Ann Arbor, MI
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I'm beyond excited and thrilled to announce that I'll be starting as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota in Fall 2023!!! @UMNComputerSci @grouplens
Looking forward to this next big step... but first, time to finish up that dissertation. 😊
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Generative AI is "a Marxist nightmare: the work of millions accruing to a few capitalist owners who pay nothing at all for that labor," says @datasociety research director @jennaburrell:
techpolicy.press/chatgpt-and…
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This article by @ceciliakang and @satariano correctly identifies the knowledge gap on AI in Congress. But there's more to it than that. 1/n, n=7
As A.I. Booms, Lawmakers Struggle to Understand the Technology nyti.ms/3kIAh2x
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Delve into new UMSI research coming to #CHI2023 about trans tech:
Excited to share the preprint of our new #CHI2023 paper w/ @HibbyThach @kaichak3 & Aloe DeGuia. We show how involving trans people in design processes is vital for trans tech to realize its potential to address trans needs 🏳️⚧️ oliverhaimson.com/PDFs/Haims…
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i feel bad for this poor fired Twitter engineer but on the whole this story is so funny platformer.news/p/elon-musk-…
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One crosstab I want to highlight here -- the share of Americans who say that, growing up, they were at least somewhat worried about a mass shooting at their school.
By age group;
65+: 4%
50-64: 6%
35-49: 11%
18-34: 38%
cnn.com/2022/07/20/politics/…
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Awesome to see this feature of a #MercuryProject grantee team, including @eegilbert! (Go Blue!)
si.umich.edu/about-umsi/news… "Instead of going after misinfo itself, we're going to go after the networks that carry misinfo."
cc @ssrc_org @mosenkis @Rtg230 @NeilLewisJr @CharlesSenteio
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PhD students: Want to work with @marylgray @nancybaym @TarletonG and me at @MSFTResearch on sociotechnical projects? We are hiring both interns and postdocs. For more info, see: socialmediacollective.org/
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I’m so glad to see some faculty sharing their opinion about this. The faculty/staff side of the University can feel like a monolith for students — I was constantly shocked in my reporting to find specific faculty members that are incredibly supportive (behind closed doors.)
#Opinion | Op-Ed: A faculty perspective on reporting sexual misconduct:
ow.ly/FVY550LALS5
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Our new research estimates that *one in twenty* comments on Reddit are violations of its norms: anti-social behaviors that most subreddits try to moderate. But almost none are moderated.
🧵 on my upcoming #cscw2022 paper w/ @josephseering and @msbernst: arxiv.org/abs/2208.13094
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DeSantis now favored over Trump for 2024 GOP nomination in prediction markets predictit.org/markets/detail… betfair.com/exchange/plus/po…
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If founders don’t sleep, bad stuff happens, in 4 studies:
1) Lack of 💤makes you generate worse ideas
2) Lack of 💤 makes you think the bad ideas you develop are good
3) Getting 💤 boosts your mood, upping the mood of your startup
4) Lack of 💤 lowers your entrepreneurial ability
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We're seeing reports that a slice of Twitter may be intentionally testing boundaries on what types of speech will be allowed on the platform today. A few reminders:
