Normally after working right through the holidays and pulling a really late night for facct I'd take a day off, but it's right back to job and grant apps. Postdoc life is a little rough in some ways
January 14, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Normally after working right through the holidays and pulling a really late night for facct I'd take a day off, but it's right back to job and grant apps. Postdoc life is a little rough in some ways
Excited to have submitted 5 facct papers last night! They covered everything from technical audits of different AI systems to ethnographies to policy papers to critiques of power and regulation. Looking forward to sharing them in coming months!
January 14, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Excited to have submitted 5 facct papers last night! They covered everything from technical audits of different AI systems to ethnographies to policy papers to critiques of power and regulation. Looking forward to sharing them in coming months!
opening my inboxes after being buried in facct submissions the past week
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media.tenor.com
January 14, 2026 at 5:14 PM
opening my inboxes after being buried in facct submissions the past week
Not exactly the same, but related: a FAccT research community starter pack:
go.bsky.app/EQF5Ne1
go.bsky.app/EQF5Ne1
January 12, 2026 at 1:07 AM
Not exactly the same, but related: a FAccT research community starter pack:
go.bsky.app/EQF5Ne1
go.bsky.app/EQF5Ne1
I'd say that working on the facct deadline is a way more rewarding experience than cvpr rush
January 6, 2026 at 2:26 AM
I'd say that working on the facct deadline is a way more rewarding experience than cvpr rush
Paper and project deadlines immediately following holiday time could be a nice topic for a paper to FAccT. Sure you can get lots of data and supporters.
January 2, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Paper and project deadlines immediately following holiday time could be a nice topic for a paper to FAccT. Sure you can get lots of data and supporters.
the FAccT January deadline is killing me
not sure how I managed them in the past but I am too old to do last minute writing sprints 😢
not sure how I managed them in the past but I am too old to do last minute writing sprints 😢
January 2, 2026 at 6:27 PM
the FAccT January deadline is killing me
not sure how I managed them in the past but I am too old to do last minute writing sprints 😢
not sure how I managed them in the past but I am too old to do last minute writing sprints 😢
Like do we remember the NeurIPS renaming debacle? Or the FAccT wars? Or that poor engineer in Portland who did some sentiment analysis on books and got dragged across the network by anti-AI people? All of that happened on Twitter!
Whenever I start to think Bluesky is bad, I remember that brigading on old Twitter got way more personal, with a junior-high-school “let’s ruin her life” vibe that I rarely encounter here. Medievalists basically had to preface every post with “I, for one, welcome our public struggle sessions.”
December 22, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Like do we remember the NeurIPS renaming debacle? Or the FAccT wars? Or that poor engineer in Portland who did some sentiment analysis on books and got dragged across the network by anti-AI people? All of that happened on Twitter!
I think you are exactly right. Perhaps you’re catching up rather than failing to: this has been in the zeitgeist, e.g. at FACCT. cog sci is catching up. Inside MSR I’ve seen more fierce critique of model anthropomorphism than outside. It almost makes cognitive science AI trends seem technocratic.
e.g.at
December 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I think you are exactly right. Perhaps you’re catching up rather than failing to: this has been in the zeitgeist, e.g. at FACCT. cog sci is catching up. Inside MSR I’ve seen more fierce critique of model anthropomorphism than outside. It almost makes cognitive science AI trends seem technocratic.
Ik moet al deze briljante inzichten nu in een kritische literatuur-review verwerken voor een FAccT-paper en ik heb de grootst mogelijke moeite om precies beleefd genoeg te blijven.
December 18, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Ik moet al deze briljante inzichten nu in een kritische literatuur-review verwerken voor een FAccT-paper en ik heb de grootst mogelijke moeite om precies beleefd genoeg te blijven.
I'm nerding out right now because I was asked to serve as a subject area chair for @facct.bsky.social in 2026! Attending FAccT in 2019 for the first time was an early part of my journey to understanding how to report on and research AI ethics and governance.
facctconference.org/2026/index.h...
facctconference.org/2026/index.h...
ACM FAccT - 2026 Home
facctconference.org
December 17, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I'm nerding out right now because I was asked to serve as a subject area chair for @facct.bsky.social in 2026! Attending FAccT in 2019 for the first time was an early part of my journey to understanding how to report on and research AI ethics and governance.
facctconference.org/2026/index.h...
facctconference.org/2026/index.h...
FAccT prohibits using LLMs to wholesale generate text for manuscripts, but we know that some authors may use it for other purposes (e.g., grammar revisions).
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December 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
FAccT prohibits using LLMs to wholesale generate text for manuscripts, but we know that some authors may use it for other purposes (e.g., grammar revisions).
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We’ve put out a new blog post describing the submission process and 2 key differences to note from previous FAccT submission cycles. facct-blog.github.io/2025-12-17/s...
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Submitting to FAccT 2026
We’re thrilled you’re interested in submitting to the 2026 edition of the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, or FAccT!
facct-blog.github.io
December 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
We’ve put out a new blog post describing the submission process and 2 key differences to note from previous FAccT submission cycles. facct-blog.github.io/2025-12-17/s...
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Thanks for the background. Perhaps there should be an impact assessment for such proposals involving people accustomed to critical analysis of these systems (e.g., pulling from FAccT and CHI communities). If it's actually uncontroversial, the assessment would be quite short. This would have been ⚠️🚨
December 17, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Thanks for the background. Perhaps there should be an impact assessment for such proposals involving people accustomed to critical analysis of these systems (e.g., pulling from FAccT and CHI communities). If it's actually uncontroversial, the assessment would be quite short. This would have been ⚠️🚨
Clearly the folks working at ACM haven’t read any of the HCI or FAccT papers published in their own Digital Library
The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.
December 17, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Clearly the folks working at ACM haven’t read any of the HCI or FAccT papers published in their own Digital Library
📣 It's again that time of the year 🤩 - our internship call for the FATE team @ MSR Montreal and our collaborators is now up! 🎉🎉
We are broadly looking for candidates interested in perceptions, evaluation, uses, and impacts of AI!
#FAccT #FAccT2025 #CHI2025 #NeurIPS2025 #ACL2025
We are broadly looking for candidates interested in perceptions, evaluation, uses, and impacts of AI!
#FAccT #FAccT2025 #CHI2025 #NeurIPS2025 #ACL2025
December 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
📣 It's again that time of the year 🤩 - our internship call for the FATE team @ MSR Montreal and our collaborators is now up! 🎉🎉
We are broadly looking for candidates interested in perceptions, evaluation, uses, and impacts of AI!
#FAccT #FAccT2025 #CHI2025 #NeurIPS2025 #ACL2025
We are broadly looking for candidates interested in perceptions, evaluation, uses, and impacts of AI!
#FAccT #FAccT2025 #CHI2025 #NeurIPS2025 #ACL2025
Hmm, OK, I mean there's always some subjectivity in making that decision. I don't know what this particular case was, but I'll make a more general point w.r.t. the other FAccT paper you mentioned. Anything that could reasonably be accepted to FAccT, AIES, etc as a research paper *should* be fine
November 30, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Hmm, OK, I mean there's always some subjectivity in making that decision. I don't know what this particular case was, but I'll make a more general point w.r.t. the other FAccT paper you mentioned. Anything that could reasonably be accepted to FAccT, AIES, etc as a research paper *should* be fine
Yeah, exactly. So does a lot of work at FAccT and CSCW. It’s not clear to me how these papers can be differentiated from “position” papers and “surveys.”
November 30, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Yeah, exactly. So does a lot of work at FAccT and CSCW. It’s not clear to me how these papers can be differentiated from “position” papers and “surveys.”
Many students and professors in DH, FAccT, HCI, CSCW, etc. are in computer science departments. What makes these papers not CS?
November 28, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Many students and professors in DH, FAccT, HCI, CSCW, etc. are in computer science departments. What makes these papers not CS?
"A robot walks into a bar: Can language models serve as creativity support tools for comedy? an evaluation of llms’ humour alignment with comedians" (FAccT 2024) dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
A Robot Walks into a Bar: Can Language Models Serve as Creativity SupportTools for Comedy? An Evaluation of LLMs’ Humour Alignment with Comedians | Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, ...
dl.acm.org
November 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"A robot walks into a bar: Can language models serve as creativity support tools for comedy? an evaluation of llms’ humour alignment with comedians" (FAccT 2024) dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
[H] From "Tool" to "Niche Partner": An Ecological Turn for AI Ethics Traditional Artificial Intelligence (AI) ethics primarily focuses on AI either as a tool to be designed (emphasizing principles like fairness, transparency, accountability - FAccT) or as a potential adversary to
#sociology link
#sociology link
November 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
[H] From "Tool" to "Niche Partner": An Ecological Turn for AI Ethics Traditional Artificial Intelligence (AI) ethics primarily focuses on AI either as a tool to be designed (emphasizing principles like fairness, transparency, accountability - FAccT) or as a potential adversary to
#sociology link
#sociology link
Following my role as #FAccT2025 General Co-Chair, I'm pleased to have been elected to the ACM FAccT Executive Committee. I look forward to continuing to serve this interdisciplinary community in the new capacity over the coming years. Hope to see many of you at #FAccT2026 in Montreal!
ACM FAccT - Organization
facctconference.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Following my role as #FAccT2025 General Co-Chair, I'm pleased to have been elected to the ACM FAccT Executive Committee. I look forward to continuing to serve this interdisciplinary community in the new capacity over the coming years. Hope to see many of you at #FAccT2026 in Montreal!
Abowt ma ladee hoo tink shez kewl orr tha facct thad shez maek badd life choyses?
November 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Abowt ma ladee hoo tink shez kewl orr tha facct thad shez maek badd life choyses?
In fact yes! Not as complete though, and mostly curated when I was looking for something for the FAccT blog/website.
www.are.na/maria-antoni...
www.are.na/maria-antoni...
November 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
In fact yes! Not as complete though, and mostly curated when I was looking for something for the FAccT blog/website.
www.are.na/maria-antoni...
www.are.na/maria-antoni...
FAccT reviewers need to do better. There are 2 obviuos problems with this paper that are not at all addressed. 🧵
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
AI Art is Theft: Labour, Extraction, and Exploitation: Or, On the Dangers of Stochastic Pollocks | Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency
dl.acm.org
November 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
FAccT reviewers need to do better. There are 2 obviuos problems with this paper that are not at all addressed. 🧵
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...