Ian G. Williams
@igraywill.bsky.social
Personal account. #socialwork, PhD student @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @gcsocialwelfare.bsky.social. Read & think about tech ethics, digital literacy, innovation, inequality, & social change. Find refuge & inspiration in #humanities & #openscience.
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Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance
Social Innovation, Social Enterprise, and Social Entrepreneurship in Social Work and Human Services. Volume 49, Issue 5 of Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance
www.tandfonline.com
Neat! The full collection of the Social Work Innovation Network special issue of Human Service Organizations that I was a guest editor for is now out: www.tandfonline.com/toc/wasw21/4...
Going to enjoy chatting about this over the next few days at #10EMESConf.
@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
Going to enjoy chatting about this over the next few days at #10EMESConf.
@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
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📣 We are happy to announce the special issue “Scientific bubbles: definitions, context, and approaches” in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science with guest editors from Nanobubbles.
⏰ Deadline: 15th of July 2026!
🔗 More information in www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
⏰ Deadline: 15th of July 2026!
🔗 More information in www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
January 5, 2026 at 4:59 PM
📣 We are happy to announce the special issue “Scientific bubbles: definitions, context, and approaches” in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science with guest editors from Nanobubbles.
⏰ Deadline: 15th of July 2026!
🔗 More information in www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
⏰ Deadline: 15th of July 2026!
🔗 More information in www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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NYC area folks: join us Thursday 5:30-7 pm for @shannonmattern.bsky.social's visit to NYU IDM. Shannon will discuss a pair of new projects--the Cross-Reference Coalition & the Library Field--as part of our spring speaker series, EXTRAORDINARY.
Register @ the link
www.eventbrite.com/e/idm-x-onas...
Register @ the link
www.eventbrite.com/e/idm-x-onas...
IDM x Onassis ONX present Shannon Mattern
A guest lecture by Shannon Mattern, exploring public pedagogy, creative practice and the networked urban commons.
www.eventbrite.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:35 PM
NYC area folks: join us Thursday 5:30-7 pm for @shannonmattern.bsky.social's visit to NYU IDM. Shannon will discuss a pair of new projects--the Cross-Reference Coalition & the Library Field--as part of our spring speaker series, EXTRAORDINARY.
Register @ the link
www.eventbrite.com/e/idm-x-onas...
Register @ the link
www.eventbrite.com/e/idm-x-onas...
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If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.
February 9, 2026 at 11:56 PM
If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.
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#SSWR2026 #ECSWR2026 #SocialWork #SocialWelfare
#SSWR2026 #ECSWR2026 #SocialWork #SocialWelfare
Out now! Volume 5, Issue 4 of "In The Loop," the official newsletter of the PhD Program in Social Welfare at CUNY Graduate Center Scan the QR code or read it at socialwelfare.common...
February 10, 2026 at 12:52 AM
'A DCAS employee, granted anonymity... said ... “If I was at City Hall, I would go with their instinct. I would say if it doesn’t smell too good, just throw it out,” they said. “Don’t even bother tasting it. There’s a lot of stale meat over there.”
www.cityandstateny.com/policy/2026/...
www.cityandstateny.com/policy/2026/...
DCAS is in for a Mamdani era shakeup
The new mayor is signaling his City Hall is taking a hard look at an agency caught up in corruption allegations during the Adams administration.
www.cityandstateny.com
February 7, 2026 at 7:16 PM
'A DCAS employee, granted anonymity... said ... “If I was at City Hall, I would go with their instinct. I would say if it doesn’t smell too good, just throw it out,” they said. “Don’t even bother tasting it. There’s a lot of stale meat over there.”
www.cityandstateny.com/policy/2026/...
www.cityandstateny.com/policy/2026/...
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I get that everyone who is in the know knows this already but I am quite happy for a publication to be surfacing it again, especially for readers who may not be aware
February 7, 2026 at 6:43 PM
I get that everyone who is in the know knows this already but I am quite happy for a publication to be surfacing it again, especially for readers who may not be aware
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This weekend, New York City will experience some of the coldest – and most dangerous – weather we’ve seen in a long time.
If you see someone in need, please call 311 immediately so our outreach workers and first responders can provide assistance.
If you see someone in need, please call 311 immediately so our outreach workers and first responders can provide assistance.
February 6, 2026 at 10:18 PM
This weekend, New York City will experience some of the coldest – and most dangerous – weather we’ve seen in a long time.
If you see someone in need, please call 311 immediately so our outreach workers and first responders can provide assistance.
If you see someone in need, please call 311 immediately so our outreach workers and first responders can provide assistance.
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when do the fines for Lyft begin @mayor.nyc.gov? the stations should have been cleared by now.
The Citi Bike rate keeps going up, even while most of the bikes remain trapped in the snow, completely unusable.
Bike share is a form of public transit, but the system's private owner, Lyft, isn't stepping up to the plate. New York commuters deserve better.
Bike share is a form of public transit, but the system's private owner, Lyft, isn't stepping up to the plate. New York commuters deserve better.
February 5, 2026 at 11:25 PM
when do the fines for Lyft begin @mayor.nyc.gov? the stations should have been cleared by now.
"During the last week of January, 30,000 tenants called in, the most heat complaints ever recorded in a seven-day period, according to city data."
During nine straight days of below freezing temperatures, tens of thousands of New Yorkers went without heat at home, complaints made to the city suggest. Some tenants say their buildings are falling through the cracks. via @patrickspauster.com: citylimits.org/amid-nyc-col...
Amid NYC Cold Snap, Tenants Report Most 'No Heat' Complaints on Record - City Limits
The city received nearly 80,000 calls about lack of residential heat and hot water in January, more than any other month on record. Some tenants say their buildings are falling through the cracks.
citylimits.org
February 3, 2026 at 11:33 PM
"During the last week of January, 30,000 tenants called in, the most heat complaints ever recorded in a seven-day period, according to city data."
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A small but determined protest was held at Rep. Tom Suozzi’s Glen Cove District Office, speaking out against his recent vote for a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security.
February 3, 2026 at 2:00 AM
A small but determined protest was held at Rep. Tom Suozzi’s Glen Cove District Office, speaking out against his recent vote for a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security.
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BREAKING: A federal judge has EXTENDED Haiti TPS!
U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes’ order read it was “substantially likely” that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem preordained her termination decision because of “hostility to nonwhite immigrants.”
HERE TO STAY!
WI NOU KAPAB!
U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes’ order read it was “substantially likely” that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem preordained her termination decision because of “hostility to nonwhite immigrants.”
HERE TO STAY!
WI NOU KAPAB!
February 3, 2026 at 1:11 AM
BREAKING: A federal judge has EXTENDED Haiti TPS!
U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes’ order read it was “substantially likely” that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem preordained her termination decision because of “hostility to nonwhite immigrants.”
HERE TO STAY!
WI NOU KAPAB!
U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes’ order read it was “substantially likely” that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem preordained her termination decision because of “hostility to nonwhite immigrants.”
HERE TO STAY!
WI NOU KAPAB!
This will be a great event at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social on Wednesday morning, online & in person.
Wednesday, 2/4/26 from 9:30-11am ET, join Dr. Britton Williams, Jaclyn Reyes, & Dr. Jill Chonody for "Visual and Participatory Methods in Social Welfare Research" online & in person (breakfast included!) in CUNY Graduate Center Room 6203.02. RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e...
February 2, 2026 at 9:13 PM
This will be a great event at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social on Wednesday morning, online & in person.
I have some pretty distinct and meaningful memories of ice fishing as a kid in Vermont. Not something we did often, but it was very much part of living seasonally, and I knew people who had their shanties for much of the winter. Though this article is about the Midwest, the changes are wider.
February 2, 2026 at 7:26 PM
I have some pretty distinct and meaningful memories of ice fishing as a kid in Vermont. Not something we did often, but it was very much part of living seasonally, and I knew people who had their shanties for much of the winter. Though this article is about the Midwest, the changes are wider.
This is a fantastically scathing and thoughtful essay. The kind of critical, close read is a good reminder to slow down and look at the seams and glue holding together a text's worldview (one "...naively yoked to techno-optimism."), to write with and against it.
Nothing I love more than a scathing, borderline-petty academic book review. Truly the best tradition in the genre.
A Pedagogy of the Inevitable
Over the last couple of years, two altogether incompatible discourses of “AI literacy” have emerged. One seeks just enough literacy to support a smooth, perhaps even joyful, integration with new techn...
read.dukeupress.edu
February 2, 2026 at 5:07 AM
This is a fantastically scathing and thoughtful essay. The kind of critical, close read is a good reminder to slow down and look at the seams and glue holding together a text's worldview (one "...naively yoked to techno-optimism."), to write with and against it.
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mRNA tech was not created by billionaires. It was developed by scientists and researchers who were largely funded by US taxpayers through federal grants - funding which has now been drastically cut in large part thanks to Elon, DOGE and RFK Jr. - including funding for mRNA vaccines against cancer.
There isn't some fixed pie of wealth that billionaires are monopolizing. People who found companies create new wealth, and capture only a slice of that. Imagine how much poorer we would be if iPhones, Google, Uber, Spotify, or mRNA vaccines did not exist. Even Bluesky was created by a billionaire!
February 1, 2026 at 7:03 AM
mRNA tech was not created by billionaires. It was developed by scientists and researchers who were largely funded by US taxpayers through federal grants - funding which has now been drastically cut in large part thanks to Elon, DOGE and RFK Jr. - including funding for mRNA vaccines against cancer.
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The nazis redistributed the stolen property of deported Jews to the German population. It was called Aryanization.
This is no different.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryaniz...
This is no different.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryaniz...
January 31, 2026 at 9:11 PM
The nazis redistributed the stolen property of deported Jews to the German population. It was called Aryanization.
This is no different.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryaniz...
This is no different.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryaniz...
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I’ve found it fascinating to watch over the past few years, as all humanities + social science disciplines have been forced to grapple with the politics of technology, so many are reinventing arguments media studies and STS have been making for decades :)
January 30, 2026 at 10:59 PM
I’ve found it fascinating to watch over the past few years, as all humanities + social science disciplines have been forced to grapple with the politics of technology, so many are reinventing arguments media studies and STS have been making for decades :)
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ICE is using AI to do its dirty work. Human rights are at stake when we allow tech companies and Donald Trump to dictate how and when AI gets used.
From searches of mobile devices to facial recognition, the Homeland Security division has nearly doubled its use cases since July 2025, according to the Wednesday report. via @lindseywilkinson.bsky.social & @madialder.bsky.social fedscoop.com/dhs-ai-inven...
ICE drives AI use case growth within Homeland Security
From searches of mobile devices to facial recognition, the Homeland Security division has nearly doubled its use cases since July 2025, according to the Wednesday report.
fedscoop.com
January 29, 2026 at 8:46 PM
ICE is using AI to do its dirty work. Human rights are at stake when we allow tech companies and Donald Trump to dictate how and when AI gets used.
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Corporations are extracting billions from America’s safety net and their payday is about to be supercharged by new rules.
I lay out how programs like Medicaid have become vulnerable to corporate capture and what we need to build to stop it.
@lpeblog.bsky.social
lpeproject.org/blog/the-mea...
I lay out how programs like Medicaid have become vulnerable to corporate capture and what we need to build to stop it.
@lpeblog.bsky.social
lpeproject.org/blog/the-mea...
The Means-Testing Industrial Complex
As Republicans tightened work requirements and eligibility rules for Medicaid and SNAP last year, Equifax’s CEO openly celebrated the profits to be made from administering this deprivation.
lpeproject.org
January 28, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Corporations are extracting billions from America’s safety net and their payday is about to be supercharged by new rules.
I lay out how programs like Medicaid have become vulnerable to corporate capture and what we need to build to stop it.
@lpeblog.bsky.social
lpeproject.org/blog/the-mea...
I lay out how programs like Medicaid have become vulnerable to corporate capture and what we need to build to stop it.
@lpeblog.bsky.social
lpeproject.org/blog/the-mea...
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Wow, Meta seems like a censorship machine, blocking the distribution & sharing of all news in Canada on FB & IG & now blocking links to ICE list on all its services everywhere. Didn't Zuck say Meta was going back to its free speech roots to justify sidling up to Trump? Serving power on bended knees.
oooh. Expedite this one right to the Oversight Board www.wired.com/story/meta-i...
Meta Is Blocking Links to ICE List on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads
Users of Meta’s social platforms can no longer share links to ICE List, a website listing what it claims are the names of thousands of DHS employees.
www.wired.com
January 28, 2026 at 3:14 AM
Wow, Meta seems like a censorship machine, blocking the distribution & sharing of all news in Canada on FB & IG & now blocking links to ICE list on all its services everywhere. Didn't Zuck say Meta was going back to its free speech roots to justify sidling up to Trump? Serving power on bended knees.
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It seems clear Alex Pretti, a healthcare worker, was murdered for engaging in the exact kind of community care we hope all care workers to embody: the kind that doesn’t stop at the threshold of the hospital, the clinic, but that aims to care for and support the community where and how they can
January 24, 2026 at 7:05 PM
It seems clear Alex Pretti, a healthcare worker, was murdered for engaging in the exact kind of community care we hope all care workers to embody: the kind that doesn’t stop at the threshold of the hospital, the clinic, but that aims to care for and support the community where and how they can
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the attorney general of the united states says that the government will not allow organized protest
Bondi: "It's extremely organized. The signs they have are all matching, they're well written. And look at what's happening today. How did these people go out & get gas masks? These protesters. Would you know how to walk out on the street and buy a gas mask? Think about that. We're not gonna have it"
January 24, 2026 at 9:18 PM
the attorney general of the united states says that the government will not allow organized protest
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When we hold the criminal trials for ICE (and we will), we need to remember to include those who run the social media accounts for their role in gaslighting us and fanning the flames of violence
DHS (once again) announces conclusion (within 3 hours) without any investigation.
- Conclusion about federal agent's intent
- Conclusion about individual's intent
- Implicit conclusion about timing of disarming the individual and shooting him
- Conclusion about federal agent's intent
- Conclusion about individual's intent
- Implicit conclusion about timing of disarming the individual and shooting him
January 24, 2026 at 7:02 PM
When we hold the criminal trials for ICE (and we will), we need to remember to include those who run the social media accounts for their role in gaslighting us and fanning the flames of violence
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At a certain moment in the development of fascist government, the aim of the lie is no longer to attempt to deceive; it is to boast of your ability to do and say what you please regardless of the truth that everyone can see. It stops being mendacity and becomes boasting, taunting, crowing.
January 24, 2026 at 5:58 PM
At a certain moment in the development of fascist government, the aim of the lie is no longer to attempt to deceive; it is to boast of your ability to do and say what you please regardless of the truth that everyone can see. It stops being mendacity and becomes boasting, taunting, crowing.