profmattdecarlo

profmattdecarlo

@profmattdecarlo.bsky.social

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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profmattdecarlo
@profmattdecarlo.bsky.social

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.

profmattdecarlo
@profmattdecarlo.bsky.social

Stares in Gordon Tullock

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social

Tennessee farmer's fuel bill was $20,000 for just 2 weeks: "I wish they could see what it costs us to plant a crop and what we are getting paid... A farmer doesn't like a handout. He would rather have a fair market."

profmattdecarlo
@profmattdecarlo.bsky.social

I'm not an expert on the subject but it's blisteringly obvious that radical centrism is a pillar of the fascist coalition and has been for a while.

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

New paper surveys thousands of residents in six cities (Berlin, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York, and Paris) and finds that centrists/moderates are the most anti-housing development www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

profmattdecarlo
@profmattdecarlo.bsky.social

Like, I get the structural issues of LLM slop...but uh, pretty sure rank racism is not actually gonna work as a solution

hikikomorphism@hikikomorphism.bsky.social

hooooo boy we don't like this no we don't > If you don't speak English, you need to find a different community. We cannot distinguish between AI-written and AI-translated. Since you don't speak English, you can't even verify yourself if it translated correctly. www.reddit.com/r/opensource...

profmattdecarlo
@profmattdecarlo.bsky.social

I'm specifically going to the AI Innovation Lab "what do faculty need?" session to argue for better custodial pay and restoring program administrator staff positions.

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Jake Grumbach
@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

newrepublic.comHow the Consulting Class Is Eating the Democratic PartyFundraising costs gobble up most of the funds raised. Billions are spent on TV ads that have virtually no impact. Candidates may win or lose—but the consulting class always wins.
profmattdecarlo
@profmattdecarlo.bsky.social

I did not think I could like this woman more. Give her a Gundam

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social

Major news this morning. Louise Lucas, a chief antagonist of Trump and Virginia Republicans (and one of the most vocal proponents of gerrymandering the state earlier this year) is criminally charged by the feds over her marijuana business:

nbcnews.comVirginia State Senator L. Louise Lucas charged in public corruption caseThe 82-year-old surrendered to authorities to face charges Thursday, the Justice Department said. She was charged along with a half-dozen others.
profmattdecarlo
@profmattdecarlo.bsky.social

Oligopoly also exists in academic publishing! Not just mass media!

Maris Kreizman@maris.bsky.social

Science is inherently political and when our government is actively hostile to science as a whole, publications should be able to write about it without being censored. Alas. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

thenation.comThe Fall of “Scientific American”When the beloved science publication got too political, its corporate owners stepped in. Now its future is uncertain.
profmattdecarlo
@profmattdecarlo.bsky.social

This man should be kicked out of scientific research and made to serve his intended victims.

Nina Friedman@ngfriedman.bsky.social

Guinea-Bissau Hepatitis study is dead, from one of the researchers. Incredible advocacy work to help stop this from so many, including @firedbutfighting.bsky.social Incredible reporting by so many, especially from @katherineeban.bsky.social in the @rollingstone.com

profmattdecarlo
@profmattdecarlo.bsky.social

I think what's galling about all of this IS THEY THINK FASCIST ACCOMMODATION WORKS! Like, they think that removing some words but not others will actually end the onslaught by fascists on academic freedom. It's so fucking stupid. THERE IS NO WAY TO ACCOMMODATE A BULLY INTO STOPPING

profmattdecarlo@profmattdecarlo.bsky.social

Influencing Social Policy Blast: mailchi.mp/68d7c14353d7... What CSWE must do: The Board of Accreditation and the Commission on Educational Policy should withdraw the draft competencies and take five steps. Restore a standalone competency on human rights and social, racial, economic,

mailchi.mpCSWE Is Abandoning the Values It Exists to Protect
profmattdecarlo
@profmattdecarlo.bsky.social

I finished submitting my comments. And I am just struck by the idea that anyone thought this would work. CSWE: "Please, fascist state legislature. We'll remove 80% of what you hate, if you let us keep 20%." It worked on you. They will try it again. They aren't done until empathy is dead.

profmattdecarlo
@profmattdecarlo.bsky.social

HAHAHA, I almost missed this. They snuck AI-boosterism into the new CSWE comeptency 10.. Social workers ethically and effectively evaluate, select, and integrate technology, *including artificial intelligence* into professional practice, as appropriate.

profmattdecarlo
@profmattdecarlo.bsky.social

One of the old luminaries of social work research is out here shitposting like a preteen using "El Jefe" as his pronouns in the conference proceedings. If anyone needs an example of the shit positivist wing of the fascist coalition, that's a pretty good one.

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Manasvini Singh
@vinisingh.bsky.social

today I taught Fixed Effects to my undergrads and it is the only lecture in my causal inference class that I am 100% sure they understand 0%. Seems to be difficult for them in a way DiD/ RDD/ IV just isnt ... any resources to make it simpler/more intuitive to understand?

profmattdecarlo
@profmattdecarlo.bsky.social

Not a dunk on OP at all, but it's also the paper curriculum. We've outsourced everything to private contractors. The same way higher education was outsourced to textbook publishers & adjuncts implementing the the textbook-provided resources.

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profmattdecarlo
@profmattdecarlo.bsky.social

Influencing Social Policy Blast: mailchi.mp/68d7c14353d7... What CSWE must do: The Board of Accreditation and the Commission on Educational Policy should withdraw the draft competencies and take five steps. Restore a standalone competency on human rights and social, racial, economic,

mailchi.mpCSWE Is Abandoning the Values It Exists to Protect
profmattdecarlo@profmattdecarlo.bsky.social

Fascism came for #SocialWork accreditation last night. CSWE intends to surrender. We are removing ADEI, human rights, and social justice from our accreditation standards in 2029.

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profmattdecarlo
@profmattdecarlo.bsky.social

Restore the requirement to understand and critique the profession's history.. Explain publicly why the accommodation already available under the 2022 EPAS was insufficient and disclose whether federal political pressure or legal risk assessments informed the revisions

profmattdecarlo
@profmattdecarlo.bsky.social

I would add that if additional staff are necessary for the state-mandated accommodations, the price of accreditation dues should go up to hire more wonderful accreditation staff!!! They are amazing, and more of them are maybe needed instead of fascist accommodation?

profmattdecarlo
@profmattdecarlo.bsky.social

Influencing Social Policy Blast: mailchi.mp/68d7c14353d7... What CSWE must do: The Board of Accreditation and the Commission on Educational Policy should withdraw the draft competencies and take five steps. Restore a standalone competency on human rights and social, racial, economic,

mailchi.mpCSWE Is Abandoning the Values It Exists to Protect
profmattdecarlo@profmattdecarlo.bsky.social

Fascism came for #SocialWork accreditation last night. CSWE intends to surrender. We are removing ADEI, human rights, and social justice from our accreditation standards in 2029.

profmattdecarlo
@profmattdecarlo.bsky.social

and environmental justice. Restore anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion as a competency, with anti-racist and anti-oppressive practice in the measured behaviors. Restore the Competency 5 behaviors requiring students to analyze, formulate, and advocate for policy.

profmattdecarlo
@profmattdecarlo.bsky.social

The only people allowed to criticize Medicaid are those that want to improve it. If you can't acknowledge it's better than nothing, your ideas are worse than nothing

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social

Q: Were Medicare and Medicaid mistakes? Vivek Ramaswamy: I believe they were. I think the evidence would show that it has harmed the very people that it was created to actually help

profmattdecarlo
@profmattdecarlo.bsky.social

That absolute turd of an environmental scan totally walks back CSWE's prior advocacy on removing MSW & BSW exams for workforce equity/sutainability Very clearly, the people who lost the 2022 debates are using the political climate of fascism to rebuild their false objective reality into the canon

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profmattdecarlo
@profmattdecarlo.bsky.social

Fascism came for #SocialWork accreditation last night. CSWE intends to surrender. We are removing ADEI, human rights, and social justice from our accreditation standards in 2029.

profmattdecarlo
@profmattdecarlo.bsky.social

"Although generative AI may seem to be autonomous and ephemeral, it relies on huge amounts of natural resources and human labor to code, train, label, review, moderate, rate, and edit the training data and its outputs (Dias and Schurig).

profmattdecarlo
@profmattdecarlo.bsky.social

FUCKING THANK YOU! You cannot dip your toe into the #RealCollege data and not see it.

Eiko Fried@eikofried.bsky.social

Fonagy’s mammoth review has no truck with the snowflake generation caricature: the rise in mental health problems is real, & so is the difficulties they cause. Young people are contending with more powerful forces than I ever faced. I am in awe of their courage. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

theguardian.comNo ‘snowflakes’: mental health review says today’s youth have it harder and harms are realPeter Fonagy lauds courage of young people and warns of consequences of rising prevalence of mental illness
profmattdecarlo
@profmattdecarlo.bsky.social

🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

Alex Brandsen@alexbrandsen.nl

"STOP ELSEVIER CONTRACT" A little bit of activism during the Open Science Festival today, during the opening plenary. Inspired by the session on activism yesterday at the OS Barcamp, awesome to see action being taken directly!

profmattdecarlo
@profmattdecarlo.bsky.social

On the lookout in social work for AI Booster initiatives. Constance and Martin Silver Center on Data Science and Social Equity (C+M Center) I'm getting unsolicited emails from the Social Work AI Network they funded. C+M appears to be a pro-AI funder targeting social work.

profmattdecarlo
@profmattdecarlo.bsky.social

I don't disagree with all of them, but like, it's pretty clear the purpose of the center is AI-for-equity and not Data Science and Social Equity as a broad topic. Shame, since SW open science remains unfunded I'd expect to see TESCREAL in there and uh, nope, it's just "can we use AI for X?" pilots.

profmattdecarlo
@profmattdecarlo.bsky.social

Was not allowed to share screenshots from today's webinar by @josheyler.bsky.social and colleagues on resisting AI use in higher education but VERY JAZZED to be in community with others who are resisting TESCREALism, AI-hype, industry boosterism, and synthetic text/epistemic pollution in academia.

profmattdecarlo
@profmattdecarlo.bsky.social

Productivity is survivor's guilt. My colleagues are getting their syllabi censored, classrooms spied on, and families fucking deported and sent to the gulag.

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profmattdecarlo
@profmattdecarlo.bsky.social

I was not previously aware of this initiative. Heck yeah.

Matthew B. Jané@matthewbjane.bsky.social

New ACE audit report: Singh et al. (1997), one of the most cited trials of resistance training for depression in older adults. Misreporting of standard deviations and impossible statistics led to many meta-analyses having artificially inflated effects. auditclinicalevidence.org/reports/ACE2...

auditclinicalevidence.orgAudit of Singh et al. (1997) – ACE1997 RCT of resistance training for depression in older adults: SEs labeled as SDs, so 19 of 24 meta-analyses report extremely inflated effects. 110 integrity violations; retraction recommended.