Labor + Tech | Currently @techequity.bsky.social | Formerly Coworker(.)org, Coworker Solidarity Fund, Change(.)org, International Labor Rights Forum
Technology + democracy.
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public interest technologist // luddite hacker.
information science phd at cornell tech.
inequality, ai, and the information ecosystem.
🤠 traeve.com 🤠
Social Justice and Technology Postdoc at Swarthmore College; freshly minted PhD from University of Michigan School of Info. Educating, agitating, organizing in tech-ademia.
assistant professor in information, university of michigan. i have big intellectual feelings about language and technology.
https://tisjune.github.io/
she/her
anthropologist [no longer] yelling at engineers. feral.
signal -> @ali.01
Asst. Professor of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh • Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute • Researching technology design & innovation labor: robots, hype, AI, trash, DIY, repair • 🤖+🚮
Dr. Katie Seaborn directs the Aspirational Computing Lab @ Science Tokyo. Incoming Associate Professor, University of Cambridge (from February 2026). #hci #criticalcomputing #intersectionaldesign #dpsky #ダークパターン #voiceux #theideanetwork #igniteus
writer ethnographer Prof Umich Author of Prototype Nation: China & the Contested Promise of Innovation she/her
Critical histories and practices of automation and computing in design/architecture. Other stuff too. Associate Prof. @CarnegieMellon. Books: Builders of the Vision, Designing the Computational Image. http://www.dcardo.com
AI is not inevitable. We DAIR to imagine, build & use AI deliberately.
Website: http://dair-institute.org
Mastodon: @DAIR@dair-community.social
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dair-institute/
Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Work @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social
Editors: @jasminefolz.bsky.social
@letha-b.bsky.social @valuequestion.bsky.social
Writer. Design Researcher. Professor @NU_CAMD Type 1D. Design, Tech and Radical Futures. Noodle Fanatic, Laser Cut Fashionista and Latin Alternative Rocker.
Technology ethicist, dog haver, mountain dweller, forest critter, mover of heavy things. Writing a book about wildfire, AI, and Cali. Senior Researcher @ D&S @datasociety.bsky.social. Founder @ Ethical Resolve. Formerly @undersequioas in the Bad Place.
Assistant Prof. UPenn Annenberg, Mama, Researcher, Teacher, Writer - Labor, Tech, Women, Care.
Historian, opinions my own. Hand upon the dollar, eye upon the scale. He/him.
Professor of Law, University of CA, Irvine School of Law • Technology & Society • Work Law • Precarity
General Counsel AAUP
Sam's sister ❤️
Personal Account, Views My Own
Author of a growing pile of books (Solidarity; The Age of Insecurity; Remake the World; Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss it When It's Gone; The People's Platform), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope.
Futures of work. Writing, researching, teaching, lefting. Ruthless everything, existing. http://dmgreene.net
Asst Professor of Global development at Cornell University, book: Automation and the Future of Work with Verso. New articles on “beyond capitalism” in NLR and at my website. http://www.aaronbenanav.com
MUSKISM, co-authored with Quinn Slobodian, comes out in spring 2026: https://bookshop.org/p/books/muskism-a-guide-for-the-perplexed-ben-tarnoff/3d177fb9349a79ff
Hello, I’m from the labor movement. I co-founded Coworker and now I work at the Center for Labor and a Just Economy at Harvard Law School.
(She/Her)
historian of mind & media I book: The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy I Founding Editor of @parapraxismag.bsky.social
Wellcome's Early Career Award. CRASSH at the University of Cambridge.
assistant prof in computer science @ Bard College; opinions mine only
interested in everything to do with data work and data workers (esp w.r.t. ai) and old & aging computer systems
Sociologist of technology and science, empirical philosopher, creative methods
New Money: How Payment Became Social Media (Yale 2020) / Paid: Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff (MIT 2017) / Scams / Associate Professor UVA
Workers organize every day, I spread the news.
All election related DMs confidential.
He/Him.
https://linktr.ee/unionelections
(Anthropologist/Researcher of)Game Developer(s)
Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
The American Association of University Professors champions academic freedom, advances shared governance, and organizes faculty to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good.
aaup.org
just a digital trace | Asst Prof at UC San Diego, Comm & Data Science | opaque sociotechnical systems, power, and publics | ethnographer of computation & computational ethnographer | humanities of the digital & digital humanities | https://stu.lu | he/they
Associate Professor of Geography at University of Washington https://www.erinmcelroy.net; Anti-Eviction Mapping Project https://antievictionmap.com/; Silicon Valley Imperialism https://www.dukeupress.edu/silicon-valley-imperialism
Advocate and researcher focused on fighting corporate power and building workers’ technology rights. Fellow at OMI. Posts reflect my own views.
Head of English/Prof. of English & History@Carnegie Mellon. Knowledge-monger: clandestine print, weird data, book history, computational humanities, political thought. Author, Literature & the Law of Nations. 6 Degrees of Francis Bacon. Humanities for all.
Digital humanities, data science, AI, eating, professor of Data & Decision Science and English. Coauthor #DataFeminism w/ @kanarinka. PI #AIAInetwork. Views my own.
Hacker Mama/Artist/Designer/Coder/Writer/She/Ella Assoc Prof of Urban Science @MITdusp, Director, Data + Feminism Lab, Co-author #DataFeminism, hablo castellano
Historian of technology & dad joke aficionado who lived w/a great little gray rabbit until recently (RIP).
I won’t share AI generated content, except to critique it.
In person I’ll be wearing a KN95. If you care about me put one on too.
www.marhicks.com
queer crip in tech research, hearing sign language enthusiast
Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Assistant Prof @Northeastern | CMU HCII, Stanford SymSys alum | Racial Justice, Transformational Game Design, Identity, Critical Design, and Human-Computer Interaction | she/her | mixed | 🩷💜💙
Associate Prof, University of Michigan School of Information | she/her | emotion AI/privacy/justice/reproductive health and justice/endometriosis/social media| 🐕🦺mom | posts don’t represent employer
Climate/AI/labor/death researcher in Oakland. Luddite
I wrote a book about how techno-solutionism fails us in this life + beyond https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/
www.tamarakneese.com
Data & Society is a nonprofit research institute that studies the social implications of data-centric technologies, automation, and AI.
anthropology, algorithms, attention | he/him | The conversation is characterized by Nick's use of language, but the content of the discussion remains unknown.
AI accountability, audits & eval. Keen on participation & practical outcomes. CS PhDing @UCBerkeley.
Queer in AI 🏳️🌈 | postdoc at cmu HCII | ostem |william-agnew.com | views my own | he/they
assistant professor, @ltiatcmu.bsky.social. machine learning: LLMs and climate. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ they/them/dad (2 dogs).
pro-AI, anti-capitalist, anti-fascist.
Website: strubell.github.io
The Center for Democracy & Technology. Shaping technology policy and architecture, with a focus on equity and justice. @cdteu.org for our EU-based team.
https://cdt.org
Information Scientist. Professor at Michigan State. Gay shit, rural shit.
Professor, Faculty Director UCSD Labor Center, author Chasing Innovation and Redacted, co-founder and supporter of Turkopticon, ex-Google worker. These are my personal opinions, not those of my employer.
designer; researcher; professor.
Assistant Prof at Georgia Tech in Digital Media. Research at the intersection of tech ethics, human-computer interaction, and science & technology studies. Lover of design, trains, Star Trek 🖖and curling 🥌. (he/him)
Postdoc at MSR, soon a prof at UW HCDE, got my PhD at Cornell IS. I think about power, privacy, and participation in HCI, security and AI.
HCI research scientist @ Sony AI in Barcelona. ethical AI, identity, technological harm. Previous: CU Boulder, UMBC, Microsoft Research Fellow. posts my own.
https://www.morgan-klaus.com/
The AI Now Institute produces diagnosis and actionable policy research on artificial intelligence.
Find us at https://ainowinstitute.org/
Assistant Prof at UT Austin's iSchool.
Big Tech, political economy, AI hype, AI in War
trying to help computer ppl think more critically about computer, including me
exCornell/CMU/NASA/MSR/IntelLabs.
davidwidder.me
Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out from Yale UP in fall 2026. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
wrote OIL BEACH (Chicago)| LOW POWER TO THE PEOPLE (MIT) | HACKING DIVERSITY (PUP)
glooming in SoCal gloaming (but Minnesotan) | envirotech, media, infrastructure, dross | ✊🏻 #AAUP | personal acct. typos. posts ≠ endorsements | pfp/banner: oil extraction
PhD @ cmu hcii doing VR and Responsible AI things | Harvard Economics and CS | Designer reimagining how tech can empower communities through joy & agency
Data Worker | Organizer | School Board Trustee | Activist | Turkopticon | Knitter | Gardener | Canner | Michigander | She/Her
*All views and opinions expressed are my own*
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brooklhansen/
phd student @ uw hcde, recording secretary @ uaw 4121 // community-based research, higher ed labor, critical ed tech
she/they // joicetang.com
Associate Professor at University of Chicago, Computer Science. Runs the Human-Computer Integration Lab (https://lab.plopes.org) & also a musician.
PhD Student at UChicago in the Human Computer Integration Lab. she/her. ~Exploring alternative visions of the future with e-waste and computing~ https://jasminelu.site
CS prof at Haverford, Chair @acm.org U.S. tech policy, @brookings.edu nonres Senior Fellow, former White House OSTP tech policy, co-author AI Bill of Rights, research on AI and society, @facct.bsky.social co-founder
formerly @kdphd 🐦
sorelle.friedler.net
Sr. Principal Research Manager at Microsoft Research, NYC // Machine Learning, Responsible AI, Transparency, Intelligibility, Human-AI Interaction // WiML Co-founder // Former NeurIPS & current FAccT Program Co-chair // Brooklyn, NY // http://jennwv.com
Ph.D. @ CMU HCII. Developing tools and processes to support Responsible AI practices on the ground.
Currently focusing on AI red-teaming, auditing, and impact assessment.
Prev. Microsoft Research, Berkeley EECS.
https://www.wesleydeng.com
Associate Professor at UC Santa Cruz. Researching personal informatics in social contexts. Previously at IU Bloomington. Ph.D. from HCDE UW/DUB. Reading, traveling, and playing music.
http://cfchung.com
Professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington, co-Director of UW ALACRITY Center. Personal informatics & design of collaborative health interventions. Mountains, nature, & casual photography. Views my own. smunson.com
**On the job market!**
InfoSci PhD Candidate @ CU Boulder
MSR SMC '23; MSR TAIX '24
Community-based methods for tech accountability
Asst. Prof. @ ICatGT | Postdoc @ CMU Robotics Academy | Alum @ cmuhcii HeinzCollege LincolnUofPA | HCI, CS Ed & Learning Science Researcher
Dr. (the medically useless kind) | HCI + AI research scientist @Google | @Northwestern TSB | @Stanford STS | t1 diabetic | he/him | 🇨🇺🇩🇴🏳️🌈
Working on #NLProc for social good.
Currently at LTI at CMU. 🏳🌈
Presently PhD candidate studying tool-making for vis 📊 @hcii.cmu.edu. Prev: Adobe, Highsoft, Apple, Visa. Fall 2026: assistant prof @ Cal Poly.
Softer-ware (malleability), accessibility, data interaction.
Disabled & making a ttrpg.
www.frank.computer
hci+ai
co-founder/co-ceo @Across AI
prof @UC Berkeley
gif whisperer | 🐱🐱 mom
👩🏻🏫 niloufar.org
👩🏻💻 across.ai | https://bsky.app/profile/across-ai.bsky.social
Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, working on programming languages and software engineering. Coauthor, Programming Language Pragmatics (videos: https://tinyurl.com/PLP5vids). CTO of noteful.net ACM Publications Board member. He/him.
Professor of HCI - IST U. Lisbon
Father of 3, Madeiran, President iti.larsys.pt
Captain bauhaus-seas.eu
Interested in sustainable interaction design, human AI interaction and anything else that makes technology for social good.
Professor - Carnegie Mellon University - Human Computer Interaction
Ubiquitous Computing - Usable Privacy and Security - Responsible AI
Co-Founder - Wombat Security (acquired) - FuguUX
PhD student @ CMU HCII
I build systems that empower people to shape AI through collaborative, deliberative, and democratic processes.
https://tskuo.github.io
HCI / Interaction Design lecturer at @DesignInf.bsky.social, Edinburgh. designing methods and artefacts to promote discussion and reflection about technology. She/her.
Professor and Chair at @uw-hcde.bsky.social; Human-Computer Interaction researcher studying tech for health, education, & families; Academic mama. Views are my own.
UW HCDE: We build possibility.
We advance systems and technologies for people and communities to create accessible, sustainable, and prosperous futures. Offering undergraduate, master's, and PhD programs in Human Centered Design & Engineering.
hcde.uw.edu
She/her | CMU HCII PhD Student | Research Assistant @ Data & Society | Previously: UCI Informatics, Big Cartel Workers Union. Tech + Labor + Resistance. Views are my own. http://cella.io
Platform Cooperativism Consortium (PCC) at The New School:
Cooperative principles in the digital solidarity economy-- education, research, and community organizing. 🌲🌲
beacons.ai/platformcoop
platform.coop
platform.coop/events
platform.coop/voices/blog
The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
researching AI [evaluation, governance, accountability]
Visualization, data, AI/ML. Professor at CMU (@dig.cmu.edu, @hcii.cmu.edu) and researcher at Apple. Also sailboats ⛵️ and chocolate 🍫.
www.domoritz.de
faculty @ cmu
co-director @ dig.cmu.edu
Designer. Author. Neutral Good Gen Xer. San Franciscan in Pittsburgh. Keeper of the Saffervesence.
Bay Area native, proud PGH transplant. Pittsburgh reporter for Axios. Past: TribLive and Pittsburgh City Paper. Tips: ryan.deto@axios.com
Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
Professor of HCII and LTI at Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science.
jeffreybigham.com
HCI PhD @ CMU studying power of everyday people to resist harmful AI
also enjoys weaving, musicals, grammar, ice cream, libraries
--> all the other whatever at uhleeeeeeeshuh.com