Dr. Nikko Stevens
@drnikko.bsky.social
Writing a book on abolition(ist +) tech. (open source) software engineer. I study how racial ideologies influence data structures. Assistant Professor of Data Science @ Smith College. a very happy trans 🏳️⚧️ (they/them)
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Trans data epistemologies: Transgender ways of knowing with data by @drnikko.bsky.social and @ameliadogan.bsky.social in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Trans data epistemologies: Transgender ways of knowing with data - Nikko Stevens, Amelia Lee Doğan, 2025
Amidst proliferating threats to trans rights, transgender activists are using data and data activism to advocate for and to protect trans communities. This tran...
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October 30, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Trans data epistemologies: Transgender ways of knowing with data by @drnikko.bsky.social and @ameliadogan.bsky.social in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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And there's a sibling piece led by @drnikko.bsky.social about trans specific data epistemologies journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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October 29, 2025 at 7:59 PM
And there's a sibling piece led by @drnikko.bsky.social about trans specific data epistemologies journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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New work that I got to present at #CSCW2025 (that got an honorable mention + DEI recognition) with @drnikko.bsky.social @kanarinka.bsky.social "Trans Data: A Research and Design Agenda from Trans Activists' Transformative Data Science" dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Trans Data: A Research and Design Agenda from Trans Activists' Transformative Data Science | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Trans activists play a deeply important role in caring for and advocating for the
transgender community using data. Through an interview study with 16 trans activists
working in trans-led and trans-se...
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October 29, 2025 at 7:47 PM
New work that I got to present at #CSCW2025 (that got an honorable mention + DEI recognition) with @drnikko.bsky.social @kanarinka.bsky.social "Trans Data: A Research and Design Agenda from Trans Activists' Transformative Data Science" dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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DataBasic.io is 10 years old! Our self-service activities and tools for data literacy helped launch me down the road to my "Community Data" book, and was one of my first projects with @kanarinka.bsky.social. Happy to report the site is working again, and the two of us still collaborate.
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September 22, 2025 at 2:02 PM
DataBasic.io is 10 years old! Our self-service activities and tools for data literacy helped launch me down the road to my "Community Data" book, and was one of my first projects with @kanarinka.bsky.social. Happy to report the site is working again, and the two of us still collaborate.
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On Instagram, anarchist activist and trans justice lawyer Dean Spade suggests that one way people can deal with their feelings about the transphobic meltdown is by writing letters to trans prisoners. More details on how to here: www.instagram.com/p/DOLzj4mjpA...
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September 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
On Instagram, anarchist activist and trans justice lawyer Dean Spade suggests that one way people can deal with their feelings about the transphobic meltdown is by writing letters to trans prisoners. More details on how to here: www.instagram.com/p/DOLzj4mjpA...
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as a historian of crime, things i wish were more mainstream about “crime is down but concerns about crime are up”
1.crime rates are irredeemably inaccurate. argue all you like about this/that but statistics have always had more to do with policing and reporting than any underlying “crime rate” 🗃️
1.crime rates are irredeemably inaccurate. argue all you like about this/that but statistics have always had more to do with policing and reporting than any underlying “crime rate” 🗃️
August 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
as a historian of crime, things i wish were more mainstream about “crime is down but concerns about crime are up”
1.crime rates are irredeemably inaccurate. argue all you like about this/that but statistics have always had more to do with policing and reporting than any underlying “crime rate” 🗃️
1.crime rates are irredeemably inaccurate. argue all you like about this/that but statistics have always had more to do with policing and reporting than any underlying “crime rate” 🗃️
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Here is that demo video, specifically focused on Los Angeles. This is the context in which GeoSpy is demoing its technology www.404media.co/lapd-eyes-ge...
August 13, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Here is that demo video, specifically focused on Los Angeles. This is the context in which GeoSpy is demoing its technology www.404media.co/lapd-eyes-ge...
Hi - some good news amidst the bad news: This week I start as an Assistant Professor of Data Science at Smith College.
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July 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Hi - some good news amidst the bad news: This week I start as an Assistant Professor of Data Science at Smith College.
www.smith.edu/people/nikko...
www.smith.edu/people/nikko...
SAME!
when I think of where I came from and the risks I took, the fact that any of this worked out is unreal to me
Some of the wildest conversations I've ever had about my career is when I talk about the mix of luck and connections and hardwork that created my academic career. People often seem to assume that someone like me would think I got here all on my own and lol no.
May 31, 2025 at 6:15 PM
SAME!
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all it took for me to become a prison abolitionist was a few years of reading simple factual accounts of what happens in jails and prisons
I submit that rather than having to write opinions about prisoners trapped in hot showers as a punishment, we stop treating people like this.
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April 4, 2025 at 7:59 PM
all it took for me to become a prison abolitionist was a few years of reading simple factual accounts of what happens in jails and prisons
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Tonight: Providence! With @drnikko.bsky.social at Symposium Books.
April 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Tonight: Providence! With @drnikko.bsky.social at Symposium Books.
The complete works of Stephen Sondheim and the relative merits of every cast recording / production / libretto change - thanks teenage obsessiveness.
If I'm going to be entirely honest, probably the Marvel cinematic universe.
What would you talk about for 19 hours?
April 1, 2025 at 6:41 PM
The complete works of Stephen Sondheim and the relative merits of every cast recording / production / libretto change - thanks teenage obsessiveness.
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March 31, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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I wrote a multi-page rhyming couplet poem about how Santa Claus is a fascist and the reindeer & elves were due for an Attica-style uprising to assert their rights and work for freedom. I gave it to my mother as an xmas present.
Tell me an 'on brand' memory of your childhood.
(I named every fish in our 50 gallon tank after Mythological Greek gods).
(I named every fish in our 50 gallon tank after Mythological Greek gods).
March 31, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I wrote a multi-page rhyming couplet poem about how Santa Claus is a fascist and the reindeer & elves were due for an Attica-style uprising to assert their rights and work for freedom. I gave it to my mother as an xmas present.
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@drnikko.bsky.social and I have a piece in here on cooperative structures- discount code for 30% off too!!
March 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
@drnikko.bsky.social and I have a piece in here on cooperative structures- discount code for 30% off too!!
Really excited to be the closing keynote at Code4Lib this morning. (I'm on around 9:15EST)
Livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktQ2...
Livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktQ2...
Code4Lib 2025 — Day 3 Morning
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March 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Really excited to be the closing keynote at Code4Lib this morning. (I'm on around 9:15EST)
Livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktQ2...
Livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktQ2...
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Legacy media is dying. They have no editorial independence anymore, they are beholden to billionaires who are buying out all the outlets and controlling me message.
Support independent journalists, y'all. We're out here doing the work and breaking the news.
Drop your WAPO sub.
Support independent journalists, y'all. We're out here doing the work and breaking the news.
Drop your WAPO sub.
In a note to colleagues, WaPo’s Ruth Marcus says she resigned from the paper after CEO Will Lewis killed a column she wrote expressing concern about the direction of the paper’s opinion section
March 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Legacy media is dying. They have no editorial independence anymore, they are beholden to billionaires who are buying out all the outlets and controlling me message.
Support independent journalists, y'all. We're out here doing the work and breaking the news.
Drop your WAPO sub.
Support independent journalists, y'all. We're out here doing the work and breaking the news.
Drop your WAPO sub.
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My field’s national org- NAEA- has been predictably radio silent about all these EO’s targeting students and teachers. The conference theme this year is “vibrant” so I’ll be vibrantly launching a flyering campaign. See y’all in Louisville next week.
#riso #risograph
#riso #risograph
March 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
My field’s national org- NAEA- has been predictably radio silent about all these EO’s targeting students and teachers. The conference theme this year is “vibrant” so I’ll be vibrantly launching a flyering campaign. See y’all in Louisville next week.
#riso #risograph
#riso #risograph
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Congratulations @marthasjones.bsky.social for an AMAZING review of the Trouble of Color. It's imperative that we support Black history by Black scholars in this moment, and the Trouble of Color reminds us that the impulse to deny, misname, and erase our history isn't new. Pick it up today!
March 7, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Congratulations @marthasjones.bsky.social for an AMAZING review of the Trouble of Color. It's imperative that we support Black history by Black scholars in this moment, and the Trouble of Color reminds us that the impulse to deny, misname, and erase our history isn't new. Pick it up today!
I would not be at MIT today if not for community colleges. They are the only school so many of us have access to, and are such a precious resource full of vibrant scholarship.
"The stigma surrounding community college is rooted in classism and elitism, and we cannot talk about either of those subjects without talking about racism."
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What We Don’t Talk About Enough: Community Colleges - ACRLog
I think about community colleges a lot. This might sound like an obvious statement considering I work at one. But I think about how we, as a society, talk about and respond to community colleges—or do...
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March 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I would not be at MIT today if not for community colleges. They are the only school so many of us have access to, and are such a precious resource full of vibrant scholarship.
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Just noticed that there's a 2.5-year STS postdoc position available at @edinburghuni.bsky.social, to work in the excellent Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society. Closing date very soon: March 7!
#STS #histstm #medanthro
#STS #histstm #medanthro
Research Fellow
The Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society (CBSS) at the Usher Institute, The University of Edinburgh, is looking for a Research Fellow (working within science and technology studies (STS)/medical s...
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March 3, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Just noticed that there's a 2.5-year STS postdoc position available at @edinburghuni.bsky.social, to work in the excellent Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society. Closing date very soon: March 7!
#STS #histstm #medanthro
#STS #histstm #medanthro
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Trans Rescue Action is a non profit assisting trans individuals and families feeling violence to southern California. For over a year, TRA has helped several folx relocate ensuring their safety and an ability to restart anew.
Apply to be a safe house today!
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Apply to be a safe house today!
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January 27, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Trans Rescue Action is a non profit assisting trans individuals and families feeling violence to southern California. For over a year, TRA has helped several folx relocate ensuring their safety and an ability to restart anew.
Apply to be a safe house today!
transrescueaction.org
Apply to be a safe house today!
transrescueaction.org
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You made it through another work week. Have you had something to eat today or gone outside? Are you slouching? Do you have anything fun offline planned? Is there a friend or loved one you could call?
Try not to doomscroll too late tonight. You still deserve time to rest and recover.
Try not to doomscroll too late tonight. You still deserve time to rest and recover.
February 28, 2025 at 11:31 PM
You made it through another work week. Have you had something to eat today or gone outside? Are you slouching? Do you have anything fun offline planned? Is there a friend or loved one you could call?
Try not to doomscroll too late tonight. You still deserve time to rest and recover.
Try not to doomscroll too late tonight. You still deserve time to rest and recover.