Find us today at the MIT @medialab.bsky.social — and at Northeastern tomorrow and Sunday — during #infoplus2025 with the latest books on data visualization and design. Looking forward to presentations by authors @kanarinka.bsky.social, @laurenfklein.bsky.social, @dietoff.bsky.social, and others!

THIS WEDNESDAY NOV 12TH 8:30AM ET: Feminist AI - Frameworks, Practices, Refusals Join us for what promises to be a great transnational feminist dialogue around feminist approaches to AI. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🗣️ 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...

Public Data Cultures is out today on @politybooks.bsky.social! 📗🎊 jonathangray.org/2025/10/23/p... It aims to nurture critical and creative engagements with public data as cultural material, medium of participation and as site of transnational politics. Happy to see it out in the world! 🦔🌌💜

Data Feminism -- @kanarinka.bsky.social @laurenfklein.bsky.social Data Feminism is the best introduction to issues of justice and data science. I assign chapters of this book in every course I teach. This book lays bare how some data-driven systems empower people and others oppress.

Trans data epistemologies: Transgender ways of knowing with data by @drnikko.bsky.social and @ameliadogan.bsky.social in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

I’m so proud to be part of this paper and this team of researchers!

Check out the fantastic information design and data visualization workshops at Info+ coming up on Nov 14th - h/t @rahulbot.bsky.social submissions.infoplus.team/event/9/cont...

We have a great event coming up on Nov. 12 to discuss possibilities for and examples of Feminist AI —join us! bit.ly/DCFNOV2025 #DataAgainstFeminicide #FAIR @kanarinka.bsky.social @ladelentes.bsky.social @silvanavf.bsky.social

Artists Plan Nationwide Protests Against ‘Authoritarian Forces’ “An urgent call to the arts community to unite in defiance of authoritarian forces sweeping the nation." "Fall of Freedom" protests on the weekend of Nov. 21. Organizers include visual artist Dread Scott and playwright Lynn Nottage.

Solidarity and collective action is always the answer.

I am proud of MIT, where our branch of AAUP has voted unanimously to endorse this statement urging MIT leadership and the MIT Corporation to reject the Compact wholesale docs.google.com/document/d/1...

So proud to see my friend @kanarinka.bsky.social quoted in The Boston Globe about how this egregious new college "compact" goes against everyone and every thing that higher education stands for: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/04/b...

Incl. @kanarinka.bsky.social and yrs truly!

DataBasic.io is 10 years old! Our self-service activities and tools for data literacy helped launch me down the road to my "Community Data" book, and was one of my first projects with @kanarinka.bsky.social. Happy to report the site is working again, and the two of us still collaborate.

Q. Who aligns the aligners? A. alignmentalignment.ai Today I’m humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.

We used to think technology was inherently liberatory. Now it’s empowering corporations and conmen, writes @ethanz.bsky.social.

¿Qué rol podría jugar la inteligencia artificial en la lucha contra la violencia de género? RIAF me invitó a compartir nuevo proyecto de #DatosContraFeminicidio y DISCO Lab, que explora la cobertura periodística de casos de feminicidio y el desarrollo de IA. ¡Sumate! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Make no mistake, academia in the US is under siege. Go read @kanarinka.bsky.social's excellent essay on how "US universities can survive under state terrorism". Don't let the attacks isolate you. Keep building networks of resistance and resilience. academeblog.org/2025/08/05/h...

📣 In this short essay, I describe how actions of the current administration constitute ➡️ state terrorism ⬅️ and outline how US universities (and professors and students and staff) can survive state terrorism, as people before us have survived. academeblog.org/2025/08/05/h...

New on Academe Blog: academeblog.org/2025/08/05/h...

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The deadline to propose a session/workshop/panel/paper for the Computation + Journalism symposium cplusj2025.com is Sep. 7 cplusj2025.com/submissions/ If accepted, registration will be waived and we can offer a stipend to help with travel expenses. To submit: cplusj2025.com/submissions/

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

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.

Join us to celebrate five years of #DataAgainstFeminicide & launch the Swahili version of our tools, co-designed w/ Femicide Count – Kenya 🗓️ Aug 14, 2025 🕚 11AM EDT | 12PM ARG/BRA | 6PM EAT 🌍 In English w/ live interpretation to Spanish, Portuguese, & Swahili Register: mit.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

On December 11-12 we're hosting the Computation +Journalism Symposium 2025 in Miami cplusj2025.com You can submit a workshop, a talk, a panel, or a short paper (a small stipend to help with travel expenses can be available): cplusj2025.com/submissions/ #dataJournalism #dataVisualization #dataViz 📊

The AI debate is following a problematic pattern of technological inevitability. Because it is technically possible, we jump to the conclusion it is inevitable—and desirable, writes @ethanz.bsky.social. www.prospectmagazine...

Este año celebramos cinco años del proyecto #DatosContraFeminicidio y marcamos este hito reflexionando sobre los resultados y aprendizajes e inaugurando la versión swahili de las herramientas. ¡Acompañanos! 🗓️14 de agosto, 2025 🕕11AM EDT | 12PM ARG/BRA | 3PM BST | 6PM EAT mit.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

For the past couple months we’ve been experiencing restrictions on instagram. Feel free to share any of these graphics on IG and tag our account! This may help relieve the shadowban Dawa’eh | Thank You

Read our new blog on why Shadowbans are dangerous 👇🏽 medium.com/@iwrising/iw...

Delighted to facilitate this conversation about the way intersectional inequality, technology, and politics intersect with @moyazb.bsky.social and @ninajankowicz.com for @signsjournal.org. Critically important for all of us.

Join 31 Nobel Laureates & 400+ academics condemning modern fascism and advocating for democracy, academic freedom, and human rights. The letter marks the 100th anniversary of the 1925 Letter of the Anti-Fascist Intellectuals, published in Italy after Mussolini had seized power. stopreturnfascism.org

Amazing to see our project, #DataAgainstFeminicide, receive an Honorary Mention for the European Commission's 2025 S+T+ARTS Prize, recognizing innovation in tech + society + arts @ladelentes.bsky.social @silvanavf.bsky.social @kanarinka.bsky.social: starts-prize.aec.at/en/data-agai...

Ahead of Trump's inauguration, I spoke to @davidenrich.bsky.social about how nonprofit news outlets are bracing for legal harassment by far-right bad actors. We persisted anyway, and the first part of our three-year investigation is now available at @thexylom.com. Give this important story a read:

Congratulations to Catherine D'Ignazio (@kanarinka.bsky.social), who has received an honorable mention for the Rachel Carson prize for her book, "Counting Feminicide." And an additional congrats to @ucpress.bsky.social winner Emily Yates-Doerr! @4sweb.bsky.social

Counting Feminicide received an honorable mention for the Rachel Carson prize from @4sweb.bsky.social - thank you! And congrats to Emily Yates-Doerr who won for her book Mal-Nutrition. 4sonline.org/2025_emily_y... cc @mitpress.bsky.social

The InfoPlus Conference is coming to Boston!! We are accepting submissions of presentations, exhibitions, and workshops. Deadline - May 23rd

🎉🎉 I am so thrilled about this recognition especially at a time when research about gender justice, racial justice and environmental justice is being attacked, repressed and defunded. Nevertheless, we stay the course and we can do it with joy, humor, and collective care.

Meredith D. Clark, Jo Freeman, @smosaidso.bsky.social, and Carmen Perez-Jordan discuss Loretta J. Ross's Calling In! The latest Short Takes offers diverse perspectives on the movement-building strategies necessary for this moment. Check it out, free!

Big day for oral arguments in the Trump pushback cases. AAUP v. Rubio at 10am, Perkins Coie at 11am, and WilmerHale at 2pm.

New on the CLaSP blog: 'Race, Profit, and Algorithms', @wonyoungso.bsky.social details his research on iBuyers, a new class of real estate actors generating profits in racialized housing markets www.claspblog.org/blogposts/ra...

Join me and many others for important conversations on Gender and AI next week - more necessary and urgent now than ever! www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2025-g...

En este último par de días tuve el placer de ver a mis colegas/amigas @kanarinka.bsky.social y @ladelentes.bsky.social para compartir nuestro trabajo de #datoscontrafeminicidio en el marco de @khipu-ai.bsky.social Pensando como seguir avanzando con nuestro trabajo en este contexto tan desafiante!

You can't miss the "Women in AI" event, today at 10am. It's a joint initiative with #WiML ! With @kanarinka.bsky.social and @ivanafeld.bsky.social ! You can also follow it live at khipu.ai/live

Register now! Women in Data Science conf at @uarizona.bsky.social on March 28 (hybrid, UA campus). Our keynote speaker this year will be Dr. Catherine D'Ignazio @kanarinka.bsky.social (co-author of Data Feminism w/ Dr. @laurenfklein.bsky.social). Join us! wids-tucson.github.io/conf2025.html

📍El viernes 14 de marzo tendrá lugar el evento Mujeres en IA en #KHIPU2025. Tendremos el placer de tener como oradoras principales a @kanarinka.bsky.social e @ivanafeld.bsky.social. Es una actividad abierta al público, pero requiere inscripción: khipu.ai/khipu2025/wo.... ¡Esperamos verte allí!

This may be the worst data visualization I have ever seen. Read below for some hot takes about this shit dataviz by the super transphobic @nytimes.com