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Jonathan B. Singer, PhD, LCSW
@jbsinger.bsky.social
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Award-winning podcaster. #SWTech pioneer. Prof. Best-selling author (Suicide in Schools, Podcasting in Social Work Education). Suicidologist quoted in New York Times, Guardian, CNN. Family man. Tweeted as @socworkpodcast
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"what does it mean to privilege JOY in AI development?" @dupatton.bsky.social sharing his insights at #SSWR2026
@pennsp2.bsky.social
Large projected slide with a bright yellow-green background titled “Joy: What is it?” The slide lists bullet points defining joy as an emotional response to a perceived good, sometimes emerging after pain, grief, or collective struggle, and emphasizing that joy is not passive but cultivated through intentional practice. A tall black speaker stack partially blocks the right side of the slide, and a smaller teleprompter screen with partial text is visible below.
January 17, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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🎉 Can you believe Wikipedia is 25 years old? 🎂

A quarter-century of free knowledge—built on a simple but powerful idea: show your sources. That commitment to citations is one of our favorite things about Wikipedia. ℹ️📚🔍
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#Wikipedia25 #WikipediaDay @wikipedia.org
The white neoclassical building of the Internet Archive headquarters appears through blue jigsaw puzzle pieces with text: "Wikipedia 25. Happy Birthday from Internet Archive."
January 15, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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Listening to @hsph.harvard.edu's Howard Koh give the #SSWR2026 opening plenary. He quoted his dad, "Be broad like the sky."
January 15, 2026 at 11:12 PM
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igraywill.bsky.social
Enjoying a day of discussion & reflection at @howard.edu's Blackburn Center. Many familiar faces & good questions about science & social impact scholarship in the first panel, what constitutes "progress" towards ambitious goals & how to measure it.

@jbsinger.bsky.social @njsmyth.bsky.social
igraywill.bsky.social Ian G. Williams @igraywill.bsky.social · Dec 12
Who's going to the Grand Challenges for Social Work 10th anniversary event, the GCSW Festival of Ideas, on 1/14/26? It's right before the start of #SSWR2026 @sswrorg.bsky.social

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January 14, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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Friday morning at #SSWR2026: a roundtable on philosophy of science perspectives w/ Beth Counselman-Carpenter, Melissa Thompson, & @jbsinger.bsky.social. This will to be a fun jam of ideas & viewpoints. @sswrorg.bsky.social sswr.confex.com/sswr/2026/we... #SWTech #CriticalAI
A flyer for the roundtable "More Than Prompt Engineers: Philosophical Perspectives on Generative AI in Social Work Scholarship."
January 14, 2026 at 9:46 PM
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🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, COMPOSITION WITH RED, BLUE, AND YELLOW
(1930) 🎨

🖼️ Piet Mondrian’s most iconic painting is Neoplasticism in refined form with primary colors, black lines, & asymmetrical balance distilled to essentials.

Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...

#PublicDomainDay
Piet Mondrian’s Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow (1930), a square abstract painting with thick black horizontal and vertical lines forming a grid, white spaces, and a few rectangles filled with red, blue, and yellow.
January 6, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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laywilliams.bsky.social
Whereas this student is being empowered for making vague and unsubstantiated references to Biblical authority, I was once placed on TPUSA's Professor Watchlist for specifically citing Biblical authority in a paper outlining the Bible's concerns about concentrated wealth. You can't win.
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that pr...
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December 24, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Hey y'all! I was really honored to be on the Intuitive Voice Podcast. I talked about my take on intuition and how it shows up in my #SocialWork, #SuicidePrevention, #podcast, and #Jazz. "Trust Your Gut: Intuition in Therapy, Jazz and Podcasting with Jonathan Singer, PhD".
Trust Your Gut: Intuition in Therapy, Jazz and Podcasting with Jonathan Singer, PhD
Podcast Episode · The Intuitive Voice: The Art and Science of Knowing · 12/22/2025 · 37m
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December 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
News Team, Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier. I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity. Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one. We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient. If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state. These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless. CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones. We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet. I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight. Sharyn
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
December 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
December 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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naswsocialworkers.bsky.social
#NASW today delivered a petition to the U.S. Department of Education signed by more than 21,250 Social Workers that urges the agency to classify social work as a professional degree and not a graduate degree. Professional degrees carry higher federal student loan eligibility: tinyurl.com/7vtsccr8
December 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Hot of the press! New episode of the Social Work Podcast. Getting the Social Work Job You Want: Interview with Jennifer Luna, Michelle Woods, and Cindy Snell

Cc: @naswsocialworkers.bsky.social

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Getting the Social Work Job You Want: Interview with Jennifer Luna, Michelle Woods, and Cindy Snell
The first podcast by social workers for social workers. Big names talking about bigger ideas. 24/7/365.
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December 19, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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Fantastic blog by @sfreedenthal.bsky.social. a must read for anyone interested in the very complicated issue of suicide and conversational AI.
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Chatbots and Suicide: Both Sides of the Story
Two recent headlines show ChatGPT’s dramatic potential to harm or help people with suicidal thoughts: “Lawsuits Blame ChatGPT for Suicides and Harmful Delusions” (The New York Times) “Over 1 Million U...
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December 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Don't miss me, Leo, Eric, and the professors—@jbsinger.bsky.social & @laywilliams.bsky.social—as we bring the cheer this Thursday!

#jazzsky
chicagojazzdads.com The Chicago Jazz Dads @chicagojazzdads.com · Nov 29
Our holiday show is coming up!
The Chicago Jazz Dads Holiday Show, Thursday, Dec 4, 6:30-8:30pm at Evanston Pour
November 29, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Our holiday show is coming up!
The Chicago Jazz Dads Holiday Show, Thursday, Dec 4, 6:30-8:30pm at Evanston Pour
November 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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laywilliams.bsky.social
Join @jgordonwright.com, @jbsinger.bsky.social, me, and the rest of the guys Thursday evening at Evanston Pour for our annual holiday show. Playing all the seasonal favorites!
chicagojazzdads.com The Chicago Jazz Dads @chicagojazzdads.com · Nov 29
Our holiday show is coming up!
The Chicago Jazz Dads Holiday Show, Thursday, Dec 4, 6:30-8:30pm at Evanston Pour
November 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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laywilliams.bsky.social
What better time to celebrate the amazing contributions of immigrants to American culture? Come join me, @jgordonwright.com, @jbsinger.bsky.social, and the @chicagojazzdads.com Thursday night at Evanston Pour.
November 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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I'm looking through my Macintosh user guide (the booklet that accompanied my 1984 Macintosh) for the first time in a while, and I'm a little obsessed with this graphic explaining scrolling.
A page from the “Learning Macintosh” chapter of the Macintosh user guide. It says “Most of the time, a window on the desktop can't show you the entire directory or document all at once, even when you've made the window very large. There's often more information than can fit in the window at one time.” With a MacPaint-generated papyrus scroll featuring a square demonstrating the visible content.
October 12, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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We are pleased to announce the appointment of Jamie Wittenberg as Dean of the University Libraries, effective January 1, 2026. Wittenberg brings extensive experience leading multi-institutional collaborations and advancing open-source technologies in library operations.

More: https://bit.ly/47nZ6VA
Jamie Wittenberg named dean of University Libraries
Wittenberg brings experience in library leadership, research data management, and open scholarship as the new Libraries dean at Loyola University Chicago.
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October 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Thanks to @bbrfoundation.bsky.social for highlighting our lab's study (led by @hadarfisher.bsky.social & @nigeljaffe.bsky.social) using📱smartphone sensors + LLM-derived text ratings to track behavioral activation and symptom change in teens with anhedonia.
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Smartphone Sensors + ChatGPT Successfully Tracked & Predicted Symptoms in Adolescents with Anhedonia | Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
The ubiquity of smartphones and the rapid advance and widespread public adoption of “AI” tools like ChatGPT (especially among the young) have raised hopes among some researchers that such technologies...
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October 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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I feel like starting a practice of posting this every day/week. This is global estimated deaths due to USAID -- the DOGE genocide. www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...
Impact Dashboard - Impact Counter | Impact Counter
Visualize the human impact of funding changes for aid and support organizations.
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October 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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New Headspace for the Workplace w Brad Anderson. Recovery wisdom = leadership wisdom.

We discuss the paradox of anonymity, as well as the connection between humility & accountability.

www.sallyspencerthomas.com/headspace/74

#Recovery #Leadership #HeadspaceForTheWorkplace @jbsinger.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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This is wildly illegal and he has no authority to do this
September 19, 2025 at 10:25 PM