Our special issue on Situating the Intersectional Experiences of Black Girls and Women in Computing & Technology is live! Thank you to the amazing guest editors Jakita Thomas, Quincy Brown, and Jamika Burge, and the many authors. Now go read their work!

dl.acm.org/toc/toce/2024/…

Today is May 17 International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia. Check the IEEEComputerSoc Pride in STEM interviews computer.org/publications/t… and computer.org/publications/t… ft Amy J. Ko 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌮 🐈 Dr. John Samuel 🏳️‍🌈 Didem Gurdur Broo Dr. Alex Gamero-Garrido 🇻🇪🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 Bruno Lopes Francisco Gomes Luca Trevisan yt

I'm not at CHI, RESPECT, or ECEP Datapalooza this week. If you were hoping to catch up, feel free to send me an email and say hi at a distance! Or maybe I'll see you at CSTA, the CSforAll PI meeting, Snowbird, or ICER this summer.

What challenges do developers face while using AI programming assistants like GitHub Copilot? 🤖🤔

Check out my #ICSE2024 paper (w/ Chenyang Yang and Brad Myers)! I'm presenting this work today at 4:15PM in the Fernando Pessoa room. See you there 🤗

arxiv.org/pdf/2303.17125…

#AERA2024 trip report. Read for the liberatory scholarship, the food photos, or both: medium.com/bits-and-behav…

Teaching Accessibility for computer science educators
A free, community-sourced, online book helps CS educators integrate accessibility topics into classes. Includes the foundations of accessibility and teaching methods to integrate into course designs.
bit.ly/create-teachin…

I'm going to #AERA again this year. Please tell me all the cool things happening this year so I don't have to browse 4,000 events :P

Happy #TDOV2024 . amyjko.medium.com/trans-day-of-c…

SIGCSE 2024 is done. Here's my chronicle of conversations: medium.com/bits-and-behav…

We’re proud to announce the 1st edition of Teaching Accessible Computing, a free, community-sourced online book that helps CS educators integrate accessibility topics into their classes:
bookish.press/tac
Congrats to the authors and our lead editor, the amazing Dr. Alannah Oleson.

Come teach with us! ischool.uw.edu/about/jobs/fac…

For those who have hit a paywall, a preprint of this paper can now be found here:

bit.ly/Bender-CDPS-24

Calling all high school and college computing educators, Check out the 2024 Identity Inclusive Instructions of Computing Education Summit: bit.ly/iiices24Flyer, Portland, April 6-7

432 bills, eroding freedom one lie at a time. Why? medium.com/bits-and-behav…

1. The New York Times has published a 4,500 word opinion piece by Pamela Paul targeting transgender care.

It is filled with inaccuracies, faulty citations, and factually incorrect claims.

Lets dive in.

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We live in a facsimile of the past. medium.com/bits-and-behav…

I won an award, but am conflicted about it. Some civil rights, poetry, self-erasure, and community erasure for your Monday. medium.com/bits-and-behav…

My article in The Conversation just appeared. Happy birthday, Macintosh! University of Washington UW iSchool HCI & Design at UW Apple

theconversation.com/mac-at-40-user…

Abolish cars. medium.com/@amyjko/cars-a…

Excited to share my first journal paper has been published in ACM TOCE 🥳! It's a review of undergrad student attitudes towards CS ethics interventions that identifies contexts and circumstances for successful (and unsuccessful) interventions!🤔 Read more: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…