Sarah Rajtmajer

~And then I died.
And actually I have no idea what he did. He might still be talking, so if you are alive out there, I’d advise you to try to keep your head.~

~it was so incredibly overwhelming that I just stopped caring about what he thought and I went right ahead and felt around and finally found my head and I cradled my own head in my arms. My face nuzzled into my breasts and my hands stroked my own brow and I comforted myself in pieces.~

Dear god how I love Jenny Slate.

~The man was getting irritated because I guess I was making a face and rolling my eyes, but what was hard about that was that my head was dangling upside down and so my eyeballs were, to be fair, rolling around.~

I will be at #CSCW2025 presenting two first-author papers! I am also on the job market, let’s have a ☕ chat! Papers: Who Is a Good Digital Activist? w/ @kelleyhas2es.bsky.social,“Whoever needs to see it, will see it” w/ @kelleyhas2es.bsky.social, @shaheenk.bsky.social, Haley McAtee & Amy Ritchart

(& Zagreb's Zrinjevac as well.) Despite the political climate now - today's Serbia/Bosnia tensions, etc., humanity.

The Dangers of using AI to Grade Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains

I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

The clasped hands are the cherry on top.

The First AI-Powered Minister Tests the Future of Government An AI system named Diella has joined Albania’s cabinet, testing how far governments are willing to trust machines with power.

The beautiful Diella is tasked with rooting out government corruption. 😅
time.com/7324934/alba...

If only they could find a map of Croatia to stand up behind her.

The Creator of ‘Humans of New York’ Has Transformed All of Grand Central Into a Public Art Installation Brandon Stanton’s Dear New York turns Grand Central into a vast public art installation celebrating the city’s people and stories.

Nothing human is alien to me.
www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

Eligibility:
- Graduate level training in psychology, sociology, political science, economics, education, public health, or a closely related social/behavioral science.
- Strong grounding in research methodology and statistics.

If interested, please reach out directly at shakhlo@cos.io

Commitment:
- Each annotation ~1 hour.
- Total: 21 papers.

Incentive:
- Completion of ≥ 2 rounds of annotations for 21 papers = authorship on project publications.
- Contributions recognized with the CRediT taxonomy (Data Curation, Validation).
- Smaller contributions acknowledged.

Your task:
- You will receive:
* Original research paper (PDF)
* Extracted hypothesis and results
* A structured post-registration template (blank)
- You will fill in the template using only these inputs, guided by detailed annotation standards.

@cos.io Call for Annotators

Benchmarking LLM Replicator Tasks in the Social Sciences

We are seeking two experts in the social and behavioral sciences to help create ground-truth annotations for a project benchmarking large language models (LLMs) on replication workflows. 🧵

smart people: this is a violation of the constitution
me: the antecedent of “you” is the ice officers and cops

i looked at the methodology for this and it is
a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and
b. p-hacked

Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference

Faustian pact on offer. Time for collective courage, if such a thing exists any more.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

“We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, love.” -JG

Nationwide Internet Blackout Hits Afghanistan: AFP Journalists A huge internet blackout hit Afghanistan on Monday, weeks after Taliban authorities began severing fibre optic connections in multiple provinces.

Heartbreaking 💔 15 minutes before the start of my class with afsousa.org this morning -- these young women are now fully disconnected. Even the mobile data packets we send them don't work.
#saveafghanwomen

www.barrons.com/news/nationw...

The digitally accountable public representation database: online communication by U.S. officials - Scientific Data Scientific Data - The digitally accountable public representation database: online communication by U.S. officials

Thank you for spotlighting our DAPR database! It's published now in Nature Scientific Reports - if anyone is interested in a little more background! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🎉 This incredible database is out today in Nature Scientific Data.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

After lengthy and thoughtful back and forth with the journal's leadership, we agreed that ***elected officials' social media communications should be in public record***
@brucedesmarais.bsky.social

Join us!

Education report calling for ethical AI use contains over 15 fake sources Experts find fake sources in Canadian government report that took 18 months to complete.

Report aptly titled:

A Vision for the Future: Transforming and Modernizing Education

arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/e...

New Report Reveals Dangers of AI Companions for Children AI companions are not safe for children. A major new report shows how easily these chatbots exploit and manipulate young users - confirming the concerns SAIFCA has raised about urgent safeguards to pr...

AI companion platforms should be restricted to adults 18+, and call for urgent action from policymakers and industry to safeguard children.

www.safeaiforchildren.org/report-revea...

“I have got so thoroughly on one groove,” he wrote in a letter to a friend, the scientist James Clerk Maxwell, “that I fear I may be missing or unduly exalting something which will appear excessively simple to anyone but myself.”

Wisdom, humility, humanity

It is not just children and other people who know when they are being looked at and can feel instantly the quality and intent of a gaze. Animals know it as well and sense how it is that we are seeing them, with what qualities of mind and heart, whether in fear or in gladness.
—on being seen

YouTube video by IFLScience Deep-Sea Aliens Spotted During First-Ever High-Tech Expedition To Offshore Canyon

Just seven delightful minutes of deep-sea aliens, courtesy of @schmidtocean.bsky.social

@brettfrischmann.bsky.social

Can ChatGPT help science writers?

Tl;dr = No.

www.science.org/content/blog...

@pennstateuniv.bsky.social