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New Research Alert! The report “Trans digital rights: Improving data visibility, privacy and belonging for gender-diverse communities” ✨ 💫🌈 Our research asks: If we could reimagine digital rights that center the needs of gender-diverse communities, what would they look like?

Brazil's 80-year-old left-wing leader President Lula defeats Flávio Bolsonaro in a bitterly contested runoff. n.pr/48eAvU9

it's soul-crushing to see Brazil on the edge of this precipice, not even 40 years after re-democratization. Whatever comes out of these elections will reverberate far and wide. These will be 21 really long days 🥲🥲🥲

🌃 A must read: @jhereia.bsky.social 's (University of Virginia, USA) "Synthetic Nights: Machine and Human Learning in 24-hour Cities" is one of the most reacted, commented, and shared essays of the special dossier for Mediapolis - a journal of cities and culture on the Synthetic City. 1/

We are hiring! ✨ Come work with me at @uvadatascience.bsky.social! We are recruiting an Open Rank Tenured/Tenure Track Prof of Data Science with a background in social science, legal, policy, STEM or humanities disciplines to join our Data and Society area. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/191214

New open access paper on whether algorithms can understand or shape the urban night, the limitations of ML and the need to expand what we consider data in cities. Part of the recently published @mediapolis.bsky.social The Synthetic City special issue :) www.mediapolisjournal.com/2026/09/synt...

OUT NOW: "The Synthetic City", edited by @scott-rodgers.bsky.social, @aneleh-redenetta.bsky.social, marcospdias.bsky.social, @diogo-ph22.bsky.social and saratrentham.bsky.social, examines the implications of AI for urban living. Read the full dossier here: www.mediapolisjournal.com/dossiers/dos...

We're celebrating assistant professor of data science @jhereia.bsky.social for their recent article features in TIME, Bloomberg, and University of Virginia Engagement.

Can't wait for our CRAFT workshop on trans AI policy at ACM FAccT this Sunday, June 28 at 2:15 ET, co-organized with @blairaf.com, @jhereia.bsky.social, and @techlissa.bsky.social! programs.sigchi.org/facct/2026/p...

Super excited for our CRAFT workshop on trans AI policy at FAccT, co-organized w @jhereia.bsky.social & @anabrandusescu.bsky.social, come join us if you're at the conference! More details here: programs.sigchi.org/facct/2026/p...

Tomorrow❗Register before it's too late: dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/gender...

It is with heavy hearts that we share: RightsCon will not proceed in Zambia or online.

Join us for the 10th and last session of the Gender & Tech Series, "Possible AI Futures" on 5/5 @ 10am EDT, featuring @cyn-k.bsky.social and Ploipailin Flynn. Moderated by me & co-organized with @yasmincurzi.com. Free & open to all: dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/gender... <3 @uvadatascience.bsky.social

Assistant Professor at the UVA School of Data Science @jhereia.bsky.social has published a new article in @theconversation.com examining the risks that AI-based automated license plate readers pose to civil liberties, privacy, and human rights. https://bit.ly/4t2G012

Join us on 3/26 @ 10am EDT for the Gender & Tech Talk Series' 9th session, "Immigration & Techno-Authoritarianism" featuring @royapak.bsky.social & Ana B. Nougrères. Moderated by & co-organized with @yasmincurzi.com. Free & open to all dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/gender... @uvadatascience.bsky.social

A reminder to join us this Friday, 12pm to hear from @rebeccawilliams.info @technolua.bsky.social @tamigraph.bsky.social @thakurdhanaraj.bsky.social @royapak.bsky.social B.Wylie & J.Bolthouse @ UVA & online. Free & open to the public: dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/digita... @uvadatascience.bsky.social

I’m joining for this now too! Should be fun. If you’re in CVille, hit me up. dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/digita...

Join us for the 8th session in our Gender & Tech Talk Series, "Digital Transformation,” on Feb 24, 10am ET, with the amazing Jamila Venturini/@derechosdigitales.org & Madeleine Fern/CanArctic Inuit Net. Free to all: dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/gender... @yasmincurzi.com / @uvadatascience.bsky.social

As we navigate the undermining of democratic processes & witness how tech facilitates/resists authoritarianism, join us on Feb 20@12pm to hear from @technolua.bsky.social @tamigraph.bsky.social @thakurdhanaraj.bsky.social @royapak.bsky.social B.Wylie, J.Bolthouse dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/digita...

Join us for the 7th event in our Gender & Tech Online Talk Series "Dis/Misinformation & Political Extremism” on Jan 27 at 11am EST, with the amazing @pinheiromachado.bsky.social + @robyncaplan.bsky.social. Free & open to all: dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/gender.... See you there @yasmincurzi.com

Frankly, I'm not sure why anyone in the Canadian tech policy space is surprised at Microsoft's latest $7.5 billion investment in data centre expansion, premising "Canadian sovereignty." How are we taking digital sovereignty seriously?

This is tomorrow! Come join us

This werk’s Brief includes comments on work from @heyitsseher.bsky.social @blairaf.com @jhereia.bsky.social and others who contributed to Part II of the State of AI Ethics Report, Volume 7.

Join us for the 6th event in our Gender & Tech Online Talk Series, "Trans-inclusive tech governance," on Dec 2 at 11am EST, with the amazing @blairaf.com (Univ of Alberta) and @histoftech.bsky.social (@uvadatascience.bsky.social). Free & open to all: dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/gender.... See u there

Unions, Lawsuits and Whistleblowers: Public Sector Leadership from Below Excited to share my piece for the @mtlaiethics.bsky.social's State of AI Ethics Report on AI in Government: Public Sector Leadership and Implementation. montrealethics.ai/state/

The new State of AI Ethics Report (SAIER) published by the @mtlaiethics.bsky.social is out! I am one of the 58 contributors, with a short essay on yet another reason to question the use of AI in monitoring/harming gender minorities in the US. Available open access: montrealethics.ai/saier-vol-7-...

Want to learn more about how data labour is gendered in its structures, practices & outcomes? Join us for the 5th talk in our Gender & Tech Series on 10/29, 11am EDT, w/ @milamiceli.bsky.social & @tatikmd.bsky.social. Free & open. Register: virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi... With @yasmincurzi.com

📣 Please join us in welcoming our ten new affiliates: Kiara Childs, Mar Hicks, Harry Hudome, Shannon Mattern, Joan Mukogosi, Miliaku Nwabueze, Marie-Therese Png, Jess Reia, Melinda Sebastian, & Émile P. Torres. We're excited to work with and learn from them! datasociety.net/announcement...

I have a short piece on smart infrastructure and techno-authoritarianism in Brazil in the new journal Dialogues on Digital Society ✨ Available here: doi.org/10.1177/2976... If you cannot access it through your library, ping me and I will make sure you get a copy.

"somente com a democracia um país vale a pena" 💙💚💛💙💚💛

join us for the 4th session of our Gender & Tech Online Talk Series on Sept. 29th, 11AM, EDT. we are eager to host two brilliant keynote speakers, Paz Peña (Mozilla Foundation) and Tamara Kneese (Data & Society), who will discuss the social and environmental impacts of technocapitalism. more info: 👇

Come and join us in the third webinar of our Gender and Tech Online Talk Series - this time to discuss platform governance from an intersectional perspective with the amazing Julie Owono and Coleen Carrigan. More details below! See you there?

✨ Thank you all for such an insightful, critical and friendly first day of #TheTechPeopleWant summit! We had a full room all day and very active conversations in the chat – it really fills us with hope. 🔜 Join us tomorrow for Day Two: buff.ly/mR8KWUQ

💻🌱 #TheTechPeopleWant Summit is just around the corner (July 8–9). Today we are announcing the full programme, featuring 31 speakers from all around the world across 4 panels, 2 keynotes and 3 Spotlight Sessions.

Inspired by @jhereia.bsky.social wonderful new book on busking, data, policy, and cities, my column for TDAN.com links my lifelong desire to be a busker with my fascination with data idiosyncrasies. Here's my LinkedIn post, with pic of DIONICIO and band! www.linkedin.com/posts/randal...