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Sophia Liu

@blue-phia.bsky.social
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Sarah @lepidopterane.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🌟 catch my augmented reading work at HT ‘26 🌟 @blue-phia.bsky.social is first author on scaffolding reading for transformation, she’s presenting this at 11 tmr in session 4 I’m presenting Tompkinsia this Thursday at 11 tmr in session 12 links to papers below!
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Sophia Liu @blue-phia.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
incredible... how dare you cut up our paper?! kidding, thank you for this beautiful reading artifact.
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Andy Matuschak @andymatuschak.org · 01/09/2026
Extremely luxurious to go to the library, make a beeline for the oversize shelves, and wallow in endless gorgeous, impractical books
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Wesley Finck @wesleyfinck.org · 26/08/2026
Some preliminary product insights from our recent onboarding launch: It's no coincidence that the most popular suggested link is "From Feeds to Trails". People are ready for a new kind of social media experience! leaflet.pub/p/did:plc:ld...
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From Feeds to Trails
To design the future of social media, rethink the interface before the algorithm.
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Andy Matuschak @andymatuschak.org · 20/08/2026
Mesmerized by Dennis Hlynsky's overlapped timelapses of starlings, crows, fish…https://vimeo.com/dennishlynsky/videos/sort:plays/format:thumbnail
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Sophia Liu @blue-phia.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
WE WANT YOU 🫵 if you’re a senior HCI researcher (senior PhD student, postdoc, professor, industry researcher, etc) for a study on reading & finding inspiration from literature! 📖🤔💭 More info + sign up here: bit.ly/research-reading w/ @sh1m.bsky.social @maxkreminski.bsky.social @bjo3rn.bsky.social
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Research Reading Study Screener Survey
Thank you for your interest in participating in this research study! We are researchers at UC Berkeley interested in exploring how researchers of all experience levels read and gain inspiration from a...
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Creight Photo 🌱☮️ @afewfromtheforest.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
#SundaySilence "The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness." ~John Muir 📍 PA
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shm garanganao almeda @sh1m.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
i'm giving a talk on Artographer (shmuh.co/papers/artog...) next week at ACM C&C 2026 and as I've been working on the presentation i keep,, opening the system, zooming into random areas and staring at the public domain artwork . it calms me
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Artographer
Artographer: A Curatorial Interface for Art Space Exploration
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Sophia Liu @blue-phia.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Thanks, Ronen! The concept of reading for transformation may have emerged from my repeated reading of the Wikipedia page for Heinlein’s “grok,” but we hadn’t consciously written the piece with that word in mind. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok
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Grok - Wikipedia
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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 16/06/2026
How to create reading experiences that "go beyond information transmission and toward reader transformation.” Great paper by @blue-phia.bsky.social @lepidopterane.bsky.social @yijunliu.bsky.social Sarah Sterman @sh1m.bsky.social @maxkreminski.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2606.04308 >
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Sophia Liu @blue-phia.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
longnow.org/ideas/whole-... Why haven’t we seen a photograph of the whole web yet?
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shm garanganao almeda @sh1m.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
we're running a study on how people use wikipedia! no experience necessary, just curiosity. please consider signing up & sharing with your network! forms.gle/JJpaa93GiU8Z...
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Sophia Liu @blue-phia.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
By giving non-technical community members the ability to deliberate and design their own AI agents, Botender places collective self-governance directly in stakeholders’ hands. 🤲🤖💜 I am so proud to be a part of this work and looking forward to attending my first CHI!
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Mark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Artographer: a Curatorial Interface for Art Space Exploration
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Artographer: a Curatorial Interface for Art Space Exploration
Relating a piece to previously established works is crucial in creating and engaging with art, but AI interfaces tend to obscure such relationships, rather than helping users explore them. Embedding m...
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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 25/09/2025
1/ Exciting paper by @sh1m.bsky.social & Sophia Liu 🔥 “hypertext systems emphasize provenance, associative thinking, and user-driven meaning-making, while algorithmic systems tend to obscure process and flatten participation” arxiv.org/abs/2507.235...
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