I guess I must be in Delta’s target demo - there’s piano cover of A Thousand Miles playing during boarding that I’m thoroughly enjoying

Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.

Just to be clear: if 'no one was ready' a lot of people fucked up, bc those of us who work on this laid out what was going to happen 8yrs ago. The twofold issue that 1)it's not just a tech problem, and 2) Big Tech allowed itself to be ref-worked into spinelessness. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/t...

Very much reads like they are significantly reducing the influence of peer review on scientific funding, which under the current regime opens the way for more politicized funding instead.

I'm realizing I'm not actually sure what the norms, best practices, and visibility affordances are for creating threads on Bluesky - I'm not sure if replying to my own posts vs. quoting my posts show up differently in other feeds.

#ObscureNoveltyHolidaySongs Day 1: What if Earth Wind & Fire's "September" had been set 3 months later? They'd have written "December" and according to one commenter "it probably would have been the greatest Christmas song ever" www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjCW... (or open.spotify.com/track/6z26LT...)

Taking a break from my normal academic content, December 1 seems like a good time to start a thread of 25 days of #ObscureNoveltyHolidaySongs - things that are unlikely to be on Top 40 holiday radio! (Here's a little insight into my eclectic music tastes...)

This is HUGE news, that was reported right before Thanksgiving. I just looked online and, sure enough, all the grants that our PhD students normally apply for are not accepting applications this cycle. Maybe they will come back, maybe they won't. But right now, this is a devastating set back.

I'm looking for new PhD students interested in areas including: the work required by practitioners to address social values/ethics in tech design; tech non-use & refusal; tech and urban transit; or tech worker histories. More info about our work: ethicsinfrastructures.lmc.gatech.edu/2024/10/26/a...

I've updated my guide for prospective PhD students interested in working with me, for the Fall 2025 application cycle (to start in the 2026-2027 school year)! ethicsinfrastructures.lmc.gatech.edu/2024/10/26/a...

Re-sharing the thread of Digital Media assistant professor positions we're hiring for at Georgia Tech! (Oct 27 deadline). We're very interdisciplinary, though the "Digital Representations" call focuses more on STS & design research; the "Media Studies" position has a more (new) media studies focus.

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

Come work with us at Georgia Tech! We're hiring assistant professors in multiple areas! (Oct 27 deadline). There's 2 within the Digital Media program: 1) Assistant Professor of Digital Media: Digital Representation in Science and Technology Studies: careers.hprod.onehcm.usg.edu/psc/careers/...

New paper out! "Towards Creating Infrastructures for Values and Ethics Work in the Production of Software Technologies," which I'll be presenting this week at the decennial Aarhus conference. Free/open access version: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

I had the privilege of hosting @inhacha.bsky.social this summer at the Digital Life Initiative at Cornell, where she led amazing work unpacking "AI Sovereignty" with me & @richmondywong.bsky.social. Her work connects the local to the global in such an inspiring way. Look out for a preprint soon!

Is it just me, or did the Outlook Web App get rid of the "flagged messages" shortcut? (Annoying not to be able to easily find all the things I've recently marked for follow up!)

If you're attending #DIS2025 there's still time to submit a short position paper to our workshop on "Expanding Historical Approaches to Speculative Design" by tomorrow! See our website for more details: sites.google.com/view/histori...

In my Spotify Daylist today - thanks Spotify algorithm, I think I needed this grounding this week. open.spotify.com/track/1ejPv1...

Like, it's literally their building.

We're organizing a #CSCW2025 workshop exploring oppositional responses to AI (actions that attempt to resist, not use, oppose, or even destroy AI). We seek participants who study such responses and/or engage in them. See our call for participation here: oppositiontoai.wordpress.com

Power outage while staying at a hotel! (Wish that I had brought my backpack that had a flashlight in it! Maybe I should throw a flashlight into all my backpacks…)

If you want to see the planned impact on science with the proposed National Science Foundation cuts, this table in particular demonstrates it most devastatingly. Going from 330,000 people to 90,000 people involved in NSF activities. #SaveNSF From: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

It was lovely to spend a couple days at #PLSC this year with other privacy scholars, getting to think a bunch about privacy, AI, governance, and design!

When everyone's using AI...why are some UX practitioners choosing not to? @inhacha.bsky.social wrote a blog post summarizing our project that she led, studying how UX practitioners negotiate the limits and social values of AI use in their work: ethicsinfrastructures.lmc.gatech.edu/2025/05/26/p...

If you're attending ACM #DIS2025, consider applying to our workshop on Expanding Historical Approaches to Speculative Design! We welcome participation from folks interested in history, design, and speculation. Short position papers due June 13, more info here: sites.google.com/view/histori...

If you think COVID vaccines should continue to be available to all: take 5 min and add your comments at the link below. (Advice for what to say in the linked thread.)

Apparently my go to writing background music this week is a set of live concert recordings for Huey Lewis and the News, and Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons

In honor of today being National Train Day, let's get rail transit access on the Atlanta Beltline! beltlinerailnow.com @beltlinerailnow.bsky.social

The never before released 1983 Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends pilot episode was restored and released publicly today for the franchise’s 80th anniversary! (It’s also the first official footage with models released since 2008!) What a great love letter to the fans. youtu.be/esi1J2Q_WVM?...

Does not seem like good news for maintaining or broadening US funding of scientific research www.science.org/content/arti...

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Never have I been so happy to realize that a deadline that I wrote down in my planner as May 9 is actually on May 19!!

Hot off the #CSCW2025 press! Our paper led by Pooja Casula examines how voting-age Gen Z women perceive spaces of political discourse on social media, and how that affects their decisions to engage in (and often disengage from) those spaces. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... (free open access!)

If you missed @inhacha.bsky.social's #CHI2025 talk on our paper about AI non-use practices among UX professionals, you can read it here (with free open access!): doi.org/10.1145/3706...

It would be nice if people remembered to say their name and affiliation when they ask questions at #CHI2025 (if they feel comfortable doing so)! It’s a norm we’ve lost during Covid, and I want to know who the people are who are asking these cool insightful questions!!

Looking forward to attending #CHI2025 where @inhacha.bsky.social will present our work studying AI non-use practices among UX professionals! programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...

The feeling when you have an open middle seat but then the person on the other side invites their friend to move and fill the middle. (At least they’re happy and someone in another row now gets an open middle, so I think I just get the short end of the stick for the utilitarian greater good)

An ode to the internet and web design practices of 2000! youtu.be/2z7kVH9xePM?...

Passenger rail used to have decent bipartisan support in the US, not so much these days it seems. www.trains.com/trn/news-rev...

Read this right now www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Sitting on a plane in the row behind first class has got to be the hardest! I can see and smell the meals that they get, while I sit here snacking on my overpriced airport Hudson News trail mix

Effects of a looking trade war on the everyday mundane: Just got an email from a (US based!) model train supplier/manufacturer I order from that their prices will increase due to tariffs starting in the next few days.

Submit to the 👥 Doctoral Consortium 📚 for #CSCW2025! 📆 Deadline: May 9th, 23:59 AOE. 📍 The DC will on October 19th in Bergen, Norway. The DC provides a forum for promising PhD students to present and develop their dissertation research. More details at the link below ⤵️ cscw.acm.org/2025/index.p...

The mass firing of the federal tech workers at 18F is already being subsumed by fresh hells. But it's important that we take a beat to understand what just happened—that elimination of 18F is one of DOGE's most extreme political acts yet. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-mass-f...

Gutting 18F will make pave the way for private contractors, many aligned with Musk, to fill the gap that DOGE has created, but at a much inflated cost. From Dan Tangherlini, former GSA Administrator who oversaw 18F.

"downsizes" is a weak way of saying "forced to cancel dozens of programs, which jeopardizes future STEM careers of talented undergrads" @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

18F has long been an example I’ve given to students of job pathways beyond the private sector where they can use the tech design and UX skills from class

18F, a digital services unit inside the General Services Administration, has been completely laid off, according to an email I’ve seen. The email says that 18F was deemed “non-critical” and the decision was made with the “explicit” direction of the administration and GSA leadership.

Another extraordinary exchange just now about "animus" in the court hearing on trasngender members of the military: