Also finished Trans Technologies by @haimson.bsky.social (2025). Not a trans history book, but relevant for a peripheral argument I’m making in my comps exam. That said, incredibly cool to have a book that provides perhaps the most comprehensive list of trans technologies.

🛎️ New paper alert! 🛎️ Recently, @naz-andalibi.bsky.social and I realized that there was not an existing scale for personal algorithmic harm - so we decided to develop one ourselves! The paper is now accepted for publication in ACM Journal on Responsible Computing. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Development and Validation of the Perceived Personal Algorithmic Harms Scale: Algorithmic Stigma, Algorithmic Privacy Harms, Tangible Algorithmic Harms, and Race, Gender, and Disability Differences | ...

Algorithmic systems, including those using AI techniques, are increasingly deployed across domains from healthcare to law enforcement. Despite promises of societal good, these systems can inflict real...

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I completely missed posting this during June, but thanks to @acm.org and ACM Digital Library for highlighting some of our research for Pride Month! 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ www.acm.org/diversity-in... www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-d...

Celebrate Pride Month 2026 with ACM

This Pride Month, ACM is celebrating the contributions and innovations of LGBTQ+ computing researchers. Selected research articles will be featured throughout June, exploring the intersection of techn...

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Tomorrow (Tuesday) morning at #DIS2026 I'll be presenting our work on "Queer Zineographies: Materializing Tactics for Resisting AI and Data Systems" - a paper led by Alexandra (Allie) Teixeira Riggs and with an amazing team of researchers! read the pictorial here: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Monday morning @ #DIS2026 in the Intimate Data, Consent, & Harm session, Aloe DeGuia presents our paper: "Bridging Trans Community Knowledge with Verified Information: Design Considerations for Patient-Surgeon Digital Communication Platforms for Gender-Affirming Surgery" dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Bridging Trans Community Knowledge with Verified Information: Design Considerations for Patient-Surgeon Digital Communication Platforms for Gender-Affirming Surgery | Proceedings of the 2026 Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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I'm looking for a new PhD student to come join me at UAlberta & Amii to study trans perspectives on AI policy & the future of AI as part of my new lab. The position is fully funded and offers access to a range of supports - more details in the poster below!

Next week I'm speaking as part of this Bergen Pride event on Queer Games and AI Resistance. Looking forward to being in conversation with co-panelists Daniella Gati and Joakim Johansen Østbye. Thanks to @jilltxt.bsky.social for the invitation! www4.uib.no/en/research/...

At 18:30-21:00 on June 2 at Pride House (Kvarteret) in Bergen you can hear Daniella Gáti who's writing a book, "A Queer Theory of AI and Algorithmic Knowledge", Joakim Johansen Østbye, an expert on queer gaming and Oliver Haimsaon, whose book Trans Technologies came out last year. Plus free food!!!

On June 2, CDN and Bergen Pride invite you to an evening of Queer Games and AI Resistance featuring talks by Daniella Gáti, Oliver Haimson, Joakim Johansen Østbye and CDN scholars Sérgio Roxo and Tom Legierse, with Lin Prøitz as moderator. www4.uib.no/en/research/...

And also this pictorial at #DIS2026, led by Allie Teixeira Riggs and Louie Søs Meyer and co-authored with a long list of amazing queer HCI scholars including @magpiecircuits.bsky.social, @jordant.bsky.social, @caitielustig.bsky.social, and many more! link: deepblue.lib.umich.edu/items/8fb952...

Excited to have a paper accepted for #DIS2026 next month! led by Aloe DeGuia (her first first-authored paper 🤩!) and co-authored with @sociologymary.bsky.social, Tee Chuanromanee, Gaines Blasdel, @julesmadzia.bsky.social, and @meglane.bsky.social deepblue.lib.umich.edu/items/5a1c02...

So glad I got the chance to collaborate with @cal-liang.bsky.social, @katbamkapow.bsky.social, & @karmacap.bsky.social on this #CHI2026 paper! We brought together our experiences working with community advisory boards on three different tech design research projects. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Go Denny Starks! They just presented our paper (with Aloe Deguia, Tawanna Dillahunt, and @haimson.bsky.social), Safety With Community: Technologies of Care, Connection, Collective Safety, and Mutual Aid for Transgender Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (TBIPOC) at #CHI2026 in Barcelona.

Go Denny Starks AGAIN! They just presented our paper (with Aloe Deguia, Tawanna Dillahunt, and @haimson.bsky.social), Navigating Safety and Technology: The Everyday Safety Labor of Transgender Black, Indigenous, and People of Color in the United States at #CHI2026 in Barcelona.

This morning is the BIPOC Sovereignty and Care session at #CHI2026! My PhD advisee Denny Starks will be presenting two papers, both co-authored by @hibbythach.com, Aloe DeGuia, and Tawanna Dillahunt: links to the two papers: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Safety With Community: Technologies of Care, Connection, Collective Safety, and Mutual Aid for Transgender Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (TBIPOC) | Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on H...

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I had the pleasure of presenting my co-authors (Sena Kojah, @haimson.bsky.social, and @michaelannephd.bsky.social) and I’s paper, The Burden of Bearing Witness: Digital Practices of Marginalized Social Media Users in High-Stakes Contexts at #CHI2026 in Barcelona.

This morning at #CHI2026, @hibbythach.com will be presenting our paper "The Burden of Bearing Witness: Digital Practices of Marginalized Social Media Users in High-Stakes Contexts," led by Senami Kojah and co-authored with @michaelannephd.bsky.social. paper link: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

The Burden of Bearing Witness: Digital Practices of Marginalized Social Media Users in High-Stakes Contexts | Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Spotted my PhD advisees @hibbythach.com and Denny Starks hard at work at the #CHI2026 conference hotel 💻💻

Tomorrow, UMSI alumnus Ben Zhang will be celebrated at #CHI2026 for earning an Outstanding Dissertation Award! “UMSI prepared me not only as a researcher, but also as a teacher, mentor and contributor to academic service,” he says. Read about his dissertation: www.si.umich.edu/about-umsi/n...

UMSI alumnus Ben Zhang earns 2026 ACM SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award | umsi

Zhang’s dissertation examines the labor, institutions and data infrastructures that shape AI systems.

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WHEW! Exhausted, but feel like I nailed our talk on #agender euphoria in #games. #CHI2026

Can't wait to celebrate my first graduated PhD advisee @bzfzhang.bsky.social at @chi.acm.org this week on winning a 2026 ACM SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award!

Oliver Haimson@haimson.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Truly so happy for my now-graduated PhD advisee @bzfzhang.bsky.social (co-advised by @michaelannephd.bsky.social) for receiving a 2026 ACM SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award! So proud of you, Ben, and honored to have been your advisor 🤩 medium.com/sigchi/2026-...

The ACM CHI 2026 paper program is live on the ACM Digital Library, so please enjoy all the new 1702 pieces of science that #CHI2026 has for you: dl.acm.org/doi/proceedi... (cc @acm_chi ). p.s.: You can read our welcome message at dl.acm.org/action/showF...

Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | ACM Conferences

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Here's a collection of trans/queer focused papers at #CHI2026! 🌈🏳️‍⚧️📝 padlet.com/haimson/chi2...

trans/queer CHI 2026!

a guide to trans and queer-focused papers etc. at CHI 2026! feel free to add your paper if I missed it :)

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If you're interested in my weird brand of blog posts that analyze academic data in strange ways, I got another one for you! the tldr: It turns out that my lucky numbers are lucky - my papers with lucky submission ID numbers are actually more likely to be accepted. medium.com/p/a92c71ecd5...

What if lucky numbers are correlated with paper acceptances?

One researcher’s journey into the collision of statistics and numerology

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@hibbythach.com and I have a chapter in this new book "Epistemic Genres: New Formations of Play" - our chapter is "The Trans Game Genre: Sometimes Queer, Always Trans" 🎮 🏳️‍⚧️ (book is expensive but hopefully avail. in libraries; if you can't access, get in touch!) www.bloomsbury.com/us/epistemic...

Epistemic Genres

This anthology brings together scholars from around the world to theorize and explore “epistemic genres” of digital games, which are defined by the social uses…

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Looking forward to #CHI2026 coming up soon in Barcelona! Extremely proud of my PhD advisees Denny Starks and Senami Kojah whose first-authored papers were accepted 🤩 Here are our group's four papers this year:

Study from @haimson.bsky.social et al. found transgender, nonbinary and disabled people are more negative to AI. doi.org/10.1145/3715... Perhaps because of AI's tendency to want fixed categories, Haimson says in this new article about it: www.advocate.com/technology/c...

Tomorrow at Victorian Pride Centre! This is going to be a fun conversation with @snapdragoness.itch.io 🏳️‍⚧️ 🎮 📱 🌈 RSVP: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/trans-tech...

Tomorrow (Fri, 27 Feb) @haimson.bsky.social and I will give short talks on our work on trans technology, design, and euphoria at the Victorian Pride Centre at 10:30. If you're in the area and interested, we'd love to see you! #trans #queer #hci Sign up: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/trans-tech...

Trans technologies: A discussion

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