Susan Campbell

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Still not entirely clear on this whole social media thing. Apparently I am supposed to have something to say about everything?

I study how people use AI and do cybersecurity and stuff.

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"...approaches that take the following three steps have a better chance of rooting out service inequity: documenting service work across the faculty; making that documentation transparent; and creating consequences for those not doing their fair share."

Deans can help ensure fairness and equity in faculty service (opinion)www.insidehighered.com Richard Badenhausen suggests ways they can chip away at the phenomenon, most of which don’t cost money and are replicable across institutions.

Oh, cool. I draw my students’ attention to the camera in the back of the classroom and say it isn’t recording, but I guess maybe that’s not so much under my control.

UNC Chapel Hill bureaucrats secretly record professors' classes, without notice or consent, "using the existing Panopto camera in the classroom" to investigate "reports concerning class content and conduct"

Letter says UNC Chapel Hill secretly records professorswww.insidehighered.com A business school professor was startled to learn that the university had recorded his classes as part of a ‘review’ he didn’t know about. The university says it has no formal policy on filming classe...

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A study on what many of us already know: over 75% of internal service work in academia is done by women. The bit that gets me:”The male associate professors in particular made it clear that they actively engaged in evasiveness and did not want to participate if it was not positive for their careers”

Women end up doing the academic houseworkkifinfo.no

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The bot says it’s okay to commit wage theft and violate housing laws, but there’s a disclaimer on the page saying the bot “may occasionally produce incorrect, harmful or biased content,” so I’m sure it’s fine.

NYC’s AI Chatbot Tells Businesses to Break the Law – The Markupthemarkup.org The Microsoft-powered bot says bosses can take workers’ tips and that landlords can discriminate based on source of income

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if you're in Baltimore, @jomc.bsky.social and i will be at Red Emma's tonight talking about her fantastic new book WRONG WAY! you could be there too! redemmas.org/events/joann...

Joanne McNeil presentsredemmas.org Automation and AI are squeezing the working class. Join Joanne McNeil and M.R. Sauter to discuss how we fight back both in fiction and reality!

This article includes a map of where the microphones are — unsurprisingly, in Baltimore it’s exclusively in the Black Butterfly. But is that isolated set of red dots northeast of DC the UMD campus?

NEW: A leaked document reveals the locations of ShotSpotter microphones around the globe, which have been kept secret from both the police that use the system and the public. @dmehro.bsky.social and Joey Scott have the scoop: www.wired.com/story/shotsp...

Here Are the Secret Locations of ShotSpotter Gunfire Sensorswww.wired.com The locations of microphones used to detect gunshots have been kept hidden from police and the public. A WIRED analysis of leaked coordinates confirms arguments critics have made against the technolog...

Apparently Barb is a little excited about the unseasonably warm weather in Baltimore

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holy shit: "Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole," by Isabel J. Kim. (the title is the content warning) clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/

Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasyclarkesworldmagazine.com Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole by Isabel J. Kim

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My college is doing a joint hire with government and politics for an assistant professor in politics and data science. Tenure home is INFO. Hired the brilliant Fiona Shen-Bayh last year for the reverse gig (GVPT tenure home). I'm not on the committee but happy to talk. Good place to work. #polsky

Assistant Professorejobs.umd.edu The College of Information Studies (INFO) at the University of Maryland, College Park and the Department of Government and Politics (GVPT) in the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences (BSOS) invit...

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