Nazanin Andalibi

Currently on my way to Australia for the first time! 🐨 🦘 🇦🇺

@naz-andalibi.bsky.social and I will be at Monash University to visit @snapdragoness.itch.io and her lab, and we'll both be giving talks there this Thursday morning.

If you're in or near Stockholm, please consider attending this upcoming workshop that @naz-andalibi.bsky.social and I are co-organizing!

sign-up link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Designing Care, Refusing Harm: Feminist Red and Green Lines for AI in Gendered Health

Can queer and trans folks trust AI? Artificial intelligence’s need to categorize the world may be the root of distrust among LGBTQ+ people.

My research featured in @advocate.com “People who don’t fit into these standard boxes in terms of gender or race are going to be skeptical of a technology that’s forcing everything into boxes.”

w/ @mayworms.info, @shoreingber.bsky.social, @naz-andalibi.bsky.social

www.advocate.com/technology/c...

Our new piece about how AI misinformation can impact medical care: "Beyond Autonomy: A Plastic Surgeon's Responsibility in the Face of AI-Driven Misinformation." Led by Pranav Rajaram, w @meglane.bsky.social, @naz-andalibi.bsky.social, Rachel Hooper, Hannes Prescher

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AI disproportionately discriminates against trans people. It doesn't have to be this way. - LGBTQ Nation Trans people could experience tremendous benefits from AI if we worked to solve this problem.

new LGBTQ Nation article by @faefyx.bsky.social featuring research by me (w/ @mayworms.info, @shoreingber.bsky.social, @naz-andalibi.bsky.social)

"Not everyone wants to use [AI] – [yet] they are often required to use it without meaningful consent."

www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/12/ai-d...

Art

‘Atoms for Algorithms:’ The Trump Administration’s Top Nuclear Scientists Think AI Can Replace Humans in Power Plants A presentation at the International Atomic Energy Agency unveiled Big Tech’s vision of an AI and nuclear fueled future.

A presentation at the International Atomic Energy Agency unveiled Big Tech’s vision of an AI and nuclear fueled future.

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Postdoctoral Research Opportunity – Global LLM Values Benchmarking Working Group: Postdoctoral Affairs - Northwestern University

🚨 Postdoc opening -- Come work with us at Northwestern! 🚨 This position is to work on evaluating LLMs for sociopolitical value expression: postdocs.northwestern.edu/announcement... -- Please share!

Despite vendors’ claims, AI admissions defy holistic review principles, hindering rather than facilitating efforts toward diversity, equity, and inclusion. But I guess that is not a thing anymore? And we outline other harms to applicants including privacy, emotional harms, and more.

@cassidypyle.bsky.social and I have a recent #CSCW2025 paper in which we show just how far applicants' experiences and perspectives are from what these services and supporters claim. Open access here: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

What healthcare marketers need to know about Meta’s censoring of abortion ads The tech giant has been found to censor specific healthcare ads that touch on women’s health topics.

“We reached out to Meta and came to the conclusion that almost none of the content that was reported to us actually violated their community standards,” EFF’s Lisa Femia told Medical Marketing + Media Magazine of our #StopCensoringAbortion project. www.mmm-online.com/news/meta-c...

Three smiling people (l-r: Dr. Nazanin Andalibi, Alice Ross (me!) and Dr. Oliver Haimson) standing in front of a colourful screen displaying the title 'Panel Discussion'

A photo of buildings at George Square, The University of Edinburgh, with text overlaid on a bright green background. The text is the title of last week's event, Gender and the Machine: Trans Tech, Emotion and AI

Such an inspiring, powerful event! Huge thanks: @naz-andalibi.bsky.social @haimson.bsky.social for their brilliant talks & sharing insights with me in the panel chat, @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social @kevinguyan.bsky.social @sj-bennett.bsky.social for putting it all together, & to everyone who attended!

A poster for the Gender and the Machine event on 20 November 2025.

Just a few tickets left for tomorrow's GENDER AND THE MACHINE event! 🔥

Join us to explore entanglements of gender, marginalisation and emotion across tech and AI.

🗓️ 20 Nov 2025
📍 Edinburgh
👋 All welcome

With @haimson.bsky.social, @naz-andalibi.bsky.social

🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...

Painting of a sitting fox facing left looking right with a butterfly balanced on its nose and another flying to the left, all against a gold background

The artwork of Jackie Morris, Wales based award-winning writer, artist and illustrator #womensart

Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing Remember when you thought age verification laws couldn't get any worse? Well, lawmakers in Wisconsin, Michigan, and beyond are about to blow you away.It's unfortunately no longer enough to force

As age verification laws proliferate around the world, people have predictably turned to VPNs to protect their privacy. Instead of taking this as a sign that surveillance isn't popular, lawmakers have decided they might as well ban VPNs altogether. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Preprint w/ (rapid) analysis of Grokipedia, showing it to be “highly derivative of Wikipedia”, but differing, often on controversial topics, in that Grokipedia includes content/cites from low quality (hyper partisan & conspiracy laden) sources like Stormfront & Infowars. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.09685

Asking ChatGPT About Affairs or Abortion? Be Careful, Marketers Are Peeking at Your Prompts Browser extensions are potentially funneling your most personal queries to a company selling market insights about chatbot activity.

"The questions people ask chatbots can reveal exceptionally sensitive information" about things like their health, finances, and relationships, EFF’s Lena Cohen told @pcmag.com. “People deserve meaningful control over who can access these AI prompts.”

Gender and the Machine: Trans Tech, Emotion and AI Join us for this afternoon of events discussing gender, marginalisation and emotion in AI and digital technologies

Heading to Edinburgh next week for this exciting event on 🤖🏳️‍⚧️Gender and the Machine🧟‍♀️🧑‍💻, where @naz-andalibi.bsky.social and I will be talking about our research!

Thanks to @sj-bennett.bsky.social and @kevinguyan.bsky.social for organizing!

Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...

No kidding

“Let’s see just how much pain you can endure, and then some more” is a common lived experience of women’s bodies. It’s “normal,” don’t worry.

DOGE and others in the administration want to build a giant database of records by haphazardly combining info the government collected for one purpose, like paying taxes, and use it for another purpose, like targeting immigrants. We can't let this happen. takebackctrl.org/get-a-warrant

Gender and the Machine: Trans Tech, Emotion and AI Join us for this afternoon of events discussing gender, marginalisation and emotion in AI and digital technologies

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...

Flock haters cross political divides to remove error-prone cameras Lawmakers’ calls for Flock probe may help kill local contracts, expert says.

“When people understand that Flock data can be used to track them exercising reproductive freedom or to facilitate federal immigration enforcement, the calculus around ‘public safety’ technology changes entirely,” EFF’s @tsnvaa.bsky.social told @ArsTechnica.com. arstechnica.com/tech-policy...

Gender and the Machine: Trans Tech, Emotion and AI Join us for this afternoon of events discussing gender, marginalisation and emotion in AI and digital technologies

🗣️ 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...

Event poster for Gender and the Machine.

Event poster for Gender and the Machine.

📢 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

Gender and the Machine: Trans Tech, Emotion and AI Join us for this afternoon of events discussing gender, marginalisation and emotion in AI and digital technologies

✨📣 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

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Tucson PD used border security money for controversial surveillance software Tucson police Cobwebs surveillance tool funded by border security raises privacy concerns among Arizona lawmakers

“The advertising industry has created a massive surveillance machine that can be co-opted by law enforcement, bad actors and anyone willing to pay,” EFF’s Lena Cohen told @AZMirror.com. azmirror.com/2025/10/29/...

DHS Ordered OpenAI To Share User Data In First Known Warrant For ChatGPT Prompts Filed by child exploitation investigators with the DHS, the warrant reveals the government can ask OpenAI to provide information on anyone who enters specific prompts.

A DHS warrant seeking ChatGPT user prompts “means it’s more important than ever for OpenAI and other AI companies to think about how to limit the amount of data they collect on their users,” EFF’s @jenlynch.bsky.social told @Forbes.com.
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