Kathy Reid (she/her)
@kathyreid.au
#PhD researcher at #ANU Cybernetics, investigating bias in #speech and #voice #tech, with a focus on #data used for #ML. Contracts at @mozilla.org #CommonVoice
Ex NVIDIA, Mycroft AI, @linuxaustralia.bsky.social, Deakin Uni.
https://linktr.ee/kathyreid
Ex NVIDIA, Mycroft AI, @linuxaustralia.bsky.social, Deakin Uni.
https://linktr.ee/kathyreid
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that final line🤌🏼
January 1, 2026 at 10:21 AM
that final line🤌🏼
This excellent piece by @platyhsu.bsky.social shows the intersection of power and aesthetics, using the recent US government mandate to use Times New Roman as a default font.
Design is shaped by power, and those who are able to influence design choices.
hsu.cy/2025/12/time...
Design is shaped by power, and those who are able to influence design choices.
hsu.cy/2025/12/time...
Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts
A less romantic truth is that aesthetic standards rarely travel alone; power tends to follow in their wake. An episode at the U.S. State Department this month makes exactly this point.
hsu.cy
January 1, 2026 at 9:22 PM
This excellent piece by @platyhsu.bsky.social shows the intersection of power and aesthetics, using the recent US government mandate to use Times New Roman as a default font.
Design is shaped by power, and those who are able to influence design choices.
hsu.cy/2025/12/time...
Design is shaped by power, and those who are able to influence design choices.
hsu.cy/2025/12/time...
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Tech should speak your language, which is why we've launch Mozilla Data Collective.
From the roots of Common Voice to the Data Futures Lab, Mozilla Data Collective gives communities control over how their data fuels AI.
This is what stewarded, people-powered #AI looks like 🌍
https://bit.ly/44JYut1
From the roots of Common Voice to the Data Futures Lab, Mozilla Data Collective gives communities control over how their data fuels AI.
This is what stewarded, people-powered #AI looks like 🌍
https://bit.ly/44JYut1
Join | Mozilla Data Collective
Mozilla Data Collective is rebuilding the AI data ecosystem with communities at the centre.
bit.ly
December 29, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Tech should speak your language, which is why we've launch Mozilla Data Collective.
From the roots of Common Voice to the Data Futures Lab, Mozilla Data Collective gives communities control over how their data fuels AI.
This is what stewarded, people-powered #AI looks like 🌍
https://bit.ly/44JYut1
From the roots of Common Voice to the Data Futures Lab, Mozilla Data Collective gives communities control over how their data fuels AI.
This is what stewarded, people-powered #AI looks like 🌍
https://bit.ly/44JYut1
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We hereby declare an election open and call for nominations to the Linux Australia Inc. Council for the term Jan 2026 to Jan 2027.
All office bearer and ordinary committee member positions are open for election.
All office bearer and ordinary committee member positions are open for election.
December 30, 2025 at 8:18 AM
We hereby declare an election open and call for nominations to the Linux Australia Inc. Council for the term Jan 2026 to Jan 2027.
All office bearer and ordinary committee member positions are open for election.
All office bearer and ordinary committee member positions are open for election.
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Sharing some personal reflections on Jewish safety after Bondi:
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
What would it take for me to feel safe wearing a kippah after Bondi? | Glen Berman
Jewish safety after Bondi will only be found by tackling radicalisation across Australia head on
www.theguardian.com
December 30, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Sharing some personal reflections on Jewish safety after Bondi:
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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What if AI datasets are gatherings we never chose, but could reclaim?
This new #NothingPersonal article explores the hidden intimacy of datasets and what consent, care, and agency could look like if we took the lead.
Read more ⤵️
mzl.la/3MS6ouo
This new #NothingPersonal article explores the hidden intimacy of datasets and what consent, care, and agency could look like if we took the lead.
Read more ⤵️
mzl.la/3MS6ouo
The Art of the Dataset Gathering
Generative AI datasets take something that might seem small from each of us in order to accumulate something vast that is stored seemingly indefinitely. Since we are already a part of these billion do...
mzl.la
December 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
What if AI datasets are gatherings we never chose, but could reclaim?
This new #NothingPersonal article explores the hidden intimacy of datasets and what consent, care, and agency could look like if we took the lead.
Read more ⤵️
mzl.la/3MS6ouo
This new #NothingPersonal article explores the hidden intimacy of datasets and what consent, care, and agency could look like if we took the lead.
Read more ⤵️
mzl.la/3MS6ouo
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Your data, your ownership, your rules.
Mozilla Data Collective is a platform shaped by people, not extracted from them.
Let’s build equitable AI together. 💪✨
#MozillaDataCollective #MakeGoodTech
https://bit.ly/44JYut1
Mozilla Data Collective is a platform shaped by people, not extracted from them.
Let’s build equitable AI together. 💪✨
#MozillaDataCollective #MakeGoodTech
https://bit.ly/44JYut1
Join | Mozilla Data Collective
Mozilla Data Collective is rebuilding the AI data ecosystem with communities at the centre.
bit.ly
December 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Your data, your ownership, your rules.
Mozilla Data Collective is a platform shaped by people, not extracted from them.
Let’s build equitable AI together. 💪✨
#MozillaDataCollective #MakeGoodTech
https://bit.ly/44JYut1
Mozilla Data Collective is a platform shaped by people, not extracted from them.
Let’s build equitable AI together. 💪✨
#MozillaDataCollective #MakeGoodTech
https://bit.ly/44JYut1
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“Siri doesn’t understand my accent.”
It’s not you, it’s the data.
@mozdatacollective.bsky.social is working with communities around the world to build more representative datasets that actually reflect how people speak, text, and live.
https://bit.ly/48Occh4
It’s not you, it’s the data.
@mozdatacollective.bsky.social is working with communities around the world to build more representative datasets that actually reflect how people speak, text, and live.
https://bit.ly/48Occh4
Join | Mozilla Data Collective
Mozilla Data Collective is rebuilding the AI data ecosystem with communities at the centre.
datacollective.mozillafoundation.org
December 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
“Siri doesn’t understand my accent.”
It’s not you, it’s the data.
@mozdatacollective.bsky.social is working with communities around the world to build more representative datasets that actually reflect how people speak, text, and live.
https://bit.ly/48Occh4
It’s not you, it’s the data.
@mozdatacollective.bsky.social is working with communities around the world to build more representative datasets that actually reflect how people speak, text, and live.
https://bit.ly/48Occh4
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hey Victorian renters! if you've used 'RentTech' (think online application platforms, rent payment apps, property management portals), please spend ~5 minutes to share your experience in this survey to contribute to important @cprc-research.bsky.social research: cprc.limesurvey.net/594888?lang=en
December 18, 2025 at 11:51 PM
hey Victorian renters! if you've used 'RentTech' (think online application platforms, rent payment apps, property management portals), please spend ~5 minutes to share your experience in this survey to contribute to important @cprc-research.bsky.social research: cprc.limesurvey.net/594888?lang=en
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Emergency Warning - Grass Fire - Leave Immediately: Benalla, Broken Creek, Goomalibee, Goorambat emergency.vic.gov.au/respond/#!/w...
Incidents and Warnings - VicEmergency
Victoria's combined source of emergency information and warnings, helping the community to prepare for, respond to and recover from emergencies across the state.
emergency.vic.gov.au
December 18, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Emergency Warning - Grass Fire - Leave Immediately: Benalla, Broken Creek, Goomalibee, Goorambat emergency.vic.gov.au/respond/#!/w...
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Exactly. We know not everyone wants AI, which is why our approach is different. Firefox is not becoming an AI browser. Features are optional, clearly labeled, and fully under your control with a total opt-out coming early next year. It won't please everyone but we believe you deserve choice.
Look, I get that it's frustrating to see @firefox.com make an announcement this tone-deaf, but let's be clear: the same announcement makes it clear that their AI features will be clearly-labelled and can be turned off, which is more than we'll get from Chrome or any of its offspring (Brave, et. al.)
December 17, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Exactly. We know not everyone wants AI, which is why our approach is different. Firefox is not becoming an AI browser. Features are optional, clearly labeled, and fully under your control with a total opt-out coming early next year. It won't please everyone but we believe you deserve choice.
Reposted by Kathy Reid (she/her)
Your data, your ownership, your rules.
Mozilla Data Collective is a platform shaped by people, not extracted from them.
Let’s build equitable AI together. 💪✨
#MozillaDataCollective #MakeGoodTech
https://bit.ly/44JYut1
Mozilla Data Collective is a platform shaped by people, not extracted from them.
Let’s build equitable AI together. 💪✨
#MozillaDataCollective #MakeGoodTech
https://bit.ly/44JYut1
Join | Mozilla Data Collective
Mozilla Data Collective is rebuilding the AI data ecosystem with communities at the centre.
bit.ly
December 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Your data, your ownership, your rules.
Mozilla Data Collective is a platform shaped by people, not extracted from them.
Let’s build equitable AI together. 💪✨
#MozillaDataCollective #MakeGoodTech
https://bit.ly/44JYut1
Mozilla Data Collective is a platform shaped by people, not extracted from them.
Let’s build equitable AI together. 💪✨
#MozillaDataCollective #MakeGoodTech
https://bit.ly/44JYut1
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December 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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An extraordinary response to the call for Special Sessions for #Interspeech2026! Consider submitting your paper to one of these accepted themed sessions 👉 interspeech2026.org/en-AU/pages/... (and stay tuned for more details!)
December 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
An extraordinary response to the call for Special Sessions for #Interspeech2026! Consider submitting your paper to one of these accepted themed sessions 👉 interspeech2026.org/en-AU/pages/... (and stay tuned for more details!)
With A/Prof Francis M. Tyers from UI & EM Lewis-Jong from @mozdatacollective.bsky.social, we're delighted to be presenting a Special Session at @interspeech.bsky.social on:
Safeguarding Synthetic #Speech: Ethical, Technical and Legal perspectives
safeguardingsyntheticspeech.org
#SpeakingTogether
Safeguarding Synthetic #Speech: Ethical, Technical and Legal perspectives
safeguardingsyntheticspeech.org
#SpeakingTogether
Safeguarding Synthetic Speech
Jekyll Serif contains content types for a typical business website. The theme is fully responsive, blazing fast and artfully illustrated.
safeguardingsyntheticspeech.org
December 16, 2025 at 5:54 PM
With A/Prof Francis M. Tyers from UI & EM Lewis-Jong from @mozdatacollective.bsky.social, we're delighted to be presenting a Special Session at @interspeech.bsky.social on:
Safeguarding Synthetic #Speech: Ethical, Technical and Legal perspectives
safeguardingsyntheticspeech.org
#SpeakingTogether
Safeguarding Synthetic #Speech: Ethical, Technical and Legal perspectives
safeguardingsyntheticspeech.org
#SpeakingTogether
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As many of those who follow me here are perhaps unlikely to be subscribers to @getup.org.au's emails, I thought I'd share here what I wrote (with the help of the lovely staff team at GetUp) to the membership yesterday.
December 15, 2025 at 3:58 PM
As many of those who follow me here are perhaps unlikely to be subscribers to @getup.org.au's emails, I thought I'd share here what I wrote (with the help of the lovely staff team at GetUp) to the membership yesterday.
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Super cool science: programmable microrobots, the size of a single-cell organism, which can use onboard systems to self-propel, sense temperatures, and change behaviors autonomously:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Microscopic robots that sense, think, act, and compute
Autonomous submillimeter robots are built with onboard sensing, computation, memory, communication, and locomotion.
www.science.org
December 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Super cool science: programmable microrobots, the size of a single-cell organism, which can use onboard systems to self-propel, sense temperatures, and change behaviors autonomously:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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I just wanted to say a huge thank you for all the love #ResponsibleBytesPodcast has received this year. Our first season has now come to an end and the reception we've received has exceeded what we expected so thank you to everyone who tuned in this season. We'll be back with season 2 next year ☺️
December 14, 2025 at 11:23 PM
I just wanted to say a huge thank you for all the love #ResponsibleBytesPodcast has received this year. Our first season has now come to an end and the reception we've received has exceeded what we expected so thank you to everyone who tuned in this season. We'll be back with season 2 next year ☺️
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🚀 We are pleased to announce Emma Davidson will be presenting a keynote at #EverythingOpen in Canberra.
2026.everythingopen.au/news/emma-da...
⏰ Get tickets now to guarantee the best price!
2026.everythingopen.au/dashboard/ (Go to Attend > Dashboard))
#EO2026
2026.everythingopen.au/news/emma-da...
⏰ Get tickets now to guarantee the best price!
2026.everythingopen.au/dashboard/ (Go to Attend > Dashboard))
#EO2026
December 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
🚀 We are pleased to announce Emma Davidson will be presenting a keynote at #EverythingOpen in Canberra.
2026.everythingopen.au/news/emma-da...
⏰ Get tickets now to guarantee the best price!
2026.everythingopen.au/dashboard/ (Go to Attend > Dashboard))
#EO2026
2026.everythingopen.au/news/emma-da...
⏰ Get tickets now to guarantee the best price!
2026.everythingopen.au/dashboard/ (Go to Attend > Dashboard))
#EO2026
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Tech should speak your language, which is why we've launch Mozilla Data Collective.
From the roots of Common Voice to the Data Futures Lab, Mozilla Data Collective gives communities control over how their data fuels AI.
This is what stewarded, people-powered #AI looks like 🌍
https://bit.ly/44JYut1
From the roots of Common Voice to the Data Futures Lab, Mozilla Data Collective gives communities control over how their data fuels AI.
This is what stewarded, people-powered #AI looks like 🌍
https://bit.ly/44JYut1
Join | Mozilla Data Collective
Mozilla Data Collective is rebuilding the AI data ecosystem with communities at the centre.
bit.ly
December 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Tech should speak your language, which is why we've launch Mozilla Data Collective.
From the roots of Common Voice to the Data Futures Lab, Mozilla Data Collective gives communities control over how their data fuels AI.
This is what stewarded, people-powered #AI looks like 🌍
https://bit.ly/44JYut1
From the roots of Common Voice to the Data Futures Lab, Mozilla Data Collective gives communities control over how their data fuels AI.
This is what stewarded, people-powered #AI looks like 🌍
https://bit.ly/44JYut1
Reposted by Kathy Reid (she/her)
Mozilla Fellows change how the world thinks about data, AI, privacy, and power.
If someone you know is doing work that lifts us all forward, nominate them for the 2026 cohort.
#MozillaFellow
https://bit.ly/48vBijf
If someone you know is doing work that lifts us all forward, nominate them for the 2026 cohort.
#MozillaFellow
https://bit.ly/48vBijf
December 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Mozilla Fellows change how the world thinks about data, AI, privacy, and power.
If someone you know is doing work that lifts us all forward, nominate them for the 2026 cohort.
#MozillaFellow
https://bit.ly/48vBijf
If someone you know is doing work that lifts us all forward, nominate them for the 2026 cohort.
#MozillaFellow
https://bit.ly/48vBijf
Excellent article in @aeon.co from my #ANU #Cybernetics colleague, A/Prof @amykmcl.bsky.social - around inflammation as a chronic, low-grade process - which asks if it's time for a new paradigm in how we think about #inflammation and related conditions like #endometriosis?
aeon.co/essays/could...
aeon.co/essays/could...
Could chronic inflammation be the medical paradigm shift of our age? | Aeon Essays
Acute inflammation helps the body heal. But chronic inflammation is different and could provoke a medical paradigm shift
aeon.co
December 12, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Excellent article in @aeon.co from my #ANU #Cybernetics colleague, A/Prof @amykmcl.bsky.social - around inflammation as a chronic, low-grade process - which asks if it's time for a new paradigm in how we think about #inflammation and related conditions like #endometriosis?
aeon.co/essays/could...
aeon.co/essays/could...
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Now imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion.
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy, by Michael Geoffrey Asia.
Imagine confiding your most private fantasies to what you believe is an unfeeling algorithm that cannot judge or remember. Now imagine that on the other side of that conversation is a man sitting in a...
data-workers.org
December 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Now imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion.
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
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Last week I officially became a TEDx speaker. It's sooo different to giving an academic talk. It was a steep but fun learning curve. The video will be out in a couple of weeks!
December 2, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Last week I officially became a TEDx speaker. It's sooo different to giving an academic talk. It was a steep but fun learning curve. The video will be out in a couple of weeks!
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Come research with us at the Max Planck Research Group for Machine Visual Culture — “Artificial Intelligence and the History of Seeing” positions open under Dr Leonardo Impett. We’ll get to hang out sometimes. www.biblhertz.it/3757971/0412...
Call for Digital Humanities Research Scientist (M/F/D)Max Planck Research Group "Machine Visual Culture: Artificial Intelligence and the History of Seeing"
Job Offer from December 04, 2025
www.biblhertz.it
December 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Come research with us at the Max Planck Research Group for Machine Visual Culture — “Artificial Intelligence and the History of Seeing” positions open under Dr Leonardo Impett. We’ll get to hang out sometimes. www.biblhertz.it/3757971/0412...