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That’s so exciting! Congrats, Joel!! 🥳

This is such a beautiful piece by @liao.shen-yi.org abt media portrayals of Taiwan + how Taiwan is constructed in political / intellectual discourse. Pocketing it to periodically send to people, esp those who want to talk to me about Thailand :)

liao.shen-yi.org/posts/stop-m...

CSCW folks, I wanted to highlight how excited and proud I am to see work from our community (dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/..., CSCW '24 best paper winner led by @jiachenyan.bsky.social and @mlam.bsky.social) grow and expand ambition into this Science paper. CSCW has a ton to offer the world.

Really excited about this 🔔new paper🔔 where we had a chance to leverage Change.org 's staggered rollout of a "write with AI" tool to causally (aka "once and for all") measure the impact of such tools on global platform outcomes. Summary: with AI, petition length ⬆️, homogeneity ⬆️, Outcomes ⬇️. More:

X added account location — and turned it off hours later. A window onto what is most broken about the internet.

X turned on account location, and immediately turned it off again--because it showed that your "farmer in Michigan" is really a paid troll in Bangladesh. We need a social network that shows where content is from.
asbruckman.medium.com/x-added-acco...

With cites to @katestarbird.bsky.social

The UW Center for an Informed Public is looking for postdocs (for 2026-2028) from across diverse disciplines whose research sheds light on the challenges of our modern information environment, promotes civic health, and/or helps people/communities navigate online spaces: apply.interfolio.com/177901

Just arrived in Bergen for CSCW, where I'll present Venire! Venire is a Reddit moderation tool that uses an ML model trained on mod decision histories to identify controversial cases. It preempts inconsistent decision-making by flagging these cases for multi-mod review

dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Call for SVs - ACM CHI 2026 Who are Student Volunteers (SVs)? Student volunteers (SVs) are an essential part of CHI. They play a major role in helping the conference run smoothly, especially during the conference itself. SVs tak...

Application link: chi2026.acm.org/2025/10/16/c...

Call for Enrollment CHI 2026 Student Volunteer Application Period Oct 15 2025 - Jan 23 2026

I'm excited to serve as an SV co-chair for #CHI2026!

Interested in joining us? Apply now to become an SV! It's a fantastic opportunity to make new friends and help create an unforgettable @chi.acm.org experience.

Check out the application link below:

Graffiti: Enabling an Ecosystem of Personalized and Interoperable Social Applications | Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

I'm headed to #UIST2025 🇰🇷 to present our 🏆 Best Paper (!!!), "Graffiti: Enabling an Ecosystem of Personalized and Interoperable Social Applications"
@karger.bsky.social and David Clark
doi.org/10.1145/3746...

LLM safety work often reasons over high-level policies (be helpful & polite), but must tackle on-the-ground cases (unsolicited money advice when stocks are mentioned). This can feel like driving on an unfamiliar road guided by a generic driver’s manual instead of a map. We introduce: Policy Maps 🗺️

more info: www.cs.cmu.edu/~gasp

Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Graduate Application Support Program. Apply by October 13, 2025.

🌟 If you’re applying to CMU SCS PhD programs, and come from a background that would bring additional dimensions to the CMU community, our PhD students are here to help!

Apply to the Graduate Applicant Support Program by Oct 13 to receive feedback on your application materials:

Social media feeds today are optimized for engagement, often leading to misalignment between users' intentions and technology use.

In a new paper, we introduce Bonsai, a tool to create feeds based on stated preferences, rather than predicted engagement.

arxiv.org/abs/2509.10776

How Conversational Structure and Style Shape Online Community Experiences Sense of Community (SOC) is vital to individual and collective well-being. Although social interactions have moved increasingly online, still little is known about the specific relationships between t...

Crunching away on a paper for #CHI2026 about online communities, moderation, or sociolinguistics?

You may be want to check out recent work led by
@galenweld.bsky.social on predicting SOVC within subreddits based on the style and structure of conversations.

arxiv.org/abs/2508.08596

ACM-CSCW Join the conversation

The @acm-cscw.bsky.social Starter Pack is growing ahead of #CSCW2025 ! (go.bsky.app/SPumuMT) 🔥 A warm welcome to all of our new members 🔥: @imanm02.bsky.social
@jesanovi.bsky.social @shadinz.bsky.social @jaytee-ess.bsky.social @jaewonk.bsky.social @sypark9.bsky.social
New member thread 1/x

The image is titled Workshop on Algorithmic Collective Action. On the left are speakers, Tijana Zrnic, Incoming Assistant Professor, Stanford University, Seda Gürses, Associate Professor, TU Delft, lorian Tramèr, Assistant Professor, ETH Zürich, Alex Hanna, Director of Research, Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR), Joanna Redden, Associate Professor, Western University, and Saiph Savage, Assistant Professor, Northeastern University. The abstract reads: The study of “collective action” has a long history in Economics and Sociology as a way for groups of people to impact markets and the political arena (Olson 1965; Marwell and Oliver 1993). Algorithmic Collective Action (ACA) is the study of such coordination strategies in algorithmically-mediated sociotechnical systems. Our workshop offers a platform to discuss new ideas and help define the foundational research directions for the emerging topic through interdisciplinary discussions between ML researchers, scholars from the social sciences, community stakeholders and advocates.

We are organizing a workshop on Algorithmic Collective Action at NeurIPS this year. As AI continues to concentrate power, we will meet in San Diego (Dec 6 or 7) for critical conversations on user coordination, labor, data protection, and community advocacy.
Submissions due August 22.
#NeurIPS2025

WikiNLP workshop program with keynotes, dataset panel, poster session, discussions with Wikipedia editors and more.

Last day of #ACL2025NLP but there's still lots to do: attend the #WikiNLP workshop, where we explore how NLP and wikipedia can help each other!

We have amazing keynotes, discussions with Wikipedia editors, a panel + posters!

Details: meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NLP_for...

Join us in room 2.31!

Yes! Please!

My team is organizing a workshop on information disorder at the CSCW conference (Oct 18, Bergen, Norway). We aim to convene scholars committed to understanding mis & disinfo, scams, online hate, etc. Applicants should submit 2-6 page position papers by Aug 1: cscw2025infodisorder.netlify.app

Prompting is our most successful tool for exploring LLMs, but the term evokes eye-rolls and grimaces from scientists. Why? Because prompting as scientific inquiry has become conflated with prompt engineering.

This is holding us back. 🧵and new paper with @ari-holtzman.bsky.social .

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!

Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online A Brazilian team used Discord’s API to scrape 10% of its open servers.

Another week, another research ethics controversy.

TL;DR Researchers released a public dataset of 2B+ messages from 4M+ users on 3k+ "public" Discord servers. Usernames/IDs are anonymized.

But let's unpack this one... 🧵

www.404media.co/researchers-...

Wiki Workshop 2025 May 21st – 22nd, 2025

🚀 Curious about research on @wikipedia.org and @wikimediafoundation.org projects?

Join us at #WikiWorkshop2025, May 21–22 (virtual)!
🔹 46 research talks
🔹 Live Q&A + networking

Free registration: pretix.eu/wikimedia/wi...

Somewhat oddly, the Trump regime's initial moves to cut science funding went very broad. This is catalyzing solidarity & advocacy around the value of science (see comms featuring cancer cures & tech innovation). But their next move may be to try to drive a wedge b/w "good science" & "bad science".

Groups use processes to make decisions. But normal people with no training will usually run a bad process. When you just perform how you think meetings are supposed to work, without training, your meetings will be boring or bad.

AND, big secret: when everyone's trained, meetings feel good.

Thanks so much, Pedro! Looking forward to working together on CHI 26!

A group photo of student volunteers at CHI 2025. PC: Hiroki Kaimoto

Serving as the Student Volunteer Co-Chair at #CHI2025 @chi.acm.org has been an incredible experience!

A huge thank you to the 200 student volunteers who worked tirelessly behind the scenes to help make the conference a success.

Looking forward to seeing you all next year in Barcelona!

SVs at the registration desk

opening ceremony featuring a slide for SVs

☀️ Our amazing team of student volunteers is all set and excited for the conference kickoff!

#CHI2025

@kjfeng.me and @rockpang.bsky.social are kicking off the panel on sociotechnical AI governance!

#CHI2025