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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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@adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com 's adage that cringe is praxis holds true

18.10.2025 14:24 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Lawrence Kohlberg has entered the chat.

17.10.2025 15:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

On the plus side, no more eye damage from shingles!

17.10.2025 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My eyes are very dilated. All of my job is reading. Halp

17.10.2025 14:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And Crooooooooooooowwwwwww

15.10.2025 23:55 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

TANF is $16billion

15.10.2025 22:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This triple negative is going to break my brain

14.10.2025 23:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

13.10.2025 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1338    πŸ” 1039    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 58

The parts where this reads like a press release for the idea of a knowledge commons are hitting me right this morning.

13.10.2025 14:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Figure 3: Collection status of Sci-Hub. Medicine has 25 million articles, the next highest is chemistry at over 15 million. The figures are rough. Link to full text in skeet.

Figure 3: Collection status of Sci-Hub. Medicine has 25 million articles, the next highest is chemistry at over 15 million. The figures are rough. Link to full text in skeet.

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See how this graph has a real zero point? SO MUCH BETTER.

Also, Sci-Hub's largest collections are in medicine...worth considering from an EBP/EBM perspective!
doi.org/10.54857/iji...

13.10.2025 14:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Graph of a gender distribution of visitors Sci-Hub and LibGen (shadow libraries for scholarly works). The percentages appear to show massive differences but the differences are miniscule...the creator zoomed in on one specific part of the number line for an unexplained reason.

Graph of a gender distribution of visitors Sci-Hub and LibGen (shadow libraries for scholarly works). The percentages appear to show massive differences but the differences are miniscule...the creator zoomed in on one specific part of the number line for an unexplained reason.

I wish this dedication extended to these #GraphCrimes.

Literally anything would have been better than this.

13.10.2025 13:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey dude who grabbed some python code to look into Sci-Hub's uTorrent metadata...I see you.

That is some dedication, my friend.

13.10.2025 13:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

11.10.2025 14:24 β€” πŸ‘ 281    πŸ” 181    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 22

Because they literally do not believe in the germ theory of disease.

Instagram influencer epistemology

11.10.2025 13:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Steakholders is a malaphor i'm enjoying.

10.10.2025 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We are in the process of creating two openly licensed courses that integrate student labor rights into 1-credit "preparation for practicum" classes.

This way, we can provide the technology needed to spread work-based and work-first approaches to practicum placement that meet students' basic needs

10.10.2025 14:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nationwide Survey of the Impact of Unpaid Fieldwork on Social Work Student Wellbeing This national survey examined the effect of required unpaid internships/field practicums on social work students' wellbeing, including factors such as mental health, financial stability, family confli...

Our data is open for secondary analysis. Please check our work, but most importantly, probe this extremely rich data set that includes many standardized scales of wellbeing from @saragoldrickrab.bsky.social's #RealCollege framework and student-authored indices of impact, exploitation

osf.io/3t5y2/

10.10.2025 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Price of Placement (Part 2): Basic Needs and Well-Being of U.S. Social Work Students in Field Practicums is a tough but necessary read.

Example: More students lost weight from food insecurity than received *any* money for hundreds of hours of practicum labor.

osf.io/preprints/so...

10.10.2025 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Price of Placement (Part 1): Basic Needs and Well-Being of the Invisible Social Work Workforce is a critical and comprehensive review of the social work literature on placement poverty. There *so many* student-authored research studies on this topic in the U.S.

osf.io/preprints/so...

10.10.2025 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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.

10.10.2025 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I thought the original arcade was successful?

10.10.2025 12:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

08.10.2025 14:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2296    πŸ” 488    πŸ’¬ 976    πŸ“Œ 541

Yeah I'd frame it different tho

08.10.2025 13:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'ma delete that since it's not actually helpful

08.10.2025 13:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ah, a bigger problem then.

08.10.2025 13:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is not a winning message when talking to my representative in Congress... That said I hope they hear it often enough it finally sinks in.

08.10.2025 12:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Please stop violating basic human rights in research.

As my coauthor puts it, stories are sacred.

08.10.2025 12:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

07.10.2025 23:44 β€” πŸ‘ 10750    πŸ” 4889    πŸ’¬ 192    πŸ“Œ 330

Gotta migrate

07.10.2025 23:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Super useful article

07.10.2025 20:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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