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  I have a column in @boulderreportinglab about the implications of the "tipped wage offset" and its implications for deteriorating housing affordability in #boulder https://boulderreportinglab.org/2026/05/10/brian-keegan-boulders-tipped-wage-debate-rests-on-a-myth-about-what-restaurant-workers-earn/

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  #Boulder should remove its #Flock cameras. Op-ed today in @dailycamerabot with @jedbrown and @threatresearch (gift link) https://www.dailycamera.com/2026/07/09/boulder-police-flock-automatic-license-plate-readers-privacy-rights-ice-immigration/?share=vgrslo2iisfiawemolcl

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  Your daily schadenfreude. “Facebook’s miscalculation about its ability to pursue finance as a new line of business, compounded by its miscalculation about investors’ patience for the metaverse as a new line of business, compounded by Apple’s ability to leverage its monopoly to damage Facebook's core business have left Facebook weaker in the markets and in our culture than at any point in recent memory.” https://www.vice.com/en/article/epzkne/facebooks-monopoly-is-imploding-before-our-e...

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  I'm teaching a five-week mini-course on Web Data Scraping. Twitter was ejected from the course but we'll be digging into the Mastodon API. Follow along here! https://github.com/CU-ITSS/Web-Data-Scraping-S2023

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  Postdoctoral position/ethnography and content analysis of small social media platforms in Germany #AcademicJobs https://job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/705783264ad42b3e8dcc5634a5d9fec4d292dc140

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  cc @Gargron @evan @cwebber@octodon.social @mastodonmigration @taylorlorenz @mmasnick @pluralistic @kissane

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  Our survey respondents report that Musk’s takeover of Twitter (and accompanying changes to the platform) drove many users’ platform migration decisions. Despite common narratives that folks only want a safer version of Twitter, the technical and cultural features of Mastodon itself were also a draw for many users. (2/N)

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  @jbigham @imjane If it doesn’t have an ACM DOI, was it ever made?

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  I won’t be at #CHI2023 but be sure to keep an eye out for @samanthadalal presenting her paper with @YuhanLiu and @andresmh on indie food delivery platforms! https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544548.3581517

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  My latest Charting Boulder column for @boulderreportinglab analyzing the evolution of the regional comprehensive plan since 1977. https://boulderreportinglab.org/2026/03/31/brian-keegan-what-822505-words-reveal-about-how-boulders-comprehensive-plan-has-changed-since-1977/

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  Swing by r/compsocial to discuss and share resources about #CHI2023! https://www.reddit.com/r/CompSocial/comments/12uz0pr/chi2023_megathread/

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  Check out the daily #CHI2023 thread for Sunday! https://www.reddit.com/r/CompSocial/comments/12w0nmb/chi2023_april_23/

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  Awesome new paper from @sohw, @healspersecond, @aaronshaw Adopting Third-party Bots for Managing Online Communities https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3653707

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  “When antidemocratic politics target universities, universities need more democracy, not less, to protect themselves. Recognize the collective bargaining rights of Colorado’s public university employees.” https://coloradosun.com/2026/03/26/opinion-colorado-regents-collective-bargining-decision/

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  Welcome newcomers! There's not much in the way of functionality for importing or recommending followers. I have found people to follow by looking at other accounts' following. There's also a directory of profiles here: https://hci.social/web/directory See the code of conduct here: https://hci.social/about/more

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  Our department is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor with a focus on #Accessibility and #Design! Please share widely — job market students, junior faculty, and industry folx all encouraged to apply! #A11Y #AcademicJobs #Fedihire @academicchatter https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail/Assistant-Professor-Information-Science/52624

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  If I could bind everyone to my idiosyncratic platform design preferences, I’d want an exponential back-off for active users’ post/boost time and what’s sent to followers. Space out the posts from high-frequency users to leave some bandwidth in the reverse chron timeline for everyone else!

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  Awesome post by @molly0xfff on the tensions of free knowledge production and commons in the face of extractive technologies like AI. https://www.citationneeded.news/free-and-open-access-in-the-age-of-generative-ai/

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  @andresmh #CompostHumanInteraction 155F after watering!

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  How things are going in #Boulder, #Colorado this week. https://boulderreportinglab.org/

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  bowker & star (1999) https://www.theverge.com/meta/645012/meta-llama-4-maverick-benchmarks-gaming

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  “We need more safe, walkable, mixed-use spaces throughout #Boulder where residents and visitors alike want to linger, shop and dine — not noisy and car-choked corridors that prioritize parking over placemaking.” https://www.dailycamera.com/2025/04/17/guest-opinion-brian-c-keegan-pedestrianization-actually-helped-west-pearl/?share=lakiadtwctanwawn5oyt

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  “McCartney used his CU position and the evangelical men’s rights group he founded to publicly repeat his homophobic and patriarchal views for years. Nobody should be forced to see a monument to this man.” Yours truly with @BoulderProgressives https://www.boulderprogressives.org/blog/cus-plannednbspcoach-mccartney-statue-must-not-proceed

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  Thank you to @boulderreportinglab for bringing me on as a regular columnist. My first piece is on the consequences of a half-century of population anxiety and debunking myths about Boulder being "full". https://boulderreportinglab.org/2025/06/29/brian-keegan-the-myth-of-a-full-boulder-and-how-our-policies-are-driving-people-away/

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  #Boulder getting a fireworks show tonight. #cowx

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  My latest Charting Boulder column in @boulderreportinglab "That’s the promise of public interest data science: not just to mythbust, but to make arguments about our community more accountable and actionable." https://boulderreportinglab.org/2025/07/22/brian-keegan-rethinking-boulders-growth-debate-with-data-not-nostalgia/

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  A new column from yours truly on the changing demographics of #Boulder and its implications. https://boulderreportinglab.org/2025/08/26/brian-keegan-how-boulders-silver-wave-could-transform-the-citys-future-for-the-better-if-we-plan-now/

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  My department is hiring a TT assistant professor in the area of environmental justice! https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail/Assistant-Professor-in-Environmental-Justice-and-Information-Technology/67494 Please share and encourage candidates to apply!

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  @andresmh I like these 4-in-1 chargers that Anker and Monoprice make. https://www.anker.com/products/a2697-anker-charger-140w-4-port https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=44682

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  My new #ChartingBoulder column in @boulderreportinglab is out today! Declining school enrollments and its implications for the intergenerational social contract. https://boulderreportinglab.org/2025/10/14/brian-keegan-boulders-next-political-divide-is-generational-and-already-visible-in-school-enrollment-trends/