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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“These results suggest the need to move beyond labor-centric definitions of educational success and adopt a broader framework that acknowledges unpaid and informal contributions. In conclusion, higher education should be recognized as a long-term social investment…”
I have to read this later—
“The Value of Higher Education for Women Homemakers: Trade-Offs, Non-Market Returns, and Intergenerational Impact”
jcasc.com/index.php/jc...
“The Value of Higher Education for Women Homemakers: Trade-Offs, Non-Market Returns, and Intergenerational Impact”
jcasc.com/index.php/jc...
The Value of Higher Education for Women Homemakers: Trade-Offs, Non-Market Returns, and Intergenerational Impact
| Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change
jcasc.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:56 AM
“These results suggest the need to move beyond labor-centric definitions of educational success and adopt a broader framework that acknowledges unpaid and informal contributions. In conclusion, higher education should be recognized as a long-term social investment…”
I have to read this later—
“The Value of Higher Education for Women Homemakers: Trade-Offs, Non-Market Returns, and Intergenerational Impact”
jcasc.com/index.php/jc...
“The Value of Higher Education for Women Homemakers: Trade-Offs, Non-Market Returns, and Intergenerational Impact”
jcasc.com/index.php/jc...
The Value of Higher Education for Women Homemakers: Trade-Offs, Non-Market Returns, and Intergenerational Impact
| Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change
jcasc.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:40 AM
I have to read this later—
“The Value of Higher Education for Women Homemakers: Trade-Offs, Non-Market Returns, and Intergenerational Impact”
jcasc.com/index.php/jc...
“The Value of Higher Education for Women Homemakers: Trade-Offs, Non-Market Returns, and Intergenerational Impact”
jcasc.com/index.php/jc...
Yall are really gonna “it’s not that deep” us right back into slavery.
November 29, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Yall are really gonna “it’s not that deep” us right back into slavery.
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I'd like to think my people are only concerned with "luxury" as a concept in this moment because of centuries of artificially enforced austerity, but social status as a coping mechanism is much more likely.
Class as a shield is NOT reliable for us so...what are you really trying to accomplish?
Class as a shield is NOT reliable for us so...what are you really trying to accomplish?
November 29, 2025 at 9:06 AM
I'd like to think my people are only concerned with "luxury" as a concept in this moment because of centuries of artificially enforced austerity, but social status as a coping mechanism is much more likely.
Class as a shield is NOT reliable for us so...what are you really trying to accomplish?
Class as a shield is NOT reliable for us so...what are you really trying to accomplish?
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We can't convince universities to stop hiring Gordon Gee, so I don't know how we push for there to be any consequences for betraying the country for a few research grants. But it feels like figuring that out will be necessary.
November 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
We can't convince universities to stop hiring Gordon Gee, so I don't know how we push for there to be any consequences for betraying the country for a few research grants. But it feels like figuring that out will be necessary.
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Ok, I was going to do a full read-through and then write something up and thread it here but I find this absolutely fascinating...
(PS - if you don't have access to this I can email it to you)
(PS - if you don't have access to this I can email it to you)
Typed Versus Handwritten Lecture Notes and College Student Achievement: A Meta-Analysis - Educational Psychology Review
Many college students prefer to type their lecture notes rather than write them by hand. As a result, the number of experimental and quasi-experimental studies comparing these two note-taking mediums ...
link.springer.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Ok, I was going to do a full read-through and then write something up and thread it here but I find this absolutely fascinating...
(PS - if you don't have access to this I can email it to you)
(PS - if you don't have access to this I can email it to you)
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The student loan system—made up of banks, loan servicers, universities, and the federal government—profits from the desperation of its borrowers. @kwistent.bsky.social reviews a new book that describes how it can shape every aspect of a person’s life.
The Family Loan | Kristen Martin
The American student loan system assumes and reinforces familial financial entanglement.
thebaffler.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The student loan system—made up of banks, loan servicers, universities, and the federal government—profits from the desperation of its borrowers. @kwistent.bsky.social reviews a new book that describes how it can shape every aspect of a person’s life.
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Beware of the simple, satistfying, answers to complicated sociological problems.
November 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Beware of the simple, satistfying, answers to complicated sociological problems.
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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.