The incredible, indomitable, inspirational Alice Wong has left us. I'm so grateful to have known her on social media, and so grateful for all the words she shared with us and all the actions she encouraged us into making. May we live up to her example. (so you don't have to go to Instagram)

I’ll be in conversation with Sana Ahmad next Monday, November 17 at @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social about our new @commonnotions.bsky.social book on digital workers’ inquiry and my forthcoming @datasociety.bsky.social report on climate action in and against the tech industry

For my dissertation, I'm looking to interview early-career tech workers about LLMs in the workplace! The interviews for this research study are confidential. If you are interested in being interviewed, or would like to know more, please fill out this form! forms.gle/xGnQthnM7wNZ...

Interested in accessibility, visualization, or data ethics? I'm looking for Ph.D. students to join @data-and-design.org at CU Boulder Info Sci in Fall 2026. data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd

Our new book, Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry, is out today! Use the code DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE on the @commonnotions.bsky.social site for a 25% discount

AI in the workplace isn’t just automation. Workers report discrimination, intensified workloads, and even automated firing. New state policies aim to center workers, write Mishal Khan and Annette Bernhardt from the Technology and Work Program at the UC Berkeley Labor Center.

Management is already using the hype over AI to make workers fearful. Workers need a plan to get a say over the tools we use and how we use them.

Great article—AI in higher ed is about the crisis of higher ed, long in the making. Cites the AAUP report on AI. we are seeing cracks in the inevitability framing of AI—the only way out of this is together!

DAIR’s (@dairinstitute.bsky.social) latest report offers a chilling glimpse into how Amazon is using technology to ramp up surveillance of delivery drivers, violating existing workers' rights and creating unsafe working conditions. www.dair-institute.org/projects/dri...

It’s the last day of #CSCW2025! Come by at 2:30pm at the Perspectives on Data Privacy session to watch me discuss the resistance tactics that workers use to circumvent surveillance and how they build towards collective action

"what is an algorithm to a mother who has lost her child?" I don't understand how @helmimouni.bsky.social and coauthors didn't win an award for this work at #CSCW2025, it's so incredibly important 🇵🇸

Incredible piece of work, the ingenuity in working around algorithimic censorship #cscw2025 #freepalestine

Now at #CSCW2025! The paper authors in the Community-Engaged Research session explore the tensions, responsibilities and future directions for transparent, sustainable and ethical relationships and outcomes between researchers, universities, and communities.

🔎 Do you work at a public university or collaborate w/ someone who does? Come learn what happens when your messages are requested through public records laws in my #CSCW2025 paper w/ Rachel, @emmaspiro.bsky.social, & @katestarbird.bsky.social 🕝 2:30pm today 📍Bekken, Core Concepts in Privacy Research

It’s Tuesday at #CSCW2025! Come catch me and my colleague Amil from Community Forge present our joint paper on equitable community-university partnerships in the Community-Engaged Research session at 11am!

Two spuddies will be at #CSCW2025: @yuxiwu.com will present our work on designing citizen harm reporting interfaces for privacy (and is on the job market!). Isadora Krsek will present our work on user reactions to AI-identified self-disclosure risks online.

still can't get over that there's an entire session dedicated to advocacy at #CSCW2025 😍 it's gonna be HOTT

For #CSCW2025’s Doctoral Consortium, 16 PhD students from the U.S., Canada and Europe presented their work covering topics across social media, accessibility, health, policy and work. Thanks to Elena Agapie and Nervo Verdezoto for organizing it!

👋 Hello #CSCW2025! I’ll be presenting my paper on tech worker organizing on Monday at 4:30pm in the Advocacy Work session and my dissertation work “From the Future of Work to the Future of Labor: Centering Worker Resistance in Age of AI and Automation” at the demos/posters reception! Please say hi!

🇳🇴 I'm in Bergen for #CSCW25 🇳🇴 This Wednesday, in the "Content Moderation" session, I'll present my paper about how Reddit moderators are grappling with AI-Generated Content. I'm honored that it received a Best Paper Honorable Mention 🤓 If you're here too, let's connect! dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

@cellllla.bsky.social and I spoke with Eva Thiebaud for Options Magazine (France) about how the tech industry has changed politically since the Trump presidency and why techno-solutionism no longer holds any weight www.media-options.fr/2025/10/10/e...

How do activists respond when their posts vanish or views collapse overnight? A new #CSCW2025 paper maps a continuum of “algorithmic resistance,” from self-censorship to creative workarounds to policy advocacy. Read more: tinyurl.com/socialmediac...

this piece by @workshops4gaza.bsky.social is worth reading. still profoundly disappointed with SIGCHI for having CHI in hawai`i in 2024, and a lot of this resonates across conferences and disciplines (especially the specious claims of being socially conscientious, or engaging w/indigenous knowledge)

Corporations call it "privacy-preserving," but this new AI tech isn't all that it seems. Our new brief w/@datasociety.bsky.social + CoWorker exposes how this tech harms + exploits workers and what we can do to strengthen worker protections + power in the digital age: datasociety.net/library/the-...

🗣️The Future Of The Tech Industry Is Unionized! “The way layoffs happened at Google, where it wasn’t clear what the reason for people getting laid off was, definitely created a sense of job insecurity & mistrust,” said AWU Prez Parul Koul @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Baby’s first published academic article! @js-tan.bsky.social and @nataliyan.bsky.social and I analyzed the @techactions.bsky.social archive and find that tech worker labor organizing stands on the shoulders of prior struggle- conflict begets class conflict journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

✨I’m on the academic job market ✨ I’m a PhD candidate at @hcii.cmu.edu studying tech, labor, and resistance 👩🏻‍💻💪🏽💥 I research how workers and communities contest harmful sociotechnical systems and shape alternative futures through everyday resistance and collective action More info: cella.io

On November 18, join organizers and experts for a cross-issue panel discussion exploring how workers and communities are pushing back: From Our Workplaces to Our Communities: Stop the AI Surveillance Pipeline Now! bit.ly/stopAIsurveillance

Did you know that the university of Michigan is building the world’s largest supercomputer for Los Alamos National Labs’ nuclear weapons production programs, and paying for $830 million of it despite not being able to use >90% of it? I wrote about it here: www.michigandaily.com/opinion/umic...

Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI is now available in physical form! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Join @datasociety.bsky.social's Climate, Technology, and Justice program+ Kapor Foundation for a webinar on CA data centers in context, connecting data center buildout + policy interventions to histories of environmental racism + resistance 10/9, 12-1:30 PM PT kaporcenter.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#chi2026 reviewing season is here! Friendly reminder that it is possible to write thoughtful reviews without nitpicking and without it taking a lot of time. I've actually completed my seven 2AC reviews already. Some (updated) tips I wrote about this: sauvik-das.medium.com/a-quick-gui...

New book alert!📘 Our book on workers talking about their experiences of workers inquiry research, and working with academic workers to build power! with the Capacitor Collective

Kickstarter United has voted to STRIKE! We are fighting for a 32 hour work week, livable wage for all workers, and protections against AI. Our Seattle members are organizing a rally alongside OPEIU 8. Join us on Thursday in Cal Anderson Park! forms.gle/udwphKvnZDVG...

The e book is available link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

be my colleague! information science at CU Boulder is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in environmental justice. jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

🎉 Thrilled to share that @samshorey.bsky.social and I have signed a book contract with @ucpress.bsky.social through their Co-Opting AI Series! "Reparative AI" is about what happens when AI breaks, and how repair becomes resistance, sabotage, and a challenge to whether AI is worth saving at all.

✨I'm on the faculty job market! ✨ I’m a University of Chicago Computer Science PhD Candidate building more sustainable computing ecosystems 💻🌱 I develop computational approaches for reducing, reusing, and recycling e-waste (I like to call it recomputing e-waste) read more: jasminelu.site 🧵 (1/7)

Protests, mass meetups, conferences—a youth-led movement is reclaiming the Luddite mantle, rejecting a future dominated by Silicon Valley companies, toxic apps, and generative AI. This fall, a "Luddite renaissance" is in full swing. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-luddit...

It was lovely to talk about PA with @mwoluchem.bsky.social and Joan on the transformations being pushed by the data center industry across the state. Looking forward continuing this work with @anthrotechana.bsky.social and @cellllla.bsky.social 🛣️

New The Cloud is Dead essay: @emmaquilty.bsky.social writes about data centers, undersea cables, and histories of colonialism in Fiji for @datasociety.bsky.social Points Emma is also a scholar of witches. And you should definitely get her book, Witch Power: Hexing the Patriarchy with Feminist Magic

In this new piece, I explain why focusing only on red tape and proceduralism (as the Abundance thesis does) misses the bigger story about the American Political Economy and fails to explain the staggering build out of data centers across the country. www.valueadded.tech/p/america-ca...

We just launched a new version of the Surveillance Watch platform with improved filtering and search, detailed entity analysis views, better visualization of connections between entities & investors, a more accessible lite version etc. Have a look at the latest updates at www.surveillancewatch.io

Don't miss this paper, "The Future of Tech Labor: How Workers are Organizing and Transforming the Computing Industry," at #CSCW2025 in October. Congrats @cellllla.bsky.social, @perhaxis.bsky.social and authors.

With a deal to provide nuclear-powered energy to data centers, Three Mile Island is coming back online to power the AI boom. As @livgar.bsky.social, Joan Mukogosi, & @mwoluchem.bsky.social write, locals are wrestling with how to handle AI-driven industrial change. datasociety.net/points/in-pe...

What can #CSCW learn from tech workers who have been involved in collective action and unionization about how to make transformative change within our field? My new #CSCW2025 paper with Mona Wang, Anna Konvicka, and Sarah Fox seeks to answer this question. Pre-print: arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12579

Many academics and researchers approach activism as doing the work or sharing our expertise with the public. But given what's politically happening to our industries, more of us are gonna need to focus less on being the expert and more on learning new skills and experimenting to organize ourselves.

Fun fact: even as UCLA is being extorted for $1B by a fascist government, its administration is requiring all faculty to install a “security” program that surveils everything we do and shares that information with the federal government.

university presidents think they're cutting deals to restore their funding. i get their pressures. but this is what's happening: ramping up the extortion, creating homogeneous zones of government-directed curricula, shutting down campus speech.