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James Spann

@jspann.me.bsky.social

PhD Candidate working on adaptive and contextual systems @ University of Rochester #hci #accessibility Fav animals are pandas, pythons, and BSD Daemons

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Writing is a lot like weight training. You won't be able to lift a lot at first. You start small. Short session, light weights. Day by day though you get just a *little* stronger. Eventually your sessions get longer, the bars get heavier, and everyone says "I could never do that." Just like you did.

15.12.2024 18:10 — 👍 2904    🔁 339    💬 77    📌 41
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Cold day in #Rochester today!

05.12.2024 23:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Google scholar link with the title of the paper and a "1" indicating another paper has cited it

Google scholar link with the title of the paper and a "1" indicating another paper has cited it

My first first-author paper got cited last week!🎉🎉

02.12.2024 21:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I want to bike this loop!

26.11.2024 18:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I wrote a blog about how we engaged with Senior Highschool students giving them an HCI crash course.

Details in the image and in the link below

👉🏻 jrdndj.medium.com/hci-in-seven...

24.11.2024 10:55 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Looking closer at the US DOT table in the first section, NYS owns about 16% of the roads which handle 49% of the traffic! I wouldn’t have guessed that!

22.11.2024 02:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A new article about the work we're doing to support hearing caregivers and their Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) children! Super proud of what we've been working on and thankful for the people I work on this with!

21.11.2024 21:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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CHI 2025 Late-Breaking Work: Application for AC roles (due: Nov 30) The CHI 2025 Late-Breaking Work (LBW) Co-chairs invite you to volunteer as an Associate Chair (AC) for the CHI 2023 (LBW) Program Committee! Please use the form below to provide details about yourself...

Help with CHI Late Breaking Work program! We are looking for associate chairs (ACs). Not only is the LBW an excellent track for our community to show new work at CHI, but it is also an important step to train new ACs in our community: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #hci #CHI2025

20.11.2024 21:28 — 👍 25    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 2
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Check out our updated database of 189 PhD fellowships and funding opportunities.

For each fellowship, we provide a description, $ amount, deadline, link to funder and eligibility criteria (such as citizenship).

Good luck!

Download freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

19.11.2024 13:13 — 👍 211    🔁 125    💬 1    📌 4
Leaves covering the quad on a school campus

Leaves covering the quad on a school campus

Colorful leaves in front of a long green quad

Colorful leaves in front of a long green quad

Autumn on the Rochester campus!

#roc #nature #sky #photography

19.11.2024 18:36 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Join here!

19.11.2024 12:45 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

You can do it through Bluesky (they partner with Namecheap) and then make it your username. Outside of that I use porkbun for my other domains

19.11.2024 14:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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bluesky_counter.py GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Last night I threw together a script to record my Bluesky follower count and save it to a file. I'm using it with cron so I can build a trend line later

Link is below if you want to use it yourself (the username and password fields are left blank)

gist.github.com/jspann/2a1b9...

19.11.2024 14:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

One for HCI

19.11.2024 02:45 — 👍 49    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 1

Just setting up my blusky

06.02.2024 20:37 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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