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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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Rollerblading is fun, actually. It's your late thirties and the cringe is easy.

May be live-skeeting the Pennsylvania State Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Professional Counselors meeting today. We'll see if they decide to take themselves off of mute first...

Has anyone used Mailslurp, Snov.io or similar to track student engagement with program emails at their university? I know most unis don't have a CRM. I'm trying to find a route around.

LibreOffice doesn't pop up Writer every day to ask me why I haven't purchased it. MSOffice does that with Word now, for some reason?

......and another project gets added to the Fall queue

This all very clearly proves that Britta was right about everything.

Who tf in my neighborhood has a Lexus lfa?!

Immigrant rights protest, Norristown, PA.

Lol, we made it, ma!

EXTREMELY BAD NEWS for economic research, per former BLS Commissioner @ericagroshen.bsky.social on LinkedIn. BLS is suspending access to its restricted data "for the forseeable future." Applies to projects through the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers & onsite projects with BLS. #EconSky

GIVERS. Opening for Ra Ra Riot

Get absolutely bodied, you ghouls.

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

I have no idea whether this is a good sign or a bad sign, but Missouri 's social work board put my blog post into their meeting materials for next Friday along with the entire NCME Testing Standards. 😳😳😳 opensocialwork.org/2025/05/17/a...

Autarky forever!

We conclude with four steps to abolition–(1) removing exam requirements through legislation, (2) scrapping exam fees for licensee-seekers in inflexible states, (3) paying reparations to test-takers gatekept by biased qualifying exams, and (4) anti-trust enforcement against ASWB and its member boards

I think this is the same approach that aphex twin uses to name tracks. That's why so many of them have pseudonyms

RL Grime said he was giving up on Halloween mixes, right? Can we just have HOL! take over? Seems like it would work, no? www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3EP...

the @coffeezilla.bsky.social of social work, here. Not as cute, tho.

Probably the most influential book I read on my adult career was Remix by Lessig. It is horrifying that LLMs and genAI is the remix culture we get because only oligopolies can legally reuse copyrighted works...including now, apparently, everyone else's copyrighted works, too.

I cannot believe I'm going to have to look up circumvention techniques just to do literature searching on my phone while my kids are at soccer practice or whatever.

Is this also neokayfabe?

Omg I've done so many lit searches on my phone I'm pretty sure my UEFI is now banned from ever accessing Google scholar. Every browser gives me a 403 error for GS on my phone (but no other platform, device). I lit search as systematically as a bot, apparently.

The last time I posted about ASWB on a social work listserv, they permanently nuked the BPD-L email list. I wonder what will happen when I share via the NANFED lists about how to prepare students for ASWB testing changes...

Ok wtf

Greaaaaat

New from 404 Media: a cop in Texas performed a nationwide search of license plate reading cameras for a woman who got an abortion, according to multiple sets of data we've reviewed. Included cameras where abortion is legal, like Washington and Illinois www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

Our op-ed in the Guardian addresses the danger of Trump's "Gold Standard Science" executive order. with @cdelawalla.bsky.social @vambros.bsky.social Carol Greider @michaelemann.bsky.social @briannosek.bsky.social

Breaking: HHS is canceling a $600 million contract with Moderna to develop, test, and license vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics, including the dangerous H5N1 bird flu virus.

I literally just got laughed at in the Virginia ad hoc commission meeting for suggesting that boards should care or exercise some oversight. If you want to know where the temperature of the regulators is at