We're hiring an Assistant Professor in @hcde.uw.edu! Looking forward to seeing your applications. Feel free to share widely!

Sean Munson@smunson.com · 3mo ago

We are hiring an assistant professor to join @hcde.uw.edu in Autumn 2027. We welcome applications in all areas, with a focus on: (1) Environment and sustainability; (2) Civic infrastructure and society; (3) Labor and the future of work. Learn more & apply: apply.interfolio.com/188238

It's UW's Husky Giving Day! Please consider supporting the incredible students of @hcde.uw.edu who are working hard to design technology that makes the world better. We have some ambitious goals this year. I hope you'll make a gift of any amount and spread the word! together.uw.edu/i/hgd/Campai...

Human Centered Design & Engineering

Human Centered Design & Engineering prepares students to design technologies, systems, and services that improve people’s lives.

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Great work by @nishadevasia.bsky.social for leading this systematic review on narrative based gaming interventions for mental health.

Nisha Devasia@nishadevasia.bsky.social · 6mo ago

No CHI for me this year, but my first ACM journal paper just came out! dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.... Anecdotally (and in research, e.g. Vakeva et al., 2025), players use narrative games to support their mental health. So what do bespokenly designed narrative games for mental health actually look like?

Excited to host @hcde.uw.edu alumna Nicole Washington this week, who is now a product designer at @xbox.com.

UW Human Centered Design & Engineering@hcde.uw.edu · 8mo ago

Join the HCDE UX Speaker Series Feb 12! Alumna Nicole Washington (BS ’20), Product Designer II at Xbox, shares candid advice on navigating early careers, from building confidence, growing your skills, collaborating across teams, and finding your voice at work. www.hcde.washington.edu/ux/2026/wash...

Join us on campus for the next HCDE UX Speaker Series talk this Thursday, Jan. 22 🎤 We’re excited to welcome Sena Janky, UX Manager at Fluke Corporation, for the talk “Designing Influence: UX Advocacy Across an Organization.” Free and open to the public. www.hcde.washington.edu/ux/2026/janky

Sena Janky: Jan. 22

Sena Janky, UX Manager, Fluke Corporation | January 22, 2026

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Congratulations @katestarbird.bsky.social! Super well-deserved.

UW Human Centered Design & Engineering@hcde.uw.edu · 9mo ago

HCDE Professor Kate Starbird has been named an ACM Fellow, one of the highest honors in computing. She's recognized for contributions to understanding and improving information ecosystems, including during crisis events and addressing misinformation. www.hcde.washington.edu/news/article...

#CHI2026 program is shaping up: here's the first glimpse at the list of accepted workshops: chi2026.acm.org/workshops/ac... This will be a really fun @chi.acm.org ! (Reminder that there's no added fee this year to attend workshops, they will happen throughout the conference!)

Accepted Workshops - ACM CHI 2026

CHI workshops are organized independently by their organizers. Please see the websites of the individual events for detailed instructions on how to submit position papers and/or applications. Please n...

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Join us for the final talk of HCDE’s 2025 Research Speaker Series! This Thursday, Assistant Professor Sucheta Ghoshal will share insights from her work with social movements that actively resist dominant computational technology. 📅 Thursday, Dec. 4 ⏰ 4:30 – 5:20 p.m. 📍 134 Sieg, UW campus

I’m giving a free/public talk this Tues in Seattle about how US government investment in science laid the foundations for the field of human-computer interaction and how that field (and investment) connects to so many of the innovations that we take for granted, as well as the future of AI.

Stand Up for Science Washington@sufswa.bsky.social · last yr.

Seattle! We're joining the Summer of Science with our first teach-in. Join us at Obec brewing and meet Dr. @katestarbird.bsky.social 1/

At @hcde.uw.edu, we will be hiring an Assistant or Associate Teaching Professor this coming year! Timing wise, we are hiring for a Sept. 2026 start date, but could be sooner. We are looking forward to welcoming a new colleague! Learn more and apply at apply.interfolio.com/171881

1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years. Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

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If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?

Excited about this upcoming #CHIPLAY2025 paper led by @nishadevasia.bsky.social on people’s meaningful experiences with games!

Nisha Devasia@nishadevasia.bsky.social · last yr.

It's probably early to be posting for #CHIPLAY2025, but I'm excited about this paper! arxiv.org/pdf/2507.18084 tl;dr Players sometimes have very personally meaningful or eudaimonic gaming experiences and we investigated what kinds of effects people reported those experiences had on their lives.

We got a visit from @seattletimes.com on Monday at KidsTeam. You can try Aayushi Dangol's AI Puzzlers for yourself! @hcde.uw.edu @ischool.uw.edu @juliekientz.bsky.social @jasoncyip.bsky.social

The Seattle Times@seattletimes.com · last yr.

Children often see AI as "magical," but a game developed by UW researchers is hoping to highlight its pitfalls.

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

MAGA is more than a political movement—it’s a symbolic system that answers dislocation with identity, confusion with clarity, and loss with belonging. If we want to push back, we need more than critique. We need a new story—and the civic infrastructure to support it.

Between Stories: Understanding MAGA, Rebuilding Democracy

To counter authoritarianism, we need more than critique—we need a shared narrative and civic infrastructure grounded in belonging, dignity, and care.

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The failure of the National Academy of Sciences USA to make a clear and unequivocal statement about the disastrous Trump administration science policies — it lets all of us down and dooms them to eventual irrelevance.

US science is being wrecked, and its leadership is fighting the last war

Facing an extreme budget, the National Academies hosted an event that ignored it.

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Super proud of @nishadevasia.bsky.social for leading the research for this #DIS2025 paper!

Nisha Devasia@nishadevasia.bsky.social · last yr.

I'll be at #DIS2025 presenting some findings from my first ever project as a PhD student (a labor of love heavily inspired by my own experiences): "Partnership through Play: Investigating How Long-Distance Couples Use Digital Games to Facilitate Intimacy" (arxiv.org/pdf/2505.09509) (details in🧵)

If you want to see the planned impact on science with the proposed National Science Foundation cuts, this table in particular demonstrates it most devastatingly. Going from 330,000 people to 90,000 people involved in NSF activities. #SaveNSF From: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

Offshore wind and marine energy can boost energy security and economic revitalization along our coastlines. HCDE’s Shana Hirsch leads research that centers community voices in the development of this emerging industry, but recent cuts to federal funding put this community-driven research at risk.

HCDE impact: Advancing renewable marine energy to strengthen coastal communities

Renewable marine energy—power generated from ocean waves and tides—could play a big role in boosting coastal economies and reducing US dependence on fossil fuels. HCDE Assistant Research Professor Sha...

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I’m hoping that there will be some rapid action to get legal support to the PhD students who have had their NSF GRFP (fellowships) terminated in the Trump regime’s latest attacks on academia.

Bailey Bowcutt@baileybowcutt.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm a current Harvard graduate student and I found out today that I had my NSF GRFP terminated without notification. I was awarded this individual research fellowship before even choosing Harvard as my graduate school

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say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

Evan Torner@guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · last yr.

There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university. University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.

ProPublica continues to earn my monthly workplace giving donation. I encourage you to support their journalism as well.

ProPublica@propublica.org · last yr.

THREAD: We recently heard that the Trump administration was leaning on the government of Gambia to help Elon Musk. For weeks, our team made phone calls, wrote letters and knocked on folks’ doors to try to confirm it. But we were stuck. So our reporters got on a plane to Banjul. 1/

Yes! We have to move the needle on public perception of science. Scientists can share their story in a LOCAL HOMETOWN PAPER op-ed, published June 16! #McClintockLetters #SciComm Share how we serve the public with fed dollars, & insights into fed funded research. tinyurl.com/McClintockLetters

Happy Birthday, #NSF. Thank you for all you’ve done for promoting science and innovation for the betterment of society. #SaveNSF

David Mouritsen@davidmouritsen.bsky.social · last yr.

On the NSF's 75th: “‘NSF investments have driven groundbreaking innovations, from the internet and LASIK eye surgery to the first image of a black hole... The foundation has also played a key role in the work of 268 Nobel Prize laureates, helping to shape many of their landmark achievements.’”

On the NSF's 75th: “‘NSF investments have driven groundbreaking innovations, from the internet and LASIK eye surgery to the first image of a black hole... The foundation has also played a key role in the work of 268 Nobel Prize laureates, helping to shape many of their landmark achievements.’”

Time to Save the National Science Foundation, 75 Years and Thriving

The National Science Foundation marks its 75th anniversary today, May 10th 2025. Rather than celebrate, it's time to save it.

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🧪 Ranking member Lofgren and 11 other House dems sent a fiery 7-page letter to acting NSF director today "The cancelation of these awards suggests instead that NSF is willing to apply political censorship of awards under direction from President Trump and the DOGE teenagers" Share widely #SaveNSF

Uggghh… more harmful and destructive shenanigans going down at #NSF

Science Magazine@science.org · last yr.

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

Thinking about devastating cuts to NSF: US gov-funded science has been the engine upon which most of the tech wealth was generated. But the oligarchs (currently hoarding much of that $) think it’s their own brilliance & not the accident of standing close to the scientific engine that made them rich.