✨✨AI Powder✨ ✨, our speculative fiction story, is finally officially published in Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience journal! Thanks and congrats to collaborators @naz-andalibi.bsky.social Nazanin Andalibi, David Haimson, and @meglane.bsky.social! catalystjournal.org/index.php/ca...

I used to love this time of year, hearing from students applying to work in my lab. No more. Every day a fresh batch of nearly identical emails with nonsensical remixes of the text on my lab website. It makes me so sad.

Here’s the OpenAI announcement. openai.com/index/chatgp...

Healthcare organizations can now connect EHR and additional industry data to ChatGPT

ChatGPT can now connect to trusted healthcare data, helping clinicians securely access patient context, medical research, and more.

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Happy 250th birthday, America! To celebrate the occasion, we're closing your oldest natural history museum. www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/a... #scicomm #Philadelphia

Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University to close museum on Sept. 30

The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University will close its museum in Philadelphia on Sept. 30, 2026, NBC10 confirmed.

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🛎️ 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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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

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...

Can queer and trans folks trust AI?

Artificial intelligence’s need to categorize the world may be the root of distrust among LGBTQ+ people.

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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 journals.lww.com/annalsplasti...

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...

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.

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

‘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.

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🚨 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!

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

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@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...

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10mo ago

Judging from the quotes in here, university admins are some of the least “ai literate” people in existence. No wonder they think students need to be taught how to use it.

“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...

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.

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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!

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...

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

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...

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

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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

"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.”

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.

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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...

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

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No kidding

Justin Hendrix@justinhendrix.bsky.social · 11mo ago

"Emotional conversations were also common in the conversations analyzed by The Post... In some chats, the AI tool could be seen adapting to match a user’s viewpoint, creating a kind of personalized echo chamber in which ChatGPT endorsed falsehoods and conspiracy theories."

“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.

Kate Starbird@katestarbird.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Had a breast exam today. After being contorted & smushed into a glass shield, then gracelessly crushed w/ a vice, the tech asked if I was okay. I said my neck was stiff. She replied, “And you’re only 50. I put 80-year olds in this thing.” My one thought: No way this device was designed by women.

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

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...

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

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“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...

Flock haters cross political divides to remove error-prone cameras

Lawmakers’ calls for Flock probe may help kill local contracts, expert says.

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🗣️ 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...

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

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📢 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

✨📣 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 shorturl.at/QlMfx

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

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