Matt Bui
@matthew_bui
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data and/as racial justice. @umsi faculty, @umichdigital + @centerforcrds affiliate. views are my own. in process of moving to @mnbui.bsky.social
Ann Arbor, MI
Joined January 2010
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Feared DEI cuts prompt faculty pushback at University of Michigan
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Faculty have planned multiple protests on the Ann Arbor campus this week after Board of Regents members have internally discussed changes to the university's diversity, equity and inclusion strategy.
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We're hiring! We're accepting applications for a LEO Lecturer I to teach courses for our undergraduate curriculum. Areas include Digital Media Studies/History, Gaming, Artificial Intelligence, Algorithm Studies, and Digital Accessibility. Learn more here:
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DEI is bad; everything should be merit. Same folks: Nepotism and good old boy networks are great; pick whoever you like.
In a 24-hour span, Trump announces jobs for the fathers-in-law of both of his daughters
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Congress is working to pass a bill that would have a devastating, chilling effect on free speech and give the Trump administration power to strip tax-exempt status from nonprofits without due process or even a clear explanation (1/3).
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JOB: Institution: Michigan State University Rank: Open Rank (Tenure-Track) Area: Media and Information Deadline: January 13, 2024 Link:
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Crockett: These are people who have railed against diversity equity and inclusion, trying to say that diverse candidates are somehow unqualified, but the reality is that what they want to do is more of this, put people that are not qualified in
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Y'all. "We should become more racist and transphobic" is actually not the lesson of the 2024 election.
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Piggybacking on this to also include stop asking ChatGPT to summarize research when you can literally just read the summarized version of research on the front page research journals
Ayo Edebiri encourages people stop using AI for trivial purposes in new post: “pls stop using Al to see what you'd look like as a sexy sims character or whatever you can commission some talented and horny freak to do it for like $6… this s**t is cooking the planet!!!! and our
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The only advice I have this morning is that no amount of rationality can stop people who are hell-bent on chaos from causing harm and sometimes the best we can do is try to limit the extent of the collateral damage. We are in the collateral damage limitation era.
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I recently authored an op-ed in the @freep about President-elect Trump's mass deportation plan and the profound impact it poses—not only to immigrants but also to families and communities. https://t.co/NuBPuXpeRB
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I'm a Michigan state representative and naturalized American citizen. Trump's deportation rhetoric makes me feel like I don't belong.
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Californians watching everyone else hype up Gavin Newsom
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when you see numbers and language like this, you should ALWAYS be critical. what was the sample size? who conducted it? where? what are the historical, environmental, class, demographic contexts this is missing?
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"For the first time in history, the faculty at the University of Michigan have voted to censure UM’s Board of Regents, citing multiple concerns with shared governance and failures to consult with faculty."
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For the first time in history, University of Michigan faculty have voted to censure UM’s Board of Regents, citing multiple concerns over failures in shared governance.
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When PERCEPTION (even if untrue) becomes voting REALITY— 📍If you believed crime rates near all-time high (False), you voted Trump. 📍If you believed inflation hasn’t declined (False—inflation fell a lot), then you voted Trump. 📍If you believed stock market is down / not near
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Yes. This is also in part why training in the humanities remains so urgent and necessary for an informed public. If politics is really just storytelling, we had better be equipped to identify reality in the barrage of fairytales
"His weird gift is he knows what people really want." UNC professor Tressie McMillan Cottom (@tressiemcphd) on how Trump won
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We have to restrategize coalition building between nonblack POC to prevent their rightward shift. Which means finding a new form of rhetoric. shaming each other as anti-(fill in the identity) is not going to build movements
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