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Amy J. Ko @amyko.phd · 26/09/2026

Thank you Big Thief for cozy Friday night on the farm.

A stage on the right and crowd on the left in a magenta hue at dusk.

Amy J. Ko @amyko.phd · 25/09/2026

What a lovely student welcome event this afternoon! Thanks to the staff who helped organize it, and the many student leaders for welcoming our 2026-27 classes to campus for the start of the quarter.

A wood framed room with a large projector screen and a few hundred students, faculty, and staff.

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Amy J. Ko @amyko.phd · 19/09/2026

Today I'm grateful for the lively day at Wesleyan! Thanks to Yuxuan Mei for hosting and to everyone for the rich conversations about creativity, learning, and AI. Slides for my talk: "A Means to Know End: Generative AI and the Many Futures of Learning" faculty.washington.edu/ajko/slides/...

Amy smiling in front of a chalkboard with inscruitable mathematics above a couch.

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Amy J. Ko @amyko.phd · 08/09/2026

Today I'm proud of finally adding epub/ebook export support to bookish.press! Want to read Bookish books on your ebook reader? Now you can, no DRM. See criticallyconsciouscomputing.org and bookish.press/tac for examples. Fully tested on my little xteink x3, Kindle, and Apple Books.

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Amy J. Ko @amyko.phd · 19/08/2026

Today I’m inspired by the courage of this goose, boldly crossing the street in the middle of traffic, with a calmness and boldness I can only aspire to in my life and work. You go, goose.

A goose in the middle of the street, against a don’t walk signal.

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Amy J. Ko @amyko.phd · 27/06/2026

Today I’m proud to be trans, and I’m proud of the thousands of trans people who came together in Seattle to create community, provide care, celebrate freedom, snack, and organize for everyone’s liberation, not just ours. Happy pride!

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Amy J. Ko @amyko.phd · 09/06/2026

Today I’m proud of STEP CS cohort 5 for spending the quarter building critical, creative, and courageous visions of the future of secondary CS education! I can’t wait to hear about their first and next years of teaching.

Nine teacher candidates and our teaching team, Jayne, Brett, and Amy.

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Amy J. Ko @amyko.phd · 05/06/2026

Today I’m proud of Eman Sherif on passing her dissertation proposal defense! She’s been richly examining shame and help seeking post-secondary CS learning and will be co-designing more equitable, shame-resilient help seeking interventions this summer with faculty and students.

Eman, Elham, Amy in person smiling, Ben in Zoom projected on the wall beside them.

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Amy J. Ko @amyko.phd · 29/05/2026

Today I’m grateful to be part of a vibrant community of teachers and learners! This was tonight’s Information School Showcase, celebrating the year’s learning. Thank you Victor Aque and all the staff for helping make it happen! And to all our students for being great learners.

Amy selfie in front of 40 students, faculty; staff and posters.

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Amy J. Ko @amyko.phd · 17/05/2026

Today I’m heartened by two essential organizations, Lambert House, which is throwing tonight’s Pink Prom for queer youth, and Whole Washington, which is fighting for universal health care in WA, with the support of Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson.

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Amy J. Ko @amyko.phd · 30/04/2026

Today I’m proud of the amazing Rotem Landesman for defending her dissertation, “Supporting Teens’ Everyday Ethical Thinking About GenAI”! I co-advise Rotem with Katie Davis, and it’s been a joy to see her build community with youth, while understanding how to cultivate their learning and integrity.

Rotem smiling in front of her dissertation title projected.

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Amy J. Ko @amyko.phd · 27/04/2026

Tonight I’m grateful for Rick Steves and Shelley Bryan for their anti-fascist call for solidarity, hope, love, and action, as traveler and bishop.

Rick Steves standing and clapping while others stand and clap, with St. Mark’s cathedral in the background.

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Amy J. Ko @amyko.phd · 07/04/2026

Today I'm proud of Jayne Everson for masterfully defending her dissertation, "Computing is for Everybody: Pedagogy for Joyful Secondary Computing." She shared 5 studies, demonstrating that feminist pedagogies encourage joyful secondary computing education. Congratulations Jayne!

Amy, Jayne, Nassim Maya, and Ben on Zoom, all selfie smiling.

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Amy J. Ko @amyko.phd · 04/04/2026

Tonight I’m grateful for the delightful Moisture Festival, Seattle’s annual variety arts show each spring! It’s simply wonderful and all smiles. moisturefestival.org Eleven more shows through April 12th!

A magenta lit stage with a dozen performers standing for applause.

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Amy J. Ko @amyko.phd · 29/03/2026

My favorite shot from the No Kings community organizing at Seattle center today: Trump babies, musk nazis, a general strike table, and in the background, thousands of people connecting, planning, plotting, and resisting.

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Amy J. Ko @amyko.phd · 29/03/2026

Today I’m so excited about the cross lake connection, bringing together the east and west Seattle metro area, increasing frequencies, and opening transit to new communities in the south sound! Two decades of advocacy, engineering research, federal support, and taxpayer support are finally realized.

Amy with her hair back in a leather jacket in front of Justin’s station and a sunny cloudy sky.

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Amy J. Ko @amyko.phd · 15/03/2026

Today I’m grateful for ππππππππππππππ

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Amy J. Ko @amyko.phd · 07/03/2026

Tonight I’m grateful for the amazing St. Vincent for her transfixing show at the Arlene Schnitzer concert hall in Portland. She was somehow engrossing, hilarious, irreverent, and more, all while transforming her music into jazz, in the spirit of the Portland jazz Festival. Incredible!

Annie Clark on staging next to a piano and her accompaniment, with a rose held high.

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Amy J. Ko @amyko.phd · 06/03/2026

Today I’m grateful for being part of such a vibrant community of Information School scholars! Our breadth is astounding, deep, impactful, and led by so many wonderful humans. This was tonight’s Research Fair.

A hundred posters, two hundred people, in a ballroom.

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Amy J. Ko @amyko.phd · 11/02/2026

I’m so grateful for our wonderful colleague @emilymbender.bsky.social’s Katz Distinguished Lecture, deconstructing the dehumanizing qualities of “AI.” It was such a rich, transdisciplinary takedown, and argument for refusal.

Projector screen, Emily M. Bender, Fen 10.

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Amy J. Ko @amyko.phd · 06/12/2025

Federal Way light rail opening! I’m so proud of our Senators, our transit orgs, our community leaders and elected officials for realizing a sustainable, humane option for moving around Puget Sound, and all the transformations to come.

A tent lit blue with Maria Cantwell at the podium.

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Amy J. Ko @amyko.phd · 04/10/2025

I had a lovely visit today at Lewis and Clark College, back in my home town. It was great to experience its lovely community, talk about justice work in CS, and connect with students and faculty around the future of CS!

A vista of blue sky, evergreens on the side, and shrubbery, on a sunny day, facing outward from west Portland.

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Amy J. Ko @amyko.phd · 18/06/2025

Rep Jayapal is awesome. I’m so proud to live in her district! She represents so well.

Representative Pramila Jayapal at a mic.

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Amy J. Ko @amyko.phd · 15/06/2025

Newport Ave, full of honking, cheering, and chants

Several protesters facing the street with American flags and signs reading tax the rich, save democracy.

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Amy J. Ko @amyko.phd · 15/06/2025

The march to Old Town

Hundreds of protesters walking forward in the park path.

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Amy J. Ko @amyko.phd · 14/06/2025

The peaceful crowd in Drake Park, listening to a speech on universal health care for Oregon.

Amphitheater with thousands of seated and standing protesters listening to a speaker off frame.

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Amy J. Ko @amyko.phd · 13/06/2025

The proportions on the front page of NYT this morning are a nice distillation of the moment: 80% AI, 15% branding, 5% engaging with the powder kegs exploding all around us.

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Amy J. Ko @amyko.phd · 31/05/2025

The administration’s vision of science in America is that we do 75% less of it. That means more death, less progress, more ignorance, fewer experts, fewer educated people, all to make billionaires wealthier.

A table showing 75% cuts to senior researchers, postpone, graduate students, undergraduates, teachers, and youth.

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Amy J. Ko @amyko.phd · 03/05/2025

Returning to the US from Tokyo feels like returning to a war zone. 戻りたくない…

A tiny Godzilla looks over Tokyo, ready to attack

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Amy J. Ko @amyko.phd · 05/04/2025

Rep Jayapal takes the stage to an outdoor crowd of 20,000 at Seattle Center #handsoff

A sea of thousands with hundreds of protest signs on a sunny Saturday Seattle afternoon.

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Amy J. Ko @amyko.phd · 14/02/2025

Academic admin life right now...

A duck looking for food on thin ice at Drumheller fountain.

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Amy J. Ko @amyko.phd · 06/12/2024

Hey, in case you needed to know, PDX is now one of the world’s most beautiful airports. I want to be back there, amidst the timber and tranquility.

A sweeping ceiling of slatted wood with bleacher wood searing surrounding people leaving security.

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