Oliver Haimson
@haimson
Associate Professor at UM School of Information researching social computing, HCI, designing trans tech, social media, identity transitions, content moderation. 🏳️⚧️ he/him
"Just sprinkle some AI on it..." We're staging a live PLAY🎭 at #CSCW2026 and looking for amateur actors - no experience needed! It's based on AI Powder, our speculative fiction piece on AI techno-solutionism (forthcoming in Catalyst), paired with an academic panel. Reply/message if interested!
When I published my book Trans Technologies, I pledged to donate half of my author royalties to a trans BIPOC organization. This year I donated to BTFA Collective - Black Trans Femmes in the Arts. Learn more and donate here: fundraise.givesmart.com/form/P_jkVg?...
Tomorrow (Tuesday) morning at #DIS2026 I'll be presenting our work on "Queer Zineographies: Materializing Tactics for Resisting AI and Data Systems" - a paper led by Alexandra (Allie) Teixeira Riggs and with an amazing team of researchers! read the pictorial here: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
And also this pictorial at #DIS2026, led by Allie Teixeira Riggs and Louie Søs Meyer and co-authored with a long list of amazing queer HCI scholars including @magpiecircuits.bsky.social, @jordant.bsky.social, @caitielustig.bsky.social, and many more! link: deepblue.lib.umich.edu/items/8fb952...
Excited to have a paper accepted for #DIS2026 next month! led by Aloe DeGuia (her first first-authored paper 🤩!) and co-authored with @sociologymary.bsky.social, Tee Chuanromanee, Gaines Blasdel, @julesmadzia.bsky.social, and @meglane.bsky.social deepblue.lib.umich.edu/items/5a1c02...
So glad I got the chance to collaborate with @cal-liang.bsky.social, @katbamkapow.bsky.social, & @karmacap.bsky.social on this #CHI2026 paper! We brought together our experiences working with community advisory boards on three different tech design research projects. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Spotted my PhD advisees @hibbythach.com and Denny Starks hard at work at the #CHI2026 conference hotel 💻💻
Looking forward to #CHI2026 coming up soon in Barcelona! Extremely proud of my PhD advisees Denny Starks and Senami Kojah whose first-authored papers were accepted 🤩 Here are our group's four papers this year:
Tomorrow at Victorian Pride Centre! This is going to be a fun conversation with @snapdragoness.itch.io 🏳️⚧️ 🎮 📱 🌈 RSVP: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/trans-tech...
If you're in or near Stockholm, please consider attending this upcoming workshop that @naz-andalibi.bsky.social and I are co-organizing! sign-up link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Designing Care, Refusing Harm: Feminist Red and Green Lines for AI in Gendered Health
I have a talk coming up on February 19 at Digital Futures at KTH Royal Institute of Technology here in Stockholm, where I'm a Scholar-in-Residence. If you're in the area, I’d love to see you there - and if not, you’re welcome to join on Zoom. more info: www.digitalfutures.kth.se/event/semina...
Thanks to @morganklauss.bsky.social, the Queer in HCI community on Slack is now a fun and thriving space - join us! 🌈 🏳️⚧️ invite link: join.slack.com/t/queerhci/s...
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."
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
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...
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
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!
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!
Trans Technologies is available now! My book examines how technology creates new possibilities for transgender people, and how trans experiences, in turn, create new possibilities for technology. "An absolute must-read for anyone that cares about technology and trans liberation." - Alex Hanna
With the publication of my new book Trans Technologies earlier this year, I pledged to donate half of my author royalties to a TBIPOC organization. This year I donated to @ruthelliscenter.bsky.social! ruthelliscenter.networkforgood.com/projects/227...
Turns out many marginalized Americans are skeptical of / resistant to AI. Thanks Jared Wadley at @umichnews.bsky.social for covering our AI attitudes research! Co-authors: @naz-andalibi.bsky.social, @mayworms.info, @shoreingber.bsky.social news.umich.edu/marginalized... dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
👏👏 @lameiro.bsky.social’s presentation at #FAccT2025 “TIDEs: A Transgender and Nonbinary Community-Labeled Dataset and Model for Transphobia Identification in Digital Environments” dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
@shoreingber.bsky.social presents our work with @naz-andalibi.bsky.social about people’s perceptions of different types of emotion AI and potential consequences #FAccT2025 dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
Some results from this paper: trans people, nonbinary people, and disabled people (especially neurodivergent people and people with mental health conditions) have more negative views towards AI than the general US population. #FAccT2025
Excited to give a new talk at @labortechresearchnetwork.org this Friday 6/13, 11am ET on Zoom. I'll discuss trans capitalism, funding models behind trans tech, and the unhinged saga of a doomed trans banking app. Info on how to attend: labortechresearchnetwork.org/speaker-series
Such a great experience to be a mentor at CSST (Consortium for the Science of Sociotechnical Systems) 2025 last week in the Adirondacks! Here are some pics of my mentoring group (Kim Fernandes, Ari Schlesinger, and Tyler Musgrave), the whole CSST group, and some themed artwork.