Sharla Berry

"Women adopt AI at rates 25% lower than men.

This isn’t a guess. It’s the finding of a Harvard Business School meta-analysis examining eighteen studies, over 140,000 participants, across multiple countries."

"Every AI Company Is Building a Different Wife"

abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built...

A man in a suit stands speaking, with text criticizing Mayor Mamdani for not honoring his commitment to allocate 0.5% of the city expense budget to NYC public libraries in his preliminary budget. Visit NYC PLAN.ORG for more information

The bottom line is that NYC Public Libraries need increased and most importantly STABLE funding annually. Mayor Mamdani promised both and this preliminary budget is a BROKEN PROMISE. There’s time for him to rectify this. NYC library patrons expect that he will.

This one resonated. As NTT faculty, only systematic raises are merit raises which range 0-<3%. I am not eligible for retention raises- food workers can get retentions, but not me. Also, different rules for different TT people- some people get retentions, others told similar offer doesn’t count.

Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless Independent research identifies few learning gains

Important education message: "independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it."

A few profit and the most vulnerable pay
www.economist.com/united-state...

Black women's unemployment has skyrocketed. Here’s what happened. The rate is now equivalent to White women’s during the bleakest moments of the Great Recession.

“Black women started 2025 with an unemployment rate of 5.4%. They ended it at 7.3%—the highest rate in 4 years. Black women’s unemployment is now equivalent to White women’s rate during the bleakest moments of the Great Recession.”

“Black women also suffered job loss across sectors…”

Black women face prolonged unemployment While the U.S.' overall unemployment rate fell to 4.4% in the most recent jobs report, it rose to 7.3% among Black women. Jericka Duncan spoke with two women who have faced prolonged unemployment to f...

THE SEGMENT ABOUT BLACK WOMEN'S UNEMPLOYMENT IS UP ON CBSNEWS.COM!!! Thank you @cbsmornings.bsky.social and Jericka Duncan for bringing me on! #blacksky

BACK BY DEMAND 🌹 after 2 sell out print runs The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities by @dorothyjberry.bsky.social is back Feb 4, 12p ET!

don't miss your chance to grab this important piece of writing on libraries+archives+memory+black history www.weherepress.org

We're only $150 away from $10,000 which puts us at 50% of what we need to raise for the Black Zine Fair. Donations are tax deductible. gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f...

a useful starter pack:

go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

this is a relatively naive question, but is there a way we can add more metadata to our iphone photos/storage?

The university-surveillance component of this piece is !!! I had missed the Qualtrics shift and acquisition and wow.
We really need an ed-tech key players power-map, does anyone know if this exists?

We finally have jobs numbers out this morning from September and take a look at this: big jump again in Black women's unemployment, now 7.5% from 6.7% in August.

This figure has been ticking up all year. This is now the highest unemployment rate Black women have faced in 4 years, since mid-2021.

Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S. The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.

"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."

A hand holds a book called "Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about Al" by Rua M. Williams. The cover is burgundy with orange leaves, and behind the book is a blanket with similar colors.

This will be my thread for thoughts while reading Disabling Intelligences by @fractalecho.bsky.social this week.

I'm all wrapped up in a fleece blanket, I have my highlighter and page flags, and on page 2 I'm already love their writing style.

🧵

Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People “What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

Buoyed by a retro revival, Kodak's dark environmental past is coming to light A snapshot of Kodak’s long history includes cameras, military contracts, and decades of pollution and environmental degradation.

I knew Kodak had a history of pollution, but this read goes much deeper than that and into their work for the military!

ok gotchu! well, generally digging the vibes... the colors and the messages are great!

this is dope... I love love love the words. I don't get the fork though...

Rule 56: An Appeal for Justice from the Margins In higher education, Black women are showcased on websites and brochures yet undermined in daily practice. Research confirms we are disproportionately bullied, mobbed, and harassed.

Views | The exodus of 300,000 Black women from the workforce is not just a labor statistic—it is the latest reminder that civil rights remain unfinished, and that silence cannot be its price.

cute! but can we get some stickers for the crafty folks? and maybe a tote bag? I do love the green too!

My son is taking a college class where students use an AI tool to review their own (ungraded) assignments.

The tool turns out to make elementary math mistakes, including telling him his correct answer was wrong.

I use LLMs in my work but boy do I keep failing to see their educational value.

check it out!

a woman in a leather jacket is sitting in a classroom with her finger on her forehead . ALT: a woman in a leather jacket is sitting in a classroom with her finger on her forehead .

My city is currently being marketed for data centers.
They are calling it “VIRGINIA'S I-64 INNOVATION CORRIDOR:
RICHMOND REGION AND HAMPTON ROADS
The World's Next Global Internet Hub”

Ima message you!

ha! that's awesome! where are your folks from? mine are from Kansas.

This is beautiful! When will it be released?

This is beautiful! When will it be released?

A flyer for Dr. Berry's presentation at the American Sociological Association. The presentation is Monday August 11th at 10 and is entitled "Not Working: Life Without a Job" .

Good morning #ASA2025 . I'll be on a wonderful panel today about life without a job. I'll be exploring how Black women on YouTube express anti-work sentiment, and how they leave formal employment. Join us at 10am today.

It is painfully cold in the swissotel #ASA2025 🥶🥶🥶