STS-er • political ecologist • organizer
currently:
postdoc @ penn state
formerly:
phd, university of michigan | swammer, carthage college
Ember McCoy
Loading...
“Today, over 5,000 faculty across Penn State campuses, including University Park and the Commonwealth Campuses, won their faculty union, the Penn State Faculty Alliance, SEIU Local 668, with 2,510 faculty members voting Union Yes!!! …the union won with almost 75% of the vote!!”
New(ish) article w my former masters advisees Anna Bunting, Dinah George, John McClure, Megan Husted & Skyler Kriese and our community advisors Rhonda Anderson, Dr. Leonard, & Theresa Landrum is out in Environmental Justice. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Not the main point here, but I do not ever recall a federal agency making significant programmatic and personnel changes as a result of the PRESIDENT'S BUDGET PROPOSAL, which does not change any law or funding allocations. Congress hasn't acted yet.
What are we doing here?
New article by Britt Paris, Serita Sargent and me in Big Data & Society
We discuss collective bargaining around AI and how organized labor can meaningfully push back on—and even refuse—the pervasive narrative of AI inevitability
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#CfA I'm organizing an open panel "Resisting the Datafied University" at #4S2026 in Toronto
Please share widely & submit!
www.4sonline.org/call_for_sub...
Thousands of Penn State Faculty Vote to Join SEIU Local 668.
BREAKING: In response to huge cuts in Trump's budget request, NSF is shuttering its SBE directorate. Staff will be transferred to other parts of the agency and "grants that align with Administration priorities" will be maintained.
That & more w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social & @edwrdchen.bsky.social
We talk environmental justice screening tools and ways to intentionally prioritize community voices & needs. Gov agencies are increasingly deploying EJSTs, but they are often created with exclusively quantitative data and without affected communities themselves. That’s where we hope to intervene.
