emma may
@emmamay.bsky.social
emmamay.net
PhD student in Information Science
💭 refusal & the politics of information in social movements 📝
PhD student in Information Science
💭 refusal & the politics of information in social movements 📝
things that made me smile recently
November 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
things that made me smile recently
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Alice Wong’s legacy is the political horizon she helped articulate. A horizon where disabled knowledge is central, and care is a shared commitment. She taught us to name grief & rage without collapsing under them, to celebrate disabled brilliance without ignoring the material conditions shaping life
November 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Alice Wong’s legacy is the political horizon she helped articulate. A horizon where disabled knowledge is central, and care is a shared commitment. She taught us to name grief & rage without collapsing under them, to celebrate disabled brilliance without ignoring the material conditions shaping life
another banger from Rob!
what would it take to reframe debates about streaming and cultural decline in marxist terms? for @nplusonemag.com i tried to think through the current crisis (AI! VC! A24!) and what a newly militant labor movement could mean for the culture industries www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
The Same Stream Twice | Rob Arcand
Two recent books, Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine and Andrew deWaard’s Derivative Media, explore the consequences of these technological intermediaries for the music, film, and television industries. While P...
www.nplusonemag.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
another banger from Rob!
really great piece about public libraries as public infrastructure
shout out to @casualpasta.bsky.social and the amazing work they do with the Library Newsroom Project 🌟
shout out to @casualpasta.bsky.social and the amazing work they do with the Library Newsroom Project 🌟
I wrote about public libraries as spaces of civic solidarity, common knowledge, and public infrastructure — all endangered by commercial and federal saboteurs
Extralibrary Loan: Making the Civic Infrastructure We Need
Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life.
placesjournal.org
October 30, 2025 at 5:53 PM
really great piece about public libraries as public infrastructure
shout out to @casualpasta.bsky.social and the amazing work they do with the Library Newsroom Project 🌟
shout out to @casualpasta.bsky.social and the amazing work they do with the Library Newsroom Project 🌟
finally had time to read this great new article from Defector about the top-down push for AI in higher ed!
it also links to our AAUP report on ed tech and its impact on academic labor, which you can read here: www.aaup.org/reports-publ...
it also links to our AAUP report on ed tech and its impact on academic labor, which you can read here: www.aaup.org/reports-publ...
Wrote a thing on the hot summer of uni AI adoption for @defector.com
A huge thanks to @nathankhensley.bsky.social and @anniemcc.bsky.social. @brandyjensen.bsky.social is a legend. And anything smart in hear is thanks to hours of discussion, texting, and draft reading by @smosment.bsky.social
A huge thanks to @nathankhensley.bsky.social and @anniemcc.bsky.social. @brandyjensen.bsky.social is a legend. And anything smart in hear is thanks to hours of discussion, texting, and draft reading by @smosment.bsky.social
Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI | Defector
If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into th...
defector.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
finally had time to read this great new article from Defector about the top-down push for AI in higher ed!
it also links to our AAUP report on ed tech and its impact on academic labor, which you can read here: www.aaup.org/reports-publ...
it also links to our AAUP report on ed tech and its impact on academic labor, which you can read here: www.aaup.org/reports-publ...
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UC faculty and the @aaup.org demand the end of mandatory surveillance software use across the UC system. The future belongs to people, not to big brother!
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
University of California faculty push back against Big Brother cybersecurity mandate
School officials defend software as bulwark against ransomware, but professors fear potential surveillance of their devices
www.science.org
October 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
UC faculty and the @aaup.org demand the end of mandatory surveillance software use across the UC system. The future belongs to people, not to big brother!
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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🔥 from @hellobrittparis.bsky.social Lindsey Weinberg, and Emma May around the weaponization of AI in higher ed.
academeblog.org/2025/07/22/f...
academeblog.org/2025/07/22/f...
July 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
🔥 from @hellobrittparis.bsky.social Lindsey Weinberg, and Emma May around the weaponization of AI in higher ed.
academeblog.org/2025/07/22/f...
academeblog.org/2025/07/22/f...
For better part of this year, I've been working on this report as part of AAUP's committee on AI and Academic Professions. We surveyed over 500 members across ranks, job types, and institutions about AI deployment in higher ed.
You can read more about our work here: academeblog.org/2025/07/22/f...
You can read more about our work here: academeblog.org/2025/07/22/f...
Today, the AAUP released a new report, "Artificial Intelligence & Academic Professions." The report calls for policies that prioritize economic security, faculty working & student learning conditions as AI tech accelerates.
www.aaup.org/news/new-rep...
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www.aaup.org/news/new-rep...
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New Report Calls for Faculty Control in AI Decisions
Today, the AAUP released a new report, Artificial Intelligence and the Academic Professions, sharing survey findings and calling for the establishment of policies in colleges and universities that pri...
www.aaup.org
July 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
For better part of this year, I've been working on this report as part of AAUP's committee on AI and Academic Professions. We surveyed over 500 members across ranks, job types, and institutions about AI deployment in higher ed.
You can read more about our work here: academeblog.org/2025/07/22/f...
You can read more about our work here: academeblog.org/2025/07/22/f...
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Digital IDEAS has entered the chat.
🌎 36 scholars
🌡️ 1 heat wave
💥 Infinite ideas about productive malfunctioning
Let’s make (and break) things — critically. #DigitalIDEAS
🌎 36 scholars
🌡️ 1 heat wave
💥 Infinite ideas about productive malfunctioning
Let’s make (and break) things — critically. #DigitalIDEAS
June 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Digital IDEAS has entered the chat.
🌎 36 scholars
🌡️ 1 heat wave
💥 Infinite ideas about productive malfunctioning
Let’s make (and break) things — critically. #DigitalIDEAS
🌎 36 scholars
🌡️ 1 heat wave
💥 Infinite ideas about productive malfunctioning
Let’s make (and break) things — critically. #DigitalIDEAS
🚨 abstracts are due April 15th! 🚨
📝 CfP 📝 @hellobrittparis.bsky.social & I are editing a special issue of the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies on labor organizing in libraries and information fields.
We greatly encourage contributions from library workers.
More info here: journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jc...
We greatly encourage contributions from library workers.
More info here: journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jc...
CfP Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies (JCLIS) Special Issue Strike Wave: Changing Tides of Labor Organizing in Libraries and Information Fields
| Journal of Critical Librar...
journals.litwinbooks.com
April 8, 2025 at 1:33 PM
🚨 abstracts are due April 15th! 🚨
when we were in Seattle, @gelsworld.bsky.social spoke with Dean Spade for Lux Magazine about Spade's new book—a radical guide on "love, sex, romance, and friendship" ❤️🔥
you can read it online here: lux-magazine.com/article/dean...
you can read it online here: lux-magazine.com/article/dean...
It's Not You, It's Us - Lux Magazine
Mutual aid activist Dean Spade gets personal with a book of self-help for radicals.
lux-magazine.com
March 31, 2025 at 9:37 PM
when we were in Seattle, @gelsworld.bsky.social spoke with Dean Spade for Lux Magazine about Spade's new book—a radical guide on "love, sex, romance, and friendship" ❤️🔥
you can read it online here: lux-magazine.com/article/dean...
you can read it online here: lux-magazine.com/article/dean...
📝 CfP 📝 @hellobrittparis.bsky.social & I are editing a special issue of the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies on labor organizing in libraries and information fields.
We greatly encourage contributions from library workers.
More info here: journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jc...
We greatly encourage contributions from library workers.
More info here: journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jc...
CfP Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies (JCLIS) Special Issue Strike Wave: Changing Tides of Labor Organizing in Libraries and Information Fields
| Journal of Critical Librar...
journals.litwinbooks.com
March 3, 2025 at 10:39 PM
📝 CfP 📝 @hellobrittparis.bsky.social & I are editing a special issue of the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies on labor organizing in libraries and information fields.
We greatly encourage contributions from library workers.
More info here: journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jc...
We greatly encourage contributions from library workers.
More info here: journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jc...
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“This isn’t about streamlining government or reducing waste. This is about consolidating power at the expense of working people.”
- Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
@higheredlabor.bsky.social @aftunion.bsky.social
@neatoday.bsky.social
@uaw.org @unitedfaculty-uaw.bsky.social
- Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
@higheredlabor.bsky.social @aftunion.bsky.social
@neatoday.bsky.social
@uaw.org @unitedfaculty-uaw.bsky.social
February 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
“This isn’t about streamlining government or reducing waste. This is about consolidating power at the expense of working people.”
- Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
@higheredlabor.bsky.social @aftunion.bsky.social
@neatoday.bsky.social
@uaw.org @unitedfaculty-uaw.bsky.social
- Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
@higheredlabor.bsky.social @aftunion.bsky.social
@neatoday.bsky.social
@uaw.org @unitedfaculty-uaw.bsky.social
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If you're thinking about participating in 4S in Seattle this year, consider submitting an abstract to Open Panel 69 Reconfigurations: Care, Labor, and Social Movements within STS. Fieke Jansen and I are running it – we love good company!
January 31, 2025 at 2:05 PM
If you're thinking about participating in 4S in Seattle this year, consider submitting an abstract to Open Panel 69 Reconfigurations: Care, Labor, and Social Movements within STS. Fieke Jansen and I are running it – we love good company!
Submit by 1/31 📥
Please feel free to reach out with any questions ✨
Please feel free to reach out with any questions ✨
🚫 How do we make space for refusal in research and practice? 🚫
We're welcoming submissions for the panel "Disrupting Power: Practices of Refusal in STS" at #4S2025 (Sept 3-7, Seattle). Abstracts are due January 31st.
Please share & submit: www.4sonline.org/call_for_sub...
We're welcoming submissions for the panel "Disrupting Power: Practices of Refusal in STS" at #4S2025 (Sept 3-7, Seattle). Abstracts are due January 31st.
Please share & submit: www.4sonline.org/call_for_sub...
January 28, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Submit by 1/31 📥
Please feel free to reach out with any questions ✨
Please feel free to reach out with any questions ✨
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"why did you become a librarian?" i love answering questions. there is no question i don't want to find the answer to. can't get enough of it. also i like throwing things away.
January 16, 2025 at 6:20 PM
"why did you become a librarian?" i love answering questions. there is no question i don't want to find the answer to. can't get enough of it. also i like throwing things away.
🌟new publication🌟 in Journal of Documentation explores how insights from critical disability studies can disrupt dominant ideas around access in Library & Information Science research
www.emerald.com/insight/cont...
www.emerald.com/insight/cont...
January 3, 2025 at 7:25 PM
🌟new publication🌟 in Journal of Documentation explores how insights from critical disability studies can disrupt dominant ideas around access in Library & Information Science research
www.emerald.com/insight/cont...
www.emerald.com/insight/cont...
🚫 How do we make space for refusal in research and practice? 🚫
We're welcoming submissions for the panel "Disrupting Power: Practices of Refusal in STS" at #4S2025 (Sept 3-7, Seattle). Abstracts are due January 31st.
Please share & submit: www.4sonline.org/call_for_sub...
We're welcoming submissions for the panel "Disrupting Power: Practices of Refusal in STS" at #4S2025 (Sept 3-7, Seattle). Abstracts are due January 31st.
Please share & submit: www.4sonline.org/call_for_sub...
December 18, 2024 at 8:35 PM
🚫 How do we make space for refusal in research and practice? 🚫
We're welcoming submissions for the panel "Disrupting Power: Practices of Refusal in STS" at #4S2025 (Sept 3-7, Seattle). Abstracts are due January 31st.
Please share & submit: www.4sonline.org/call_for_sub...
We're welcoming submissions for the panel "Disrupting Power: Practices of Refusal in STS" at #4S2025 (Sept 3-7, Seattle). Abstracts are due January 31st.
Please share & submit: www.4sonline.org/call_for_sub...
excited to present about the economic function of (mis-/dis-)information in relation to disability at #EASST4S2024 in Amsterdam🌷 July 16, 11-12:30
July 13, 2024 at 4:18 PM
excited to present about the economic function of (mis-/dis-)information in relation to disability at #EASST4S2024 in Amsterdam🌷 July 16, 11-12:30
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The Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies department posted a statement of solidarity with Palestine, and now no one at MPOW (outside of comms) can publish on our website, not even to adjust our open hours or fix a typo. www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2023/12... Overreaction much? Academic freedom?
Barnard altered its policies after removing a ‘Solidarity with Palestine’ statement from a depar...
A tighter clamp has been placed on what faculty, students, and staff can—and cannot—express at Barnard in the weeks following the onset of the Israel-Hamas war, three longtime faculty members told...
www.columbiaspectator.com
December 10, 2023 at 1:11 AM
The Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies department posted a statement of solidarity with Palestine, and now no one at MPOW (outside of comms) can publish on our website, not even to adjust our open hours or fix a typo. www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2023/12... Overreaction much? Academic freedom?
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A digital archivist is "using the Internet Archive’s 'GIFcities' search tool to uncover Palestine-related media files and reconstruct pages originally hosted on old web platforms like GeoCities, Angelfire, and AOL Hometown." Cool as hell. www.vice.com/en/article/5...
The Palestinian Internet of the 90s Is Being Preserved, One GIF at a Time
'Palestine Online' is reviving the history of Palestinian life at the turn of the millennium, amidst the ongoing siege on Gaza.
www.vice.com
November 29, 2023 at 6:02 PM
A digital archivist is "using the Internet Archive’s 'GIFcities' search tool to uncover Palestine-related media files and reconstruct pages originally hosted on old web platforms like GeoCities, Angelfire, and AOL Hometown." Cool as hell. www.vice.com/en/article/5...
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Despite how bleak it is out there, Death Panel is such an oasis right now, hope this conversation between Bea, Jules, Mariame + me is the balm for you it was for me getting invited to be in it soundcloud.com/deathpanel/t...
Taking Back the Library w/ Mariame Kaba & Melissa Gira Grant (11/09/23)
Beatrice and Jules speak with Mariame Kaba and Melissa Gira Grant about the importance of understanding the library as a site of political contestation and a rare expression of the commons in contempo
soundcloud.com
November 9, 2023 at 4:49 PM
Despite how bleak it is out there, Death Panel is such an oasis right now, hope this conversation between Bea, Jules, Mariame + me is the balm for you it was for me getting invited to be in it soundcloud.com/deathpanel/t...