Michaelanne Thomas

So proud of @mayworms.info presenting our research on digital trans care and survival on community built online communities at @4sweb.bsky.social this morning. 🤩 Collab w/ Raksha Hungund, supported by co-advisor @haimson.bsky.social

So cool to see @uilnej.bsky.social present our work "Unpacking the Stack: Rethinking Layered Network Models," at @4sweb.bsky.social! This paper grew out of ongoing convos w/ co-authors Beatriz Palacios Abad, Morgan Vigil-Hayes, Shaddi Hasan, & Nicola Bidwell. #4S

Come see my return to the stage as Dr. Putnam, in the original play, AI Powder, at #CSCW2026!

I had the pleasure of presenting my co-authors (Sena Kojah, @haimson.bsky.social, and @michaelannephd.bsky.social) and I’s paper, The Burden of Bearing Witness: Digital Practices of Marginalized Social Media Users in High-Stakes Contexts at #CHI2026 in Barcelona.

Can't wait to celebrate my first graduated PhD advisee @bzfzhang.bsky.social at @chi.acm.org this week on winning a 2026 ACM SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award!

@michaelannephd.bsky.social presents her paper “If we post, what will people think of us?”: Offline Norms, Online Engagement and Unpacking Gendered Experiences in a Pakistani Facebook Tech Community.” #CHI2026

Thrilled to have our paper accepted at #CHI2026

Michaelanne encourages all of use to use our power to say the hard things. We need more honesty, vulnerability, and collective engagement. #cscw2025

Michaelanne talks about joining this project before she even started grad school—she volunteered to get research experience and was immediately drawn to Jill’s research. This is what led her to get a human-centered computing PhD. #cscw2025

Jill Dimond absolutely tearing it up at her impact award acceptance speech #cscw2025 #freepalestine #genocideisnotinevitable

Big congrats to Jill Diamond, Michaelanne Thomas, Daphne LaRose, and @asbruckman.bsky.social for winning the Lasting Impact Award for their 2013 paper Hollaback on the power of narrative. #cscw2025

Thanks to everyone who joined us for our SIG: Evaluating Resesrch from and About the Global Majority. Thanks to @farhana-shahid.bsky.social and @hellinanigatu.bsky.social for leading the charge. shorturl.at/glWxG #cscw2025

SIG: Evaluating Research from and About the Global Majority. A key quote from the session: the “Global South” isn’t a single entity. “Practices differ — what works or makes sense in one context can’t just be mapped onto another.” #CSCW2025 #GlobalMajority #HCI

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

We are excited to announce CSCW's 2025's Lasting Impact Award winners. Congrats to Jill Dimond, Michaelanne Thomas, Daphne LaRose, and Amy Bruckman who will receive the award for their 2013 paper "Hollaback!: The Role of Collective Storytelling Online in a Social Movement Organization." #csccw2025

Come be my colleague!

Thrilled that my article, "Relational Infrastructures of Survival: How Social Dependencies Enable Alternative Internets in Cuba," is out in Cuban Studies! wp.me/a5ERm3-aW

Big congrats to Dr. @bzfzhang.bsky.social, who just defended his dissertation! It's been such an honor to work with Ben over the past 5 years, along with co-advisor @michaelannephd.bsky.social. Ben will start as Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University, & I'm so excited to follow his research!

Many congrats to Dr. @bzfzhang.bsky.social on his successful dissertation defense! @haimson.bsky.social and I are proud advisors, and anticipate great things from him as an assistant professor at Stonybrook University.

ACM COMPASS registration deadline has been extended to July 10! Come join us July 22-25, 2025, in Toronto 🤩

One of the best conference games! I didn’t know what @robinb.bsky.social’s work was about for a good while (like long after CHI was over) since we focused on getting to know each other outside of work/research. 💗

Very proud of our @chi.acm.org paper "The Making of Performative Accuracy in AI Training: Precision Labor and Its Consequences." Spearheaded by doctoral advisee Ben Zefeng Zhang based on his 9 months of ethnographic fieldwork living & working as an AI data trainer in China.

In case link stops working, here are screenshots of the text that I reassembled from the mailchimp URL. Apologies I could only alt text the first 2000 characters due to word limit. This text and images are quoted from original link posted at top of thread by Carlos F. Jackson, Dean and Professor.

Yes!!! Finally a university leader standing up publicly for what is right. No to anticipatory compliance. Thank you UMich Dean Carlos F. Jackson: may you be an inspirational for many others. mailchi.mp/04bd06b0c03c...

The President of the University of Minnesota steps up! This is the message we've all been hoping for at #UMich. @umn-tc-aaup.bsky.social

Today, I defended my pre-candidacy paper, "'Do not perceive me': Multi-marginalized Twitch streamers, mutually constitutive identity disclosures and identity concealments, and safety and wellbeing within toxic technocultures" and passed with 🌟 Distinction 🌟

"those who have contributed the least to climate change are often among the most affected, leading to a gulf of responsibility that creates significant challenges for climate action." Thanks @rsoden.bsky.social et al for this new climate action forum in ACM Interactions!

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sad to leave the twitter feed I’ve been curating since 2006 behind. hopeful to see so many whom I love and respect here on bluesky. 🧡