Reposted by Andrés Monroy-HernándezMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/09/2026DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you. 341250374771
Andrés Monroy-Hernández @andresmh.com · 23/09/2026Proud that our Workers' Algorithm Observatory is partnering with NYC's Dept. of Consumer & Worker Protection and the Workers Justice Project to build tech infrastructure for compliance monitoring of DoorDash, as part of a record $131.5M settlement✊🏽 Press release: www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...nyc.gov 173
Reposted by Andrés Monroy-HernándezPrincetonHCI @princetonhci.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Congrats to Varun Rao @samanthadalal.bsky.social, Andrew Schwartz, Amna Liaqat, @dana.witchy.business, and @andresmh.com for getting an 🏅Honorable Mention Award at CSCW 2026 for “FareShare: A Tool for Labor Organizers to Estimate Lost Wages and Contest Arbitrary AI and Algorithmic Deactivations” 033
Reposted by Andrés Monroy-HernándezPrincetonHCI @princetonhci.bsky.social · 06/08/2026🎧 New podcast episode! Our postdoctoral researcher Sohyeon Hwang joins the MED Lab’s Looks Like New podcast to discuss online community governance! Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/0FKo...open.spotify.comWho gets to make the rules online?Looks Like New · Episode 011
Reposted by Andrés Monroy-HernándezPrinceton Center for Information Technology Policy @princetoncitp.bsky.social · 23/07/2026From CITP postdoctoral researcher Marianne Aubin Le Quéré (@mariannealq.bsky.social) - "Do We Ban Social Media? Maybe Not" 👇 psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-... Aubin Le Quéré is an incoming faculty member at @uofillinois.bsky.social Urbana-Champaign.psychologytoday.comDo We Ban Social Media? Maybe NotWe can put online users in the driver's seat instead. 002
Reposted by Andrés Monroy-HernándezPrincetonHCI @princetonhci.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Huge congratulations to our postdoctoral research fellow, Samantha Dalal, on receiving the CRA Trustworthy AI Research Fellowship for Early Career Scholars! Learn more about the 2026–2027 fellows: cra.org/cra-trustwor...cra.orgCRA Trustworthy AI Research Fellowship for Early Career ScholarsVisit the post for more. 131
Reposted by Andrés Monroy-HernándezRomina Mahinpei @rmahinpei.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Are you a Bluesky user or developer? Princeton's HCI group is conducting an IRB-approved interview study on perspectives about generative AI (genAI) in decentralized social media. Participation includes: • 45–60 min Zoom interview • $30 USD digital gift card Signup: forms.gle/EDmcLnjbamtb... 03319
Andrés Monroy-Hernández @andresmh.com · 28/05/2026Congrats to Varun Rao for defending his PhD dissertation, "Toward Human-Centered, Evidence-Based Policy on AI's Labor Impacts."👏 Not only is he the first PhD student I graduate, but probably the first in the field of HCI in Princeton’s 280-year-old history. citp.princeton.edu/events/2026/... 140
Reposted by Andrés Monroy-HernándezPrinceton University @princeton.edu · 22/05/2026A new tool developed by Princeton researchers provides gig workers access to aggregate wage data that companies do not provide — a boon for rideshare labor advocates.engineering.princeton.eduPrinceton Engineering - New tool drives gig workers toward wage transparencyA new tool developed by Princeton researchers provides gig workers access to aggregate wage data that companies do not provide, a boon for rideshare labor 021
Reposted by Andrés Monroy-HernándezMike Masnick @masnick.com · 23/05/2026Okay, so I'm two and a half weeks behind, but (ht @timothychambers.net ) this is fantastic and a reminder of why *protocols* matter so much over platforms, no matter what people say about any particular site or service. 110826
Reposted by Andrés Monroy-HernándezPrincetonHCI @princetonhci.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Congrats to Julia Ying on completing her undergrad thesis and graduating! 🎉 Her thesis focused on a multi-registry system for decentralized discovery and curation, exploring new power dynamics and trust mechanisms in the OpenCourier protocols. Wishing her all the best for what's next! 121
Reposted by Andrés Monroy-HernándezPrincetonHCI @princetonhci.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Check our new work on OpenCourier — an open protocol for interoperable, worker-owned delivery platforms. By: Yuhan Liu, Varun Rao, @s0hw.bsky.social @cyberlyra.bsky.social and @andresmh.hci.social.ap.brid.gy Thanks to @pcc-global.bsky.social for amplifying it! platform.coop/blog/toward-...platform.coopToward Worker-owned Delivery Platforms with the OpenCourier Protocol | Platform Cooperativism ConsortiumThe OpenCourier protocol opens up opportunities for delivery workers to own the platforms that manage their livelihoods. We introduce the protocol, welcoming contributors and comments. 1126
Reposted by Andrés Monroy-HernándezRude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 22/04/2026Thank you for the opportunity to talk about how Blacksky’s work is making the AT Protocol ecosystem more resilient and how we’re becoming a launch pad for new communities @andresmh.com @s0hw.bsky.social Shout out fellow panelists @masnick.com @lizbarry.cryptoanarchy.network Sujith -> great convo 39614
Reposted by Andrés Monroy-HernándezPrinceton Center for Information Technology Policy @princetoncitp.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Try the researcher-created social media feed curator app, Bonsai, right now on Bluesky 📲 getbonsai.org Read about the CITP team 👇getbonsai.orgBonsaiBonsai is a research system that replaces black-box engagement models with intentional, natural language-based curation. 021
Andrés Monroy-Hernández @andresmh.com · 17/04/2026You can't DDoS the Fediverse! The Atmosphere really needs to invest in making it easier to set up a more diversified ecosystem. 110
Reposted by Andrés Monroy-HernándezPrinceton Center for Information Technology Policy @princetoncitp.bsky.social · 16/04/2026If you're at #CHI26 like most of CITP this week, be sure to check out postdoctoral researcher Sohyeon Hwang's (@s0hw.bsky.social) presentation "Community Governance and Moderation" on Friday morning 🔻 032
Reposted by Andrés Monroy-HernándezPrinceton University @princeton.edu · 16/04/2026📲 Researchers at @princetoncitp.bsky.social have created a social media tool that allows users to build their own social media feeds from scratch. Meet Bonsai. 🌳bit.lyPrinceton Engineering - What happens when social media users take back control?Social media feeds are populated by algorithms designed to keep users engaged. Now, researchers at Princeton are studying what happens when users can 013
Reposted by Andrés Monroy-Hernándezsohyeon hwang @s0hw.bsky.social · 16/04/2026🏃♀️ homestretch! start your last day at #CHI2026 at the "Community Governance and Moderation" 9AM session tomorrow in Room 114 🤠 I'll be presenting our new work envisioning how we can make community-run social media more sustainable through a "community of communities": dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...dl.acm.orgGoverning Together: Toward Infrastructure for Community-Run Social Media | Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsYou will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited. 134
Reposted by Andrés Monroy-HernándezPrinceton Center for Information Technology Policy @princetoncitp.bsky.social · 15/04/2026What if you could have more agency over your social media feed? CITP researchers have built Bonsai to explore what happens when users can have that control. Try the app now on @bsky.app! getbonsai.org Team: @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social @andresmh.com @mariannealq.bsky.social Omar El Malki 144
Andrés Monroy-Hernández @andresmh.com · 14/04/2026Hey Bluesky friends, please check out and let us know what you think of 🌳 Bonsai, a new tool to create custom Bluesky feeds getbonsai.org Story: www.cs.princeton.edu/news/what-ha... Presented at #CHI2026 by @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social and @mariannealq.bsky.socialgetbonsai.orgBonsaiBonsai is a research system that replaces black-box engagement models with intentional, natural language-based curation. 2295
Reposted by Andrés Monroy-HernándezACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) @acmtochi.bsky.social · 10/12/2025New in #TOCHI FairFare (arxiv.org/pdf/2502.11273) a crowdsourced data tool co-designed with a Colorado rideshare union to audit platform take rates from 76k+ rideshare trips. Authors: Dana Calacci, Varun Rao, Samantha Dalal, Kok-Wei Pua, Andrew Schwartz, Danny Spitzberg, Andrés Monroy-Hernández 011
Reposted by Andrés Monroy-HernándezPrincetonHCI @princetonhci.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Check out upcoming talks from @princetonhci.bsky.social at #CHI2026! 022
Andrés Monroy-Hernández @andresmh.com · 20/03/2026Participate in a fun study from one of our students that involves creating your own daily email digest to catch up on what happened on Bluesky! 041
Reposted by Andrés Monroy-HernándezPrinceton Center for Information Technology Policy @princetoncitp.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Thursday 3/5 at 2:00 - 3:00pm Claudia Lo of @wikimediafoundation.org will be a special guest at Professor Andrés Monroy-Hernández's (@andresmh.com) class 🔻 Open to Princeton U faculty, staff, and students. 📍Sherrerd Hall, 306 121
Reposted by Andrés Monroy-HernándezLindsay Popowski @popowski.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Is the only way we can create algorithms that people understand to make them trivially simple? We argue, no. People can predict the behavior of algorithms that are arbitrarily complex, if and only if they are available, compact and aligned. arxiv.org/abs/2601.18966 24012
Reposted by Andrés Monroy-HernándezParastoo Abtahi @parastooabtahi.bsky.social · 12/02/2026A fundamental challenge in human-robot interaction is that capabilities and limitations are often opaque to users. In our upcoming #HRI2026 paper, X-OOHRI, led by the brilliant Lauren Wang, we use AR to make robot capabilities and limits visible during object-oriented interactions 🤖 272
Reposted by Andrés Monroy-HernándezPrinceton University @princeton.edu · 10/12/2025A new app developed at @princetoncitp.bsky.social allows researchers to construct a large-scale dataset that aggregates individual worker data across many thousands of rides to shed light on the working conditions of rideshare drivers.bit.lyPrinceton Engineering - New tool drives gig workers toward wage transparencyA new tool developed by Princeton researchers provides gig workers access to aggregate wage data that companies do not provide, a boon for rideshare labor 0114
Reposted by Andrés Monroy-Hernándezsohyeon hwang @s0hw.bsky.social · 03/12/2025help spread the word about this campaign - or, if you're able, consider supporting yourself! Bonfire is building a modular toolkit for organizing, mutual aid, open science, and collective decision-making on the open social web. communities choose what gets built: www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/...indiegogo.comBonfire: building blocks for communities on the open social web by Bonfire - IndiegogoFrom platforms to communities: a federated social web with shared foundations and co‑created spaces for gathering, care, connection, and stewardship. 196
Reposted by Andrés Monroy-HernándezPrinceton Center for Information Technology Policy @princetoncitp.bsky.social · 07/11/2025CITP is hiring for the 2026 academic year. The list of advisors is now available on the CITP Blog: blog.citp.princeton.edu/2025/11/06/c... ▶️ Postdocs ▶️ Visiting Professor ▶️ Visiting Professional ▶️ Emerging Scholarsblog.citp.princeton.eduCITP Is Now Accepting Applications for the 2026–27 Fellows Program - CITP BlogApplications are now open for Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) 2026-27 Fellows Program. Candidates are encouraged to apply by the start-of-review date of December... 011
Andrés Monroy-Hernández @andresmh.com · 01/11/2025The DeCenter at Princeton is hiring a cohort of postdocs to work on decentralization of power through decentralization of trust. HCI folks encouraged to apply puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...puwebp.princeton.edu 050
Reposted by Andrés Monroy-HernándezManoel Horta Ribeiro @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social · 16/09/2025We implemented Bonsai on Bluesky and conducted a two-phase, multi-week study with 15 participants. This deployment allowed us to observe how people used intentional feedbuilding in practice, and how it compared to their experiences with engagement-driven defaults. 161
Reposted by Andrés Monroy-HernándezManoel Horta Ribeiro @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social · 16/09/2025In the ranking stage, Bonsai orders the curated content using criteria derived from the user’s stated intent—rather than predicted engagement—making the logic behind feed prioritization transparent and directly aligned with user goals. 131
Reposted by Andrés Monroy-HernándezManoel Horta Ribeiro @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social · 16/09/2025In the curating stage, users can apply natural language prompts (e.g., “focus on recent policy updates” or “exclude promotional posts”) to filter and organize the sourced content, ensuring the feed reflects users' goals / preferences. Each prompt is fed into an LLM that individually ranks content. 141
Reposted by Andrés Monroy-HernándezManoel Horta Ribeiro @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social · 16/09/2025In the sourcing stage, Bonsai gathers a wide pool of candidate posts aligned with user goals. Users can refine this stage by editing sources (adding or removing accounts, hashtags, or feeds) to shape where their feed draws content from. 131
Reposted by Andrés Monroy-HernándezManoel Horta Ribeiro @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social · 16/09/2025In the planning stage, users express their goals in natural language (e.g., “updates on AI policy” or “posts from close colleagues”). Bonsai translates these goals into structured representations that guide the subsequent sourcing, curating, and ranking of content by providing initial suggestions. 131
Reposted by Andrés Monroy-HernándezManoel Horta Ribeiro @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social · 16/09/2025With Bonsai, users can articulate what they want from their feeds (e.g., tracking research, staying informed on a policy area, or connecting with a community) and the system procedurally builds a feed that reflects those intentions in four steps, which we discuss below. 141
Reposted by Andrés Monroy-HernándezManoel Horta Ribeiro @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Bonsai sits within a broader debate on recommender systems. While TikTok or Meta optimize (mostly) for attention capture, Bonsai explores what feeds look like when personalized for user intent. Under our taxonomy, it explores the design space of "intentional" and "personalized" feeds! 191
Reposted by Andrés Monroy-HernándezManoel Horta Ribeiro @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Social media feeds today are optimized for engagement, often leading to misalignment between users' intentions and technology use. In a new paper, we introduce Bonsai, a tool to create feeds based on stated preferences, rather than predicted engagement. arxiv.org/abs/2509.10776 516146
Andrés Monroy-Hernández @andresmh.com · 10/09/2025Finally, @princeton.edu is on a decentralized social media platform! 👏👏 1102
Reposted by Andrés Monroy-Hernándezsohyeon hwang @s0hw.bsky.social · 12/08/2025I'm co-organizing #CSCW NE, an in-person regional gathering for people in Northeast America, alongside some folks from Stevens, Rutgers, and Princeton. If you want to come hang out (especially if you can't make it out to the full conference in Bergen this year), RSVP at cscw-ne.hci.social! 077
Reposted by Andrés Monroy-HernándezManoel Horta Ribeiro @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social · 22/07/2025🚨 Study alert! We've developed a prototype that enables you to create personalized social media feeds using natural language rules and import them into Bluesky. Join our study to try out the tool, give us your feedback, and earn a $50 gift card! Sign up: forms.gle/MkSGKzxDfBEc... Please share :) 0188
Andrés Monroy-Hernández @andresmh.com · 22/07/2025One of the great things about decentralized social media is that researchers can experiment with new ideas. Please help science and apply to be part of this study that one of our students is doing to make it easier for anyone to create sophisticated custom Bluesky feeds. Spread the word too! 🙏 061
Reposted by Andrés Monroy-Hernándezhailey @hailey.at · 05/06/2025"huh is something going on?" "oh" 735266
Reposted by Andrés Monroy-HernándezSunnie S. Y. Kim ☀️ @sunniesuhyoung.bsky.social · 07/05/2025📢 I successfully defended my PhD dissertation! Huge thanks to my committee (Olga @andresmh.com @jennwv.bsky.social @qveraliao.bsky.social @parastooabtahi.bsky.social) & everyone who supported me ❤️ 📢 Next I'll join Apple as a research scientist in the Responsible AI team led by @jeffreybigham.com! 6595
Reposted by Andrés Monroy-HernándezPrinceton Center for Information Technology Policy @princetoncitp.bsky.social · 16/04/2025How do you teach students practical ethics—not just in #philosophy class, but in a #technology class? CITP's Steven Kelts is tackling this in Princeton #CS classrooms with hands-on, real-world exercises tailored for engineering courses 🧠 Read more: cs.princeton.edu/news/learnin... #AI #Ethics #Tech 021
Reposted by Andrés Monroy-HernándezPrinceton Center for Information Technology Policy @princetoncitp.bsky.social · 08/04/2025From applied #scientist at Amazon to #student & #researcher at Princeton - a new "Meet the Researcher" has dropped! Meet Varun Rao 👋 "I realized that not a lot of pressing challenges in computer science have a purely technical solution anymore, and they deserved interdisciplinary approaches." 🔗 🔽blog.citp.princeton.eduMeet the Researcher: Varun Rao - CITP BlogVarun Rao is Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science and the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. Rao recently sat down with Princeton undergraduate student ... 101
Reposted by Andrés Monroy-HernándezPrinceton Center for Information Technology Policy @princetoncitp.bsky.social · 28/03/2025NEW Blog Post! Check out how CITP researchers are making real-world impact on the side of workers. Read "Revolutionizing Rideshare: Researchers Develop FairFare App to Empower Workers" 🔻 🙌 @andresmh.com @samanthadalal.bsky.social @dana.witchy.business blog.citp.princeton.edu/2025/03/25/r...blog.citp.princeton.eduRevolutionizing Rideshare: Researchers Develop FairFare App to Empower Workers - CITP BlogOn February 1, 2025, Colorado’s Transportation Network Transparency Bill (SB24-075) took effect. CITP scholars, along with their colleagues, played a key role in supporting advocacy around the bill by... 148
Andrés Monroy-Hernández @andresmh.com · 15/02/2025I'm on a panel about the future of social technologies at #AAAS to talk about the decentralized social media, e.g., Bluesky, for scientists. Why do you think scientists should or should not be on Bluesky? 👨🔬 181
Reposted by Andrés Monroy-HernándezIFTAS - Independent Federated Trust & Safety @iftas.org · 08/02/2025Thank you for the support around our recent announcement about our lack of funding. Here’s some more detail on what our funding shortfall means for IFTAS and the communities we support. If we cannot secure immediate funding, IFTAS will need to: 1/8 10149