Unions, Lawsuits and Whistleblowers: Public Sector Leadership from Below Excited to share my piece for the @mtlaiethics.bsky.social's State of AI Ethics Report on AI in Government: Public Sector Leadership and Implementation. montrealethics.ai/state/

The new State of AI Ethics Report (SAIER) published by the @mtlaiethics.bsky.social is out! I am one of the 58 contributors, with a short essay on yet another reason to question the use of AI in monitoring/harming gender minorities in the US. Available open access: montrealethics.ai/saier-vol-7-...

Want to learn more about how data labour is gendered in its structures, practices & outcomes? Join us for the 5th talk in our Gender & Tech Series on 10/29, 11am EDT, w/ @milamiceli.bsky.social & @tatikmd.bsky.social. Free & open. Register: virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi... With @yasmincurzi.com

UVA turned down the compact!

📣 Please join us in welcoming our ten new affiliates: Kiara Childs, Mar Hicks, Harry Hudome, Shannon Mattern, Joan Mukogosi, Miliaku Nwabueze, Marie-Therese Png, Jess Reia, Melinda Sebastian, & Émile P. Torres. We're excited to work with and learn from them! datasociety.net/announcement...

Digital humanities friends, @scholarslab.bsky.social regularly collaborates w/our data science school colleagues! & @histoftech.bsky.social @jhereia.bsky.social et al do awesome work there. (If you ever wanted to try letterpress; or do book-adjacent or DHy data sci+making, I'm here too.) Job ad:

We are hiring! The DTD Lab invites applications for our 2026 postdoctoral cohort. Areas I'd love to supervise: gender/techno-authoritarianism, data visibility, urban governance, night studies, cultural practices, and all things related to tech policy. More info: jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...

I have a short piece on smart infrastructure and techno-authoritarianism in Brazil in the new journal Dialogues on Digital Society ✨ Available here: doi.org/10.1177/2976... If you cannot access it through your library, ping me and I will make sure you get a copy.

"somente com a democracia um país vale a pena" 💙💚💛💙💚💛

join us for the 4th session of our Gender & Tech Online Talk Series on Sept. 29th, 11AM, EDT. we are eager to host two brilliant keynote speakers, Paz Peña (Mozilla Foundation) and Tamara Kneese (Data & Society), who will discuss the social and environmental impacts of technocapitalism. more info: 👇

Interested in environmental justice & how gender inequalities are embedded in technology infrastructure? Join us for the 4th Gender & Tech webinar, Sept. 29 11am EDT, with Paz Peña Ochoa & @tamigraph.bsky.social. Free & open. Registration: virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Co-org w/ @yasmincurzi.com

Come and join us in the third webinar of our Gender and Tech Online Talk Series - this time to discuss platform governance from an intersectional perspective with the amazing Julie Owono and Coleen Carrigan. More details below! See you there?

Are you interested in learning more about how gender is shaped by digitization and platform governance? Join us on Aug 28 11am EDT for the 3rd event in the Gender & Tech Online Talk Series with Julie Owono & Coleen Carrigan. Free & open to the public. Register here: virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

✨ Thank you all for such an insightful, critical and friendly first day of #TheTechPeopleWant summit! We had a full room all day and very active conversations in the chat – it really fills us with hope. 🔜 Join us tomorrow for Day Two: buff.ly/mR8KWUQ

💻🌱 #TheTechPeopleWant Summit is just around the corner (July 8–9). Today we are announcing the full programme, featuring 31 speakers from all around the world across 4 panels, 2 keynotes and 3 Spotlight Sessions.

Inspired by @jhereia.bsky.social wonderful new book on busking, data, policy, and cities, my column for TDAN.com links my lifelong desire to be a busker with my fascination with data idiosyncrasies. Here's my LinkedIn post, with pic of DIONICIO and band! www.linkedin.com/posts/randal...

ICYMI: Our new collection of essays, “Reimagining AI for Environmental Justice and Creativity,” is out! ✨ Download it here: doi.org/10.18130/03d.... Offering some responses & asking more questions, we cover topics like arts administration, data centers, digital sovereignty, sustainability & more.

📝 These essays explore reimagining AI for environmental justice & creativity. AI has become ubiquitous across sectors like health, education, and finance, often operating invisibly in apps and services without user awareness. buff.ly/uOjsc1W @jhereia.bsky.social‬ @mcforelle.bsky.social‬

after the longest semester of my life, I can finally breathe again 🩵

In "Reimagining AI for Environmental Justice & Creativity," co-edited by @jhereia.bsky.social, @mcforelle.bsky.social & Yingchong Wang, 40+ contributors (incl D&S's @tamigraph.bsky.social) explore the future of creativity & sustainability in a world w AI. libraopen.lib.virginia.edu/public_view/...

We will host the 2nd webinar in our Gender & Tech Talk Series on May 27, 11:00am EDT. This session focuses on Data Governance. We are pleased to welcome Anita Gurumurthy (IT for Change) & Chenai Chair (My Data Rights - Africa) as keynotes. Register: virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @yasmincurzi.com

Honored to be in the club with researchers whose work is deemed “not in alignment” w/ this administration’s “new priorities.” I know these grant losses hurt - esp to junior scholars and the staff employed them - and, I genuinely believe, we can be proud we were doing something they are scared of.

My book is out and thanks to the generous support from SDS + DTD Lab, it is open access! 💙 You can download it for free here: doi.org/10.18130/px2... Physical copies can be bought wherever you buy books or at press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... Support local bookstores/non-tech giants if you can :)

Join @avilarenata.bsky.social (@okfn.bsky.social) & Marília Maciel (Diplo) tomorrow, 11am EDT, to discuss Digital Colonialism in this must-attend webinar from the Gender & Tech Online Talk Series co-organised by @yasmincurzi.com & @jhereia.bsky.social. 👉🏾 Register: virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

What if Western democracies were subtly as colonised as the South but less aware and less equipped to fight back? Let's unpack this on Friday!

Hey everyone Notable events of the week: - Thu, 4/24, Hamburg+online: AHOY! European Social Web Day - Thu, 4/24, Vancouver: Venue Co-op Design Jam. - Fri, 4/25, online: Gender and Tech Online Talk Series on Digital Colonialism. @jhereia.bsky.social

This Friday (4/25), 11am EDT, we have the 1st webinar in our Gender & Tech Online Talk Series. The month's topic is digital colonialism with @avilarenata.bsky.social (OKF) & Marília Maciel (Diplo). Free & open to the public, co-organized w/ @yasmincurzi.com. Register virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Why is AI governance so often ineffective at preventing AI from harming people and the planet? My new paper Transfeminist AI Governance addresses this question, now out in this month's issue of First Monday: firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

Smart-Washing the City: A Study on the Privatization of Urban Digital Infrastructures in the Global South by Jess Reia and Luã Cruz in the International Journal of Communication ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

New paper on the importance of open data and digital rights for nighttime economies is out! It's open access and available at Data for Policy: doi.org/10.1017/dap....

Work like @jhereia.bsky.social et al's new Trans Digital Rights report+recommendations (which I was honored to review! doi.org/10.18130/m2z...) & the US Trans Survey (last: 2022, 2015; ustranssurvey.org) are critical in pushing back erasure+anecdotal understandings, amid shit like this CDC data harm

Our session on Online Violence against Women, Queer, and BIPOC People in Politics is today at @rightscon.org Taipei! If you are around, come join us at 11:30, room 401! ✨💫🌈

ICYMI, highly recommend this essential report in these harrowing times.

check out this amazing report by @jhereia.bsky.social and team on trans digital rights and data visibility! 👇

Incredible new project - we MUST start with the most vulnerable communities when imagining online privacy protections-- they have the most to lose from privacy violations . See also my most recent book The Private is Political, which has a chapter about queer/trans privacy

Incredible research from @jhereia.bsky.social & team 🎉 Having some mixed feelings since our community's reality has changed since reviewing last year when some of these recs actually felt in reach, but, it is so important to have a vision of what we are fighting for when it comes to digital rights 💜

Incredibly important work dropping today from @jhereia.bsky.social and team! A vital part of responding to our current reality is knowing what we are working towards as a community and having that blueprint for the future. This is that vision for our digital rights, let's continue the fight 💜

This report is so important right now.

Highly recommended read!

A crucial must-read and reimagining of our future!

New Research Alert! The report “Trans digital rights: Improving data visibility, privacy and belonging for gender-diverse communities” ✨ 💫🌈 Our research asks: If we could reimagine digital rights that center the needs of gender-diverse communities, what would they look like?

My new paper with @technolua.bsky.social is out! ✨ We ask two questions: How can AI and so-called smart technologies undermine democratic processes in local governments? And what is the role of smart-washing in the privatization of urban digital infrastructure?

We're live all day with the #PAIRS25 Participation AI Research and Practice Symposium from SciencesPo in Paris. A packed agenda of talks and conversation on embedding public views and interest into AI development, governance and resistance pairs25.notion.site/Participator... Livestreamed/zoom.

Are you talking to colleagues impacted by executive branch targeting? Here’s a thread 🧵 w/ simple tips about how to show support—what to say that is likely to help, rather than make things worse. (The tips are simple, but I try to explain the rationale behind them. So please follow to the end.) 1/

Review: ‘I’m Still Here’ is Brazil’s anti-authoritarian message to the world nyunews.com/arts/film/20...

"Now is not the time to be complacent. Now is the time to act."

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

Here's a poster version of the DIY Web Archiving zine's front cover, with some added text if you want to print copies for some space where people can take them—you can hang this poster above or nearby:

& on 8th Feb, ahead of the AI Action Summit in Paris, we'll be gathering at SciencesPo for part 2 of the Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium. 60+ presenters sharing work & conversation on participatory shaping of AI systems by shifting power. Info & registration pairs25.notion.site

"how can we use this technology ethically" me, chewing on a piece of straw: you cant "but how do we use it in a prosocial and democratic way" me, whittling a piece of wood: you dont "youre not being very constructive"