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Oliver Haimson @haimson.bsky.social · Sep 4

If you're eligible, please consider participating in my PhD advisee @lameiro.bsky.social's interview study with online sex workers about non-consensual intimate deepfakes. Quick screening survey: bit.ly/deepfakesint...

Please also help spread the word by sharing with potential participants!

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Cat Hughes @celticqueen13.bsky.social · Aug 23

#books are awesome.

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Tim Newman @tnewmsblues.bsky.social · Aug 21

If you talk to globally subcontracted workers who contribute to AI systems, you see not only the issues they experience at work but also how those conditions shape AI tools themselves. The labor conditions of these workers is so often overlooked as a contributing factor to overall AI model quality.

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Oliver Haimson @haimson.bsky.social · Aug 19

same, I also read a lot of trans fiction outside of work! Are you on GoodReads? I keep track of my non-work reading there www.goodreads.com/user/show/24...

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Oliver Haimson @haimson.bsky.social · Aug 18

My reading volume dropped 60% on the tenure track compared to grad school! New Medium post on the realities of academic reading.

I’d love to hear from others: how much are you actually able to read as an academic?

medium.com/@haimson/how...

How Much I Read Every Month During the Tenure Track

My reading volume dropped 60% on the tenure track; here’s what my data says about the reality of academic reading

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onion person @junlper.beer · Aug 16

everyone transgender

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · Aug 16

"Don't feel bad if you're not reading every great book. No one ever has, and no one ever will."

Read Whatever the Hell You Want

Enjoy yourself.

charlotteclymer.substack.com

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Jeremy Foote @jeremydfoote.com · Aug 15

Thanks for the kind words! Glad you found it useful!

Around the same time, another group in our lab, led by @groceryheist.cc, published a related paper that you might also be interested in:

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I've also written about founders and their original goals (often not growth!)

No Community Can Do Everything: Why People Participate in Similar Online Communities | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Large-scale quantitative analyses have shown that individuals frequently talk to each other about similar things in different online spaces. Why do these overlapping communities exist? We provide an answer grounded in the analysis of 20 interviews with ...

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Oliver Haimson @haimson.bsky.social · Aug 15

Just read this incredible paper by @s0hw.bsky.social & @jeremydfoote.com: Why Do People Participate in Small Online Communities? The authors question the assumption that growth is always good, and instead show many benefits of small online communities. Highly recommended!

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Why do People Participate in Small Online Communities? | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Many benefits of online communities---such as obtaining new information, opportunities, and social connections---increase with size. Thus, a "successful'' online community often evokes an image of hun...

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Michael Ann, spooky, scary, spooky scary halloween femme @michaelann.bsky.social · Aug 8

This is effectively a ban on trans scientists getting federal funding, straight up. It’s also effectively a ban on all scientific work that includes trans people.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · Aug 7

“Discretionary awards shall not be used to fund, promote, encourage, subsidize, or facilitate … denial by the grant recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic”

TL;dr grants to be denied to entities who acknowledge the existence of trans people

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

www.whitehouse.gov

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Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · Aug 8

📣📣📣 New study shows:
trans and disabled folks hate AI!

Oliver Haimson @haimson.bsky.social · Aug 8

New article out in @theconversation.com!

"When people at high risk of algorithmic harm such as trans people and disabled people are also those most wary of AI, that’s an indication for AI designers, developers and policymakers to reassess their efforts."

theconversation.com/transgender-...

Transgender, nonbinary and disabled people more likely to view AI negatively, study shows

Some of the marginalized groups most likely to be harmed by AI are also most wary of it. A new study’s findings raise questions about equity and consent in technology design.

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Oliver Haimson @haimson.bsky.social · Aug 8

New article out in @theconversation.com!

"When people at high risk of algorithmic harm such as trans people and disabled people are also those most wary of AI, that’s an indication for AI designers, developers and policymakers to reassess their efforts."

theconversation.com/transgender-...

Transgender, nonbinary and disabled people more likely to view AI negatively, study shows

Some of the marginalized groups most likely to be harmed by AI are also most wary of it. A new study’s findings raise questions about equity and consent in technology design.

theconversation.com

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Phoebe Toups Dugas 🏳️‍⚧️ @snapdragoness.itch.io · Aug 8

There are very good reasons for this! Very nice article @haimson.bsky.social !

Transgender, nonbinary and disabled people more likely to view AI negatively, study shows
theconversation.com/transgender-...

Transgender, nonbinary and disabled people more likely to view AI negatively, study shows

Some of the marginalized groups most likely to be harmed by AI are also most wary of it. A new study’s findings raise questions about equity and consent in technology design.

theconversation.com

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Phoebe Toups Dugas 🏳️‍⚧️ @snapdragoness.itch.io · Aug 5

I wrote an explainer for the impact of payment processor censorship on the LGBTQIA+ community.

theconversation.com/thousands-of...

Thousands of games have been censored from major platforms, with LGBTQIA+ creators caught in the crossfire

Payment processing companies have ceded to pressure from an ‘anti-porn’ group, causing Steam and itch.io to ban tens of thousands of games almost overnight.

theconversation.com

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Oliver Haimson @haimson.bsky.social · Aug 5

Thanks so much, @tnewmsblues.bsky.social! Very proud of @bzfzhang.bsky.social (DR. Zhang as of yesterday!) and his amazing work on this paper.

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Tim Newman @tnewmsblues.bsky.social · Aug 1

Currently obsessed with this paper. It’s chock-full of major insights and helpful recommendations and conceptual frames related to several different critical AI & labor themes of the moment. Not going to pick a favorite quote - just check it out!

Oliver Haimson @haimson.bsky.social · Apr 30

The Making of Performative Accuracy in AI Training: Precision Labor and Its Consequences
presented by @benzhang.bsky.social
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in the Design for People, Design with People session, 9am in G301

#CHI2025

The Making of Performative Accuracy in AI Training: Precision Labor and Its Consequences | Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.

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Rae Walker @raewalker.bsky.social · Aug 1

Excited to read this!

Oliver Haimson @haimson.bsky.social · Jul 30

Trans Technologies is available now! My book examines how technology creates new possibilities for transgender people, and how trans experiences, in turn, create new possibilities for technology.

"An absolute must-read for anyone that cares about technology and trans liberation." - Alex Hanna

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Oliver Haimson @haimson.bsky.social · Aug 5

Big congrats to Dr. @bzfzhang.bsky.social, who just defended his dissertation! It's been such an honor to work with Ben over the past 5 years, along with co-advisor @michaelannephd.bsky.social. Ben will start as Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University, & I'm so excited to follow his research!

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Michaelanne Thomas @michaelannephd.bsky.social · Aug 5

Many congrats to Dr. @bzfzhang.bsky.social on his successful dissertation defense! @haimson.bsky.social and I are proud advisors, and anticipate great things from him as an assistant professor at Stonybrook University.

professional image of Ben Zhang with text that reads, "Congratulations Dr. Ben Zefeng Zhang on the successful defense of your dissertation Infrastructuring Data Values: An Ethnography of AI Production, Labor, and Data Marketplace in the Chinese Datafied State, Oliver Haimson and Michaelanne Thomas, serving as committee co-chairs, presided over the oral defense."

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Oliver Haimson @haimson.bsky.social · Jul 30

* read free open access: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

* buy now: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255186... or wherever books are sold (get 20% off with code READMIT20 at www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777584...)

* add to GoodReads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...

Trans Technologies

How technology creates new possibilities for transgender people, and how trans experiences, in turn, create new possibilities for technology.Mainstream tec

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Oliver Haimson @haimson.bsky.social · Jul 30

Trans Technologies is available now! My book examines how technology creates new possibilities for transgender people, and how trans experiences, in turn, create new possibilities for technology.

"An absolute must-read for anyone that cares about technology and trans liberation." - Alex Hanna

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Oliver Haimson @haimson.bsky.social · Jul 30

With the publication of my new book Trans Technologies earlier this year, I pledged to donate half of my author royalties to a TBIPOC organization. This year I donated to @ruthelliscenter.bsky.social!

ruthelliscenter.networkforgood.com/projects/227...

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Oliver Haimson @haimson.bsky.social · Jul 27

Thanks so much, Alex!! I hope my book and yours are hanging out as neighbors on people's bookshelves 😆

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Alex Monea @alexmonea.bsky.social · Jul 27

Go get a copy now from @mitpress.bsky.social or download the open access version here: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255186...

Congrats again on the book, Oliver. Hope to bump into you again soon to say so in person!

Trans Technologies

Mainstream technologies often exclude or marginalize transgender users. Trans Technologies describes what happens when trans people take technology design in...

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Alex Monea @alexmonea.bsky.social · Jul 27

Just finished @haimson.bsky.social's new book Trans Technologies over the weekend and really enjoyed it. If you want an insightful and comprehensive ethnographic account of trans tech - its creators, its creation, its affordances and constraints, and ideas for a better future, it's a must read.

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