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i see. background would be awesome - i'd also love to chat about your current work! i'll reach out in a DM

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oh! i was not aware of these meetings - and it sounds like we missed some outreach from you? i am sorry about that! thanks for linking the relevant projects and efforts below, i'm reading through them today. would it be okay if i reach out to you for a call sometime?

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if you are --- (a) developing governance tools + vocabularies (b) setting up / onboarding new communities (perhaps, your own?) (c) interested in participating in a future workshop (d) want to explore partnerships! please reach out! i'm more responsive on email though 😅

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Benjamin Mako Hill @mako.cc · 16/09/2026

thanks @bnewbold.net!! we're so excited to be working with the Bonfire team on this - starting to plan workshops for the coming year. some other partnerships also in the works ;) i would absolutely love to hear from folks if they've been working on similar efforts, especially ...

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My research group (@communitydata.science) hosts a free/public event this Friday 9/18 with Dyuti Jha (@callofdyuti.bsky.social) and Joe Walther on how online communities can support the emergence of online hate: blog.communitydata.science/community-di...

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sohyeon hwang @s0hw.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

super exciting opportunity - pass it on!!

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Romina Mahinpei @rmahinpei.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Are 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...

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sohyeon hwang @s0hw.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

While we're not offering financial compensation, this interview will be a chance to reflect on AI's role in your mentoring dynamic 🧑‍🎓🤖👩‍🏫 To sign up, fill out this form: forms.gle/WnuZFgPYVdFS... and we’ll reach out to schedule a time! This study was approved by the Princeton IRB (#19413). #academia

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GenAI Tools in Advisor <-> Advisee Relationships Sign-up

Are you using ChatGPT or other GenAI tools in your advising or PhD work? How does your advisor (or advisee) feel about it? If you’re a PhD student or advisor in HCI, we want to hear from you! Please ...

sohyeon hwang @s0hw.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

📢 #PhD students & #HCI faculty — we want to hear from you! @mirandawei.bsky.social @samanthadalal.bsky.social @mariannealq.bsky.social and I are studying how GenAI use is impacting the #research advisor-advisee relationship. Sign-up link for a 45 min interview, virtual or in-person, in the thread 🧵

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sohyeon hwang @s0hw.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

hahaha yes, mayel and I have been chatting!! thank you for pinging though :D I’m super bummed I can’t make it (at an all day in-person workshop!), it looks like there were a lot of interesting discussions floating about

sohyeon hwang @s0hw.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Thank you so much again for joining us!! It was such a delight to meet and chat - let's hang out in Brooklyn sometime 🤠

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ofc, this project has only been possible with the support with several wonderful collaborators at Princeton (@andresmh.com and Yuhan Liu), Northwestern (@thatianyandrade.bsky.social @sophierollins.bsky.social @aaronshaw.bsky.social in the @communitydata.science) and Georgia Tech (Richmond Wong) 😊

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find me at the last day of #CHI2026 (or reach out for another time) if you want to chat and learn more! we're especially excited to speak to potential community partners or folks interested in using the infra we are working on building out 🤝🔗

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in this paper in particular, we also highlight tensions around autonomy and labor + identify three principles of design (modularity, polycentricity, forkability) that are guiding our ongoing efforts now, in partnership with Bonfire Networks 🔥

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we draw on design workshops to sketch out a vision of trust bubbles, coalition-building, and shared vocabularies. what really excites me is that the ecosystem participants envisioned was quite coherent - we're actually now developing the ideas that came up into tools 🧰🔧 + resources 📝

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Governing Together: Toward Infrastructure for Community-Run Social Media | Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

🏃‍♀️ 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/...

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sohyeon hwang @s0hw.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

One of our awesome undergrad students in @princetonhci.bsky.social is working on this 😄 Please share and consider participating!

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Benjamin Mako Hill @mako.cc · 16/02/2026

ICYMI: Finally blogged about an old paper (led by @groceryheist.cc) that explains why people often engage in multiple groups with overlapping topic and membership, and which helps explain why competition between online groups seems to be rare. mako.cc/copyrighteou...

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Why do people participate in similar online communities?

Note: I have not published blog posts about my academic papers over the past few years. To ensure that my blog contains a more comprehensive record of my published papers and to surface these for f…

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Manoel Horta Ribeiro @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Deepfake pornography isn’t going away just because we are passing laws and taking down a couple of big websites. Our new pre-print, led by @aedcv.bsky.social suggests that the sharing of this material continued to prosper even after platform and policy shocks. arxiv.org/abs/2602.02754

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.

7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.

13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear

witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I know this probably isn't very useful since I don't even have speaker's notes, but here are the slides from that recent talk. The title was "The Librarian’s Dividend: Pathways towards Information Ethics and Literacy in the Age of Generative AI" docs.google.com/presentation...

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The Librarian's Dividence (ALA Core Forum).pptx

✨The Librarian’s Dividend✨ Pathways towards Information Ethics and Literacy in the Age of Generative AI Casey Fiesler | casey.prof Image credit: OpenAI’s DALL-E and countless uncredited and uncompensa...

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sohyeon hwang @s0hw.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

i'm partnering with them on some of this, in particular re: increasing the options and features for community governance! the campaign is really close, with only 11 days left - join us by supporting! we can have matching art 🤗

sohyeon hwang @s0hw.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

help 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/...

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Bonfire: building blocks for communities on the open social web by Bonfire - Indiegogo

From platforms to communities: a federated social web with shared foundations and co‑created spaces for gathering, care, connection, and stewardship.

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Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

📣 Call for Papers: Weizenbaum Conference 2026 🤖 “Generative AI and Society: What is at stake?” 📅 Berlin, June 10–11, 2026 📌 Submit papers by Jan 31, 2026 🔗 More: t1p.de/wa2nc

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Weizenbaum Conference 2026: Call for Papers

The Weizenbaum Institute will host its 8th annual Conference on the topic “Generative AI and Society: What is at stake?“ We invite interested scholars to submit papers for presentations. The conferenc...

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sohyeon hwang @s0hw.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

I’ll be presenting this work at #CSCW2025 in Bergen on Tuesday at 2:30PM! We will be part of the session “Core Concepts in Privacy Research” (in the Bekken room) chaired by @emtseng.bsky.social ☺️

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Sachita Nishal @sachnishal.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

📣 Attention science + tech journalists! Trying to keep up with the flood of research papers that come out every day? Attempting to track what research has already been covered by others, and what may benefit from deeper exploration? You are invited to participate in our research study! [1/3]

A rectangular Northwestern University flyer titled “Call for Study Participants.” The top banner is pink with bold black text reading “CALL FOR STUDY PARTICIPANTS.” Below it, highlighted in yellow, is the question: “Are you a journalist writing about technology and/or computing?” The flyer explains that researchers at Northwestern University are seeking professional journalists who cover technology or related topics, write news in English, and are based in the U.S. to participate in an online study. The study involves using a tool for two weeks, providing feedback, and receiving $100 compensation (IRB Study #STU00224608). It includes a yellow box that says “Fill out our eligibility form if you’re interested!” with the link https://tinyurl.com/newscompass and contact emails: Nick Diakopoulos (nad@northwestern.edu) and Sachita Nishal (nishal@u.northwestern.edu). The Northwestern University seal appears in the top-right corner.

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sohyeon hwang @s0hw.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

echoing @jeremydfoote.com, really appreciate the kind words @haimson.bsky.social :D it remains one of my favorite pieces - and has really made vague questions about scale and how to think about it sit in the back of my head for years!

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sohyeon hwang @s0hw.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

I'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!

A faded etching of the Hudson River from Hoboken is overlaid with the following text: CSCW Northeast 2025, in-person regional gathering. Friday, October 3, 2025, 10AM-4:30PM at University Center Complex, Stevens Institute of Technology. RSVP: cscw-ne.hci.social

The logos of HCI at Stevens, Princeton HCI, and Rutgers University are on the right-hand side.

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sohyeon hwang @s0hw.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

hello - i would love to see this too, if you're okay with sharing more broadly!

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"In connection with “A Manifesto for Wikimedia Rsrch: Critically Studying Media as Infrastructure”, [we call] for rschrs to critically examine Wikimedia's role as global knwldg infrastructure[, which involves] historicizing [its] epistemology [+] recognizing the dispossession of the commons..."

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Uniting and reigniting critical Wikimedia research - Steve Jankowski, Heather Ford, Andrew Iliadis, Francesca Sidoti, 2025

Over the past fifteen years, Wikimedia's technical relationships and social meanings have shifted from supporting the creation of an encyclopedia that seek...

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 25/05/2025

5 years ago: “An incalculable loss” Today: Banning masks and restricting vaccine access

NEW YORK TIMES (2020): U.S. DEATHS NEAR 100,000, AN INCALCULABLE LOSS

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Like unhappy families, each microblogging site is batshit insane in its own way.

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Natalie Alana Ashton @natalan.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

if you're in the US and despairing about people being pulled off the street, you need to find your nearest immigrant defence/deportation defence group and learn how to do stuff like this www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021...

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‘A special day’: how a Glasgow community halted immigration raid

Activists and local people tell how they forced the release of two men detained in an enforcement van

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WIRED @wired.com · 18/03/2025

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

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Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow

As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 28/02/2025

Ted Cruz said he’d found $2 billion in “woke” science grants, but his team used keyword searches that flagged things out of context, like a grant to develop a device to treat severe bleeding that mentioned “victims” and “trauma.” www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

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A Study of Mint Plants. A Device to Stop Bleeding. This Is the Scientific Research Ted Cruz Calls “Woke.”

The senator flagged thousands of National Science Foundation grants for using words like “female” and “diversify.” A ProPublica analysis found numerous examples of projects caught up in his crude meth...

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Book Ban: Trump Floats Law to Target Books Critical of Him Trump continues to attack free speech

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Book Ban: Trump Floats Law to Target Books Critical of Him

Trump continues to attack free speech

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sohyeon hwang @s0hw.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

if you're also going to be at the NYC one, lmk - let's meet up!! if not, you can find your local event here: standupforscience2025.org/local-event-...