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• Post #4320821

  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/

• Post #4320820

  #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

• Post #1792383

  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...

• Post #1787122

  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

• Post #1644557

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

• Post #1109562

  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

• Post #1061652

  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/

• Post #987621

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

• Post #987619

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

• Post #963370

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

• Post #823720

  “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/

• Post #677552

  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

• Post #671504

  I am excited to share the preliminary results of survey research with @cfiesler, @MattNicholson, and @blakeley exploring the factors driving the #TwitterMigration since November 2022. (1/N) #TheorizingTheFediverse https://medium.com/cuinfoscience/an-exploration-of-the-twitter-to-mastodon-migration-21c15c4336f2

• Post #671503

  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

• Post #671186

  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!

• Post #671010

  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/

• Post #671008

  @andresmh #CompostHumanInteraction 155F after watering!

• Post #671007

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

• Post #671006

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

• Post #671005

  “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

• Post #671004

  “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

• Post #671003

  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/

• Post #671002

  #Boulder getting a fireworks show tonight. #cowx

• Post #671001

  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/

• Post #671000

  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/

• Post #670999

  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!

• Post #670998

  @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

• Post #670997

  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/

• Post #670996

  My endorsements for Boulder city council

• Post #670995

  A data-driven post-mortem on Boulder’s election results. A statistical model predicting city council races reveals a consistent pattern in how Boulder’s ballots are cast and counted — and why progressives keep coming from behind. https://boulderreportinglab.org/2025/11/09/brian-keegan-what-boulders-2025-election-results-reveal-about-how-we-vote-and-why-progressives-keep-coming-from-behind/