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Cella (is on the job market) @cellllla.bsky.social · 18h

Thanks so much for sharing!!

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Cella (is on the job market) @cellllla.bsky.social · 21h

wahoo! congrats! such a banger of a paper 🔥

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Emily Mazo @emilymazo.bsky.social · 1d

Baby’s first published academic article! @js-tan.bsky.social and @nataliyan.bsky.social and I analyzed the @techactions.bsky.social archive and find that tech worker labor organizing stands on the shoulders of prior struggle- conflict begets class conflict journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Cella (is on the job market) @cellllla.bsky.social · 23h

“You’re in a Ferrari, I’m Waiting for the Bus”: Confronting Tensions in Community-University Partnerships. dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

"You're in a Ferrari. I'm Waiting for the Bus": Confronting Tensions in Community-University Partnerships | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

There have been increasing calls within HCI to build sustained partnerships with communities that go beyond surface-level engagement. However, little is known about how communities view such partnersh...

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Cella (is on the job market) @cellllla.bsky.social · 23h

“It’s Always a Losing Game”: How Workers Understand and Resist Surveillance Technologies on the Job. dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

'It's Always a Losing Game': How Workers Understand and Resist Surveillance Technologies on the Job | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

With the rise of remote work, a range of surveillance technologies are increasingly being used by business owners to track and monitor employees, raising concerns about worker rights and privacy. Through analysis of Reddit posts and in-depth semi-...

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Cella (is on the job market) @cellllla.bsky.social · 23h

“The Future of Tech Labor: How Workers are Organizing and Transforming the Computing Industry.” arxiv.org/abs/2508.12579

The Future of Tech Labor: How Workers are Organizing and Transforming the Computing Industry

The tech industry's shifting landscape and the growing precarity of its labor force have spurred unionization efforts among tech workers. These workers turn to collective action to improve their worki...

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Cella (is on the job market) @cellllla.bsky.social · 23h

“From the Future of Work to the Future of Labor: Centering Worker Resistance in the Age of AI and Automation.“ cella.io/assets/pdfs/...

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Cella (is on the job market) @cellllla.bsky.social · 23h

If you will be in Bergen, Norway for #CSCW2025, I would love to chat! I’ll be presenting my dissertation work in the doctoral consortium and 3 first-author papers, which I’ll link below:

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Cella (is on the job market) @cellllla.bsky.social · 23h

✨I’m on the academic job market ✨

I’m a PhD candidate at @hcii.cmu.edu studying tech, labor, and resistance 👩🏻‍💻💪🏽💥

I research how workers and communities contest harmful sociotechnical systems and shape alternative futures through everyday resistance and collective action

More info: cella.io

Cella M. Sum –

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 1d

On November 18, join organizers and experts for a cross-issue panel discussion exploring how workers and communities are pushing back: From Our Workplaces to Our Communities: Stop the AI Surveillance Pipeline Now! bit.ly/stopAIsurveillance

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nathan kim @nathanckim.bsky.social · 1d

Did you know that the university of Michigan is building the world’s largest supercomputer for Los Alamos National Labs’ nuclear weapons production programs, and paying for $830 million of it despite not being able to use >90% of it?

I wrote about it here:

www.michigandaily.com/opinion/umic...

UMich says the Ypsi Data Center won’t “manufacture nuclear weapons.” What does Los Alamos think?

University administration must make a choice: Will it side with the public and live up to its stated ideals of serving the public good and public interest? Or will it side with LANL and spend hundreds...

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 1d

Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI is now available in physical form! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Cover of Disabling Intelligences, a dark pink book with orange vines.

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 2d

Join @datasociety.bsky.social's Climate, Technology, and Justice program+ Kapor Foundation for a webinar on CA data centers in context, connecting data center buildout + policy interventions to histories of environmental racism + resistance

10/9, 12-1:30 PM PT kaporcenter.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

California Data Centers in Context: Histories, Impacts, Policies with Khari Johnson, Masheika Allgood, and Nicole Merino Tsui. Moderated by Cecilia Marrinan and Tamara Kneese. October 9, 12-1:30 pm. Registration link for Zoom is in the post

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Sauvik Das @sauvik.me · 4d

#chi2026 reviewing season is here! Friendly reminder that it is possible to write thoughtful reviews without nitpicking and without it taking a lot of time. I've actually completed my seven 2AC reviews already.

Some (updated) tips I wrote about this:
sauvik-das.medium.com/a-quick-gui...

A quick guide to reviewing papers quick

Last year, the world was on fire [1]. While it burned, I reviewed. A lot. More than I care to review again in a single year.

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Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social · 6d

New book alert!📘
Our book on workers talking about their experiences of workers inquiry research, and working with academic workers to build power! with the Capacitor Collective

Common Notions Press @commonnotions.bsky.social · 6d

NOTES TOWARD A DIGITAL WORKERS' INQUIRY by The Capacitor Collective delivers first-hand accounts from the tech sector’s burgeoning labor movement.

Preorders save a couple bucks and get a free zine on the history of workers' inquiries! Checkout with coupon code DIGITALWORKERS: buff.ly/9Li5A3U

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orange graphic with the front cover of the book and the discount code for 25% off: digitalworkers

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Kickstarter United @kickstarterunited.org · 10d

Kickstarter United has voted to STRIKE! We are fighting for a 32 hour work week, livable wage for all workers, and protections against AI. Our Seattle members are organizing a rally alongside OPEIU 8. Join us on Thursday in Cal Anderson Park! forms.gle/udwphKvnZDVG...

Kickstarter United Seattle Strike Rally
Our union has voted to STRIKE! We are fighting for a 32 hour work, livable wage for all workers, and protections against AI. Join us! Thursday, 10/2 @ 6

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 13d

The e book is available link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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jonathan zong @jonathanzong.com · 14d

be my colleague!

information science at CU Boulder is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in environmental justice.

jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Assistant Professor in Environmental Justice and Information/Technology

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Sarah Fox @perhaxis.bsky.social · 21d

🎉 Thrilled to share that @samshorey.bsky.social and I have signed a book contract with @ucpress.bsky.social through their Co-Opting AI Series! "Reparative AI" is about what happens when AI breaks, and how repair becomes resistance, sabotage, and a challenge to whether AI is worth saving at all.

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Jasmine Lu @xjasminelu.bsky.social · 16d

✨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
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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.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 17d

Protests, mass meetups, conferences—a youth-led movement is reclaiming the Luddite mantle, rejecting a future dominated by Silicon Valley companies, toxic apps, and generative AI.

This fall, a "Luddite renaissance" is in full swing.

www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-luddit...

The Luddite Renaissance is in full swing

This fall, the new luddites are rising

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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Livia Garofalo @livgar.bsky.social · 21d

It was lovely to talk about PA with @mwoluchem.bsky.social and Joan on the transformations being pushed by the data center industry across the state. Looking forward continuing this work with @anthrotechana.bsky.social and @cellllla.bsky.social 🛣️

Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 22d

On Lawfare Daily, @tylermcbrien.com spoke to @mwoluchem.bsky.social, @livgar.bsky.social, and Joan Mukogosi from @datasociety.bsky.social about their research trips across Pennsylvania, where they learned about the current and future impacts of the nascent AI data center industry in the state.

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 22d

New The Cloud is Dead essay: @emmaquilty.bsky.social writes about data centers, undersea cables, and histories of colonialism in Fiji for @datasociety.bsky.social Points

Emma is also a scholar of witches. And you should definitely get her book, Witch Power: Hexing the Patriarchy with Feminist Magic

Confronting Data Centers, Deep-Sea Cables, and Colonial Legacies in the South Pacific

As big tech companies appeal to small island countries’ anxieties about being left behind, Emma Quilty considers how efforts to transform islands into digital hubs obscure the power and agency of thes...

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JS Tan @js-tan.bsky.social · 22d

In this new piece, I explain why focusing only on red tape and proceduralism (as the Abundance thesis does) misses the bigger story about the American Political Economy and fails to explain the staggering build out of data centers across the country.

www.valueadded.tech/p/america-ca...

America can still build (data centers)

The Abundance thesis is that America can't build anymore, so how do we explain the surge of data center construction across the country?

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The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social · 24d

We just launched a new version of the Surveillance Watch platform with improved filtering and search, detailed entity analysis views, better visualization of connections between entities & investors, a more accessible lite version etc.

Have a look at the latest updates at www.surveillancewatch.io

Surveillance Watch: They Know Who You Are

Surveillance Watch is an interactive map revealing the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations.

www.surveillancewatch.io

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