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The #BASConf25 abstract submission portal is open!

Submit your abstracts for presentations, panels, lightning talks, or posters here:
blogs.city.ac.uk/bas2025/subm...

• Submission Deadline: 17 Mar 2025, 9AM UK
• Notification of Acceptance: 2 May 2025
• Conference: 18-20 August 2025

#aphasia

Reiterating that we have an open postdoc position in the area of HCI and accessibility in our lab. Please apply using this link: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Charles Darwin weighing the pros and cons of marriage, 1838

All I want for Christmas is for recommendation letters to be ABOLISHED.

I have given up on all sorts of ~cool~ word processing approaches for writing my book (Zettlr, Ulysses, Scrivener, etc) and am going to do it all in Google Docs because of citation support and the instant sync / sharing options.

Honestly feels heretical.

Makeability Lab Handbook Makeability Lab Handbook By Professor Jon Froehlich and lab membersAllen School of Computer Science and EngineeringUniversity of Washington Welcome to the Makeability Lab! 👋 We are so happfy that y...

What is $131,742? Answer: this is how much it costs me to fund a PhD student per year for a full RAship in CS at UW (including 100% during the summer). PhD funding can be a confusing topic at US universities. Want to learn more? Take a look at our lab handbook: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Phase Transition xkcd.com/3025

Just be excellent to each other. 😊🤞🦋

America almost died from food poisoning, and now that she's feeling a little better... she's eating the leftovers.

I always forget just how unpleasant a 15 hour flight is

some OpenAI guy says that o1 is better at most humans at most tasks

o1, make me a coffee? fail.
o1, brush my teeth? fail.
o1, drive me to work? fail.
…

o1 can do literally none of the things I do within the first hour of waking up. but, sure. you're great. never change 😀

Presenting at a conference: 10% the actual talk, 90% figuring out how to say 'next slide' without sounding awkward.

I’ve been watching (and sobbing) along to “A Daily Dose of Sunshine” and dear lord is it amazing

Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm -- C Wright Mills 1951

Undergraduates: come spend your summer with us as a paid researcher at CMU! I plan to mentor students interested in data visualization and/or human-AI decision-making in healthcare.

This is an interesting observation. AI facilitates the creation and reinforcement of a fascist aesthetic, where everyone can appear to be “perfect” (youthful, conforming, masculine men and feminine women).

A great class concept with a website so funky that the Fresh Prince himself would probably enroll

Seems like a very interesting course, Ken! The materials are so fun.

Academia is where you work 60 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours a week

Two stages of writing:

1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no

Current Job Openings at Charles River Analytics We take great pride in our success by attracting and retaining the most talented and creative problem-solvers in the field.

HCI friends! Come work with me! My team is hiring HCI Scientists/Researchers at all levels, including interns! DMs open if you have any questions 🙂

Positions are hybrid in our amazing office in Cambridge, MA!

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Amazon announces its own set of Nova AI models Nova is here.

Amazon’s Nova foundation models just launched www.theverge.com/2024/12/3/24...

@anhongguo.bsky.social and I are featured in CSE’s annual report article, showcasing our latest work, other accessibility research at UMich, and our vision for the future of accessibility. 🚀

A good read if you’re passionate about AI and accessibility!

cse-report.engin.umich.edu/2024/10/25/a...

Could you add me though? 😀

And here's one for sound designers

Awesome! Reposted.

Part of the reason is also because we’re so passionate about writing comprehensive detailed letters for our students, that sometimes it gets hard to manage the time.

Yes, this is a great idea (thanks for making it easy for us to write letters!). My students too do that for the most part.

Still gets a lot considering the over 20+ requests, each with 10+ schools, I may get.