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Elena Glassman
@elglassman.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor @ Harvard SEAS specializing in human-computer and human-AI interaction. Also interested in visualization, digital humanities, urban design.
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pedrolopes.org
#CHI2026 registration is open! (I know many of you are waiting on decisions papers and other tracks, but it'll be an awesome conference, so register already!)
chi2026.acm.org/2025/12/09/r...
P.s. also some tracks are still open for submissions if you need more reasons to attend!
CHI 2026 Registration is Open! - ACM CHI 2026
Registration now for CHI 2026 in Barcelona! The conference runs from April 13 through April 17. Read about the new format and new options.
chi2026.acm.org
December 10, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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annaleen.bsky.social
Truly great use of livestreaming
colincarlson.bsky.social Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 5d
So, it's Monday, and there's no way to say this that doesn't sound stupid, so I'm just going to come out and say it: I've decided to Twitch stream the entire writing of an NIH R01 proposal, and you can follow along at twitch.tv/ColinDoesScience
ColinDoesScience - Twitch
I'm only doing this because they messed up science real bad forever
twitch.tv
December 9, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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drreznicek.bsky.social
For their final daily writing prompt, I asked my students what surprised them and what they would change about the course. A number are saying they’d change the amount of reading. How do you all think about the seemingly constant ask to read less?
December 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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noethematt.bsky.social
#Libfaves25 Day 2:

MAKING NONFICTION COMICS by Shay Mirk and Eleri Harris

This belongs on your essentials shelf right next to classics like Understanding Comics (McCloud) or Syllabus and Making Comics (Barry)
December 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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dkluft.bsky.social
... citations in briefing—whether the result of technological hallucinations or human failure to verify—may be relied on in court decisions, circulated, believed, and become ‘fact’ and ‘law’ in some minds. We all must guard against those instances....” $7,500 in sanctions.
December 9, 2025 at 1:54 PM
elglassman.bsky.social
I was planning on doing this in the spring! Great to see others are already having some success.
gabriellehecht.bsky.social Gabrielle Hecht 🇵🇷 @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 5d
Massive unanticipated bonus of having my students write by hand in a single notebook all quarter: many of them have written me lovely personal notes at the end! 😊😊😊
December 8, 2025 at 8:58 PM
elglassman.bsky.social
We're admitting PhD students! (Possible co-PIs include @zittrain.bsky.social or @ianarawjo.bsky.social if interests align.) We're excited about:

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Interested? Fill out the linked form & apply to Harvard SEAS (listing me as faculty of interest) by Dec 15th!
PhD advert
CS PhD openings @ Harvard HCI’s Variation Lab advised by Prof. Elena Glassman A little history Founded in the fall of 2018, our small group has been a home for some truly terrific interdisciplinary HC...
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December 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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tedunderwood.com
Applications by Dec 15
tedunderwood.com Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · Nov 6
Our School of Information Sciences is running four searches, and we can hire more than four candidates. Here’s the first link, for a job that might appeal to people working in history of information, history of science, or digital humanities. +
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Information, Culture & Society - School of Information Science
Duties & Responsibilities
illinois.csod.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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advaitsarkar.bsky.social
Research Internship in Human-AI interaction (2026): Improving Grounding in Language Models

Please apply: apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job/...

#research #HCI #AI #internship #opportunity #MicrosoftResearch
Research Internship: Improving Grounding in Language Models (NLP, HCI) | Microsoft Careers
The intern will lead a literature review across linguistics and the philosophy of language to develop a taxonomy of grounding and support relations for AI‑generated statements. They will contribute de...
apply.careers.microsoft.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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natematias.bsky.social
The University of Toronto CS Department is recruiting applications for a Canada Research Chair, Tier 2, in Human-Computer Interaction

The job is open only to individuals who self-identify as women and/or members of gender equity seeking groups

research.utoronto.ca/crc-opps/db/...
Faculty of Arts & Science (Dept of Computer Science - Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)) - NSERC - Targeted Call | Research & Innovation
November 18, 2025
research.utoronto.ca
November 29, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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annaleen.bsky.social
The Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT genuinely changed my life. I learned a ton, witnessed how science is done firsthand, and took my writing career in a new direction. If you write about science/tech, you should apply!! ksj.mit.edu/fellowships/...
usha.bsky.social Usha Lee McFarling @usha.bsky.social · 24d
The bookshelf in our beautiful seminar room @ksjatmit.bsky.social is filled with books by former fellows. Want to be next? Applications to our fellowship are open and on our website. @annaleen.bsky.social @ferrisjabr.bsky.social @tomzellerjr.com @s-r-m.bsky.social and Melanie Kaplan. Please share.
November 19, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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jtullock.bsky.social
No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?
Screen grab from Dropbox saying Emojis in file names are finally here!
November 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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lukestark.bsky.social
No kidding
justinhendrix.bsky.social Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · Nov 12
"Emotional conversations were also common in the conversations analyzed by The Post... In some chats, the AI tool could be seen adapting to match a user’s viewpoint, creating a kind of personalized echo chamber in which ChatGPT endorsed falsehoods and conspiracy theories."
How people really use ChatGPT, according to 47,000 conversations shared online
What do people ask the popular chatbot? We analyzed thousands of chats to identify common topics discussed by users and patterns in ChatGPT’s responses.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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This poster should be hanging on wall of every transportation planning department.
A poster of child walking in a bike lane. Text reads “if youth walked to school in our bike lanes would cities still consider paint a good enough barrier?”
November 9, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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I wonder how many civic leaders are Superman fans?
November 9, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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kbkarlson.bsky.social
LAST CALL! #Sociology Professorships in Copenhagen, Denmark!

We're hiring 2+ open-rank profs (Asst/Assoc/Full). Any area.

Deadline: this Saturday, Nov 15!

Join a leading European sociology department. Please repost!

jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology
jobportal.ku.dk
November 9, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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ncooperfrank.bsky.social
Made it to SFO. After much delay uncertainty confusion and aggravation. A serious country wouldn’t even consider not paying air traffic controllers
November 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
Judging middle school entrepreneurship fair applications and it doesn't get any points on the rubric, but gotta appreciate the kid who crossed out the "how many items to break even" question and wrote "I just want to do this. There's no way I'll cover my costs."
November 9, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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awalkerinla.bsky.social
*taps sign*
awalkerinla.bsky.social Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · Jun 26
Two years ago I interviewed a 31-year-old NY state assemblymember about a 7-year-old girl killed by an SUV driver in his district. I hung up the phone, astonished that I'd talked to a legislator who so thoughtfully articulated what actually needs to change on our streets.

He'll make a great mayor
In February, 7-year-old Dolma Naadhun was crossing the intersection of Newtown Road and 45th Street in Astoria with her mother and sister when the driver of a 2021 Ford Explorer blew through a stop sign, striking and killing Dolma. One month later, New York City Department of Transportation commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez visited the crash site with other officials, met with community members demanding a traffic signal be installed, and promised to make changes to the street - including "daylighting" the intersection using curb extensions and plastic bollards. State assemblymember Zohran Mamdani also visited the scene that day and realized that something else needed to change. "When you take a step back and think about traffic violence in New York City," he said, "you start to understand that this is a systemic issue that is incentivized by the policies that we have in place with regard to the design of our streets and what kind of vehicles we allow to be on our roads." Whether a driver runs a stop sign or a red light, statistically, certain cars - namely, bigger SUVs and trucks - are more likely to kill a 7-year-old. This is why Mamdani is co- introducing legislation for a weight-based vehicle-registration fee intended to discourage people from purchasing heavier vehicles. "The car industry is pushing the sale of heavier and larger vehicles," he says. "The state has to make it clear that these types of vehicles come with a certain kind of cost." soar above adult shoulders. But there may be another way to disincentivize the purchases of such vehicles, says Edwards. "One other potential idea would be for someone, maybe a city's DOT, to start keeping a list of the different makes and models of vehicles that are killing pedestrians and cyclists, or kids specifically, and post that publicly," he says. "That could bring awareness to which cars are more dangerous and also potentially affect insurance rates, which would possibly convince people not to buy certain cars." There's a bit of accountability in New York's bill, which would require the State DOT to track all fatal crashes by vehicle weight. But the other encouraging aspect of the proposal is that the collected fees stay local, by county, and, after the annual dedications to highway, bridge, and transit trust funds are met, a full 75 percent of the funds raised will go toward safety improvements like bike lanes, bollards, road diets, pedestrianization of streets, and raised crosswalks. This means the neighborhoods most impacted by large vehicles are likely to see the biggest changes. And that might be the most important part of the legislation, says Mamdani. "This is an initiative to make our streets safer for our children," he says. "And we are making sure a significant portion of this funding goes toward creating the very streetscapes that we know will save their lives."
November 5, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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esqueer.net
A school called Alpha that relies on AI to teach its students is also surveilling them at home, videotaping young girls in their bedrooms.

This is some seriously sick shit.

www.wired.com/story/ai-tea...
While parents are asked to consent to these surveillance programs, the school’s handbook says that there is “no expectation of privacy” on campus. If parents want to restrict recordings of their children outside of the school, they have to manually opt out of the “anywhere” option—as Jessica Lopez learned midway through her older daughter’s second year at Alpha. The girl says she remembers sitting on her bed one night working on schoolwork when she received a notification that she’d been flagged for an anti-pattern. She says Alpha’s system sent a video of her in her pajamas, taken from the computer’s webcam, that showed her talking to her younger sister.
October 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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khornbaek.bsky.social
ACM TOCHI is creating a Distinguished Reviewer Board, we hope that you will apply to help us improve the papers we curate. You will get training in reviewing, experience with high-quality papers, and a bit of recognition. Apply at forms.gle/BWUbgHBddiro.... Please RT or DM to interested folks.
Applications for ACM TOCHI Distinguished Reviewer Board
This form is for nominating yourself to the Distinguished Reviewer Board of ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI, https://tochi.acm.org/). The work of distinguished reviewers helps en...
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October 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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lolennui.bsky.social
CNN talking about the possibility of violence as a guy in a giraffe costume waddles by
October 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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nicolefoy.bsky.social
Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.
White words on a black background read: 50+ Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino. ~130 Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers. ~20 Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.
October 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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victinibcn.bsky.social
South Korea: #NoKings! Thousands of people came to show support to the US democracy!
October 18, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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indivisible.org
Facts don’t care about the GOP’s feelings — there’s nothing more American than rejecting a mad king. Please join us tomorrow: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings
October 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM