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profmattdecarlo
@profmattdecarlo.bsky.social
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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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.
I need good openly licensed content on skimming the results section of a journal article using multiple regression. How might a novice move to the most important bits of information.
November 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Does anybody have any good resources for bystander intervention for 7 to 8-year-olds?
November 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
"There is a possibility that Sci-Hub users—especially those not using privacy-enhancing services such as Tor—could have their usage history unmasked and face consequences, both legal or reputational in nature.” (Himmelstein et al., 2018).

Just an FYI, DO NOT USE TOR SO FROM CAMPUS WIFI.
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
How many on this website I ask thee
November 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
The current season of Fortnite is R-Rated Simpsons Hit N Run which is pretty fun, honestly.
November 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
This is horrific. The SSW Dean does not come off well in the article
@cswe.bsky.social & @naswsocialworkers.bsky.social it would be nice if you’d back up the social work faculty trying to teach to both accreditation standards & the professional Code of Ethics. Integrity is one of our core values.
November 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Trumpian stationary bandit theory
Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
One of the best resources. Very annoying. Already playing whackamole with domains. Sad to see the crackdown move further.

#unpaywallthenews
November 6, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Very excited to get OA knowledge out to students soon! pressbooks.library.vcu.edu/bswresearch/...

Any other research texts address paywalls to evidence-based practice?
Critical information literacy – Scientific Inquiry in Social Work (2nd Edition)
This book is under construction and currently in beta testing. It will be ready to adopt in Summer 2025. Welcome Saint Joseph's University MSW students!-Matt
pressbooks.library.vcu.edu
November 3, 2025 at 8:41 PM
If you haven't seen it yet @coffeezilla.bsky.social breaks down how this pardon relates to securing the future for Trump's stablecoin here: youtu.be/JMEJTORMVN4?...
November 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Get those SWDE conference proposals in, colleagues!
October 31, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Fuck this.
Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.

Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:32 PM
OH MY GOD MARY SECRET WROTE THE BOOK I NEEDED AND ITS IN OUR EBOOK COLLECTION
October 29, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Italian Jew from NY here. We do this, too.
Sorry I refuse to entertain the complete non-existent world where white people don’t know that countless cultures, including some of their own but certainly diasporic racialized ones, call their mom’s cousin’s friend’s sister they grew up with “cousin” and call close women elders “aunt/auntie”
October 29, 2025 at 11:55 AM
This is a way worse feeling than seeing a ghost article you've never written generated by LLM.
after a bit of back and forth they admitted that they hadn't read my report at all, but had asked chatgpt to provide slide content and talking points summarizing the report. still not sure what to do, ive simply passed along my corrections and probably never working with them again
October 28, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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but your moral core seems to be rage sublimated through justice so keep up the good work
October 27, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Wifey: I have to go to h mart for dark soy sauce. Do you need anything?

Me: I need you to buy enough jasmine rice for me to emotionally regulate
October 27, 2025 at 1:22 AM
I don't know who keeps inserting typos into this paper I submitted and I'm stress reading again but it's getting really annoying
October 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Nice news that the Council on Social Work Education's signed a statement against the ridiculous compact.
October 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Just letting everybody know that you can absolutely navigate to YouTube music in the Brave browser with adblock still enabled...
Spotify customer service is immediately ending conversations if you ask about them airing ICE advertisements on the platform.

Cancel your Spotify subscription.
#BoycottSpotify
October 23, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Why on earth do journals include references in word count? Why is there a penalty for citation density?
October 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Advocacy Toolkit: Reforming Social Work Examinations osf.io/2d437

OSF has a share to Bluesky feature. Neato
OSF
osf.io
October 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Gonna freak out my grandkids by explaining that federal research & training grants and state government funding sent me to get a doctorate in the philosophy of social welfare for almost-free
October 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM
How did I just start listening to Frost Children?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=80y-...
Frost Children | Boiler Room: Vancouver
YouTube video by Boiler Room
www.youtube.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The amount of videos on YouTube kids that are specifically designed to get boys to hate girls and their mothers is quite alarming.

Like, why is KarenMom an entire genre of AI slop?
October 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM