alice e marwick
Studies social media & society, far-right disinfo. Dir of Research, Data & Society. UNC CITAP. Loves pop cult. Mom, fashion victim, sci fi/fantasy enthusiast. Author of The Private is Political, Status Update. NYC forever. She/her/femme 💅🏻 tiara.org
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- Reposted by alice e marwickThere's a lot of chatter around the proposal being inserted into a budget bill that would put a moratorium on any AI legislation being passed by the states for the next 10 years. I thought I'd say a bit about why this is an absolutely disastrous move. www.404media.co/republicans-... 1/n
- Reposted by alice e marwick"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...
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- Reposted by alice e marwickLet's be clear: Republicans don't want more 'parents' at home. They want more *women* at home. If you think this isn't about eradicating women from the public sphere, you haven't been paying attention
- "The recent court documents showed that Google’s internal testing demonstrated that significantly worse search results would not harm their business operations." So they.. made them significantly worse. BRB switching to... Bing?
- 👀 source: journalrecord.com/2025/02/20/i...
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- Reposted by alice e marwickIt was an honor to organize this panel on Managing Threats to Researchers, for the recent Cambridge Disinformation Summit. Thanks to my esteemed colleagues @alicetiara.bsky.social @mutalenkonde.bsky.social & Dr. Julia Ebner for contributing to this insightful dialogue www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M9l...
- Reposted by alice e marwickJust out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Reposted by alice e marwickIt is an understatement to call these acts of censorship and violations of academic freedom “culture wars.” The Trump administration is determining what can be taught, dictating what students can read, saying what ideas are acceptable, and disallowing inconvenient facts and texts.
- Pete Hegseth’s culture war hits West Point. Books banned, syllabuses scrubbed, two professors resign in protest, the librarian quit. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...
- Reposted by alice e marwickThe “culture war” frame is a weasly way to avoid saying that this segregationist administration is institutionalizing white male supremacy in the nation’s military academies. “white supremacist purge strikes West Point” is more accurate. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...
- Reposted by alice e marwickProf @alicetiara.bsky.social on universities' responsibility to protect academics from harassment: "If you're a dean or run a university, make a plan for when your researchers get harassed, because they will get harassed." Cambridge Disinformation Summit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkYI...
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- I am once again BEGGING people to read me & @robyncaplan.bsky.social 's 80 page treatise on why Child Online Safety Legislation like KOSA is actually a deeply conservative project: citap.pubpub.org/pub/cosl/rel... [HTML] assets.pubpub.org/bujb2qf1/COS... [nicely formatted PDF]
- So proud of my incredible @datasociety.bsky.social research team - @tamigraph.bsky.social runs our Climate, Tech, & Justice program and she is straight up killing it 👏👏👏👏
- “We are told repeatedly that AI will eventually help us solve social issues, including climate change, even while AI infrastructures are right now burdening communities and undermining climate goals,” says Data + Society's Tamara Kneese, citing pollution, taxed power grids, lost resources, and more.
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- FINALLY. Thanks to all the protesters and organizers and no thanks to the cowards who made this decision in the first place
- This is a really fantastic #metgala theme AND it was inspired by an academic book, which I didn’t even realize was a goal one could aspire to www.dukeupress.edu/slaves-to-fa...
- We will DEFINITELY cite this in the next version of the guide! 👏👏👏👏
- Thrilled to see this out in the wild— a true labor of love 💓 thanks to the Working Group & all the activists and academics whose work we drew on.
- We are delighted to share the publication of Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety, the culmination of over two years of collaborative effort by the AoIR Risky Research Working Group. aoir.org/riskyresearc...
- Reposted by alice e marwickWe are delighted to share the publication of Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety, the culmination of over two years of collaborative effort by the AoIR Risky Research Working Group. aoir.org/riskyresearc...
- NC continues to maintain its Republican majority through illegal actions and the worst gerrymandering in the country. No party needs to do this if they have popular support.
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- Reposted by alice e marwickWrote about how the FTC is "censoring" comments from people in its docket on the evils of "big tech censorship." A bunch of angry MAGA folks are submitting comments saying "how dare TikTok censor my conservative speech" and the FTC is like "shit, we can't post that" www.techdirt.com/2025/04/29/f...
- Reposted by alice e marwickSo much is broken right now, but I want to share an amazing new set of short, teachable interdisciplinary essays on ** Sociotechnical Error ** Live at IJOC journal @ijoc-usc.bsky.social: ijoc.org/index.php/ij... (scroll to Forum) Intro by me & Simogne Hudson: ijoc.org/index.php/ij... Pls share!
- WELLESLEY ALUMS: donate to the strike fund for non-TT academics— more than 30% of W’s faculty 🥺 more here: www.wellesleyorganizedacademicworkers.org
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- Reposted by alice e marwickTrump’s executive order on accreditation is yet another attempt to dictate what is taught, learned, & said by college instructors & students. Threats to remove accreditors are transparent attempts to consolidate power in the hands of the administration in order to stifle teaching & research. 🧵
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- Reposted by alice e marwickLots of good stuff here, especially the point that although we need a popular front, people who were sneeringly wrong about the threat should not lead it. Trumpism was fascist from the start, and those who stated this plainly were often derided. www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-alarmi...
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- Hakeem is a fantastic writer and this piece nails it.
- A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
- “Gender studies” is always used to exemplify the useless liberal arts, but my @wellesley.edu women’s studies degree exposed me to critical theory, taught me how to view everything from media to government policy as reflective of power, and prepared me unbelievably well for my current job.
- University of #Toledo is ending a huge number of programs out of fear of SB 1. An absolute slaughter. Every corner of my hometown will feel the impact #Ohio's Republican politicians passed this bill. Don't let anyone forget it news.utoledo.edu/index.php/04...
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- Delighted that this interview w @taylorlorenz.bsky.social that i did months ago is finally live! I get to rant and rave about moral panics, kids, and tech - real heads know my first published paper was on the MySpace predators moral panic www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBLX...
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- It's also wild that there's a fascist takeover going on which is absolutely playbook: eugenics, dismantling of academia, scapegoating immigrants/trans people, etc and i'm still doing Zoom meetings and email
- Reposted by alice e marwickThe conservative movement has turned against reality on every scientific issue of our time, from gun violence to climate change to epidemiology. If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.
- Wild that the NSF uses "effectuate" incorrectly throughout their terrible funding cut announcements/emails: "Research projects with more narrow impact limited to subgroups of people based on protected class or characteristics do not effectuate NSF priorities." EFFECTUATE DOES NOT MEAN REFLECT
- Reposted by alice e marwickThis statement from the NSF is insane. Science is, in essence, designed to separate the true from the false. Understanding how falsehoods spread is key to the scientific endeavor. It is not a violation of free speech to be proven wrong.
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- Reposted by alice e marwickNot surprising that an administration that rose to power on the spread of bullshit and propaganda is terminating the funding of researchers studying these phenomena. We are just receiving word about funding cancellations re: existing grants to members of our team and our colleagues.
- Reposted by alice e marwickThis framing of "dependence" is fucking propaganda. The whole point of the federal government is to build and maintain national institutions that promote public health, education, scientific advancement, etc. The implication here is that those functions are a matter of private not public concern.
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- Reposted by alice e marwickOne thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse
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- Reposted by alice e marwickYes, this is all about phones and the vices they supposedly inculcate, and has nothing to do with the fact that K-12 education has been forced to teach to tests for decades and constant messaging that the humanities are useless indulgences.
- Here's a real "national emergency": College kids won't, and often can't, read a book from cover to cover. The rise of what one prof calls "functional illiteracy" in the iPhone Age is happening right when our imploding democracy needs critical thinkers My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/stud...
- On the plane from Vienna, listening to an Austrian lady ask a guy from South Jersey what to do in NYC and he recommended Times Square
- After watching the Fall Guy I am very happy about this (I’m taking good news where I can get it)
- Reposted by alice e marwickFriends, if you live in Texas, you can help us voice opposition to HB17. This racist bill would effectively ban people from certain Asian countries (+Russia) on temporary visas from RENTING or buying property. For those affected, the only option would be to leave TX.
- the Minecraft movie was not that bad. Lots of LOL moments (some of which I was the only one laughing at despite a packed theater) Jason Momoa is awesome and the Napolean Dynamite-esque details (he's wearing Vision Street Wear high tops, for example) were perfectly calibrated to my sensibility.
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- Reposted by alice e marwickSam Altman isn't keen on you reading my book. EMPIRE OF AI is based on 300+ interviews, 7 yrs covering AI, and my time as the first reporter who got extensive access to OpenAI. I sought OpenAI's perspective throughout. For months they said it was coming. It never did. Pre-order here: empireofai.com.
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- The highly-educated who live in cities- esp the Northeast and West Coast- have a completely different set of cultural markers than conservatives, Christians, and rural Americans. The "victim" narrative comes from a lack of visibility of these cultural markers in elite media, not political power.
- 🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 Trustworthy Infrastructures postdoc: job-boards.greenhouse.io/datasocietyr... This is ideal for an infrastructure studies, rural studies, STS person: it's about the impact of tech industry infrastructure like data centers, amazon warehouses, semiconductor plants on local areas. Remote!
- "To make it up to you, I have attached a photo of my puppy, who is a 3-month-old corgi." It 100% did make it up to me ("it" was a minor missed deadline)
- Reposted by alice e marwickpowerful detailed account of ICE captivity "To put things into perspective: I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me...Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- An actual shout-out to all the nerd parents out there helping me make custom Yoto cards for our kids. For example: www.reddit.com/r/YotoPlayer/ and www.yotoicons.com it truly doth take a village
- Shout out to Springer Nature who has now rejected my submission twice during the "technical check" for the same issue, which wasn't an issue to begin with
- delighted to find out today that someone has ported the original 1984 print shop to the web: theprintshop.club promptly used it to create a novelty certificate for @harryh.bsky.social to celebrate him fixing our door
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- Reposted by alice e marwickOne columnist, a professional pundit, is living in a paranoid delusion. The other, a sociologist, is living in America.
- The impacts of my january no-buy are rapidly wearing off as this week I bought a) a lady gaga mayhem hat (needed a new black baseball cap) and b) Jay Graber's Mundus sine Caesaribus (world without Caesars) shirt
- "the full transcript tells a more important story. It shows how these social media moral panics are leading to exactly what moral panics always lead to: hasty, poorly thought-out laws that trample individual rights in the name of protecting children."
- Haven't seen this reported anywhere but a judge overseeing Florida's attempt to age gate all social media pointed to the failure of D&D to make him worship Satan as a kid to suggest the state needs actual evidence, and not just vibes about a social media moral panic. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/11/j...
- if you are one of the many women my age who are kinda wishy washy on trans issues why not try reading some fiction? WOODWORKING by Emily St James and DETRANSITION BABY by Torrey Peters are both fantastic & highly entertaining books w middle aged trans women protagonists that taught me a lot
- I had two papers due today, and both of them are IN. I am not taking on any new writing projects until the book is done. I’m posting this to hold myself accountable. (I have 2 papers in R&R, 4 in review, 2 in press and 1 that we are coding… but nothing after that)
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- Of surprise to literally no working mothers anywhere
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