Brit Williams, Ph.D.
@drbritwilliams.bsky.social
Yes, that one. PhD-I study Black Women @ work, health/HIV, & class via EDU | 1stGen | Solo | Childfree by choice | 🌱 based | CiteASista & SisterPhD | 🩷💚 | 5’11 | 1 of 1 | LLM HATER
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On Friday, April 25th, I became the first* African American woman to earn tenure & promotion in the Univ. of Vermont’s College of Education & Social Services history.
Naturally, I went home to reflect on my educational past & to think about my future.
*(sadly, yes, in 2025)
1/2?
Naturally, I went home to reflect on my educational past & to think about my future.
*(sadly, yes, in 2025)
1/2?
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everyone who works at openAI should be tried as an accomplice
November 27, 2025 at 6:20 AM
everyone who works at openAI should be tried as an accomplice
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“All I Want For Christmas Is You” by Mariah Carey has returned to #1 on US Apple Music.
November 28, 2025 at 4:37 AM
“All I Want For Christmas Is You” by Mariah Carey has returned to #1 on US Apple Music.
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When people say Traditional Thanksgiving food gets old I be like how??!….. we only eat it once a year dawg
November 28, 2025 at 3:04 AM
When people say Traditional Thanksgiving food gets old I be like how??!….. we only eat it once a year dawg
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*blank stare*
BREAKING: Trump has said, "We may be cutting income tax almost completely because of tariff proceeds."
November 28, 2025 at 3:27 AM
*blank stare*
That doesn’t even look good I’m so sorry!
Update: Nobody liked it 😭
November 28, 2025 at 2:31 AM
That doesn’t even look good I’m so sorry!
Whooping ass in this connect 4 though.
November 28, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Whooping ass in this connect 4 though.
These kids cheating on me in uno so badly… 😅
November 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
These kids cheating on me in uno so badly… 😅
We do. But no one is listening.
This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
To bear out this rosy projection, HSBC assumes that OpenAI will become "as ubiquitous [...] as Microsoft 365" (345mm users worldwide) while bringing in 10x the number of users (3bn).
November 27, 2025 at 8:14 PM
We do. But no one is listening.
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We raise our library voices to celebrate our Indigenous neighbors 💜
How wonderful to exist alongside Indigenous Peoples! You have always been here, you are still here. Celebrate & support them: their stories, history, community, art, food ✨
Thankful for you, we celebrate you today & every day 🧡
How wonderful to exist alongside Indigenous Peoples! You have always been here, you are still here. Celebrate & support them: their stories, history, community, art, food ✨
Thankful for you, we celebrate you today & every day 🧡
November 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
We raise our library voices to celebrate our Indigenous neighbors 💜
How wonderful to exist alongside Indigenous Peoples! You have always been here, you are still here. Celebrate & support them: their stories, history, community, art, food ✨
Thankful for you, we celebrate you today & every day 🧡
How wonderful to exist alongside Indigenous Peoples! You have always been here, you are still here. Celebrate & support them: their stories, history, community, art, food ✨
Thankful for you, we celebrate you today & every day 🧡
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I don’t think people outside of healthcare realize how much AAP is standing out as a moral backbone of medicine right now, especially in pediatrics. There is so much fear at institutions. Seeing an org directly and repeatedly targeted refuse to budge an inch is extraordinary.
AAP: ‘Stop wasting government resources to amplify false claims’ about vaccines, autism
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its website to include false claims linking vaccines and autism, prompting a swift rebuke from the AAP and other medical experts.
publications.aap.org
November 27, 2025 at 6:17 AM
I don’t think people outside of healthcare realize how much AAP is standing out as a moral backbone of medicine right now, especially in pediatrics. There is so much fear at institutions. Seeing an org directly and repeatedly targeted refuse to budge an inch is extraordinary.
I’m sorry is that Josh Lyman being CJ Craig’s husband on The Diplomat? 🤯
November 27, 2025 at 5:45 AM
I’m sorry is that Josh Lyman being CJ Craig’s husband on The Diplomat? 🤯
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It sure looks like something wildly disgusting happened here. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
‘Brazil is not her home.’ Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, brought to US as child, detained by ICE. - The Boston Globe
Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
It sure looks like something wildly disgusting happened here. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
I had one say let’s do a photoshoot because he’s a photographer…
I’m thinking he meant for funsies and not fundsies… no.
He then told me his rates.
I laughed.
I’m thinking he meant for funsies and not fundsies… no.
He then told me his rates.
I laughed.
Somebody just liked me on a dating app and then asked me to review his book. I am aghast.
November 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I had one say let’s do a photoshoot because he’s a photographer…
I’m thinking he meant for funsies and not fundsies… no.
He then told me his rates.
I laughed.
I’m thinking he meant for funsies and not fundsies… no.
He then told me his rates.
I laughed.
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I once taught a whole lesson on the narratives of deservedness in the very strange concept of “stealing” books from something conspicuously branded as a “free” little library. The students struggled with it. A lot of internalized beliefs about poverty and worth. But I think it was a good lesson.
If you are concerned about people swiping books from your little free library and reselling those books, I ask you to go to your local used bookstore and sell a book
Okay?
Understand?
Alright, next question
Okay?
Understand?
Alright, next question
November 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I once taught a whole lesson on the narratives of deservedness in the very strange concept of “stealing” books from something conspicuously branded as a “free” little library. The students struggled with it. A lot of internalized beliefs about poverty and worth. But I think it was a good lesson.
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Brb hosting a life admin party ASAP. @donmoyn.bsky.social @chriscolin3000.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
Ain't No Party Like an Administrative Burden Party
You are cordially invited to Admin Night - bring your paperwork
open.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Brb hosting a life admin party ASAP. @donmoyn.bsky.social @chriscolin3000.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
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3 losses in 3 months. 7 grieving kids. Holidays coming. We lost my 27 year old sister, my grandfather, and now my 94-year-old grandmother is in the hospital.
Funerals, clearing homes, daily care, Christmas..we’re overwhelmed.
Please donate or share: www.gofundme.com/f/our-sister...
Funerals, clearing homes, daily care, Christmas..we’re overwhelmed.
Please donate or share: www.gofundme.com/f/our-sister...
November 24, 2025 at 12:38 AM
3 losses in 3 months. 7 grieving kids. Holidays coming. We lost my 27 year old sister, my grandfather, and now my 94-year-old grandmother is in the hospital.
Funerals, clearing homes, daily care, Christmas..we’re overwhelmed.
Please donate or share: www.gofundme.com/f/our-sister...
Funerals, clearing homes, daily care, Christmas..we’re overwhelmed.
Please donate or share: www.gofundme.com/f/our-sister...
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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Any time an ed story breaks containment, I gotta hear about the Department of Energy 😩
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Any time an ed story breaks containment, I gotta hear about the Department of Energy 😩
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All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
U.S. President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate.
www.cnbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:37 AM
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
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Credit: Meghan, Duchess of Advocacy @meghan_world
Legendary Chef Emeril Lagasse has now entered the chat and made his version of Meghan's one-pot pasta dish.
#WithLoveMeghanOnNetflix
#WithLoveMeghan
Legendary Chef Emeril Lagasse has now entered the chat and made his version of Meghan's one-pot pasta dish.
#WithLoveMeghanOnNetflix
#WithLoveMeghan
November 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Credit: Meghan, Duchess of Advocacy @meghan_world
Legendary Chef Emeril Lagasse has now entered the chat and made his version of Meghan's one-pot pasta dish.
#WithLoveMeghanOnNetflix
#WithLoveMeghan
Legendary Chef Emeril Lagasse has now entered the chat and made his version of Meghan's one-pot pasta dish.
#WithLoveMeghanOnNetflix
#WithLoveMeghan
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The volcano near Naples is shaking the ground in a way that scientists say it hasn't for centuries, posing risks for hundreds of thousands of people living in the 8-mile-wide crater left by past eruptions. n.pr/44w8Kox
Italy's Campi Flegrei supervolcano is stirring. Could this seismic giant soon erupt?
The volcano near Naples is shaking the ground in a way that scientists say it hasn't for centuries, posing risks for hundreds of thousands of people living in the 8-mile-wide crater left by past eruptions.
n.pr
November 25, 2025 at 10:24 AM
The volcano near Naples is shaking the ground in a way that scientists say it hasn't for centuries, posing risks for hundreds of thousands of people living in the 8-mile-wide crater left by past eruptions. n.pr/44w8Kox
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It’s like everybody wants to stop taking our money.
Campbell’s Soup VP mocks ‘poor people’ who buy its food in secret recording
Campbell’s Soup VP mocks ‘poor people’ who buy its food in secret recording
Lawsuit alleges Campbell’s fired worker who reported a VP’s recorded rant belittling customers and making discriminatory remarks.
www.newsweek.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
It’s like everybody wants to stop taking our money.
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"results show that spatial isolation is highest among advantaged ethnoracial and income groups, a finding that aligns with recent research and provides a challenge to the longstanding assumption that social isolation is most pronounced in areas of concentrated disadvantage."
Ooo can't wait to read!
Ooo can't wait to read!
👉 Our new paper uses daily mobility data to show that spatial isolation is much more common today among those living in advantaged neighborhoods than the converse.
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
November 25, 2025 at 3:57 AM
"results show that spatial isolation is highest among advantaged ethnoracial and income groups, a finding that aligns with recent research and provides a challenge to the longstanding assumption that social isolation is most pronounced in areas of concentrated disadvantage."
Ooo can't wait to read!
Ooo can't wait to read!
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My colleague, Dr. Vahid Abedini, was illegally detained by ICE on Saturday. He is currently being held without a court date in sight, despite being in the country legally. Please spread the word! We must ensure his due process rights are upheld. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-prof...
OU College of International Studies professor reportedly arrested by ICE
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reportedly arrested an OU professor at Will Rogers International Airport Saturday.
www.oudaily.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
My colleague, Dr. Vahid Abedini, was illegally detained by ICE on Saturday. He is currently being held without a court date in sight, despite being in the country legally. Please spread the word! We must ensure his due process rights are upheld. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-prof...
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the millennial urge to record a boomerang at the slightest provocation
November 25, 2025 at 12:48 AM
the millennial urge to record a boomerang at the slightest provocation