Martha Lincoln
@heavyredaction.bsky.social
Medical anthropologist, Assoc. Prof. at SFSU. EIC at @jvietnamstudies.bsky.social. Studying online health influencers. “In the dark times/Will there also be singing?”—Bertolt Brecht
Stating the obvious, Lincoln would roll over in his grave at this—not least at the use of 11 stars to dog-whistle the Confederacy. Lincoln introduced pro-immigration legislation, opposed nativism and the Know-Nothing party, and signed the Emancipation Proclamation
November 29, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Stating the obvious, Lincoln would roll over in his grave at this—not least at the use of 11 stars to dog-whistle the Confederacy. Lincoln introduced pro-immigration legislation, opposed nativism and the Know-Nothing party, and signed the Emancipation Proclamation
Cal State University currently lacks the counseling resources to support existing mental health concerns among its students—so it is particularly unwise for the university to contract with a corporation whose product is allegedly associated with serious mental health harms.
November 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Cal State University currently lacks the counseling resources to support existing mental health concerns among its students—so it is particularly unwise for the university to contract with a corporation whose product is allegedly associated with serious mental health harms.
Earlier this month, lawsuits brought against OpenAI suggested the potential of ChatGPT to cause serious mental health harms in users.
In light of these cases, the Cal State U system must not continue providing ChatGPT to students.
My opinion essay in @insidehighered.com today
In light of these cases, the Cal State U system must not continue providing ChatGPT to students.
My opinion essay in @insidehighered.com today
November 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Earlier this month, lawsuits brought against OpenAI suggested the potential of ChatGPT to cause serious mental health harms in users.
In light of these cases, the Cal State U system must not continue providing ChatGPT to students.
My opinion essay in @insidehighered.com today
In light of these cases, the Cal State U system must not continue providing ChatGPT to students.
My opinion essay in @insidehighered.com today
Concerning how folks in many fields are expressing AI fatalism—essentially arguing that like it or not, professionals in an ironclad compact with AI now and we just need to get on board
November 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Concerning how folks in many fields are expressing AI fatalism—essentially arguing that like it or not, professionals in an ironclad compact with AI now and we just need to get on board
Anthropologists of kinship, it is your moment to pitch an op-ed
October 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Anthropologists of kinship, it is your moment to pitch an op-ed
My chapter considers 3 narratives that I believe have been key to the minimization of COVID-19 in the United States: a misleading narrative casting the US body politic as “resilient,” and pejorative narratives about “vulnerable groups” and “the unvaccinated.” Details here
October 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
My chapter considers 3 narratives that I believe have been key to the minimization of COVID-19 in the United States: a misleading narrative casting the US body politic as “resilient,” and pejorative narratives about “vulnerable groups” and “the unvaccinated.” Details here
Out this month from @oxfordunipress.bsky.social—“Crisis, Inequity, and Legacy: Narrative Analyses of the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Really honored to have a chapter in this wonderful edited volume
October 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Out this month from @oxfordunipress.bsky.social—“Crisis, Inequity, and Legacy: Narrative Analyses of the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Really honored to have a chapter in this wonderful edited volume
I have only taken a bit of a look—but it seems like it maybe is not research at all, but something commercial. Maybe perspectival but I found it disturbing. Incredibly, it also came with acknowledgments. Link:
t.co/zl35GFmDfZ
t.co/zl35GFmDfZ
October 26, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I have only taken a bit of a look—but it seems like it maybe is not research at all, but something commercial. Maybe perspectival but I found it disturbing. Incredibly, it also came with acknowledgments. Link:
t.co/zl35GFmDfZ
t.co/zl35GFmDfZ
A quick PS—the article makes reference to internal CSU documents obtained by a Public Records Act request.
It’s not my PRA request, but if anyone is working on something that would benefit from these docs about the “AI-powered university” initiative, pls reach out
It’s not my PRA request, but if anyone is working on something that would benefit from these docs about the “AI-powered university” initiative, pls reach out
October 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
A quick PS—the article makes reference to internal CSU documents obtained by a Public Records Act request.
It’s not my PRA request, but if anyone is working on something that would benefit from these docs about the “AI-powered university” initiative, pls reach out
It’s not my PRA request, but if anyone is working on something that would benefit from these docs about the “AI-powered university” initiative, pls reach out
As part of its AI initiative, Cal State recently organized a camp for CSU students with support from Amazon.
As a medical anthropologist who teaches at Cal State, I have some very serious questions about the curriculum.
As a medical anthropologist who teaches at Cal State, I have some very serious questions about the curriculum.
October 26, 2025 at 4:13 PM
As part of its AI initiative, Cal State recently organized a camp for CSU students with support from Amazon.
As a medical anthropologist who teaches at Cal State, I have some very serious questions about the curriculum.
As a medical anthropologist who teaches at Cal State, I have some very serious questions about the curriculum.
This is one of our biggest arguments: that OpenAI is vampirizing universities for the cachet and legitimacy that affiliation with higher education affords
October 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This is one of our biggest arguments: that OpenAI is vampirizing universities for the cachet and legitimacy that affiliation with higher education affords
A good note here.
In our co-authored paper (now in pre-print), Kenney and I wrote “The National Education Policy Center argues that the promise of genAI is currently supported only by 'commercial marketing claims' (...) and not by peer-reviewed evidence.”
In our co-authored paper (now in pre-print), Kenney and I wrote “The National Education Policy Center argues that the promise of genAI is currently supported only by 'commercial marketing claims' (...) and not by peer-reviewed evidence.”
October 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
A good note here.
In our co-authored paper (now in pre-print), Kenney and I wrote “The National Education Policy Center argues that the promise of genAI is currently supported only by 'commercial marketing claims' (...) and not by peer-reviewed evidence.”
In our co-authored paper (now in pre-print), Kenney and I wrote “The National Education Policy Center argues that the promise of genAI is currently supported only by 'commercial marketing claims' (...) and not by peer-reviewed evidence.”
W/ my collaborator Martha Kenney, spoke to Natasha Singer for this piece out today about Cal State’s sweeping, costly, and non-transparent “AI-empowered university” initiative.
October 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
W/ my collaborator Martha Kenney, spoke to Natasha Singer for this piece out today about Cal State’s sweeping, costly, and non-transparent “AI-empowered university” initiative.
This piece closes by uncritically endorsing a major MAHA talking point as if that were a completely normal place for its argument to rest
October 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
This piece closes by uncritically endorsing a major MAHA talking point as if that were a completely normal place for its argument to rest
New preprint alert! 🚨
“Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University”
“Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University”
October 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
New preprint alert! 🚨
“Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University”
“Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University”
“AI is freeing time for students to evaluate the information AI generates”—with all due respect to a Stanford MBA student, what kind of an argument is this?
February 25, 2025 at 4:51 AM
“AI is freeing time for students to evaluate the information AI generates”—with all due respect to a Stanford MBA student, what kind of an argument is this?
Given the cost—and the note that students are the primary intended beneficiary of this undertaking—it’s surprising that this little thought and care was put into the early development of the page for students:
February 13, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Given the cost—and the note that students are the primary intended beneficiary of this undertaking—it’s surprising that this little thought and care was put into the early development of the page for students:
Glimpses of this unequal exchange can be seen in the CSU’s apparently hastily created “AI Commons” page—so far the most, or only, tangible product of the initiative
genai.calstate.edu/node/1 (genai.calstate.edu/node/1)
genai.calstate.edu/node/1 (genai.calstate.edu/node/1)
February 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Glimpses of this unequal exchange can be seen in the CSU’s apparently hastily created “AI Commons” page—so far the most, or only, tangible product of the initiative
genai.calstate.edu/node/1 (genai.calstate.edu/node/1)
genai.calstate.edu/node/1 (genai.calstate.edu/node/1)
With a colleague, I have a piece in the SF Chronicle today re: our concerns about the Cal State University system’s recently announced “AI University” initiative
February 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
With a colleague, I have a piece in the SF Chronicle today re: our concerns about the Cal State University system’s recently announced “AI University” initiative
This is the Dems’ entire M.O.
Schiff poses an essentially aesthetic problem—that no one will notice that the freedoms of our democracy are ending—and implies that he has resolved it by noticing and tweeting about it.
What about the real problem, Adam
Schiff poses an essentially aesthetic problem—that no one will notice that the freedoms of our democracy are ending—and implies that he has resolved it by noticing and tweeting about it.
What about the real problem, Adam
February 1, 2025 at 7:44 PM
This is the Dems’ entire M.O.
Schiff poses an essentially aesthetic problem—that no one will notice that the freedoms of our democracy are ending—and implies that he has resolved it by noticing and tweeting about it.
What about the real problem, Adam
Schiff poses an essentially aesthetic problem—that no one will notice that the freedoms of our democracy are ending—and implies that he has resolved it by noticing and tweeting about it.
What about the real problem, Adam
Linguistic workarounds for the very wealthy—like Musk’s “straight-arm gesture” or “awkward gesture” or “exuberant gesture”—are dangerous and media simply love to coin them
January 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Linguistic workarounds for the very wealthy—like Musk’s “straight-arm gesture” or “awkward gesture” or “exuberant gesture”—are dangerous and media simply love to coin them
This is what many said—to a mostly indifferent/hostile reception—about controlling the spread of COVID-19 and instituting meaningful forms of social welfare. It would “require changes to the social contract.” Unlike the case of AI, the social benefits would have been immense
January 25, 2025 at 9:27 PM
This is what many said—to a mostly indifferent/hostile reception—about controlling the spread of COVID-19 and instituting meaningful forms of social welfare. It would “require changes to the social contract.” Unlike the case of AI, the social benefits would have been immense
Meanwhile, in the Corrections section to Jha’s piece. Apparently Jha didn’t even know how many member states WHO currently has and didn’t bother to verify this easily sourced bit of information before calling WHO “corrupt” and “radical”
January 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Meanwhile, in the Corrections section to Jha’s piece. Apparently Jha didn’t even know how many member states WHO currently has and didn’t bother to verify this easily sourced bit of information before calling WHO “corrupt” and “radical”
The rest of her short letter is a crushing refutation of Jha’s argument for a US-led takeover of the WHO’s mission and priorities, emphasizing the multilateralism that is baked into the institution (“WHO is what its 194 member states make it, including the US.”)
January 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The rest of her short letter is a crushing refutation of Jha’s argument for a US-led takeover of the WHO’s mission and priorities, emphasizing the multilateralism that is baked into the institution (“WHO is what its 194 member states make it, including the US.”)
Jha didn’t follow up on his ”many thoughts” in this thread and that is probably because he was checkmated. Round of applause for Van Kerkhove, who minced no words. She is a brilliant ID epidemiologist with deep WHO and global health experience. She forcefully calls bullshit on Jha, w/ evidence
January 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Jha didn’t follow up on his ”many thoughts” in this thread and that is probably because he was checkmated. Round of applause for Van Kerkhove, who minced no words. She is a brilliant ID epidemiologist with deep WHO and global health experience. She forcefully calls bullshit on Jha, w/ evidence