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  Today I’m grateful to be part of a vibrant community of teachers and learners! This was tonight’s Information School Showcase, celebrating the year’s learning. Thank you Victor Aque and all the staff for helping make it happen! And to all our students for being great learners.

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  Today I’m proud to be trans. The world might think we’re delusional, weird, icky, and not human, but I think we’re creative, visionary, and everywhere. And tired. Very, very, tired.

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  Today I'm grateful to work with an excellent team of faculty and staff leaders at the University of Washington Information School. These are not easy times to be leaders with the U.S. government regularly attacking, threatening, and defunding higher education, but they're so much easier with great colleagues.

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  Today is Husky Giving Day, and I’m proud to support the Information School’s Next Gen Faculty Fellowship in Information Science. What makes the School so special is its faculty: thoughtful teachers, researchers, and mentors who show up every day for students and for one another. If you’d like to support that work, here is my link: https://together.uw.edu/i/hgd/campaign/2026-information-school-husky-giving-day/ZIIxKE6PCE6nnGGfYO5Qgw?appeal=APL-22788

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  Today I am grateful for the 15 minute lunch break in my marathon of meetings from 8am to 5pm :P

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  Today I’m proud of rising, roaming, and rambling slowly, staving off burnout. The cool sunshine and quiet streets helped!

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  Tonight I’m grateful for Rick Steves and Shelley Bryan for their anti-fascist call for solidarity, hope, love, and action, as traveler and bishop.

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  Today I'm proud of our recently published ACM TOCE journal article, "Justice-Centered Educational Programming Language Design", which analyzes the many interconnections between justice and programming languages for learning. Thank you to my wonderful colleague Ben Shapiro and my excellent students Jayne Everson and Megumi Kivuva for writing it with me. Tell us what you think! https://doi.org/10.1145/3811022

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  Today I'm excited about the 2nd edition of Teaching Accessible Computing, which helps computing educators integrate accessibility topics into CS across the curriculum! This edition has 3 chapters on systems, sustainability, and capstones. Thanks to Alannah for editing. bookish.press/tac

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  Today I'm grateful for U.S. universities. They are underfunded, under appreciated, and under attack, and yet the are full of devoted, curious, and brilliant people of integrity, charting the past, present, and future of humanity. I'm proud to work at one, fighting to keep them vibrant and strong.

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  Today I'm proud of all the little things I do that add up to a lot! I made a little "latest" page on my website to make that more visible, showing everything I've done in a year, such as writing, travel, talks, advising, and impact in the world. https://faculty.washington.edu/ajko/latest

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  Today I'm proud of the University of Washington for (finally) having paid parental leave (3 months)! https://hr.uw.edu/time-absence/faculty-leaves/faculty-paid-parental-leave-policy/ May the 4th be with you.

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  Today I'm proud to be a featured by GitHub as a maintainer in academia! There's a lot of unglamorous work in keeping community-engaged defunded research healthy and I'm grateful for all GitHub does to make it possible. https://maintainermonth.github.com/academia/wordplay-maintainer-spotlight https://wordplay.dev #maintainermonth

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  Tonight I have gratitude for the love and care abundant my communities. Violent death is more than any one person to bear, and I’m glad so many faculty, staff, and students know that with their hearts.

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  Today I’m proud of the students across computing and information at UW. You lead with your hearts and your minds in equal measure, and you make me hopeful for our country’s future. Don’t ever stop dreaming and learning!

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  Today I am grateful that today is over. Thanks to everyone who helped carry me to the finish line, and give me space to breathe.

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  Today I’m heartened by two essential organizations, Lambert House, which is throwing tonight’s Pink Prom for queer youth, and Whole Washington, which is fighting for universal health care in WA, with the support of Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson.

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  Today I’m grateful for the beautiful 67° F sunny day and long ambling walk from the train to volunteer. People were out, the pets were frolicking, and my beats were on point.

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  Today I’m grateful for a research community that embraces everything from very serious intellectual debate to extremely silly theatrics and everything in between. Discovery is at the edges!

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  Today I’m grateful for the UW Q center for creating spaces of care, calm, and community, even amidst a storm. It was a beautiful day for a pizza bake on the farm!

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  Today I’m grateful for a three day weekend of rest, play, and creativity, and Tuesday back that was calm, despite the chaos. Here’s to a Wednesday that is full but gentle.

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  Today I’m proud of the amazing Rotem Landesman for defending her dissertation, “Supporting Teens’ Everyday Ethical Thinking About GenAI”! I co-advise Rotem with Katie Davis, and it’s been a joy to see her build community with youth, while understanding how to cultivate their learning and integrity.

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  Today I’m grateful for the berries of the Pacific Northwest. They make a great shrub, and a wonderful treat! There are so many things broken in this world, but the humble marionberry is perfect.

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  Today I’m grateful for spring break, even if it’s only a week, and even if I have to work during it. The change of pace and the transition to spring always bring me a kind of existential hope, even amidst the horrors of our times 🌧️🌤️☀️.

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  @andresmh @pg that’s a nice sweet spot! Does that include an exam week?

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  I spent a few days in Minneapolis, talking to academics, queer folk, and finding cozy corners in the aftermath of the ICE invasion. Here's a quick trip report, for the curious: https://medium.com/bits-and-behavior/a-day-at-the-university-of-minnesota-dfb782352fb1

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  Today I’m grateful for 27 years of support from the National Science Foundation, funding my education, research, and service to the world. All my grants are now terminated or non-renewed, as I believe too strongly in the American dream of equal opportunity. Until we meet again, federal funding.

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  On July 1st, all trans Idahoans who need to pee will be forced to choose between risking violence or life in prison. Friends, come to WA, we will find you refuge, while fascist ID revels in its hate https://open.substack.com/pub/transitics/p/trans-people-are-a-myth-idaho-republicans?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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  Today I’m so excited about the cross lake connection, bringing together the east and west Seattle metro area, increasing frequencies, and opening transit to new communities in the south sound! Two decades of advocacy, engineering research, federal support, and taxpayer support are finally realized.

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  My favorite shot from the No Kings community organizing at Seattle center today: Trump babies, musk nazis, a general strike table, and in the background, thousands of people connecting, planning, plotting, and resisting.