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Os Keyes @okeyes.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

@drnikko.bsky.social and I are putting together a special issue proposal for Big Data and Society on "Trans Data"! If you're an #STS nerd, or a #transstudies nerd, or ideally both, do submit ideas if you have them - docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Big Data and Society - Trans Data CFP

Call for PapersSpecial Issue of Big Data & Society on Trans Data Data and trans lives go - both fortunately and unfortunately - together. From surveillance systems seeking to normalise and control t...

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Dr. Nikko Stevens @drnikko.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Además, aqui está el CFP en español. Para mí es muy importante incuir perspectivas y voces de Latinoamérica. Por favor, compártela con sus redes trans.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Thrilled to have galleys of my book in hand! Final corrections & index pending. Please consider preordering, gifting, & teaching. Via the archive, interviews & more I show how the crisis we face now reflects failure to listen & act on the democracy Black folks have envisioned, but we still can.

Two copies of a black, white and red book cover. The cover reads
UNCORRECTED PROOF
NOT For SALE

SECOND SIGHT: HOW THE WONDER AND VISION OF
BLACK MEDIAMAKERS
PUSH AMERICA
TOWARD FREEDOM

SARAH J. JACKSON

My light brownish hand with chipped purple glitter nail polish holds the books

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Rahul Bhargava @rahulbot.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

We have a lot to learn from and about trans data activism! Read a summary of new work my amazing colleagues Amelia Lee Dogan, @drnikko.bsky.social & @kanarinka.bsky.social presented at @acm-cscw.bsky.social this past fall. medium.com/acm-cscw/tra...

Trust trans people + what they tell you
From our interviews, we found trans activists had savvy and complex understandings of how they could use data to serve their activist needs, retain their political commitments, prioritize care and support, and uplift trans communities. We call this approach trans data:
Trans data is about materially approving trans lives
Trans data crosses boundaries
Trans data requires power analysis
We hope these principles can be used to help build new data collection, analysis, and communication systems that serve trans liberation and help reorient researchers to the deep political commitments of data for and about trans people.

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Dr. Nikko Stevens @drnikko.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Plenty! Send a DM and I can make intros

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Rahul Bhargava @rahulbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

DataBasic.io is 10 years old! Our self-service activities and tools for data literacy helped launch me down the road to my "Community Data" book, and was one of my first projects with @kanarinka.bsky.social. Happy to report the site is working again, and the two of us still collaborate.

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DataBasic.io

WordCounter analyzes your text and tells you the most common words and phrases.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 04/09/2025

On Instagram, anarchist activist and trans justice lawyer Dean Spade suggests that one way people can deal with their feelings about the transphobic meltdown is by writing letters to trans prisoners. More details on how to here: www.instagram.com/p/DOLzj4mjpA...

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

as a historian of crime, things i wish were more mainstream about “crime is down but concerns about crime are up” 1.crime rates are irredeemably inaccurate. argue all you like about this/that but statistics have always had more to do with policing and reporting than any underlying “crime rate” 🗃️

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Dr. Nikko Stevens @drnikko.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Thanks, friend! And welcome (?!) back.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Here is that demo video, specifically focused on Los Angeles. This is the context in which GeoSpy is demoing its technology www.404media.co/lapd-eyes-ge...

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Dr. Nikko Stevens @drnikko.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Thanks, Eric!! I hope all is well up there!

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Dr. Nikko Stevens @drnikko.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Me too! We’re even closer now!

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Dr. Nikko Stevens @drnikko.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Hi - some good news amidst the bad news: This week I start as an Assistant Professor of Data Science at Smith College. www.smith.edu/people/nikko...

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 04/04/2025

all it took for me to become a prison abolitionist was a few years of reading simple factual accounts of what happens in jails and prisons

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Oliver Haimson @haimson.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Tonight: Providence! With @drnikko.bsky.social at Symposium Books.

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Dr. Nikko Stevens @drnikko.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

The complete works of Stephen Sondheim and the relative merits of every cast recording / production / libretto change - thanks teenage obsessiveness.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Making a donation to @transjournalists.org 1) feels much better than doomscrolling and 2) is a measurable way of more helping trans people report on trans issues on a local and federal level in the US: www.transjournalists.org/donate/

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Together, we can promote more accurate, nuanced coverage of trans issues and communities in the media while also supporting gender-expansive journalists in their workplaces and careers. Join the TJA'...

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Dr. Nikko Stevens @drnikko.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

<3 Birds of a feather, my friend! <3

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Dr. Nikko Stevens @drnikko.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I wrote a multi-page rhyming couplet poem about how Santa Claus is a fascist and the reindeer & elves were due for an Attica-style uprising to assert their rights and work for freedom. I gave it to my mother as an xmas present.

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Dr. Nikko Stevens @drnikko.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

My condolences to your family in this time of great loss.

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Dr. Nikko Stevens @drnikko.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I'm very far from the Bay but very close to a laptop at all times! Will this be streamed?

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Jacque(line) Wernimont @wernimont.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

@drnikko.bsky.social and I have a piece in here on cooperative structures- discount code for 30% off too!!

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Dr. Nikko Stevens @drnikko.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I was JUST thinking about the Kinect yesterday. It had so much potential 😂

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Dr. Nikko Stevens @drnikko.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

It was so lovely!! Truly the nicest group I’ve been around in a long time!

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Dr. Nikko Stevens @drnikko.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Really excited to be the closing keynote at Code4Lib this morning. (I'm on around 9:15EST) Livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktQ2...

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Code4Lib 2025 — Day 3 Morning

YouTube video by Code4Lib

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Dr. Nikko Stevens @drnikko.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I'm with you. It's also notable that this guy who intervened didn't receive any repercussions himself. Perhaps people can see this and feel a little braver to intervene...

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 10/03/2025

Legacy media is dying. They have no editorial independence anymore, they are beholden to billionaires who are buying out all the outlets and controlling me message. Support independent journalists, y'all. We're out here doing the work and breaking the news. Drop your WAPO sub.

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Coco(s before bros) @courtniewolfgang.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

My field’s national org- NAEA- has been predictably radio silent about all these EO’s targeting students and teachers. The conference theme this year is “vibrant” so I’ll be vibrantly launching a flyering campaign. See y’all in Louisville next week. #riso #risograph

Multiple stacks of hundreds of brightly risograph printed materials for distribution including my zine for supporting and affirming queer and trans students and their teachers and the “what to do when you feel uncertain” pamphlet.

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Dr. Nikko Stevens @drnikko.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Ah!! Miriam, I was just thinking of you - I was driving past a port and wondering about supply chains! I'm doing historical work on the relational database and its role in carceral infrastructures rn and I'd LOVE to talk with you about this! (building on prev work about white supremacy + dbs)

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Blair LM Kelley, Ph.D. @profblmkelley.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Congratulations @marthasjones.bsky.social for an AMAZING review of the Trouble of Color. It's imperative that we support Black history by Black scholars in this moment, and the Trouble of Color reminds us that the impulse to deny, misname, and erase our history isn't new. Pick it up today!

My hand holding my copy of the Trouble of Color by Martha S. Jones!

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Dr. Nikko Stevens @drnikko.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I would not be at MIT today if not for community colleges. They are the only school so many of us have access to, and are such a precious resource full of vibrant scholarship.

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Trans Rescue Action 🏳️‍⚧️ @transrescueaction.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Trans Rescue Action is a non profit assisting trans individuals and families feeling violence to southern California. For over a year, TRA has helped several folx relocate ensuring their safety and an ability to restart anew. Apply to be a safe house today! transrescueaction.org

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

You made it through another work week. Have you had something to eat today or gone outside? Are you slouching? Do you have anything fun offline planned? Is there a friend or loved one you could call? Try not to doomscroll too late tonight. You still deserve time to rest and recover.

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 28/02/2025

Please donate right now to the Iowa Trans Mutual Aid Fund: www.iowatransmutualaidfund.org #IowaTransMutualAid #TransRights #MutualAid

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Iowa Trans Mutual Aid Fund

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Dr. Nikko Stevens @drnikko.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Researcher friends: Has "transgender" always been a restricted search category on factiva? I'm (up too late) gathering cites for the anti-trans dorm ruling in Utah and any search I run with the word "transgender" is returning "no results" even when I know that's wrong.

a screenshot of factivia, with a red box around the search term "dormitory transgender" and a results pane showing no results

A screenshot of factivia showing search results for the term "dormitory"

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JK ✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Join me!

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