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Alicia DeVrio

@uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social

Incoming assistant professor of digital media @ Georgia Tech HCI PhD @ CMU studying resistance to harmful AI systems also enjoys weaving, musicals, grammar, ice cream, libraries --> all the other whatever at uhleeeeeeeshuh.com

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blair@blairaf.com · 2mo ago

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!

Flyer with qualifications and details for the PhD position.
Alicia DeVrio@uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’m excited to share that • Last week, I successfully defended my dissertation, & • In Jan 2027, I will start as a tenure-track assistant professor of Digital Media at Georgia Institute of Technology 🤠

Alicia giving her thesis defense presentation titled "Understanding & Supporting Bottom-Ip Resistance to Harmful AI Systems"
jonathan zong@jonathanzong.com · 3mo ago

As agentic AI rapidly transforms internet infrastructure, how do we ensure disabled people's needs are not displaced? In a new article by me and @frank.computer, we argue that accessibility must not be treated as an incidental benefit of rapid AI expansion. Read below:

Tech Policy Press@techpolicypress.bsky.social · 3mo ago

AI companies are now getting accommodations that disabled people spent decades fighting for. Jonathan Zong and Frank Elavsky argue this reflects a broader pattern, where accessibility gains become politically possible only once industry needs the same changes.

Jasmine Lu@xjasminelu.bsky.social · 11mo ago

✨I'm on the faculty job market! ✨ I’m a University of Chicago Computer Science PhD Candidate building more sustainable computing ecosystems 💻🌱 I develop computational approaches for reducing, reusing, and recycling e-waste (I like to call it recomputing e-waste) read more: jasminelu.site 🧵 (1/7)

On the left 'recomputing e-waste' with 'recycling, repairing, reusing, reducing' below it. On the right, a large lifecycle graph with mining, manufacturing, using, recycling, and discarding labeled. Green arrows coming out of and going back into the using node labeled repairing and reusing, with four images of projects alongside. An arrow for reducing from using to landfills with a project image. And finally, a label of full stack recycling with several arrows coming out and returning.
Lilly Irani@gleemie.bsky.social · last yr.

Hybrid workshop where you can hear from Lucy Suchman, HCI legend and organizer with Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, the amazing Joan Greenbaum with Computer People for Peace, and other awesome organizers from #notechforapartheid and other tech-ademia organizing efforts

Linda Huber@puellaludens.bsky.social · last yr.

Very excited to share this workshop I'm helping to host on August 19: "From Tech Lash To Tech Fash: Strategic reflections on a decade of collective organizing in computing" tech-organizing-reflections.github.io

a simple, dark green flier with a bold, white text header: From Tech Lash To Tech Fash: Strategic reflections on a decade of collective organizing in computing The flier includes the following text and details: Hybrid Workshop @ Aarhus - Tuesday August 19, 8:30–11:30 am EST / 2:30–5:30 pm CEST Computing is a field plagued with presentism, oriented towards the new in ways that limit our design and research practices - as well as our capacity to understand and collectively respond to emerging crises. To improve our sensemaking and strategizing about today's crises, this workshop explores what Tamara Kneese has deemed the last decade's shift from "techlash" to "tech fash". What have we learned from the era of misinformation and bias, of "surveillance capitalism" and tech worker organizing that can inform our struggle against the increasing power of a techno-fascist oligarchy? We will also look towards previous generations of computing professionals and activists, who likewise sought to address the harms of emerging automated systems and the complicity of computing within violent, imperialist projects. This workshop will create space for participants to explore these questions collectively, bridging past and present moments in an effort to devise strategies moving forward. RSVP by Aug 12 https://tech-organizing-reflections.github.io/
Alicia DeVrio@uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · last yr.

Presenting this at #CHI2025 tomorrow, Monday, April 28 in the "Expressive Machines" (lol 🤷‍♀️) session at 4:44 p.m. in Annex Hall F206

Alicia DeVrio@uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · last yr.

How can we better think and talk about human-like qualities attributed to language technologies like LLMs? In our #CHI2025 paper, we taxonomize how text outputs from cases of user interactions with language technologies can contribute to anthropomorphism. arxiv.org/abs/2502.09870 1/n

Image of the first page of the CHI 2025 paper titled "A Taxonomy of Linguistic Expressions That Contribute To Anthropomorphism of Language Technologies" by authors Alicia DeVrio, Myra Cheng, Lisa Egede, Alexandra Olteanu, & Su Lin Blodgett