediate Release: New Report Suggests University of California’s Claims of Financial Distress were Unfounded – AFSCME 3299

Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 1d

The inseCure

Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 1d

Nightmare timeline.

Kragdar @kragdar.bsky.social · 3d

One reason reliable information about Iran is difficult is the sheer number of well-funded campaigns to deliberately muddle information and shape public opinion. This lengthy article is a must-read to understand what you see online, particularly on X:

Our Man for Tehran

The U.S.- and Israel-backed campaign positioning Reza Pahlavi, son of the Shah, for regime change in Iran.

www.bostonreview.net

Reposted by Iain Davidson, Efrén O. Pérez, Janet Murray , and 4 more Iain Davidson, Efrén O. Pérez, Janet Murray, W. Andy Knight, Sarah Roberts, Karen O’Leary, Olivier Mannoni

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich