joice tang
@joicetang.bsky.social
phd student @ uw hcde, recording secretary @ uaw 4121 // community-based research, higher ed labor, critical ed tech
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For my dissertation, I'm looking to interview early-career tech workers about LLMs in the workplace! The interviews for this research study are confidential. If you are interested in being interviewed, or would like to know more, please fill out this form! forms.gle/xGnQthnM7wNZ...
Interview Outreach
Hi! Thank you so much for your interest in participating in my study on generative AI tools in the tech workplace. This form is intended to collect your contact information and give you a little more ...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
For my dissertation, I'm looking to interview early-career tech workers about LLMs in the workplace! The interviews for this research study are confidential. If you are interested in being interviewed, or would like to know more, please fill out this form! forms.gle/xGnQthnM7wNZ...
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Every paper of Cella's is a banger, she's a pillar of the local organizing scene, a rare scholar who walks the walk.
Cella is amazing - hire her!
Cella is amazing - hire her!
✨I’m on the academic job market ✨
I’m a PhD candidate at @hcii.cmu.edu studying tech, labor, and resistance 👩🏻💻💪🏽💥
I research how workers and communities contest harmful sociotechnical systems and shape alternative futures through everyday resistance and collective action
More info: cella.io
I’m a PhD candidate at @hcii.cmu.edu studying tech, labor, and resistance 👩🏻💻💪🏽💥
I research how workers and communities contest harmful sociotechnical systems and shape alternative futures through everyday resistance and collective action
More info: cella.io
Cella M. Sum –
cella.io
October 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Every paper of Cella's is a banger, she's a pillar of the local organizing scene, a rare scholar who walks the walk.
Cella is amazing - hire her!
Cella is amazing - hire her!
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Corporations call it "privacy-preserving," but this new AI tech isn't all that it seems.
Our new brief w/@datasociety.bsky.social + CoWorker exposes how this tech harms + exploits workers and what we can do to strengthen worker protections + power in the digital age: datasociety.net/library/the-...
Our new brief w/@datasociety.bsky.social + CoWorker exposes how this tech harms + exploits workers and what we can do to strengthen worker protections + power in the digital age: datasociety.net/library/the-...
October 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Corporations call it "privacy-preserving," but this new AI tech isn't all that it seems.
Our new brief w/@datasociety.bsky.social + CoWorker exposes how this tech harms + exploits workers and what we can do to strengthen worker protections + power in the digital age: datasociety.net/library/the-...
Our new brief w/@datasociety.bsky.social + CoWorker exposes how this tech harms + exploits workers and what we can do to strengthen worker protections + power in the digital age: datasociety.net/library/the-...
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Pls help spread the word: We are hiring! 🌲☕✨
@ischool.uw.edu is recruiting two tenure-track assistant profs in AI. Areas include human-AI collaboration, AI & society, comp social science, NLP, and AI applications.
Apply by Nov 15, 2025: apply.interfolio.com/171020
Happy to answer questions!
@ischool.uw.edu is recruiting two tenure-track assistant profs in AI. Areas include human-AI collaboration, AI & society, comp social science, NLP, and AI applications.
Apply by Nov 15, 2025: apply.interfolio.com/171020
Happy to answer questions!
Apply - Interfolio
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September 10, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Pls help spread the word: We are hiring! 🌲☕✨
@ischool.uw.edu is recruiting two tenure-track assistant profs in AI. Areas include human-AI collaboration, AI & society, comp social science, NLP, and AI applications.
Apply by Nov 15, 2025: apply.interfolio.com/171020
Happy to answer questions!
@ischool.uw.edu is recruiting two tenure-track assistant profs in AI. Areas include human-AI collaboration, AI & society, comp social science, NLP, and AI applications.
Apply by Nov 15, 2025: apply.interfolio.com/171020
Happy to answer questions!
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We need to know what humans do before we argue that machines can do it just the same. There can’t be AI literacy without a literacy in being human: how we make meaning in work and life, distinguishing the artificial from the imaginary from the true. mail.cyberneticforests.com/human-litera...
Human Literacy
Something I Can Tell Students Now That I Am Not Teaching
You and I probably both keep hearing that students should be working toward AI literacy. They should know what to type into prompt windows, ...
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August 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
We need to know what humans do before we argue that machines can do it just the same. There can’t be AI literacy without a literacy in being human: how we make meaning in work and life, distinguishing the artificial from the imaginary from the true. mail.cyberneticforests.com/human-litera...
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Really appreciated this discussion with @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on AI in higher ed and what we and students are losing in terms of opportunities to go from struggling to mastering something, and learning as a relational/social process. www.nytimes.com/audio/app/20...
August 13, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Really appreciated this discussion with @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on AI in higher ed and what we and students are losing in terms of opportunities to go from struggling to mastering something, and learning as a relational/social process. www.nytimes.com/audio/app/20...
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Show up with Valerie, Jenna, and Ian on August 11, 5-6:30PM to the Kill the Cuts Town Hall with our WA Rep. Pramila Jayapal, where we'll highlight all the amazing science being done by workers at UW and why it deserves funding. 🔬🔥🌱
RSVP here or at the link in bio: form.jotform.com/251766883613...
RSVP here or at the link in bio: form.jotform.com/251766883613...
July 31, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Show up with Valerie, Jenna, and Ian on August 11, 5-6:30PM to the Kill the Cuts Town Hall with our WA Rep. Pramila Jayapal, where we'll highlight all the amazing science being done by workers at UW and why it deserves funding. 🔬🔥🌱
RSVP here or at the link in bio: form.jotform.com/251766883613...
RSVP here or at the link in bio: form.jotform.com/251766883613...
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We on the AAUP Committee on AI have been connecting with members on their concerns with technology. We’ve been developing recommendations to loosen or even refuse big tech’s hold on higher ed, for better working and learning conditions, and building solidarity around many fights tied to tech.
The report highlights "the need to establish...bottom-up shared governance to guide decisions around [AI in higher ed]" & "fostering solidaristic strategies" across higher ed, industrial sectors, civil society & grassroots organizations.
Full report here: www.aaup.org/reports-publ...
8/9
Full report here: www.aaup.org/reports-publ...
8/9
www.aaup.org
July 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
We on the AAUP Committee on AI have been connecting with members on their concerns with technology. We’ve been developing recommendations to loosen or even refuse big tech’s hold on higher ed, for better working and learning conditions, and building solidarity around many fights tied to tech.
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Amazon workers in Delta have won the battle to unionize after the BC Labour Relations Board found the company committed “serious” offences to try and block an organizing drive. #bclab
Amazon Workers Win a Union as Company’s Tactics Slammed | The Tyee
BC’s labour board grants automatic certification because of an unfair anti-union campaign. Amazon plans to fight.
thetyee.ca
July 11, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Amazon workers in Delta have won the battle to unionize after the BC Labour Relations Board found the company committed “serious” offences to try and block an organizing drive. #bclab
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This is an excellent point. That it's possible to talk about the impact of tech as somewhat separate from whether it does what it is claimed as doing.
digital things that don’t work (on some measures) reconfigure a lot of society (adtech being a prime example) and many digital things that work astoundingly well do not… LLMs and ilk will massively rearrange things, and the link between that and their capabilities likely to be a little tenuous imo
July 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
This is an excellent point. That it's possible to talk about the impact of tech as somewhat separate from whether it does what it is claimed as doing.
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I know many recent PhDs are clearing out their carrels/offices, or relocating to start an academic job elsewhere. If you have books you no longer want/need, consider donating them to Bluestockings. If you're in NY, you can drop them off—or mail them using Pirate Ship, which offers excellent rates.
June 17, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I know many recent PhDs are clearing out their carrels/offices, or relocating to start an academic job elsewhere. If you have books you no longer want/need, consider donating them to Bluestockings. If you're in NY, you can drop them off—or mail them using Pirate Ship, which offers excellent rates.
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We're organizing a #CSCW2025 workshop exploring oppositional responses to AI (actions that attempt to resist, not use, oppose, or even destroy AI). We seek participants who study such responses and/or engage in them. See our call for participation here: oppositiontoai.wordpress.com
June 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
We're organizing a #CSCW2025 workshop exploring oppositional responses to AI (actions that attempt to resist, not use, oppose, or even destroy AI). We seek participants who study such responses and/or engage in them. See our call for participation here: oppositiontoai.wordpress.com
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I'm biased, but this report is a must-read for anyone looking to understand the state of AI in 2025.
It explains how AI is entrenching power for big tech and the oligarch class, speeding deregulation, dislodging human expertise and threatening workers—and how there's still time to refuse all that.
It explains how AI is entrenching power for big tech and the oligarch class, speeding deregulation, dislodging human expertise and threatening workers—and how there's still time to refuse all that.
NEW REPORT: Artificial Power, our 2025 Landscape Report, is out.
Today’s AI isn’t just being used by us, it’s being used on us. We urgently need to reclaim public power over the future trajectory of AI. Another path is possible.
Read the report: ainowinstitute.org/2025-landscape
Today’s AI isn’t just being used by us, it’s being used on us. We urgently need to reclaim public power over the future trajectory of AI. Another path is possible.
Read the report: ainowinstitute.org/2025-landscape
June 3, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I'm biased, but this report is a must-read for anyone looking to understand the state of AI in 2025.
It explains how AI is entrenching power for big tech and the oligarch class, speeding deregulation, dislodging human expertise and threatening workers—and how there's still time to refuse all that.
It explains how AI is entrenching power for big tech and the oligarch class, speeding deregulation, dislodging human expertise and threatening workers—and how there's still time to refuse all that.
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Yesterday, Microsoft announced it will cut nearly 2,000 jobs in WA. UW News spoke with Samuel So, @uw-hcde.bsky.social, about shifting views of the tech industry, workplace organizing and why workers find themselves in a state of “cruel optimism” with the industry.
Q&A: UW researcher discusses the “cruel optimism” of tech industry layoffs
In 2023, University of Washington researchers recruited a group of 29 laid-off U.S. tech workers to discuss the effects of recent mass layoffs on employees. Overall, the group was ambivalent about...
www.washington.edu
May 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Yesterday, Microsoft announced it will cut nearly 2,000 jobs in WA. UW News spoke with Samuel So, @uw-hcde.bsky.social, about shifting views of the tech industry, workplace organizing and why workers find themselves in a state of “cruel optimism” with the industry.
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Apply to work at the UCSD Labor Center as a Program and Communications Manager! Applications close in about a week. laborcenter.ucsd.edu/get-involved...
Careers
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May 13, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Apply to work at the UCSD Labor Center as a Program and Communications Manager! Applications close in about a week. laborcenter.ucsd.edu/get-involved...
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I mean, I was posting about my union saving my healthcare plan but this is even more useful
"My union organized on behalf of me and other international students with so much effort, love, and care." Rümeysa Öztürk 😭😭🥰
May 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I mean, I was posting about my union saving my healthcare plan but this is even more useful
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Yesterday’s election will go down as a historic one for *many* reasons. Here are a few takeaways 🇨🇦🧵
April 29, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Yesterday’s election will go down as a historic one for *many* reasons. Here are a few takeaways 🇨🇦🧵
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What’s the hype around AI? Join the UC Berkeley Labor Center, @techequity.us & WWRC on May 7 for the first in a series of webinars on Demystifying AI. Register to understand digital technologies in the workplace and why they matter bit.ly/laborAI
April 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
What’s the hype around AI? Join the UC Berkeley Labor Center, @techequity.us & WWRC on May 7 for the first in a series of webinars on Demystifying AI. Register to understand digital technologies in the workplace and why they matter bit.ly/laborAI
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👀👀 Let's shape the future of AI together!
Are you the intelligence behind “artificial” intelligence?
We’re looking for US-based tech industry workers willing to take an anonymous 10-minute survey about what it’s like to perform the labor that makes AI technology possible.
We’re looking for US-based tech industry workers willing to take an anonymous 10-minute survey about what it’s like to perform the labor that makes AI technology possible.
April 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
👀👀 Let's shape the future of AI together!
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The library is the only place that Americans experience the fullness of what it means to remove goods from the market. It pings our consciousness. Hey we could love differently!
Internet friends, I understand if you are green with envy at me for attending this great talk last night!
"Who's afraid of libraries?" was the rhetorical opener and I loved the point (among many) that libraries are where things are free. "a CVS looks really weird after you've been to the library."
"Who's afraid of libraries?" was the rhetorical opener and I loved the point (among many) that libraries are where things are free. "a CVS looks really weird after you've been to the library."
A rainy Monday night. A rusty writer/speaker. A full house. An enthusiastic discussion.
I left with a bottle of brown.
Thank you, Durham Public Library, all the Tre-yonce fans, and #LibraryFest25.
“Who’s Afraid of the Library?”
I left with a bottle of brown.
Thank you, Durham Public Library, all the Tre-yonce fans, and #LibraryFest25.
“Who’s Afraid of the Library?”
April 8, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The library is the only place that Americans experience the fullness of what it means to remove goods from the market. It pings our consciousness. Hey we could love differently!
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Cornell ILR is recruiting a Postdoc in Global Labor and Work - focusing on AI and labor. Deadline May 15, 2025. Please circulate widely! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/program/...
Cornell University, Global Labor and Work
Job #AJO29869, WDR-00051984 Postdoctoral Associate – Global Labor and Work, ILR Future of Work Program, Global Labor and Work, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
academicjobsonline.org
March 31, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Cornell ILR is recruiting a Postdoc in Global Labor and Work - focusing on AI and labor. Deadline May 15, 2025. Please circulate widely! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/program/...
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Why are universities pivoting to AI after initial panic about students cheating? @tressiemcphd.bsky.social gives a mini lecture on AI, politics, and inequality building on @dmgreene.bsky.social's work on the "access doctrine" www.instagram.com/tressiemcphd...
Tressie McMillan Cottom on Instagram: "Some quick thoughts after class on AI solutions for the university’s political problems."
3,069 likes, 125 comments - tressiemcphd on October 15, 2024: "Some quick thoughts after class on AI solutions for the university’s political problems.".
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March 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Why are universities pivoting to AI after initial panic about students cheating? @tressiemcphd.bsky.social gives a mini lecture on AI, politics, and inequality building on @dmgreene.bsky.social's work on the "access doctrine" www.instagram.com/tressiemcphd...
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somewhere in the Lesbian Avengers handbooks, it says something like, don't come to a meeting saying, "we should do this," come saying "I want to help make this happen."
March 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
somewhere in the Lesbian Avengers handbooks, it says something like, don't come to a meeting saying, "we should do this," come saying "I want to help make this happen."