Caroline, doing the work
@carolinethegeek.bsky.social
PhD. youth+tech+community+design researcher, UW iSchool Postdoc, TTRPG-er, moderator/ModSquid🦑, enjoyer of things.
She/her. Profile pic by Ari!
Yes, I'm here. On the job market!
She/her. Profile pic by Ari!
Yes, I'm here. On the job market!
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Hi, I'm Caroline (she/her), a postdoc at @uwischool.bsky.social (also HCDE). Designing fun, kind, and thoughtful tech with and for youth.
Current projects: TTRPGs for civic engagement, exploring executive function tools, participatory design of kids' engineering games.
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Hi, I'm Caroline (she/her), a postdoc at @uwischool.bsky.social (also HCDE). Designing fun, kind, and thoughtful tech with and for youth.
Current projects: TTRPGs for civic engagement, exploring executive function tools, participatory design of kids' engineering games.
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placesjournal.org/article/extr...
fantastic article by @shannonmattern.bsky.social part love letter to libraries and all they represent, and part dream of the future libraries are building.
fantastic article by @shannonmattern.bsky.social part love letter to libraries and all they represent, and part dream of the future libraries are building.
Extralibrary Loan: Making the Civic Infrastructure We Need
Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life.
placesjournal.org
November 7, 2025 at 4:45 AM
placesjournal.org/article/extr...
fantastic article by @shannonmattern.bsky.social part love letter to libraries and all they represent, and part dream of the future libraries are building.
fantastic article by @shannonmattern.bsky.social part love letter to libraries and all they represent, and part dream of the future libraries are building.
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Watson’s death is a fantastic reminder that you can be intelligent without being a good person.
The obituary of someone who gained widespread fame through remarkable achievements at a young age and then expected to be taken seriously for anything he said thereafter.
James Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Watson’s death is a fantastic reminder that you can be intelligent without being a good person.
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I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
... also the Monster Slash is so good (in a sad way).
www.youtube.com/shorts/4Iu3g...
www.youtube.com/shorts/4Iu3g...
November 7, 2025 at 8:09 PM
... also the Monster Slash is so good (in a sad way).
www.youtube.com/shorts/4Iu3g...
www.youtube.com/shorts/4Iu3g...
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In the last handful of years, Dropout fans have turned me onto Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, Hundreds of Beavers, the work of Don Hertzfeldt, and other online / offline gems...
What else are your niche comedy favorites?
What else are your niche comedy favorites?
November 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
In the last handful of years, Dropout fans have turned me onto Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, Hundreds of Beavers, the work of Don Hertzfeldt, and other online / offline gems...
What else are your niche comedy favorites?
What else are your niche comedy favorites?
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ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections
November 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections
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too big to fail speedrun
BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.
November 6, 2025 at 1:30 AM
too big to fail speedrun
Shout out to the Bernedoodle at the Locks who refused to move past us (after I made eye contact) until his people let me get some pets in.
November 6, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Shout out to the Bernedoodle at the Locks who refused to move past us (after I made eye contact) until his people let me get some pets in.
So far, one paper I helped with is R&R and my first authored one is rejected (borderline RRX) but at least I have a fully written out draft with reviews!
#CHI2026
#CHI2026
November 5, 2025 at 1:12 AM
So far, one paper I helped with is R&R and my first authored one is rejected (borderline RRX) but at least I have a fully written out draft with reviews!
#CHI2026
#CHI2026
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Are you 18 or older with a fandom-related tattoo (or know someone who has one)? Please take 10 min to fill out this survey for my new book project on embodied fan identities and practices. Share widely! utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Contact info: suzanne.scott@utexas.edu.
October 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Are you 18 or older with a fandom-related tattoo (or know someone who has one)? Please take 10 min to fill out this survey for my new book project on embodied fan identities and practices. Share widely! utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Contact info: suzanne.scott@utexas.edu.
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If you’re in a creative field and you don’t lift up the work of your peers, you can’t expect people to care about your stuff
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
If you’re in a creative field and you don’t lift up the work of your peers, you can’t expect people to care about your stuff
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I wish academic administrators a very "don't make essential operational processes dependent upon a single proprietary infrastructure goliath"
October 20, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I wish academic administrators a very "don't make essential operational processes dependent upon a single proprietary infrastructure goliath"
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Ohhhhh, I know what I'm giving to my fire marshals tomorrow to make them sad and delve into The Code. futurism.com/future-socie...
First Responders Are Being Overwhelmed by Data Center Fires
First responders in a small Ohio town have answered 84 emergencies between two Amazon data centers, all on the taxpayer's dime.
futurism.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Ohhhhh, I know what I'm giving to my fire marshals tomorrow to make them sad and delve into The Code. futurism.com/future-socie...
I mean, @seattledot.bsky.social could've worded this a little better... But anyways.
These things are the scourge of UW campus and a safety hazard.
(UW Station bridge.)
These things are the scourge of UW campus and a safety hazard.
(UW Station bridge.)
October 8, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I mean, @seattledot.bsky.social could've worded this a little better... But anyways.
These things are the scourge of UW campus and a safety hazard.
(UW Station bridge.)
These things are the scourge of UW campus and a safety hazard.
(UW Station bridge.)
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It really shouldn't take this much energy to have even just low-level nice things
October 4, 2025 at 12:26 AM
It really shouldn't take this much energy to have even just low-level nice things
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When private equity controls the main digital infrastructures and platforms for many HE functions and data collections, it's bound to be trying to capitalize on those assets, and its business objectives may not support the public objectives of the universities locked in to the services it controls.
October 3, 2025 at 6:33 PM
When private equity controls the main digital infrastructures and platforms for many HE functions and data collections, it's bound to be trying to capitalize on those assets, and its business objectives may not support the public objectives of the universities locked in to the services it controls.
I'm still recuperating from this nasty cold so I won't be catching the C4 CR premiere live but I'm excited to catch it later.
October 3, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I'm still recuperating from this nasty cold so I won't be catching the C4 CR premiere live but I'm excited to catch it later.
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Learn how to create your own RPG with this RPG Design Zine, available on our website. #rpg #gamedev #gamedesign
October 2, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Learn how to create your own RPG with this RPG Design Zine, available on our website. #rpg #gamedev #gamedesign
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Wizards of the Coast is hosting a Twitch stream to support Trans Lifeline, a hotline and non-profit organization offering direct support to trans people in crisis – for the trans community, by the trans community.
Tune in to twitch.tv/magic on Oct 4th at 10am PT to play games with us and support!
Tune in to twitch.tv/magic on Oct 4th at 10am PT to play games with us and support!
October 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Wizards of the Coast is hosting a Twitch stream to support Trans Lifeline, a hotline and non-profit organization offering direct support to trans people in crisis – for the trans community, by the trans community.
Tune in to twitch.tv/magic on Oct 4th at 10am PT to play games with us and support!
Tune in to twitch.tv/magic on Oct 4th at 10am PT to play games with us and support!
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the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.
September 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.
Bumping the games again! We've been co-designing with KidsTeam UW over the past two years.
Games designed for kids, with kids! @wgbh.org + @ischool.uw.edu = 🎉
Tower Builders:
pbskids.org/games/play/t...
Videos:
pbskids.org/videos/watch...
pbskids.org/videos/watch...
Awesome Obstacles:
pbskids.org/games/play/t...
Videos:
pbskids.org/videos/watch...
pbskids.org/videos/watch...
Tower Builders:
pbskids.org/games/play/t...
Videos:
pbskids.org/videos/watch...
pbskids.org/videos/watch...
Awesome Obstacles:
pbskids.org/games/play/t...
Videos:
pbskids.org/videos/watch...
pbskids.org/videos/watch...
September 28, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Bumping the games again! We've been co-designing with KidsTeam UW over the past two years.
The household has a nasty cold (we tested for C19, negative, and there's no fever etc. so probably not flu neither) which means I should probably not be on social media since my inhibitory control is a little off when I'm sick.
(Portland??? The hipster capital???)
(Portland??? The hipster capital???)
September 28, 2025 at 12:15 AM
The household has a nasty cold (we tested for C19, negative, and there's no fever etc. so probably not flu neither) which means I should probably not be on social media since my inhibitory control is a little off when I'm sick.
(Portland??? The hipster capital???)
(Portland??? The hipster capital???)
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It's that time of year where I reach out to colleagues to review for #CHI2026!
If you are able to complete reviews for @chi.acm.org please make sure you've added your availability in PCS.
I'm on the Learning subcommittee this year, so if you do CSCL/IDC/etc. work...
If you are able to complete reviews for @chi.acm.org please make sure you've added your availability in PCS.
I'm on the Learning subcommittee this year, so if you do CSCL/IDC/etc. work...
a man pointing at the camera with the words get in the comments behind him
Alt: Brennan Lee Mulligan pointing at the camera and saying "get in the comments!"
media.tenor.com
September 25, 2025 at 2:43 AM
It's that time of year where I reach out to colleagues to review for #CHI2026!
If you are able to complete reviews for @chi.acm.org please make sure you've added your availability in PCS.
I'm on the Learning subcommittee this year, so if you do CSCL/IDC/etc. work...
If you are able to complete reviews for @chi.acm.org please make sure you've added your availability in PCS.
I'm on the Learning subcommittee this year, so if you do CSCL/IDC/etc. work...
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Education researchers warn budget proposals from the White House and House Republicans would impose steep cuts on some of the nation's most vulnerable students and disadvantaged school communities.
What schools stand to lose in the battle over the next federal education budget
Education researchers warn budget proposals from the White House and House Republicans would impose steep cuts on some of the nation's most vulnerable students and disadvantaged school communities.
n.pr
September 26, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Education researchers warn budget proposals from the White House and House Republicans would impose steep cuts on some of the nation's most vulnerable students and disadvantaged school communities.
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Hi, folks. Briefly back from taking my own advice and Logging Off. I spoke to the "How to be a Better Human" podcast about my book, and why posting and politics are seldom a good mix.
It was a great, wide-ranging conversation.
Thank you (in advance) for coming to my TED Talk!
It was a great, wide-ranging conversation.
Thank you (in advance) for coming to my TED Talk!
How to Engage Responsibly on Social Media (w/ Katherine Cross) | How to Be a Better Human | TED
YouTube video by TED
www.youtube.com
September 26, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Hi, folks. Briefly back from taking my own advice and Logging Off. I spoke to the "How to be a Better Human" podcast about my book, and why posting and politics are seldom a good mix.
It was a great, wide-ranging conversation.
Thank you (in advance) for coming to my TED Talk!
It was a great, wide-ranging conversation.
Thank you (in advance) for coming to my TED Talk!