From CITP postdoctoral researcher Marianne Aubin Le Quéré (@mariannealq.bsky.social) - "Do We Ban Social Media? Maybe Not" 👇 psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-... Aubin Le Quéré is an incoming faculty member at @uofillinois.bsky.social Urbana-Champaign.

Do We Ban Social Media? Maybe Not

We can put online users in the driver's seat instead.

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Huge congratulations to our postdoctoral research fellow, Samantha Dalal, on receiving the CRA Trustworthy AI Research Fellowship for Early Career Scholars! Learn more about the 2026–2027 fellows: cra.org/cra-trustwor...

CRA Trustworthy AI Research Fellowship for Early Career Scholars

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Are you a Bluesky user or developer? Princeton's HCI group is conducting an IRB-approved interview study on perspectives about generative AI (genAI) in decentralized social media. Participation includes: • 45–60 min Zoom interview • $30 USD digital gift card Signup: forms.gle/EDmcLnjbamtb...

Congrats to Varun Rao for defending his PhD dissertation, "Toward Human-Centered, Evidence-Based Policy on AI's Labor Impacts."👏 Not only is he the first PhD student I graduate, but probably the first in the field of HCI in Princeton’s 280-year-old history. citp.princeton.edu/events/2026/...

A new tool developed by Princeton researchers provides gig workers access to aggregate wage data that companies do not provide — a boon for rideshare labor advocates.

Princeton Engineering - New tool drives gig workers toward wage transparency

A new tool developed by Princeton researchers provides gig workers access to aggregate wage data that companies do not provide, a boon for rideshare labor

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Okay, so I'm two and a half weeks behind, but (ht @timothychambers.net ) this is fantastic and a reminder of why *protocols* matter so much over platforms, no matter what people say about any particular site or service.

Terry Godier@terrygodier.com · 3mo ago

📢 New Essay: The Boring Internet The internet you grew up on isn’t dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. www.terrygodier.com/the-borin…

Congrats to Julia Ying on completing her undergrad thesis and graduating! 🎉 Her thesis focused on a multi-registry system for decentralized discovery and curation, exploring new power dynamics and trust mechanisms in the OpenCourier protocols. Wishing her all the best for what's next!

Check our new work on OpenCourier — an open protocol for interoperable, worker-owned delivery platforms. By: Yuhan Liu, Varun Rao, @s0hw.bsky.social @cyberlyra.bsky.social and @andresmh.hci.social.ap.brid.gy Thanks to @pcc-global.bsky.social for amplifying it! platform.coop/blog/toward-...

Toward Worker-owned Delivery Platforms with the OpenCourier Protocol | Platform Cooperativism Consortium

The OpenCourier protocol opens up opportunities for delivery workers to own the platforms that manage their livelihoods. We introduce the protocol, welcoming contributors and comments.

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Thank you for the opportunity to talk about how Blacksky’s work is making the AT Protocol ecosystem more resilient and how we’re becoming a launch pad for new communities @andresmh.com @s0hw.bsky.social Shout out fellow panelists @masnick.com @lizbarry.cryptoanarchy.network Sujith -> great convo

Try the researcher-created social media feed curator app, Bonsai, right now on Bluesky 📲 getbonsai.org Read about the CITP team 👇

Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy @princetoncitp.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Read the story from @princeton.edu Computer Science: www.cs.princeton.edu/news/what-ha...

You can't DDoS the Fediverse! The Atmosphere really needs to invest in making it easier to set up a more diversified ecosystem.

If you're at #CHI26 like most of CITP this week, be sure to check out postdoctoral researcher Sohyeon Hwang's (@s0hw.bsky.social) presentation "Community Governance and Moderation" on Friday morning 🔻

sohyeon hwang@s0hw.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🏃‍♀️ homestretch! start your last day at #CHI2026 at the "Community Governance and Moderation" 9AM session tomorrow in Room 114 🤠 I'll be presenting our new work envisioning how we can make community-run social media more sustainable through a "community of communities": dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

📲 Researchers at @princetoncitp.bsky.social have created a social media tool that allows users to build their own social media feeds from scratch. Meet Bonsai. 🌳

Princeton Engineering - What happens when social media users take back control?

Social media feeds are populated by algorithms designed to keep users engaged. Now, researchers at Princeton are studying what happens when users can

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🏃‍♀️ homestretch! start your last day at #CHI2026 at the "Community Governance and Moderation" 9AM session tomorrow in Room 114 🤠 I'll be presenting our new work envisioning how we can make community-run social media more sustainable through a "community of communities": dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Governing Together: Toward Infrastructure for Community-Run Social Media | Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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What if you could have more agency over your social media feed? CITP researchers have built Bonsai to explore what happens when users can have that control. Try the app now on @bsky.app! getbonsai.org Team: @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social @andresmh.com @mariannealq.bsky.social Omar El Malki

Hey Bluesky friends, please check out and let us know what you think of 🌳 Bonsai, a new tool to create custom Bluesky feeds getbonsai.org Story: www.cs.princeton.edu/news/what-ha... Presented at #CHI2026 by @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social and @mariannealq.bsky.social

New in #TOCHI FairFare (arxiv.org/pdf/2502.11273) a crowdsourced data tool co-designed with a Colorado rideshare union to audit platform take rates from 76k+ rideshare trips. Authors: Dana Calacci, Varun Rao, Samantha Dalal, Kok-Wei Pua, Andrew Schwartz, Danny Spitzberg, Andrés Monroy-Hernández

Check out upcoming talks from @princetonhci.bsky.social at #CHI2026!

Participate in a fun study from one of our students that involves creating your own daily email digest to catch up on what happened on Bluesky!

Sandy Zhang@sandyzyn.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Bluesky Newsletter Study Running an up to 2-week study on how personalized email digests affect content discovery and engagement on Bluesky. 💰 $25/wk + $30 for a final interview ✅ Must be 18+, US-based, and have had a Bluesky account for 6+ weeks Interested? Reach out to: sz4476@princeton.edu

Thursday 3/5 at 2:00 - 3:00pm Claudia Lo of @wikimediafoundation.org will be a special guest at Professor Andrés Monroy-Hernández's (@andresmh.com) class 🔻 Open to Princeton U faculty, staff, and students. 📍Sherrerd Hall, 306

Is the only way we can create algorithms that people understand to make them trivially simple? We argue, no. People can predict the behavior of algorithms that are arbitrarily complex, if and only if they are available, compact and aligned. arxiv.org/abs/2601.18966

A fundamental challenge in human-robot interaction is that capabilities and limitations are often opaque to users. In our upcoming #HRI2026 paper, X-OOHRI, led by the brilliant Lauren Wang, we use AR to make robot capabilities and limits visible during object-oriented interactions 🤖

A new app developed at @princetoncitp.bsky.social allows researchers to construct a large-scale dataset that aggregates individual worker data across many thousands of rides to shed light on the working conditions of rideshare drivers.

Princeton Engineering - New tool drives gig workers toward wage transparency

A new tool developed by Princeton researchers provides gig workers access to aggregate wage data that companies do not provide, a boon for rideshare labor

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help spread the word about this campaign - or, if you're able, consider supporting yourself! Bonfire is building a modular toolkit for organizing, mutual aid, open science, and collective decision-making on the open social web. communities choose what gets built: www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/...

Bonfire: building blocks for communities on the open social web by Bonfire - Indiegogo

From platforms to communities: a federated social web with shared foundations and co‑created spaces for gathering, care, connection, and stewardship.

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CITP is hiring for the 2026 academic year. The list of advisors is now available on the CITP Blog: blog.citp.princeton.edu/2025/11/06/c... ▶️ Postdocs ▶️ Visiting Professor ▶️ Visiting Professional ▶️ Emerging Scholars

CITP Is Now Accepting Applications for the 2026–27 Fellows Program - CITP Blog

Applications are now open for Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) 2026-27 Fellows Program. Candidates are encouraged to apply by the start-of-review date of December...

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The DeCenter at Princeton is hiring a cohort of postdocs to work on decentralization of power through decentralization of trust. HCI folks encouraged to apply puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

We implemented Bonsai on Bluesky and conducted a two-phase, multi-week study with 15 participants. This deployment allowed us to observe how people used intentional feedbuilding in practice, and how it compared to their experiences with engagement-driven defaults.

In the ranking stage, Bonsai orders the curated content using criteria derived from the user’s stated intent—rather than predicted engagement—making the logic behind feed prioritization transparent and directly aligned with user goals.

In the curating stage, users can apply natural language prompts (e.g., “focus on recent policy updates” or “exclude promotional posts”) to filter and organize the sourced content, ensuring the feed reflects users' goals / preferences. Each prompt is fed into an LLM that individually ranks content.

In the sourcing stage, Bonsai gathers a wide pool of candidate posts aligned with user goals. Users can refine this stage by editing sources (adding or removing accounts, hashtags, or feeds) to shape where their feed draws content from.