📢 New article alert 📢 "Unlikely Organizers: The Rise of Tech Worker Labor Activism" is out with @ilrreview.bsky.social

@js-tan.bsky.social, @emilymazo.bsky.social, and I find tech cos with political and social activism in the workplace saw 1.3x more labor activism in the next 6-12 months (1/2)

Such an honor and a (bittersweet) joy to celebrate the retirement of Neil Fligstein this weekend. His critical work on shareholder capitalism convinced me to become an economic sociologist and impacted scholars across political science, economics, and IR sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/neil...

This is Greenland 🇬🇱 A beautiful sovereign nation that is 80% covered by the ice cap that I’m standing on

When I visited in 2022, NO ONE had any desire for anything other than their own independence and perhaps more US tourism dollars. End of story

And out on arXiv... the academic paper to back it up!! Thrilled to have been a part of this team at the Berkeley AI Research Lab (2/2) arxiv.org/pdf/2501.16531

‼️ New publication alert ‼️ What would academic research on Responsible AI look like if it were translated for product managers and their higher-ups?

This Playbook does just that. TLDR; align incentives with values and have leadership back it up.: re-ai.berkeley.edu/sites/defaul... (1/2)

Luka is part of my mother’s maiden name and represents continuing a matrilineal legacy and honoring all she gave me. Natalia is an aesthetic choice for simplicity’s sake
 
I love the sound of my new name– and I love how much shorter and more memorable it is!

Internet, yesterday I discovered a single golden chanterelle on my mushroom foraging walk. This is true joy

For anyone writing post-doc apps right now, can I recommend to you: cat?

It me! Caught in the final throes of a PhD program in Sociology at UC Berkeley, I live in Oakland, own a perfume that smells like the moon, and am obsessed with Greenland ✨

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Best lawn sign combo ever in October

New article with JS Tan out on "Labor's Stake in Shaping Tech Futures" in ACM Interactions. We draw on data from @techactions.bsky.social to explain why we need to empower tech workers to speak out about workplace harms *before* they occur (1/n) dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Excited to have two great reasons to go to FAccT this year ✨– paper presentation for "No Simple Fix: Accidents, Harms, and Jurisdiction in the AI Workplace" and a CRAFT session on "Generative AI Labor Impacts"

“The Role of Workers in AI Ethics and Governance”, co-authored with @organizejs.bsky.social, finally in print ✏️ TLDR; Workers know this tech better than their managers and deserve a say in governing how it’s integrated into their work

About to watch this and am both extraordinarily happy and sad about it

Pretty astounding stuff. From Scholars Strategy Network Virtual Federal Policy Briefing:

So, we're all on here archiving our lives.... what happens when that archive becomes somebody's research project? ✨ Steve Lauterwasser and I wrote about researchers' duty of care using publicly available social media data for the Berkeley Journal of Sociology: berkeleyjournal.org/2023/08/11/p...