Jenn Wortman Vaughan

I’ve been lucky to get the chance to work with some incredibly creative and talented undergrad researchers through this program! Help us spread the word to students who might be interested!

Rare and exciting opportunity to join a team of world-class social scientists to study the social, political, and cultural dynamics that shape technologies and their consequences. MSR New England (our sister lab!) is an interdisciplinary environment with endless possibility for real-world impact. 👇👇

Feeling so excited + grateful to be representing this paper at #ICML! Please stop by to talk about how to do more valid measurement for evaling gen AI systems!

Work led by the incomparable @hannawallach.bsky.social and @azjacobs.bsky.social as a part of Microsoft’s AI and Society initiative!!

If you're at @icmlconf.bsky.social this week, come check out our poster on "Position: Evaluating Generative AI Systems Is a Social Science Measurement Challenge" presented by the amazing @afedercooper.bsky.social from 11:30am--1:30pm PDT on Weds!!! icml.cc/virtual/2025...

Someone asked me today how to get better at scientific writing. I'm not the best person to ask because I find my own writing very inadequate! But the tips I thought of were:

1. Practice, and practice with co-authors who are better writers than you. Observe how they make edits and copy them.

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Photo of the Town Hall meeting at last week's conference. The audience watches as Su Lin Blodgett announces the location of next year's conference. Su Lin Blodgett and Zeerak Talat will be General Chairs, and Michael Madaio will be PC Chair.

We're happy to officially announce the location of #FAccT2026!

Next year's conference will be held in Montreal, Canada 🇨🇦

Su Lin Blodgett and Zeerak Talat will be General Chairs, and Michael Madaio will be PC Chair 🎉

(thanks to MindView for the photo!)

Ohhhh Molly Crockett‘s @mjcrockett.bsky.social keynote talk at #FAccT2025 was soo good 🔥🔥🔥

She talked about how techno-optimism is really human pessimism, how DEAD benchmarks don’t capture full human capacities and feed the hype cycle, how we need to avoid monoculture & imagine new worlds together

I could not agree with this more. The positive energy and support we give each other keeps us going. #FAccT2025

THANK YOU, Maria! For what it’s worth, I lost count of how many people mentioned that they missed you this week and were grateful for what you’ve done.

As #FAccT2025 comes to a close, we've been reflecting on our year as Program Chairs, the review process, and our recommendations for future conference organizers.

Take a look at our new post on the FAccT blog, or join today's town hall at 4:45.

FAccT 2025 Program Chairs at FAccT

I love FAccT because of the people. This community is friendly, fun, and passionate about the work they do.

I'm so proud and honored to have gotten to work with these particular amazing people on the #FAccT2025 program. Talia, Sina, and @shakirm.bsky.social are THE BEST.

Grab some coffee and join us bright and early Thursday morning! 👇👇👇

Our #FAccT2025 proceedings are out!! 🎉

Read all of the published papers here: dl.acm.org/doi/proceedi...

I’m truly honored give a keynote speech at the @facct.bsky.social conference this year in Athens, on Tue 24 June. My talk will focus on the lessons we can learn from emerging AI laws, and the road and challenges ahead.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Schedule: programs.sigchi.org/facct/2025

At #FAccT2025? Want to learn about modern synthetic data usage and its implications?

Come see @shivanikapania.bsky.social present "Examining the Expanding Role of Synthetic Data Throughout the AI Development Pipeline" Thursday at 9am in AI Design & Development.

programs.sigchi.org/facct/2025/p...

Looking for posts about #FAccT2025? Check out our 🦋 custom feed 🦋 which is already lively and full of papers, events, and attendees for this year's conference in Athens!

Click the pin 📌 in the upper right hand corner to keep this feed quickly accessible.

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🏆 Announcing the #FAccT2025 best paper awards! 🏆

Congratulations to all the authors of the three best papers and three honorable mention papers.

Be sure to check out their presentations at the conference next week!

facct-blog.github.io/2025-06-20/b...

Thrilled to share that I’ve successfully defended my PhD dissertation and I will be joining MIT as an Assistant Professor starting Fall 2026, with a shared appointment between Sloan and EECS!

I will be recruiting 1-2 PhD students this upcoming cycle. Consider applying to MIT EECS!

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Please help us spread the word! 📣

FATE is hiring a pre-doc research assistant! We're looking for candidates who will have completed their bachelor's degree (or equivalent) by summer 2025 and want to advance their research skills before applying to PhD programs.

Wow! The imposter account was removed within about 24 hours of me reporting it. So lovely (and surprising!) when things work.

My bluesky account is listed on my website, which is presumably why the impersonator removed that link from the bio: www.jennwv.com

Hey folks! Someone has apparently created a bluesky account impersonating me — same name, same photo, similar bio. Why? I have absolutely no idea! I've reported it, but while I wait to see if the account is taken down, please be aware that it is not me.

Please help us spread the word! 📣

FATE is hiring a pre-doc research assistant! We're looking for candidates who will have completed their bachelor's degree (or equivalent) by summer 2025 and want to advance their research skills before applying to PhD programs.

Announcing our keynote speakers for #FAccT2025! 🎉

Suresh Venkatasubramanian (Brown)
Nathalie Smuha (KU Leuven)
Kristian Lum (Google DeepMind)
Molly Crockett (Princeton)

And the plenary panel will be on “Pathways of Change and the Future of Responsible AI"

Congrats again, Sunnie!! So sad I missed the after party! Let’s talk soon.

Sunnie standing in front of her presentation celebrating the successful defense 🎉

Vera, Andrés, Sunnie, Olga, and Jenn (on Sunnie’s laptop screen) celebrating

Group photo of everyone who joined Sunnie’s dissertation defense

Lauren, Sunnie, and Jeff (photo taken at CHI 2025)

📢 I successfully defended my PhD dissertation! Huge thanks to my committee (Olga @andresmh.com @jennwv.bsky.social @qveraliao.bsky.social @parastooabtahi.bsky.social) & everyone who supported me ❤️

📢 Next I'll join Apple as a research scientist in the Responsible AI team led by @jeffreybigham.com!

Have we talked about this paper yet on bsky? It's really good, and ought to be cited widely by people working at the humanities-AI interface.

TLDR: If AI is going to be applied to fuzzy human problems, social science measurement theory becomes essential. #MLSky

Exciting news!!! This just got into @icmlconf.bsky.social as a position paper!!! 🎉 More updates to come as we work on the camera-ready version!!!