Olivia David

You may need to AI-generate it 😳

Why we do not use generative AI in STPP

If someone says (as they did to my student), Are you trying to fight AI by yourself? They can say, thankfully I am not alone.

And if it is useful, STPP has developed an explanation: stpp.fordschool.umich.edu/research/com...

Don't be!!!
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Beware the drive to scale technology When it comes to technology, scalability—its capacity to be standardized and then distributed en masse and across contexts—is the ultimate goal. Scientists and engineers view scalability as the route ...

I am a new Expert Voices columnist @science.org and my first article just came out! In it, I argue that scaling technology has a dark side, particularly when it comes to alleviating inequality and injustice. And I suggest what scientists, engineers, and policymakers can do about it.

Trump administration must restore hundreds of UCLA research grants, federal judge rules A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Trump administration to restore hundreds of frozen National Science Foundation research grants to UCLA.

BREAKING: A San Francisco-based judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore hundreds of science research grants to UCLA, more than a third of the $584 million in funds the government has cut: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Image of participants in the webinar, Making Tech Work for Everyone. How can technologists better serve civil society? What kinds of training do they need, and how can they serve respectfully? How can civil society organizations benefit from technologists and critical tech perspectives? Join University of Michigan's Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program on May 20th for a webinar addressing these questions, featuring alumni Trevor Odelberg, Divya Ramesh, Melvin Washington II, and Annabella Vidrio as well as Managing Director Molly Kleinman, and myself! We'll feature short presentations, audience Q&A, and breakout rooms to ensure robust conversation with participants.

How can technologists better serve civil society? What kinds of training do they need, and how can they serve respectfully? How can civil society organizations benefit from technologists and critical tech perspectives? Join us for our May 20th webinar! stpp.fordschool.umich.edu/event/2025/w...

Who gets water in a crisis? This PSJ article explores how drought policies in California and South Africa reinforce inequality through water justice and hydraulic citizenship.

By @oliviadavid.bsky.social and @sshughes.bsky.social

Read here: doi.org/10.1111/psj....

#PSJ #PolicyStudiesJournal

The "good" news is that this actually helps me with the impostor syndrome. Now it is clear to us that yes, we do an important job.

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Flint, 10 Years Later - WhoWhatWhy In the decade since the start of the Flint water crisis, policymakers and communities have made improvements to the lives of residents, but opportunities for progress remain.

10 years after the Flint water crisis, the community and policymakers have made great strides, but challenges remain. Grace van Deelen reports for @eos.org, via @coveringclimatenow.org. #CCNow #flintMI

Dive into the PSJ Virtual Special Issue on Water Policy!

This collection highlights innovative approaches to one of the world's most pressing policy challenges.

Read collection here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

#PSJ #PolicyStudiesJournal

Flint, 10 Years Later - Eos In the decade since the start of the Flint water crisis, policymakers and communities have made improvements to the lives of residents, but opportunities for progress remain.

The Flint water crisis played a huge role in making environmental justice a priority for state and federal lawmakers. But 10 years later, there’s still work to do.

Comments from @benjaminjpauli.bsky.social and @oliviadavid.bsky.social

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A little over a month left to apply to our Environmental Racism and Social Inequality faculty position! (We start reviewing applications on October 1st.) Happy to answer any questions you may have. Please help us circulate the ad! #sts #sociology #environmentalstudies #politicalscience #policy

📢 New Issue Article! 
OPEN ACCESS
Explore the complex dynamics of policy responses to environmental change in our latest issue. This article delves into how drought policies in USA and South Africa, impact inequalities, particularly in water access. 
Read full article: doi.org/10.1111/psj....

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I guess this is @KarlTheFog’s out-of-office response

This is a screenshot of the article's abstract. The title is "Whose water crisis? How policy responses to acute environmental change widen inequality."

Drought affects certain people more than others. This @psjeditor.bsky.social article w cases from California & South Africa by @oliviadavid.bsky.social & @sshughes.bsky.social reminds us that government response to drought can reproduce existing inequality. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Excited to see my master's thesis work published in @PSJ_Editor! Huge thanks to my advisor & co-author on this @Prof_Shughes & many others @UMSEAS. Available open access: http://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12524

Update - one such emotion is: “I feel like deleting this instead of clarifying it”

My master’s thesis being due a week from today has me feeling emotions that I didn’t know existed 🙃

About time to announce that I’m staying @UMSEAS to get a PhD! Huge thanks to my advisor @Prof_Shughes of course, & many others!! 🥳🤸🏼

Rep @RashidaTlaib rules 🔥. That’s it #EJforAll

“How can we not see the racism?” - @RepHuffman (apparently, and unfortunately, quite easily). Side note: Huffman’s comments are 1000x more eloquent and logical, of course, than the GOP racism denialists #EJforAll

Thank goodness for @RepMcEachin response: “intentional or not… what is, is... what are we gonna do about it?” (subtext: Graves completely misses the point)

@RepGarretGraves is officially my least favorite person in Congress (today): “I don’t buy it... people come and make up all this stuff about racism… stop trying to force people to believe they’re discriminated against… it’s a dangerous trajectory to force this conspiracy" !!???

The “which vaccine did you get” to “which strain of Covid did you get” pipeline

Someone asked me when/how we watch the NYE ball drop on the West Coast - I said “when you’re a kid you watch it at 9 PM and your parents pretend it’s midnight so you then go to sleep” … then I realized I still do that

Just turned in my final assignment of the semester!! If anyone needs me for the next few days, I’ll be here:

I must say that after years of claiming I hated Slack, I now, begrudgingly, see the appeal

A perfect day in SF to celebrate Alice’s 4 year adoptiversary 💞

Small joy: exclamation points in journal article titles!