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Social work teacher & administrator, open educator, oaf, )'(, pirate. I also co-run opensocialwork.org. he/him My personal page. Does not represent my employer.
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Two new preprints out today (under review at Advances). #SocialWork + #OpenPedagogy = #ZeroInternshipPoverty

A Participatory Action Research study with #Payment4Placements

The first national study on the impact of unpaid placements on student wellbeing and basic needs.
Nice news that the Council on Social Work Education's signed a statement against the ridiculous compact.
Literally my first thought was air the Bush/Reagan debate.
Just letting everybody know that you can absolutely navigate to YouTube music in the Brave browser with adblock still enabled...
Spotify customer service is immediately ending conversations if you ask about them airing ICE advertisements on the platform.

Cancel your Spotify subscription.
#BoycottSpotify
Why on earth do journals include references in word count? Why is there a penalty for citation density?
Advocacy Toolkit: Reforming Social Work Examinations osf.io/2d437

OSF has a share to Bluesky feature. Neato
OSF
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Gonna freak out my grandkids by explaining that federal research & training grants and state government funding sent me to get a doctorate in the philosophy of social welfare for almost-free
The amount of videos on YouTube kids that are specifically designed to get boys to hate girls and their mothers is quite alarming.

Like, why is KarenMom an entire genre of AI slop?
You keep Wawa's name out of your mouth.
Fetterman responds to Boyle criticizing him for voting with Republicans and cozying up to Trump: "My real problem with Congressman Boyle is that he likes the Eagles more than the Steelers. And he's entitled to his other kinds of opinions, including being on the wrong side of Wawa."
A youth rights movement is more important than ever.
NEW Economist/YouGov
Net favorability of Donald Trump [at the start of his second term | now] among U.S. adult citizens by age
18-29: +5 | -39
30-44: -6 | -14
45-64: +12 | -10
65+: -4 | -10
today.yougov.com/politics/art...
New Black Moth Super Rainbow album looks good
I got this pie but something is wrong with it?
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If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.
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The entire HR department at the CDC is gone. Everyone at the IRB, which makes sure studies are conducted ethically and rigorously, and the ethics office, which oversee conflicts of interest for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Instability and confusion’ as CDC slashes 1,300 jobs before reinstating half
Trump administration says 700 notices were sent in error, while top CDC officer says ‘they didn’t think through what they were doing’
www.theguardian.com
Thanks for helping us grieve this moment more completely.

You rock
@adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com 's adage that cringe is praxis holds true
After 2024, pundits brushed off the Resistance as cringe. I submit: Yes, it was. And cringe is good. Cringe, in fact, will save democracy.
Resistance Is Cringe
But it’s also effective.
www.theatlantic.com
Lawrence Kohlberg has entered the chat.
Honestly, the "everyone is 12" theory is probably overshooting the age estimate by 3 or 4 years.
So the president of the United States plans to meet with Putin in Hungary, and when a reporter asked where that plan came from, this was the reply of the United States government www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
On the plus side, no more eye damage from shingles!
My eyes are very dilated. All of my job is reading. Halp
TANF is $16billion
Another $20 billion. That is the face you make when you heist the US taxpayers for $40 billion two weeks before your midterm elections from the most corrupt America Last regime in history.
This triple negative is going to break my brain
Gen Z men are less likely to reject the idea that misogyny is not widespread in the UK...

Gen Z men: 31%
Millennial men: 44%
Gen X men: 50%
Boomer men: 43%

yougov.co.uk/society/arti...