Oliver Haimson

Our new piece about how AI misinformation can impact medical care: "Beyond Autonomy: A Plastic Surgeon's Responsibility in the Face of AI-Driven Misinformation." Led by Pranav Rajaram, w @meglane.bsky.social, @naz-andalibi.bsky.social, Rachel Hooper, Hannes Prescher

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The Burden of Bearing Witness: Digital Practices of Marginalized Social Media Users in High-Stakes Contexts (with Senami Kojah, @haimson.bsky.social, and @michaelannephd.bsky.social) [Second Author]

Navigating Safety and Technology: The Everyday Safety Labor of Transgender Black, Indigenous, and People of Color in the United States (with Denny Starks, Aloe DeGuia, @haimson.bsky.social, and Tawanna Dillahunt) [Second Author]

Safety With Community: Technologies of Care, Connection, Collective Safety, and Mutual Aid for Transgender Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (with Denny Starks, Aloe DeGuia, @haimson.bsky.social, and Tawanna Dillahunt) [Second Author]

I have a book chapter on Trans Games that’s out in a new book called Epistemic Genres: New Formations of Play!

Co-authored with @haimson.bsky.social, we talk about what makes a trans game based on our interviews with trans game devs

www.bloomsbury.com/us/epistemic...

Can queer and trans folks trust AI?

Artificial intelligence’s need to categorize the world may be the root of distrust among LGBTQ+ people.

See all the Trans 101 episodes here www.tabooscience.show, featuring cameos from @hibbythach.com and lots of other experts!

YouTube video by Taboo Science From Face Filters to Healthcare: The Reality of Trans Technology

The podcast @tabooscience.bsky.social by @smashleyhamer.bsky.social has been doing an excellent series about "Trans 101" lately. I was featured in a recent bonus episode about trans technologies, available on YouTube at the link below or wherever you get podcasts!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYDJ...

YouTube video by Taboo Science Trans 101: What Everyone Gets Wrong About Transgender People

Your fav tgirlie is in this "Trans 101" season of Taboo Science. Hear me talk about my mustache in this first episode and hear me talk about more as the season goes on. : )

Thanks again to @smashleyhamer.bsky.social for including me and many other trans voices!

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Book Announcement: Genres are social conventions ratified by creators and audiences, and so they are inherently political commitments that express our attachments and antagonisms to the cultural and political systems that organize our relationswith one another, our environments, and the world.

AI disproportionately discriminates against trans people. It doesn't have to be this way. - LGBTQ Nation Trans people could experience tremendous benefits from AI if we worked to solve this problem.

new LGBTQ Nation article by @faefyx.bsky.social featuring research by me (w/ @mayworms.info, @shoreingber.bsky.social, @naz-andalibi.bsky.social)

"Not everyone wants to use [AI] – [yet] they are often required to use it without meaningful consent."

www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/12/ai-d...

Very honored that my book has received the 2025 @labortechresearchnetwork.org Book Award!

From LaborTech:
"Trans Technologies is empirically rich, compelling in its theoretical framework, and a timely and important contribution at a time of heightened vulnerability for the trans community."

Honored to be part of the CCC workshop that led to this important report: Supporting At-Risk Users through Responsible Computing. Thanks to organizers and lead authors @pamwis.bsky.social, Katie Siek, Sunny Consolvo, @kevinrbbutler.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy & Tammy Toscos!

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Tomorrow I'll be speaking as part of the Queer & Feminist Informatics Network launch event at University of Amsterdam 🌈 🙌

Thanks @drsbrooke.bsky.social and @dilab-uva.bsky.social at UvA for inviting me!

More info and registration: www.qfinformatics.com

Three smiling people (l-r: Dr. Nazanin Andalibi, Alice Ross (me!) and Dr. Oliver Haimson) standing in front of a colourful screen displaying the title 'Panel Discussion'

A photo of buildings at George Square, The University of Edinburgh, with text overlaid on a bright green background. The text is the title of last week's event, Gender and the Machine: Trans Tech, Emotion and AI

Such an inspiring, powerful event! Huge thanks: @naz-andalibi.bsky.social @haimson.bsky.social for their brilliant talks & sharing insights with me in the panel chat, @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social @kevinguyan.bsky.social @sj-bennett.bsky.social for putting it all together, & to everyone who attended!

Gender and the Machine: Trans Tech, Emotion and AI Join us for this afternoon of events discussing gender, marginalisation and emotion in AI and digital technologies

Heading to Edinburgh next week for this exciting event on 🤖🏳️‍⚧️Gender and the Machine🧟‍♀️🧑‍💻, where @naz-andalibi.bsky.social and I will be talking about our research!

Thanks to @sj-bennett.bsky.social and @kevinguyan.bsky.social for organizing!

Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...

Gender and the Machine: Trans Tech, Emotion and AI Join us for this afternoon of events discussing gender, marginalisation and emotion in AI and digital technologies

🗣️ Featuring talks by @haimson.bsky.social and @naz-andalibi.bsky.social, plus a panel discussion and networking reception.

Co-organised by the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab and @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social, supported by @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...

Event poster for Gender and the Machine.

Event poster for Gender and the Machine.

📢 GENDER AND THE MACHINE

Join us in Edinburgh on 20 Nov to explore entanglements of gender, marginalisation and emotion across tech and AI.

🗓️ Thurs 20 Nov 2025
📍 Edinburgh
👋 All welcome

Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...

#data #AI #tech #emotion #trans #LGBTQ #queer

Gender and the Machine: Trans Tech, Emotion and AI Join us for this afternoon of events discussing gender, marginalisation and emotion in AI and digital technologies

Really looking forward to this upcoming @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social event, where the great @naz-andalibi.bsky.social and @haimson.bsky.social will be talking about emotion, gender, marginalisation and AI 🤩

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...

Gender and the Machine: Trans Tech, Emotion and AI Join us for this afternoon of events discussing gender, marginalisation and emotion in AI and digital technologies

✨📣 Excited to announce our upcoming event GENDER AND THE MACHINE!

Join us on Nov 20th for an afternoon exploring gender, marginalisation and emotion in tech - talks by @haimson.bsky.social and @naz-andalibi.bsky.social, plus panel discussion and networking reception

⬇️ sign up

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This Wednesday I'm giving a virtual talk at the Institute for Technoscience & Society at York University @stsyorku.bsky.social ! Info on how to register is here: www.yorku.ca/research/its...

Incredible piece of work, the ingenuity in working around algorithimic censorship #cscw2025 #freepalestine

trans/queer CSCW 2025! a guide to trans and queer-focused papers etc. at CSCW 2025! feel free to add your paper if I missed it :)

I put together this list of work on trans/queer topics at #CSCW2025 - lots of exciting papers to check out! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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You gotta watch out when @cfiesler.bsky.social organizes an ethics workshop at CSCW - you just might meet your future spouse there! Happened to me and @naz-andalibi.bsky.social 10 years ago 🥰 #CSCW2025 #CSCW2015

An illustration of Miss Major surrounded by candles with blue background and a famous quote of hers written in gold. The quote reads“I don’t need their permission to exist; I exist in spite of them. I want you to train and teach and love on and create families within my community and gender non-conforming people, so that we can understand that we have a culture, we have a history, we have a reason to be here. We have a purpose. We’re entitled to be loved, and seek happiness, and share that with the people that we care about.” -Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

We honor the legacy of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a fierce protector of our collective freedom. Our hearts are with her loved ones and all who carry her vision forward.

"We will honor Miss Major forever." - @imarajones.bsky.social

Excited for my PhD advisee Senami Kojah, whose paper "Silencing the Voiceless: Social Media Content Moderation for At Risk Marginalized Populations in High-Stakes Violence and Human Rights Contexts in Nigeria" is the 1st paper presentation at #CSCW2025! Online program starts tomorrow at 7am CET.

If you're eligible, please consider participating in my PhD advisee @lameiro.bsky.social's interview study with online sex workers about non-consensual intimate deepfakes. Quick screening survey: bit.ly/deepfakesint...

Please also help spread the word by sharing with potential participants!

#books are awesome.

If you talk to globally subcontracted workers who contribute to AI systems, you see not only the issues they experience at work but also how those conditions shape AI tools themselves. The labor conditions of these workers is so often overlooked as a contributing factor to overall AI model quality.

same, I also read a lot of trans fiction outside of work! Are you on GoodReads? I keep track of my non-work reading there www.goodreads.com/user/show/24...