Giveaway winners announced for S+T at UW survey

The results are in! The Society + Technology at UW initiative review survey reached a 59% response rate! Thank you to everyone who took the time to respond. A summary report will be shared soon and every response was read.

As promised, when we reached over 50% participation rate, all members of the Society + Technology at UW listserv were entered into a random drawing for two books: The AI Con by Emily Bender (Linguistics, UW Seattle) and Alex Hanna, and Law or Technology: A Methodological Approach by Ryan Calo (Law and Information, UW Seattle).

Well, drumroll, please, the lucky winners are:

Annuska Zolyomi (Computing and Software Systems, UW Bothell)

Annuska Zolyomi is an assistant professor in the School of STEM in the Department of Computing and Software Systems at UW Bothell, where she brings an inclusive lens to human-computer interaction and software engineering pedagogy. She teaches courses on usability, accessibility, and co-design, and her research focuses on the experiences of users who identify as blind or low-vision, neurodivergent, autistic, and more. Read her work to discover why in 2016, users gave up on Twitter before it became X (clue: it wasn’t to signal disagreement with the online politics, but something else entirely). Learn more here: https://faculty.washington.edu/annuska/

Martin Saveski (Information, UW Seattle)

Martin Saveski is an assistant professor in the Information School at UW Seattle. His work develops tools for analyzing large-scale social data to better understand online social structures and behaviors, while also shaping the design of digital systems. One of his papers that I’ve read explores how social media platforms reward certain human values—personal agency, stimulation—and then proposes how it might be redesigned to support other values. Who decides on which values are important? And how can such values be known and changed? You can read more here: https://faculty.washington.edu/msaveski/

Annuska and Martin, please get in touch to claim your books!

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After Hours on privacy and urban surveillance on Jan. 12, 2026 at Halcyon Brewery

Join Society + Technology After Hours on Monday, January 12, 2026, at 5:30 PM at Halcyon Brewery (8564 Greenwood Ave N, Seattle, WA 98103) for Who’s Watching? Privacy and Urban Surveillance, a conversation with Ryan Calo (Law and Information, UW Seattle), Brie McLemore (Political Science, UW Seattle), and NPR’s Martin Kaste. Free and open to the public, no registration required.

Seattle University’s Tech Ethics Initiative joins S+T at UW as a Community Partner

Society + Technology at UW’s community of affiliates expands with a new community partner, the Seattle University Technology Ethics Initiative.

Settle University Tech Ethics Initiative

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Directed by Professor Onur Bakiner (SU, Political Science), whose research and teaching focus on technology and society, the Seattle University Technology Ethics initiative seeks to bring together students, faculty, practitioners, and community members to explore how technologies shape power, accountability, and the public good.

This cross-institutional partnership indexes a shared commitment to cross-disciplinary collaboration and to creating spaces where open conversations about technology, society, and justice can flourish across institutions and communities.

Society + Technology at UW welcomes interest from community organizations, nonprofits, and industry groups who see value in what we’re building and would like to be part of it. To learn more about joining the Society + Technology at UW affiliate circle, email mmjones@uw.edu.

STSS Mixer for UW Community on Emergences — Tues. Nov. 25, 2025, 3:30 PM

The University of Washington’s interdisciplinary Science, Technology, and Society Studies (STSS) community will host its fall mixer on Tuesday, November 25, 2025, at 3:30 PM at the Simpson Center for the Humanities (CMU 202).

This fall’s theme, “Encounters,” invites STSS faculty, staff, and students from UW Seattle, Bothell, Tacoma, and the School of Medicine to share what they’ve been doing with STS across research, teaching, mentorship, and leadership work.

Join for outtakes from the 2025 4S Reverberations conference, the First Monday STSS Reading Group, the graduate certificate program, and the UW Bothell major and minor, and stay for an interactive component to spark conversation about emerging research directions and collaborations between participants.

We are deciding if we should make the mixer hybrid to best include all our colleagues from across our campuses and we want to hear from you about that, and more. We’ve also got a table reserved for a no-host drink at a local brewery after.

Please share your meeting style preferences, projects, and updates by filling out this STSS MIXER form by Tuesday, Nov. 18 to help us best plan an inclusive experience!