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Dr. Julie Kientz @juliekientz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

We're hiring an Assistant Professor in @hcde.uw.edu! Looking forward to seeing your applications. Feel free to share widely!

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Dr. Julie Kientz @juliekientz.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

It's UW's Husky Giving Day! Please consider supporting the incredible students of @hcde.uw.edu who are working hard to design technology that makes the world better. We have some ambitious goals this year. I hope you'll make a gift of any amount and spread the word! together.uw.edu/i/hgd/Campai...

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Human Centered Design & Engineering

Human Centered Design & Engineering prepares students to design technologies, systems, and services that improve people’s lives.

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Dr. Julie Kientz @juliekientz.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Great work by @nishadevasia.bsky.social for leading this systematic review on narrative based gaming interventions for mental health.

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Dr. Julie Kientz @juliekientz.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Excited to host @hcde.uw.edu alumna Nicole Washington this week, who is now a product designer at @xbox.com.

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UW Human Centered Design & Engineering @hcde.uw.edu · 20/01/2026

Join us on campus for the next HCDE UX Speaker Series talk this Thursday, Jan. 22 🎤 We’re excited to welcome Sena Janky, UX Manager at Fluke Corporation, for the talk “Designing Influence: UX Advocacy Across an Organization.” Free and open to the public. www.hcde.washington.edu/ux/2026/janky

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Sena Janky: Jan. 22

Sena Janky, UX Manager, Fluke Corporation | January 22, 2026

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Pedro Lopes @pedrolopes.org · 23/12/2025

#CHI2026 program is shaping up: here's the first glimpse at the list of accepted workshops: chi2026.acm.org/workshops/ac... This will be a really fun @chi.acm.org ! (Reminder that there's no added fee this year to attend workshops, they will happen throughout the conference!)

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Accepted Workshops - ACM CHI 2026

CHI workshops are organized independently by their organizers. Please see the websites of the individual events for detailed instructions on how to submit position papers and/or applications. Please n...

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UW Human Centered Design & Engineering @hcde.uw.edu · 02/12/2025

Join us for the final talk of HCDE’s 2025 Research Speaker Series! This Thursday, Assistant Professor Sucheta Ghoshal will share insights from her work with social movements that actively resist dominant computational technology. 📅 Thursday, Dec. 4 ⏰ 4:30 – 5:20 p.m. 📍 134 Sieg, UW campus

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Dec. 4: Sucheta Ghoshal

2025 Research Speaker SeriesSucheta GhoshalAssistant Professor, HCDE

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

I’m giving a free/public talk this Tues in Seattle about how US government investment in science laid the foundations for the field of human-computer interaction and how that field (and investment) connects to so many of the innovations that we take for granted, as well as the future of AI.

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Dr. Julie Kientz @juliekientz.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

At @hcde.uw.edu, we will be hiring an Assistant or Associate Teaching Professor this coming year! Timing wise, we are hiring for a Sept. 2026 start date, but could be sooner. We are looking forward to welcoming a new colleague! Learn more and apply at apply.interfolio.com/171881

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/08/2025

1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years. Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.

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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

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?

Email from the "PUBLIC RECORDS OFFICE" to Kate Starbird asking for all emails from Jan 1 2021 through July 30 2025 with any of the following keywords:
"diversity and inclusion"
"DEIA"
"DEI"
"Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging"
"DEIB"
"gender identity"
"racial preference"
"ESG"
"organizational equity"
"intersectionality"
"anti-racism"
"critical race theory"
"LGBTQ+"
"transgender"
"cisgender"
"gender ideology"
"white privilege"
"privilege walk"
"cultural humility"
"equity audit"
"restorative justice"
"racial equity"
"implicit bias"
"microaggressions"
"inclusive pedagogy"
"identity-based oppression"
"systems of oppression"
"queer"
"non-binary"
"sexuality"
“Trump”
“fascist”

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Dr. Julie Kientz @juliekientz.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Excited about this upcoming #CHIPLAY2025 paper led by @nishadevasia.bsky.social on people’s meaningful experiences with games!

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Caroline, doing the work @carolinethegeek.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

We got a visit from @seattletimes.com on Monday at KidsTeam. You can try Aayushi Dangol's AI Puzzlers for yourself! @hcde.uw.edu @ischool.uw.edu @juliekientz.bsky.social @jasoncyip.bsky.social

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/07/2025

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

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James B. Greenberg, Professor Emeritus @zavaletas.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

MAGA is more than a political movement—it’s a symbolic system that answers dislocation with identity, confusion with clarity, and loss with belonging. If we want to push back, we need more than critique. We need a new story—and the civic infrastructure to support it.

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Between Stories: Understanding MAGA, Rebuilding Democracy

To counter authoritarianism, we need more than critique—we need a shared narrative and civic infrastructure grounded in belonging, dignity, and care.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 05/06/2025

The failure of the National Academy of Sciences USA to make a clear and unequivocal statement about the disastrous Trump administration science policies — it lets all of us down and dooms them to eventual irrelevance.

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US science is being wrecked, and its leadership is fighting the last war

Facing an extreme budget, the National Academies hosted an event that ignored it.

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Dr. Julie Kientz @juliekientz.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Super proud of @nishadevasia.bsky.social for leading the research for this #DIS2025 paper!

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Dr. Julie Kientz @juliekientz.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

If you want to see the planned impact on science with the proposed National Science Foundation cuts, this table in particular demonstrates it most devastatingly. Going from 330,000 people to 90,000 people involved in NSF activities. #SaveNSF From: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

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UW Human Centered Design & Engineering @hcde.uw.edu · 23/05/2025

Offshore wind and marine energy can boost energy security and economic revitalization along our coastlines. HCDE’s Shana Hirsch leads research that centers community voices in the development of this emerging industry, but recent cuts to federal funding put this community-driven research at risk.

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HCDE impact: Advancing renewable marine energy to strengthen coastal communities

Renewable marine energy—power generated from ocean waves and tides—could play a big role in boosting coastal economies and reducing US dependence on fossil fuels. HCDE Assistant Research Professor Sha...

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I’m hoping that there will be some rapid action to get legal support to the PhD students who have had their NSF GRFP (fellowships) terminated in the Trump regime’s latest attacks on academia.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

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Dr. Julie Kientz @juliekientz.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

ProPublica continues to earn my monthly workplace giving donation. I encourage you to support their journalism as well.

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Isako Di Tomassi @isakoditomassi.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Yes! We have to move the needle on public perception of science. Scientists can share their story in a LOCAL HOMETOWN PAPER op-ed, published June 16! #McClintockLetters #SciComm Share how we serve the public with fed dollars, & insights into fed funded research. tinyurl.com/McClintockLetters

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Dr. Julie Kientz @juliekientz.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Happy Birthday, #NSF. Thank you for all you’ve done for promoting science and innovation for the betterment of society. #SaveNSF

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David Mouritsen @davidmouritsen.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

On the NSF's 75th: “‘NSF investments have driven groundbreaking innovations, from the internet and LASIK eye surgery to the first image of a black hole... The foundation has also played a key role in the work of 268 Nobel Prize laureates, helping to shape many of their landmark achievements.’”

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Time to Save the National Science Foundation, 75 Years and Thriving

The National Science Foundation marks its 75th anniversary today, May 10th 2025. Rather than celebrate, it's time to save it.

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

🧪 Ranking member Lofgren and 11 other House dems sent a fiery 7-page letter to acting NSF director today "The cancelation of these awards suggests instead that NSF is willing to apply political censorship of awards under direction from President Trump and the DOGE teenagers" Share widely #SaveNSF

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Dr. Julie Kientz @juliekientz.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Uggghh… more harmful and destructive shenanigans going down at #NSF

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Thinking about devastating cuts to NSF: US gov-funded science has been the engine upon which most of the tech wealth was generated. But the oligarchs (currently hoarding much of that $) think it’s their own brilliance & not the accident of standing close to the scientific engine that made them rich.

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Dr. Julie Kientz @juliekientz.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

This absolutely. I definitely would not have gone into research if I hadn’t been supported first by an #NSF REU program as an undergrad and then an #NSF graduate fellowship. I didn’t even know what research was or how one got into it until I participated in an REU program.

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Dr. Julie Kientz @juliekientz.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

The bloodbath against science and universities continues to be devastating. Scientists have invested many hours into writing and reviewing these grants. Many CAREER awards have been included in these terminations, which often represent our brightest junior researchers.

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 30/04/2025

UPDATE: We have data on >1000 terminated #NSF grants at grant-watch.us. Thanks to all who have been contributing data the past few days. We've also added a "Reports" section with some analyses. For NSF, we see that the STEM education directorate has been absolutely pummeled.

Screenshot of table showing number of grants and total value terminated by NSF directorate. STEM Education directorate is highlighted, with 417 terminations totaling 322 million dollars.

CSV of table:
Directorate,No. Terminated,Total Value
Biological Sciences,46,"$27,960,075"
Computer and Information Science and Engineering,85,"$44,630,113"
Engineering,94,"$33,472,485"
Geosciences,52,"$36,454,740"
Mathematical and Physical Sciences,30,"$6,418,312"
Office of the Director,7,"$4,859,738"
STEM Education,417,"$322,680,063"
"Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences",266,"$77,635,904"
"Technology, Innovation and Partnerships",46,"$62,231,309"

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Terminating the grants to study misinformation is “an overt act of censoring and preventing accountability,” says Stephen Lewandowsky, a misinformation researcher at the University of Bristol. “Who other than a liar would cancel misinformation research?” 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

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Trump’s team, often accused of spreading misinformation, slashes misinformation research

Hundreds of grants axed in a field where the United States was a global leader

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

🧪 Tip: You have the right to contest a grant termination, even though NSF says you don't. 🧵 On Friday, NSF terminated 402 grants (per Musk's DOGE). The notification letters had one of the most egregious violations of fed regulations I've seen so far in these cases: "not subject to appeal"

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Kevin Hall @kevinh-phd.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology.

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UW News @uwnews.uw.edu · 15/04/2025

A pause to NIH funding has researchers scrambling for contingency plans at the University of Washington’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. The center’s brain bank is preserving more than 4,000 brains for research.

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One of the country's leading Alzheimer's projects is in jeopardy

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UW Human Centered Design & Engineering @hcde.uw.edu · 10/04/2025

Ready to advance your career in UX research & design? HCDE’s Graduate Certificate in User Centered Design is a five-course, evening program for professionals ready to deepen their skills. Join us for an upcoming info session—applications due July 2025. Details: www.hcde.washington.edu/ucd

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Graduate Certificate in User Centered Design

Upcoming Information Sessions for Fall AdmissionApplication opens May 1, 2025

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

The only way forward, that I can see, requires both courage and collective action. If we’re not going to fight for our students and our scholarship, then what the hell are we doing anyway?

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Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Universities, including law schools, need to strategically speak out at the same time and together. If you're too scared to come out in a small group, say you'll only sign if 90% of schools sign on. Stop competing to save yourselves!

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Dr. Julie Kientz @juliekientz.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Yesterday’s update from Heather Cox Richardson is an important but difficult read. It summarizes everything that has happened since January and why. Please find ways to take action in your communities - the changes are destroying our institutions and will harm everyone, no matter what your politics.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Trump regime is now claiming the shockingly stupid, dangerous, and illegal Signal chat & leak of attack plans is a "HOAX" — just like Russian interference in 2016 & Jan 6. No matter how much evidence there is, if Trump & supporters don't want it to be true, it's a hoax. www.cnn.com/2025/03/27/p...

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Analysis: The White House says the Yemen security breach is a hoax. Here’s why it’s not | CNN Politics

In Donald Trump’s White House, it matters less what you screw up than how hard you fight back.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.

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Candice Odgers @candiceodgers.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

A great infographic of what the Dept of Ed actually does. Also, it is the WORST time to pull resources from students with the highest need. Learning gaps post COVID between kids who grow up in low vs high income households are large - and this will be devastating

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 21/03/2025

I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired. It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵

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Charlotte Moore-Lambert @charlottereads.com · 22/03/2025

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

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Kelton Minor @keltonminor.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵

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