🗣️ Featuring talks by @haimson.bsky.social and @naz-andalibi.bsky.social, plus a panel discussion and networking reception. Co-organised by the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab and @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social, supported by @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...

📢 GENDER AND THE MACHINE Join us in Edinburgh on 20 Nov to explore entanglements of gender, marginalisation and emotion across tech and AI. 🗓️ Thurs 20 Nov 2025 📍 Edinburgh 👋 All welcome Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and... #data #AI #tech #emotion #trans #LGBTQ #queer

Really looking forward to this upcoming @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social event, where the great @naz-andalibi.bsky.social and @haimson.bsky.social will be talking about emotion, gender, marginalisation and AI 🤩 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...

✨📣 Excited to announce our upcoming event GENDER AND THE MACHINE! Join us on Nov 20th for an afternoon exploring gender, marginalisation and emotion in tech - talks by @haimson.bsky.social and @naz-andalibi.bsky.social, plus panel discussion and networking reception ⬇️ sign up shorturl.at/QlMfx

This Wednesday I'm giving a virtual talk at the Institute for Technoscience & Society at York University @stsyorku.bsky.social ! Info on how to register is here: www.yorku.ca/research/its...

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

I put together this list of work on trans/queer topics at #CSCW2025 - lots of exciting papers to check out! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 padlet.com/haimson/tran...

You gotta watch out when @cfiesler.bsky.social organizes an ethics workshop at CSCW - you just might meet your future spouse there! Happened to me and @naz-andalibi.bsky.social 10 years ago 🥰 #CSCW2025 #CSCW2015

We honor the legacy of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a fierce protector of our collective freedom. Our hearts are with her loved ones and all who carry her vision forward. "We will honor Miss Major forever." - @imarajones.bsky.social

Excited for my PhD advisee Senami Kojah, whose paper "Silencing the Voiceless: Social Media Content Moderation for At Risk Marginalized Populations in High-Stakes Violence and Human Rights Contexts in Nigeria" is the 1st paper presentation at #CSCW2025! Online program starts tomorrow at 7am CET.

If you're eligible, please consider participating in my PhD advisee @lameiro.bsky.social's interview study with online sex workers about non-consensual intimate deepfakes. Quick screening survey: bit.ly/deepfakesint... Please also help spread the word by sharing with potential participants!

#books are awesome.

If you talk to globally subcontracted workers who contribute to AI systems, you see not only the issues they experience at work but also how those conditions shape AI tools themselves. The labor conditions of these workers is so often overlooked as a contributing factor to overall AI model quality.

My reading volume dropped 60% on the tenure track compared to grad school! New Medium post on the realities of academic reading. I’d love to hear from others: how much are you actually able to read as an academic? medium.com/@haimson/how...

everyone transgender

"Don't feel bad if you're not reading every great book. No one ever has, and no one ever will."

Thanks for the kind words! Glad you found it useful! Around the same time, another group in our lab, led by @groceryheist.cc, published a related paper that you might also be interested in: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... I've also written about founders and their original goals (often not growth!)

Just read this incredible paper by @s0hw.bsky.social & @jeremydfoote.com: Why Do People Participate in Small Online Communities? The authors question the assumption that growth is always good, and instead show many benefits of small online communities. Highly recommended! dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

This is effectively a ban on trans scientists getting federal funding, straight up. It’s also effectively a ban on all scientific work that includes trans people.

📣📣📣 New study shows: trans and disabled folks hate AI!

New article out in @theconversation.com! "When people at high risk of algorithmic harm such as trans people and disabled people are also those most wary of AI, that’s an indication for AI designers, developers and policymakers to reassess their efforts." theconversation.com/transgender-...

There are very good reasons for this! Very nice article @haimson.bsky.social ! Transgender, nonbinary and disabled people more likely to view AI negatively, study shows theconversation.com/transgender-...

I wrote an explainer for the impact of payment processor censorship on the LGBTQIA+ community. theconversation.com/thousands-of...

Currently obsessed with this paper. It’s chock-full of major insights and helpful recommendations and conceptual frames related to several different critical AI & labor themes of the moment. Not going to pick a favorite quote - just check it out!

Excited to read this!

Big congrats to Dr. @bzfzhang.bsky.social, who just defended his dissertation! It's been such an honor to work with Ben over the past 5 years, along with co-advisor @michaelannephd.bsky.social. Ben will start as Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University, & I'm so excited to follow his research!

Many congrats to Dr. @bzfzhang.bsky.social on his successful dissertation defense! @haimson.bsky.social and I are proud advisors, and anticipate great things from him as an assistant professor at Stonybrook University.

Trans Technologies is available now! My book examines how technology creates new possibilities for transgender people, and how trans experiences, in turn, create new possibilities for technology. "An absolute must-read for anyone that cares about technology and trans liberation." - Alex Hanna

With the publication of my new book Trans Technologies earlier this year, I pledged to donate half of my author royalties to a TBIPOC organization. This year I donated to @ruthelliscenter.bsky.social! ruthelliscenter.networkforgood.com/projects/227...

Go get a copy now from @mitpress.bsky.social or download the open access version here: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255186... Congrats again on the book, Oliver. Hope to bump into you again soon to say so in person!

Just finished @haimson.bsky.social's new book Trans Technologies over the weekend and really enjoyed it. If you want an insightful and comprehensive ethnographic account of trans tech - its creators, its creation, its affordances and constraints, and ideas for a better future, it's a must read.

"An absolute must-read for anyone that cares about technology and trans liberation." — @alexhanna.bsky.social "Trans Technologies" by Dr. Oliver Haimson is available now and #openaccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255186... @haimson.bsky.social

We had a great conversation about Trans Technologies on the @aiforalltomorrows.bsky.social podcast, out now - thanks for having me, @dylantdoyle.bsky.social! Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

Thanks to @plume-clinic.bsky.social for featuring Trans Technologies as part of their Trans Bookworm Series! "trans people are constantly innovating, adapting, and redefining technology.... in everyday, life-changing, and deeply personal ways that often go unnoticed." getplume.co/blog/trans-b...

Super interesting!! Lots of similarities in our findings wrt gender and race (focused on the international research population though). arxiv.org/abs/2411.05025

Please join us for the Co-Constructing the Future of Digital Intimacy workshop at #CSCW2025! (with @lucyq.bsky.social, @allismc.bsky.social, @dianafreed.bsky.social, @jevan.bsky.social, @eredmil1.bsky.social, @zahrastardust.bsky.social, @mirandawei.bsky.social ++) futureofdigitalintimacy.github.io

Turns out many marginalized Americans are skeptical of / resistant to AI. Thanks Jared Wadley at @umichnews.bsky.social for covering our AI attitudes research! Co-authors: @naz-andalibi.bsky.social, @mayworms.info, @shoreingber.bsky.social news.umich.edu/marginalized... dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

My god - Around *100* trans prisoners who were in Iran’s Evin prison are missing after the Israeli strike flattened their section of the prison. 100. The current death toll is 79. The 100 trans people are presumed dead, which would more than double the death toll. archive.is/2025.07.06-2...

I had a great conversation with Oliver—there's a whole world of considerations around trans technologies that we should all know about.

Thanks to @lgbtqnation.com and @faefyx.bsky.social for this article featuring my book! “It’s not enough for technology just to be created by trans people. It also needs to take a community-based approach.” www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/04/the-...

Marginalized Americans are highly skeptical of #artificialintelligence, research finds "People who are wary of AI often have lived experiences with systems that misidentify, exclude or harm them due to their gender or disability." ~ @haimson.bsky.social‬ phys.org/news/2025-0...

hey so my band Real Fake Fur is looking for a show in Ann Arbor sometime in August - please get in touch if you want to book us! Here's a video of what we sound like (rough recording - new/better recording coming out soon!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ago2...

ICEblock, which allows users to alert others to the geographical location of ICE officers, is the top social networking app in the App Store right now after Karoline Leavitt condemned it from the podium yesterday.

I recently joined The Academic Life podcast with Christina Gessler to talk about my book Trans Technologies and how trans people are building and reshaping technology. Grateful for the thoughtful conversation! Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

No state is safe: Trans people are planning to move overseas rather than live in Trump’s America www.independent.co.u... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

1. In a troubling development, multiple transgender rights court cases have been reopened following the Skrmetti decision, even ones the decision didn't touch. They range from health insurance to bathrooms and birth certificates. Subscribe to support our journalism. Lets dig in.

The 6 books you should totally read this summer include: —"The AI Con" by @alexhanna.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social —"Empire of AI" by @karenhao.bsky.social —"Trans Technologies" by @haimson.bsky.social —"Log Off" by @quinnae.com And two more! (Click the link and "dive in!" 🥺)

I started working on the LGBTQ Video Game Archive just over a decade ago (although the site was made public in May 2026). Last semester I used my tuition remission benefits to take a class on infographic design to make a resources to accompany the site (particularly for teachers of all kinds).

What if anything? 🤔

👏👏 @lameiro.bsky.social’s presentation at #FAccT2025 “TIDEs: A Transgender and Nonbinary Community-Labeled Dataset and Model for Transphobia Identification in Digital Environments” dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...