The Pit Beneath the Town Square: How Digital Solastalgia Affects Platform Migration and Community Structures of Transfeminine Users

By @erikavmelder.bsky.social @verorub.bsky.social @ellali.bsky.social Emma Vonbuelow and I

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💐 We are also connecting this meet-up with broader community efforts, including our sister meet-up at CHI and the Feminist HCI community initiative: feminist-hci.github.io

💐 At #CHI2026, we’re excited to host an official meet-up about Legitimizing, Developing, and Sustaining Feminist HCI in East Asian contexts. ✨ It’s open to ALL.

👇See poster and comments for more details!

@cra-hq.bsky.social

So excited to join the CRA-GC 2025! Come meet and chat if you are also here!

#GC2025 #CRAGRADCOHORT

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Really hard to find hope in humanity when so many are so openly cruel yet they are cheered on for it. The devil's work of dehumanizing our fellow humans to normalize mass death and suffering has been wildly successful.

The world we inhabit today is one that is intolerable for those with empathy.

Through the Looking Glass: Faultlines, Broken Systems, and Radical Care It’s a little like falling through the looking glass, only to find there’s no whimsical tea party waiting on the other side—just all the worst parts of our system reflected back at us.

New blog post up! www.kateringland.com/through-the-...

For more interesting research and commentary around sociotechnical systems, agency, and tech for marginalized communities, consider following SEALab's research team members and some of our collaborators/friends of the lab: go.bsky.app/Qebmwfu

On the Need for a Transfeminist Empiricism to Combat Epistemic Injustice By Dr. Michael Ann DeVito, Northeastern University

I love this piece I wrote for
@enkiducoin.bsky.social's blog a while back, and there's exciting news on the horizon around it. I have some very, very clever students around me who tend to take my rants and turn them into full CS research papers... thirdsexedinsurrection.substack.com/p/on-the-nee...