Bryan Victor
@bryan-victor.bsky.social
Social work professor at Wayne State focused on child maltreatment prevention, generative AI, and professional licensing
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National Guard chatter from the front lines in Georgetown:
“You got eyes on this?”
“Could be a weapon.”
“Hold.”
“What are you seeing?”
“Stand down. It’s a falafel wrap. Looks like a male, thin, late 40s with a falafel wrap. Walking a schnauzer.”
“OK. Stay sharp boys. Eyes on the dog.”
“You got eyes on this?”
“Could be a weapon.”
“Hold.”
“What are you seeing?”
“Stand down. It’s a falafel wrap. Looks like a male, thin, late 40s with a falafel wrap. Walking a schnauzer.”
“OK. Stay sharp boys. Eyes on the dog.”
August 13, 2025 at 5:04 AM
National Guard chatter from the front lines in Georgetown:
“You got eyes on this?”
“Could be a weapon.”
“Hold.”
“What are you seeing?”
“Stand down. It’s a falafel wrap. Looks like a male, thin, late 40s with a falafel wrap. Walking a schnauzer.”
“OK. Stay sharp boys. Eyes on the dog.”
“You got eyes on this?”
“Could be a weapon.”
“Hold.”
“What are you seeing?”
“Stand down. It’s a falafel wrap. Looks like a male, thin, late 40s with a falafel wrap. Walking a schnauzer.”
“OK. Stay sharp boys. Eyes on the dog.”
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Do they really think they can scare us with the word “socialist” when they are literally sending out men in masks with no warrants and no badges to disappear people off American streets?
I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist.
I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist.
June 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Do they really think they can scare us with the word “socialist” when they are literally sending out men in masks with no warrants and no badges to disappear people off American streets?
I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist.
I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist.
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ICE rolls in, LA rises up.🔥
If Stephen Miller was looking for immigrants to roll over and just take it from his ICE goons, he picked the wrong f*cking town. Between yesterday in LA City and Paramount today, the community is fighting back.
If Stephen Miller was looking for immigrants to roll over and just take it from his ICE goons, he picked the wrong f*cking town. Between yesterday in LA City and Paramount today, the community is fighting back.
June 7, 2025 at 8:50 PM
ICE rolls in, LA rises up.🔥
If Stephen Miller was looking for immigrants to roll over and just take it from his ICE goons, he picked the wrong f*cking town. Between yesterday in LA City and Paramount today, the community is fighting back.
If Stephen Miller was looking for immigrants to roll over and just take it from his ICE goons, he picked the wrong f*cking town. Between yesterday in LA City and Paramount today, the community is fighting back.
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It's...interesting that the US media is so eager to condemn Biden and his handlers for hiding his aging and not for openly being an accessory to genocide.
(Imagine. Biden spent a lifetime trying to be a good person, and threw it all away for Netanyahu. Now he's destined for Hell.)
(Imagine. Biden spent a lifetime trying to be a good person, and threw it all away for Netanyahu. Now he's destined for Hell.)
May 16, 2025 at 9:59 PM
It's...interesting that the US media is so eager to condemn Biden and his handlers for hiding his aging and not for openly being an accessory to genocide.
(Imagine. Biden spent a lifetime trying to be a good person, and threw it all away for Netanyahu. Now he's destined for Hell.)
(Imagine. Biden spent a lifetime trying to be a good person, and threw it all away for Netanyahu. Now he's destined for Hell.)
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Alex Lawson: We're outside the Energy & Commerce committee with folks risking arrest to protest the destruction of Medicaid which is what Republicans are doing right now in the committee room.
May 13, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Alex Lawson: We're outside the Energy & Commerce committee with folks risking arrest to protest the destruction of Medicaid which is what Republicans are doing right now in the committee room.
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This is so vague that it could ban the regulation of any kind of algorithm whatsoever; “automated decision system” is an extremely broad term!
This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years.
from @404media.co
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from @404media.co
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May 12, 2025 at 10:20 PM
This is so vague that it could ban the regulation of any kind of algorithm whatsoever; “automated decision system” is an extremely broad term!
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CBO estimates that the combined effect of Republican Medicaid proposals, allowing enhanced ACA premium tax credits to expire, and President Trump’s proposed ACA rules would increase the number of uninsured by 13.7 million. That would take us back to close to pre-ACA levels.
May 12, 2025 at 12:20 PM
CBO estimates that the combined effect of Republican Medicaid proposals, allowing enhanced ACA premium tax credits to expire, and President Trump’s proposed ACA rules would increase the number of uninsured by 13.7 million. That would take us back to close to pre-ACA levels.
Wrote about the arrival of mental health chatbots with @laurigoldkind.bsky.social and the enduring importance of human practitioners
The Therapist in the Machine: Confronting AI’s Challenge to Clinical Social Work
Published in Journal of Technology in Human Services (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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May 9, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Wrote about the arrival of mental health chatbots with @laurigoldkind.bsky.social and the enduring importance of human practitioners
I’ll be helping to edit a new speciality series at JSSWR on AI + SW. Would welcome submissions broadly, including those that consider wholesale or targeted prohibition of AI deployment within practice.
Introducing a New JSSWR Specialty Series on Artificial Intelligence and Social Work | Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research
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May 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I’ll be helping to edit a new speciality series at JSSWR on AI + SW. Would welcome submissions broadly, including those that consider wholesale or targeted prohibition of AI deployment within practice.
Proud member of this union.
BREAKING: Harvard AAUP & the nat'l AAUP have jointly filed a lawsuit & TRO to block the Trump admin from demanding that Harvard restrict speech & undermine academic freedom or else lose $8.7 billion in federal funds. This action challenges the Trump admin's misuse of funds for coercion. Stay tuned.
April 13, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Proud member of this union.
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Hopefully this also finally prompts universities to find some backbone to stand up against similar unlawful threats.
Maine won a TRO against the feds for attempting to withhold federal funds based on Title IX without following the proper procedure. This was all triggered by Governor Mills standing up to Trump re the state's inclusive policies for trans athletes.
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April 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Hopefully this also finally prompts universities to find some backbone to stand up against similar unlawful threats.
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Grant cancelled? 👇
The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up.
If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes.
Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.
If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes.
Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.
Cancelled NIH grant information submission form
Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NIH grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025.
Data from this form will be used to update the Rescinded NIH...
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March 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Grant cancelled? 👇
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I’m so tired of hearing Rubio & other rightwingers now claiming that if you’re on a green card you’re a ‘guest’ in this country. BS. You’re a lawful permanent resident. The clue is in the name. If someone is a permanent resident in your home, are they the same as the guests who come and go? Come on.
March 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I’m so tired of hearing Rubio & other rightwingers now claiming that if you’re on a green card you’re a ‘guest’ in this country. BS. You’re a lawful permanent resident. The clue is in the name. If someone is a permanent resident in your home, are they the same as the guests who come and go? Come on.
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This is good but why is it written by six individual faculty and not by the presidents of 400 US universities
Columbia Law School has perhaps the strongest public law faculty in the country. This is what they think of the recent Title VI demand letter sent to their university: balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...
Balkinization: A Title VI Demand Letter That Itself Violates Title VI (and the Constitution)
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
balkin.blogspot.com
March 16, 2025 at 2:02 AM
This is good but why is it written by six individual faculty and not by the presidents of 400 US universities
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🚨 New paper!
Medical AI benchmarks over-simplify real-world clinical practice and build on medical exam-style questions—especially in mental healthcare. We introduce MENTAT, a clinician-annotated dataset tackling real-world ambiguities in psychiatric decision-making.
🧵 Thread:
Medical AI benchmarks over-simplify real-world clinical practice and build on medical exam-style questions—especially in mental healthcare. We introduce MENTAT, a clinician-annotated dataset tackling real-world ambiguities in psychiatric decision-making.
🧵 Thread:
February 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
🚨 New paper!
Medical AI benchmarks over-simplify real-world clinical practice and build on medical exam-style questions—especially in mental healthcare. We introduce MENTAT, a clinician-annotated dataset tackling real-world ambiguities in psychiatric decision-making.
🧵 Thread:
Medical AI benchmarks over-simplify real-world clinical practice and build on medical exam-style questions—especially in mental healthcare. We introduce MENTAT, a clinician-annotated dataset tackling real-world ambiguities in psychiatric decision-making.
🧵 Thread:
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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump.
Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.
Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.
February 21, 2025 at 11:39 PM
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump.
Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.
Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.
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We urge university leaders to respond confidently, with law and moral principle on your side, and not to sacrifice essential and legally defensible DEI initiatives that help universities fulfill their most basic mission to pursue truth and knowledge for the common good.
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February 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
We urge university leaders to respond confidently, with law and moral principle on your side, and not to sacrifice essential and legally defensible DEI initiatives that help universities fulfill their most basic mission to pursue truth and knowledge for the common good.
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I like the revised version better.
My kid lives in Siddall Hall and sent me these yesterday. First is what was put up by the school, second is the students’ alteration of the administrations’ cowardice.
February 21, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I like the revised version better.
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JUST IN: A federal judge in Washington state, who blocked Trump's executive order re: transgender health care, says it is unconstitutional in multiple ways, including usurping Congress' power of the purse storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 17, 2025 at 12:40 AM
JUST IN: A federal judge in Washington state, who blocked Trump's executive order re: transgender health care, says it is unconstitutional in multiple ways, including usurping Congress' power of the purse storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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For a straightforward explanation of the sheer illegality of everything going on, @sbagen.bsky.social has you covered.
Why Write About the Illegality of What Trump and Musk are Doing?
By Samuel Bagenstos NYU Law professor Noah Rosenblum posted on Bluesky yesterday that “[t]here has never been a larger gap in my (admittedly quite short)...
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February 2, 2025 at 5:07 PM
For a straightforward explanation of the sheer illegality of everything going on, @sbagen.bsky.social has you covered.
Come close out #SSWR2025 by strategizing with us on how to end the harm to our profession caused by the ASWB exams.
If you're at #SSWR2025, check out this roundtable session w/ me, @bryan-victor.bsky.social, @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social, Janelle Goodwill, Jen Hirsch, and Sheryl Kubiak. Sun., 1/19 at 11:30. Prime Time! sswr.confex.com/sswr/2025/we...
Session: At the Intersection of Social Work Research, Practice, and Policy: Academic Advocacy Efforts to Eliminate the Association of Social Work Boards Exams from Professional Licensure Requirements ...
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January 12, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Come close out #SSWR2025 by strategizing with us on how to end the harm to our profession caused by the ASWB exams.