2022-03-19 18:39:29 I'm thinking about change my username to DrBlueGlasses. (ok seriously though what is it about my glasses, no less than THREE trolls on just this one video commented on them) https://t.co/qaIgLFSKjJ 2022-03-19 15:07:14 RT @ruha9: AHHH! A first look at the cover for my next book VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want, on-sale from @PrincetonUPress on… 2022-03-19 14:10:29 @ncweaver @BlancheMinerva Oh! So it might be someone not even at the university? Just like, there has to be an official job title for someone to be on a dissertation committee or whatever? And for you, you'd have to "apply" to a job like this in order to advise? What a bunch of bureaucratic nonsense. 2022-03-19 14:03:34 @ncweaver @BlancheMinerva I'm sorry, this is so confusing! So who is paying adjunct faculty if not the university? 2022-03-19 13:58:16 @ncweaver @BlancheMinerva Can you explain what you think is going on with the UCLA posting? I'm trying to wrap my head around the union part (which seems totally plausible, I'm just lost over the non-compensation thing if it's not what I speculated about in my tweet) 2022-03-19 13:51:27 the only explanation I can think of for this is it's not a "real" job posting but a position/title created for someone who has other funding, and they're required by law to advertise any job but even if that's the case the fact that it's so easy to assume it's real SAYS A LOT https://t.co/wqT8Nrfi6y 2022-03-19 13:30:36 (You might think this is hyperbole but that last part is an exact quote following a conversation about how JKR's fundamental right to free speech has been so horribly eroded by boycotts.) 2022-03-19 13:25:51 A reenactment: "People should be free to say anything on Twitter. Boycotting people who tweet offensive things suppresses free speech." "I should be forced to buy things from people I disagree with?" "You can not buy whatever you want, just don't rant about it on Twitter." 2022-03-19 00:15:46 I thought this would make a fun visual. :) https://t.co/8P7s0qDiyh 2022-03-18 20:20:35 America does have a free speech problem, and it's that even people at organizations like the New York Times seem to think that free speech is somehow more about freedom FROM criticism than freedom TO criticize. https://t.co/7y8lQJGtbj 2022-03-18 15:40:00 This morning I listened to the recording of the White House briefing of TikTok creators. It was seriously just like any other press briefing. There is not a comparison here to Putin paying TikTok influencers to spread specific propaganda. 2022-03-17 16:38:39 Aaaaand excellent reminder. https://t.co/dy0gd51pbQ 2022-03-17 16:37:34 @mjs_DC oh wow I forgot about that 2022-03-17 16:14:01 https://t.co/mPbAU1CytM 2022-03-17 15:57:50 "[W]e believe this finding suggests that more awareness is needed about the essential asset of technological access to reliable information, remote work, schooling opportunities, resource purchasing, and/or social community." https://t.co/sNoBiiJDsq 2022-03-17 15:55:22 Researchers found that, even controlling for e.g. socioeconomic status, location, and demographics, a strong risk factor for death from COVID in the US was lack of internet access. Internet access is not a luxury item. https://t.co/NuWtPTwYmN 2022-03-16 23:56:41 @mark_riedl @vj_chidambaram @UTAustin I'm not sure that salary unfairness corrections count here either :-p 2022-03-16 23:54:36 (Note: I mean outside of annual cost-of-living-etc. raises, and outside of promotion raises. Though the tenure raise at my university is like... maybe 2%. So not exactly anticipating scrooge-mcducking into that :) ) 2022-03-16 23:53:03 @vj_chidambaram @UTAustin You're literally the first person I've ever heard this from but that's good to know. :) 2022-03-16 23:47:05 if you weren't aware, this is basically the only way to get a raise as a professor and it SUCKS because it's a huge waste of everyone's time, not only yours, but also the people at the universities you are applying to when you might have no intention of taking another job https://t.co/RWUI27e67e 2022-03-16 22:36:07 I knew there must be new Serial-related news because my @creativecommons licensed photo from 2014 is giving me google news alerts again. :) (And that's only from when people actually credit me properly! This photo has been in SO MANY articles over years.) https://t.co/YK0f591qlR 2022-03-16 21:55:45 GROUP will be held in Sanibel Island, FL in February. It's sad (but understandable!) that #CSCW2022 will be virtual this fall after all, so at least this is an option to hang out with some SIGCHI social computing folks before CSCW 2023. :) Please share (and submit)! 2022-03-16 21:52:17 ANNOUNCEMENT! The @sigchi GROUP conference (which was postponed to January 2023) will have a third wave of paper submissions!!! Submissions due 5/20 (abstracts 5/13)! Papers published in PACM-HCI. https://t.co/0LJsEhGAyB 2022-03-16 18:57:13 This is an excellent thread about the importance of representation. https://t.co/KR1tGHHheK 2022-03-16 18:47:56 @blairmacintyre I guess MIT just became “the Georgia Tech of the North” heh 2022-03-16 18:17:20 @grok_ To be fair, I think my colleagues who e.g. showed photos of their unvaccinated children to their classes had more luck than I did. I was asking of them to be respectful of each other, as opposed to expressing concern for myself. 2022-03-16 18:15:47 Can't even REQUEST that someone else wear a mask. I love how it's important to be respectful of other people's desire to not wear a mask, but not important to be respectful of other people who e.g. are vulnerable or have unvaccinated children. https://t.co/FeeqYiaYCO 2022-03-16 18:12:46 @grok_ May not REQUEST? Seriously? Of course, I can confirm that requesting in classes doesn't actually seem to make a difference. 2022-03-15 11:46:25 (No, I don't have tenure yet - case is still making its way through various levels of university review, but I saw short excerpts of external letters as part of the department-level letter on my case.) 2022-03-15 11:44:38 One point in this article is the usual concern that being too active on social media could be harmful to a young academic's career. As a counter-point (though of course I'm not in philosophy) several of my external tenure letter writers specifically mentioned my TikTok. https://t.co/cyPGDoEbx7 2022-03-15 11:30:14 @pecuellar https://t.co/VYYaUzoKKF 2022-03-15 11:27:03 RT @TWC_Comms: Issue No. 37, guest-edited "Fandom Histories, is out today! https://t.co/sPsZIEWRjQ #OTW #TWC #FanHistories @OTW_News 2022-03-14 15:28:35 I played through this entire game this weekend (it's not very long) and this was exactly the kind of calming experience that I needed in my life right now. https://t.co/Y3Qo2dve5x 2022-03-13 12:28:19 I love this CFP 2022-03-13 12:19:49 @segmentata @njudahtrain @yelmjouie @hasanminhaj @Venmo Thanks, very useful input. 2022-03-13 12:17:35 @segmentata @njudahtrain @yelmjouie @hasanminhaj @Venmo there are a lot of things that a lot of people don't care about, but there are also always people who do 2022-03-13 12:07:54 @njudahtrain @yelmjouie @hasanminhaj @Venmo sigh yes I remember hearing about this before, I guess it's not surprising that it's still a problem :( thanks for the pointer, might be a good topic for a tiktok since I'm guessing a lot of folks didn't hear about this even with all the attention previously 2022-03-12 08:11:00 CAFIAC FIX 2022-01-25 12:19:11 @Adel1989 I have yet to see someone anti-vaccine who can correctly explain a scientific paper about it. 2022-01-25 12:18:04 @iollmann I don’t disagree with your first statement as long as there isn’t an implied “just” and the rest is what I want to change. :) 2022-01-25 01:33:39 @connector_erin Most places don’t have page minimums… GROUP is the only HCI conference that explicitly does Notes as a submission type! 2022-01-25 01:18:02 @AimlessZealot @JonnyJ17 omg 2022-01-24 20:41:21 @kaitlinugolik @PPaikens @feonixrift Yes, this is a lot of what I've been working on. Like if you don't even consider safety features for the chainsaw, that's bad. 2022-01-24 20:03:46 RT @ruthef: Community College students & 2022-01-24 20:03:11 @mcmillen @sophygurl Here are some of my long form thoughts on this. https://t.co/oUUbAvQkwx 2022-01-24 16:37:40 Though I'll note that lately I've been thinking a lot about (a) how 'ethics' though good shorthand doesn't encompass everything, like justice/social impact and (b) how important it is that students are learning applied things in CS classes but ALSO deep dives from outside experts 2022-01-24 16:34:53 Oh wow I wasn't expecting that original tweet to take off. If you're interested in hearing me talk at length about the role of ethics in computer science education: https://t.co/7NvX81bBR9 2022-01-24 14:26:31 @nhumrich An issue here is like... who would be licensed? Civil engineers can't go out and build a bridge on their own, but there's plenty of people who can make and release harmful tech after teaching themselves to code. :( 2022-01-24 11:57:56 @NerdWander We’re well into admissions already but there are a LOT of people working in this space! 2022-01-24 02:26:57 @librarythingtim I didn’t say it has to be in CS. I’ve been advocating for CS students to have deep dives from experts in other disciplines AND have the applied stuff in every CS class. 2022-01-24 02:13:27 @kaitlinugolik Or tools appear out of thin air as opposed to being made by people 2022-01-24 02:01:06 I’m sorry I’m bombarding y’all with tales of things I’ve seen on social media that make me the past few days but I think I’ve hit some kind of breaking point. 2022-01-24 01:57:18 @dr_nickiw I actually started with “do you read the news” and they said yes so… 2022-01-24 01:33:38 I’m so tempted to do a video reply to this comment on TikTok because I don’t think everyone realizes that this is an actual attitude. Torn between two trending sounds: “the woman was too stunned to speak” or “this is a joke right?” 2022-01-24 01:30:52 @drbobrinkman ok this is depressing but somehow I’m actually less surprised to hear that from NSF reviewers than randos on social media 2022-01-24 01:26:14 Random commenter: Why does CS need an ethics focus? Me: Because technology hurts people and maybe if doesn’t have to. Them: Technology is just a tool. Me: That. That is why CS people need more ethics focused training. I swear this is 100% real. 2022-01-24 01:08:10 @Verba_et_Vertus That’s so horrible and I’m sorry you had that experience. Everyone like that needs to be pushed out of academia. 2022-01-23 23:29:36 @lilianedwards aw yeah that is just as important a point to be transparent about! 2022-01-23 23:04:50 though to be fair, one person clarified that I shouldn't be personally offended because they meant "elite" scientists and I don't qualify 2022-01-23 22:59:14 In the past day I've had 2 conversations - one here and one on TikTok - where people claim scientists cannot be trusted. But when asked who we can trust instead, the answer is, no one. So I guess that's it. I hope we're all prepared to do clinical trials in our living rooms. 2022-01-23 21:18:16 @npseaver Yes I did this last semester for the first time and it went so well! I actually gave them the option of an academic OR popular press book review but provided guidelines (word count, citations) to make sure that effort was similar. 2022-01-23 20:21:30 @rmbodenheimer Thank you! I apologize, I certainly didn’t mean to be rude. I was just trying to clarify both here and then on my original post. As I said it’s an important point. 2022-01-23 20:17:05 @rmbodenheimer Hence why I clarified :) 2022-01-23 20:01:26 In any case, the overall point here isn't specifically about the cost of a PhD. It's about any misconceptions that someone without knowledge or mentorship might have. I just want to encourage folks to not assume any kind of prior knowledge about academia. 2022-01-23 19:58:34 @rmbodenheimer Of course. This was a very specific example where the student found out when it was too late that the program was funded and what that meant. All of these things should be explained, is my point. Too often there's just an assumption that someone knows how things work. 2022-01-23 19:55:43 A needed clarification (my apologies this was unclear): Yes, opportunity costs are a HUGE issue- I talk about this a lot! But that's very different than mistakenly thinking you have to pay tuition on top of having no income coming in, which was the case for this specific example. 2022-01-23 19:53:53 @rmbodenheimer Hi yes, of course! But in this specific case, the student was under the impression that they would have to pay tuition in addition to having no income. 2022-01-23 19:52:26 @rmbodenheimer This is of course true. But not what the issue was in this specific example. 2022-01-23 16:44:47 @szszymon14 I’m not sure what to tell you. Unless people are going to start doing clinical trials in their living rooms they need to be able to read and evaluate scientific data. And if someone can’t do that it requires some amount of trust. 2022-01-23 16:43:16 @krismicinski Yes of course. Just wasn’t what the issue was here. 2022-01-23 16:42:52 @phenlix You have to know what questions to ask. 2022-01-23 15:43:54 @heycori This is of course true, though in this case the commenter assumed that they would both not have any income and have to pay tuition. That's a big difference from opportunity costs! 2022-01-23 14:52:09 @samanthalent Thank you for sharing this. It baffles me how many academics assume that everyone just knows. 2022-01-23 13:57:07 @precariousarts As I said in this case it was a funded PhD, but the person did not know that. But the point is that there are a lot of things that many people assume that everyone knows - regardless of what that is. 2022-01-23 13:41:09 @precariousarts And in this case the commenter implied that they found out later it was a funded PhD program. 2022-01-23 13:40:18 @precariousarts With a funded PhD you typically still have to work, of course. A teaching or research assistantship. But if you don’t know how this works you would assume that you both pay tuition and have no source of income. That’s a huge difference. 2022-01-23 13:20:38 Someone on TikTok commented with a story about why they didn’t pursue a PhD even after being invited to apply by a professor. No one told them it wouldn’t cost money. Don’t assume people know things. If you encourage a student to consider a PhD, explain what that means. 2022-01-22 23:00:08 @szszymon14 Then who do you trust as an expert when it comes to science? 2022-01-22 19:32:41 Questions in my YouTube comments are picking up again, so I’m doing a livestream tomorrow morning. https://t.co/BfB2cES6D4 2022-01-22 19:19:29 Actual quote on FOX News: (after noting that the brown M& 2022-01-22 19:13:39 I almost don’t want to ask, but… like… have some people been attracted to M& 2022-01-22 00:53:07 @moyix The second one is more about the wank heh 2022-01-22 00:52:20 @moyix And also! https://t.co/BeQ5f3sHsz 2022-01-22 00:51:27 @moyix https://t.co/WzaFYxKqBS :) 2022-01-22 00:14:25 @andrewmiller @hermansaksono I agreed to write an op ed this weekend 2022-01-21 22:59:48 The “do you hear the emotion in my voice” version of this thread on how I would like TikTok to suck less. https://t.co/6s1k0eU8CK 2022-01-21 22:15:31 RT @emma_leik: been thinking about the topic of youth power in the realm of responsible technology for the past 10 months. excited to… 2022-01-21 16:45:41 And for the curious, I have been monetized on both YouTube and TikTok for almost exactly a year. I have made about $1500 from YouTube and $280 from TikTok. And have made FAR more content for TikTok. 2022-01-21 16:42:54 Like Hank, I really enjoy TikTok. As I often say, I critique things that I like because I want them to be better. The current model contributes to significant inequity in who can make a living from their content and who can't, when in turn impacts what content is on the platform. 2022-01-21 16:36:47 So the low payout from TikTok's creator fund, coupled with uncertainty, means that in order to make a living creators have to rely on sponsored content. And I'm guessing it's no coincidence that Black creators on the platform aren't top earners. https://t.co/G0VKkKbjb7 2022-01-21 16:29:56 This great paper led by @brookeerinduffy is about the precarity of visibility on platforms like TikTok, which makes creators more beholden to platform capitalism than market demand. https://t.co/O4O7BomuH0 2022-01-21 16:24:36 This uncertainty is even more troubling when considering potential bias as well as an extreme lack of transparency when it comes to content moderation. Not only are TikTok creators not paid enough but it is *commonplace* for accounts to be banned without clear explanation. 2022-01-21 16:21:15 YouTube is also far more transparent about where views come from and how your revenue breaks down. YouTube is also a search engine rather than a 100% recommendation system. TikTok creator's livelihoods live and die by an algorithm deciding whether content gets seen. 2022-01-21 16:13:35 Hank crunched some numbers and speculates if TikTok's model was similar to YouTube's with revenue sharing, creators would be making about six times what they are now. This would mean that a significantly higher number of creators could do so full time. But to add to this-- 2022-01-21 16:10:51 The difference here is critical: If YouTube has more content/views they have more ads and creators make more money. If TikTok has more content/views then creators make LESS because they're sharing a piece of a fixed amount. More overall views = less $ per view. 2022-01-21 16:08:41 The main point Hank makes is that the model for how TikTok pays creators is fundamentally different than YouTube's: YT pays creators a percentage of their ad revenue. TT pays creators based on a FIXED pool of money that doesn't change based on how much they are bringing in. 2022-01-21 16:06:03 As a "professor of the internet" as well as a content creator who has actual $ in my bank account from both TikTok & 2022-01-21 15:50:14 @reidpr @bkeegan right?!?! 2022-01-21 15:34:33 @neurdy @bkeegan did you know that parents are apparently doing this with covid though??? I am losing my mind. 2022-01-21 15:26:01 @bkeegan meanwhile apparently there are parents having chicken pox parties to infect their kids 2022-01-21 14:53:00 also there are parents on tiktok advocating for chicken pox party style "let's infect our kids with covid and get it over with," then calling doctors liars when they say in the comments that covid can still be dangerous for kids 2022-01-21 14:47:54 Really? Did we? Because literally the only reaction I've seen to this Twitter NFT thing is "oh thank god now it will be so easy to figure out who to block" and this tweet is getting ratio-ed. https://t.co/TWkxRcTcn2 2022-01-21 14:43:33 @dansereduick 2022-01-21 14:32:50 And meanwhile I saw another video where someone was pointing to a blog post authored anonymously as proof that ivermectin cures COVID. 2022-01-21 14:31:09 my breaking point this morning was a video from an ICU doctor responding to a question about vaccinated patients and she said there were very few and none were intubated. Most of the comments were "you're lying", "how much are they paying you", "this is an actress"... 2022-01-21 12:11:35 It floors me how often I see the expertise of actual doctors and scientists questioned online, but not like, totally random people spewing nonsense. It's like it's more likely that you'll be believed if you don't actually make claims to credibility. 2022-01-21 02:34:17 @LizWFab this just showed up at the very top of my Twitter feed and was the best thing I’ve seen all day, thank you 2022-01-21 01:43:24 @anamatics Watch me age as the class continues lol. I get a new gray hair every class. :) 2022-01-21 01:15:14 Just because I think it's really funny: The FAQ on this video on TikTok so far is "where did you get your earrings" and the answer is that they were a birthday present from @ruthef :) 2022-01-21 01:11:08 Oh and this is the link I reference in the video! A handful of sources, though honestly most of them came from the replies on Kate's thread anyway. :) https://t.co/lqjrCq60lc 2022-01-21 01:05:23 I made a video about why you think Facebook is listening to your conversations even though it’s probably not. (Nothing that hasn’t already been said, thanks @Klonick for the well timed thread linked above that helped reassure me that I hadn’t missed new info. :) ) https://t.co/98QHHMawMQ 2022-01-20 21:36:30 @tiffanycli I just filmed a duet and am now trying to figure out if there's a way to do this without seeming like I'm calling a stranger a liar... :( 2022-01-20 20:14:01 @Ohthatflo a bunch of people tagged me in the video and I didn't think much of it until I saw today how many views is has eep 2022-01-20 20:10:38 I'm going to do a tiktok about this today, pointing to a lot of the sources and information in Kate's thread, but I have a feeling it will not get 20 million views. 2022-01-20 20:09:22 If folks are being asked about this recently it's probably partly because there's a tiktok that has been viewed ALMOST 20 MILLION TIMES in the last week from someone claiming to have worked at Facebook and saying that yes they are absolutely listening to you. https://t.co/zaZyHO2P8q 2022-01-20 14:37:47 @blairmacintyre this perfectly captures my feelings 2022-01-20 14:36:39 Despite parallels related to crowdsourced collective speculation, West Elm Caleb is not the new Couch Guy. In this essay I will 2022-01-20 12:44:35 @schock ok I will absolutely make a tiktok about this tweet :D 2022-01-18 22:14:41 @Vortex_Egg https://t.co/dE7nW3wG9X 2022-01-18 22:09:02 Also NEVER EVER EVER use hashtags related to crypto or NFTs. Unless you enjoy deleting hundreds of spam comments. 2022-01-18 22:08:03 in case you’re wondering how I feel about crypto https://t.co/aCD2Ma5Pme 2022-01-18 18:26:11 @ncweaver Well except there's nothing to require reporting regardless... but you're absolutely right. And paid time off is SO important in this moment. 2022-01-18 18:22:54 A friend of mine who works at an urgent care in Georgia told me how many people come in with a cough etc. and refuse to be tested for COVID. So. You know. Not much faith in humanity really. 2022-01-18 18:21:58 I can't imagine any possible arguments for not testing if you have been exposed or have symptoms, if you have easy access to tests. But I'm guessing we'll find out what they are pretty quickly. https://t.co/Hsy2vY9Ok6 2022-01-18 18:00:15 @syardi @fredbenenson @mathewi lol I was trying to figure out what's going on here enough to make a tiktok about it and am still a little 2022-01-18 01:12:30 RT @nhannahjones: So, I scrapped my original speech and spent the entire first half of it reading excerpts from a bunch of Dr. King's speec… 2022-01-17 17:28:09 RT @ProfDavidHart: GMU @ScharSchool is seeking a faculty member of any rank on AI and public policy - please share. If you have questions,… 2022-01-17 17:22:43 you know it is shocking to me how much more I get mansplained to about fair use than anything having to do with computer science like seriously there is SOMETHING about copyright that makes everyone think they're an expert 2022-01-17 14:34:42 @blakereid ::blinks in confusion:: 2022-01-17 08:11:00 CAFIAC FIX 2022-01-13 01:14:58 @JFTitone hahaha I'm not sure if I could handle the inevitable increase in harassment 2022-01-13 01:07:16 @KendraSerra Wow! 2022-01-13 01:07:05 I don’t often clap back on TikTok but do not come for one of our women in computing favs. https://t.co/1RJDo4n2bR 2022-01-12 02:36:15 @robinberjon @dcreemer haha luckily this is not my only grocery store option :-p 2022-01-12 02:23:09 @donohoe you know I didn't check but I CAN report there was vegan cheese in the very different section of the store where vegan cheese is kept 2022-01-12 01:40:52 @enwillis Safeway - I actually think it's probably related a renovation happening, they're probably changing the cheese location :) 2022-01-12 01:40:27 @KaurMaigh oh no I'm actually pretty sure it's related to renovation, I think they might be changing the location of cheese in thee store :) I mean it would be quite a supply chain issue for there to be literally nothing! 2022-01-12 00:07:30 @melstanfill Right?! 2022-01-12 00:07:23 @RhetoricallyRAD I thought I was hallucinating. 2022-01-12 00:07:02 Here's a great article about responses from the Purdue community to this ridiculousness. https://t.co/gzCwLuI55D 2022-01-12 00:02:30 "Where are all the men?" asks Purdue's president. While bragging about the fact that, don't worry, more men than women are still attending THEIR university! But elsewhere those overeducated women have to marry down (to men I guess) or lower the birthrate. https://t.co/QVSXY5cXuf https://t.co/KPXpz8A3TO 2022-01-11 23:36:17 @aaroniidx Yep 2022-01-11 22:51:44 @LibSkrat I hope so 2022-01-11 22:42:17 @LibSkrat I very much appreciate the offer though I could also just go to another grocery store :D 2022-01-11 22:40:00 I of course understand what a horrifying and unbelievable state of the world I have just described so here is what NO CHEESE looks like. https://t.co/Rr5tEHyfH4 2022-01-11 22:37:50 OK so as if 2022 wasn’t already already a garbage fire I just went to the grocery store and there was no cheese THERE. WAS. NO. CHEESE. 2022-01-11 08:11:00 CAFIAC FIX 2022-01-06 02:10:05 @LibSkrat Yes!!! 2022-01-06 01:55:19 It’s been a really rough week so I’ve been comfort re-watching Good Omens. @neilhimself retweeting this video was a highlight of 2021 and this was not a year with many highlights. https://t.co/9AV2E8QZHQ 2022-01-06 01:19:05 I'm hoping playing this will improve my scrabble game because I'm awful and @ruthef always trounces me. 2022-01-06 01:16:31 Wordle 200 4/6 this is fun https://t.co/xH9H76ryU3 2022-01-05 20:39:40 Also you might notice the snow of the ground - the first snow of the year in Boulder might have been a joyful occasion (I'd have posted photos!) if it weren't more notable for signaling the end devastating destruction. 2022-01-05 20:35:35 Following the mass shooting in Boulder in March, this is how 2021 closed out for my community. I think we're due for a better 2022. https://t.co/9iQ3C1cj5W 2022-01-05 19:46:57 @chadstolper I have not, thanks for the rec! 2022-01-05 19:11:02 @memm74 @NickyDanino There's a difference between "I realize this is public" and "I can imagine all the different ways others might use this public content" particularly for uses you don't know exist. 2022-01-05 18:54:50 ok what should be strategy be for digging myself out of this pile of un-responded-to emails 2022-01-05 18:47:30 @Lenandlar @koutropoulos @NickyDanino also some recent bigger picture thoughts here! https://t.co/FwbS22w97p 2022-01-05 18:46:20 @memm74 @NickyDanino and https://t.co/ewRVCcgISD 2022-01-05 18:45:50 @memm74 @NickyDanino Not necessarily. :( e.g. https://t.co/ewRVCcgISD and https://t.co/hnD6tiALmA 2022-01-05 18:35:23 I am pleased to report that as of just now I have internet at my house again, so tweeting may increase for better or worse. But I'm not taking my email auto-responder off just yet because the amount of un-responded-to emails I need to dig through is ludicrous. 2022-01-05 18:32:15 And if anyone would like a recommendation, the book I am reading right now (after having it in my TBR pile for about 6 months) is Firekeeper's Daughter because @zephoria told me it was amazing and yes it is AMAZING so far. 2022-01-05 18:23:59 @localFuturist As a fully vaccinated person who stayed away from strangers as much as possible, only saw vaccinated and tested people unmasked, and double-masked with an N95 while traveling, I felt that I was taking reasonable precautions for networked risk. But I respect your position. 2022-01-05 18:17:42 This year I am prioritizing reading for pleasure, after an abysmal 2021 where I read about half the amount that I usually do. And thanks to several days without internet access at my home I am doing very well so far. :) 2022-01-05 18:12:08 @Muttobytes I have, thanks. Also feel free to point me to what in this tweet constitutes disinformation. 2022-01-05 17:59:24 @localFuturist @lizzielansdowne I hadn’t seen anyone in my family for two years. I was careful, tested before and after, and isolated afterwards. Judge me if you like but I made a calculated risk for my mental health. 2022-01-05 14:33:51 @Dave_Parisi ah to go back to hot girl summer where everyone was vaxxed and happy :) 2022-01-05 14:29:22 @Dave_Parisi yeah that was the impression I got in Augusta GA (which is basically SC) and that's just so messed up 2022-01-05 14:25:36 I recently spent time in places where almost no one wears masks (Georgia, and rural Colorado) and people give you Looks when you are, and realized what a privilege it is to live somewhere with a mask mandate. 2022-01-05 14:04:46 Three jobs I've had stand out as all being more difficult (in different ways) than my current job as a professor: 1 camp counselor for 5 year olds at the zoo 2 intern at a domestic violence legal clinic 3 working at Baskin Robbins 2022-01-05 14:01:34 I am reminded of this story about engineers at DoorDash being angry that they were being asked to make a delivery. https://t.co/POFNK1mKjK If these tasks were actually so easy that they're not worth a fair wage then folks would be happy for the time off from their "hard" jobs. https://t.co/9VwsCLHusJ 2022-01-04 20:03:36 ok someone on tiktok already pointed out that I might have a smidge of survivor's guilt. I think that feeling that way is probably appropriate but I'll concede that my lack of internet is not the only thing keeping me from getting any work done this week. 2022-01-04 19:59:11 "[Our] neighbors lost homes, as so many millions of climate refugees worldwide have before, because our political and economic institutions have failed to respond to a crisis they have long known was coming." #marshallfires https://t.co/3fcZJd3N37 2022-01-04 17:19:41 Because of how much is blocked off I've only seen pieces of the destruction but it's as horrifying as you think. In any case all of this will be mostly over for me soon. If you'd like to help folks who aren't as lucky, https://t.co/AwQsqm5Yc8 & 2022-01-04 17:17:22 @AlmostMedia Ha same actually. 2022-01-04 17:12:32 There was also a huge amount of rallying on local social media to find lost pets, offer places for people to stay, provide material resources like space heaters and offer information (like how to keep your pipes from freezing) or help (like going to your house to turn off water). 2022-01-04 17:10:57 It has been really heartening to see the community come together. The private local Facebook group for my zipcode was so important for me while I was far away and had no idea if my house was still standing. People were creating maps and offering to check on homes. 2022-01-04 17:08:12 There are a LOT of police and service/utility vehicles everywhere. Also cars parked along main roads, I'm guessing in part people getting to their houses who are not permitted to drive in yet. 2022-01-04 17:04:36 A lot of areas are blocked off completely, and my typical route to work (Marshall Road ) is blocked by what looks like national guard trucks. There are also some checkpoints where you have to prove you live in a neighborhood to enter. (Had to show my driver's license.) 2022-01-04 17:04:18 I had to do a small amount of hoop jumping to move my insulin prescription to a different pharmacy since there was one waiting for me and that pharmacy is still standing but based on some damage I'm guessing is going to be closed for quite a while. 2022-01-04 16:57:56 It seems as if most businesses in close proximity are closed, as well as most food-related businesses in a wider range. e.g. I wasn't able to find a Starbucks for wifi purposes anywhere close to my home this morning. 2022-01-04 16:55:52 The internet is still out at my home, and the same is true for my neighbors with a different internet provider so I'm guessing that's pretty widespread. 2022-01-04 16:54:49 We're still not supposed to drink the water due to the possibility of contamination. There are centers giving out bottled water as well as space heaters, though we can also boil water. 2022-01-04 16:51:49 Because we immediately went from fire to freezing temperatures, there was a lot of worry about pipes freezing in homes without heat. I know that that some homes in my neighborhood had this problem 2022-01-04 16:50:09 To help stop the spread of the fire they turned off gas in a lot of the area. Turning it back on is an involved process where crews from the power company have to go door to door to reignite pilots. I think I was early in the process and some may still be without heat. 2022-01-04 16:47:27 Because some folks have asked I'm about to list some impacts and minor inconveniences of my home being in close proximity to the #MarshallFire but I want to put this thread in perspective by first sharing this image of my colleague's house. I'm lucky. https://t.co/kntqmFA6jq 2022-01-04 15:08:02 RT @QueerinAI: Reminder that applications for our two remote part-time positions close in TWELVE days! We are so excited for this Chec… 2022-01-04 15:07:29 It is day 3 without internet or cell service at my house. Last night I read an entire book. (The cell service problem is unrelated, but this is the kick in the butt I needed to change providers.) 2022-01-03 18:48:47 Well I thought I was back but the internet is out at my house for at least two days so not quite. :( 2022-01-03 17:08:30 @nickblack @uwcse For claiming a title you don’t have? I have absolutely no idea! Though if he wasn’t listed anywhere and didn’t have university webspace it would at least be easier to fact check. 2022-01-03 16:40:22 @mark_riedl @beki70 @uwcse I also suspect that he’d relish the opportunity for even more “fame” that would come from railing against evil anti-free-speech academic institutions if they did anything. 2022-01-03 16:29:52 @mark_riedl @uwcse Every time he says something awful a LOT of people notice that his Twitter bio says he’s a prof at UW. Conveniently leaves out the emeritus. 2022-01-03 16:08:00 Can a professor emeritus be un-emeritused so that they can no longer claim that affiliation in e.g. their Twitter bio? Asking for a friend. (That friend is @uwcse.) 2022-01-03 15:25:11 Jo's dissertation work was excellent CSCW scholarship on crisis coordination. During the recent fires near Boulder, I was thinking of these two papers she led about how online animal advocates helped save pets and horses during natural disasters: 2022-01-03 15:19:53 I'm heartbroken to learn that my good friend and colleague Jo White passed away yesterday. She was a wonderful friend, an amazing scholar, and just a truly bright personality. I'm so grateful I knew her. https://t.co/0qnSxVfKQB 2022-01-02 22:38:26 @XcelEnergyCO Thanks to all you’ve been doing to help! My dad worked for @GeorgiaPower for 30+ years and I know what a huge effort goes into these recovery efforts. 2022-01-02 22:22:00 @imjinnie @XcelEnergyCO I was really fortunate that a friend was able to let them into my house to get things going while I was on my way back! It’s warming up quickly. I’m glad you and Sydney are home too! 2022-01-02 22:18:01 My dog and I are now safe at home, in our sweaters, while we wait for the house to warm up. Crew from @XcelEnergyCO have been going house to house to reignite pilots. We’re grateful to be home and to have a home to return to. https://t.co/n6XOA21qcp 2022-01-01 20:09:40 @christineychen @KelseyHammon2 @Kitty_Clau oh thank goodness though I worry it’s too late :-/ 2021-12-31 18:50:06 Just got photographic confirmation that my house is still standing. Many of my neighbors are no so lucky. :( 2021-12-31 14:11:16 Update: From what I can find out from maps and a local Facebook group the perimeter of the #MarshallFire is literally across the street from my neighborhood. I’m grateful to be safe but worried for my community and really anxious about what I’m coming back to. 2021-12-31 00:26:40 @librarythingtim Me too. :( 2021-12-31 00:24:54 For the curious: Yes, my house is literally in danger of burning down. But myself, my dog, and my laptop are far away. These are the most important things. 2021-12-27 16:59:49 Currently engaging in an involuntary social media fast due to very poor internet access on my vacay. Hopefully this will be good for me. :) See you in a week! 2021-12-27 08:20:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-12-20 22:01:24 a glossary for this tweet: T1D = type 1 diabetes CGM = continuous blood glucose monitor The solution would probably be "eat something with sugar just in case" since high alarms CAN be silenced, but you can see why someone might not remember to do that. 2021-12-20 21:58:07 @meredithdclark I was totally horrified. Like, the only time I've even thought to worry about alarms is when I'm in a movie theater. It's so messed up what KIDS have to worry about. :( 2021-12-20 21:51:49 in today's moment of horror, in a T1D support group a parent asked what to tell their child to do if there's a school shooter since urgent low alarms on CGMs can't be silenced imagine being a kid and afraid that you might get your classmates killed if your blood sugar drops 2021-12-20 16:47:05 So is the advice column topic of the moment “how do I politely refuse to see unvaccinated family members over the holidays?” 2021-12-20 15:44:47 @RPGResource @natematias The page linked at the top of this thread has info about submitting proposals! 2021-12-20 15:44:03 @MeKulukulu But let me know if you need assistance from the SIGCHI research ethics committee! 2021-12-20 15:43:24 @MeKulukulu Oh I definitely don’t have ton bandwidth to work on a journal proposal. :) 2021-12-20 02:44:15 @BlakeleyHPayne how many times am I allowed to like this tweet? 2021-12-19 21:59:49 The tumblr post ends with: "There’s no scientific integrity if you can’t control for human desperation." And I think this is true for both middle school students and academics. But I would love to think about how we can create incentive structures that reduce desperation. 2021-12-19 21:53:01 @HawkguyClint that was apparently what inspired the tumblr post :) 2021-12-19 21:50:53 So as not to repeat myself, here's a recent-ish thread I did on this issue, featuring the gay marriage data fabrication scandal, peer review, the replication crisis, etc. https://t.co/bp88V1ZYkJ 2021-12-19 21:47:41 The crux of it is that incentive structures in academia - what can get published, what gets attention that results in citations or press - are often based on the *findings* rather than the quality of the science that gets you there. 2021-12-19 21:44:14 This tumblr post about a middle school science class points to a huge worry I have about research integrity & 2021-12-19 19:08:10 @HughesRich oh I I can recognize some! Besides those: Convergence Culture 2021-12-19 18:54:00 @ShriramKMurthi Yeah I was proceeding under the assumption that the researchers correctly described the study to the IRB. If not that’s a different issue. 2021-12-19 17:47:38 And of course I'll share the list with you all! Also once I'm back in my office after the holidays I'll make a list of books I have copies of in case students want to borrow. It will be a long list just from those! But I suspect you all are going to make me buy more. 2021-12-19 17:45:25 Also when I was in grad school I was trying to post photos on Flickr that people could use to illustrate blog posts and such, so here's a very small stack of books I had back then. Some of these I read in @asbruckman's class for my MS degree in 2005. :) https://t.co/f9YflEOIBC 2021-12-19 17:41:18 Hi all! I was thinking of doing this same assignment for my Online Communities class next semester. If so I will provide a starter list of books to choose from (or let them pick others) - can you all give me your suggestions for books about online communities/social media? https://t.co/G5r0KamnQr 2021-12-19 15:27:53 Researchers make mistakes. A good outcome when that happens is to learn from them- but also help others learn from them. I would of course like to see less ethical controversies, but they are helpful for (hopefully) avoiding similar mistakes in the future. https://t.co/vciaLH6m19 2021-12-18 23:19:04 @kirkpams @ShriramKMurthi “we’re going to give people a drug without consent because we’re studying cancer cells not humans” 2021-12-18 21:55:12 @ShriramKMurthi @five9a2 “imagining harms requires imagination” is actually the crux of my research agenda right now so wish me luck :) I hope we can help people do this better! Especially if we can’t rely on IRBs to help. 2021-12-18 21:51:52 @blackgaygemini me too :) 2021-12-18 21:50:32 @DrVeronikaCH At least the tweet got more criticism than support :) 2021-12-18 21:41:43 And yes I know we should just be ignoring PD at this point but the good news is, I am more and more confident that he represents an irritatingly vocal minority that will find little broader support 2021-12-18 21:39:24 I for one would like to see more sci-fi writers weighing in on whether we should be thinking about ethics in AI https://t.co/V8yPZjumlw 2021-12-18 21:20:50 @ShriramKMurthi Well, it’s still deceptive regardless of harm or not. But the the IRB didn’t judge it not harmful, they judged it not human subjects research. :-/ 2021-12-18 18:33:39 @billhd yeah I think the underlying problem is more the assumption that if an IRB *doesn’t* flag it, it must be ethical. They can be important for the right kinds of research! 2021-12-18 18:13:47 @billhd I don't disagree with that! 2021-12-18 18:13:20 @LibSkrat I am also wondering if this will happen. I was actually a bit hesitant to talk about this because a student is the lead researcher, but I thought it might be helpful in that regard to highlight the IRB issue. 2021-12-18 18:11:03 So I think that this is something that we can all learn from, to inform education and our own research practices. IRB review is necessary but insufficient. And another example is, of course, use of public data which *actually* isn't human subjects research under the definition. 2021-12-18 18:07:25 I have my own thoughts about changes that could have been made to this study design such that much of this harm could have been mitigated. I am also sympathetic that well-intentioned researchers might rely on an IRB evaluation in good faith. 2021-12-18 18:05:10 I suspect that an underlying issue in thinking about the potential ethical issues (possibly from both the researchers and the IRB) is thinking about emails as going to a *website* rather than a *person*. Unfortunately websites cannot answer emails. 2021-12-18 18:02:44 Unfortunately, it appears to be the case that this research resulted in *actual* harm, financial and emotional. I have seen multiple reports that people who received these emails either (a) paid a lawyer to help 2021-12-18 18:00:00 For example, here is one IRB's guidelines for using deception in research. There are a number of issues that if considered might have influenced the study design. And help from someone knowledgeable about research ethics could have help identify harms. https://t.co/I6mWhBLwMa 2021-12-18 17:51:49 You've all heard me say that IRBs are about compliance, not ethics. But at least for deception research an IRB requires justification and consideration for harms. It's actually a challenging kind of research to get approved. And this study could have benefited from that scrutiny. 2021-12-18 17:47:57 Apparently an IRB said this study wasn't human subjects research because they didn't collect personally identifiable information - but that's only half of the definition. There's an OR and the other part includes obtaining information through communication with the researcher. https://t.co/b8xpRecs7e 2021-12-18 17:44:35 In this more recent study, the researchers sent emails to contact-email addresses on websites, and then used responses as data. I am absolutely baffled by how any IRB would not consider this to be human subjects research under the federal definition. 2021-12-18 17:38:08 A similar issue came up not long ago regarding researchers who submitted faulty patches into the Linux kernel to see what would happen. Their IRB (post-hoc) said this did not constitute human subjects research. https://t.co/jEzXXGOhMR 2021-12-18 17:32:26 To my knowledge, these kinds of studies have fallen under the purview of ethics review boards. For example, this paper about the ethical issues calls on ethics review to be more critical in requiring justification for deception. https://t.co/pE8hK6pYqC 2021-12-18 17:29:43 The methods described here are similar to resume and similar audit studies, and there has been debate over research ethics related to this kind of deception research for years, despite unquestionable benefit from findings that have provided evidence for discrimination. 2021-12-18 17:23:42 This thread describes a research study that utilized deception and may have resulted in harm. I believe university IRBs are failing researchers who have been taught (incorrectly) to rely on them in good faith to flag & 2021-12-18 03:19:24 A final thought: It's troubling that for many people a response to being justifiably upset over viral social media threats of school shootings is "something should be done about social media" but not "something should be done about guns" 2021-12-18 02:21:14 @jkohlmann hahah oh got it 2021-12-18 02:16:27 @jkohlmann (1) Who said anything about skipping "a whole lot of foundational teachings"? (2) Topics like responsibility and ethics should be considered foundational. 2021-12-17 23:47:46 @michaelzimmer @_sgilbert_ @bkeegan @moduloone @NaiyanJones well we've said for a year that once we're done with the current stuff we're going to survey reddit users 2021-12-17 22:40:55 Also I would really like to see some journalists doing a story about this angle, as a follow-up. I'm kind of concerned about the precedent that the heavy reaction to this could cause, in terms of a boy-who-cried-wolf kind of situation. :-\ 2021-12-17 22:34:50 When FEAR of a threat is what's causing harm rather than a threat itself, how does a platform moderate that content? A threat video would be taken down immediately, but in this case it seems they decided to treat videos expressing fear as misinformation. https://t.co/qdsI5jWf6O 2021-12-17 22:31:08 It's also totally understandable why this scared a lot of people and how the fear of a threat could absolutely go viral over the threat itself. 2021-12-17 22:29:21 Given the timing (finals week) I compared this to someone pulling a fire alarm to get out of a test, and maybe that's actually apt- not necessarily someone making a threat, but raising the alarm about a threat that doesn't exist. Hard to know what actually started al this though. 2021-12-17 22:25:12 The journalist I spoke to also had only seen TikToks ABOUT the threat. Teens expressing fear to go to school and encouraging others not to. Some possibilities: (1) there was a threat that did not circulate much but got a reaction that did 2021-12-17 22:20:09 Last night when I spoke to @washingtonpost about the TikTok school threats (there's some vague thoughts from me: https://t.co/aD0Ag3fYwA) I pointed out that I hadn't actually seen any such videos (just reactions) and couldn't even find a description of what the originals were. 2021-12-17 22:19:24 The reaction to the TikTok school threats is fascinating (and troubling) because - despite school closures all over the country and a ton of media coverage - it appears there might not have even been threats in the first place. A threat didn't go viral - fear did. https://t.co/9kGt1P0B7W 2021-12-17 21:26:56 r/drugs: "We are asking any researcher that uses data scrapes from this subreddit to announce themselves to the moderators. This is not only because we are open to cooperate with them but it's also the right thing to do ethically" "DATA IS PUBLIC" is not an ethical analysis. :) https://t.co/jt495OB8XK 2021-12-17 21:08:28 @bkeegan @moduloone @NaiyanJones @_sgilbert_ @michaelzimmer they also helpfully provided a couple of relevant papers I haven't read yet :) 2021-12-17 15:20:43 RT @elizabhinton: We found that white people benefited disproportionately from the unprecedented reduction in the U.S. prison system during… 2021-12-17 07:17:43 @RWerpachowski Because the question is about ethics and the answer is about law. 2021-12-17 02:36:03 If anyone is wondering what TikTok’s key demographics are, look no farther than this rude question on their user experience surveys. :p https://t.co/kxhCCMLCAx 2021-12-17 00:25:33 @RWerpachowski If the question was about ethical responsibility that is a nonsensical answer. 2021-12-16 23:47:07 @RWerpachowski I have no idea what this would have to do with politics. But I’m not talking about a test with right answers. I’m talking about whether someone knows anything about how to think through an ethical dilemma, spot ethical issues, or care about responsibility. 2021-12-16 21:37:20 I might be in a my-brain-is-mud-from-grading space, but I just got the idea to basically write fanfiction of what I think a job interview in Big Tech should look like. 2021-12-16 21:35:27 Sometimes I wonder if my orientation towards grading as a professor is totally based on how upset I was when I got a C in a calculus class in college after trying really hard. 2021-12-16 21:33:29 @josephseering I’m not as worried about T& 2021-12-16 21:32:17 @cdisalvo Also if these folks are hired into a CS dept it emphasizes that what they do is part of CS. 2021-12-16 19:01:17 @mtauraso @ncweaver Well there’s the underlying problem. What a viscious cycle! 2021-12-16 18:49:13 @games_and_ID If that ever came up wow that’s a fight I’d love to fight. But also, yikes. I’d hope it wouldn’t. 2021-12-16 18:44:07 @ncweaver That is a dire interpretation but on the other hand could already be the case :-\ 2021-12-16 18:41:02 I've said it before & 2021-12-16 18:38:12 I am baffled by the amount of “can’t possibly fit [humanities/ethics/justice/critique] into this CS [curriculum/class] - there’s too much technical content to cover.” Who decides what content HAS to be covered? You do! https://t.co/Z6ZVxzo8KF 2021-12-16 18:10:27 @katypearce yesssss 2021-12-16 18:07:20 https://t.co/4M5xwrwYwp https://t.co/2n54xygpI4 2021-12-16 18:04:08 @LibSkrat @TAMU wow that's garbage 2021-12-16 17:04:38 @kristelia @grimmelm @lee_kovarsky I also asked the person who does our webpage to scrub all mentions of my university phone number. :) 2021-12-16 16:33:33 RT @benwagne_r: Excited to announce that @tudelft is hiring a total of 8 (!!!) new 5-year fully funded PhDs on Justice, Rights, Democracy a… 2021-12-16 16:11:47 @michaelzimmer omg happy birthday! https://t.co/m8PWSRAcya 2021-12-16 14:03:28 RT @AManYouLove_T: But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun.… 2021-12-16 13:52:59 @ChengSoonOng This link has a lot of my resources, a handful from others, and also a link to a spreadsheet of hundreds of syllabi: https://t.co/yM3je9ray8 2021-12-16 13:33:57 I know that this shouldn't actually be surprising, but it genuinely blows my mind that this would be seen as anything but a horrifying dystopia. https://t.co/yVhDWGzxob 2021-12-16 03:56:52 I really love seeing some #T1D representation on drag race! My real wish is that there's at least a brief educational description of what Type 1 is. BUT ALSO though I know there are plenty of places to hide a CGM or even an insulin pump I would LIVE for bedazzled diabetes tech. https://t.co/G3M5KpNXTP 2021-12-15 21:39:05 RT @Dr_mauraf: “The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility.” - bell hooks. Rest in Power 2021-12-15 21:21:15 RT @EFF: We've got an awesome opportunity to join the @EFF team. Please apply to be our Senior Fellow for Decentralization today. https://… 2021-12-15 20:31:38 @struthious In analyzing tech ethics syllabi we found that utilitarianism and deontology are most common. https://t.co/rPHTrjuRJd I'm guilty of this too. It was only a couple of years ago that I started including non-western moral philosophy and also discussing in class e.g. Kant's racism. 2021-12-15 19:40:38 And I guess I pick on Kant in particular because that's also a good place to start in having conversations about how whitewashed and westernized this stuff is - which doesn't mean you shouldn't teach it, but don't JUST teach that. (This is came up with the panel too!) 2021-12-15 19:35:15 This comment is in response to a particular cop-out for not talking about practical ethical issues AT ALL in technical AI classes for the reason of not knowing enough about ethics. You should at least know/think about the relevant stuff enough to seek out expertise when needed. 2021-12-15 19:31:54 To be clear, because I've made this particular glib comment a couple of times now, I have deep respect for philosophy and folks who have expertise in moral philosophy. I also really hope that undergrads are required to take classes where they learn this stuff from those experts! 2021-12-15 19:30:04 So apparently one of @FortuneMagazine's highlights of the entire #NeurIPS2021 AI conference was me throwing shade on Kant. https://t.co/aOoXzwsLpT https://t.co/VLketefYrb 2021-12-15 14:01:30 @theannalytical I'm really glad that you enjoyed this probably bizarre tweet :D 2021-12-15 12:42:08 @ubiquity75 Excellent point. And I suspect most people reading this are assuming not, which I'm guessing is intentional. 2021-12-15 03:17:52 @k_trendacosta I don’t actually do this but the tradition of my homeland is collard greens and blackeyed peas :) 2021-12-15 02:54:15 @michaelzimmer of course you are :) 2021-12-15 00:20:05 Retweeting this thread about an amazing earworm of a song for no particular reason. Maybe it should be Time's Song of the Year. https://t.co/0jXmNAIIRU 2021-12-14 23:56:20 @karen_ec_levy Oh I should! A while ago I wasn’t eligible for some reason but haven’t re-checked… I’m also not super far from paying them off but it would be nice. :) 2021-12-14 23:48:24 Hey y’all, I feel like I should make a confession. I still have student loans from law school that aren’t completely paid off. And I have… ::chokes up:: taken vacations. https://t.co/A6994iqsAK 2021-12-14 23:45:05 @mortenbay @DocDre Right? it’s costing me like $700 to fly to Atlanta for Christmas and no one’s telling me I shouldn’t see my family until I pay off my law school loans. 2021-12-14 19:58:50 RT @amyjko: Our @uwmhcid program is hiring! Join us in educating leading interaction designers to create equitable, ethical interactive sys… 2021-12-14 19:10:09 In my dream, I tried I think three times to just run, falling down each time. And then the students at a welcome desk above offered me their hands and helped physically drag me up. "That's been such a problem," one of them said. 2021-12-14 19:08:09 Last night I had a dream that was quite a metaphor. I'm visiting a new space I'm told has all sorts of STEM labs run by women PIs. A group of women students & 2021-12-14 19:00:34 @aaroniidx 2021-12-14 18:16:13 @DocDre this reeks of "how can someone with debt be drinking starbucks" 2021-12-14 17:29:14 (I'm sorry, this is like the most niche tweet ever but I hope it makes some folks snort and shake their heads in understanding.) 2021-12-14 17:28:28 Sometimes I still wonder if I will ever learn about spin-wave dynamics in a hexagonal 2-D magnonic crystal. 2021-12-14 15:30:29 @natematias @profwernimont yeah :( 2021-12-14 15:13:21 @profwernimont the infant formula part had me genuinely baffled 2021-12-14 14:56:30 Of all the vexing parts of that Atlantic article… the idea that wearing a mask indoors is a symbol of like anti-authoritarian teenage angst? What even? Suggested title edit for this piece: “Where I live no one cares about anyone but themselves.” https://t.co/mXBx2AkOrT 2021-12-14 14:09:29 @Alexir563 oh can't believe I didn't think of that one :) 2021-12-14 13:40:08 Brainstorming a list of fictional categorization schemes (that people might slot themselves into) that aren't Hogwarts houses: - Airbender, waterbender etc from Avatar - Game of Thrones houses - Disciplines in The Magicians - Magi clans in Children of Blood and Bone More please! 2021-12-14 13:25:13 RT @FAccTConference: Do you have research that needs to have wider reach because of its importance to the daily lives of people & 2021-12-14 04:18:13 I love this. Especially because often first authors are PhD students (if it’s recent!) and hearing that your work inspired someone can be so validating. https://t.co/Q8jf9xBg5R 2021-12-14 04:13:51 RT @SurvSoc_Journal: Just published: A special issue of Surveillance & 2021-12-14 01:05:56 @natematias @naz_andalibi oh my gosh I know. Would like to have this convo over coffee. 2021-12-14 01:04:29 @sanmayd @acm_sigai @RealAAAI @ACMEAAMO @AcmSIGecom Oh AIES is a great example!! I wasn’t picking on SIGAI, it was just one I remembered existed. :D 2021-12-14 00:55:51 BUT as @natematias points out, there's also the other kind of silo-ing which is that right now all of this computing ethics work isn't in conversation with each other! So I'm overall in favor of this journal, but we need to make sure conversations still extend out. 2021-12-14 00:54:19 And so the related danger, as @naz_andalibi said in another tweet, is that reviewers at an AI conference might look at an AI ethics paper and say "oh that actually belongs in the ethics journal" and review it poorly for fit. 2021-12-14 00:52:30 However, I suspect I've just given two examples were the sub-community is very open to this kind of work. I don't know if reviewers at, I don't know, SIGGRAPH or SIGAI, are as open to ethics-related research as SIGCHI folks probably are. Even if it would be valuable there! 2021-12-14 00:49:36 The potential danger here is silo-ing. It's actually very good to have ethics-related work all over the place, to expose those sub-communities to ethics work that is relevant to that sub-community. e.g., dark UX patterns at CHI or social media research ethics at CSCW. 2021-12-14 00:46:48 I want to follow up on this line of thought in this thread from Nate re: the pros and cons of a computing+ethics journal, because I had similar ones! https://t.co/4Bt8twcQ6E 2021-12-13 17:46:38 @natematias I had the same thought! I think there's a lot of trade-off. Hmmm might reflect on this a little more. 2021-12-13 16:40:45 And in case you were wondering, yes, this is absolutely the sort of thing I'd be interested in doing, if suddenly there were more hours in the day. But alas. 2021-12-13 16:39:50 This is a brief description of what @TheOfficialACM has in mind for a journal devoted to computing and ethics. They're seeking proposals for community members who are interested in developing it. https://t.co/456IC6c8Fs 2021-12-13 16:36:03 I've thought a lot about where to publish ethics work within ACM and it's been a bit of a mix (e.g. CHI, CSCW, FaaCT) without a clear place JUST for that. Seems ACM thinks so too because there's a call for proposals for a computing and ethics journal! https://t.co/kNNBTkbDn2 2021-12-12 20:45:01 @boydgraber Yes, I thought of that too! Also the dept chair in this show is Whoopie Goldberg :) 2021-12-12 20:03:27 @mikarv In this case it's Columbia :) 2021-12-12 19:49:33 To say more, I think the issue is that they've confused "tenure track" with "tenured." We have an adjunct professor who finished her PhD < 2021-12-12 19:47:17 Can't academics explain to TV writers how academia/tenure works??? (This tweet brought to you by #HarlemOnPrime which is REALLY GOOD this small quibble aside, highly recommended. Also I do love seeing awesome professors on TV. ) 2021-12-12 17:12:26 @lexlanham But of course 2021-12-12 17:07:57 As soon as I saw this NYT piece about the Peloton thing I went to see if @lexlanham had said anything about it and of course does not disappoint :) https://t.co/6iYdwRApiH 2021-12-11 14:17:34 Now I'm wondering if any of the cast and crew were savvy enough to short Peloton stock. 2021-12-11 04:48:28 I cannot wait to read the complaint for this inevitable lawsuit. https://t.co/Yf3W4dDpnd 2021-12-11 02:04:28 @ruthstarkman @Abebab @rajiinio @JesseDodge Glad you were there !! 2021-12-10 22:37:10 So I'm about to be on a panel (3pm PT) at #NeurIPS2021 (with a lot of REALLY smart people ) and on the chance that someone decides to look me up because they like what I have to say or hate what I have to say... either way this thread seems appropriate to top my feed :) https://t.co/98I6CTlGGa 2021-12-10 22:35:48 @emilymbender Yessss and you know what, this hasn't been RTed or anything so I'll just correct 2021-12-10 21:31:14 the most amazing acronym misunderstanding I have seen in a long time (via TikTok) was a statement about "MLMs preying on women and spiraling them into debt" and someone seemingly interpreting this as an accusation that gay men steal money from women 2021-12-10 19:18:55 research ethics that goes beyond IRBs! https://t.co/QrjFYXgZOr 2021-12-10 19:17:37 @IDeaSCMU @heycori @heycori Is there work on this phenomenon re: people sharing like netflix accounts? Whenever I think about how common that is, I'm like I know y'all aren't using unique passwords. 2021-12-10 16:38:12 @BriannaDym Ok I said it was going to have to be a dragon age that would make me get one but well here we are. /cc @bsemaan 2021-12-10 00:18:23 @kimberlyhirsh @CLLab Congrats, what a fantastic group! 2021-12-09 21:56:43 @SocraTemp2 Sure! 2021-12-09 21:46:29 RT @morganklauss: Still ongoing study! Interviewing people who work on computer vision products about their work processes - specifically,… 2021-12-09 21:28:49 @LibSkrat oh yes definitely, and I have a list of fiction books that I think would work really well too I was thinking of doing away with the group project for undergrads in this class next time around so this might be a good partial replacement. 2021-12-09 21:25:58 @natematias I wasn’t planning on it originally but this turned out well enough that I might do it in my Online Communities class next semester too. 2021-12-09 21:24:29 @LibSkrat How do undergrads do with this assignment? 2021-12-09 21:23:18 Books chosen included e.g., Atlas of AI, Data Feminism, Behind the Screen, Design Justice, Weapons of Math Destruction, Technically Wrong, The Twenty Six Words That Created the Internet, Hate Crimes in Cyberspace 2021-12-09 21:19:36 I gave grad students in my tech ethics class an assignment that was basically: pick a relevant book & 2021-12-09 20:59:43 RT @shamikalashawn: Thank you for helping share our research @ZerlinaShow! I appreciate @cfiesler @littlejoydale @kalyn_mccall @sendgoodche… 2021-12-09 20:59:07 @shamikalashawn @ZerlinaShow @littlejoydale @kalyn_mccall @sendgoodcheers Wonderful job Shamika!!! 2021-12-09 20:12:01 RT @cuinfoscience: We’re hiring! We seek an outstanding scholar for a 2-year full-time teaching position as a Scholar in Residence, startin… 2021-12-09 16:05:48 @iteachspystuff haha I actually don't know! I moved away a year or two later and never heard from him again. 2021-12-09 14:31:22 I mean it’s not like people getting married online is new or high tech. In 1995 when my middle school crush asked me to marry him in the text-based RPG (Legend of the Red Dragon) that I accessed from a dial-up BBS it was the best moment of my life. https://t.co/W4X97KNBUa https://t.co/2UCmUUkxAV 2021-12-09 14:04:51 @FILWD Well the point isn’t about the spreadsheet. :) But we did add a specific Q to the application about which faculty students want to work with, as a way of making sure they include that. 2021-12-09 03:32:34 RT @EthanZ: Why solve the difficult problems of harassment, inauthentic speech, community governance, moderation, polarization, algorithmic… 2021-12-09 01:44:00 @IandPangurBan Thanks! :) 2021-12-08 23:39:43 Re-sharing! Please pass this along to folks you know teaching computing related classes. https://t.co/YJkXT6i6Hw 2021-12-08 23:36:21 @Dr_Inna omg so glad it’s not covid though!! 2021-12-08 22:45:22 ... okay that was the end of the talk. This was more substantial than I intended. If you read to the end, thanks! Share with someone I guess! Should we encourage talks-as-twitter-threads or was that just too much? :) 2021-12-08 22:44:25 And my final point: I don't critique because I'm anti-tech/anti-AI/anti-research, whatever. I love technology. I love the internet. I love research. I want all of these things to be their very best. If you love what you do, you owe it to your field to be a critic. https://t.co/0H3vvy2912 2021-12-08 22:41:27 And to bring all of this back around to the original topic of this talk/thread, if you think of content created by people as just DATA instead of PEOPLE then you aren't able to see potential harms, especially when you might not understand the people represented in that data. 2021-12-08 22:40:07 This challenge of seeing harms to people who aren't like you points to the benefits of more diversity in technology design & 2021-12-08 21:55:55 Don Norman, who wrote The Design of Everyday Things, wrote this oped about how design today horrifies him - he realized the world isn't designed for the elderly. This isn't more of a problem than it was in 1988. The world didn't change. Don Norman did. https://t.co/bDxi2HcJE5 2021-12-08 21:53:44 Like, you know who's really good at imagining how people might be harassed online? People who get harassed a lot. Which tend to be the same folks underrepresented in tech. https://t.co/WMft5p2iqe 2021-12-08 21:50:33 And because technological harms disproportionately impact people from marginalized groups, it's a problem that those same groups are underrepresented in the tech industry. People designing tech might have trouble imagining harms to people who are very different than them. 2021-12-08 21:47:54 But there is also a really important critique and challenge of speculation--people often have trouble thinking outside their own experience. This is my favorite quote from a forthcoming paper about that teaching exercise, from an instructor that used it. https://t.co/YFZl3KQeAN 2021-12-08 21:45:20 I've been thinking about how to scaffold creative speculation among technologists in terms of teaching, e.g., the Black Mirror Writers Room exercise, that can be adapted to thinking through a lot of different kinds of things, including research projects. https://t.co/BbqukaXDoN 2021-12-08 21:42:27 Isaac Asimov said science fiction writers foresee the inevitable but though catastrophes are inevitable, solutions are not. Scifi writers don't tend to be tasked with solving problems caused by technology-technologists often are. So maybe they should think like scifi writers. 2021-12-08 21:39:11 Something I've been thinking a lot about lately is how we reduce ethical debt (as an analog to technical debt) by doing the up front work of imagining social impacts and potential harms during the design of technology or of a research study. https://t.co/oUUbAvQkwx 2021-12-08 21:37:22 One critique I've heard of #NeurIPS broader impacts statements is "how am I supposed to predict the future to imagine negative consequences!" I mean, researchers seem pretty good at wildly imagining the potential real world benefits of their work. Why not real world harms? 2021-12-08 21:32:21 But unintended consequences/misuse should 100% be on researchers' minds, including as it relates to cost/benefit analysis. Can you think of any justification in terms of benefits that could possibly outweigh the likely real world use of facial analysis as criminality prediction? 2021-12-08 21:28:47 And there are reasons why "AI phrenology" (or rather, physiognomy, predicting traits from faces) is a big topic of discussion in research ethics. It's not just about how this research might be misused, but those are PEOPLE in that data, being labeled, perhaps incorrectly. 2021-12-08 21:25:53 So not only are there potential privacy violations, but also potentially representational or related harms based on research that is focused on labeling data. Because labeling data very often means labeling people. 2021-12-08 21:23:28 Imagine being contacted (by anyone! a journalist, a student, a friend who happens to read scientific papers) who says "hey according to this paper about mental health prediction, an algorithm thinks that you might have a mental illness" because your tweet is quoted in a codebook. 2021-12-08 21:20:44 A case study: There's at least one case where a journalist in writing about a paper that quoted verbatim tweets, searched for those tweets and contacted the users to talk to them for the story. In this case the subject matter was innocuous so (as far as I know) no harm done, but: 2021-12-08 21:17:19 And all of this is NOT to say that research with public data like tweets or Reddit posts is inherently unethical. But you should be making ethical decisions and writing about them. In ongoing analysis we've found good examples of ethical considerations too. https://t.co/seRgrLRjR8 2021-12-08 21:14:24 In this systematic overview of papers using Reddit data, we found there is a lot of research on sensitive topics/vulnerable communities--e.g. mental health, addiction, marginalized groups. (A lot of "we built a classifier for X" where X is sensitive.) https://t.co/pWrySpJI13 2021-12-08 21:11:25 @LibSkrat @shamikalashawn ooooh well that's possible, @shamikalashawn would know! 2021-12-08 21:10:58 Also sometimes it's not even the content that has to be sensitive to have the potential for harm - there might be special considerations if the community you're studying is vulnerable regardless of the content. https://t.co/DpyIB5TD0Z 2021-12-08 21:10:07 @LibSkrat @shamikalashawn Well in this case it wasn't about questions people were asking, because the context was data used without consent - e.g. collecting tweets from a hashtag. 2021-12-08 20:31:53 We think about researcher positionality a lot when it comes to human subjects research - but what about research using trace data? In one way doesn't it matter even more if you're studying a community you're not part of and haven't even talked to them? 2021-12-08 20:30:22 And in a study led by @shamikalashawn about Black Twitter and research ethics (in progress!), researcher positionality emerged as an important issue. https://t.co/4JBQCmcSnr 2021-12-08 20:27:35 In this paper led by @BriannaDym, mostly LGBTQ+ participants talked in part about how both researchers and journalists sometimes "parachuted" into a community to take content from it without trying to understand it. https://t.co/zNPHPJBY6l 2021-12-08 20:24:54 Sometimes people in vulnerable positions choose to share publicly anyway, because they want to provide help and support to people. For example: choosing to create YouTube videos about gender transition does not mean you'd be okay with your face being in a scientific paper. https://t.co/mqvN732Mgs 2021-12-08 20:21:38 In this paper from Ayers et al. they found that 72% of articles in PubMed (so health/medical-related) that used Twitter data quoted at least one tweet, which led back to the Twitter user 84% of the time. https://t.co/9f3gxSCZiq 2021-12-08 20:20:05 If your only ethical analysis is "is it public," that suggests that you should treat a tweet about what someone had for breakfast, or a tweet from the president of the united states, equivalently to a tweet from someone with 100 followers revealing a sensitive health condition. 2021-12-08 20:17:26 The takeaway from this study wasn't that using tweets in research is good or bad - it's that a lot of things influence people's comfort level. Like, what a tweet is about matters. What you're going to do with it matters. Whether it's "public" is necessary but insufficient. 2021-12-08 20:15:50 A few years ago, an engineer at Twitter told me with a straight face that of course users know that their tweets are used by researchers etc. - it's right there in the TOS. When @moduloone and I surveyed Twitter users, most respondents didn't know. https://t.co/ewRVCcyjKb 2021-12-08 20:12:00 "But the terms of service doesn't prohibit it" is ALSO not an ethical analysis, and you can get a lot more of my thoughts on that in this paper about legal and ethical issues around data scraping: https://t.co/bXTig8PUo0 TL 2021-12-08 20:09:06 I do not suggest it is unethical to use public data in research. I have used trace data in my own research! And there are ways to do this thoughtfully and ethically. The critical point is that "the data is public" is not an ethical analysis. 2021-12-08 20:03:07 @JWGrieve @YJernite I would like to think that researchers would agree that, e.g., quoting a tweet in a scientific paper from someone with 100 followers that reveals their HIV status, is harmful. 2021-12-08 20:01:31 I joke that being a tech ethics researcher means making slides that look like this over and over until I retire. But the point is: How our data is used without our knowledge, especially as training data for AI and including research uses, is something we should be thinking about. https://t.co/FGqFApT459 2021-12-08 19:57:36 Just gave a talk to @NYUDataScience titled "Data Is People: Unintended Consequences in AI & 2021-12-08 19:57:00 @JWGrieve @YJernite This is a great example. Because clearly a tweet from the president is not equivalent to a tweet from an individual on a sensitive topic, and the fact that we should treat those differently suggests that whether something is "public" is not all that matters. 2021-12-08 19:42:57 @JWGrieve @YJernite And as long as it's done ethically, that can be a good thing, and an important part of a cost-benefit analysis. The main point of my work in this area has just been that "it's public" is not an ethical analysis. :) 2021-12-08 19:22:56 @YJernite Oh thank you! And that IS a fantastic metaphor. I just gave a talk about this work this morning to @NYUDataScience! 2021-12-08 15:57:34 @mdekstrand Yes please! :D 2021-12-08 15:53:33 @mdekstrand how did you clock this tweet literally 4 seconds after I hit post It was nice to see you too! 2021-12-08 15:52:37 Congrats to Dr. @NassimSo who passed her dissertation defense last night! Her research is on fairness in recommender systems, and it was lovely to be on her committee. A lot more defenses to come next semester! We've got a slew of @cuinfoscience folks finishing up. :) 2021-12-08 15:04:46 @LibSkrat related tip: don't insult faculty when emailing them to ask questions about the program one would think this would go without saying, but. 2021-12-08 15:03:19 @LibSkrat Yes I also would feel very differently about this re: MS rather than PhD applicants. 2021-12-08 15:02:31 Also to clarify, I'm speaking less to a problem with complexity and more to a problem with lack of information. Though I still think that this is a useful thing to consider if you're thinking about how the statement might be interpreted by the intended audience. 2021-12-08 14:58:27 @precariousarts This particular piece of advice is not speaking to the problem of complexity 2021-12-08 14:53:01 And different applicants will have different levels of granularity for this - e.g. "tech ethics" vs "algorithmic fairness" - but if the level of granularity is [department name] that's probably not a good sign. :) 2021-12-08 14:46:24 Tip for PhD statements of purpose: Imagine someone looking through your application to input data into a spreadsheet. Can they skim your SOP and in 5 words or less in a spreadsheet cell describe your research interest? If not, that suggests a problem with your narrative. 2021-12-08 14:36:49 RT @InternetFF: The @ssrc_org launched its new inaugural JustTech Fellowship. The fellowship is open to a diverse and cross-sector of resea… 2021-12-08 14:33:30 RT @TransStudies: FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 2022! Join us for the Center's upcoming Applied Trans Technology Studies Symposium, a free event… 2021-12-08 14:31:21 Seen elsewhere: The journalist here clarifying that the intended meaning was that all the researchers in Silicon Valley work for tech companies and therefore you have to go elsewhere for good talent. A victim of poor wording I guess. :-\ 2021-12-08 13:21:00 RT @amyjko: Our new book, Critically Conscious Computing: Methods for Secondary Education, is live! 1/n Book: https://t.co/8nyFWJJIMm Blog… 2021-12-08 02:53:03 (P.S. Yes I did get a COVID test just as a precaution. :) ) 2021-12-08 02:50:53 I haven't had a cold since before the pandemic (gosh I wonder why) and two side effects of illness I hadn't dealt with before: (1) zoom asking if I want to unmute every time I blow my nose (2) I can't make tiktoks when I'm stuffed up and sound like I'm dying :-p 2021-12-08 02:47:33 little known fact: when I was a first year PhD student I helped (a little!) write the research grant that funded the development of EarSketch There's an alternate universe in which I didn't feel obligated to use my law degree and I did my dissertation on CS ed and remix. :) https://t.co/BXkOM521Ic 2021-12-08 02:33:16 @DocDre I wonder if “oh you must be the ethicist” is the new “oh you must be the designer.” Blegh. 2021-12-08 02:32:04 @DocDre Yeeeeep. 2021-12-08 00:32:30 @cynthiablee haha I know, I have no chance 2021-12-08 00:29:51 In talking about types of broader impacts, @marylgray mentioned one that I think is incredibly important but commonly overlooked: Public trust. Are you building a system or conducting research that is going to do even more to undermine trust in science and research? #NeurIPS2021 2021-12-08 00:04:12 I'm used to being written off as not a real computer scientist or whatever. (Recently on TikTok someone asked if I'm interested in learning to code. Like... that's quite an incorrect assumption you've made. But I'm probably still not l33t enough for you.) But Timnit? Seriously?! 2021-12-08 00:01:45 yesssss @marylgray calling for tenure committees to appropriately recognize the value of interdisciplinary collaborations and this means humanities tenure cases too, because "multi-authored papers don't count" isn't helping the situation #neurips2021 2021-12-07 23:57:17 This is the (appropriate) response to someone saying that Timnit isn't an AI researcher, she's an ethics researcher. It's very telling that EVEN WHEN someone unquestionably has significant technical CS/AI chops, a whiff of "ethics" can STILL delegitimize their work. https://t.co/blSQMDvjq7 2021-12-07 23:32:05 One important (simplified) point from @marylgray's #NeurIPS2021 keynote: Scale shouldn't always be the goal. 2021-12-07 22:53:43 RT @o_saja: We (@MSFTResearch Montreal) are looking for amazing new colleagues at different career levels including 1) postdoc & 2021-12-07 22:50:49 And I recognize this is just a pet peeve, and a lot of people I know are reading this have used this phrase recently, but I kind of hate "little is known about." Because my immediate reaction is "I bet that's not true" and then "even if it is that's really not a motivation." 2021-12-07 22:47:02 I almost always win this challenge. Do. Not. Write. This. In. Papers. Not worth the risk you’re wrong because you probably are. :) https://t.co/Mfb0B9nDvZ 2021-12-07 22:39:10 RT @BlakeleyHPayne: that CDC statistic about 300k people dying of "obesity" each year was faked 2021-12-07 22:24:21 @marylgray I’m just glad my complimentary speaker registration happened in time for me to realize you’re giving a keynote :D 2021-12-07 22:09:20 @emilymbender @rajiinio 2021-12-07 22:05:00 @rajiinio I was so glad to see you as the moderator! What a great group. :) 2021-12-07 21:56:41 Typically plenary panels are a captive audience. I'm not sure how true that is for an online conference, but I am both excited and terrified at the thought of 10k+ AI researchers at #NeurIPS2021 seeing me talk about ethics on Friday. :) https://t.co/Go9FV6DRwN 2021-12-07 17:57:03 @cynthiablee @ProfDancy I think if this sentence had implied that the position doesn't pay well (and I don't know why that would be an assumption?) that would make sense but this definitely read to me like "she couldn't get the best people." Maybe that wasn't the intention, in which case bad editing :-\ 2021-12-07 16:18:54 My department is hiring for a teaching position! https://t.co/J0h2I5vnYF 2021-12-07 16:16:48 @EvanMPeck @bkeegan @cuinfoscience It's a common term/model in the rest of our college which is mostly humanities disciplines (media studies, comm), though not (as far as I know) in CS/engineering. 2021-12-07 16:14:49 My jaw dropped when I read this. Seriously?! "Telling" is it? What on earth is it telling??? https://t.co/sFa9deAuZ6 2021-12-07 13:35:45 @adapperprof ugh I wish this were surprising 2021-12-07 13:05:40 @adapperprof I heard about a lot of universities during the pandemic incentivizing early retirement of tenured faculty in the humanities and replacing those lines with instructors or adjuncts to save money. :( 2021-12-04 14:05:38 @ProfWanda Ha thanks! I think it’s my YouTube profile photo? Unusual choice but I guess it’s fun :D 2021-12-03 18:51:01 @jennwvaughan ha maybe someone should tag everyone! 2021-12-03 18:01:43 There was a lovely moment in my lab meeting yesterday where my students informed me that I was on this list because I didn't know. :) https://t.co/Bge9vbPnGN 2021-12-03 16:56:17 @EricPSB @difrad I've done that as an assignment before too! 2021-12-03 02:18:41 @AlexandraPap Thank you so much! There were SUCH good questions. What amazing students! 2021-12-02 23:23:53 Oops I got distracted and didn't finish this thread. :) Anyway, I think this is a nice optimistic note to end on, and hopefully sends students away thinking about how they might be the ones to contribute to a positive future with technology! 2021-12-02 19:14:46 Example of algorithmic cruelty (seen on TikTok): @spotify's year-in-review highlights: "There was one podcast that lived in your head rent free all year long!" The podcast? "Eating Disorder: Navigating Recovery" 2021-12-02 18:49:41 RT @mikamckinnon: The examples of this class assignment (downthread) filled me with a bittersweet happiness for the future we might build.… 2021-12-02 18:49:08 @mikamckinnon isn't it great 2021-12-02 18:48:10 @amyjko Yes! And... I don't really understand how/why the last thing is happening in addition to the rest. :( 2021-12-02 18:41:23 Or these, from 2041: "Automation results in wage increases across the board, removing the need for the 40-hour work week" "Wealth inequality falls more than 80% since the economic reforms of the 2020’s" "Technology shifts towards providing safety, privacy and equity for society" 2021-12-02 18:39:36 Or these, from 2026: "Ride-sharing algorithms use more inclusive data that leads to safer conditions for riders" "Autonomous vehicles drastically improve facial identification" "How Meta learned from the mistakes of Facebook and kept radicalization to a minimum" 2021-12-02 18:35:46 And then they write headlines from the future the represent their ideal directions for technology. Like these, from 2022: "Congress passes sweeping legislation protecting consumer privacy online" "Following a global pandemic, more people are able to use mail-in voting" 2021-12-02 18:30:33 In small groups, students choose headlines that they came up with that represent negative outcomes, and brainstorm things that might happen between now and then to prevent what they perceive as bad futures. Sometimes these are technical, social, or regulatory solutions! 2021-12-02 18:25:26 Or these in 20 years (2041): "Servers hosting NFT’s have caused massive, irreparable damage to the environment, we could all be dead in a ball of fire by morning" "Why Social Media Requires Human Moderation on Every Post" "Nuts and Bolts: Insights into the Robot Wage Gap" 2021-12-02 18:23:39 Or these in 5 years (2026): "Autonomous vehicles are trapping minorities in cars because of algorithmic errors in facial identification" "As Haptic Virtual Reality Becomes More Sophisticated, Deepfake Revenge Porn Gets Even More Lifelike and Disgusting" 2021-12-02 18:22:06 Meanwhile, students have already imagined future news headlines. Like these in 1 year: "The Metaverse Has Been Active for 72 Hours...and User Harassment Is Already in the Forefront Again" "Mistakenly charged for thousands of groceries: Amazon grocery store misidentifies customer" 2021-12-02 18:18:55 In the last class period of the semester, I link students to that spreadsheet of recent news articles, and then have them (in a shared google doc) choose a headline about something negative, and imagine a headline where something better had happened. https://t.co/1gBSFz7fYi 2021-12-02 18:14:12 To encourage reflection on news over the course of the semester, help them connect things they've learned in class to the real world, and to encourage forward-thinking speculation, this is an assignment at the end of the class. (Though it doesn't end here!) https://t.co/wTUmMtzXOl 2021-12-02 18:11:30 As you may have already seen me tweet about, students have a weekly assignment where they provide a recent news article related to tech ethics or policy & 2021-12-02 18:09:31 The closing assignment and class for my tech ethics & 2021-12-02 14:34:37 RT @ruchowdh: They’re looking for social scientists in particular! 2021-12-02 14:34:18 RT @jovialjoy: I love the poetic Justice of my dear friend @timnitGebru launching @DAIRInstitute a year after her unconscionable firing. Y… 2021-12-02 04:13:24 dreamy postdoc job alert! https://t.co/FUL4iX5ynu 2021-12-01 20:25:41 This thread has examples of media being taken down under this policy in the kinds of circumstances that activists were expressing concern about. This was VERY fast. Has anyone seen examples of other types of content being taken down yet? https://t.co/EFtAJDfn2H 2021-12-01 18:17:04 RT @jean__hardy: In case folks missed it the first time, my department has an Associate/Full position open. We are beginning review of appl… 2021-12-01 18:15:41 @cdisalvo @djnavarro And yet... I'm just guessing... you haven't heard the opposite said. 2021-12-01 15:48:13 RT @Storythings: We commissioned @cfiesler to provide this ‘Ask an Expert’ response to the themes arising from @edpazsoldan’s ‘Robot Poet’… 2021-12-01 14:33:43 RT @shamikalashawn: Do you teach a computing/computing-related course for students in higher-education? We are PhD students researching the… 2021-11-30 20:49:22 After skimming a lot of quote-tweets, here are the two most common reactions I'm seeing to this policy: (1) ugh this is all about protecting social justice warriors and silencing conservatives (2) ugh this is all about protecting nazis and silencing activists https://t.co/HQ8N2aWLxf 2021-11-30 20:21:10 @djnavarro see also: qual vs quant research methods 2021-11-30 20:17:59 Here's a specific example from a few months ago, though I guess at least the job title was "fairness" and not "ethics" though ethics was mentioned in the posting. https://t.co/RUneKdDWCI 2021-11-30 20:15:34 @djnavarro that plus, I suspect, the idea that one type of expertise is easier to learn :-\ 2021-11-30 19:57:32 I've seen these postings too. Though I recognize that people who deeply understand both the social & 2021-11-30 18:24:45 RT @_jessiejsmith_: Do you teach a computing/computing-related course for students in higher-education? We are PhD students researching the… 2021-11-30 14:49:07 @haroldthimbleby I suppose if I gave a much smaller number of talks they would have more different content! But I don’t have THAT many different things to talk about. :) 2021-11-30 12:08:46 @haroldthimbleby I certainly don't think that including similar information in talks for slightly different audiences is disrespectful. 2021-11-30 00:29:30 @morganklauss You can get away with it for now but I’ve done 10 talks this semester. :) 2021-11-29 21:02:26 Can you seriously imagine thinking: Oh gosh now that 007 *won't* be a sexist, misogynist dinosaur who on earth will our boys emulate?! 2021-11-29 20:59:29 A lot of things about this statement are pretty ridiculous, but the idea that James Bond is a good role model for young boys is at the top of the list. https://t.co/drwFz6RX5D 2021-11-29 20:03:36 @EvanMPeck I managed to find one I vibe with enough :) 2021-11-29 19:55:17 Seriously the only way I've been able to give so many talks over the past year (I have two this week) that aren't *exactly* the same is because I can take pieces of multiple talks I've already given and patchwork them into what's appropriate for the audience. 2021-11-29 19:52:34 Actually you know what, this is great advice for PhD students too - use the same slide style/template! You *think* all your conference talks are separate. Guess what... when you need a 45-minute RESEARCH ARC job talk you're going to wish your decks didn't all look so different. 2021-11-29 19:50:31 It took me way too long to realize what a critical time saver this is. I had like 3 or 4 different slide templates that I used for talks on different topics (because I made them all from scratch anyway, so why not!), but then... I started combining the topics. 2021-11-29 19:48:53 A tip. Especially for profs but really for anyone who gives "big picture" talks that tend to draw together pieces of work that change over time: ALWAYS USE THE SAME SLIDE TEMPLATE WHEN YOU MAKE A NEW TALK. 2021-11-29 19:17:33 @BlakeleyHPayne I'm glad that at least at CU it's the whole week off. Which apparently was partly because so many students TOOK the whole week anyway. :) 2021-11-29 19:16:25 @ruthstarkman I personally would be cool with a shorter summer and longer winter break - but I think it might mess up stuff like internships. :( 2021-11-29 19:04:34 @ruthstarkman I've only been in semesters, I was wondering if quarters have the same problem :( 2021-11-29 19:00:09 I hadn't really thought about this before, but someone just pointed out the environmental impact, and... yes. Also the reason I haven't seen my family for Thanksgiving in years. I wonder what it would look like to have winter break span both holidays? 2021-11-29 18:58:58 Welcome to the end of Thanksgiving break in the U.S., in which students who flew home to see their families have now flown back to be here for ~3 weeks only to fly back home again at the end of the semester. 2021-11-29 18:16:02 sigh ok who had "decades old tweet dug up in attempts to make him look bad" on the "new Twitter CEO" bingo card 2021-11-29 16:56:00 RT @merylalper: ANOTHER great job opp here @Northeastern: We're hiring for an open-rank professor in Information Justice, with a possible a… 2021-11-29 16:47:29 @EthanZ thank you friend < 2021-11-29 16:44:53 RT @Aaron_Horowitz: We have 4 open positions on the ACLU analytics team right now, all brand new frontiers for our team based on years of e… 2021-11-29 15:50:31 RT @EvanMPeck: This is the time of year where undergrad CS departments start sending out faculty offers with *very* short response timeline… 2021-11-29 13:27:55 Though as of recently, after decades of "Walmart insulin" (an old formulation that was known to be not as effective) basically being the "generic" affordable option in the U.S., Walmart is now selling a more modern version. https://t.co/s5KcNsbbZ4 2021-11-29 13:19:19 Also the TL 2021-11-29 13:03:15 The co-inventor of insulin "felt it was unethical for a doctor to profit from a discovery that would save lives [and] sold the insulin patent to the University of Toronto for a mere $1 [so] everyone who needed their medication could afford it." https://t.co/3l3kKwjtHr 2021-11-29 03:11:28 @amye Definitely do not! 2021-11-29 03:05:24 @SR_Toliver I don't know how I don't realize by now that I will inevitably regret it! 2021-11-29 03:00:09 ... ok also I legitimately apologize for work emails I sent today in the midst of my panic. I really should do email scheduling. I just assume no one will respond until the next day but I should know as someone who can't stop from checking email that they can still be disruptive. 2021-11-29 02:56:07 @imjinnie @oldbie haha I have the opposite problem - people noticing that I sent emails at 5am :) 2021-11-29 02:25:56 @bennytheshap ::breathes into a paper bag:: 2021-11-29 02:25:27 RT @ginasue: We have a cover! Human-Centered Data Science out in early 2022 from @mitpress. https://t.co/ZdQifYdxIn https://t.co/F2zmvrDzVV 2021-11-29 02:23:12 @imjinnie I sent some. :( And I kind of feel bad about it but the thought of having a bunch of drafts sitting waiting until morning made me even more anxious. (I just assume no one will see them until tomorrow!) 2021-11-29 02:20:24 I tried to take an actual break over the break, and now reality has rushed back in multiple unpleasant ways all at once and I'm spending my Sunday night fighting off waves of anxiety and panic. I am tweeting this because I'm guessing I'm not alone. 2021-11-28 14:42:44 @melstanfill yes! :D 2021-11-28 14:34:32 This is really interesting. Though I also think that "unpaid labor for the thing you love" is incredibly common but not something that everyone understands. I'm certain that similar conversations have happened around e.g. Wikipedia editing and running fansites. https://t.co/k9o2loH4ae 2021-11-27 18:31:49 I made a video about what my job (TT prof at an R1 in the US in a STEM field) actually is that was inspired mostly by assumptions that (a) most of my job is teaching 2021-11-25 16:33:00 @amyjko Oh that’s such great news! Congrats to you and to us. :) 2021-11-25 00:48:16 @merrierm nope, not unless you otherwise meet requirements of e.g. influencer or journalist 2021-11-24 23:19:02 @DrVeronikaCH Well there are other categories! I also don’t have enough recent bylines to be a journalist. :) 2021-11-24 23:11:03 @DrVeronikaCH Yes, I apparently don't have enough followers to be an influencer heh. 2021-11-24 23:05:30 And if you're wondering why I care: (1) the vague, ill-considered notion that my credibility might be questioned moderately less often 2021-11-24 23:03:52 @DrVeronikaCH for twitter? I don't qualify for any of them. :) 2021-11-24 22:58:26 so the nice thing about verification on Twitter is that they actually (now) make the rules for how you get it pretty clear 2021-11-24 17:17:45 @pollybrocket @Kinnon_Ross But yes, Kinnon would have been a great person to highlight! 2021-11-24 17:17:09 @pollybrocket @Kinnon_Ross one of the reasons I was curious about the paper is I was wondering what and who they analyzed... I also did a google search and maybe there isn't actually a paper yet? 2021-11-24 15:15:42 RT @kzgach: The way we learn about a death matters. @big_data_kane thoughtfully explores some examples of digital legacies done well: 2021-11-24 14:31:40 @AndreaKGrover I would like to imagine that my YouTube video about this increased the quality of such emails by a small amount overall. :p 2021-11-24 14:29:14 Additional observations: (1) I have no idea how I got to be the "popular" academic tiktok account called out in this but cool! (I do not know these researchers.) (2) Really, the Thomas Watson/Jeff Bezos video??? (3) I want to read about the study but it seems there isn't a paper! 2021-11-24 14:26:10 "It’s possible to imagine a teenager finding one of Fiesler’s videos tucked between dance trends and dog tricks and questioning Facebook for the first time." Well I guess that's it, the summit of my teaching career, give me tenure right now. https://t.co/YqctnoxH40 2021-11-24 13:57:53 @jilltxt Hmm how much variance probably depends on the question but I think a lot are typical of STEM/social science. (I give a lot of "maybe not in the humanities or outside the U.S.!" caveats especially re: advisor role or funding.) 2021-11-24 13:22:29 @asbruckman I mean to be fair you have had 18 years of influence. :p (I always know exactly how long I’ve known you because when we first met you were pregnant!) 2021-11-24 12:11:36 @p1huycke I suspect the folks asking this question are n STEM fields! 2021-11-24 01:24:28 @jdfoote Yes, our university has a minimum TOEFL score. (Though I don't think this is what they were asking about!) 2021-11-23 23:40:49 @npseaver someone commented on my original video with like “how do I stay on Robert Moses hatetok” 2021-11-23 22:56:36 For the curious, the first video was actually a re-do. I made a TikTok about Robert Moses last summer that I stitched to kick off this topic - but I needed a version w/o background music (since all of this will go on YouTube eventually) and Buttigieg kindly teed up the topic. :) 2021-11-23 22:53:57 Episode 3 of my TikTok-based tech ethics & 2021-11-23 22:36:26 @reidpr I think asking people for bullet points or things to mention is fine! I get the impression that's not what people were asking about. :( 2021-11-23 21:45:13 @ashmeads2 This is more “ivy or bust” and/or “ranking matters more than research.” 2021-11-23 21:26:39 Also I always give a LOT of caveats when I answer this stuff, starting with the fact that my advice is most relevant to STEM and social science programs in the U.S. and that it's important that folks get advice from people in their discipline! 2021-11-23 21:25:41 If anymore occur to me I'll add them! These are just specific questions that come up beyond general stuff like "how do I write a statement of purpose" or "who should write my letters of rec" which I've covered in videos. 2021-11-23 21:23:33 Q: A letter writer asked me to draft the letter for them A: As long as they sign off. (I do not like this practice. It gives applicants anxiety and I *suspect* they probably write weaker letters for themselves than the recommender would.) 2021-11-23 21:19:57 Q: Is it ok if an LO is from someone who's not a professor (e.g. an employer)? A: Get the best letter writers you can! In my experience content matters most, so a lukewarm letter from a "good" letter writer won't help. Though profs often have the most relevant things to say. 2021-11-23 21:17:04 Q: What goes in a personal statement versus a statement of purpose? Can other folks give me insight on this? I didn't realize until recently some programs require both, and I'm not confident I know what should go in each. 2021-11-23 21:14:44 Q: How can I pad my CV when I have barely anything to put on it??? A: You're not even in a PhD program yet, of course there's barely anything on your CV. :) 2021-11-23 21:13:10 @HudaKhay @tslumley Oh, this is something I talk about a lot. Because timing is a common reason that applicants are rejected that has nothing to do with how strong an applicant they are. 2021-11-23 21:12:11 @JoseZagal Well that sucks. So I guess my answer becomes "I can tell you that this is not true in my department, but I understand that unfortunately this might be the case in some places and I certainly hope it's not very many." 2021-11-23 21:10:39 Q: Is it ok to mention more than one professor in my statement of purpose? A: Actually this is probably desirable! Even if you have a dream advisor it's good to think about others in the department who connect to your interests and it shows you've done your research. 2021-11-23 21:07:48 Q: Is there any point in even applying to a PhD program that isn't at an elite institution? A: 2021-11-23 21:02:15 @tslumley Oh I didn't think you were, it's actually really useful for me to hear other perspectives too because it increases my caveats when I can explain in more detail than a tweet 2021-11-23 21:00:39 @tslumley Well, this is one of those things where I tell people that my answer is only based on my experience. I personally think it shouldn't really matter but can't guarantee it won't everywhere, similar to GRE scores. :) 2021-11-23 20:55:27 @tslumley Funding is the only thing I can think of! But most of the time in the U.S. an admitted student isn't directly tied to a specific funding source at the time of application evaluation are they? 2021-11-23 20:53:51 @KevinZollman I recently discovered that our university has score minimums that individual departments can't overrule! But other than that I actually have no idea what a good score on those tests is. 2021-11-23 20:52:37 @tslumley Well I can tell you at least that NOT submitting GRE scores is a complete non-signal in our department. The problem with not taking them at all is that for some people it might make up for other weaknesses (e.g., low GPA). 2021-11-23 20:51:27 re: last tweet, do others have advice on what kinds of things are desirable vs useful vs not necessary vs harmful to mention in a PhD app when grades might be unusually low? Tragedy, disability, caretaking, other things...? 2021-11-23 20:49:32 Q: Here is a legitimate reason my GPA is lower than it might have been. Should I mention this in my statement of purpose? A: This one's tough. I think it's really individual to the situation re: when it will be helpful. Sometimes it's useful if a letter writer can speak to it. 2021-11-23 20:47:37 @tslumley Possibly, though part of the point of not requiring GRE scores is so that it doesn't disadvantage people who can't afford to take them. :( So, sure, if you're min-maxing your PhD application and can afford to take it you might as well! 2021-11-23 20:43:04 Amy was my PhD advisor https://t.co/FM7a0ZKDDD 2021-11-23 20:40:53 @jilltxt Oh yes, I'm aware that some places *require* a Masters but that would be in the requirements then so I assume they wouldn't be asking. :) And publications definitely help everywhere though I hope the experience is what's important. The last is true a lot of places inc. ours! 2021-11-23 20:38:36 Q: How are international students' applications evaluated? A: Exactly the same as everyone else's. (In my experience. This is true right?) 2021-11-23 20:36:31 @tslumley When people ask this they almost always have low scores or haven't taken the test at all. My advice on submitting GRE scores is to do so if it helps you and to not if it doesn't. NOT submitting scores should be a non-signal because you might not have taken the test. 2021-11-23 20:35:03 Q: I know you said to mention specific faculty in my statement of purpose but what if there aren't any that are relevant to my interests? A: Ummmm don't apply there? 2021-11-23 20:33:20 @DilishaBP Absolutely, though to be fair, professors also receive a LOT of emails and will occasionally just miss them which is why I say not to read too much into it. It's okay to follow up. 2021-11-23 20:32:21 Q: Will it count against me if I apply right before/at the deadline instead of months early? A: No, it's likely they don't even look at apps until after the deadline. Unless there's a note about rolling admissions. (Right? I was surprised by this question.) 2021-11-23 20:28:01 Q: If I reached out to potential advisors and didn't hear back, should I still apply to that institution? A: Probably yes! Or at least don't assume that it means anything in particular. (Profs, be aware that non-responses are being interpreted as very strong signals.) 2021-11-23 20:24:38 Q: Will it count against me if I didn't go to an "elite" undergrad institution? A: I really hope not. But I won't lie - it might make some difference, though I think that this totally inappropriate. My thoughts on this here: https://t.co/OFRrsq7Coa 2021-11-23 20:19:32 Q: Will a Masters degree make me a stronger applicant? A: Sort of/maybe. Not by virtue of having the degree, but b/c if you do you're more likely to have other strengths in your app (research experience, good letters of rec) - but you might also have these things w/o that degree. 2021-11-23 20:17:19 Q: Am I too old/too young to be admitted into a PhD program? A: Nope, irrelevant. (And especially if a program really does think you're "too old" you absolutely don't want to go there anyway.) 2021-11-23 20:15:17 Q: If GRE scores are optional for an application will it count against me if I don't submit them? A: No! (More accurately: I really, really hope not because this would be an absolutely terrible thing for admissions to do and would completely defeat the purpose.) 2021-11-23 20:13:24 Q: Is it possible to be admitted into a PhD program if I'm not an author on a published paper yet? A: Absolutely, and also this question troubles me. More of my thoughts on this here: https://t.co/5EvyOFLb4B 2021-11-23 20:11:36 Q: I have a low [GPA/GRE/amount of research experience/number of publications] A: Yes. 2021-11-23 20:10:29 Over the past year I've done at least a dozen hours of YouTube livestreams answering questions from (and providing moral support for ) #PhD applicants. This is a thread of some common Qs I get, with *my* answers also in hopes that others might have more/different answers. 2021-11-23 20:06:25 @snchancellor though editorialmanager is even worse 2021-11-23 20:05:54 @snchancellor OH MY GOD THIS 2021-11-22 15:45:08 “As I am not an expert on the analysis methods employed I will assume they were appropriate and rely on other reviewers’ expertise to evaluate them.” So yeah just strange that I see this kind of statement from reviewers for quant methods but literally never for qual. 2021-11-22 15:43:01 Yay for quant experts! Yay for qual experts! Yay for folks who are both! But the problem is that for whatever reason a lot of not-qual-experts seem to *think* they know enough to evaluate methods. You don’t HAVE to comment on methods in a paper if you don’t know enough. 2021-11-22 15:38:32 I’ve been waiting for years and I still have yet to see a reviewer say “I am not expert enough on qual methods to weigh in on the methods themselves” but still see people say this (appropriately) with respect to quant methods all the time https://t.co/zkypwpzIye 2021-11-21 19:17:27 apparently during the livestream I just did I hit 9k subscribers on YouTube I'm guessing approximately 8k of those are folks applying to PhD programs (or did last year). I'll start making more general grad school advice videos, I just haven't had the bandwidth lately! 2021-11-20 18:14:32 @amyjko @helena_mentis @everjay @mara__kr I’m looking forward to these and seeing more of your students’ work. :) Great talk, too! 2021-11-19 21:34:43 @adapperprof @kleenestar My spreadsheet also is inspired by this, which was in part about tracking/celebrating lots of stages of writing beyond submission! But yay for wins. :) https://t.co/p2hbYpYyBN 2021-11-19 20:04:13 Just saw @amyjko give a talk, and I am very excited to read two papers she briefly mentioned that are going to be at #sigcse2022. Based on last year (+ ICER too) I think we're going to see more and more work centering justice, ethics and related concepts in CS education research. 2021-11-18 23:56:13 I'm actually really glad that I'm teaching Online Communities next semester instead of my ethics class. I really need to spend some time thinking and talking about how the internet is awesome, too. I critique because I love. < 2021-11-18 23:49:58 I just did a local news interview about Instagram and young people (because of this: https://t.co/awvFPMflzT) that had a LOT of "well but" and "this is complicated" and "let's talk about how social media can be really good too" and I really hope that stuff actually makes it in. 2021-11-18 21:25:17 @DilishaBP I actually don't think that formal ethics approval is what's important! But this document under the "Research, Ethics, and Power" section has a lot of citations related to research ethics. .https://t.co/l0v7LX9HNo 2021-11-18 13:57:34 @docrod2008 haha virtually 2021-11-18 13:56:58 @NataniaBarron Oooh you know what she might like if she hasn't read them yet - the Girls Who Code books have big babysitters club vibes and (eventually) a queer main character. 2021-11-18 13:53:50 @NataniaBarron Yay! I like it too. :) 2021-11-18 13:50:52 @NataniaBarron BABYSITTERS CLUB 2021-11-18 13:50:36 @piva_jonas haha well giving a talk across the world right now isn’t that different than giving a talk across the street :p 2021-11-18 13:33:57 I don't think that pre-pandemic I'd given a single international talk outside the context of a conference. But now I've been in India, Scotland, Portugal, Canada... Anyway, at 8am MT I'm going to be giving a talk in Stockholm and then done in time to teach my class at 9:30. 2021-11-18 13:22:07 @RaphaelWimmer @Michael_Levet CSCW started R& 2021-11-18 13:19:12 @burnettmmosu But as I said, if CHI doesn't want to make changes that would make R& 2021-11-18 13:16:11 @burnettmmosu I do think that there could be an argument for conference publications being something different! But right now they're largely stood up as "journal equivalent" publications where the quality *should* be just as high. And I know some CS folks who *never* publish in journals. 2021-11-18 03:13:53 @marztl @kizzie094 Good luck to you both! 2021-11-18 02:46:27 @jengolbeck @SparklingBlue One would think but this video TANKED haha. 2021-11-17 18:47:55 @StevenHouben @jwnichls R& 2021-11-17 18:03:03 @Michael_Levet CSCW has had R& 2021-11-17 18:01:15 @jwnichls @StevenHouben Yes I actually think that R& 2021-11-17 17:59:44 @StevenHouben @jwnichls CSCW has had R& 2021-11-17 15:54:01 And if you know anyone working towards a PhD application deadline... I'm not sure how helpful binge-watching is, but here's my playlist with hours of just me without Taylor Swift. Also doing a livestream this Sunday to try to help with the final push. :) https://t.co/ly6YGHspk7 2021-11-17 15:51:42 @nabicyy haha well I didn't make the sound so I didn't get to pick the songs 2021-11-17 15:39:40 So ugh I kind of hate to say this but I guess my opinion is that if for whatever reasons CHI can't handle a real revision process with a lot of re-reviews and/or can't raise acceptance rates, then R& 2021-11-17 15:36:25 And I already ranted about acceptance rates, but if not-good-enough-papers can become good with revision, then acceptance rates SHOULD go up. If that's not the desired outcome then what is the point of R& 2021-11-17 15:35:17 I know a lot of people will disagree with me on (1) but the truth is that most good papers can become great with some revision, and that many bad papers can become good with a lot of revision. If neither of those things is the desired outcome then what is the point of R& 2021-11-17 15:32:56 I'm concerned that unhappiness around #CHI2022 decisions might convince folks that R& (1) More papers are R& (2) No target acceptance rates. 2021-11-17 14:46:02 @michaelzimmer The deal is lack of a real revision process plus acceptance rates. 2021-11-17 14:37:51 Me one year ago: Maybe if make a couple of YouTube videos about PhD admissions it will help a few people. Me today: Hmmm which of these Taylor Swift lyrics best maps to my advice about statements of purpose… https://t.co/eXZQkjtunu 2021-11-17 14:20:18 @carlagriggio @scyrusk I believe that my SC split had the most R& 2021-11-17 12:05:43 @adapperprof @jeffbigham @scyrusk @NElmqvist @gingdottwit That one is probably just me being paranoid. :) 2021-11-16 21:15:09 RT @aaronclauset: This semester in my graduate network science course, I've added a week on "Ethics in networks". I've drafted some lecture… 2021-11-16 16:57:36 @NElmqvist @GarrethTigwell @jeffbigham @scyrusk @gingdottwit @acm_chi AFAIK thinking that you know who the authors are doesn't make it a conflict unless it IS a conflict, in which case, step down. :) On the other side if you ARE conflicted but you don't realize it b/c you don't know who the authors are, then in theory it's not actually a conflict. 2021-11-16 16:44:01 @GarrethTigwell @jeffbigham @scyrusk @NElmqvist @gingdottwit The problem is that if we try to keep so rigorously to anomymization it means that we can never share any work in progress ever - no tweets, no talks, etc. And in some fields it's totally standard to post pre-prints too. 2021-11-16 15:49:25 @jeffbigham @scyrusk @NElmqvist @gingdottwit They do, but external reviewers don't, and R& (Though I personally think that it isn't that big of a deal since so much of the time you know who writes what anyway.) 2021-11-16 15:47:59 @scyrusk @NElmqvist @gingdottwit I was mostly concerned about R& My comment about ME not tweeting about accepts at least until after seeing reviews is just my personal paranoia. :) 2021-11-16 15:08:09 OMG YAY the number of times I've been reading something and then POOF! gone and I have no idea who tweeted it and so I try to remember a phrase from it to put in the search bar and... https://t.co/AIwZhkQXvX 2021-11-16 14:00:56 @gingdottwit @benjgorman Like what if the “minor revision” even is something they don’t want to do? 2021-11-16 13:59:56 @gingdottwit @benjgorman My original point re:timing is that there might be people feeling way more confident about tweeting now than after they get reviews. 2021-11-16 13:58:14 @gingdottwit @benjgorman Oh sorry missed the point about anonymity. Anonymity is mostly an illusion anyway. :) But no, there’s no rules about tweeting at ANY point nor imho should there be. 2021-11-16 13:56:51 @gingdottwit @benjgorman I don’t think the conference cares (why would they?) but it seems like it would be unfortunate for the author if the paper is then rejected. *Especially* if it was conditional accept. But also the messaging around R& 2021-11-16 13:38:00 @gingdottwit I’m more concerned about this than I have been before because I see people tweeting about R& 2021-11-16 03:03:14 your periodic reminder that even tenured professors get rejections and, as Professor Rogers says, "often out of periods of losing come the greatest striving toward a new winning streak" #chii2022 https://t.co/xqYwdzZOfe 2021-11-15 16:43:33 @olmaverick @coletteperold wait is this the "give me a W!" cheer or something even worse? 2021-11-15 16:42:29 Or as @arstechnica said: There is no god but IBM, and T. J. Watson is his prophet. :) https://t.co/UJSW8yEgYC 2021-11-15 16:41:20 "None can match him or our great company. T. J. Watson, we all honor you, You're so big and so square and so true, We will follow and serve with you forever, All the world must know what I. B. M. can do." Elon Musk who, this was the true cult of tech CEO personality. 2021-11-15 16:37:55 A few weeks ago @coletteperold spoke to our department and mentioned the 1930s IBM songbook featuring “the soul of our splendid IBM” Thomas Watson and I couldn’t help but think of our most recent tech CEO anthem from Bo Burnham. https://t.co/Q5ewTVspHd 2021-11-15 15:46:44 @McEwanInComm @elipariser Wow, NSF's system did something weird to the formatting there! This should be easier to read: https://t.co/DFj83zVm3m There's also some work led by Motahhare Eslami that might be helpful, some of it is cited here. 2021-11-15 12:26:54 just be careful because if you ever want to escape from your research vision you have to go on a quest to find the ring again and then throw it into the mountain https://t.co/LupVloy3d2 2021-11-14 17:47:45 @gingdottwit @ruthef Excellent choice. :D 2021-11-14 16:18:58 @chrisamaphone Same! 2021-11-14 14:30:23 Our governor posted on Facebook about Britney Spears and how adults should be free to make their own decisions and 90% of the comments are WHY DO I HAVE TO GET VACCINATED THEN like it's some big gotcha. 2021-11-13 21:34:50 @ruthef OMG I cannot wait to smush her with love 2021-11-13 19:44:36 @piva_jonas @ruthef YEAR THREE lol. I am very bad at fishing. :) 2021-11-13 18:32:55 @piva_jonas @ruthef I'm thisclose to unlocking the community center :) 2021-11-13 18:32:27 @julzbullard omg I love DA so much 2021-11-13 18:32:08 @chrisamaphone Yay! Excellent choice. 2021-11-13 18:31:52 @foughfibre @ruthef I don't mind watching movies in my living room at this point :) 2021-11-12 23:59:15 @annaeveryday @marika_louise @WeAreAllWell @toniasutherland This is such a great framing! 2021-11-12 23:57:23 This this this! Though some days it make me really happy and some days it makes me want to weep. https://t.co/96XAVXnYvs 2021-11-12 23:21:14 @williamstome @blackoni I might also be playing D& 2021-11-12 23:19:22 RT @blakereid: Fantastic articulation of the discriminatory results when someone doesn’t add alt text to an image or GIF (and a good aside… 2021-11-12 23:17:53 I really love thought experiments about how we could re-imagine peer review/publishing since it's clearly not quite working as intended. https://t.co/TN9BUNvLaF 2021-11-12 23:14:08 Hi everyone! What thing are YOU going to do that is not work this weekend??? I am going to pay too much to watch the new James Bond movie not in a theater full of people, meet @ruthef's new kitten, and probably play some Stardew Valley. 2021-11-12 23:11:11 @alexleavitt I literally googled "input-transparent algorithm" expecting it to mean something. 2021-11-12 23:07:58 @alexleavitt I think this suffers from not solving the right problem, though I also don't think it will actually DO anything. 2021-11-12 22:44:19 I have more thoughts about the "Filter Bubble Transparency Act" (mostly "meh will this actually do anything") but this piece ended up with my off-the-cuff musings about filter bubbles and confirmation bias. https://t.co/4Z7Ylj3GJo 2021-11-12 21:39:23 @MyOwnVelouria Sometimes I knit! 2021-11-12 21:11:22 @_JimWallace I just hope that acceptance rate targets don't undermine this. :) 2021-11-12 21:09:51 @_JimWallace For what it's worth in my SC there are definitely papers in the "this wouldn't have been accepted normally but we hope they can pull it off in an R& 2021-11-12 20:16:21 @_JimWallace This is just my personal speculation, I have no idea what their reasoning actually was. :) (Though I think "they" here is not the EC, as far as I know they don't have decision making power over stuff like this for CHI the conference. Maybe CHI steering committee?) 2021-11-12 20:15:02 @_JimWallace Again, I think target acceptance rates undermine this, but R& 2021-11-12 20:13:32 @_JimWallace Hmmmm I'm not sure I get this. Why would R& 2021-11-12 19:38:41 @DrMichaelAnn people keep asking me if I have a podcast and I'm like seriously you think I should do another thing? 2021-11-12 18:31:42 @naz_andalibi I have no idea how to do this better haha. But I did have undergrad students in my online communities class read your blog post about the testing waters paper. (THIS is why I wish more people would blog! So good for exposing undergrads to work because you can assign more.) 2021-11-12 16:00:56 And in case you’re on TikTok here’s how to turn this feature off so as not to risk a potential privacy disaster. Also my rant about default settings. :) https://t.co/PS46LQI7X0 2021-11-12 15:56:43 I made a TikTok about the issue in this @wired article a few months ago, and heard stories in the comments from people who had been ACTUALLY harmed by this feature. TL 2021-11-12 15:02:56 @Noleli @hypervisible @jengolbeck Ha! Yes, I made video about this a few months ago. :) (And a follow-up where I showed people how to turn it off.) https://t.co/AmAWp3Th92 2021-11-11 18:34:05 @smunson EXCELLENT point. :) 2021-11-11 17:42:27 @kirkpams @amyjko AIES (AI ethics & 2021-11-11 15:08:04 @AndreaKGrover @informor @haldaume3 meanwhile, in dealing with GROUP, the venue is set so instead of having to do guesswork and calculus we just bite our nails hoping enough people come so that we don't go bankrupt :) (I don't think the opposite problem has ever been a danger but who knows.) 2021-11-11 15:06:08 @AndreaKGrover @informor @haldaume3 Yeah I mean I know people might disagree with me on this, but it seems pretty obvious to me that publishing good work is more important than the length of presentations. 2021-11-11 14:53:52 @AndreaKGrover @informor @haldaume3 So it is about room capacity? That makes more sense to me than time for presentations. Though it seems as if there'd be a lot more wiggle room there, particularly considering that a lot of people have more than one paper or come to the conference regardless of paper acceptance. 2021-11-11 14:48:53 @scyrusk I am but our first meeting is this afternoon so I have no useful insight. :) But I think the problem with the acceptance rate re: CHI is that R& 2021-11-11 14:44:45 @scyrusk But are they also being encouraged to send more borderline papers to R& 2021-11-11 14:42:50 @eegilbert also watch this tweet thread come back to bite me when I'm GC of CSCW 2023. like suddenly we have 900 accepted papers. 2021-11-11 14:41:37 @eegilbert I do remember the people being mad about it! But as I recall it's based on "but it will make us seem like we're not rigorous!" which I think is a totally invalid argument. :) 2021-11-11 14:38:41 @eegilbert I just like to remind people that CSCW's acceptance rate went up by > (I mean as far as I know.) 2021-11-11 14:31:06 @WendyNorris do you mean, how has the fact that more papers that ever are being submitted because we can't stop bean counting impacted acceptance rates? 2021-11-11 14:29:35 @AndreaKGrover @bkeegan @bennytheshap hahaha I would assume so, I'm basing this on having heard one person at a registration desk expressing dismay :) 2021-11-11 14:28:46 @AndreaKGrover @informor @haldaume3 But is this because of an idea that more people will come to the conference and there's a room capacity issue OR is it based on an arbitrary decision about how long presentations should be? 2021-11-11 14:27:22 @eegilbert it's AMAZING how quickly papers can become not good enough but out of curiosity, was there seriously not any discussion of "oh what if presentations were 15 minutes instead of 20 minutes"? 2021-11-11 14:26:25 @eegilbert @syardi can my alt.chi paper about publishing just be a collection of angry tweets? 2021-11-11 14:24:25 @mdekstrand yeeeeeah great point :( 2021-11-11 13:45:02 @bkeegan I'm putting attendance on a blockchain. 2021-11-11 13:43:29 @informor @haldaume3 Haha no a better way to word that would be "were there other issues" :) The only one I remember hearing about was "this hurt my tenure case" but I was just guessing there might have been issues with e.g. having to add more parallel tracks? 2021-11-11 13:41:15 @EstelleSmithPhD @josephseering @bennytheshap hahahaha I mean I know that I could do something about this (i.e. get help) but it's seemed low priority since I don't actually print things much :) 2021-11-11 13:38:12 @bkeegan @bennytheshap hahahaha omg I forgot about that there were some people who were really mad about not getting USB sticks though ... I might still have a couple somewhere. 2021-11-11 13:37:20 I feel so bad that moving back to in-person classes means I can't just let everyone in off the wait list. :( Darn physical space! 2021-11-11 13:32:14 @EstelleSmithPhD @josephseering @bennytheshap wait does this mean that maybe you know how to use the printer by our offices and if so can you show me 2021-11-11 13:11:35 @dr_tj Make presentations 15 minutes instead of 20 minutes. :) (With a caveat that if it's EXTREME maybe there are room capacity issues but that seems unlikely.) 2021-11-11 13:10:32 And I have heard from some people in CS departments that CSCW's acceptance rates rising (appropriately) due to a revision process that resulted in better work (good for everyone! ) did indeed cause problems. Which just goes to show we're measuring the wrong thing. 2021-11-11 13:07:45 @mariawolters The issue with CHI this year is that a revise-and-resubmit should raise acceptance rates (since borderline papers can become acceptable with revision) but it's not. 2021-11-11 13:01:55 @informor @haldaume3 I don't suppose you remember what problems (beyond people having to fight with tenure committees to prove it's a rigorous venue) were caused by CSCW's acceptance rate rising? 2021-11-11 13:00:46 My understanding is that a compelling reason for forcing low acceptance rates is that some departments don't "count" papers unless they're under some threshold. If so then that's where the problem starts, and is even worse. STOP USING MEANINGLESS METRICS 2021-11-11 12:54:47 @RaphaelWimmer Actually I'm pretty sure this IS a common view though I'm also curious. I brought this up in a reply elsewhere in this thread but I think I'll add on. :) But my opinion is that this is also ridiculous, and then is part of the cause for the other ridiculousness... 2021-11-11 12:53:02 @LewisChuang I've also heard that subcommittees get scolded for accepting too many papers. 2021-11-11 12:52:10 @haldaume3 This is my sense, that it wouldn't be a *significant* change. Most papers are in the "not good enough" category. That said, it could/should be a bigger change with a revise-and-resubmit process. 2021-11-11 12:50:26 @mapq Wouldn't that be a bigger problem with not *enough* papers as opposed to too many though? Could it make enough difference that like the size of the hotel would come into play? CSCW jumped to a 35% acceptance rate after R& 2021-11-11 04:26:48 @williamstome @amyjko I mean the other historical reason I know is that some departments won't "count" publication venues unless they have some threshold of low acceptance rate. Which I think is ridiculous. So ridiculous begets ridiculous. :) 2021-11-11 04:03:02 @bennytheshap what is paper 2021-11-11 04:01:31 To be clear, my utmost sympathy and admiration for everyone running the beast that is CHI. I recognize that there are historical reasons and probably logistical reasons for target acceptance rates, but I still think they are counter-productive to the goal of good scholarship. :) 2021-11-11 03:58:13 @amyjko re: track constraints! I'm sure that CHI has a "only so many papers can be presented because times and rooms" issue but if that's the case, couldn't we just have 10 minute presentations? 2021-11-11 03:55:15 Why be coy, this is a #CHI2022 subtweet. :) 2021-11-11 03:53:34 Acceptance rates are stupid. Good work should be published and not-good-enough work should be rejected. And if you're lucky enough to get a lot of good work why would you reject it? 2021-11-10 18:45:40 @StaceyLantagne I basically had no in-person friends in law school in part for this reason. And I also think that maybe like... I had trouble finding my kind of people among law students and had no idea how to meet anyone else. But I had a very rich online life, I wrote a lot of fanfiction. :) 2021-11-09 23:36:09 @eyer0h but also you'd have to work a tech job :) 2021-11-09 23:04:47 academic service is rewarding and important and your effort is appreciated by others academic service is rewarding and important and your effort is appreciated by others academic service is rewarding and important and your effort is appreciated by others academic service is 2021-11-09 16:07:15 This just came up in my Facebook memories, and made me smile. This was the first class I'd ever taught as instructor of record - it was one of the moments that solidified that I wanted to be a professor. https://t.co/1pMnwkHgNF 2021-11-09 14:08:26 @ipetrella I have! I tend to be careful to present this as a story told by, to make the point which is a very good one regardless. But Buttigieg's critiques were definitely not basing it on this. :-p 2021-11-09 12:49:48 (The tiktok was this past summer, and it got over 100k views, so I'm pleased to have done my small part to bring STS to the masses.) 2021-11-09 12:33:22 I made a tiktok about the bridges in NYC (because I've only read "do artifacts have politics?" like 20 times) and was pleasantly surprised by how many people knew about it already. But based on how many seem to think Buttigieg was making stuff up this is not broadly the case. https://t.co/IK99b1vaTB 2021-11-09 03:08:30 RT @GuhaShion: New Funded PhD Student Announcement I am growing my research program @UofTInfoFaculty and am interested in taking 2 ful… 2021-11-08 21:10:12 Another tweet for the new week! We're holding an information session about our PhD program and the application process this Thursday. Information available at the top of this page: https://t.co/kY13tr9VBe 2021-11-08 16:23:43 Also in case you were curious how folks are reacting to putting Reddit on a blockchain, I performed a brief thematic analysis of the replies to and quote-tweets of this thread. Here are the results: https://t.co/tO8RYPG08W 2021-11-08 13:48:55 I am a professor who studies online governance and I am baffled by most of this thread. Which makes me think that the average reddit user browsing pictures of cats is not going to be super pumped about being onboarded onto crypto. https://t.co/Gfyrr2okBB 2021-11-07 18:49:29 @bcjanmay @amy_tabb my video: https://t.co/mdG2mdovsl 2021-11-06 23:20:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-11-06 19:50:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-11-01 19:20:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-11-01 17:30:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-10-14 18:26:22 This is a really really good point. https://t.co/SGFvkTecER 2021-10-14 18:22:07 It took me a while to figure out what to do for this TikTok trend and then suddenly it came to me If it looks like phrenology and quacks like phrenology… https://t.co/0AS2ExuC3X 2021-10-14 17:31:00 RT @naz_andalibi: I will be recruiting PhD students this cycle to join my research group .@umsi. I am particularly interested in applican… 2021-10-14 17:13:22 I hope this makes it into my course evaluations at the end of the semester. :) Also it was "speculative regulation about robots in black mirror" day so I wan't going to skip that! 2021-10-14 17:10:54 Can I get some internet points for rushing down the street to a Starbucks to finish the last half of class in the cold when my home internet cut out during my remote class? :) #YesProfsCareAboutTeaching https://t.co/3F991Zhf3n 2021-10-14 15:31:54 I am, as a reminder, not the keeper of PhD application wisdom- getting advice from people in your field is important. But I have a platform and like to try to help - I'm doing another livestream on Sunday, feel free to pass on to folks who might benefit. https://t.co/oicPi5tX8d 2021-10-14 15:28:24 @ntnsndr @shamikalashawn @ghost_knowledge 2021-10-14 14:45:05 @ncweaver ha excellent question but I definitely think the movie would not have done as well if that was the title :) 2021-10-14 13:49:01 I actually did watch the entire trailer and then nearly choked on my coffee laughing. (Yes, I know it’s the title of a short story. There’s a reason Blade Runner didn’t keep the story title. It’s allowed.) https://t.co/Ttm5XpPI5Y 2021-10-14 13:41:03 @ryanlepic Thanks for the example! You might like this: https://t.co/BcxpDzMk1Y 2021-10-13 18:23:58 @enwillis Spring was the first time I taught it so it's going to get some overhaul but here's kind of the syllabus! https://t.co/CblfNavP6U 2021-10-13 17:53:08 I just found out that my (in person) online communities class next semester is at 8am and I'm thinking I'm not going to have to deal with a long waitlist like I did this semester haha. 2021-10-13 17:00:10 You know what would be AWESOME? If internet researchers wrote about ethical decisions in their papers! Ideally beyond just “the data was public.” :) #aoir2021 https://t.co/pTTP6er2hJ 2021-10-13 16:43:13 @mmitchell_ai oh wow this is an exceptionally flattering tweet, thank you < 2021-10-13 12:33:53 @LeppasJari Ha well spotted. They’re separate text blocks so I probably retyped it from memory. 2021-10-13 00:36:46 WOW. https://t.co/44x6lNdLfZ 2021-10-12 23:11:03 Internet researchers! I have a research ethics quiz for you. How’d you do? #aoir2021 #WhoWantsToBeAnEthicalResearchet https://t.co/CQmgK50XGx 2021-10-12 21:16:26 This is happening in 45 minutes! And I love live-tweeting as long as you're reasonably nice. 2021-10-12 16:30:37 @cynthiablee I mean tbh that sounds fun haha 2021-10-12 13:50:40 @reidpr Nice job! :D 2021-10-12 13:36:47 Also consider this tiktok as a trailer for our #aoir2021 presentation about ethical considerations for using Reddit data. It also features @michaelzimmer giving actual details about the work. :) https://t.co/knYCo7zHn9 2021-10-12 13:34:49 “But the data is public.” I made this tiktok to sum up the major problem with common ethical heuristics for research using public data like tweets or Reddit posts. (And common frustrations in talking to some researchers about it.) #aoir2021 https://t.co/zSLMjZbvhF 2021-10-12 13:08:39 @helena_mentis For me I was considering doing a *different* job during sabbatical, which is what I'm rethinking. And part of the reason being that I'm realizing the same thing re: other commitments. 2021-10-12 13:07:53 To clarify, my thought process isn't about doing nothing, it's about not doing a different job. I've been considering spending my sabbatical working in policy or industry. 2021-10-12 01:02:43 burned-out me, suddenly like: what... what would it look like to... actually take a sabbatical. like not work during it. does anyone do that? 2021-10-11 19:02:46 It's amazing how many people who had absolutely no idea who Jonathan Kent was until today have very strong opinions about his sexual orientation. Also if Dean Cain is on FOX News talking about this I'm going to lose my mind. https://t.co/Mc6yFlHbQj 2021-10-11 18:04:32 RT @michaelzimmer: Really excited to share with #AoIR2021 our work on "Addressing Ethics in Reddit Research: A Systematic Review" by @cfies… 2021-10-11 15:46:10 RT @EthanZ: Hope and Joy: The defenses of two remarkable doctoral students get me thinking about teaching, technology and strategies to cha… 2021-10-11 15:45:43 RT @schock: Are you an AI auditor, researcher, or regulator? If so, @AJLUnited wants to hear from you! Your thoughts on barriers and best p… 2021-10-11 15:06:12 Years ago I wrote this thing about how the subreddit for Serial reminded me of Game of Thrones subreddits. :) https://t.co/YGyFYWCqGs 2021-10-11 14:55:50 Did you all hear about #CouchGuy on TikTok? I talked to Insider about how all the attention and speculation reminded me of like true crime subreddits or Game of Thrones fan theories. And also a bit about virality and imagined audiences on social media. https://t.co/RXjYuHfVx3 2021-10-11 14:21:44 @michaelzimmer @mitpress @DavidNemer I recently mentioned this book to someone on TikTok who told me I should visit Brazil :) 2021-10-11 13:46:54 @farbandish No idea if UW does this but recently discovered our library just has a big pot of OA funds and when we asked they just paid one of these. 2021-10-10 22:07:09 You’ll find links to all the videos (including from past topics!) and a LOT of readings along with discussion questions here: https://t.co/B4eInkmVHg 2021-10-10 22:04:37 Here are all of the videos for the second topic of my highly (highly!) condensed TikTok-based tech ethics & 2021-10-09 15:40:42 in anticipation of my class next week beginning discussion of AI I just finished replaying Universal Paperclips https://t.co/il9Uc1yYev https://t.co/b3VIOySZdy 2021-10-08 20:03:57 @DrVeronikaCH Buffy vs Edward, one of my fav fair use examples https://t.co/t6zkwlHBnX 2021-10-08 19:58:08 I just glanced at the slides for my job talk for the first time in a long time and I totally forgot it had activity theory triangles all over it. https://t.co/f6yrMnT6Cs 2021-10-08 19:55:45 @BriannaDym let me know what you think of my tiktoks :-p 2021-10-07 17:24:42 This is a public event! A new version of a talk I’ve given before. Slightly different set of lessons. :) https://t.co/mfTehgXwcl 2021-10-07 04:16:29 https://t.co/BAEFYv8ryB 2021-10-06 22:19:14 @reganmandryk SAME. 2021-10-06 22:18:48 @snchancellor @winteram sounds like something we should catch up on :) 2021-10-06 19:25:58 @thesickish OH! Sorry I lost the order of the thread. :D Here you are! https://t.co/bXTig8PUo0 2021-10-06 19:11:31 RT @KOAColorado: Oversight, ethics concerns with @Facebook and how it manages it's content and platform after a #Whistleblower's revelation… 2021-10-06 16:26:39 @thesickish It will exist eventually! :D 2021-10-06 15:59:22 @mdekstrand oh that's a good example of industry research too, thanks! 2021-10-06 15:58:42 @thesickish oh actually this is great! ha last year I published a paper that someone could cite for this statement if they wanted to. :) 2021-10-06 15:57:50 @jessie_fin @alliecmorgan @aaronclauset @DanLarremore @laberge_nick oh that's a great example actually, thanks! 2021-10-06 15:45:52 @LibSkrat Oh this is helpful because the reason I’m asking is because I’m trying to create resources on how to do this! 2021-10-06 15:44:55 Also in exchange for the help I will share the curriculum I’m creating for CS students on how to write about ethics in papers. :) 2021-10-06 15:40:21 I would actually especially love good examples of broader impacts statements in NeurIPS papers or similar! Help? #neurips #NeurIPS2021 2021-10-06 15:37:01 @LibSkrat So what I’m more looking for is papers that aren’t at all about ethics but talk about the ethics of the work they describe, if that makes sense? 2021-10-06 15:33:45 @pollybrocket Thanks! 2021-10-06 15:33:23 @mortenbay I’m looking for papers that discuss the ethics of themselves, if that makes sense? 2021-10-06 15:32:25 @scyrusk I love this :) 2021-10-06 15:30:42 Clarification: I’m not looking for papers ABOUT research ethics (though you’re welcome to share if you like :) ) 2021-10-06 15:21:08 Hey computing academics! What are you favorite examples of ethical considerations/discussions in published papers? e.g. research ethics, broader impacts. Please share papers! I would love examples from a range of subfields. 2021-10-06 13:32:33 @bustadem @AprilZesbaugh @KOAColorado https://t.co/tdlBhozJEy :) 2021-10-06 13:25:52 I just had the epiphany that volunteer professional service might be the most stressful part of my job. 2021-10-06 12:37:36 @cobun @KOAColorado Hey thanks for listening, I'm glad it was ok! :) 2021-10-06 12:16:40 Is anyone in Colorado awake? I'm going to be on @KOAColorado in about ten minutes. :) 2021-10-06 02:13:51 someone asked me today if social media has made the world better or worse the answer is yes 2021-10-05 22:55:09 @merrierm https://t.co/tmEJ3CiEeQ 2021-10-05 22:52:19 I was born and raised in Georgia and my entire family is there, and I'm honestly not sure I'd take a job at a university in Georgia right now. https://t.co/FqCIKKpAl0 2021-10-05 17:43:55 @g33kyTweets This is so cool! Is it updating automatically based on additions to the google sheet AND stuff that's added manually here? 2021-10-05 13:53:51 To clarify, this is not a dig on philosophy. I hope they take a philosophy class too, but it’s just a different subject. Like “I thought this class was going to be history but actually it’s mythology and now I like mythology” doesn’t mean you might not like history too :) 2021-10-05 13:21:23 (paraphrased) comment from a student in my class: "I really wasn't excited about this class because I thought ethics just meant like philosophy but now I see there are actually a lot of important ethical issues related to the tech." 2021-10-04 22:36:05 this was my favorite commentary on the facebook outage https://t.co/VfV0kVmYxD 2021-10-04 22:35:19 though I'm personally glad that facebook was back up just in time for me to tell everyone that I'm about to do a local news interview about facebook being down 2021-10-04 22:34:05 This is 100% not intended as a conspiracy theory, but rather a statement on news coverage: it's kind of wild that if you do a google news search for "facebook" right now it's all about a 6-hour outage and not about other things that might be newsworthy. 2021-10-04 19:09:45 @iliasbartolini Yes absolutely. 2021-10-04 16:07:05 @niloufar_s 2021-10-04 15:49:24 Also as others have pointed out in this thread, ethical/unethical is not actually a particularly useful dichotomy here. I was over-simplifying in response to an over-simplification. But I don't think any of this is simple. :( 2021-10-04 15:47:07 That said, I also totally think that the threat of losing good talent can be part of the business case for good ethical practice at any company. Though I also worry about how privilege gets wrapped up in that re: who can quit a job or not take a job or have options for jobs. 2021-10-04 15:45:19 @rsoden_ I don't think it's very useful at all 2021-10-04 15:44:43 @saqibm128 @niloufar_s Actually it seems like (1) would be the way to burn it down. :) 2021-10-04 15:43:56 @Birdbassador (1) seems more based on job titles than individuals, but yes I'm sure there's no small amount of ethics washing :( 2021-10-04 15:41:54 @smithaprasadh this whole tweet is literally how I've been trying to change ethics education in computer science :) though as for classification, no idea... I think the original premise of the complaints is too simplistic for this reason 2021-10-04 15:38:08 Also to clarify my point here: This isn't to suggest that people who care about ethics should work at or stay at Facebook, or not. It's just that it seems counter-productive to suggest overly simplistically that a good strategy is for the company to be full of unethical people. 2021-10-04 15:35:13 @niloufar_s @saqibm128 The second point I hadn't thought of! The first seems like it's more about actions/practices/titles than individuals though. Like, hiring someone in a high profile position with "ethics" in the title: yes, absolutely. Ethics washing. 2021-10-04 15:33:16 @blakereid There's a definite possibility that practices or individuals at facebook are in violation of the ACM Code of Ethics. Though since there isn't a licensing body that arguably doesn't really mean much. 2021-10-04 15:31:55 @niloufar_s I agree. Which is why I think it's an overly simplistic question/statement, too. 2021-10-04 15:07:54 By the way, an active part of my research agenda right now (I have an IRB protocol in front of me for an amazing student's honor thesis) is whether and how the ethical reputation of a tech company impacts people taking jobs there. 2021-10-04 15:05:44 @IanBellomy All I can say is that I know people who work at Facebook and are trying to do good. Whether they are ABLE to do good there is a completely different issue, but having no one trying at all does not seem like it would be better. 2021-10-04 14:08:12 @saqibm128 I'm not sure I understand this argument. How does the existence of individual employees who care about ethics in any way impact whether they're regulated by the government? 2021-10-04 13:33:49 But to Joan's point, how can the people who work at Facebook and have integrity and are thinking about how to make the platform better, be heard over those who mostly care about profit? That is the big question. :( 2021-10-04 13:32:10 Something I hear a lot is "how could ethical people possibly work at Facebook?" Here are three options: (1) Facebook ceases to exist (2) Ethical people work at Facebook (3) Only unethical people work at Facebook Unless (1) happens, I personally would rather see (2) than (3). https://t.co/lhlX1Uo4Wc 2021-10-04 13:14:23 Over the past three years, students in my tech ethics and policy class have collectively provided 1000+ news articles as a weekly assignment. I got curious, and... here's a simple word frequency cloud based on the headlines. https://t.co/ksFizZ8Pvi https://t.co/o7rxqBjQX5 2021-10-02 00:25:35 @laura4lano 2021-10-01 21:47:52 @kleenestar mostly by not being mad at me when I drop balls :) 2021-10-01 21:30:08 I really hate performative overwork in academia, but I occasionally I have to just publicly admit in a "you're not alone" kind of way or maybe as a "I'm sorry if I owe you an email" heads up, but y'all I am DROWNING. 2021-09-30 23:23:20 @bennytheshap LOL very kind 2021-09-30 23:15:17 So my superpower is... I am really really good at finding appropriate reviewers for papers. I am a little afraid to tweet this because I do not want to be on every program committee ever, but also. Superpower. (Yes, I'm a #CHI2022 AC.) 2021-09-30 13:04:49 This just came up in my memories on Facebook and based on the timing it must have been my AO3 feminist HCI paper. And now I'm thinking... what possibly amazing findings/information did the world lose because of arbitrary page limits? I certainly don't remember. :) https://t.co/8Yb44FZtQ1 2021-09-29 15:26:24 Anyone interested in "playtesting" some ethics/security-related intro programming assignments and giving us some feedback? They're in python! If interested DM me your email address. 2021-09-29 15:23:52 updated recent #TechEthicsInTheNews feat. Facebook Facebook Facebook (more on the WSJ reports, a pause on Instagram for kids, image control, etc.), China & 2021-09-29 15:17:10 @geekygirlsarah Hi! 2021-09-28 20:04:17 Here is a link to the full paper, which also takes a historical perspective, comparing Black Twitter to the Green Book (which we unpack even more in a different forthcoming paper!). Additional co-authors @sendgoodcheers @kalyn_mccall and @littlejoydale. https://t.co/KWLWLba80W 2021-09-28 20:01:41 #BlackTwitter is amazing! This blog post summarizes an interview-based #CSCW2021 paper led by @shamikalashawn. We describe the perceived benefits of community building and challenges of appropriating a platform not built by/for the Black community. https://t.co/S8jhlYUdXE 2021-09-28 17:21:35 @scifantasy oh interesting! I personally don't think they even need the warhol decision heh. 2021-09-28 17:15:26 In case you all were wondering, 10 groups of students in my class all decided that Richard Prince should lose. 2021-09-28 14:45:22 another comment on phd applications um you all know that "rankings" don't mean much right? I'm also getting the impression that a lot of applicants are "top X or bust!" instead of thinking about e.g. advisor and research fit. I'm spending too much time reading r/gradadmissions. 2021-09-28 14:20:45 hey copyright twitter! does anyone know if there's been movement on the richard prince instagram fair use case? I know prince lost motions to dismiss, but the most recent thing I can find is this article from 2020 about arguments starting. https://t.co/rAWGMnUQKf 2021-09-27 23:59:04 And this format of Twitter joke is making the rounds AGAIN but this one is obviously inspired by this classic. :) https://t.co/bvHQDrxY3Y 2021-09-27 23:55:19 After a few weeks making videos about the trolley problem and the moral machine experiment and critiquing their usefulness I decided to concede this important real world application. https://t.co/HD0T7tMjyR 2021-09-27 22:07:30 @doc_sabine Yep even in the U.S. there are different models of admission. Sometimes there is an admissions committee where students are admitted generally into the department, and sometimes individual advisors have a lot of control over whether an individual student is admitted. 2021-09-27 21:02:03 @doc_sabine I don't know what a DTP is... 2021-09-27 18:05:22 RT @oliverhaimson: Introducing the Trans/Queer in HCI 1-1 Mentoring Program! If you’re in HCI (broadly construed) & 2021-09-27 17:14:45 @nancyvh Yes, this is probably the most important point I make frequently. It's the #1 thing on a video I have on reasons PhD applicants are rejected. :) And a related issue - it might not be explicitly funding, but if there's not a good advisor fit you shouldn't go there anyway. 2021-09-27 16:25:40 @athundt @JuliePosselt GRE scores are an even more garbage signal than pubs. :) 2021-09-27 16:02:09 Also if you think that general PhD admissions advice would be useful for someone please pass this on. With the caveat that my experience is only my own and probably most applicable to STEM programs in the U.S. https://t.co/ly6YGHspk7 2021-09-27 15:59:00 I apologize for this tweet-thread-that-probably-should-have-been-a-blog-post. I would really love to hear others' thoughts though. :) 2021-09-27 15:58:53 I'd also like to see more efforts to de-mystify PhD admissions, especially in specific fields. The number of messages I got from especially first-gen students telling me that would never have known how to apply were it not for my youtube videos last year was alarming. 2021-09-27 15:50:50 I'd also like to see these opportunities advertised more widely and made more widely known to students who don't even know to look for them. And I'd like to see them not silo-ed at universities so that even students who aren't at research universities have these opportunities. 2021-09-27 15:49:59 There are a lot of efforts for encouraging research experience for undergrads. I would like to see even more of this that also includes education and opportunities for leading work, not just undergrads as cogs in the paper factory. 2021-09-27 15:48:25 @danazumi_ammar :) https://t.co/JNEg8CInWN 2021-09-27 15:47:54 This brings us to how we can help level the playing field. Because *publications* as a silly metric aside, it's well established that some experience with what research looks like in your field (whether that's in a lab or with a thesis or in a class) makes a stronger application. 2021-09-27 15:45:40 @jpsaffron @mmitchell_ai ... ok that made me laugh. :) QUICK, STEAL HIS GOLDEN PARACHUTE! 2021-09-27 15:45:04 Similarly, I don't see why having a publication already makes your application stronger. I don't care that you've published. I care about the project you worked on and why you loved it and how it inspired you to pursue a PhD. If you still have that without a pub, it's equivalent. 2021-09-27 15:43:23 I often tell applicants that an application isn't stronger by virtue of having a masters degree, but that having a masters degree often means they have more research experience or better LORs or other things that might make an application stronger. 2021-09-27 15:41:44 It is true that often the strongest PhD applicants do have publications. In part b/c it means not only research experience but doing it long enough that they made it *through the publication cycle* which is not a small amount of time. Also likely an LOR from a prof they helped. 2021-09-27 15:40:00 @danazumi_ammar I would imagine that is true. I think that is a bad way of framing it, but the issue is that publications often correlate with other things that are strong in an application. 2021-09-27 15:35:11 "Must have published papers" as a PhD admissions criteria suggests that (1) is better, but that is obviously wrong, and not only are programs missing out on awesome people who did (2) instead but it incentivizes doing (1) over (2) b/c it's more likely to result in publications. 2021-09-27 15:33:07 A thought experiment. What is better: (1) you are 4th author on a 7-author paper because you did data analysis as part of a huge lab (2) you led your own research project & 2021-09-27 15:30:51 So if your criteria for PhD admission is "already has publications" you're weeding people out based on things like where they can afford to go to school for undergrad and not accounting for e.g. work in classes that was REALLY GOOD RESEARCH but doesn't result in pubs. 2021-09-27 15:28:43 1. Not everyone has the opportunity as an undergrad to do the kind of research that results in published papers. Because of e.g. the university they attend, they don't know they can (e.g. first-gen) or there aren't paid RA opportunities & 2021-09-27 15:22:32 And yes, I am 100% comfortable saying that if your program will not consider accepting students who are not already authors on PUBLISHED PAPERS then you are doing something wrong. Full stop. 2021-09-27 15:21:06 To the extent to which it is clear that for SOME programs "no pubs" might actually be an auto-reject (), two things: (1) How do we get those programs to think hard about why this is a terrible idea (2) How can we help level the playing field as much as possible? 2021-09-27 15:18:55 In terms of anxiety over "auto-reject" metrics (of which there are many theories, from no pubs to low GRE scores to "not elite enough undergrad") I'd just like to encourage everyone to remind applicants that strengths make up for weaknesses. There should be no auto-rejects. < 2021-09-27 15:16:26 OK, let's talk about this. There are two issues with different problems and solutions: (1) PhD applicants thinking they don't have a chance if they don't already have publications. Since that's not always true, how can we provide encouragement? (2) The extent to which it IS true. 2021-09-27 14:58:49 @carol_blmml I mean... maybe it's just my field/subfield? But everyone I respect in academia, which is a lot of people, are definitely not. :( 2021-09-27 14:00:44 @tamaraniac that first part: 2021-09-27 13:55:22 @eytanadar I understand the worry! I just think that it’s pushing away strong applicants and also that programs need to rethink their criteria and who it is systematically disadvantaging. 2021-09-27 13:50:15 ok actually a better response would be: “I’m on it. Between the two of us we can help her wrestle the controls away from him.” 2021-09-27 13:47:15 @Breedlov3 I hope the replies from profs here agreeing with me are helpful. :) Good luck! 2021-09-27 13:45:28 @eytanadar That’s not to say it doesn’t help, and it’s true that pubs often correlate with other important things, it just seems like a silly metric to me. 2021-09-27 13:44:33 @eytanadar Given the number of applicants without pubs I’ve seen that are objectively better applicants than those with, I’m not sure that’s actually who’s missing out. :) 2021-09-27 13:31:46 @eytanadar These are applicants who are applying now and assuming they have no chance. So the outcome would be they just don’t apply, not that they’ll write a paper in a month. 2021-09-27 13:26:00 Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on the plane? Me: I'm not that kind of... Flight attendant: A white male tech CEO insisted on flying the plane and won’t listen to the female pilot telling him— Me: In my expert opinion we’re going to die. https://t.co/cJgN5e3MXK 2021-09-27 13:03:43 @nuzhat_masud I can at least tell you that’s not the case for our PhD program. 2021-09-27 12:38:00 There's a reply in this thread that's (I'm paraphrasing): profs want applicants who've already published b/c they see PhD students as paper producing factories. I'm concerned with the number of likes it has :( Are there so many profs like this that this is a dominant perception? 2021-09-27 11:55:01 @npr247 I can’t say that this is never true, but I can tell you for certain it’s not always true. 2021-09-27 11:24:08 @BriChristophers Honestly this is why I started making YouTube videos. 2021-09-27 02:36:34 @Genesis13815553 Here you are! I hope this is helpful but you should also get advice specific to your field and the country you’re applying to programs in. https://t.co/SEq0F7SS31 2021-09-27 01:35:07 @sos_writing @Krischi And the person above mentioned REUs, which are definitely paid. That said, not everyone has access to these opportunities, and that is the underlying problem I was getting at. 2021-09-27 01:33:25 @sos_writing @Krischi Many undergraduate RAs are paid, and I think that’s very important for that reason. 2021-09-27 01:11:27 @sos_writing @Krischi I don’t know that it’s expected, but I tend to find that undergrads who are interested in a PhD want to be involved in research. If you’re not, it seems less likely you’d want to pursue a PhD. 2021-09-27 00:40:09 @sibinmohan I don’t know but I’m guessing STEM fields. 2021-09-26 20:24:20 @BikalpaN But also individual programs should be thinking deeply about their practices! And thinking about who individual metrics might be systematically disadvantaging. 2021-09-26 20:01:33 @Genesis13815553 @BikalpaN Good luck to you!! 2021-09-26 20:00:51 @BikalpaN Ditching GRE scores is a big one. 2021-09-26 20:00:31 @BikalpaN You did say “everyone wants pure labor” so was just giving you an N=1 for someone who doesn’t. And everyone I respect in academia, which is a lot of people, are the same. I would hate students to think that statement is true. 2021-09-26 19:27:25 @AnjumM20 Well I think it’s clear how I feel about that. :) I have rejected applicants with publications in favor of applicants without. No regrets. 2021-09-26 19:26:24 @syardi @naz_andalibi @eegilbert Retention is important too! 2021-09-26 19:26:12 @AnjumM20 Then I hope they’re reckoning with what that means for their student population. 2021-09-26 19:10:19 @katypearce I suspect you don't see it as much as in STEM fields though! 2021-09-26 19:01:59 @JeremyLittau To be fair I suspect this is far more prevalent in STEM fields. 2021-09-26 18:59:30 @katypearce I've gotten this question many times before but it showed up 6 times in this 1.5 hour livestream. 2021-09-26 18:58:45 @Petropoulakis_P https://t.co/xe7gVxnOeU There are also a lot more on the channel. 2021-09-26 18:58:12 @BikalpaN I also STRONGLY disagree with this statement that professors want workers and that PhD students are just labor for papers. I actually find it pretty offensive. 2021-09-26 18:56:51 @BikalpaN I am a professor and I have been running PhD admissions in our department for years. We have admitted many students who do not have published papers at the time they apply. 2021-09-26 18:55:38 @koutropoulos Our PhD program, and others I am familiar with in my field, are far more about an apprenticeship model of research than about coursework. 2021-09-26 18:54:22 @saqibm128 But unfortunately there is no certainty, and suggesting that you will or will not be admitted into a program based on whether you do or do not have papers would be incorrect information. 2021-09-26 18:53:10 @juandiegosoler @arvindsatya1 Research experience is what's important, in my opinion. That may or may not correlate with publications. 2021-09-26 18:52:22 @sos_writing There are undergraduates as authors on some of my papers who did the appropriate amount of work to be authors. I don't treat authorship for them any differently than for graduate students. 2021-09-26 18:51:29 @sos_writing Undergraduate researchers should be authors on papers if their contribution rises to the level of authorship. 2021-09-26 18:49:56 @juandiegosoler @arvindsatya1 I would recommend getting advice specific to discipline and type of program, but: https://t.co/ly6YGHspk7 2021-09-26 17:50:08 @vimalkeerthi "research experience" is not the same as "published papers" but they correlate 2021-09-26 17:48:52 And I'll just say it: If as a professor or an admissions committee your major criteria is "author on a published paper in a major journal" then I hope you're looking real hard at the diversity of your student population because I'm guessing you might have a problem. 2021-09-26 17:46:35 @juandiegosoler @arvindsatya1 No. 2021-09-26 17:46:27 @vimalkeerthi Exactly. Which is why that isn't that useful a signal. 2021-09-26 17:43:13 @eegilbert One person even asked how much the impact factor of the journal matters! One thing that worries me is thinking it's better to be author 3 in a published paper with 6 authors than to have led your own research project that isn't published yet. 2021-09-26 17:39:43 I just did a livestream answering questions about PhD applications and am really concerned about the number of people who think that having published papers is an absolute prerequisite for admission to a PhD program. 2021-09-25 20:41:16 Thank you for your service to a generation of critics, Dr. Malcolm. https://t.co/Xxb6MRd8WF 2021-09-24 20:27:51 @BriannaDym I'm not really even making fandom content haha 2021-09-24 18:17:18 In just a few minutes I'll be speaking on a panel with @CenDemTech on "The Technical and Policy Considerations of using Machine Learning tools in Content Moderation" #TPRC2021 https://t.co/caWsDbghmT 2021-09-24 16:43:14 @michaelzimmer This is real?! ... at least I assume there will be a lot of very amusing photoshops? 2021-09-24 13:14:46 Additional context from this thread: (1) Journal publishes article that gets backlash for privacy issues. (2) Journal says to make sure this doesn't happen again we'll consult experts when needed! (3) Journal consults expert 4 days before publication, then ignores their critique. https://t.co/rVzXkbvVQq 2021-09-23 22:36:58 Here was the original tweet where I saw this, if you want to see a bunch of profs getting really angry, but the fact it didn't have the source was problematic because I immediately thought it was satire. And then a google search informed me it was not. https://t.co/O0umKZAY9A 2021-09-23 22:35:31 How to infuriate professors in three bullet points: (1) how 'bout them summers off (2) how 'bout that really generous salary (3) YOU MUST HAVE SO MUCH FREE TIME source: https://t.co/k5S7oVUa19 https://t.co/yeUulFsKeh 2021-09-23 20:52:29 @charliejane I loved this. 2021-09-23 20:20:12 This is one of my favorite interviews I've ever done. :) https://t.co/Nze1NfXpI9 2021-09-23 15:22:32 I'm curious if folks have hypthotheses/possible explanations. The paper speculates but their data can't say anything about "why." So why do you think that women receive less online attention to their research than men? 2021-09-23 15:21:00 FAQ: The measurement in this paper was Altmetrics, which covers things like tweets and reddit posts but also press coverage. For some context, my twitter research ethics paper (which is by far my most tweeted etc.) is in the top 5% of altmetrics scores. https://t.co/sELNbb37GQ 2021-09-23 12:46:27 @michaelzimmer This study wasn't specific to CS, and their findings held across e.g. humanities. 2021-09-22 23:05:29 "[T]he online visibility of female scholars is unlikely to establish gender equity in science on its own. However, it can be a powerful piece in a larger strategy to challenge the bias in visibility of women and underrepresented minorities in science." 2021-09-22 23:04:21 "This evidence complements studies showing that women continue to systematically receive less credit via citations than men, are talked about in ways that reflect a perception of less fame and eminence, and are still significantly less likely to receive prestigious awards." 2021-09-22 23:02:51 "The overlap between who is successful online and whose work has garnered scientific impact offline is lower for women than for men... online platforms can indeed increase the visibility of female scientists beyond that of those whose success is already well established offline." 2021-09-22 23:01:22 "[W]hile male scientists have a higher online success when working with female coauthors, female scientists in most research areas are at a significant disadvantage if their coauthors are mainly men." 2021-09-22 23:00:18 "[E]ven in broad research areas with better female representation, there is a gender gap with women obtaining less [online] visibility from the same level of scientific impact than their male colleagues." https://t.co/FCJjMgsw9V 2021-09-22 19:28:06 @SEthanMilne ha that IS wild I haven't even seen any of it on my FYP at all! Just a couple of vids from teachers complaining about it. 2021-09-22 18:24:28 recent #TechEthicsInTheNews feat. vaccine misinformation, Facebook still under fire, Russia making requests of big tech, troll farms, TikTok-inspired bathroom vandalism... https://t.co/a2MUxrsL0I 2021-09-22 13:18:37 FAQ: it was not good. 2021-09-22 13:10:37 I just shook garlic on top of my coffee instead of cinnamon. How's your week going? 2021-09-21 22:33:02 @kimberlyhirsh I usually do fanvids. :) 2021-09-21 21:20:33 @internetrebecca auto A 2021-09-21 21:19:22 my student evaluations: Awesome. She kept using TikTok examples. Awful. She kept using TikTok examples. 2021-09-21 21:17:21 @mjandersen 2021-09-21 21:14:38 I have a feeling this reflection question is going to be very polarizing. https://t.co/Mgo9aTt1pY 2021-09-21 20:13:19 @Just_Nag_Em the thread with this other rec vid also has most of them with twitter handles :) https://t.co/TIAYaUEAz8 2021-09-21 20:08:24 the list of books in my stack is as always here: https://t.co/lqjrCq60lc though the newest addition is SYSTEM ERROR: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot by @mehran_sahami @robreich and Jeremy Weinstein 2021-09-21 20:05:19 the latest in “Casey uses TikTok trends that people on Twitter probably won’t get to show off piles of tech ethics books” https://t.co/FNRj1XGbZQ 2021-09-21 19:24:55 This is just my annual thank you tweet to @grimmelm for the pay-what-you-can Internet Law casebook that (a) gets updated every year 2021-09-21 18:25:09 Short profile of me in @AllTechIsHuman's Responsible Tech Guide! Featuring this pull quote: “I don't think that there's any correct educational path, and I hope that we continue to have a wonderful melting pot of disciplines working in responsible tech.” https://t.co/0iWniXKMcN 2021-09-21 18:13:08 RT @anthonypinter: I'm recruiting participants for the second part of my dissertation work around break-ups and couples -- this time I'm lo… 2021-09-21 00:22:43 I highly suspect that many of the outraged comments on Facebook posts from my university about vaccine requirements were similarly NOT people who e.g. are now not going to allow their kids to apply. And in case you missed my previous thread about this: https://t.co/TqdqTAb3LA 2021-09-21 00:15:17 A concrete example of what this report uncovered: Dragon Con, an event of (usually) 80k+ people, announced a vaccine requirement on Facebook. There were outraged anti-vax comments. A reliable source tells me they checked if those commenters had EVER been to the con - they hadn't. https://t.co/p3Syh4tgsH 2021-09-20 16:25:12 me: what am I doing wrong, why am I still getting notifications even when I have system-wide "do not disturb" on? a google search: @discord is disrespectful https://t.co/VbKznqPPQ0 2021-09-20 15:04:33 I actually feel like it might be more fun to just guess, but for the curious here's an explanation. :) https://t.co/h9WzBbImvL 2021-09-20 14:52:40 This is for all of you who have heard the phrase “berries and cream” in the past couple of weeks. But especially for those of you who haven’t. #BerriesAndCream https://t.co/MmGXfaYT0I 2021-09-19 22:00:33 If like me you missed that yesterday was #BatmanDay2021 don’t you still want to spend ten minutes pondering whether Batman should kill The Joker and learning about ethical theories? https://t.co/PFfatFad7Z https://t.co/EnP0rxLTc1 2021-09-19 21:48:28 @ProfGrif @joshshepperd Realizing this was very helpful for me though it’s more mindset than advice. https://t.co/nEk4bZrS1B 2021-09-19 21:08:02 I still can’t grasp how some people can be more scared of a baseless anecdote about Nicki Minaj’s cousin’s friend maybe becoming impotent than all the actual data about people literally dying. https://t.co/RhQygEtLM4 2021-09-17 21:29:24 Part of this narrative that really struck me is how optimism for the power of the platform for good can blind you to potential harms. ‘Hey, are people propagating harmful messages on the platform?’ should be front of mind for everyone. At least I know it is for some people there. https://t.co/9fZ2ILPObo 2021-09-17 21:25:26 Recognizing this as a huge problem, Facebook has been trying various strategies to deal with it, including limiting numbers of comments and demoting content. But Zuckerberg is hesitant to do anything about content that isn't blatantly dangerous misinformation. https://t.co/SNhn7NZRMx 2021-09-17 21:20:34 This is a coordinated attack, with smaller numbers of people creating a huge amount of content, with the intention of giving people the false impression that such views are widespread. Honestly, it's working. Even I was feeling some serious despair reading comments on WHO posts. https://t.co/X5lNp6WWHd 2021-09-17 21:15:59 For example, recently a very large event announced a vaccine mandate. The comments were totally inundated with antivaxxers expressing outrage. I heard from some of the organizers that the vast majority of comments came from people who had nothing to do with the event. 2021-09-17 21:03:10 At the time, "roughly 41% of comments on English-language vaccine-related posts risked discouraging vaccinations." This was the result of coordinated antivaccine activists. This matches my observations. The issue isn't antivaccine posts. It's antivaxxers flooding the comments. 2021-09-17 20:59:40 The report describes how Mark Zuckerberg very much wanted to use Facebook to push people towards getting vaccinated. (This makes sense, as we know it can help influence people to vote: https://t.co/FE37Zq6mWb) but researchers at Facebook warned that the opposite might happen. https://t.co/N1qLRAobja 2021-09-17 20:53:22 Ever clicked on the comments from one of the authoritative health sources being highlighted on Facebook, e.g. WHO? I have. It was, as described in the latest @WSJ Facebook report, a "cesspool of anti-vaccine comments." Here's some highlights b/c paywall. https://t.co/yJSCM1HmDi 2021-09-17 18:44:19 @stevenbedrick @pervade_team oh that's so nice, thank you! 2021-09-17 17:42:23 @eredmil1 @Vaughncendiary @tripsandflips_ It probably would be useful for me to show students where the hand sanitizer is haha! 2021-09-17 16:43:36 me in April 2020: oh thank god the conference I'm chairing isn't until 2022, we will be so far past this pandemic by then 2021-09-17 16:36:54 We had to make the really difficult decision to not move forward with an in-person conference for @sigchi #GROUP2022 in January. The current plan, still being finalized, is postponement for a year since this is a biannual conference. https://t.co/WaXp4UlR2m https://t.co/fWCzWmL2wP 2021-09-17 15:00:18 @rmcomplexity We are constantly awash in recommender systems, which is basically an algorithm determining what you want. Could there be more user input? Sure! But also Facebook has a TON of personalization features that people don't use. 2021-09-17 14:46:20 @gideonstrauss @thesukrit @TylerWS the middle school AI ethics curriculum @BlakeleyHPayne worked on had a variant re: “what makes a GOOD pbj” that I incorporated based on her describing it to me :) 2021-09-17 14:42:46 @AndreaKGrover @thesukrit @gideonstrauss Oh I just did it in class! 2021-09-17 14:15:21 @jvitak oh absolutely. I remember the first time as a prof I was juggling multiple students leading papers for the same deadline, as opposed to just (as a student) working on a single paper. It was AWFUL. 2021-09-17 14:13:14 @AllTechIsHuman Thank you, this is lovely! 2021-09-17 14:13:01 RT @AllTechIsHuman: "[W]hen students or others ask me what they should study to "do" tech ethics I often suggest that they should find the… 2021-09-17 14:10:22 Part of the answer is that it can be work that’s not ready yet - but you have to push anyway because otherwise you have to wait an entire year. I understand why they exist but IMO annual deadlines are bad for scholarship. https://t.co/RLNQPzN5uc 2021-09-17 14:08:12 @gideonstrauss Thanks! 2021-09-17 13:28:55 @gideonstrauss I taught a couple of weeks of "how do algorithms work" in a non-coding class and actually did start with peanut butter sandwiches. And then also made this assignment: https://t.co/y4aplOSTRF 2021-09-17 13:25:10 @gideonstrauss I think @syardi teaches an algorithms and society class 2021-09-17 13:23:40 @rmcomplexity Actually… probably. Well, depending on the platform. But there’s research that shows people don’t actually want to see everything even though they say they do. 2021-09-17 00:02:02 I had a similar thought to @natematias re: how users can "game the algorithm" too. I was thinking of TikTok creators intentionally inviting negative comments, but also this point about advocacy makes me think of work in our dept on "rage philanthropy"! https://t.co/1pbj2CXCnY 2021-09-16 23:57:41 I have similar feelings about this report as I did about their report on TikTok's algorithm--nothing here is surprising, it's probably not as intentionally evil as is implied, but it's important people are aware of this stuff. Also wow @WSJ is going hard. :) 2021-09-16 23:56:35 I've been talking a lot lately about how, though I am not of the "everyone needs to learn to code" mindset, I think algorithmic literacy is important so that people can understand how technology is acting upon them, and can critique it. See, e.g. https://t.co/9fb0l5rweM 2021-09-16 23:14:21 @informor @natematias @amyxzh @cornell_tech @TomRistenpart @grimmelm @yiqqqing wow this is great, congratulations! and excited to see what more comes out of this! 2021-09-16 22:58:08 I did make you an Instagram though. :) Featuring @michaelzimmer’s favorite phrase. https://t.co/GxyebKV2UY 2021-09-16 20:45:40 haha I’ve gotten a lot of requests from journals over the years but this is definitely my favorite stay tuned https://t.co/ogTYYutky1 2021-09-16 02:31:23 RT @eugeniarho: I'm recruiting highly motivated PhD students w/ a strong NLP background to work on computational social science projects at… 2021-09-15 21:43:39 @linguangst @matthewdlincoln @lara_putnam well following the emotional contagion study backlash Facebook set up an ethics review type thing, so some of this might be of interest! https://t.co/jFeBIXdPyF 2021-09-15 19:20:28 I can only take a small percentage of credit for this particular paper - @KatieShilton led the effort, and other amazing co-authors include @MannyMoss @_sgilbert_ @mbietz @undersequoias @jvitak & 2021-09-15 19:18:37 And we frame the discussion around trustworthiness, but importantly we see it as a means—a process—not just an end. Whether pervasive data research ultimately can gain participants’ trust is not entirely up to researchers. But what is up to us is trustworthy practice! 2021-09-15 19:17:46 We also explicitly draw lessons from ethnographic research, where adherence to this kind of reflection has become bound up with definitions of ethical research, good methods, and good practice. 2021-09-15 19:15:50 Importantly, using “public” data does not relieve researchers from considerations of participant awareness, because awareness of creation is not necessarily awareness of research use. And we should reflect on both awareness and the power implications of our research. 2021-09-15 19:14:20 This paper in part details evidence that many data subjects are unaware of the research uses of their digital communications, and often express unhappiness and alarm. We map awareness to this spectra and recommend researchers reflect on where their data-gathering methods fall. https://t.co/TVH3hT0ZMO 2021-09-15 19:08:58 Following four years of empirical work on research ethics for public data, our (@pervade_team) manifesto for trustworthy pervasive data research--foregrounding power dynamics and learning from ethnographers--published in @BigDataSoc. https://t.co/FwbS22NJYX https://t.co/kHkgfFdRkj 2021-09-15 18:27:03 @scifantasy Fair lol 2021-09-15 18:25:45 is Twitter the appropriate place to blanket apologize for what I think is a large number of emails I have failed to respond to over the past month 2021-09-15 15:46:14 @mmitchell_ai I'm glad you like it!! There will be a lot more specific content on AI etc. as the semester goes on :) 2021-09-15 15:28:39 @LevACRosen @BatgirlEditor ha @BatgirlEditor might also enjoy my profile banner 2021-09-15 14:20:07 @tiffanycli Aw thank you 2021-09-15 13:45:28 This is basically just a way to structure topic-based videos that I might make anyway, so lots of stuff will be left out, especially nuance. But it's an interesting challenge to think about what 60-second soundbite is the essence of a particular topic. Bonus if it's clickbaity. 2021-09-15 13:42:08 FAQ: Is this anything like teaching a real class? No, not at all, and nor can it be, at least not on TikTok. The two biggest challenges are that even people who follow me get content fed to them out of order, and there is a 150 character limit on comments so dialog is difficult. 2021-09-15 13:34:05 @ellenbroad @MrMikeRose Thanks! 2021-09-15 12:50:23 RT @d_metaxa: Call for students As part of building @PennHCI, I'm recruiting prospective PhD students this cycle. I'm most excited to wo… 2021-09-15 02:12:12 @mel_socialbites thank you!! 2021-09-15 00:01:25 But the first time they made this comment I legitimately thought about it for a moment and ended up going down a google rabbit hole and landed on this article about the environmental impact of glasses versus contacts :) https://t.co/t47CmTIOQg 2021-09-14 23:58:14 @dlowd Adam West is my second favorite Batman. (If I tell you who my favorite Batman is, you will judge me.) 2021-09-14 23:54:36 Because they look awesome. But while we're here, a reminder that I have a personal troll on TikTok who has commented on about a dozen of my videos to yell at me for not caring about climate change because of my "giant plastic glasses." I know I should block them but IT'S FUNNY. https://t.co/aAwwbxCrKP 2021-09-14 23:52:37 @JulianPosada0 @CUBoulder @AlexMartOut This was something I thought it was really important to do! There's a reading about gandhian cyberethics as well, and last year I transcribed this podcast that thought was a nice overview on non-western ethics + tech for undergrads: https://t.co/L92e1hn5cf 2021-09-14 23:45:00 Also I hope that the reading list is helpful for others - and I'm always trying to improve for my "real" class. For the "ethical foundations" topic, shout-out to @profmdwhite for the Avengers chapter. Also an addition this year I love - @sabelonow's work on Ubuntu and AI ethics. 2021-09-14 23:35:57 (I was going to just post the combined-topic longer videos on Twitter, but apparently Twitter has a 2 minute video length limit! So trying out Instagram TV instead, hopefully that works ok!) 2021-09-14 23:34:26 You can follow along with this experiment to "teach a class on TikTok" here! Links to videos along with readings. I'm keeping pace with the actual @CUBoulder class I'm teaching. Apparently 2.5 hours of in-class time becomes 8 minutes of video. :) https://t.co/B4eInkmVHg 2021-09-14 23:31:30 I'm "teaching" a highly condensed version of my tech ethics & 2021-09-14 22:59:39 @michaelzimmer @DrMichaelAnn I'm doing research ethics for my class next week so I might go ahead and post some of them to tiktok but I'll hold off on the inevitable tweets until AOIR :) 2021-09-14 22:44:53 @DrMichaelAnn there are tiktok trends in my AOIR presentation w/ @michaelzimmer :) 2021-09-14 21:31:49 @suhemparack @AcademicChatter ... sorry I realize that could have been more helpful. :) e.g. https://t.co/l3C4BL2MYC 2021-09-14 21:30:37 @suhemparack @AcademicChatter research ethics research ethics research ethics :) 2021-09-14 21:29:56 @SEthanMilne Sure, but these kinds of moral messages I think are intentionally simplistic, with appeals to sort of gut reactions - but you probably know this area better than I do :) 2021-09-14 20:47:29 And this isn't to say that misinformation can't impact the persuasiveness of these messages too (e.g., "I don't need to do that to protect people because it's not real") but I do think that there's something to be said for an appeal to duty or care rather than consequences. 2021-09-14 20:46:02 Many of us thought that moral messaging framed around ethics of care (e.g., "think about the people you love") would be most effective. And that in some cultures (but probably not in the U.S.) a community-based Ubuntu-inspired message might work, too. 2021-09-14 20:44:22 For the study in the paper (it's a pre-print) they found a modest effect for duty-based deontological messaging ("it is our responsibility to protect people) re: intention to share the message. But we also covered OTHER ethical frameworks in my class... 2021-09-14 20:42:31 A utilitarian moral message (like the one used in that paper) is essentially "think of the consequences for everyone if you don't do this!" but... people have to have an understanding of the consequences for that to be effective, but there's so much misinformation. :( 2021-09-14 20:40:33 Inspired by this paper (https://t.co/ShbmH7fAGe) when covering traditional ethical theory in my class, we discussed what different frameworks might suggest for how to convince someone to do the right thing (e.g., WEAR A MASK!). One insight I had was: utilitarianism won't work. 2021-09-14 20:36:36 @davidthewid from @asbruckman: https://t.co/Xk4LmATqQy 2021-09-14 16:32:06 @williamj @robinberjon also jen golbeck! 2021-09-14 14:14:05 @jvitak @_jessiejsmith_ In the past I've just done it myself and it's not that bad because of how they provide the information! 2021-09-14 13:52:52 @HawkguyClint @_jessiejsmith_ I'm not sure I understand the question! This spreadsheet list the news articles that students provide me every week. 2021-09-14 13:36:28 P.S. Shout-out to @_jessiejsmith_ who is helping with grading in my ethics and policy class this semester and has been updating this spreadsheet every week. :) 2021-09-14 13:35:33 This past week's #TechEthicsInTheNews feat. Texas' "deplatforming" law, Twitch raids, Epic v. Apple, Facebook's smart glasses, Facebook's bad data, the Theranos trial continues... https://t.co/a2MUxrba9a 2021-09-14 00:28:58 @De_Kosnik @DrThembot Aw you’re both so great 2021-09-14 00:28:46 @DrThembot @cuinfoscience Yay welcome!!! 2021-09-13 22:31:37 I am not RTing this mess but apparently nicki minaj is an anti-vaxxer and telling 22 million people on twitter that her cousin's friend was dumped by his fiance because he got [an ailment that is likely an STD] from the covid vaccine, anyway is 2021 over yet 2021-09-13 12:03:35 @sharoz @jmtroos @CopyrightLibn I have no idea if this was relevant in the past, but it's pretty unusual to have academic journals mailed to you anymore, even if this would have been applicable and I doubt it was intended to cover that sort of thing. 2021-09-11 16:53:44 @neurdy @iheartguts Yes!! 2021-09-11 16:31:51 @heyitsalexsu haha hi! 2021-09-11 16:26:54 Today is the one year anniversary of my #t1d diagnosis! Here's a video I made not long after that about my diagnosis and some very basis diabetes information. A lot has happened since then, most notably now I have an insulin pump which is amazing. :) https://t.co/r2fyEYtm9D 2021-09-11 14:49:33 btw the lawyer one is real and if someone will pledge to pay my therapy bills I'll sign up for it https://t.co/L296g7lHdk 2021-09-11 14:47:25 @DeanHach as far as I can tell the lawyer one is real :) 2021-09-11 14:30:06 ::record scratch:: It was. https://t.co/LjtjPXPhJt 2021-09-11 14:01:32 oh god now I’m imagining a dating app for academics and within 24 hours it’s literally just researchers scraping data and recruiting other users for studies https://t.co/s6snPCwur8 2021-09-11 12:30:56 @syardi same actually :) I liked them a lot though! 2021-09-11 12:02:50 @syardi I feel like there’s a bit of this in Geraldine’s podcast. :) 2021-09-10 23:43:08 so I'm rewatching The Matrix (for obvious reasons) and wondering... huh WAS 1999 the height of human civilization 2021-09-10 23:17:10 @Annaleen apparently it works ha! 2021-09-10 23:16:19 @melstanfill when I was a PhD student my advisor threatened to rip the semi colon off my keyboard—but now I also have more of an em dash problem :) 2021-09-10 23:12:01 RECOMMENDED. I loved this book. I've described it to people as "what if time travel was basically wikipedia edit wars and feminists were battling against trolls." https://t.co/QR4lhcmwd4 2021-09-10 20:45:39 @duncana_ @denverpost @kierannicholson @TheBeccaFlood Ah I didn’t even think to look if it was from somewhere else :) 2021-09-10 20:00:29 how do I get on the radar of whatever @denverpost journalists are on the TikTok beat because I could have given some really good quotes about this situation :) https://t.co/3jf69a5MOf 2021-09-10 19:16:49 @DrVeronikaCH @alan_firth_ @lakens @ravenscimaven Basically everyone on my FYP these days is over 30 heh. 2021-09-10 16:47:51 @GirlsWhoCode 2021-09-10 15:34:05 @whatknows @profjsg @katypearce @sunjooahn I have an air fryer but only because I didn't already have a toaster oven and I'm not really sure I get the difference between the two. 2021-09-10 15:08:11 I've always tried to be really sympathetic to folks who have to make "you can't make everyone happy" sorts of decisions, even when I land in the unhappy bucket, and can confirm that being in that decision-making position yourself super sucks! 2021-09-09 22:27:11 PSA: it’s ok for girls to code. Please enjoy my interpretation of this very wholesome TikTok trend. :) #WomenInSTEM #womenintech https://t.co/jGLlJaYMhl 2021-09-09 18:53:17 @Birdbassador Great critique! I've been using these: https://t.co/F1lX4CDEgA & 2021-09-09 18:25:10 And I ended class with "these are only thought experiments but design decisions sometimes boil down to binary trade-offs" with the example of calibrating a hate speech detector to have more false positives versus more false negatives based on potential harm. 2021-09-09 18:22:47 But I do think that it's useful to think about how people think through moral dilemmas - and the COVID analogy (though obviously imperfect) did spark some good discussion in class today. Here's a link to a video with that version of the trolley problem: https://t.co/Joxtq394ok 2021-09-09 18:21:14 I go back and forth about whether to teach the trolley problem, because it's easy to get into the weeds over thought experiments rather than focusing on actual pressing ethical issues. (And so I teach explicitly about critiques of especially the Moral Machine experiment too.) 2021-09-09 18:19:25 There's a version of the trolley problem where a car decides whether to hit a motorcyclist wearing a helmet versus one not. Morally, do you hit the more responsible person because they're more likely to survive? I thought of that when I saw this article: https://t.co/weeSVP2Vmx 2021-09-09 18:14:30 @jevanhutson I'm guessing you're still not quitting your day job :-p 2021-09-09 01:19:51 RT @NeilLewisJr: 1/7. “Over the past decade, colleges and universities have been discussing the need to diversify their faculty…But despite… 2021-09-08 22:59:26 the number of people on tiktok determined to pull a Kobayashi Maru on the trolley problem https://t.co/NJfju7MakK 2021-09-08 19:22:07 @adapperprof I feel this tweet. 2021-09-08 18:39:33 This past week's #TechEthicsInTheNews! Featuring e.g., hacktivism and policy decisions around Texas' whistleblowing site, Theranos trial is starting, more on AI hiring mistakes (sigh), and Facebook AI's "primate" label (SIIIIIIIGH). https://t.co/a2MUxrba9a 2021-09-08 18:29:06 @Michael_Levet I'm having a particularly bad week but right now I honestly don't think that would help. 2021-09-08 18:21:58 (My governor is still awesome but I'm having some serious faith-in-humanity issues lately, and also I made the mistake of reading the comments on the facebook post where he first posted this.) 2021-09-08 18:21:28 My first reaction to this was "my governor is awesome" and my second reaction was "oh no I do not trust that everyone understands that a > 2021-09-08 15:45:52 @kimberlyhirsh I learned photo editing in 2001 so I could turn Gwen Stefani into a Romulan! 2021-09-08 15:42:15 @syardi Replace some words in there with “remixers” and “UGC sites” and that was my dissertation haha. 2021-09-08 15:36:52 @kimberlyhirsh my Buffy story is that I saw the musical episode first on TV and then procured DVDs at great expense and binge watched from the beginning the whole time going HOW DOES SHE END UP WITH SPIKE 2021-09-08 15:25:03 btw shout-out to the psychology professor I won't name who asked a question during my 2005 MS thesis defense in which they referred to my interview participants (LiveJournal roleplayers) as "nutjobs." This nutjob will have tenure soon! 2021-09-08 15:21:04 @EthanZ my origin story :) 2021-09-08 15:18:07 Moral of the story: Follow your passion. Let your geek flag fly. Etc. For the curious, the first Star Trek fanfic I wrote was a delightful Mary Sue-ish story where the protagonist was a half Vulcan half Romulan communications officer who (obviously) was Spock's romantic interest 2021-09-08 15:16:09 (My MS thesis BTW was about blog-based roleplaying games, e.g. people pretending to be Harry Potter on LiveJournal.) And then [...] got a PhD in part studying those same kinds of fan communities and now I'm a professor who runs the Internet Rules Lab because the internet rules. 2021-09-08 15:14:26 Which was one of the reasons I was fascinated by online communities and collaborative creativity and why I sought out @asbruckman out of nowhere to work with while I got my MS in HCI. Because online communities but also I had a feeling she was probably into Star Trek. 2021-09-08 15:13:23 Then I discovered Usenet for the first time (from within the AOL walled garden), which means I discovered alt.startrek.creative which means I discovered FANFICTION. Which I read, and wrote, and then from age 17-ish to 21-ish ran Star Trek collaborative writing roleplaying games. 2021-09-08 15:12:27 (And then eventually, I procured at great expense DVDs which had 2 episodes a piece on them - i.e., KIDS THESE DAYS WITH THEIR STREAMING SERVICES DON'T KNOW HOW GOOD THEY HAVE IT.) 2021-09-08 15:11:30 So following my discovery of my intense love of Spock and co., I found my dad's collection of "Captain's Log" books, which were basically novelizations of every Star Trek episode. So I READ the entire series before I saw a single episode. 2021-09-08 15:11:11 For those of you who were born earlier than the 90s may remember, DVDs have not always existed, and an entire run of a television show would take MANY VHS tapes so this was not a common thing. Also Star Trek TOS was not airing on TV much. 2021-09-08 15:10:28 (Also devoured that summer: Star Wars, all the Dune novels, and every James Bond movie, recorded from TBS, with 5 minutes of Samford & 2021-09-08 15:09:46 I moved in the middle of high school which meant I spent a summer with no friends in a new place and nothing to do. Therefore I discovered my dad's VHS collection of TOS movies. I'd watched some TNG when I was a kid, but THIS was when my inner scifi geek really began to flourish. 2021-09-08 15:08:47 It is #StarTrekDay and also the 55th anniversary so I would like to share my own #StarTrekStory, which I will title "How I Discovered Star Trek and the Internet and Also Fanfiction All of Which Eventually Led to a PhD and Basically My Entire Career." A thread. :) 2021-09-08 14:10:01 I see this kind of ridiculousness and just know that someday I'm going to end up volunteering for some stupid amount of unpaid service work just so I can attempt to fix this within ACM. https://t.co/eX7bOAhMET 2021-09-08 14:09:26 @ndiakopoulos Yep absolutely. Their statement that it's not fair use simply because it's commercial is incorrect. 2021-09-08 14:02:55 @ndiakopoulos @ndiakopoulos Out of curiosity are they responding here to a fair use analysis from you? This statement seems slightly less ridiculous if they were explicitly refuting a statement that the use is noncommercial, but regardless it's still not accurate that it can't be fair use. 2021-09-08 13:53:46 @syardi It does not. (Depend on ACM's status as a commercial entity.) 2021-09-08 13:50:29 @ndiakopoulos If this were me, I would write back and ask for detail about their fair use analysis so that I could refute it. Because "it's commercial and therefore not fair use" is inaccurate. I would want to know how they analyzed each of the four factors. 2021-09-08 13:49:48 @ndiakopoulos I know that sometimes this best practices guide for communication research has been persuasive for publishers: https://t.co/zyjqwc6Bhy 2021-09-08 13:48:06 @ndiakopoulos Just because something is commercial does not mean it can't be fair use. See basically every court case about fair use because noncommercial uses are so rarely litigated. That said, publishers are notoriously (and inappropriately imho) risk averse when it comes to this stuff. 2021-09-08 11:44:41 @FrankPasquale @luke_stark @naz_andalibi you might find this interesting! 2021-09-08 01:59:10 @EMBKDoc I meant the "where there is" as a qualifier :) 2021-09-08 01:52:27 @stretch_aye Totally valid. Though also there might be something to be said for being more driven to be more fulfilled in non-work-related parts of your life. 2021-09-08 01:46:56 having one of those days where I’m wondering what it would be like to quit my dream job and have a 9 to 5 where there is no job related guilt or stress in hours 6 to 8 2021-09-07 17:07:07 @saqibm128 The lesson is actually in part about how flawed these things are. There's some great articles that are basically just critiques of the moral machine experiment! And there are tons of everyday examples - they're just never as clean as thought experiments. 2021-09-07 15:32:25 I tend to think there are rarely right answers in ethics but sometimes there are wrong answers :) 2021-09-07 15:30:27 I made a tiktok about the trolley problem based MIT moral machine experiment, e.g., "brakes are out on a self driving car, should it continue and hit these people or swerve and hit these people" and a common response is "if you do it just right you can actually hit ALL of them" 2021-09-06 20:07:52 A while back I spoke to @Nature about my research philosophy, which is largely about adapting my larger trajectory to the interests of my students and pursuing what feels most urgent. https://t.co/jpDW00l6AY 2021-09-02 15:20:20 @AndreaKGrover It was seriously like 5-10 minutes. The amount of time it took me to put together breakout rooms. :) But I also thought it would have been great to have had more time for that, like before class! 2021-09-02 15:19:16 @Coleman_Ethics @SEFrench omg thank you! Feel free to use/adapt it. :) 2021-09-02 15:18:45 @LisaDeBruine @J_Borgstedt @AcademicChatter @jengolbeck @drrachelbrenner aw thanks < 2021-09-02 13:12:36 I made a version of the tech ethics/policy scavenger hunt for students to do individually rather than in groups. This was designed to (a) provide practice for research skills relevant to the class 2021-09-01 17:59:45 @alliekmiller oh haha no I'm not actually testing it or actually think that it means anything, tweet was mostly a joke :) 2021-09-01 14:49:26 so if view count on videos I've made about these topics were somehow indicative of anything, the TikTok algorithm is way more into utilitarianism than virtue ethics, and well that tracks 2021-09-01 02:28:25 @SinaeiMahsa That’s so wonderful, congratulations! 2021-08-31 20:02:50 @michaelzimmer I've always done it at the end of the semester and I think that's fine too! 2021-08-31 20:02:28 @airi_ Oh awesome! :D 2021-08-31 19:00:28 I also had them do individual brainstorming first about inspiration, including linking to news articles, and had them make inspiration slides, to encourage the episode ideas to be more grounded in specific current issues that we could talk about throughout the rest of the class. 2021-08-31 18:59:15 I also pre-constituted topics that I knew students were interested in based on a survey (AI bias, content moderation, social media addiction, etc.) and had them put themselves into topic-based groups to give them a head start on brainstorming and meet others w/ similar interests. 2021-08-31 18:57:37 My intention is to come back to these episode pitches at the end of the semester and talk about how they see them differently based on what they've learned and, importantly, how we might help with the anxieties that inspired them, and prevent bad outcomes. 2021-08-31 18:55:56 I did a few logistical things differently this time. First, this was the first week of class. Trying this because: (1) helping students get to know each other 2021-08-31 18:54:14 This semester's season of Black Mirror via my information ethics & 2021-08-31 13:40:26 #TechEthicsInTheNews is back! As sourced by my (biggest ever!) information ethics & 2021-08-31 11:59:57 @EvanMPeck omg REALLY??? 2021-08-31 02:19:50 RT @natematias: A significant group of large Reddit communities have decided to "go dark" to protest the company's decision to keep up othe… 2021-08-30 22:24:43 Not only okay, but in many cases older students are exceptionally strong. https://t.co/gSYt3ylYL8 2021-08-30 19:12:01 I posed the "should Batman kill the Joker?" question to TikTok so that I could use it as a way to explain common ethical frameworks (https://t.co/B4eInkmVHg) and lots of interesting answers but there have been at least a dozen along the lines of "NO THEY SHOULD KISS" 2021-08-30 14:53:55 Have you thought about the "one size fits all" problem of content moderation on global platforms? We surveyed users across the world about perceptions of harmfulness of types of content, and discuss implications for moderation policies and prioritization. from lead @aaroniidx https://t.co/pnkaAxTXl7 2021-08-28 20:09:23 @jesslynnrose @mor10 @coffeecraftcode you're welcome! 2021-08-28 19:50:01 @mor10 @jesslynnrose @coffeecraftcode You might also find the resources here helpful! https://t.co/U0GKLmnBYI 2021-08-28 17:45:54 TikTok is putting this warning on videos where people say they’re not getting vaccinated. https://t.co/gNmm1GhQ8f 2021-08-28 16:18:44 @jsalowe hahaha oh good 2021-08-28 15:00:39 And yes, guesswork for carbs is a huge problem much of the time. But not having to guess should reasonably be a benefit of getting coffee from a multi billion dollar company with standardized nutrition across many thousands of locations. My undergrads could write that code. 2021-08-28 14:56:27 Hey @Starbucks thought I’d share the math & 2021-08-28 02:37:32 @Dr_Inna It’s been dead since 2016 but relaunched a couple of weeks ago! 2021-08-27 23:11:37 @asbruckman omg! I was especially wondering what GT is like now because I thought it was nice overall when I was there… not sure if I’m relieved that it’s not just CU’s that is so much worse now. 2021-08-27 20:08:06 I’m writing an oped about YikYak. I’m curious what it’s looking like on other college campuses. What does your feed look like? Especially if you remember what it was like in 2015 and can compare/contrast. :) 2021-08-27 19:51:02 @mdekstrand It used to be possible but now it’s not, as far as I can tell. :( 2021-08-27 13:15:47 And if you want to dig in more, here's her published work so far! Featuring LGBTQ+ communities, social support, research ethics, online privacy and safety, social norms, platform policy and design, and broadening participation in computing. https://t.co/ZpGhqvkbtd 2021-08-27 13:10:16 This is a great interview with Brianna (on the job market) about her journey into studying fandom as an example of an online community where technology empowers marginalized groups, and how this work has inspired her plans for future work on safety and empowerment online. https://t.co/6dWVofRpHE 2021-08-27 03:55:56 @scifantasy I have but sooooooo long ago 2021-08-27 03:53:25 @scifantasy Awwww 2021-08-27 03:46:13 someone just left a comment on one of my youtube videos thanking me for how I transmit tranquility, and I'm so happy to hear that and also HOW DO I TRANSMIT SOME TO MYSELF 2021-08-26 17:35:38 @veikkoeeva @mdekstrand @AaltoUniversity You’re welcome to add it! 2021-08-26 17:28:08 @kristen_slack I don’t know what that is but anyone is welcome to share this anywhere! 2021-08-26 16:41:35 Update: Looks like we're literally one class away from 300 tech ethics classes on this spreadsheet. :) See tweet above if you have one to add! 2021-08-26 01:39:33 @jvitak ... omg. I might steal this. :D 2021-08-25 12:47:25 @mdekstrand Whatever people want to add is fine with me! 2021-08-25 00:46:22 I just noticed that the giant spreadsheet of tech ethics syllabi is really close to 300 ENTRIES!!! I think it would be neat to hit that! Do you know of any classes you could add to this list? Or share with someone who teaches such a class? You can edit! https://t.co/AY2Ia0vTSN 2021-08-25 00:32:22 As a reminder, people who create and share awful things online are everywhere, and content moderation is a problem everywhere. Even on platforms aimed at very young children. https://t.co/vEA4UUVs3G 2021-08-25 00:26:14 @_rnbrewer Everyone on this thread is really making me wish I had a TA haha 2021-08-24 21:55:28 @cjtenove @ananny Yep this I'm already doing! 2021-08-24 21:46:19 To say a little more about my breakout rooms: specific prompt with a shared google doc for groups to take notes on their answers/discussion. I'm wondering if folks have tried strategies for individual accountability for participation in that kind of set-up? 2021-08-24 21:35:18 @alexhanna There are about 45 students in the class, so 10-ish. I've done this though I just find it SO awkward to unexpectedly drop into breakout rooms. I wish Zoom had some way of mimicking the in-person version of people seeing you coming. :) 2021-08-24 21:33:44 @nerdette This I am doing! A task and note taking. I get the impression that the issue is just that some students go into breakout rooms and don't talk and then others have to do the task by themselves... :( 2021-08-24 21:25:18 Hey #AcademicTwitter! Suggestions for breakout room strategies for Zoom classes? Students say they really like breakout rooms when people participate, but that there are a lot of problems with silent breakout rooms. How do you mitigate this? 2021-08-24 21:14:09 @k_trendacosta oh just look at the music claims in this video that has some short tiktoks in it! I guess I could have fought it just to see what would happen but at the time it didn't seem worth it. https://t.co/PDO2H4mWpj 2021-08-24 20:29:29 @SEthanMilne next time you teach a class you should try it! or er, maybe wait until you see how it goes for me :-p 2021-08-24 20:21:47 Also if there is enough interest I could expand beyond TikTok... occasional YouTube livestreams? Er, Twitter Spaces? Also I can make sure not to include background music in the videos so that I can compile them all onto YouTube after. :) 2021-08-24 20:07:42 In my continuing science communication mission, I am experimenting with teaching a lite version of my tech ethics & 2021-08-24 17:17:34 @yolayne Already RTed that one! :D 2021-08-24 14:42:48 If you're faculty recruiting new PhD students to work with you, Twitter is a great place to spread the word - prospective students might see it, but so do faculty who are often asked for advice on where to apply! I'll RT when I happen to see recruitment messages in my field. :) 2021-08-24 14:40:27 RT @saiphcita: Interested in getting a PhD in A.I. & I joined @KhouryCollege Faculty at Northeastern Universit… 2021-08-24 14:40:01 RT @jean__hardy: I am looking for a PhD student to join me @MediaInfoMSU in Fall 2022 who is interested in doing ethnographic, community-ba… 2021-08-23 22:52:35 Whether you’re in person and rightfully worried about COVID or still online after all this time… not feeling good. #AcademicTwitter https://t.co/thlbDh81w2 2021-08-23 17:59:06 good news, we're back :) I bet that half hour caused no small amount of panic though! 2021-08-23 17:40:44 @mark_riedl Impessive! 2021-08-23 17:31:58 the first day of classes is a super fun time for the entire campus website, including the course management system, to be down 2021-08-23 16:30:31 @coachoiseau @Emma_keeno here's my general advice on interviews that I don't think would necessarily change based on modality! https://t.co/mdG2mdG6QV 2021-08-23 14:01:57 I had never heard of the publisher Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering and Science before last week, but they somehow managed to put hundreds (thousands?!) of academics on a reply-all mailing list no one can escape from and the fall-out is hilarious and maddening. 2021-08-22 16:17:32 @syardi I mean I totally get it especially for junior scholars! I just wish there was a way to change the mindset overall. To focus on doing good science, and how flashy or novel the findings are don't matter as much as that good science. :( 2021-08-22 15:51:59 I won't pretend being scooped isn't a concern... but only because of bad incentives and problems with peer review. I for one WANT to see ten interview studies examining the exact same thing! Because (a) replication is good 2021-08-22 15:49:43 Follow-up on academic incentives for novelty/flashiness & 2021-08-22 15:34:08 @blairmacintyre I'm really grateful I'm not teaching a long seminar class this semester. My in-person class is only an hour. 2021-08-22 14:49:01 @MediaLawProf Yeah!! 2021-08-22 14:39:22 On the bright side for people upset that we’re still buying new masks in August 2021, at least they can be a fun fashion statement? :) https://t.co/1Q95eGkefL 2021-08-22 03:54:31 if someone had told me in the spring that I would be buying new masks in august... 2021-08-21 19:06:21 @brianlfrye That sounds like peer review. :) Just at a different point in the process. 2021-08-21 18:55:03 @brianlfrye I think that's great! But I don't think it's an argument for cite checking over peer review. They both have limitations. 2021-08-21 18:48:39 @brianlfrye Peer review is indeed not all that. :) Though also law does not have a lot of original empirical work - which I think is probably a good thing since law students would not know how to evaluate it. 2021-08-21 18:34:04 @gluejar Oh are you not able to see the rest of the thread? Here's the second tweet in it. https://t.co/mrR4NSxVZW 2021-08-21 18:33:26 @gluejar Sorry I'm confused! 2021-08-21 18:14:22 @gluejar the tweet thread is linked there! 2021-08-21 18:08:13 @NanHouston1 @katypearce Well I like to think that all my assignments are for students to learn. :) But they’re absolutely welcome to do or not do whatever work they want while knowing how it will affect their grade! 2021-08-21 17:40:04 @katypearce It took me a while to realize, just because it’s so foreign to me, how many students seriously don’t care about getting A’s. All that matters is getting through the class so why do more work? 2021-08-21 16:08:51 @acwio @GuhaShion @sigchi Yes this is the problem! I've had multiple conversations with *qualitative* researchers recently about fear of being scooped. "Oh no I found a paper that's similar to what we're doing." And I 100% get that anxiety - but omg I WANT 10 INTERVIEW STUDIES LOOKING AT THE SAME THING. 2021-08-21 16:06:37 @GuhaShion @sigchi https://t.co/595kvad7Hp 2021-08-21 16:04:33 Anyway, I'll stop for now. I just haven't been able to stop thinking about the 2014 scandal since it happened, so when I saw the news about the honesty data, my heart sank. I feel like I've just identified problems without solutions, but I think it's at least important to ponder. 2021-08-21 16:02:40 Another suggestion for what academia should learn from that kind of scandal is more candor about the potential for falsified data. I truly believe that the vast majority of scientists have individual integrity and that science can be trusted. But we still have to recognize this. https://t.co/Y0HSKqVH5L 2021-08-21 15:58:32 In the wake of the gay marriage data scandal, this oped asked "will academia waste this?" & 2021-08-21 15:55:26 So whereas I do agree with the idea that open data when possible (because I do also worry about privacy issues for human subjects research) is part of a solution - as evidenced by the honesty study where the data was made public 10 years later - that will not solve everything. 2021-08-21 15:49:19 @GuhaShion @sigchi I would actually be really interested in what the feedback you got from reviewers was. 2021-08-21 15:48:37 What about peer review, you might ask! Shouldn't peer reviewers in both of these cases have noticed potential problems? Incentive issue #4. Peer review is unpaid, not-well-rewarded labor. Even if they had the data, would you really expect peer reviewers to analyze it themselves? 2021-08-21 15:46:06 So there's incentive issue #3: Whose job is it to uncover scientific fraud? Not only is it a lot of work that you might not get credit for in the traditional incentive structures of academia, but it might be a legitimate career jeopardizing risk. 2021-08-21 15:43:20 Also look at the amount of work done by these sleuths. And not only work, but in the case of the gay marriage data, the grad student who uncovered the fabrication was understandably worried about making it public. And for the honesty data, the researchers remained anonymous. 2021-08-21 15:40:04 Similarly (incentive issue #2) I assume part of the reason for the replication crisis is that it's hard to publish replication studies - at least, that actually replicate. And you don't know going in what it will be. "We found the same thing they did" is not a flashy abstract. 2021-08-21 15:37:06 Ever tried to publish null findings? It can be really hard. Or just... you didn't find anything interesting. You surveyed 10,000 people and the results were boring. You might have trouble publishing that paper, let alone getting on NPR. 2021-08-21 15:34:42 But the thing that always really bothered me about the gay marriage data example, and that also applies to the honesty study, was that... if the data were real, the findings might not be as flashy, and the scientists might not reap the same benefits. So that's incentive issue #1. 2021-08-21 15:32:15 And sometimes it's not even bad actors... there are also mistakes. As pointed out in the context of this example about a Malcolm Gladwell statistic (and my follow-up about a citational error about spinach), there is a "touching degree of trust" sometimes. https://t.co/iaIZrJaoXY 2021-08-21 15:26:41 I teach about the 2014 scandal in the context of research ethics and integrity, and I think it's an important lesson. But it also makes me anxious because it does point to the fact that... it iS possible to fake data. We can't ignore that there are bad actors out there. 2021-08-21 15:22:27 The cases here are similar, in that after a paper was published (in the case of the honesty data, almost a decade after), other researchers scrutinized the data and found irregularities, leading to solid conclusions that the data couldn't be real. https://t.co/i6lj1JuSqC 2021-08-21 15:19:13 In 2014 it came out that a big splashy finding (there was an episode of This American Life about it!) from a study led by a political science PhD student was almost certainly based on fabricated survey data. https://t.co/DZkms2BSWA 2021-08-21 15:14:54 Data from a Dan Ariely study about honesty turns out to be fabricated. This is another example of how much science relies on individual integrity... and how incentive structures in academia can push against that. Remember the fabricated gay marriage data scandal of 2014? [Thread] https://t.co/Cd0AnvGyRZ 2021-08-21 00:13:07 @carolinethegeek Maybe! But I’m not getting similar results for videos on like statements of purpose. 2021-08-21 00:09:33 random question: are PhD programs doing interviews NOW? It seems like weird timing to me but I'm getting a lot of hits on my youtube video about interviews, a lot coming from search results for "phd interview." 2021-08-20 21:22:14 RT @DrMichaelAnn: I'm on the job market and looking for TT Assistant Professor positions! I take a qualitative, sociotechnical approach to… 2021-08-20 21:15:43 @the_whittington It is very hard to explain and I definitely had to go down a bit of a rabbit hole to get to the bottom of it haha. 2021-08-20 21:07:01 Also for the record, I don't really even like hot sauce. 2021-08-20 21:05:51 And yes, I'm aware this is an advertising strategy on the part of our dueling hot sauces. But it is very good advertising strategy and I'm impressed. I hope that all of the strategic communication majors in my college (@CUBoulderCMCI) are this good and I hope someone got a raise. 2021-08-20 21:02:56 If you want to spend ten minutes giggling, I highly recommend checking out the entire string of Bridget's videos, but here's a recap. TL 2021-08-20 21:00:28 As someone who spends a lot of time thinking about parts of social media that are an unethical garbage fire, I really appreciate small moments of joy and right now I am extremely invested in the love triangle between @TABASCO, @FranksRedHot, and a woman on TikTok named Bridget. https://t.co/i0ccdMsjv8 2021-08-20 19:26:32 @filipe_mulonde I do not! Interesting idea though. 2021-08-20 14:40:02 @astepanovich I love this take. :) 2021-08-19 16:01:41 I got some journal submission spam this morning that somehow managed to CC everyone they were spamming and now my email is a flood of STOP and REMOVE ME and WHY ARE YOU SENDING ME THIS. 2021-08-19 12:49:49 @MediaLawProf oh I am very sure I'm not alone in this at least haha 2021-08-19 12:09:33 a portrait of me, surrounded by balls I've dropped lately https://t.co/N3aWIZ2zaw 2021-08-19 02:40:58 @charisboke @drstephencrea more like nextdoor but anonymous 2021-08-19 02:33:38 @drstephencrea yikyak was in my job talk haha 2021-08-19 02:16:57 ICYMI my thread about The Return Of The Yak. https://t.co/8PmKbSdrGW 2021-08-19 02:15:40 @cynthiablee It can’t back two days ago! 2021-08-19 02:04:41 @battyhearst here it was just like... not-even-funny sex jokes and/or bullying 2021-08-19 02:00:13 @katypearce Yep, as of like 2 days ago. 2021-08-19 01:59:32 @drstephencrea It wasn't until 2 days ago. 2021-08-19 01:56:40 So ummmm I was in Boulder for a bit today and CU Boulder YikYak is... awful. Like, really awful. Way worse than YikYak of 2015. What is it looking like on other campuses? 2021-08-19 01:48:12 A small lingering pandemic effect: no longer an *assumption* of in-person meetings. Like, totally happy to have in-person advising meetings with my PhD students, but if they'd prefer to do them remotely (or sometimes remotely) that's fine too! 2021-08-18 22:21:33 I'm so glad to see that this is continuing! Honestly of all the service stuff I've done for conferences, the two things I'm most proud of are both for CSCW: starting the Medium publication in 2018, and completely rehauling awards last year. :) https://t.co/SPPScKGls1 2021-08-18 02:41:38 @the_murderHobos @ncweaver @GeorgiaTech Again, I understand your point and I think you also understand the point I was making. 2021-08-18 00:43:02 @the_murderHobos @ncweaver @GeorgiaTech Georgia Tech is also not requiring masks. I understand what you’re saying but I think you also understand the point my tweet was making. 2021-08-18 00:30:24 @the_murderHobos @ncweaver @GeorgiaTech This tweet was a comparison of relative safety. 2021-08-18 00:22:48 RT @acafanmom: CFP: The Past, Present and Future of Fan-Fiction, a special issue of Humanities co-edited by @LincolnGeraghty @bertha_c @mem… 2021-08-18 00:21:09 Looks like if you’re in Atlanta it is now officially safer to attend Dragon Con than @GeorgiaTech. https://t.co/k0sTGVGJDW 2021-08-17 17:21:43 @beki70 Not as far as I can tell. :( RIP my yakarma. 2021-08-17 17:05:05 Anyway, I still feel strongly about the power of social norms online, and would love to think more deeply about ways platforms can support positive community norm formation. But I think it's a much harder problem than I did in 2015. :) Also yes I am totally back on YikYak. 2021-08-17 17:03:10 But also, we've seen a lot more examples of algorithmic content moderation since then, and I've thought a lot more about it. What I missed in talking about "algorithmic downvoting looks like community norms yay!" was what that means for algorithms getting it WRONG. 2021-08-17 17:00:52 I don't know how much of it is that I've changed, that my research focus has changed, and/or that online interactions and platforms have changed, but I read that oped now and am like "oh I really thought that interactions on a platform like yikyak could be positive hahahaha." 2021-08-17 16:58:08 We talked a lot about YikYak in @asbruckman's lab b/c it was based in Atlanta. As you'll see in that oped linked above, I was fascinated by social norm formation and if the app hadn't disappeared soon after... well here's a slide from my job talk. https://t.co/e20QeOkRJm 2021-08-17 16:55:46 This time 6 years ago I'd just finished my PhD & 2021-08-17 16:51:35 When I saw that @YikYakApp is back, I reread this oped that I wrote for @Slate @FutureTenseNow in 2015. And wow, my feelings about positive intentions and the potential for positive interactions on platforms like this have drastically changed in 6 years. https://t.co/AE5OxCCT0j 2021-08-16 22:10:36 For the curious, the comment was left on my video about the TikTok algorithm pushing people into niche content, and the source of this sound is Scarlet Envy on RuPaul's Drag Race. :) https://t.co/aeZR6v55NU 2021-08-16 22:08:08 Anyone want to join my society of supervillains bent on destroying society by talking about AI ethics? I’m taking applications. https://t.co/I9d0PTDW5P 2021-08-16 22:01:04 @merrierm The job description itself does mention ethics though! But you're right, it could be that that's considered not as important as mathematical fairness for this job. Still seems like it could have been mentioned similar to publications as a "plus" though. :( 2021-08-16 19:46:10 @osazuwa Well in this case, they asked for... literally nothing. 2021-08-16 19:25:55 Addendum: should have said "will require it" instead of "will teach it." I'm an advocate for applied ethics to be taught in-situ in CS classes so that it's contextualized but also for coursework in other departments. 2021-08-16 19:23:43 @jw_lockhart I mean I would ALSO be happy if this job were two positions, and one of them was for an ethics expert where they want someone who has a relevant degree. 2021-08-16 19:22:14 @jw_lockhart Oh I completely agree with that underlying problem, and I think that ethics/social reasoning should be a significant amount of coursework in a CS degree, not picked up on the side. 2021-08-16 19:20:33 @osazuwa I disagree. They're not both nice, they're both necessary. 2021-08-16 19:13:43 On my wish list: - technical interviews including questions about ethics, because CS departments don't want their graduates to be embarrassed & - job applicants asking questions about ethics/values during interviews because tech companies don't want to lose talent https://t.co/SwN1oPGS7t 2021-08-16 19:01:50 @scheidegger well if bytedance thinks that the answer to their PR problems re: ethics and fairness is "hire someone with fairness in the job title" I think they're vastly underestimating their PR problem heh 2021-08-16 19:00:29 @EvanMPeck This analogy made me laugh but then I immediately winced because on the other side, professors get hired all the time just based on research even though they also have to teach. 2021-08-16 18:57:35 I have a hypothesis that there's this soul sucking feedback loop between CS curriculum and job qualifications that just keeps reinforcing delegitimization and discouragement of skills beyond "solid mathematical background and coding ability" 2021-08-16 18:55:01 Has anyone been doing research analyzing job postings for CS jobs, either in the general or "ethics" related specifically? Because this has occurred to me a handful of times, and if so I want to read it, and if not, I kind of want to do it. 2021-08-16 18:51:02 Like why is "in-depth understanding of principles of fairness and ethics" not a bullet point here? Or "coursework and research related to ethics or social impact is a big plus"? 2021-08-16 18:48:47 Pretty telling when you're hiring for a "machine learning fairness" researcher position and your job qualifications mention coding and math but not fairness or ethics. If top conference publications are a plus, what about, I don't know, ethics coursework? https://t.co/P7pnrL4cDP https://t.co/esw3tkjOet 2021-08-16 15:53:57 When I hit 5000 subscribers on YouTube I made a video offering to answer questions and I got a lot of interesting ones! So here's me answering them. Mostly my academic journey and research but with a smattering of fantasy novels and such. https://t.co/IwWoM3zwJE 2021-08-15 15:30:53 @StatalieT @moduloone How neat, I hope it goes well! 2021-08-14 16:22:29 @LibSkrat I mean, could be, but it was totally bizarre either way. And I've had other buggy experiences with editorialmanager! 2021-08-14 16:18:09 @LibSkrat Also this is the system used for the journal where I got asked to review the same paper (after declining the first time) half a dozen times in three months and the editors said it was a system error. 2021-08-14 16:13:51 @LibSkrat Totally different autogenerated login (all of these have different numbers at the end) for every journal (and sometimes for the same journal and different manuscripts) and none of these actually worked when I tried to log in recently haha. https://t.co/XTLKfdj4ng 2021-08-14 15:05:06 I know that this is not the fault of editors so I am sympathetic but… I really really don’t want to review for journals that use EditorialManager. It is incredibly buggy and I also have approximately one thousand logins, most of which don’t even work. https://t.co/TGfCTagllG 2021-08-13 17:50:23 My first hybrid in-person/online dissertation defense! Congrats @kzgach ! https://t.co/qdHQAKfZuB 2021-08-13 13:01:12 @mapq Yeeeeah. I wonder if (is this actually happening?) ACM moving production in-house and away (?) from Sheridan will change this? 2021-08-13 01:00:57 but what if the two sentences I just had to cut from the introduction of this paper literally just to fix inexplicable overleaf formatting weirdness were actually the best sentences in my paper Death to page limits! Word limits instead!!! 2021-08-12 20:15:58 also this was my very first youtube video ever posted almost a year ago so I guess this is my YOUTUBEVERSARY (?) 2021-08-12 20:08:00 And more on this general advice for new PhD students, in prose. Synthesized as "remember that your research career is a long game." https://t.co/CyZhk1LSxW 2021-08-12 20:06:26 @syardi @morganklauss @aaroniidx @whatknows @amyadele I'm continuing to think about this stuff too! 2021-08-12 20:05:48 oh my gosh it's that time of year already Here is my advice for new PhD students! Pass it on. :) TL 2021-08-12 19:00:25 What makes harmful content online harmful? This new paper presents a framework of the factors that contribute to severity of harm online, with implications for content moderation, policy, and prioritization. https://t.co/uy75DgrznQ 2021-08-12 18:21:11 I've been watching a lot of shows/movies from the 90s recently and wow do Donald Trump references hit different now. 2021-08-12 14:16:53 I didn't know about this until I talked to @Noelle_Phillips but I think that vigilantism as spurred on by social media runs into the same potential challenges as crowdsourced sleuthing. A really interesting ethics and policy debate! https://t.co/4vIEmTbxBp 2021-08-11 19:44:20 @mmitchell_ai I was thinking of having grad students in my ethics class this semester write ethical considerations sections for papers that don't have them, as an exercise! 2021-08-11 17:06:48 RT @alexleavitt: Great news for HCI/social computing friends: the Facebook Fellowship now includes additional coverage for social science s… 2021-08-11 14:33:49 "how are you enjoying your last week of summer, Casey?" "well I had multiple paper revision deadlines on Monday, a bunch of reviews deadlines on Wednesday, and a new paper deadline on Friday, so pretty much like the rest of the summer" 2021-08-10 22:40:52 @martyjwolf haha well in this case I don't think I had anything to do with it, but I am very happy about it regardless :D 2021-08-10 21:28:29 RT @jbhuang0604: *Casey Fiesler @cfiesler's videos on PhD applications* EVERYTHING you need to know about PhD applications! These videos a… 2021-08-10 21:28:21 @jbhuang0604 Aw thanks! And what a great summary thread! 2021-08-10 19:36:17 to reword this tweet: YAY @CUBoulder IS ON BOARD WITH OPEN ACCESS AND ALL MY FUTURE @TheOfficialACM PUBLICATIONS WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR FREE IN THE DIGITAL LIBRARY SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO TRACK THEM DOWN ON MY WEBSITE :) 2021-08-10 19:20:27 so somehow I, the copyleft advocate who has given multiple talks about open access at my university and written blog posts about ACM copyright licenses, had absolutely no idea until last week that my university has had an open access deal with ACM since January 2021-08-10 13:45:53 @katypearce @gillianrhayes I recommend that when folks email potential advisors that they leave open the possibility for talking without demanding it. Because also if the answer is "I'm probably not taking new students" or "your research interests are unrelated" it's not a good use of either of your time! 2021-08-10 13:41:29 @syardi Absolutely! There are a lot of thing that I think would help, here's a brief thread I did about scaffolding the process more: https://t.co/c7RPxEYnSp 2021-08-10 02:51:00 @snipeyhead omg no and that is amazing 2021-08-10 02:47:57 I think it's likely that the people who insist that asking someone about their vaccination status is a HIPAA violation are the same people who insist that being banned from Twitter is a first amendment violation. 2021-08-09 01:50:49 @aisaclare For me, zero. But I’m sure it will vary from program to program. 2021-08-08 19:52:03 @SR_Toliver I tend to think of it as a fact finding mission - like, I've been at capacity for a couple of years so have suggested other faculty in our department applicants should consider! And this is a GREAT example of things that applicants wouldn't think to do if no one's told them. 2021-08-08 19:35:51 @filipe_mulonde Unfortunately this isn't something I know about. :( Though I wouldn't know of resources for preparing for the GRE or other standardized tests either! Of course my opinion on the GRE is just "get rid of it." :) 2021-08-08 19:34:57 @Charles_Gomez Yes! My video about statements of purpose was the first one to really take off, a lot of people are looking for just this kind of advice. 2021-08-08 19:34:08 @SR_Toliver This is REALLY common in STEM fields. I made a video about it and basically said "but know that if you're in the humanities and you do this it might be unusual." Part of the issue is that e.g. in my dept students are only admitted if there's an advisor fit. 2021-08-08 19:23:52 @naz_andalibi @katypearce Totally agree with this! And I've been surprised by how many folks have asked me if it's ok to email more than one potential advisor and mention more than one in their SOP. This is not necessarily common knowledge! 2021-08-08 19:22:54 @katypearce I always strongly recommend that they mention more than one faculty member - because who knows who might be taking on students and also you'll need committee members - but that focusing more on one is okay. 2021-08-08 19:17:32 @katypearce Just today I got both of these questions: "Is it ok to only mention one professor in my SOP?" and "Is it ok to mention more than one professor in my SOP?" 2021-08-08 19:15:40 @SR_Toliver Honestly the whole reason I started doing this was realizing how much "hidden curriculum" there is. I don't know how applicants are expected to know about just that kind of stuff! 2021-08-08 19:13:17 Also if you know PhD applicants feel free to send them this way. Usual caveat that my advice is probably most useful for PhD programs in the U.S. and for STEM/social science, especially computing-adjacent fields, though some is more broadly applicable! https://t.co/ly6YGHK0IH 2021-08-08 19:07:55 Hey academic Twitter! With PhD admissions season about to start up again, I thought I might do a video with miscellaneous advice not covered in my other videos and/or advice more specific to different fields. Mind if I crowdsource? What do you think PhD applicants should know??? 2021-08-07 23:29:08 This piece from @doctorow for @EFF describes another example of when scraping data against a company's wishes might be an ethical act - Doordashers trying to get information to help them making a living wage. https://t.co/wYBdCKdxR0 2021-08-07 14:56:12 @blakereid There are soooooo many more adults on there than there were before the pandemic. But they’re cool…? https://t.co/cyEeBhoc3R 2021-08-07 14:52:26 @blakereid You have to scroll a little longer before the worms they installed in your brain start sending your direct thoughts back to TikTok HQ. 2021-08-07 14:49:43 @blakereid Did you watch the WSJ report? Because that’s pretty accurate. 2021-08-07 14:45:52 @blakereid Don’t press buttons just scrooooooooll. Also I think you would like this account. https://t.co/EL5LSyBD1R 2021-08-07 14:22:18 @blakereid https://t.co/ffjkpoVWea 2021-08-06 23:05:02 RT @safiyanoble: “Dear Mr. Zuckerberg: I write concerning Facebook’s recent insinuation that its actions against an academic research proje… 2021-08-06 22:40:32 Also related to this topic here's my very quick personal advice on social media for grad students, one bullet point being that if you're going to do academic social media probably the right one is Twitter. https://t.co/raRopMki4K 2021-08-06 22:31:17 A point that I don’t think has been brought up yet: Twitter is also where journalists are. I guarantee you that some amount of the media amplification of my work is because of Twitter. https://t.co/RiOvuTv70P 2021-08-06 22:25:08 This tweet brought to you by the realization today that, though I have continued paying on my loans during the deferral period because I can, I have probably saved a non-trivial amount of money by them not accruing interest. 2021-08-06 22:23:44 Serious question, in light of this good news, that I often wonder about: Why do federal student loans charge interest? (OK I'm sure there is SOME amount of administrative cost but I find it very unlikely that it's e.g. 6% of the loan.) https://t.co/Knig158Xp6 2021-08-06 21:14:19 @nickblack In context, it is a lexical variation for white. 2021-08-06 20:59:05 As someone who thinks a LOT about research ethics, and is particularly concerned about social media privacy issues in research, I think we should support researchers that do the hard work required to consider privacy and mitigate potential harms. https://t.co/mIkRarB663 2021-08-06 20:52:13 @nickblack I think that whether referring to someone as "white" is intended to be friendly or not is extremely context-dependent. 2021-08-06 19:34:37 I kind of took a break from YouTube this summer (trying to finish editing one video that I filmed like 2 months ago) but I'm doing a livestream on Sunday 2021-08-06 14:55:46 And if this seems completely ludicrous, imagine the circumstances under which this kind of self-censorship seems necessary. 2021-08-06 14:54:48 On the topic of lexical variations: I've seen many POC on TikTok censoring "white" as in "white people" in captions, e.g. whyte, wh& 2021-08-06 02:28:12 @ruthstarkman I was actually wondering if that might happen and then was like “nah…” 2021-08-06 02:22:15 That’s right, someone got BANNED FROM THE PLATFORM for 24 hours because of a video that this TikTok bug put onto their page and thus WASN’T EVEN THEIR VIDEO. https://t.co/jAdfuHZCaq 2021-08-06 02:19:51 OK while we’re talking about incompetent aspects of TikTok’s moderation practices, remember my thread about how a bug caused them to switch out videos? Oh you know where this is going… https://t.co/h84nU0Yk7H 2021-08-06 02:06:07 I’d been wondering what would finally inspire me to use this sound on TikTok. If you want to see other stupid things here’s a link to all the videos made with it. :) https://t.co/OyjNXdqN4y https://t.co/UU0vwJcOKo 2021-08-05 20:01:01 @benhammersley At least if I get pruned I get to meet the alligator maybe? 2021-08-05 19:58:09 p.s. @mark_riedl thank you for inspiring this with your current twitter name 2021-08-05 19:57:37 I am a very busy professor with a to do list a mile long, but I just spent about 10 minutes contemplating the possibility that we are ALL Loki variants. 2021-08-05 18:54:11 @Blackamazon the work I'm doing now is definitely solidifying how the moderation problems on tiktok are disproportionately impacting marginalized creators, including POC and sexworkers :( 2021-08-05 17:55:07 This thread makes a wonderful point that things going "back to normal" immediately aren't a problem just because of vaccination status or masking or even the current state of COVID at all. https://t.co/PU7BjhTtiw 2021-08-05 17:50:56 @Eden_Shaveet oh gosh I mean, the stories I've heard about people getting banned on TikTok for e.g. "minor safety" or "nudity," clearly because of mass reporting, when that person is in their 20s and fully clothed, suggests that there is too much automation in the process 2021-08-05 14:51:52 @jilliancyork Oh absolutely! Though I think it's becoming more of an "everyday" problem for folks beyond activists. :( Which says something I guess about the ease of doing it. 2021-08-05 14:46:35 Weaponizing content moderation for harassment is becoming a huge problem. I'm studying moderation on TikTok 2021-08-05 14:08:47 RT @CenDemTech: In a report released to the public on June 29, @USGAO found that 13 of the 14 fed. agencies that use non-federal #facialrec… 2021-08-05 13:50:49 Anyway if journalists are still writing about this today, the paragraph two tweets up is probably the more relevant thing I have to say. :) And if anyone really wants to dig into this topic, there's an #AEJMC21 panel I'll be on at 11am CDT! https://t.co/pt5ONsof4S 2021-08-05 13:47:50 @howtointernet4 @bkeegan @natebeard_ Ah very cool, what paper is this from? 2021-08-05 13:47:16 A tricky thing about relevant context is that people value things differently & 2021-08-05 13:34:15 Mostly I've thought and talked about contexts in which researchers scraping data might be ethically questionable even if technically or legally allowed. However, it is important to remember as well that the opposite is also true. https://t.co/wX5FVinK0T 2021-08-05 13:31:16 Link to full paper in that post as well, but here is a relevant discussion point. TL 2021-08-05 13:23:27 Since we're talking about data scraping again (and will continue to!): ICYMI @bkeegan @natebeard_ & 2021-08-04 21:35:09 @linguangst @syardi my favorite silly cite checking thing though is still someone asking me to provide a citation for a statement that people cannot read minds :) 2021-08-04 21:27:56 @linguangst @syardi want to talk about broken spirits, I spent a year as a cite checker and then was the senior articles editor for a law review haha 2021-08-04 21:23:26 Wow I am so excited to read this, congrats @linguangst & How did you enjoy the bluebook? :) https://t.co/6hEunMiT8h 2021-08-04 19:54:22 Thanks to detective work from @laurence my video has been located! Also this is both weird and kind of like a bizarre scavenger hunt so I was amused when a bunch of people tagged me in a @hankgreen video with the same issue. https://t.co/jM3n1awZgg 2021-08-04 18:55:21 @laurence Wow that’s some detective work!!! 2021-08-04 18:14:19 Turns out that the dancing video (which I now know is creator Emilia Fart!) is ALSO replaced with something else. I’m 99% sure this is a weird bug but a lot of TikTokkers are convinced it’s a conspiracy. https://t.co/q7KrZOfn0X 2021-08-04 16:32:15 I'm imagining some kind of one-off error in a database somewhere, and really want to know now what random cat video or whatever is showing me talking about TikTok's algorithm instead. :) 2021-08-04 16:25:17 @EllindaPlays I just pinned a comment to the top of mine just in case haha. 2021-08-04 16:17:55 @EllindaPlays Apparently it is a widespread issue! 2021-08-04 16:13:17 Today in buggy code, TikTok is randomly replacing videos with other ones. So now my video about algorithms is instead a woman dancing in a field but with my captions and profile. Which is… kind of amusing tbh. https://t.co/RYZRjtQndZ 2021-08-04 12:29:54 RT @histoftech: Erasure—whether historical or contemporary—is political. People don’t get erased because they’re unimportant. They get eras… 2021-08-04 02:15:48 A joke someone made on Tumblr about fanfiction monetization gave me an excuse to write about one of my favorite fair use cases, TL 2021-08-03 19:34:28 RT @sendgoodcheers: Research participants needed! Help us understand algorithmic bias against YouTube creators! We (Carnegie Mellon Unive… 2021-08-03 19:25:33 @naz_andalibi Being a researcher who operates in a world where industry research is a thing. Also as a professor I’m not particularly useful at giving my advisees advice on internships. 2021-08-03 19:13:27 @naz_andalibi I regret not doing an industry internship (in part because I just wasn’t recruited and as a late bloomer I doubt I would have gotten one anyway) just because I think the backstage experience of industry research would be useful context. 2021-08-03 19:08:49 RT @syardi: wow "Committees led by women can be expected to have 23% more female applicants, and those led by underrepresented-minority fac… 2021-08-03 19:05:38 RT @DrMichaelAnn: NEW PUB @ #CSCW2021 and FOLK THEORIES ARE BACK! Platforms change constantly, and we're left to adapt by updating our #fol… 2021-08-03 17:29:46 Haha perfect! https://t.co/TEjLgeNPjH 2021-08-03 12:56:20 @dmetaxak I’m following this thread, I’ve been concerned about this! 2021-07-31 19:43:33 Oh and also! The timing of this episode was coincidental because just a couple of days ago there was an announcement about an initiative for registering choreography copyrights for a number of viral TikTokers. https://t.co/RB1Q4h93OG 2021-07-31 17:50:11 Also after the equally bizarre treatment of Section 230 a couple of weeks ago I'm starting to wonder if The Good Fight has always had off base legal arguments and I've just never noticed because it's usually areas of the law I don't know well. 2021-07-31 17:48:22 If you're unaware of the conversation around TikTok dances and Black creators, here's a recent op ed. It also briefly mentions the Fortnite lawsuits. https://t.co/K1VaKICNqM 2021-07-31 17:47:09 This week #TheGoodFight tackled dance copyright w/ an amalgam of issues around TikTok & 2021-07-31 14:14:02 @miguelnomicon @doctorow I played City of Heroes/Villains when I was in law school. :D 2021-07-30 23:48:49 RT @mark_riedl: Please read my paper on why AI systems shouldn’t be considered inventors on patent application (Riedl, Li, Microsoft Word,… 2021-07-30 23:47:54 @questauthority @doctorow Aw yay! I seriously thought no one had ever read this. 2021-07-30 23:24:45 when one of the very few people who have read probably your least read paper is Cory Doctorow :) YES I HAVE WRITTEN ACTUAL LAW REVIEW ARTICLES. https://t.co/ED14GebGRd 2021-07-30 21:15:32 @doctorow Oh my gosh I think you are one of five people in the world who have read that article. :) 2021-07-30 19:56:41 [CC for voiceover] Someone recently asked me if the hardest part of being a professor on TikTok is conveying complex information in a short time. I said no, it’s learning the dances. They thought I was joking! 2021-07-30 19:43:33 Dear promotion committee, I would like to request that the attached be added as an appendix to my recently submitted tenure materials. Sincerely, A Serious Professor https://t.co/wQG6slWorS 2021-07-29 20:37:18 This interview with Clearview's founder is the opening event for an AI conference. And the description does not seem to suggest the conversation will be remotely critical, but instead sounds like... hey, learn how you too can (at NYT put it) end privacy as we know it! https://t.co/wpOAGsAue0 https://t.co/PGO71hg8g3 2021-07-29 19:01:08 @k_trendacosta @jess_miers I find it hilarious when people ask me legal questions expecting me to know things. 2021-07-29 18:28:56 RT @TessTanenbaum: Talking with the press is always stressful, especially if you're a trans women talking to the @nytimes (whose track reco… 2021-07-29 14:56:46 @heycori Oh I should note that the "tiktok ethics interview" was a journalist interviewing me. :) 2021-07-29 14:56:23 @heycori I haven't done more than two a day at least! 2021-07-28 20:15:59 @reidpr https://t.co/8LxRA17GFI 2021-07-28 19:57:23 This by the way is why it's so hard for me to do interviews personally. This week might destroy me haha. And this is SUMMER so it was a week that otherwise would have been pretty open! https://t.co/2YYxi6MDVx 2021-07-27 18:49:26 @moduloone I saw this yesterday and am still in a bit of disbelief that it's real. 2021-07-27 17:21:22 RT @EstelleSmithPhD: ICYMI: Reddit users! Please check out this survey and tell us your thoughts about communities and bots on Reddit. Chan… 2021-07-27 15:54:58 Just gave a short lightning talk at the virtual #ResponsibleCS summit! This webpage has all of the writings and resources we have related to ethics education, including intro programming assignments and my video essay about computing ethics integration. https://t.co/yM3je9ray8 2021-07-27 15:28:11 RT @EvanMPeck: FYI: The Teaching Responsible Computing Summit (@mozilla) is streaming live on YouTube - now until 5:30-ish EST. https:/… 2021-07-27 04:33:52 @kdphd @WHOSTP @AlondraNelson46 @geomblog Wow congrats and awesome! 2021-07-27 04:00:49 Social media researchers, is there a term for “bigger audience equals more trolling/harassment”? Anyway I have an illustration for you. https://t.co/f3ckrSmrjj 2021-07-27 02:03:04 @linguangst I also hope Happy can join us again someday. :) 2021-07-27 01:56:38 @linguangst I should feel bad for this joke. 2021-07-27 01:56:09 @linguangst also sleepy and sneezy and doc 2021-07-27 01:55:22 @AndreaKGrover This is kind of what this is but I also know my limitations so an RA is also doing interviews. :) 2021-07-26 18:39:53 @mynkgoel It was fine! Though I'm sure that later I'll be kicking myself for things I didn't ask, etc. 2021-07-26 18:38:02 As a professor I'm often not directly involved in data collection because the majority of projects in my lab are led by PhD students. I just conducted my first research interview I've done personally in five years! 2021-07-26 14:23:31 @BlakeleyHPayne haha reminds me of the syllabus where @LifeofNoods and I got the title for our AIES paper - it had "ethics" listed at the very end with "if times allows" next to it 2021-07-26 12:45:43 And finally, the most prevalent theme: (14) I learned a lot, and you're great, thank you! :) 2021-07-26 12:44:13 (11) Have never heard the word "suss" before and very confused because of Among Us (12) "You said 'less' when you should have said 'fewer.'" (13) You are an evil liberal professor brainwashing the next generation, and I am even more sure of this because your glasses are blue. 2021-07-26 12:43:53 (7) Censorship is ruining everything. (8) Lack of censorship is ruining everything. (9) TikTok is evil because of one of the above. (10) China. 2021-07-26 12:41:28 (5) Here is one personal experience I have had, and therefore everything you say is false. (6) Here is one personal experience I have had, and therefore everything you say is true. 2021-07-26 12:36:55 (2) Thank you for including a trigger warning. (3) It's stupid that you thought you needed to include a trigger warning for that. (4) Your trigger warning was insufficient. 2021-07-26 12:35:18 As another update, here is a brief thematic analysis of the comments section of my first video to get one million views on TikTok. (1) WHY IS THE ALGORITHM SHOWING ME THIS VIDEO ABOUT THE ALGORITHM? Has it become self aware???? What does this mean about me???? https://t.co/zi6ARxQVJh 2021-07-26 10:24:04 @ploipailin Oh there won’t be one for a very long time! But the video linked in my most recent tweet has screenshots. 2021-07-26 02:44:07 RT @informor: Your Sunday morning misinformation reading -- one might ask how such a grifter had been able to broadcast to millions on all… 2021-07-26 00:57:23 So a side effect of TikTok deleting comments with links is that scientists (e.g. also @DrKatEpi ) are having difficulty citing sources. (I know a lot of tech journalists follow me and TikTok has a habit of addressing things when there's press, so. ) https://t.co/zsLGVoKNsG 2021-07-26 00:21:42 RT @ayeemach: In my new piece for @Slate, I wrote about why we should see algorithmic bias as a feature of technology, not a bug. https://t… 2021-07-26 00:15:50 @dorsilaw "Twist" was a VERY strong word here :) It was not a twist. "Evil facial recognition" is the first five minutes or so of the episode. 2021-07-26 00:11:06 @LibSkrat ha yes wonderful point I mean the show is super entertaining and I love it but the constant vague references to HARDISON'S ALGORITHM 2021-07-26 00:00:32 An episode of #LeverageRedemption about facial recognition (clearly inspired by Clearview) has the evil twist that the creator is selling powerful people the ability to not be recognized by his system. And I'm like... yep okay, that tracks as a thing that could happen. 2021-07-25 23:03:16 @scifantasy @AnnemarieBridy @shandaylee HOWEVER I am definitely not an expert on what's going on with CASE and so I'll just hope that this is a situation that will not come to pass, because... ugh. 2021-07-25 23:02:23 @scifantasy @AnnemarieBridy @shandaylee It just seems like a DMCA takedown would still be easier/cheaper. Though I can imagine this if there's an idea there might be actual damages... like say, a pirated book. But it's hard to imagine what damages one would argue for fanfiction, even if it was monetized? 2021-07-25 22:57:17 @AnnemarieBridy @shandaylee Do you think that people will bypass the DMCA and go straight to the uploader without trying to get the content taken down first? 2021-07-25 22:23:30 @melstanfill oh it was there first! I just added a link to the end of the thread, thank you. :D 2021-07-25 22:23:10 And if anyone would like to talk about this on Tumblr here's the post! :) https://t.co/uZrvCBGeot 2021-07-25 22:19:58 So basically, the process for infringement claims on Tumblr is exactly the same as it was a week ago and will likely continue to be. Nothing new here! Except personal decisions from fanworks creators about what they think is fair use versus not. 2021-07-25 22:17:18 Tumblr isn’t saying fanfic (monetized or not) is fair use (or not) - they’re saying that any content on Tumblr might be fair use, which is true. And making money from something is not an on-or-off switch for fair use. Noncommercial fanworks are just a much stronger fair use case. 2021-07-25 22:15:09 Just as has always been the case, it's up to a Tumblr user to know whether their content is infringing. And if there's a DMCA takedown, they get to decide whether to counter-notice or not. And if they don't, it almost certainly stops there. The content stays down. No lawsuit. 2021-07-25 22:13:09 If there is content on Tumblr that a copyright owner thinks is infringing, the most likely course of action is that they use the DMCA takedown process. This doesn’t change because the content is monetized. The only thing that changes is a potential fair use analysis. 2021-07-25 22:10:26 Update: I'm seeing some panic about Tumblr monetization and the fact that they called out fanfiction explicitly, mostly e.g. "why is Tumblr claiming that commercial fanfic is fair use!" or "Tumblr won't protect you from a lawsuit!" But... nothing has actually changed. [Thread] https://t.co/Q4AomxrAKe 2021-07-25 21:57:16 Also I can imagine reasons TikTok might want to limit links - but I reread their community guidelines, and if they DO have a rule addressing that, it's not written down. As someone who actually wants to follow the rules, I would appreciate knowing what they are. 2021-07-25 21:54:49 @karger This was definitely automated, because it happened within a minute of posting! 2021-07-25 20:44:12 @sharoz @LegalEagle hahaha I ALSO got a copyright flag for a YouTube video I made about fair use 2021-07-25 19:43:27 Update: Just had a comment I made on my own video removed (it was a link to my own tumblr post explaining more about a copyright-related video) for unspecified "content violation." And now I'm blocked from commenting on TikTok due to "multiple community guidelines violations." 2021-07-25 14:31:49 @emax haha well it's not like I didn't already heard of many examples exactly like mine but it good to see firsthand. Plus screenshots! 2021-07-25 14:29:04 Had my first TikTok video removed (fast enough that I assume automated) for a community guidelines violation (spoiler: it definitely wasn't) & 2021-07-25 03:45:04 @JeniT Thank you! This is CNN probably the hardest part… but only because I do rarely do tiktok dances. 2021-07-25 00:52:21 RT @TWC_Comms: Transformative Works and Cultures is an international, peer-reviewed journal published by @OTW_News. TWC publishes articles… 2021-07-25 00:49:05 @ruchowdh 2021-07-24 22:57:22 Yes! I’m sure a non-zero number of people think that me being on tiktok is silly but I think that AI/tech ethics is a really important area for science communication. And young people especially aren’t necessarily reading like WIRED. And definitely not the FaaCT proceedings. 2021-07-24 08:31:53 @ellenalexia That’s so funny! I mean trust me, many of the people seeing this video are absolutely unimpressed with me in general too haha. 2021-07-24 00:09:35 @rejectionking ha thank you! 2021-07-23 19:41:22 P.S. If you were interested in the research cited in this video... https://t.co/rzDKjPk00m For the record, videos I've made that cite my OWN research have never gone viral haha. 2021-07-23 17:40:53 @morgangames haha I stopped engaging at that point but someone else jumped in and pointed this out and then it became about how professors should only teach and not do research 2021-07-23 16:12:28 "You're... against scientific research? Well okay." "No I'm against universities being involved in scientific research." "Out of curiosity who do you think should be doing research?" "The government and only the government." 2021-07-23 16:07:23 more in FROM THE TIKTOK COMMENTS. on a research recruitment video: "I'm ethically against marketing research." "I'm not a marketer I'm a scientist!" "But you're doing marketing research." "Nope, I'm a professor, this is scientific research." "Oh I'm against that too." 2021-07-23 14:35:11 Update: A TikTok I made about this is going viral, it's at over half a million views already. And umm people have feelings. Also it's funny to watch commenters theorize over why The Algorithm "decided to" show them my video about The Algorithm. https://t.co/HLvC7kG8E2 2021-07-22 19:24:51 The algorithm sees "you watch and rewatch videos with body positivity content" 2021-07-22 19:22:37 This problem gets discussed a lot among fat creators on TikTok. They get a LOT of harassment. Likely in part because people who have a problem with fat people like to TELL them they have a problem. And the video just plays in the background while they comment awful things. 2021-07-22 19:20:33 The WSJ bots reinforced that all the algorithm needs to be able to HIGHLY personalize your feed is watch time - not engagement metrics such as likes. So do you see the potential problem with this? A lot of people watch things they hate. And they watch people they hate. 2021-07-22 19:18:41 This is an interesting question, and the answer is, no, the WSJ report does not talk about this, but it brings up another type of harm that might occur because of the signals that the algorithm is using. Note that this is just based on my observation. https://t.co/IUQ8unr05I 2021-07-22 19:16:16 @snotskie This video was so short, and I'm not sure what else they might have found! Though you might find @anamatics' research interesting: https://t.co/JSJFpHU4Gg 2021-07-22 19:05:17 But an interesting side effect: Videos with fewer views are less likely to have been seen by human moderators or reported. Niched down feeds are more likely to include videos with fewer views. So the more personalized TikTok gets, the most likely you are to see abusive content. 2021-07-22 19:02:07 Anyone who's spent time on TikTok knows how quickly it "niches down" your feed. The example they use in this video is a bot account that was programmed to pause longer on sad videos, and soon its for you page was 93% content about sadness and depression. 2021-07-22 19:00:42 So @WSJ did an investigative report about TikTok's algorithm. Basically they created a bunch of bot accounts to suss it out. What they found is not surprising, but this is a great video for explaining how systems like this work. But also... harm. https://t.co/ytO3nfdJGA 2021-07-22 17:04:41 @blakereid also uuuuugh your point about permission culture is giving me kindle worlds flashbacks 2021-07-22 17:01:59 @blakereid I mean we've been heading towards more commercialization of fanworks already with e.g. patreon but it's very interesting that tumblr appears to be inviting it specifically. I would think they would rather pretend they don't know people might be monetizing fanworks. 2021-07-22 16:59:35 @shandaylee I suspect cease and desist letters or DMCA takedowns are more likely than lawsuits. I mean I haven't heard of lawsuits re: fan creators on like patreon but it's possible those other things are happening. 2021-07-22 16:03:36 It's not surprising Tumblr is trying out monetization (I suspect that ALL user-generated content platforms are headed that way) but I AM surprised that they explicitly call out fanfiction. Ah the "what counts as commercializing fanfic" wars shall continue. https://t.co/RREG5JXGZb https://t.co/RyaVgimUJZ 2021-07-22 15:20:18 @anamatics aaaaggh I had the exact same thought, I've been trying to dig into this to understand but it's Concerning 2021-07-21 21:17:47 @DaniJaraDent yes that part is really nice!! Here's a nice update: https://t.co/RGBrPk1QQ7 2021-07-21 21:16:51 @k_trendacosta haha I should have just @ ed you in this :-p 2021-07-21 21:03:11 @stokel Isn't it! I mean I think about this stuff a lot, and even I hadn't considered this particular problem. But it's kind of huge... nine million videos on the platform muted because because of one copyright claim. 2021-07-21 21:02:04 And from a user experience and fairness perspective, this SUCKS. I had never thought about this potential problem before, and - even if it turns out to be a mistake for this particular audio - I may stop using background audio on my educational videos moving forward. 2021-07-21 21:00:24 Anyway, the reason this is such an interesting fair use hypothetical is because of the in-practice divorcing of video from audio in determinations of copyright infringement. Also just general technical-policy gaps in how copyright policy is implemented on a platform like TikTok. 2021-07-21 20:48:14 And the plot thickens. Turns out the creator of the original audio (which was a Steven Universe cover) did not actually submit a copyright claim… also yes, I undershot, this issue has resulted in NINE MILLION muted videos on TikTok. https://t.co/wnx5JfpvOy 2021-07-21 20:44:53 @LisaDeBruine Yep people tagging me in that video is what brought it to my attention! Also I just linked to that! 2021-07-21 20:44:04 Also creators aren't notified when videos are muted. I had no idea my video muted until I heard about and went looking for it. There is in theory a LABOR INTENSIVE way to pull your original audio out of the video, but TikTok doesn’t make it easy. See: https://t.co/6VTc5ROiQy 2021-07-21 20:36:32 But the point is, you could imagine videos that ARE clear fair uses of an underlying audio. However, copyright takedowns on TikTok only go to whoever posted the audio - so only they can appeal it. Not the half million people who created videos using that audio. 2021-07-21 20:34:01 I'm sure if I asked a class of copyright students I'd get differing fair uses determinations for my use of that underlying audio. It's only about 30 seconds, though I'm not commenting on the audio so maybe not transformative... I'm not totally confident on an analysis myself. 2021-07-21 20:29:57 If you’re curious about the audio, here’s a video of mine (now also muted on the app but I had it downloaded anyway) that used it. It was a VERY popular audio. I’m going to guess there were at LEAST half a million videos that used it, probably more. https://t.co/VzVOlxL1PG 2021-07-21 20:25:09 So here’s your sad story hook: This creator (who is great, check out her content!) had almost 100 educational videos muted without notice because the underlying sound was removed due to a copyright claim. https://t.co/VcGW5BbnZK 2021-07-21 20:20:23 However for a lot of content, people use existing sounds as *background* music. For example, I use this Bladerunner music in a LOT of my videos about tech ethics. And if you click on the sound title, you'll see 400,000+ more videos that also use it. https://t.co/msS4GJzkGE 2021-07-21 20:17:59 First, for the TikTok-ignorant, content creation focuses on using existing sounds. This is why there's lip-syncing, trends, etc. For example, this Bo Burnham song is a gift & 2021-07-21 20:05:34 Hey copyright nerds! I have an interesting fair use hypothetical for you. It has to do with copyright takedowns of TikTok audio and the fate of videos that use that audio. Here’s a video explanation but I’m also going to explain in this . https://t.co/PkcKg3BT6C 2021-07-21 19:50:38 @hedgielib ... wait, dentistry?? 2021-07-21 19:48:33 @hedgielib Ha yay! I was just about to do a Twitter thread about the issue. 2021-07-21 15:08:31 CFP for posters, demos, and lightning talks for #GROUP2022! This will be an in-person conference in January. https://t.co/Dl66UFPcJ8 2021-07-20 22:31:37 This TikTok sound immediately made me think of a particular “three things and that’s it” that some other Internet researchers might relate to. https://t.co/Wv6XeZ3iZr 2021-07-20 22:26:35 @BostonJoan @BriannaDym is my first PhD advisee on the academic market and is awesome She’s studying how technology empowers marginalized communities online with fandom as a case study, and a side of internet ethics and safety. 2021-07-20 20:35:00 @anamatics I wonder how many people with opinions on it actually know what GMO means. 2021-07-20 14:28:12 @MrsChom How forms are designed is part of it! Some of my colleagues have done recent work on this https://t.co/AXpCxdkf0k 2021-07-19 19:01:58 This is not a direction I was not expecting a trademark lawsuit to take. https://t.co/VQmpZ4cMs2 2021-07-19 18:41:55 @KendraSerra It's pretty ridiculous that someone has to get a doctorate just to get a gender neutral honorific that is widely recognized. :-\ 2021-07-19 18:40:35 This is awful, and I'm going to guess that "literally can't" means "computer won't let me" so just another reminder that one line of code (e.g., forced answer validation) can do actual harm. https://t.co/bS6xQLbmEn 2021-07-19 18:39:27 @KendraSerra Ugh I'm so sorry. And this part shows the repeated consequences, it's not like forcing the choice in the system didn't matter. :( 2021-07-19 17:13:33 @itsnikkigale I do too but only because I have insurance! 2021-07-19 15:32:54 @mapq See also: qualitative research methods 2021-07-19 15:26:23 With the amount of resources @Starbucks must put into app development it would be really nice to not have to do math and guesswork for insulin dosing. I got really excited when I saw an app update with a new ordering interface but alas. #t1d https://t.co/kKwPYzoeN6 2021-07-19 15:22:38 @syardi I recently had a discussion with someone about when a paper is ready to submit and they mentioned using submission as a way to get "external feedback." I had to remind them that that is a thing you can (and should) do BEFORE submission... 2021-07-19 12:35:28 I really dislike the word "rigorous" as a distinction in computing disciplines. Regardless of what is meant by it, it is almost always interpreted as "hard" versus "not hard" where "not hard" usually includes things like communication and critique and application. https://t.co/JrwNTIw7CP 2021-07-18 17:33:07 @drbobrinkman @joeyabanks NOOOOOO 2021-07-18 00:19:03 So on the one hand, am I a real live influencer now if people are impersonating me? On the other they DIDN'T EVEN SPELL MY NAME RIGHT. Also if you want to follow my actual instagram, while knowing that I am apparently NOT GOOD AT INSTAGRAM: https://t.co/ldDjt8VrCP https://t.co/nX5aw0me9N 2021-07-17 23:49:56 If you’re wondering why I make these videos: I always get comments from people with T1D who are excited to see it. My hope is representation/normalization is helpful, especially for young people on tiktok. https://t.co/eu3cFEfC3O 2021-07-17 23:45:35 And finally a couple of educational videos about what it’s like to change CGM sensors and insulin pump insertion sites. Which of course I at least knew nothing about before all this… https://t.co/1Y9JimZ7tt 2021-07-17 23:41:59 And here’s a TikTok about how much diabetes would cost per month if you didn’t have insurance. (FAQ: I have very good insurance, I pay about $100 out of pocket a month. Also I’m in the U.S. And these are all estimates.) https://t.co/myTtw8e0X9 2021-07-17 23:37:36 Here’s one about how super awesome insulin pumps are. Because, you know, algorithms aren’t all bad. :) https://t.co/Oe9ri6jT9j 2021-07-17 23:30:33 Since this thread has struck such a nerve I thought I would share some of my favorite #T1D tiktoks. :) Starting with… https://t.co/ANPKBEURsQ 2021-07-17 23:26:34 @grok_ @BlakeleyHPayne I am a geriatric millennial 2021-07-17 23:22:03 currently trying to convince @michaelzimmer et al. to let me do our AOIR presentation in TikTok trends ? ? 2021-07-17 23:21:14 @BlakeleyHPayne @grok_ WAIT. WAIT WHAT DOES THAT EMOJI MEAN 2021-07-17 21:48:02 I spent the morning catching pokemon and then made a video about tort law. #gofest2021 #PokemonGo https://t.co/WwBw6NCnDE 2021-07-17 13:16:40 RT @BlakeleyHPayne: hey fat friends! upping this one more time today - we'd love to chat with you about your online experiences. please che… 2021-07-17 12:34:41 @GameGirIAdvance @serglesinner Diet is certainly one contributing factor out of many for type 2 diabetes (including genetics, so it's possible your mom know there's a family history), but it it has nothing to do with type 1 diabetes. But the point is that either way the jokes are inappropriate! 2021-07-17 12:20:14 @CobaltEternity I did not use the phrase “contribute to.” 2021-07-17 03:26:54 @agtmadcat Yes, I am fully aware of all of this, though I'm not sure what it has to do with my tweet. People can certainly do research about the medical complexities of type 2 diabetes, and in the meantime, they can not make jokes like that. 2021-07-17 03:20:52 @agtmadcat Diet as one factor out of many for one type of diabetes does not mean you "get diabetes from too much sugar." 2021-07-17 03:08:56 @agtmadcat "Diabetes" is not just type 2. 2021-07-16 19:46:58 @katestarbird I think the misinformation point was subtle, but a finding here is about the amount of product peddling happening in diabetes facebook groups. https://t.co/euEJC5SIcq 2021-07-16 19:38:50 @DipierroAnthony Not for type 1, it isn't. But the point is that the joke isn't funny either way. 2021-07-16 15:51:23 @werbette 2021-07-16 15:51:03 @astepanovich uuuuuuugh I knew this was going to happen 2021-07-16 13:55:05 @lrthreads (not a doctor but) if you have a family history of T2 it's certainly something to be conscious of - it is the case that diet and exercise have an impact on T2, just that genetics are also important. < 2021-07-16 12:48:20 @accote @jfhbrook Ha yes that’s a very different kind of joke. :) I just woke up so I’m still in the dawn phenomenon or “why does sleep have carbs in it” phase. 2021-07-16 03:17:26 A bit of an aside, but to prepare I briefly dug into TikTok’s policies around minor safety in addition to misinformation, and… the level of specificity makes me realize what a big problem sexualization of minors on TikTok must be. :-/ 2021-07-16 03:16:37 I had no idea about this until I spoke to EJ for this story, and just… sigh. https://t.co/SLZvAO2HG3 2021-07-16 03:05:12 @Loquacities And perhaps for them to stay far away. I think I get cranky. :) 2021-07-16 02:50:09 @jfhbrook I have a giant bag of m& 2021-07-16 02:28:52 RT @sigchi: SIGCHI's ACs for Accessibility @soraia_roo & 2021-07-16 02:07:10 @Rook_Stone Ugh I'm sorry. :( I had a misdiagnosis of T2 for the entire last summer and finally had to insist on seeing an endocrinologist. 2021-07-16 02:00:17 @daniellecitron I also have so much respect for parents. I can't even imagine. Taking care of myself is bad enough, and I'm a grown-ass adult. :) 2021-07-16 01:57:06 @EmilieMcKiernan Ugh, I'm sorry. The amount of ignorance and misinformation about this particular disease out there is absolutely astounding. 2021-07-16 01:55:32 @BlakeleyHPayne I also really hated that. :( It's also lazy comedy. Like, if they wanted that to be a plot point they could have actually worked to do it well. 2021-07-16 01:52:41 And one more thing about this thread: This note about the joke applies to Type 2 as well. Genetics are a thing and if eating too much sugar literally caused diabetes then half the world would have it. And it's not particularly funny to joke about ANY disease. Do better, world. 2021-07-16 01:48:19 Also for those of you who are wondering how I've been doing: I am nearing my one-year T1D diagnosis anniversary, I have a new appreciation for amazing technology, and I'm doing great but on the daily I am floored that CHILDREN have to do what I'm struggling with on a daily basis. 2021-07-16 01:41:49 * This tweet brought to you by a true story that happened weeks ago but apparently has been bugging me this whole time and I was reminded of it by this post on Reddit. https://t.co/JODfDj2d9D https://t.co/1OFv1tkJTr 2021-07-16 01:38:05 PSA! Jokes about diabetes aren't cool! You won't get diabetes from eating too much sugar, it's not funny to joke about getting diabetes from eating too much sugar, and if you have diabetes it kind of sucks to hear that joke while you're busy trying to do math so you don't die. 2021-07-16 00:57:44 RT @GuhaShion: < I am very proud to announce what I think is the best paper I have ever written on the tenure trac… 2021-07-15 20:58:50 RT @irl_research: We’re a team of researchers interested in the intersection of fat activism and technology, and we want to understand expe… 2021-07-15 20:53:45 @DrDavidJoyner 2021-07-15 17:56:39 @eisoj5 https://t.co/DfhshbMcCy 2021-07-15 17:38:22 It is really bizarre to see my own tweet showing up in random unexpected places. Facebook, Instagram, Reddit... I hope I've at least gotten some new Twitter followers of it, hi! 2021-07-15 17:30:48 RT @oliverhaimson: research opportunity: participate in our (paid) interview study about experiences with content and account re… 2021-07-15 17:30:16 @michaelbusby That’s just an image :) 2021-07-15 12:01:38 I heard a story on the news yesterday about Cuba that vaguely mentioned the impact of internet adoption there. Michaelanne's work on this is really great! Her webpage with open access links to papers cited in this thread: https://t.co/bvEs4efLHw https://t.co/f8QBzLGGtf 2021-07-15 04:10:21 @alexhanna @marylgray omg!!! 2021-07-14 22:54:02 @DrSeabrook I do this but then talk about it when I teach about terms of service. :) 2021-07-14 22:24:50 @mongoosenewyork I have no idea if you’re trolling or joking but either way I kind of love that Twitter flagged this tweet as offensive. 2021-07-14 21:43:53 @JessaMooreMedia @tiktok_us @Twitter wait until you find my @YouTube and @instagram :-p 2021-07-14 21:43:20 @jnorris849 haha awesome! 2021-07-14 20:48:35 @melstanfill ha I mean that’s fair too! 2021-07-14 20:32:14 @melstanfill I mean, I actually agree about trashing students, and I probably should have anticipated this might be perceived that way... which is clear from more direct trashing in replies. 2021-07-14 20:18:10 I like to share valid criticism, and it is a totally fair point that the “it’s in the syllabus” joke can be harmful, even if my intention was not a dig at students but rather a dig at comments I’ve seen about CRT. We rightly can’t force students to do or think anything. https://t.co/lovWSsxOIZ 2021-07-14 20:01:52 @IAmDylanLewis I think a lot of the replies have slipped into student trashing, but that wasn't my intention. This was only meant as a dig at the idea that we can force students to do or think anything. It was inspired by yet another comment about professors teaching CRT. 2021-07-14 17:39:32 One of my favorite things about research collaborations (especially paper writing) is that people know different literature, so the connections to prior work are stronger. This tweet brought to you by adding citations to overleaf that I haven't read but co-authors have. :) 2021-07-14 15:44:44 @melstanfill @BridgetKies @scmsFaAS @FanStudies That would be this! https://t.co/ZtuvIY6NHt Or the video essay version heh https://t.co/iJDqULggij 2021-07-14 15:17:47 @Paul_IPv6 @jack_daniel I hide things in my syllabus and then use it to make a point when I talk about terms of service. 2021-07-14 15:01:01 @aplombtree If they’ve taught the class before it’s likely they have one that’s very similar though! 2021-07-14 14:34:34 @aplombtree That would require them to be written already. :) 2021-07-14 13:47:29 RT @cuinfoscience: "Both of these categories [of automated content moderation] harm the same people: those who are disproportionately targe… 2021-07-14 13:11:58 ::watches tweet blow up:: I don't have a soundcloud but sometimes I'm funny on tiktok? https://t.co/tub8B3AGpf 2021-07-14 02:41:07 I get mistaken for a journalist frequently enough because of oped bylines that I'm tempted to hustle & (Not that I actually want to impersonate a journalist, but it's kind of silly academics can't get verified.) https://t.co/ccMeDjWMIF 2021-07-14 02:38:16 the context for this salty tweet icymi: https://t.co/rIn1RvXCdl also this article made me check out verification today and all I verified is that I'm not famous enough https://t.co/m2ervcqPGY 2021-07-14 02:35:02 apparently I am 6 followers away from 15k, quick someone make some bots and also maybe get twitter to verify them so I feel bad :-p 2021-07-14 00:40:42 RT @morganklauss: I have gotten a number of requests this week for fellowship tips! Finally got around to publishing a blog post on fellows… 2021-07-13 19:36:50 @TheSkepticalSc2 The thread covers their ethics section, but for one, this was research done in the UK and IRB is a US institution. 2021-07-13 17:16:00 @cynthiablee this tweet brought to you by yet another stupid comment about critical race theory :) 2021-07-13 17:06:58 I feel like if professors actually had the power to brainwash their students, a lot more students would read the syllabus. 2021-07-13 16:56:38 tfw you're about to spend hours and hours formatting a paper in overleaf that if it is rejected from an ACM venue will be mostly wasted work https://t.co/MRBKReX2XV 2021-07-13 14:05:38 @schoemannator omg I have to teach cross-listed classes but I can't imagine putting grad students in groups with undergrads, eep 2021-07-12 18:37:58 @syardi I feel bad when it isn’t reciprocal. :( Like someone knows me but I don’t know them. But interesting how social media can basically lead to parasocial relationships with non-celebrities! 2021-07-12 18:28:43 @liltove I was just thinking, I hope this announcement doesn't result in a bunch of people trying to pull together papers in three days. :-\ That's rough... 2021-07-10 14:30:41 Similarly, there's a difference between: (1) "I just got N papers into X conference!" and (2) "I am so excited to share our work about Z that will be published in Y!" Sharing your work might also mean sharing your win, but the work is most important. :) https://t.co/3mhNxdc36r 2021-07-10 14:07:57 @accote @DocDre @KishonnaGray @safiyanoble @gamespacenl @T0MM7 @thechristinet @brookeerinduffy @JamesNGilmore @JCPlantin @wphillips49 @GingeryGamer @briannadym :) 2021-07-10 14:06:32 @KatAMacfarlane @alexhaagaard I'm actually not surprised at all that an IRB made this determination, though researchers need to realize that "IRB says it's not under their purview" is not the same as "IRB says it's ethical" 2021-07-09 19:39:22 @denzilferreira I fully plan to be buried in these glasses. :) 2021-07-09 19:32:53 @michaelzimmer or what their phone is made out of? 2021-07-09 19:30:47 @BlakeleyHPayne are you blinking because you can't see because you're saving the planet 2021-07-09 19:08:06 more on: TODAY IN TROLLING someone on tiktok accused me of not caring about climate change because of my giant plastic glasses 2021-07-09 17:32:36 @WWRob @evanmiltenburg This paper did not encode mental health in tweets, though I agree that that is a troubling practice. 2021-07-09 17:31:28 @elmyra In the U.S., university ethics review is constrained to human subjects research, which for the most part does not include the study of public data. 2021-07-09 17:30:05 But the point here is, some people might find this method to still be problematic, and others will think my explanation overkill. Even I find this tricky and I sometimes doubt myself. I have different practices and standards now for my own research than I did five years ago. 2021-07-09 17:27:09 We analyzed public comments on news articles. And in doing so we considered possible expectations of privacy (or not), the intent/context of this specific content, and weighed potential risks - and wrote about this in the paper. https://t.co/qvJvmSeAdY 2021-07-09 17:23:34 The context was the Facebook emotional contagion study 2021-07-09 17:21:32 To add to this, I want to point to another paper we published a couple of years ago, for two reasons: (1) One finding is that some people fundamentally object to being studied without their consent. (2) We analyzed publicly available content in this study. https://t.co/DFj83zVm3m 2021-07-09 16:55:21 RT @michaelzimmer: Read this important reminder that research ethics is not just about IRB review, not just about whether data is "public",… 2021-07-09 14:10:01 If you’ve missed this, a viral video on TikTok showed some reeeeeeeal bad abusive language detection, and apparently they gave this ridiculous reason. As I said in this video the other day - not doing basic testing given all their known problems is beyond negligent. https://t.co/E7GKOhnVil https://t.co/JCIwdcY8Yk 2021-07-09 12:21:39 @emilymbender ha it's okay, more baffling than upsetting in this case... 2021-07-09 11:05:44 I have had some really weird interactions on Twitter lately. Is there something in the water or did I just hit some threshold of reach. 2021-07-09 10:13:48 @KordoniN @emilymbender I don't really understand what's going on here, but I'm just going to assume this conversation is over. 2021-07-09 09:56:18 @KordoniN @emilymbender I meant the comment about my titles. Again, I'm happy to have a discussion, but questioning my credentials isn't that, I'm not sure what your reaction actually was beyond thinking that I was angry, and I don't know what my kind is in this context. 2021-07-09 09:51:55 @KordoniN @emilymbender My thread was a summary of concerns raised by others (by my count at least 20 different people), and I chose not to point to the paper so as not to pile on the authors. That was a very rude comment, but if you want to have a substantive conversation about anything feel free. 2021-07-09 09:35:00 @KordoniN @emilymbender I'm sorry, I'm not sure why you think I'm angry, or what my thread has to do with activism. I am not part of the community that was studied. 2021-07-09 09:34:00 @EdNutting I haven't done that kind of comparison, but this paper asked people about university vs government vs marketing research. https://t.co/WmOB3u1mZ0 2021-07-09 09:30:57 @KordoniN @emilymbender I did? I'm afraid I don't understand this tweet. 2021-07-09 09:30:37 @dr_eagan There's no way to know, but regardless, this was a list of perceived harms, and it was perceived as an anonymization failure. 2021-07-09 02:37:36 so yeah let's just say it had a point of view on 230 also this same episode features a fanfiction-related lawsuit and a fake judge handing out meaningless copyright certificates @ericgoldman I would pay to see you live-tweet this 2021-07-09 02:33:21 so blame the people who wrote it, I only promote it to keep your eyes on your screen I don't ever get dirty 'cause section 230 is keeping my hands so clean 2021-07-09 02:33:10 cheats and liars and fools and they're mad and they're mean you get arab spring, you get hashtag metoo but bonus items, pizzagate, fake news and Q but I've got principles so sorry I can't intervene 2021-07-09 02:32:39 I just want to engage you with things to enrage you to keep your eyes on your screen I don't ever get dirty 'cause Section 230 is keeping my hands so clean here's the good news, everybody has a voice here's the bad news, everybody has a voice 2021-07-09 02:31:39 back when there was no one on the internet we had no iPhones, memes were not invented yet congress made up a law to help it blossom and grow so now I can't get sued for what my users say it's why I own to spaceships and most of LA all from winding you up and watching you go 2021-07-09 02:31:07 Had a feeling #TheGoodFight would eventually do an episode about Section 230. And the legal argument posited by fictional lawyers is that it's unconstitutional because ummmm it killed newspapers....? And yes there's a jonathan coulton explainer song, here's the lyrics: 2021-07-09 01:13:21 @Dr_Inna @cynthiablee maybe I'll make a friends only tiktok about it though it might just make you angry heh 2021-07-09 00:47:54 @e_mln_e @epidatageek This study was arguably conducted completely within recognized norms in the research community. 2021-07-08 23:57:23 sometimes I've been working since 8am but then the first thing I do when I stop working at 5pm is spend an hour deeply analyzing an ethical controversy so I can tweet about it... and then realize that was also work 2021-07-08 23:43:08 For further reading, this is a summary of some of the work from myself and colleagues on this topic, including @moduloone's and my paper about how Twitter users feel about being studied. https://t.co/wCZBEDh0Yc 2021-07-08 23:41:46 It's very important to remember there are no checklists here. Not "is it public," not IRB approval, not anonymization. Every research project & 2021-07-08 23:35:13 The fact that there was some ethical consideration from the researchers here (i.e. paraphrasing), suggesting that they had good intentions, also highlights how the norms of academia haven't caught up with the expectations of research subjects. 2021-07-08 23:29:48 This example highlights something that is really important to remember--not ALL potential research harms are privacy-related. A finding in some of my work about public reactions to research is that some people fundamentally object to being studied without consent. That is a harm. 2021-07-08 23:27:18 So what should the researchers have done? Some pointed out that asking permission to use tweets quoted in the paper would have mitigated some harms. This is a strategy that I've seen before in mental health related research - not consent for analysis, but just for quoted content. 2021-07-08 23:24:14 - this community, and patients in general, are a vulnerable population that should be treated with special care by researchers - in support communities on twitter people use pseudonyms to protect their privacy and amplifying their content might counteract those measures 2021-07-08 23:21:01 - the attempt at anonymization was insufficient since people were able to recognize themselves and others in the data - the content analyzed is explicitly people talking about some of their worst experiences, and those experiences should not be exploited for research 2021-07-08 23:18:18 - feels especially invasive with respect to this being a support resource, and that some of the people studied have died - by studying content without talking to people, it does not properly include the community's voices or provide the opportunity for clarification 2021-07-08 23:13:50 I'm going to describe some harms expressed in replies and quote-tweets from people who identify as part of the community studied: - feeling violated and exploited with respect to their content being used without consent, without knowledge, and for researchers' personal gain 2021-07-08 23:08:59 The lead researcher (a student) tweeted a link to the paper, and replies suggest that despite the paraphrasing, multiple people recognized themselves and others in the tweets--including tweets from people who have since died. 2021-07-08 23:03:23 The fact that the research was reviewed by an ethics committee, that there was some consideration for researcher positionality, and that they employed ethical fabrication are steps beyond a lot of research like this. However, the reaction shows that there was still actual harm. 2021-07-08 23:01:16 The paper includes an ethics and consent section that includes the above and notes that because tweets are public, consent was not required. The study also included a researcher with mental health lived experience. There do not appear to be any other statements regarding ethics. 2021-07-08 22:56:45 The paper is a qualitative analysis of tweets about mental health care. It includes paraphrased quoted tweets that the researchers ensured were not searchable. The study was approved by an ethics review committee in the UK, and the paper cites the AOIR ethics guidelines. 2021-07-08 22:53:42 There has been a very upset/angry reaction to a paper published using tweets about mental health. I'm not RTing because I'd like to talk about this without drawing more attention to the researchers or the community. But it's an important research ethics cautionary tale. [Thread] 2021-07-08 22:09:35 @chelloway oh wow I had not, thank you for the pointer 2021-07-08 16:41:37 @saiphcita Wow. Yeah, understandable. Though this wasn't even anything about their application, or working with me... it was a logistical question about the application process. :-\ 2021-07-08 16:38:15 @cynthiablee One less application to look at, for sure! If I were a more vindictive person I’d share a screenshot of their email on Twitter. 2021-07-08 16:35:09 @EMBKDoc @TheCraftyDM I confess, I was genuinely shocked. Maybe I'm less jaded than I thought. :-p 2021-07-08 16:34:50 @TheCraftyDM You would THINK. 2021-07-08 16:30:29 I give lots of advice on applying for PhDs, and... seems like this kind of thing goes without saying, but... if you email the prof in charge of admissions with a question, maybe don't insult them personally and question how they got their job when you don't like their answer. 2021-07-08 13:18:12 RT @mark_riedl: Of course they don’t work. That’s not what these companies are selling. They are selling permission for hirers to self-co… 2021-07-08 12:57:24 A journalist did a study. A real but intentionally bad one. Small N, p-hacking galore. Nothing that ever could have gotten published if peer reviewed. But they published it in a predatory journal... and then sent out a press release. Tada, headlines. https://t.co/C6mYTJPDAn 2021-07-08 12:54:22 TL If you're thinking no big deal because scientists understand what's happening... public opinion also matters. And even VERY BAD "science" can be amplified. Remember how chocolate helps weight loss? https://t.co/iO7aRCGqvP 2021-07-07 20:53:30 @jvitak I love this thread. < 2021-07-06 03:29:15 You know, people joke about this, but someone on TikTok literally just claimed WITH GREAT CONFIDENCE that their google search is more valid than my law degree. 2021-07-05 23:31:48 @neilturkewitz @kerrymuzzey @CreativeFuture @future_of_music I'm happy to respond to arguments that are not personal attacks. :) 2021-07-05 22:37:54 In terms of stakeholders, people like you, as well as the people I'm talking about here, are the ones getting the short end of the stick. The long end goes to YouTube and huge copyright holders who can have lawyers send DMCA takedowns all day. This is not a coincidence. :( 2021-07-05 22:34:38 @future_of_music I did indeed mean "here" in terms of "how content id works" though later in the thread I did say IF it were taken down. If this was confusing, my apologies, I suppose it would not be the first slightly confusing tweet. But I've certainly seen Content ID flag things for less. 2021-07-05 22:28:58 I'm fine with a good counter-argument, so here you are. Though I'm not actually sure there's a fundamental disagreement 2021-07-05 22:26:18 @neilturkewitz @kerrymuzzey @CreativeFuture @future_of_music Well, I said I support valid N& 2021-07-05 22:24:20 @kerrymuzzey @neilturkewitz @CreativeFuture @future_of_music I do not think that's what I suggested. In any case, I appreciate your counter-argument and I will link to it in my original thread. You make great points about different problems. 2021-07-05 22:21:44 @kerrymuzzey @neilturkewitz @CreativeFuture @future_of_music I don't think that, actually. Which is part of the problem. Again, I don't think we're really arguing here! I'm sure we both agree that legitimate fair uses - like the example that started this thread - should be protected. I'm just suggesting ways Content ID could support that. 2021-07-05 22:18:32 @neilturkewitz @kerrymuzzey @CreativeFuture @future_of_music I agree with this tweet so wholeheartedly that I'm not even sure what we're arguing about anymore. :) 2021-07-05 22:17:37 @kerrymuzzey @neilturkewitz @CreativeFuture @future_of_music Unless I (a) did not want to connect my legal name to my YouTube account, and/or (b) was legitimately confused about what was happening, afraid my account might be terminated or I might get an actual DMCA takedown if I don't understand fair use well enough. 2021-07-05 22:13:50 @kerrymuzzey @neilturkewitz @CreativeFuture As I said in the tweet you responded to, I was studying people making fair use of content. And as I said in tweets farther up, I'm guessing that you don't actually think fair use is bad. Nothing in any of my tweets today have suggested that valid copyright takedowns are bad. 2021-07-05 22:12:34 @kerrymuzzey @neilturkewitz @CreativeFuture @future_of_music DMCA takedowns, yes. But I still had to go through an appeal and explain why it was fair use, or the video would have remained un-posted. 2021-07-05 22:11:28 @kerrymuzzey @neilturkewitz @CreativeFuture That said, I was specifically studying a community of people who are making transformative fair uses. So again, these can both be problems at the same time. 2021-07-05 22:10:40 @kerrymuzzey @neilturkewitz @CreativeFuture I wrote a dissertation about this. 2021-07-05 22:10:25 @kerrymuzzey @neilturkewitz @CreativeFuture In contrast, I have almost a decade of research data about chilling effects of these kinds of policies, and many stories from people who were making legitimate fair use and were scared to fight it. Both of these things can be problems at the same time. 2021-07-05 22:07:10 @neilturkewitz @kerrymuzzey @CreativeFuture @future_of_music And again, the ultimate point of that thread is that appealing a claim is kind of scary and requires your real name. I didn't ask that Content ID be abolished, I asked that the appeals process be more scaffolded. So that it could actually do what it's intended to do. 2021-07-05 22:05:48 @neilturkewitz @kerrymuzzey @CreativeFuture @future_of_music Again, my point here is around how the system works in practice. I've had one of my own videos flagged - it was automatic, the content owner had to do nothing. That's what is being exploited here. If it's not actually working, that's great - but I've seen videos flagged for less. 2021-07-05 21:58:24 @kerrymuzzey @neilturkewitz @CreativeFuture I take no issue at all with valid content flags or takedowns, either from Content ID or through the DMCA. And I would imagine you don't either. It would be better for everyone if YouTube's policies made it easier and less scary to appeal for fair uses. 2021-07-05 21:56:20 @kerrymuzzey @neilturkewitz @CreativeFuture I'm afraid you may have read some things into my thread that I did not say. My complaint is not with copyright owners, it is with YouTube's system. And specifically with, as the very last tweet says, the fact that appeals are scary and complicated. 2021-07-05 21:55:00 @future_of_music I'm not sure I said where it was taken down. This was a thread about the logistics of the system generally. This argument is broader than this one example, and I have research data going back almost ten years about chilling effects of copyright claims on YouTube. 2021-07-05 17:11:01 I realized I should end this thread with an actual recommendation, and here is one that is broader than YouTube and broader than copyright: Algorithmic content removals should have fair, simple, non-scary, scaffolded appeals processes. 2021-07-05 15:56:06 Because yes, the use of Taylor Swift's music in this video is certainly fair use... but if it had gotten flagged by ContentID it wouldn't matter unless you were willing to fight it. I'm hopeful that this video still being up is a good sign, but I've seen videos flagged for less. 2021-07-05 15:54:02 There's already a huge imbalance of power re: content takedowns on YouTube, where copyright holders have to do (practically) nothing & 2021-07-05 15:51:12 @Greene_DM I think that's likely! Though there isn't really a way to know if it's worked, because if someone doesn't fight it the videos stay down. And if it's not someone with e.g. a big online audience, we probably wouldn't hear about it. 2021-07-05 15:47:42 Oh and did I mention that Content ID is INCREDIBLY CONFUSING? If you haven't read this white paper from @k_trendacosta and @EFF about this absolute mess, please do. Seriously, lawyers can barely figure this out 2021-07-05 15:44:42 Maybe, just maybe, if you're videotaping a police officer, you might not want to connect your full legal name to that video. Similarly, as I've seen in my research about this issue re: fan communities, maybe you don't want to connect your fannish pseudonym to your real name. 2021-07-05 15:41:15 And for reasons I cannot comprehend - because this is NOT a DMCA process, it's just YouTube policy - you have to provide YouTube your FULL LEGAL NAME in order to dispute a Content ID claim. And also threatening that if you're wrong your account might be terminated. https://t.co/PrOC0tcxM3 2021-07-05 15:38:52 ... and then the burden is on the person who posted the video to fight it. Sure, it's not actually as scary as a DMCA counternotice, but you wouldn't know that from YouTube's language around it. They practically try to talk you out of it. https://t.co/Py22Lueore 2021-07-05 15:35:50 There is no copyright owner making a decision here, just a not-very-sophisticated algorithm. It doesn't matter how Taylor Swift or her record label feels about people videotaping the police. Because a video can get flagged and taken down or muted automatically, and then... 2021-07-05 15:32:25 This weaponization of copyright law by the police is another example of how the logistics of YouTube's Content ID system are harmful. [Thread] https://t.co/AImbHRNSbL 2021-07-05 12:36:58 RT @EvanMPeck: The requirements we impose on CS students were formed in an era filled with entirely different problems. Today, they fall sh… 2021-07-02 22:04:17 RT @BriannaDym: Hey everyone! This summer, I'm interviewing people about activism in fandom. If you wanna talk to me about your involvement… 2021-07-01 00:28:30 RT @undersequoias: At long last, we are thrilled to share this new report, "Assembling Accountability: Algorithmic Impact Assessment for th… 2021-06-29 20:30:33 by the way, if I am working at 4:57am I guarantee you it's because I woke up at 4am and not because I'm still awake from the night before :) 2021-06-29 20:29:37 @EmmaLBriant hahaha they know 2021-06-29 20:28:01 when someone notices that I left a comment on a google doc at 4:57am https://t.co/QhXEIRuHH7 2021-06-29 16:59:41 @syardi @JCollaboratory @mearest that's so cool!!! 2021-06-29 14:48:49 @EthanZ This Bo Burnham song being on tiktok is a gift. https://t.co/bnfa83zv7T 2021-06-29 12:59:01 RT @ruthef: Officially announcing my departure from @csforall & 2021-06-29 12:36:02 @sharoz well and to be clear I don't actually know if in practice the publisher would as you say just not to publish it, but it's certainly the case that any changes made wouldn't be binding 2021-06-29 12:20:34 @sharoz So this is valid - like obviously you wouldn't change a contract to say "now you owe me $1 million" and expect that to be true - but I can't imagine that a publisher would even accept a modified contract in the first place. 2021-06-29 12:18:37 @katypearce @mattzollerseitz haha excellent example! 2021-06-28 18:48:50 Also please feel free to hit me up with your ideas, concerns, wish lists, etc. Will also be doing an open call for new committee members soon as some folks rotate off. 2021-06-28 18:46:08 This recent New Yorker article actually has a discussion of the committee and some quotes from the previous chair. One of my hopes is also that I might be helpful to other computing research communities in thinking through setting up such processes. https://t.co/kD1C79KL8N 2021-06-28 18:44:25 Announcement! As of July 1, I am the new chair of the @sigchi research ethics committee. I have a lot of ideas and a wonderful team backing me! And I'm really excited about continuing to help my research community be thoughtful and reflective about ethics. 2021-06-26 23:02:39 hey fan studies peeps, does Transformative Works & 2021-06-26 15:47:28 One of my least favorite things about social media is that when people say hurtful things about you, sometimes you can't help but see it. But one of my favorite things is that when people say nice things about you, sometimes you see that, too. :) https://t.co/1MCbKV5Yk5 2021-06-26 15:46:25 @hankgreen Also in case anyone comes into the comments here looking for a list of the other books in that photo, they're all in the list near the top of this page, along with nonfiction recs! https://t.co/lqjrCqnBJM 2021-06-26 15:45:39 @hankgreen One of my least favorite things about social media is that when people say hurtful things about you, sometimes you can't help but see it. But one of my favorite things is that when people say nice things about you, sometimes you see that, too. :) 2021-06-26 15:31:45 @acuriousother Oh I actually think Ready Player Two is even better than the first for ethical & 2021-06-25 21:49:46 @Annaleen one of the first that came to mind! 2021-06-25 20:31:57 @web_librarian It's been out for almost a year I think! I just didn't read the first one until last fall so I just now got around to the sequel. It'll be out in paperback soon I bet. 2021-06-25 20:23:13 and also if you want to read other science fiction novels that might make you ponder issues related to tech ethics, here's my tiktok of book recs https://t.co/gVyGAcCyAr 2021-06-25 20:18:43 And imagine my surprise when I'm pondering all this as the audiobook comes to a close and there's SURPRISE @doctorow talking about internet policy and ethics! And practically saying all the things I would say if someone asked me to talk about this book. 2021-06-25 20:16:46 A lot of the kinds of issues in this book around economies, addiction, power, policy, etc. have come up when my students have imagined futures of virtual reality or brain-computer interfaces in the Black Mirror Writers Room. https://t.co/UH8WfUTLSN 2021-06-25 20:09:26 Yes there are aliens but also transformative technology in the hands of a morally bankrupt tech company. Plus the power of social media for organizing and information, ways that big tech can subvert the law, disinformation, social media influencers, and THE PROBLEM OF CAPITALISM. 2021-06-25 20:02:46 Last year when I read An Absolutely Remarkable Thing I tweeted that it gave me social computing research feels (crowdsourced problem solving! social media fame! polarization!) 2021-06-25 20:00:16 Hello, tech ethics community. You know how I like to talk about science fiction that helps us think about ethics and policy issues? So much that ethical speculation part of my research? Well I would like to take a moment to flail over @hankgreen's A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor. https://t.co/fG8jIIXnPg 2021-06-24 15:26:16 @mdeutschmtl aw thank you! 2021-06-24 14:49:17 @TheRhoten Haha about as good as my composition skills 2021-06-24 14:04:49 It has come to my attention that not everyone realizes that my little song is a parody and what it is a parody of, so here you go. :) https://t.co/FXVJmJ5zoS I can write lyrics ok but I have zero musical composition skills. I do own a piano though... 2021-06-23 22:42:28 @BlakeleyHPayne if only I could write music too 2021-06-23 22:11:07 In which I do another verse literally just so I can rhyme “click to agree” with “law degree.” https://t.co/IfQWflE2Hk https://t.co/CtbKMxRSg7 2021-06-23 22:07:52 @randtke List of books here! https://t.co/7bbSkVEDoX 2021-06-23 18:33:18 hey tech companies, Twitter is leaving you in the dust on the ethics hiring front https://t.co/P1w92vFR9p 2021-06-23 18:30:37 @ubiquity75 @mdekstrand @ruchowdh I was so excited to see this! 2021-06-23 14:56:42 @anamatics please tell me this was a copy edit mistake 2021-06-23 13:29:34 Ha I love this. "Opaque proprietary software is likely to impact the future of almost every industry and all our lives" is indeed a very different statement than swapping in "artificial intelligence." https://t.co/NqZz9iedc8 2021-06-23 02:23:11 @ruthstarkman Musical guest lectures! :) 2021-06-23 02:00:41 Welcome to your social feed, the algorithm knows... (Also welcome to this oddly specific genre of tiktoks where I flash tech ethics books at you while singing about algorithms.) https://t.co/kcZqfQedYy 2021-06-22 23:54:26 next spring when I teach online communities I'm just going to link to this as the syllabus and see if the students notice https://t.co/80WYCbZl5W 2021-06-22 22:18:29 @helena_mentis @jvitak @whatknows @jwnichls ooooh yeah I think maybe that's kind of like an estimated impact factor? I think I'd be worried about including it. Though maybe as a footnote... 2021-06-22 21:16:18 @helena_mentis @jvitak @whatknows hmm I wasn't able to find one, if you have a pointer it would be much appreciated! 2021-06-22 20:52:35 @smunson @whatknows thanks! 2021-06-22 19:57:07 @jvitak @whatknows I think the issue is that there's all this language about how no really conference proceedings are the best ever, but then here comes a bunch of pubs in this journal without an impact factor. 2021-06-22 19:22:25 RT @whatknows: Working on tenure materials with @cfiesler. Has anyone out there in the #cscw or #chi world gone through tenure recently? Ho… 2021-06-22 16:59:39 @ruchowdh aw thanks < 2021-06-22 16:59:02 @ThatAndromeda actually it reminds me a lot of when @k_trendacosta and I got called out for our "man hater glasses" while we were on a serious panel about copyright 2021-06-22 16:58:25 @Vortex_Egg @Bri_Morrison @jpdimond Yeah this is unfortunately a problem. :( It's a HUGE problem on tiktok especially for whatever reason. 2021-06-22 16:56:52 to add some levity, because it really did make me laugh, one attempt at... insulting me?? ... was like "I STARED AT HER HANDS THE WHOLE TIME AND SHE DEFINITELY ISN'T WEARING A WEDDING RING OF COURSE." I wonder if male academics ever get that critique of their credibility? 2021-06-22 14:40:14 @bob_calder I actually think in this case it's the specific audience - someone shared my video to the "wrong side of twitter" and for whatever reason the tiktok algorithm has been *fairly* kind in not pushing my content strongly to the "professors are evil" crowd 2021-06-22 14:38:59 @jpdimond < 2021-06-22 14:26:29 so after 8 months on tiktok with the expected amount of trolling but surprisingly light on harassment, it took ONE video of mine being shared on twitter for the personal attacks to really start 2021-06-22 12:12:35 @katypearce @ACMIMX @ICA_CAT As far as I could tell they just found people based on topic. I’d never been to IMX before! @niteshg is one of the chairs. :) 2021-06-22 00:22:37 I was a mentor for the @ACMIMX doctoral consortium today. It was a great example of affordances of virtual conferences - they reached out & 2021-06-21 21:53:53 @blakereid omg 2021-06-21 21:52:14 hahaha the tiktok where I explained why I haven't been posting tiktoks https://t.co/1XS9geWXin 2021-06-18 18:46:36 @mmitchell_ai @mikeloukides @emilymbender @jackclarkSF Absolutely! :) 2021-06-18 18:00:00 @mikeloukides @mmitchell_ai @emilymbender @jackclarkSF oh thanks! I'm going to be thinking about this even more in the future since "how can we help technologists think more like science fiction writers" is basically the topic of my CAREER grant. :) (Some of the big ideas here: https://t.co/vyTtFk89uE ) 2021-06-18 17:58:13 RT @jennwvaughan: Spread the word! We are conducting a paid study on the societal impacts of assumptions in machine learning research! L… 2021-06-18 13:27:38 @DataSciBae @ultush You may find this helpful too! Includes an analysis of technical ML classes as well. https://t.co/n6O8IGKJTu 2021-06-17 15:17:29 @sivavaid @hypervisible @KendraSerra I wonder if there's a version of publishingpaidme for this that would be helpful. 2021-06-17 15:15:37 @KendraSerra @hypervisible I tried this recently: "Can you please let me know what you typically pay for this kind of thing? I think that people should be paid similarly for similar tasks and expertise." They actually told me and I quoted slightly higher than I might have otherwise. 2021-06-17 15:12:33 @KendraSerra @hypervisible Related to this: I worry that "what is your consulting/speaking fee" results in orgs paying people less when they quote less - which I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess means on average paying white men more than others. 2021-06-17 15:01:49 @hypervisible ... I'm glad you said this. I've been struggling with how to respond to those kinds of emails, and the result is often that I end up ignoring them because I don't know how to respond. :-\ 2021-06-17 14:20:10 Science fiction is also often written by people who think about the future, in order to encourage people who aren't thinking enough about the future to watch out and look where they're going. https://t.co/wZkrKfWxDj 2021-06-16 15:56:00 I know this is not the first time I've complained about this but WHYYYYYY did the re-design of the @ACMDL do away with the ability to export search results as a .csv???? 2021-06-15 22:54:33 @iajunwa whenever I hear “it must be so nice to have summers off!” I want to cry 2021-06-15 18:45:02 @annetropy I feel you. 2021-06-15 18:44:40 @ruchowdh hahaha this was totally a comment on my AMA request video so I will :D 2021-06-15 18:00:06 @katypearce oh thank god my tweet was brought to you by Social Media + Society :) 2021-06-15 17:58:46 someone on tiktok made a comment about how chill academics' summers must be and I read it at 6:30am when I was already an hour into work for the day 2021-06-15 17:56:25 @katypearce CITATIONS TAKE OUT ALL THE CITATIONS 2021-06-15 01:20:54 RT @natematias: You want your research to make a difference, but you're unsure how to balance that with the demands of tenure as an assista… 2021-06-14 19:03:19 @julia_neugarten I'll be doing some videos about academic job hunting this summer! 2021-06-14 14:53:38 @DoctorET oh that's a good question! I assume you mean academic books, and that's something I've been thinking about lately :) 2021-06-14 14:33:43 I thought I should do something in honor of 5,000 subscribers on YouTube so I think a Q& 2021-06-14 13:06:49 someone recently asked me, upon hearing it beeping insistently at me, if my insulin pump was a tamagotchi and I have to say (in terms of keeping things alive) the analogy is pretty compelling https://t.co/mNxfNw8IEN 2021-06-14 12:54:32 @sivavaid I love @zeynep's paper where she talks about the "model organism" problem with Twitter. It's the fruit fly of social media research 2021-06-14 01:16:42 @M_F_Rose https://t.co/2HYYHOg5Jc 2021-06-14 01:14:24 @ashposton thank you for the much needed escapism! 2021-06-14 00:07:49 If any of my fannish followers have not read @ashposton's geeky fairy tale retellings, you really should. I just finished reading the most recent one and it's delightful and of course has several shout-outs to AO3. https://t.co/KvCiyWgjQH 2021-06-13 16:19:38 OK this obviously isn't as bad, but I feel like this is still only a couple of steps away from the guy who suggested that we don't need so many prison guards because we can just give inmates oculus rifts and soylent. :-\ https://t.co/TDsRQBMCCU 2021-06-13 13:11:37 Yeah this is unacceptable. Whether it's a platform not creating decent moderation tools or in this case someone choosing to not make use of them, there is no "we didn't know it would be this bad" excuse. You should have known it would be this bad. We all know it will be that bad. https://t.co/N9qs8pfy1L 2021-06-12 15:40:13 @ginasue haha I mean tiktok does get a sentence 2021-06-12 15:39:26 @ginasue Oh that’s so nice thank you 2021-06-12 14:39:41 Also appropo of my "you can always do more" thread from the other day, I keep writing quantitative statements ("I have published N papers in top-tier journals" and "over N citations") and going "Is that a lot? I have no idea!" 2021-06-12 14:37:01 @anneohirsch I do at least know that intellectually haha. 2021-06-12 14:36:34 @melstanfill I mean I think this is probably better, both for letter writers' workload and to emphasize quality over quantity. (Not to say I don't also have the I HAVE PUBLISHED N PAPERS AND BROUGHT IN N DOLLARS in big flashing letters in my research statement. :-p ) 2021-06-12 14:34:35 @mdekstrand ha thank you! 2021-06-12 14:32:48 I am currently at the "pick your three best papers" stage of putting together my tenure materials and also coincidentally the "thinking everything I have ever written is garbage" stage. :-p 2021-06-12 00:19:07 @BlakeleyHPayne I am also just about to start it! 2021-06-11 13:03:49 @pmorrison Ha! It's definitely a "what if." 2021-06-11 12:58:17 once again I was struck by the parallels between academic and fiction writing, when last night instead of working on finishing the novel revision I wrote 600 words of a new one https://t.co/bf1gjXZbD0 2021-06-11 12:56:13 @hannes_elefant Well, obviously that's not the *only* conversation. In any case, I know that all advisors are different, but mine encouraged me to have a life, and I do the same for my students as well as the graduate students I give advice to generally. e.g. https://t.co/Dw0Mo21nRY 2021-06-11 11:25:18 @1810Kali That kind of thing is very difficult to give advice for in generalities! But when deciding whether a project is viable I like to imagine the most interesting findings I might get and then imagine the paper I’d write with them. 2021-06-11 11:09:11 @hannes_elefant “no more side projects, finish your dissertation” is a pretty common advisor conversation! 2021-06-11 02:29:00 @linguangst bUt THe AlGOritHm yOU diD NoT SEe iT 2021-06-11 02:08:22 @linguangst ok now I REALLY want to come to this 2021-06-10 23:29:56 @knitmeapony oh you mean a whole podcast! Not that I know of, but if you start one you can interview me. :) 2021-06-10 20:56:10 @annetropy the things I learn from tiktok haha! 2021-06-10 20:27:12 @melstanfill @adapperprof LOL well done!!! 2021-06-10 20:16:53 @syardi @andicat One of the projects on the list near the top is based on survey data collected in 2017 :) 2021-06-10 20:15:02 @adapperprof My system would also be more useful if I updated it more than like once a semester. 2021-06-10 20:11:57 @adapperprof Years ago (and I just tried to find it and can't :( ) I read an article about "stages of writing" to help you think about all the stages a paper is in beyond "submitted" or "not submitted yet" and then I made this. :) 2021-06-10 20:10:29 @syardi But I will confess there's 2 or 3 at the top that probably SHOULD be shuffled out but I am holding out hope on. I used to have a "waiting for" status column and it was like 80% "Casey" 2021-06-10 20:09:40 @syardi those are all shuffled to the bottom LOL https://t.co/tEqF05Tlnc 2021-06-10 20:03:52 Also for the curious re: what else is on this spreadsheet, eventually projects get shuffled into an "inactive projects" category languishing at the bottom or (hopefully!) as big list of WINS! Also I don't mind sharing all my rejections with you. :) https://t.co/AKB3mUmdBH 2021-06-10 19:58:31 @meredithdclark Yes! Research ethics specifically. @shamikalashawn is leading this. :) 2021-06-10 19:52:07 You know how you can type P R I D E into the top of Google sheets and ? I just upgraded my lab project dashboard (Redacted because I realized I probably shouldn't advertise everything I have under submission. But also this is how I organize projects!) https://t.co/Se9qmlSRm4 2021-06-10 19:10:57 @knitmeapony I mean fansplaining has done some of that I think! 2021-06-10 18:29:02 RT @alexleavitt: Today Facebook is helping to launch the Vaccine Confidence Fund, to enable academic researchers with more financial suppor… 2021-06-10 14:06:11 Of course there are caveats and constraints, mostly having to do with funding and (especially pre-tenure) what might get published and (in lab-based fields) what your PhD advisees want to do, but like... you can just have a RESEARCH IDEA and then DO A RESEARCH THING. 2021-06-10 14:02:17 "No one tells you what research to do" is for me one of the very best parts of being an academic. It's why professor was/is my dream job. I genuinely love my job, even with all the stress. I honestly can't imagine anything else I'd rather do. 2021-06-10 14:00:11 My thread about academic workload is going viral-ish so I want to add a counterpoint (or rather, a "yes and") to the workload problem of no one telling you exactly what/how much research to to do: No one tells you exactly what research to do. Which means you get to pick! 2021-06-10 13:56:35 RT @nehakumar: Thank you, @sigchi! A note from your new Executive Committee-elect: @avivacqua, @andrewkun, @tlclegg, Naomi Yamashita, Shaow… 2021-06-10 12:16:07 @elizabethglund2 oh my gosh good luck to you, we all only do the best we can 2021-06-10 02:38:30 @sendgoodcheers I totally get that! for what it’s worth the algorithm seems to be pretty risk averse 2021-06-10 02:21:10 @sendgoodcheers someone asked me recently if I'm afraid of my insulin pump being hacked and I was like... no, I choose not to be. 2021-06-10 02:19:58 Seeing how many RTs etc. this thread has gotten, I just want to offer anyone reading this a big virtual hug and say: You are enough. 2021-06-09 17:14:00 @AndreaKGrover @TessTanenbaum I mean grading is probably 5% of all my work time so more just not a big enough deal to matter :p 2021-06-09 16:50:36 @EvanMPeck yes yes yes yes! advocating for change = volunteering for service 2021-06-09 16:40:05 @TessTanenbaum the list of "see also: X" things that just popped into my head made me grit my teeth yesssss such a problem 2021-06-09 16:36:14 @TessTanenbaum one time I made a tiktok about feeling overworked and someone commented "well just give less assignments so you have less to grade" 2021-06-09 16:11:13 @cheeflo @insidehighered Yes I remember reading about that on his blog! The different sources thing is such a problem. 2021-06-09 15:40:03 @reidpr Well here I was just thinking about the unevenness - I might work@on average N hours per week but some it’s N-5 and (e.g. deadline) N+5 2021-06-09 15:03:33 @mark_riedl not sure haha! but mostly I mean, after I submit my materials in a month or I don’t think suddenly I will feel better :p 2021-06-09 15:00:54 @michaelzimmer HEY MICHAEL WANT TO WORK ON THAT TOS ANALYSIS YET 2021-06-09 15:00:15 @mark_riedl Since I haven't really been worried about tenure I think I might have jumped straight to intrinsic motivation + students. :) 2021-06-09 14:51:42 @renzheyu yes I think this problem applies to most jobs where you decide what you're doing 2021-06-09 14:49:15 Er if you were hoping this thread would end with a brilliant solution, I'm afraid I don't have one. My epiphany was only to identify the root of the low thrum of guilt/concern. (And to be clear, this is NOT me being worried about tenure.) But I guess that's the first step. :) 2021-06-09 14:46:06 Anyway, the problem is, if you CAN do more (and there are people who then DO because of whatever is motivating them towards some "enough" and possibly overworking themselves), even if you know it is unreasonable you still feel a constant low thrum of guilt or concern for not. 2021-06-09 14:44:21 (I'll also note that, though this can be true for PhD students as well, I think that it is mediated by - hopefully - having an advisor who is giving you more hands on guidance about what is an appropriate amount to do. :) ) 2021-06-09 14:42:01 But the thing is, you always COULD decide to do more. Because for the most part, no one is telling you how much you should do but you. You decide what research projects you do, what papers you write, (often) what service obligations you take on. 2021-06-09 14:39:05 Some of us are pretty good at maintaining a reasonable workload. Stopping work at 6pm. Not working weekends. Not working more than N hours a week unless there's a deadline, etc. And you might cap projects based on how much you can accomplish in that time. (I am bad at that part.) 2021-06-09 14:37:13 And what constitutes "should" or "enough" means a lot of different things for different people. Enough to get a job? Enough to get tenure? Enough to feel like you're contributing to a part of science you are passionate about? Enough to make an impact on the world? 2021-06-09 14:35:02 How many research projects should you be doing at any given time? How many papers should you be writing? You might have a personal sense for this, maybe even a rule-of-thumb, maybe even a mentor giving you advice. But whatever N is, it COULD always be N+1. 2021-06-09 14:33:19 The problem with workload (and thus work-life balance) in academia is: You can always do more. (A thread based on a recent personal epiphany.) 2021-06-09 02:16:25 @naz_andalibi @UMichLaw hahaha umich was one of my top choices for last school and they waitlisted me :-p 2021-06-09 00:24:29 @natematias @deedottiedot @PhoebeSengers @tanzeemc @saysvera Ditto this! 2021-06-08 13:07:33 I'm not totally sure why, but apparently this thread is relevant again, so here's some research about the ethics of e.g. using tweets from a fandom without permission. https://t.co/Hevk2Uj9uu 2021-06-08 12:59:48 @_RainEdition_ @michaelzimmer @katypearce @liltove @moduloone Well if someone collected tweets and did pretty much whatever with them, it's almost certainly legal. But for ethics, the "pretty much whatever" definitely matters... regardless of the fact that many researchers would disagree with that. 2021-06-08 12:48:09 @_RainEdition_ @michaelzimmer @katypearce @liltove @moduloone also last year I was quoted in a teen vogue article about how if researchers start looking at kpop they need to take care https://t.co/Skgs86K7Py 2021-06-08 12:46:34 @_RainEdition_ @michaelzimmer @katypearce @liltove @moduloone wait this is about FANDOM? I also have a paper about exactly that... https://t.co/YHH4eFInP4 2021-06-07 14:27:14 @faber_newton @questauthority @popelizbet I think this might help :) https://t.co/n5RBUkErMN 2021-06-07 11:55:17 @IshaanSutaria @creativecommons definitely not :) Hence why this one was notable when I saw it! Though as you'll see from replies it's not the only such sign. 2021-06-07 11:17:40 @nemobis @creativecommons Ha wonderful! And I’m afraid I know nothing about its history. I just spotted it the first time I visited the town. :) 2021-06-07 02:14:24 @bennytheshap We got bbq in Nederland though! 2021-06-07 02:14:01 @bennytheshap Awww that’s too bad. I want to go sometime! 2021-06-07 02:12:54 @bennytheshap No but we went to the general store and had coffee! Have you been to the restaurant?? 2021-06-07 00:55:02 I can't believe that (as far as I can tell) there was not a @creativecommons licensed photo on Flickr of the most amazing population sign ever, so I took one. A gift to the math/data teachers/bloggers out there. https://t.co/tF51VUiGQp Straight from Gold Hill, Colorado: https://t.co/Wm5xMh9zho 2021-06-05 15:02:04 @KateMLucero @RockCSCO Thank you! 2021-06-05 15:01:52 Fun way to spend a Saturday morning! If anyone who was at the talk has further questions feel free to ask, and you can find the Black Mirror exercise and other resources I mentioned here: https://t.co/yM3je9ray8 #RockCS21 https://t.co/mvVsiQCMXW 2021-06-04 14:11:42 @libbyh @jvitak @anmolpanda_ @anneohirsch @clifflampe was an author on that paper too, I wonder if he reads TOS now :) 2021-06-04 14:10:55 @libbyh @jvitak @anmolpanda_ @anneohirsch haha random memory (that paper was in my dissertation): me & 2021-06-04 14:07:58 @libbyh @jvitak @anmolpanda_ @anneohirsch Both of those papers also have some things cited in the lit reviews about misunderstandings of TOS I think, and the copyright one is a kind of version of that. 2021-06-04 14:05:47 @libbyh @jvitak @anmolpanda_ @anneohirsch In this survey 11% said they'd read the TOS of the platforms we asked them about but honestly I think that is a high number and probably some response bias. :) https://t.co/VSl7gAMPvY 2021-06-04 13:31:49 @libbyh @jvitak @anmolpanda_ @anneohirsch yep that's a good one! there's lots of studies on this (also about readability), this paper has the most recent lit review section I wrote on it :) https://t.co/EBnMqI4j4j 2021-06-03 23:40:37 ok I'm willing to fight all my ivy league prof friends to have this kid stay in-state and attend @CUBoulder so they're in my class in 10 years https://t.co/syeVmx7W4X 2021-06-03 20:28:03 RT @juliekientz: hey @GoogleForEdu, it's pretty terrible of you to give universities free, unlimited storage for a few years, and after we… 2021-06-03 19:47:44 @amyjko hahaha every week's cost of tiktok fame https://t.co/YRinVw4l0d 2021-06-03 18:58:54 @ruchowdh too late haha 2021-06-03 18:33:07 omg people on tiktok keep tagging me in this video with grimes (elon musk's partner) talking about how AI is the fastest path to communism and will save the world 2021-06-03 18:30:00 @katta_spiel @niloufar_s @mdekstrand @DrMichaelAnn @liza_gak @seyiolojo @BlakeleyHPayne @nprandchill when I was looking at the ad categories recently my first thought was "alcohol" and "weight loss" would be really similar here since I assume their intention with the former is to not trigger people in recovery :-\ 2021-06-03 18:27:44 @niloufar_s @mdekstrand @DrMichaelAnn @liza_gak @seyiolojo @BlakeleyHPayne @nprandchill @katta_spiel also I've been meaning to ask someone who is the right person at Facebook to tell that they really, really need to add "weight loss" to the list of ad topics that users can block 2021-06-03 18:26:43 @niloufar_s @mdekstrand @DrMichaelAnn @liza_gak @seyiolojo Yep, and "whenever I like body positivity stuff I start seeing weight loss ads" is probably the second most common thing I noticed. https://t.co/t29WYH5KUS also we're (@BlakeleyHPayne @nprandchill @katta_spiel ) are spinning up a study about online fat communities. :) 2021-06-03 17:51:55 @katta_spiel Congrats! 2021-06-03 17:13:56 @mburnamfink I love fiasco! 2021-06-03 16:53:38 @andrewmiller haha! you know what, I'm going to add photobooth/fun hats to the list :) 2021-06-03 16:09:58 In case anyone comes across this thread now, I summarized the responses, please feel free to share this if it's useful: https://t.co/sDdDzam5B0 2021-06-03 15:53:11 Yesterday I tweeted asking for thoughts about alcohol at academic conferences. I received so many thoughtful responses that I summarized them. There aren't answers here, but many excellent thoughts and ideas. I hope it's helpful for conference organizers! https://t.co/Mu3hveGQN0 2021-06-03 14:37:55 After many months of pointing people to a Twitter thread with an email template, I made a whole video with my thoughts on whether/why/when/how to contact potential advisors prior to PhD applications. https://t.co/E13fh26hjZ 2021-06-03 14:36:16 @mdekstrand @DrMichaelAnn Yesterday in a tiktok I asked people for examples of algorithmic cruelty and a LOT of them are around this exact issue. Facebook has "parenting" as an ad category that you can turn off, at least. I would hope that includes fertility related stuff, but not sure. 2021-06-03 14:00:13 @adapperprof @cmuhcii Oh wow, congratulations! They're so lucky to have you! 2021-06-03 03:28:51 @nickblack haha no 2021-06-03 03:06:35 @dgold I mean I could certainly have bought MORE gear haha. 2021-06-03 03:04:58 when I was in law school I won a Very Fancy Award for law student legal writing (I met David E. Kelley at the fancy awards ceremony!) and anyway I think they should give that award to this guy https://t.co/dRV0xaIdHc 2021-06-03 02:49:41 so after ::checks watch:: almost 10 months, I have now officially made the amount of money from YouTube that I spent on a new camera when I started 2021-06-03 00:07:31 @linguangst @jpdimond reading it first thing this morning I was like well THAT was a way to start my day and then thought omg but Lindsay probably read it right before bed 2021-06-02 23:30:44 RT @eegilbert: Over 100 senior academics (tenure and up 2021-06-02 23:29:54 @linguangst @swodinsky @morganklauss @syardi @alexhanna I mean there’s GROUP which is the other conference I’M organizing right now so 2021-06-02 22:50:13 @swodinsky @linguangst @morganklauss @syardi @alexhanna Welcome! We have social computing research and also hats! 2021-06-02 22:49:19 @syardi @linguangst @morganklauss @swodinsky @alexhanna I seem to remember mark handel wanting to be glitter chair 2021-06-02 21:31:24 @andrewmiller @jesspater @erinleebrady plz report back 2021-06-02 20:29:14 I'll try to find some time to do a thread tomorrow summarizing all the great thoughts in response to this thread, but in the meantime three things that I personally would enjoy seeing more of in conference socializing: 1. tea parties 2. karaoke 3. games 2021-06-02 20:20:12 @erinleebrady I totally agree with you! And it doesn’t seem like it would be much harder to get tan soda. 2021-06-02 20:19:31 @erinleebrady What?! Must try. Also if you haven’t tried Aura Bora it’s amazing. 2021-06-02 20:09:13 @erinleebrady here is a photograph of the top shelf of my fridge, I am a sparkling water CONNOISSEUR https://t.co/9xg1Frt2J4 2021-06-02 20:04:19 Two clarifications: (1) I didn't make this video 2021-06-02 20:03:01 @hmmbee ok so THAT is not on google, it was an addition from the tiktokker who made the video :) 2021-06-02 19:43:17 @albanvillamil some off-shoot of rainbow capitalism? 2021-06-02 19:32:31 @shsannon ah thank you for sharing, super relevant to some work on tiktok we're spinning up! 2021-06-02 19:14:24 It really does seem like at some point during this execution someone must have said "hey are we sure that the search results for pride-related keywords are always going to be something people want to celebrate?" 2021-06-02 19:12:57 Submitted for inclusion into examples of not thinking through what will happen in real world use, algorithmic cruelty, good intentions, etc. etc. https://t.co/36qAa8OPBw 2021-06-02 19:00:39 @morganklauss @linguangst @syardi @swodinsky @alexhanna also to be clear I have no power until the NEXT next CSCW since I'm assuming CSCW 2022 will be in person :) 2021-06-02 15:44:24 There are great responses to this tweet already so far, check them out. Including a lot of things that are an *incredibly low bar* for making people more comfortable, like... make sure there are non-alcoholic drink options. 2021-06-02 15:24:53 @linguangst @morganklauss @syardi @swodinsky @alexhanna I mean CSCW 2021 is virtual but BYOH would be a fun theme for a virtual something :D 2021-06-02 15:11:29 @elplatt That's probably one of the reasons why in all my years attending conferences my best memory is of the CSCW that had karaoke at the banquet. Because it was something to do! 2021-06-02 15:10:12 @StatalieT that's been pretty standard in my experience too, at least for *official* conference events which I assume is also a $$$ thing 2021-06-02 15:08:45 @mariadearteaga Absolutely. Though this isn't a new discussion just as a response to this particular problem. It's come up before for other reasons, though I think some people might be realizing for the first time that it contributes here too. :-\ 2021-06-02 15:03:54 @carlcolglazier in my experience the externally organized events - e.g. the giant parties from specific departments at CHI - have even more alcohol than conference events. 2021-06-02 15:02:29 @healspersecond I can probably find this out myself now, but others probably already know the answer. But what I actually wonder is whether $$ spent on *alcohol* specifically is part of hotel contract requirements, or if it's just $$ spent generally and it could go to other things. 2021-06-02 14:54:12 @alg0phelia @alexhanna @mekkaokereke this tweet is why I think that the way to get CS depts to put more ethics and responsibility and social impact etc. into their curriculum is for tech companies to start asking about it in coding interviews 2021-06-02 14:48:05 As someone actively involved in conference planning right now, and will be for the next couple of years, I would really like to hear more thoughts about the issue that has been raised around the prominence of alcohol at conferences. Just consider this tweet a listening tour. :) 2021-06-02 12:43:47 @morgangames @Nick_Lalone @linguangst 2021-06-02 12:15:50 @Nick_Lalone @linguangst Doesn’t this feel like it made that... worse though? 2021-06-02 12:08:54 @linguangst @UMichCSE There must have been some perception that this document would be persuasive to someone, but... who??? Who is the audience for this? Surely not YOU or uh Twitter. 2021-06-01 23:18:11 @Alexandra__To @cal_liang 2021-06-01 20:51:03 I'm thinking about this in part because of cases in recent years of fiction authors writing queer characters being forced to out themselves. I think positionality is important in research too, but this worries me. 2021-06-01 20:45:07 I understand why this is complicated, but I don't think it's appropriate to demand that an academic out themselves (as queer, having a disability, etc.) in service of a positionality statement. :-\ 2021-06-01 18:13:15 @michaelzimmer I am getting weirded out by this business model shift to individual creator subscriptions in general. 2021-06-01 14:41:39 heh I recently decided to find out if instagram works for public scholarship stuff like tiktok surprisingly does so I’m seeing what happens if I try to grow an account from scratch with stuff like this. Will report back. :p https://t.co/bkwbp5EiUw 2021-06-01 13:13:27 @ruchowdh @nancybaym It’s empowering, queer YA space sci-fi :D 2021-06-01 13:10:53 @RimaSghaier @RayaSharbain That’s a great stack!! I just started reading Silicon Values this weekend. 2021-06-01 12:20:22 @ruchowdh @nancybaym if you haven't picked it up yet I recommend Victories Greater Than Death :) 2021-06-01 12:19:02 @RayaSharbain @RimaSghaier for that inquiry specifically maybe also (it's a collection of essays and I haven't read all of it) Your Computer Is On Fire 2021-06-01 11:49:09 @moreno8691 @MonniauxD @PLOS Hence my point at the bottom of this thread! I hope you’re not suggesting it’s justifiable though. :-/ 2021-05-31 22:32:37 I bring this up because a review collusion ring probably results in bad papers being published. And if *number of papers* didn't matter so much, this behavior would not be incentivized because it would be more important to write good papers that would get published anyway. 2021-05-31 22:29:28 I'm also feeling especially annoyed over bean counting re: incentives as I put together my tenure materials. I mean, the number of beans in my jar right now is totally fine, it just seems weird for number of papers to be a useful metric for anything. 2021-05-31 22:24:27 @vj_chidambaram I was asked to split conferences into top tier and not top tier venues on my CV and I actually have no idea how to do that. What makes something top tier or not? I also find it hard to believe that any of that matters, and if it does I think it's inappropriate bean counting. 2021-05-31 18:35:30 @susandra @linguangst oh what a handsome fellow < 2021-05-31 17:07:40 @NataniaBarron ha all I can think of is the will kill you/is a cinnamon roll thing on tiktok is Gawain "looks like he will kill you, is actually a cinnamon roll"? 2021-05-31 16:15:55 @beki70 Yeah, I felt the same way. :( 2021-05-31 16:14:26 Also to clarify: "is a result of" above should probably be "exacerbated by" because obviously it's a result of when there is a breakdown of individual integrity. Awful people gonna be awful, but there are incentive structures dictating the particular form of awful. 2021-05-31 16:11:45 Also when this situation came to light a year ago I went on a whole lengthy tweet-rant about it so I won't repeat myself but here you go. :) https://t.co/9DgvJl5uYb 2021-05-31 16:10:00 I'm often struck by how much the foundation of science relies on individual integrity. And typically I feel it's pretty solid. But this kind of garbage is a result of publish-or-perish, bean counting, and the general incentive structures of academia. https://t.co/H6GPrDNyl8 2021-05-31 01:03:51 This weekend I'm feeling distracted, anxious, stressed over small things - and I realize it's largely b/c of how awful this past week has been re: my research community. And my god, if I feel like this, what must survivors & 2021-05-30 20:02:59 RT @jvitak: This is EXTREMELY irresponsible on Amazon's part. Decisions about data sharing should ALWAYS be opt in, not opt out. https://t.… 2021-05-30 19:38:01 @linguangst I hope you are able to genuinely take a couple of days off. Here is a cute picture of my dog for you and everyone else seeing this. :) https://t.co/sUVf9J323h 2021-05-30 17:56:14 @reidpr check back in two or three years :) 2021-05-30 17:52:04 I know this is probably intended for academic answers, but considering that last summer I managed to finally finish the first draft of a novel, and I still haven't quite finished the second draft, I'm going to go with that. :) https://t.co/1PzTlpjQuj 2021-05-30 16:51:02 I case studies of bogus DMCA takedowns because they’re illustrative. But the moral of this story is - this happens to be an IP expert law prof. When this happens to non-experts it’s more common to just fold. https://t.co/zDety2AS9T 2021-05-30 12:34:58 @linguangst @UpFromTheCracks I have no recollection of that twitter interaction, but... wow. Now I feel gross. :-\ And I also should have recognized at the time what a problematic comment that was. 2021-05-29 17:28:31 RT @moduloone: Reddit has become a major site for research data. @NaiyanJones, @_sgilbert_, @cfiesler, @michaelzimmer, and I spent a year t… 2021-05-29 01:49:36 RT @niloufar_s: I'm at a loss for words, all I can say is that people don't prey, bully, harass, unless they know they're backed up by the… 2021-05-29 01:26:03 @linguangst just a note to say how unsurprised I am you have such good taste in TV and I hope you have been able to take a lucifer break https://t.co/LmzIufLIU2 2021-05-29 01:19:15 @linguangst @AnthroPunk @aaronclauset I wonder if the date is because he has grants that he's pulling summer salary from. And I wonder how NSF would feel about paying him. 2021-05-29 01:15:20 @linguangst I'm kind of shocked he didn't slink off to an industry job before anything became public. And it seems as if, regardless of "investigations", it shouldn't have been hard for the powers that be to convince him that would be in his best interest. Which suggests they didn't try. 2021-05-28 23:34:37 @linguangst I'm not sure what makes this more ludicrous: the fact that he wasn't actually fired, or the fact that he was secure enough in his position to not resign earlier. 2021-05-28 23:26:40 @EstelleSmithPhD @grouplens @hannahjean515 @zwlevonian Yay for reintegrating ourselves into society! 2021-05-28 22:39:45 @ruchowdh I agree. I wasn’t saying that anyone should do that (obviously!) but that the choice probably feels like a sacrifice. 2021-05-28 14:35:02 This photo just came up in my Facebook memories from 2013 when I head down in writing my dissertation proposal. https://t.co/KxVrr2UtSB 2021-05-28 13:39:31 RT @cuinfoscience: Congrats to @cfiesler and her team on winning this NSF award to create new AI Cybersecurity coursework! https:… 2021-05-28 13:32:36 Imagine having accepted an offer to start a PhD in the fall in a department that you've now found out is unsafe. That is an incredibly difficult position to be in, and if you can just say "nevermind, not going!" you either have some sort of privilege or you're sacrificing. 2021-05-28 13:27:57 "Voting with your feet" often means either sacrifice (as pointed out here) or privilege. What if your feet don't have anywhere to go? Like not everyone has 10 offers of PhD admission. https://t.co/oKWlhj5BBh 2021-05-28 13:08:55 @andicat @leonpalafox @rasbt @roydanroy THIS. Also as @BlakeleyHPayne said, they DO leave/go elsewhere, but people don't notice. Also it suggests an extraordinary amount of privilege. Like, what if your feet don't have somewhere to go? 2021-05-28 13:02:49 @linguangst @bkeegan @ruchowdh I hate that horrible things had to happen to force this, but I truly feel that this level of self reflection by a lot of people in our community is going to mean things are likely to be better going forward. But these conversations HAD to happen publicly for that. 2021-05-28 12:46:27 @EKaleEdmiston Thank you for sharing this. What an infuriating but important illustration. 2021-05-28 12:45:11 Researchers should not study groups they don't understand and aren't hearing from directly to try to. Similar: researchers (not from said group) do data science on trace data from [marginalized group] and come to all these conclusions without ever talking to a single person. https://t.co/TEwgMXtGO7 2021-05-28 01:07:38 @alexleavitt @moduloone @michaelzimmer @SocialMedia_Soc @_sgilbert_ @NaiyanJones omg SM+S counts citations in the word count, we wouldn’t have been able to write the paper 2021-05-27 22:08:31 @natematias Anecdotally I would be pretty surprised if a lot of people have your practice... which is an exceedingly awesome one. :) 2021-05-27 21:35:43 @natematias Hoping to do some follow-up studies including talking to researchers in this dataset! 2021-05-27 21:30:53 @natematias We searched by titles so maybe not! I don’t think there’d be another way to know. :) 2021-05-27 18:15:34 @lexlanham was lil nas on your exam though???? 2021-05-27 17:13:53 Anyway, there is far more detail in this exceedingly descriptive paper, with a handful of implications and thoughts from us at the end. And you probably won't be surprised to hear that we're digging much more closely into the research ethics side now. :) 2021-05-27 17:12:38 Given the finding from @moduloone and I (in this OTHER @SocialMedia_Soc paper (https://t.co/l3C4BL2MYC) that suggested that most Twitter users would want to READ a paper that includes their tweets as data - I actually suspect this would be even stronger on Reddit. 2021-05-27 17:09:57 We also looked to see whether research was being shared back to the Reddit community - i.e., whether there were mentions of these papers anywhere on Reddit. Interestingly, almost 30% were, but rarely FROM the researchers or TO the subreddit where data was collected from. https://t.co/UADVt7J71U 2021-05-27 17:03:05 We also did some very high-level of analysis of ethics-related aspects in these 700+ Reddit papers. Some highlights: - IRB or other review is rarely mentioned, nor is consent - 28.5% used direct quotes, 2.4% paraphrased & - 7.4% mentioned sharing datasets 2021-05-27 16:57:59 We also see r/depression as the most studied subreddit just below news-related subreddits and the popular r/AskReddit. r/depression, r/SuicideWatch, r/anxiety, r/bipolarreddit and r/opiates also appear in the top 20. https://t.co/I7YAKM2yM2 2021-05-27 16:54:44 But WHAT is actually being studied so much on Reddit related to health? The answer seems to be mental health, which is the top keyword above the obvious ones, right above machine learning (and there's definitely some overlap there) 2021-05-27 16:51:53 I also think it's really interesting that though computing and related disciplines make up the largest number of journals represented in our dataset of Reddit papers, medicine and health is next - even (just) above social science. https://t.co/rmOEKJBf2F 2021-05-27 16:51:50 Unsurprisingly, Reddit as a site of study or data source is on the rise. The first 2 papers we encountered were published in 2010, with a jump to 17 in 2013, and 230 in 2019. https://t.co/14C5eR7pYX 2021-05-27 16:51:46 We read 700+ Reddit papers, analysis described in this (open access!) @SocialMedia_Soc article (led by @moduloone, with @_sgilbert_ @NaiyanJones & 2021-05-27 02:22:54 @ruchowdh it's been stuck in my head for a week haha 2021-05-27 01:44:10 RT @naz_andalibi: On things that bring me joy in academia: in this #CSCW2021 paper we examine social media users' perspectives toward wel… 2021-05-27 01:40:57 This is great! Also a good idea for policymakers. :) https://t.co/lq8nRlpuAP 2021-05-27 00:15:26 @1810Kali Weapons of Math Destruction I also keep a longer list of books here! https://t.co/lqjrCqnBJM 2021-05-26 23:56:07 look if one teenager who can’t stop listening to Bella Poarch’s new robot-themed song googles “recidivism and AI” all my efforts will have been worth it https://t.co/avfc3R1Y5Z https://t.co/aQIc5heqU4 2021-05-26 14:21:44 perish the thought that scholars might actually use their scholarship to affect change in the world rather than just publishing journal articles that only other academics will read https://t.co/U4jLrU6iFi 2021-05-26 13:18:51 RT @helena_mentis: .@sigchi community, please take a moment to read this post in light of recent incidents in our community. This database… 2021-05-26 13:17:02 My friend @alexadonne's new book is out 2021-05-25 23:09:38 I hope that whoever sent this absolute garbage is on academic Twitter and sees exactly what we think of them. THIS is what is ruining computer science. Get out. [content warning 2021-05-25 20:19:18 @BlakeleyHPayne sure! there's a note on there already actually from someone who used it in middle school :) 2021-05-25 20:18:52 @michaelzimmer hahahaha omg that's a great idea I mean I did make this based on a more recent trend :) https://t.co/RwoFkd8FP2 2021-05-25 19:57:08 "Someone with a PhD in computer science is not going to have a PhD in critical theory." @safiyanoble also made a great point about CS students taking courses from deep experts on these topics and NOT e.g. AP testing out of humanities courses. Reimagine the curriculum! 2021-05-25 19:20:14 I love hearing @safiyanoble appropriately roasting parts of The Social Dilemma and also pointing out that along those same lines, somehow the big tech companies have now gotten to be in charge of the discussion around ethical AI... and totally reframed it. #respect2021 https://t.co/kkKMIJW1Tp 2021-05-25 14:50:09 @elena_agapie Oh wonderful, thank you! 2021-05-25 14:45:49 @barik @mark_riedl also a lot of professors (including me tbh) are not exactly modeling this 2021-05-25 14:42:00 hi folks! it's writing-my-teaching-statement-for-tenure time. if you've used my black mirror exercise in your class can you let me know or add it to this list? https://t.co/dINsAiqnGM 2021-05-25 14:40:22 @mark_riedl yep in my livestream the other day someone asked me if PhD students can take time off 2021-05-25 13:19:30 @sivavaid "this literature review reads like the answer to an exam question" :) 2021-05-24 22:24:07 RT @eegilbert: This seems so basic ... but I guess it is CS. Reminder that when you doubt survivors: 1) You’re doubting people who had not… 2021-05-24 19:36:57 RT @linguangst: the first and hardest step in discouraging abuse of any kind is acknowledging your own complicity in the institutions and c… 2021-05-24 16:26:02 Some takeaways! And also read the paper - link above, it's open access right now. https://t.co/BPOXK0tmlx 2021-05-24 16:22:55 This story struck me as an important reminder of the emphasis that the broadening participation movement has had on women when it should be intersectional. In that this isn't a problem that is solely about male instructors. https://t.co/cVOcUeKEEK 2021-05-24 16:13:39 A #respect2021 session on "Advancing Justice in CS Education" starts with Yolanda Rankin discussing this award-winning SIGCSE paper (with Jakita Thomas and @SheenaErete) on CS education as saturated sites of violence for Black women: https://t.co/4BmKalGWYy https://t.co/2yRwU1R6eB 2021-05-23 21:40:12 @bkeegan hahaha you have to do the same thing now! Leysia wasn't in charge when I went up for reappointment so no one made me add page numbers then. :-p But at least you only have to do each article once! 2021-05-23 21:23:20 @jennomiko haha well I think I've done a lot of the worst of it now. at least it's easy work-while-watching-netflix :) 2021-05-23 21:12:00 how's tenure preparation going? well I just spent 2 hours finding page numbers for all my papers 2021-05-23 19:09:01 The @BpcRespect conference kicked off today, and one of the first events is a student panel that includes Ella Sarder, a @CUEngineering CS undergrad who works as an RA in my lab! She's interested in tech ethics & 2021-05-22 04:08:50 @michaelzimmer @jesspater MICHAEL ZIMMER HAS ENTERED THE OVERLEAF CHAT 2021-05-22 01:07:33 The article above also focuses on the resolution of this situation in two different departments, and underscores how individual departments can choose to do more to protect students. I'm unsurprised to see the School of Information on the right side of this. 2021-05-22 01:06:20 I have been part of these whisper networks. I was/am part of THIS specific whisper network. And I need to do better 2021-05-22 01:03:47 This new article speaks in part to the harmfulness (re: inadequacy) of whisper networks and how common they are in computer science (and I'm guessing many other fields) because only those "in the know" can protect themselves. https://t.co/Zf6niVqslb 2021-05-21 23:49:23 me putting the "dining out" category back into my monthly budget https://t.co/kypVuieHvh 2021-05-21 22:01:24 So like, testing your algorithms for bias and then fixing it should be the BARE MINIMUM platforms like Twitter should be doing (*cough* TikTok). But showing that analysis warts and all (including for peer review) - that I'd like to see more of. @ruchowdh https://t.co/PRD73Nsqy6 2021-05-21 20:24:49 Update: CBS “responded”: https://t.co/bZTAbKMqvf And @AJLUnited has a petition: https://t.co/nTCKcSmkkV https://t.co/cBBu8WjfYv https://t.co/ZgbNcLWyfl 2021-05-21 17:21:12 recently while doing a literature review on research ethics and IRBs I came across this amazing Mary Shelley fanfiction https://t.co/GKf2py48c5 2021-05-21 11:49:15 @brendaberkelaar 2021-05-21 03:05:48 I am glad to see action from my professional community (ACM) here while also disheartened by the clear failure at the university level. Academics reading this, ask yourself how both your professional community and your university would respond. https://t.co/v1G4de88Nx 2021-05-21 01:35:53 @amyjko @guzdial @mtrc @skiamakhos @AnjanaVakil “It Is Time for Spicier CS Education” 2021-05-20 22:35:28 @guzdial @mtrc @skiamakhos @AnjanaVakil yes, it's required because of ABET but fulfilling that requirement is everything from "ethics in every class" to "required ethics class" to "we talk about it for an hour in our senior capstone" :-\ 2021-05-20 16:59:01 @beki70 @bradshawe Well you know that I at least already agree with that. :D Though it was interesting to have a conversation about my tenure package and come to the decision that it goes under "service" heh. 2021-05-20 16:48:38 @blairmacintyre meanwhile over here this is like our #1 problem not in CS, they're doing just fine :) 2021-05-19 20:18:57 also if you go see @safiyanoble and @dr_nickiw speak (which YOU SHOULD) you can stick around right after for a series of lightning talks including me talking about ethical speculation in CS education and @BriannaDym talking about broadening participation through game modding 2021-05-19 20:17:07 Wow the @BpcRespect conference (Research in Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology) next week is with the featured speakers! https://t.co/4TQl7d6GpF 2021-05-19 19:41:41 @theaxali hahaha! well you weren't the only one :) And sure! 2021-05-19 19:11:54 @theaxali yay! < people on tiktok keep asking why I don't have a podcast and I'm like, I don't need another thing haha 2021-05-19 19:11:23 @bttrflstaketime oh you're so welcome! < 2021-05-19 14:55:16 RT @TessTanenbaum: I've just been published in the @SAGE_Publishing Perspectives Blog, writing about the need for publishers to comprehensi… 2021-05-19 14:43:52 @blairmacintyre honestly if I could pick an outcome from tiktok it would be to get a bunch of undergrads at my university to switch to our major :D 2021-05-19 14:16:46 @ThatAndromeda haha they’re from zenni! 2021-05-19 14:16:26 @JeremyLittau @heycori I definitely think about tiktok more as like teaching to undergrads :) 2021-05-19 14:15:23 @tsmullaney @tiffanycli @omertene also hi! I've got a video sitting in my drafts about how I used my first tiktok earnings to buy more tech ethics books and YCIOF is in the stack so now I can tag you! 2021-05-19 14:14:16 @tsmullaney @tiffanycli @omertene my favorite recently was the DM from a college student saying my video about bias in student evaluations made them petition their university to change them :D :D :D 2021-05-19 14:04:10 @SEthanMilne that's a good arguments for making tiktoks about your research though :) 2021-05-19 14:03:06 @sivavaid This tweet feels very ominous haha. 2021-05-19 14:02:25 @bradshawe that's what I meant by count, yes :) 2021-05-19 13:57:31 look say what you will about how public scholarship "doesn't count" or whatever but I have almost 150k views on a tiktok about "do artifacts have politics?" and I guarantee you I will never have that many students in my classes to lecture to about it 2021-05-18 20:27:38 RT @rajiinio: By the way, if you're looking to see the absolute other side of the spectrum - a feature on algorithmic bias with Black peopl… 2021-05-18 15:42:05 I'm having a lot of trouble doing work today, the first day in a while I CAN do work (without meetings, teaching, conference etc.) and I realized oh, maybe it's because I haven't had anything resembling vacation time in 6 months and I wish it were that instead. 2021-05-18 11:45:31 @arcticpenguin Occasionally I encounter a professor (typically law prof and/or in an admin position) with an admin scheduling meetings for them and I’m just like 2021-05-18 10:35:15 60 Minutes could have told an amazing story about Black scientists, advocates, and on the ground organizers and the “other direction” was Yet Another Interview With A White Male Scientist. https://t.co/Nfm9Nt1sDE 2021-05-18 02:17:05 @AJLUnited @60Minutes @jovialjoy It’s awful this happened but I’m glad to see the appropriately angry response!! 2021-05-18 02:12:38 @roydanroy @jovialjoy @60Minutes @AJLUnited And even IF somehow the researcher interviewed was more of an expert than Joy there are many reasons she should have been interviewed instead or as well, including unquestionable impact. 2021-05-18 02:09:46 @roydanroy @jovialjoy @60Minutes @AJLUnited Hmm I’m not sure I’m understanding your question/point... But the last tweet in my thread addresses that this is not a “who was first” issue even if that’s relevant. 2021-05-18 00:55:31 https://t.co/I3IHG8YnqN 2021-05-18 00:44:18 @LibSkrat @60Minutes @BlackGirlsCode Like. HOW??? 2021-05-18 00:43:19 And it would be difficult for @60minutes to claim "oops!" when they received similar backlash for erasing @BlackGirlsCode and other women-led organizations from their piece on girls and CS education a couple of years ago. https://t.co/tULqhkdRiE 2021-05-18 00:41:00 Here was the tweet that I found most infuriating about the whole thing. It's really difficult to picture the generous interpretation of this situation. https://t.co/ybLZUTH0Dq 2021-05-18 00:36:27 I thought the current justifiable fury towards @60Minutes on Twitter regarding the erasure of @jovialjoy et al from their piece on bias in facial recognition deserved the TikTok treatment too. See @AJLUnited for more tweets. https://t.co/QKp7pNEKhq https://t.co/vdcydNhiXJ 2021-05-17 21:43:09 @tiffanycli @UNHLaw @yaleisp @BU_Law Oh that's awesome! There are great people there! 2021-05-17 12:03:21 @Adriennepichon1 @CircleNetflix I think I'd find it very difficult to be a catfish but based on what I know of online interactions, having a phd would probably have me kicked out the first day :-p 2021-05-17 01:47:22 Someone on TikTok told me I should be on @CircleNetflix and though the idea is terrifying, the idea of a "cool" professor who studies social media being a contestant on that show is great. 2021-05-16 23:46:19 @_alialkhatib You’re very welcome! And thank you! 2021-05-14 17:46:26 Fandom communities are hummingbirds. Check out the entire "Illustrated Field Guide to Social Media" from @knightcolumbia @EthanZ @chandrn_ including my "gift logic" fandom essay here: https://t.co/gW0QvnPr8V https://t.co/zj4eEEnH2F 2021-05-14 15:56:41 @Birdbassador haha I guess you're the expert though! :D 2021-05-14 15:22:28 stay tuned to find out what bird will represent fandom communities https://t.co/OaYcsSqwYt 2021-05-14 14:50:27 @jr_foust Yep I think this is definitely a case of “you can do this” and not “you have to do this.” 2021-05-14 13:43:48 @jr_foust Of course! I’m not advocating that people should or have to do this instead. But I’ve seen some conferences explicitly tell people to make it exactly like a typical presentation. 2021-05-14 12:18:13 This is a great topic (looking forward to reading the paper!) but also another good example of how paper videos don't have to mimic powerpoint presentations. :) https://t.co/9OdioorbhG 2021-05-13 19:35:29 @brendaberkelaar oh god I don't even know, it was weeks and weeks ago haha 2021-05-13 19:21:43 hey #chi2021! if you're missing in-person conferences... the @sigchi #GROUP2022 is currently planned to occur in Sanibel Island, FL in January 2022. The title/abstract deadline for PACM papers is TOMORROW but also keep an eye out for poster etc. CFPs soon! https://t.co/FQGZVBS9ac 2021-05-13 19:14:20 apparently a tiktok I made about bias in student course evaluations inspired a student to petition their university to make some changes and they're actually listening 2021-05-13 04:22:57 ICYMI at the #CHI2021 town hall: #CHI2023 will be in Hamburg, Germany! (CHI = big human-computer interaction conference) 2021-05-13 02:17:16 (Spoiler: I will actually be at both of them because I'm part of the EC so the 6 hour time in between will hopefully be ) 2021-05-13 01:52:02 (this isn't a complaint!) I realize this is probably an obvious one for most people I'm honestly not sure if 9pm or 5am is a worse time to be On for the #chi2021 town hall 2021-05-12 21:08:47 @nickblack @asbruckman I wasn't surprised that people loathe him, I was surprised by how many (likely younger, statistically, because TikTok) people knew about him. 2021-05-12 17:25:25 RT @EthanZ: Absolutely LOVED this essay from @cfiesler about the unique norms of the fanfiction community and what lessons we might learn f… 2021-05-12 14:39:02 @asbruckman @luis_in_brief this is me with surveillance capitalism haha 2021-05-12 14:23:05 like based on the comments on my recent videos it is a real toss-up for "most loathed" between Robert Moses and Disney 2021-05-12 14:21:42 @luis_in_brief @asbruckman I've been thinking about it ever since Amy read the whole thing. :) 2021-05-12 14:10:02 ok maybe this is just me-not-being-from-NYC showing (or my lack of education before @asbruckman made me read Langdon Winner many years ago), but I floored by the number of people on tiktok who know exactly who Robert Moses is and LOATHE him 2021-05-12 13:22:56 @liltove Whether it's ethical would require a lot more context, but I imagine most IRBs would consider it human subjects research because yes, it's very different than just collecting public data. You solicited the response. 2021-05-12 12:11:45 @sgcarney 2021-05-12 01:56:36 @bennytheshap Also Pepe says he's plenty well cared for. :) 2021-05-12 01:54:18 @bennytheshap Because I have a job? 2021-05-11 23:06:10 But I confess it's been a while since both my MTG phase and my decoupaging-boxes-with-comics phase. 2021-05-11 23:03:05 ... or magic the gathering. I’M SORRY. Submitted for evidence so you all don’t take away my geek card: https://t.co/CDZxHt6Zco 2021-05-11 22:48:26 @seanmohen Sustainability is important but also flying is a lot of TIME. 2021-05-11 22:47:26 @psybertron Which is why I purposefully used “just” here! I was not talking about conferences. 2021-05-11 22:46:37 @julzbullard 2021-05-11 21:46:11 when google doesn't know if you're writing a research paper or playing D& 2021-05-11 21:20:31 @seanmohen I’m not sure what this has to do with my tweet, but... yes? 2021-05-11 16:36:40 @burnettmmosu I completely agree re: conferences, though this tweet wasn't inspired by conferences. :) 2021-05-11 16:03:43 In an hour I'll be part of this roundtable on teaching AI ethics 2021-05-11 15:59:58 @EthanZ 2021-05-11 15:59:33 I was really excited to contribute this piece about the "gift logic" of online fandom communities as an alternate model to traditional social media spaces. Fandom friends and online communities scholars, I hope you both get something out of it. My gift to you. https://t.co/rMmTKM0Pu0 2021-05-11 15:24:43 @parkermiranda @AmeliaMN @NCFDD @whatknows they do! 2021-05-11 14:48:15 @linguangst my mortgage!! :D 2021-05-11 14:35:04 @linguangst I mean I do have research funding this summer. :) 2021-05-11 14:12:38 @v0max @ncweaver WHY would they not be doing that kind of thing with you on video conference????? 2021-05-11 14:10:55 @mark_riedl do not join tiktok 2021-05-11 13:56:54 @AmeliaMN @NCFDD my colleague @whatknows did a program with them and raves about it and I should probably ask him nicely to teach me some of his new magic ways 2021-05-11 13:54:40 @scifantasy @lexlanham one time I was in NYC for a conference and then took a train to a different conference in Baltimore. And i was like WAIT PEOPLE GET TO DO THIS HERE ALL THE TIME?1 God I hate airports so much. 2021-05-11 13:53:47 Do other academics make "summer resolutions"? I'm trying to be more realistic this year about what I want to accomplish this summer, and also think about things beyond "write X papers." Like... I want to do magical things to my web presence. 2021-05-11 13:50:31 @lexlanham you have no idea how I have longed to live in the northeast for this reason. LOOOOOONGED. 2021-05-11 13:11:15 Just a note that I am fascinated by the strong reactions in both directions to this tweet. For what it's worth I am also looking really forward to traveling again, but I suspect will be more discerning in my travel, especially since we know that some things can be remote. 2021-05-10 19:15:50 @jennwvaughan A lot don't. I hope CHI appreciates my donation in the form of a conference registration. :) 2021-05-10 17:36:00 #CHI2021 LBW sessions are set up as "show up & 2021-05-10 17:30:37 @gleemie @Greene_DM @syardi @allergyPhD @alicetiara @luke_stark what a lovely metaphor < 2021-05-10 17:14:40 Also if anyone is "at" CHI, Kandrea (and me, for a bit) is in the LBW session for discussion right now. :) 2021-05-10 16:59:29 Check out this #CHI2021 late-breaking work led by PhD student @KandreaWade (co-advised by @whatknows and I): "Protest Privacy Recommendations: An Analysis of Digital Surveillance Circumvention Advice During Black Lives Mater Protests" https://t.co/iOW3C3q3uc 2021-05-10 16:57:36 RT @cuinfoscience: A major conference for human-computer interaction research #CHI2021 is happening virtually this week! Check out the rang… 2021-05-10 16:33:59 @DrVeronikaCH @FakePaperclips Well, this is a talk I won't be doing because I said no. :) But I have done MANY, MANY virtual talks in the past year! 2021-05-10 15:13:43 @ksm_csed That is usually the case, and it's possible this could have been but for what it's worth the invitation did not say that 2021-05-10 14:59:58 @ThisIsMrDanger ha yes that's what I meant - you could just NOT go through those emails. :) 2021-05-10 14:56:44 @ThisIsMrDanger Maybe you should just not. :D 2021-05-10 14:55:16 Update: It has been one hour and I have gotten far enough to discover that I had a journal paper review due last week. (This is actually really unusual for me, I am typically VERY good with getting reviews in on time even if I heavily rely on automated reminders.) 2021-05-10 14:51:14 @FakePaperclips I mean it was probably bananas before but seems even more so now. :) 2021-05-10 14:19:39 @FakePaperclips Oh I wasn't talking about conferences at all 2021-05-10 14:15:10 @FakePaperclips Well conferences are a lot more than a 1 hour talk. :) 2021-05-10 14:08:11 So after over a year of remote everything... it seems totally ludicrous to get on a plane just to give a 1 hour talk somewhere right? 2021-05-10 14:06:06 @reganmandryk hahaha definitely somewhere in between I TRY I really do but I will never be an inbox zero person 2021-05-10 13:55:53 @myajpitz Absolutely! Hence the e.g. :) I just use ML as an example because it's an obvious one, but I've been suggesting that ethics be touched on in EVERY computing class. 2021-05-10 13:54:42 It is 8am the first Monday morning of summer. Please place your bets on how long it takes me to go through my email and respond to everything I neglected during the madcap rush end of the semester. 2021-05-10 12:24:24 @Nick_Lalone @luiciolfi I didn’t stick around that long but it seemed to me like everyone was being really nice in the comments stream! 2021-05-10 12:00:01 @c_gruenloh @StevenHouben Very limited revisions if I recall though it was years ago so I don’t remember that well! 2021-05-09 22:55:17 @JMalazita @ibull @allergyPhD @Greene_DM As a recipient of one of those grants (only because I have an affiliate appointment in CS) I agree. Though I was at least glad to see that a large numbers of the grantees were collaborating with people from other disciplines. 2021-05-09 22:24:02 @ibull @allergyPhD @Greene_DM Again, I agree with all of these critiques and the importance of engaging outside CS, but I'd like to think that both the students and the professors are capable of learning from those folks. (But again, NOT displacing them.) 2021-05-09 22:21:54 @ibull @allergyPhD @Greene_DM But if this is true (that CS profs can never engage with this) then why bother teaching CS students, since it seems like we'd also assume that they can never engage with these things? I'd like to think that a CS prof could (if they want to) learn as well as their students can. :) 2021-05-09 21:39:39 The virtual opening keynote of #chi2021 is a bit of a disaster at the moment (server overload maybe?) but what I love is that people are being so nice in the comments stream - thanking the organizers for their hard work and saying they understand how hard this is to pull off. 2021-05-09 20:12:22 It's a bit scattered across multiple threads but if you read this also check out conversation with @allergyPhD and @Greene_DM about the importance of not teaching ethics as part of CS at the expense of e.g. humanities departments with deep expertise. https://t.co/HZLqstmemw 2021-05-09 20:03:27 @allergyPhD @Greene_DM gave a talk in a CS dept recently and when asked what they should do I said "hire ethicists and give them tenure" but also "require your students to take courses in other depts and also advocate to get those depts resources" would be a great answer too! 2021-05-09 20:01:02 @Greene_DM @allergyPhD I was just trying to figure out if there's anything harmful about my narrative that I should try to correct. Perhaps it's a "and also don't forget that..." Because we're going from ZERO in a lot of cases. 2021-05-09 19:54:23 @allergyPhD @Greene_DM Do you think there's a downside to it being taught across curricula while also being taught in specialized classes and classes in other disciplines? I guess that's what I'm struggling to understand. 2021-05-09 19:52:22 @allergyPhD @Greene_DM This is incredibly unfortunate. :( I obviously am not advocating for that AT ALL. In fact I would hope that “learn this from experts because you’ll need to teach a little of this someday” = more education from experts. 2021-05-09 19:47:04 @Greene_DM Sure, I don't disagree with that! In fact all of your points are really good ones, I just don't see them at odds with my original message, though perhaps you didn't intend it to be. In any case, I hope that these are exactly the conversations that are happening. 2021-05-09 19:40:29 @Greene_DM But in any case if there’s something about my narrative that you think is damaging please let me know. I did add a clarification that this suggestion is not intended as a replacement for classes taught by those with more expertise. 2021-05-09 19:38:14 @Greene_DM Which is of course awful. :( I really hope those two things aren’t actually connected. My hope would be that recognizing the importance of ethics leads to more appreciation for related fields. 2021-05-09 19:07:35 @Greene_DM But I think the problem you describe is a really unfortunate and important one to tackle. I just don't think that encouraging CS profs to mention the relevance of ethics to their coursework somehow makes it worse. At least I hope not. :-\ 2021-05-09 19:06:24 @PeterJungX You can certainly use a lot of different terms for these concepts, but it's important for students to learn that nothing everything about the practice of computer science is rigorous unambiguous stuff. 2021-05-09 19:04:17 @Greene_DM The benefit of having students learn deeply on the topic as taught by experts plus also have it touched on in-situ as part of technical classes is that they (hopefully) both get that deep understanding and have it emphasized that it is part of what they do as technologists. 2021-05-09 19:02:25 @Greene_DM Eep if anyone actually thought that (why have more ethics coursework if we can teach little bits of it tied to specific technical topics) that is a whole different issue to tackle. I personally think that it's really critical that we have both. 2021-05-09 18:40:51 Also a moment of optimism: ethics education for technologists is really improving! So our next generation of computing professors will be much better equipped to touch on ethics in their classes. 2021-05-09 18:37:29 @AnthroPunk Guest lectures are also a great way to handle it! Though also labor intensive, I’ve given a LOT of guest lectures. 2021-05-09 18:30:17 To clarify, I am NOT suggesting that this is a substitution for actual ethics coursework from experts trained in it. Just that along with that coursework, ethics about a specific thing should be at least touched on in the course for that thing. 2021-05-09 18:27:44 @Greene_DM Well I definitely don't think that the ML prof should teach the ethics class. :D I just think it's important that the ethics *of a thing* is mentioned in the class for that thing, along with the exact kind of coursework you mention. 2021-05-09 18:18:36 So I am really really glad that a lot of people are trying to create resources to help with integrating ethics into classes. And maybe that will make it easier. But I also feel like it's not unreasonable to ask instructors of technical classes to do some work to learn. 2021-05-09 18:17:04 I'm not suggesting that if you teach an ML class you need to go read Kant. I'm suggesting go read about ethics IN YOUR FIELD. Ethics is part of that field. So go learn it in the same way you keep up to date on ANYTHING that is new or you don't know! 2021-05-09 18:15:33 Like, professors should be constantly continuing to learn. I learn new things so that I can teach them all the time. If you say "I don't know enough about ethics" what you probably mean is "I don't care enough about ethics." 2021-05-09 18:14:36 I'm increasingly frustrated with "I don't know enough about ethics to include it in my class." My take: If you e.g. teach an ML class & 2021-05-09 05:44:56 @c_gruenloh @StevenHouben Fun fact: that paper was first submitted and rejected from CHI. :) 2021-05-08 20:59:54 apparently we never updated our department calendar #chi2021 https://t.co/JPq0c5HJtW 2021-05-07 20:21:28 Also if you find genericide interesting, please spend the next 2 minutes of your life watching this video and then add "hook and loop" to your vocabulary. :) https://t.co/sRAC7tvLqC 2021-05-07 18:59:36 Explaining IMO the most fascinating trademark thing in 60 seconds. With legos. (SORRY, LEGO BRICKS.) #TheMoreYouKnow https://t.co/Ic8SruIR02 2021-05-07 16:00:35 @steveschueller hahaha confession: this is a beer I do not like and has been in my fridge since someone brought it to a party 2+ years ago. If you look closely you'll see it's not open :) 2021-05-07 15:50:26 I was thinking of doing a vlog for my YouTube channel and then realized it would just be me sitting in the same place all day. 2021-05-07 15:24:45 Day in the life of a professor at Zoom University. https://t.co/wUTBKwHvQ2 https://t.co/2iOLw8P5TK 2021-05-07 14:54:01 New video about a much-requested topic: letters of recommendation! This is focused on LORs for grad school/PhD programs but also has general tips about asking for LORs from professors that might apply more broadly. https://t.co/CZT9MfKZo0 2021-05-06 23:21:23 RT @cuinfoscience: Congratulations to the @CUBoulder @CUBoulderCMCI Information Science class of 2021! We just held our virtual graduation… 2021-05-06 14:27:13 @asbruckman ugh I was struggling with editorial manager this morning, on top of the horrible interface and NEW LOGIN EVERY TIME YOU'RE ASKED TO REVIEW cisco kept telling me it was a dangerous site 2021-05-06 13:16:47 @DrVeronikaCH I managed to delete my linkedin years ago and it was HARD to do. 2021-05-06 13:12:56 @DrVeronikaCH I might just turn off email notifications. :) 2021-05-06 12:53:14 I am baffled by the number of "full text requests" I get on ResearchGate. Every single one of these papers is just a google search away. 2021-05-05 18:14:58 @ishtiaqueSIA haha this is such a more generous reaction than mine :) Though good point! 2021-05-05 15:52:40 @Birdbassador I'm really glad we got there just under the wire, but I think "why can't we study people and computers" might be a quarterly thing. 2021-05-05 15:50:44 To be clear, this isn't a turf war. This is good, important research to be done! Lots of people in lots of disciplines should do it! But can we please stop framing pieces like this as "look we're inventing a new field"??? 2021-05-05 15:40:26 I mean, it's just such an oversight that there aren't any subfields of computer science that regularly draw from and collaborate with fields like psychology, law, anthropology, sociology, political science, etc. https://t.co/IOH8YZVIRl 2021-05-05 15:37:33 Definitely a shame that there isn't a longstanding field of research on how humans use technology (including AI) to collaborate and cooperate. https://t.co/jf8WnfJqIS 2021-05-05 15:33:56 It's really too bad that no one is researching "human-AI cooperation" or something that might be kind of like that. https://t.co/9CNXVVAKNK 2021-05-05 15:32:48 Hmmmm if only there were a field of research about how humans and computers interact and cooperate. In fact... https://t.co/ITRZS3UyRZ 2021-05-05 14:33:22 It seems as if Oversight Board decisions keep resulting in pleas for better explained and more transparent policies. If their decisions about the status of content are binding, can we get some teeth behind those "recommendations" too??? 2021-05-03 20:29:30 @Wjrgo @evanmiltenburg @yoavgo That is also correct, I don't think anyone said otherwise. But for what it's worth, I haven't seen works on AO3 with CC licenses. 2021-05-03 15:51:30 Did you know that the deadline for #GROUP2022 is in just a few weeks? Title/abstracts May 14 and full papers May 21! Papers/notes/design fictions published in the journal PACM-HCI and in-person () conference January 2022 in Sanibel Island, FL. https://t.co/0LJsEhGAyB 2021-05-03 13:26:53 @evanmiltenburg @yoavgo That is correct! 2021-04-30 18:04:27 @sivavaid omg wow me over here assuming that must have been a typo 2021-04-30 17:57:24 @sivavaid .... do not take a bath? I assume that's a typo but if not does that mean someone ON ZOOM WHILE IN THE BATH? 2021-04-29 22:05:05 @PFCdgayo someone sent this to me recently! https://t.co/fwOiGRILjc 2021-04-29 16:26:47 @clifflampe I also think that HCI is miles ahead of other CS research communities in thinking about ethics for even non-human-subjects research... and that’s partly because we do actually talk about it. I think that opacity is even worse elsewhere. 2021-04-29 15:44:23 I’ve been a committee member for four dissertation proposals in our department in the past couple of months. Seemed like a good time to reflect on advice for proposals! https://t.co/Y2l7CTL86Z 2021-04-29 15:23:00 @lorenterveen I suspected you would agree with the things in this thread. :) Like I said I don’t really understand this as an institutional failure since it seems like the same thing could have happened at any university. 2021-04-29 15:18:03 @jeffbigham IRBs are typically more concerned with paying too much than too little. 2021-04-29 15:00:53 @jeffbigham I’m honestly not sure. Like I said I can’t say whether the IRB determination was correct. But the point is that it shouldn’t matter! 2021-04-29 14:58:10 @vlarmour Of course it’s way more than a comps question. :) Definitely would not suggest otherwise! 2021-04-29 14:39:51 But I hope this situation causes a LOT of researchers and institutions to think more about this. And I'll start with co-signing a suggestion for comps questions about research ethics that don't focus on IRBs. :) https://t.co/BTS2RwERyT 2021-04-29 14:37:47 For what it's worth, I don't think UMN as an institution necessarily did anything wrong here. (Though I'd need to know more to say whether the IRB made an inappropriate determination.) And there are definitely some really great folks in CS there who care about this stuff. 2021-04-29 14:35:12 And this is HARD. And lots of people are thinking about it / working on it so I'm glad that this situation sparked a lot of conversation because this is how we learn and create norms around ethical research. And honestly, it's how we create incentives to be careful. 2021-04-29 14:31:20 For research that isn't human subjects, we should just pretend that IRBs don't exist. Because functionally, they don't. This means that we need to actually be able to make good decisions about ethical research on our own - individuals, institutions, research communities. 2021-04-29 14:29:11 But unfortunately, reviewers will often rely on IRB determinations as well. "Well, they say they got IRB approval/exemption and they're the ethics experts, not us, so who are we to second guess?" Because again, assuming that IRB = ethics. 2021-04-29 14:24:27 Therefore I'm a little confused by why the conversation around this has focused on UMN rather IEEE since if we're talking institutions rather than individuals, the fact that the paper went through the review process without being flagged seems just as troubling. 2021-04-29 14:18:25 However - LOUDLY FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK - "human subjects research" is not the only the only kind of research that can be unethical. Therefore, an IRB is a STARTING point not an ending point for thinking about research ethics. Especially if they say it's exempt. 2021-04-29 14:15:55 If you ARE doing traditional human subjects research, then yes, IRB review can be really helpful with important research ethics things, like making sure that informed consent is appropriately obtained, participants aren't coerced, data is protected, etc. etc. 2021-04-29 14:14:33 All "this is not human subjects research by IRB definitions" means is that now you don't have to go through the typical review and measures to make sure human subjects are protected in ways that comply with federal law. 2021-04-29 01:21:56 Other research communities should take cues from these guidelines! I’ll just ping #cscw2021 and #chi2021 https://t.co/219XxlCNge 2021-04-28 23:45:34 @amyjko Though also I think there might be a good CACM article on reviewing. :) 2021-04-28 23:43:17 @amyjko I’d just like to see other communities adapt them! So just sharing anywhere really where others can grab them. :) 2021-04-28 23:29:30 @LibSkrat my dad told me my wig looked like Donald Trump 2021-04-28 22:31:20 Finishing up reviews for #ICER2021. It has the best reviewer guidelines I've ever seen, with really detailed dos and don'ts that acknowledge types of inappropriate reviews. @amyjko et al. WELL DONE - were they based on something, or would you consider publishing them somewhere? 2021-04-28 14:01:03 @geomblog @NSF @CUEngineering @cuinfoscience I’d love to talk to you sometime about what you’ve been up to! 2021-04-28 13:23:03 Ethics isn't the only topic relevant to other areas of computing, e.g. AI... what about security? Thanks to @NSF, Robin Burke and Eric Wustrow and I will be working to integrate cybersecurity concepts into AI classes in @CUEngineering & 2021-04-27 23:09:59 @SCSperls @neilhimself manifest 2021-04-27 23:09:23 hi neil if anyone wants to go boost me on tiktok too my mission in life is currently to teach people about tech ethics and AI bias with occasional lip syncing https://t.co/gP8eKfFVFT 2021-04-27 22:54:19 I am cross-posting this video to Twitter for two reasons: 1. Modeling that academics can have lives and do fun things 2. The incredibly small chance that @neilhimself sees it #GoodOmens https://t.co/cHJEWCBsxs 2021-04-27 19:45:31 Also a ton of people on TikTok have asked me if I have a podcast and I'm like NO I HAVE A TIKTOK AND A YOUTUBE I DON'T NEED ANOTHER THING. 2021-04-27 19:43:42 @ElissaBeth I'm just not sure what to do with it now! Like, are most people scheduling specific things? Or just dropping in and hoping people show up? 2021-04-27 19:42:56 @bennytheshap I know I'm a real influencer now because I'm starting to get legitimately mean comments. :-p 2021-04-27 19:39:21 I confess, I still don't quite get Clubhouse, though I think I understand it better now after having participated in a chat. Are any of you using it? What do you think? (I also had really bad "weak connection" problems that I don't have on other apps.) 2021-04-27 16:57:25 @ruchowdh what. 2021-04-27 15:52:17 @SourceCodeTara right?! this kind of thing is a whole tiktok genre 2021-04-27 15:36:05 This is basically my first foray into Clubhouse but I’m going to be hanging out with folks from ⁦@FT⁩ chatting about audio social media at 9am PT! https://t.co/EcgL5Y5Agh 2021-04-27 15:27:51 @sgcarney haha I don't really either, I probably shouldn't have said "empty" because that's not a thing that actually happens... 2021-04-27 15:20:48 this ridiculous video I made about grad school applications has way more views on tiktok than actual useful advice I’ve given. watch the whole thing, there’s a twist ending https://t.co/pyCDiJLUkl 2021-04-27 15:16:22 you know how in theory people empty their inboxes systematically, like last-in-first-out or first-in-first-out? my email strategy is more like this https://t.co/xS66sJ2fQ5 2021-04-26 22:39:10 RT @jameshowison: Excited to announce that CSST Summer Institute will be July 12-14. All Online. Open to US and non-US based doc students n… 2021-04-26 18:58:06 @toscadiana I was wondering the same thing. 2021-04-26 16:49:22 Update: I'm hearing this might have already been fixed. But not that I would know because I DON'T HAVE CAPTIONS YET. 2021-04-26 16:06:26 @MrMusicMan789 I still don't have captions yet so I can't test, sigh. I think it's good if they've fixed the problem though! 2021-04-26 15:51:19 @librarythingtim YES I was thinking this same thing. 2021-04-26 14:28:09 @RebekahKTromble Ha I literally just tweeted about this theory! I'll look into Perspective specifically though! 2021-04-26 14:25:20 A theory I saw was that they trained an AI on words in pornography. I think it's more likely they're just using some kind of dictionary, but is it possible that's part of the source of "bad" words? It just seems baffling that someone wouldn't have checked this. :-\ 2021-04-26 14:14:20 @beerbabe This is TikTok’s auto captions, unclear if they’re searchable or not, but also if that’s the intention... why Asian women and not Black women? 2021-04-26 14:09:36 TikTok has rolled out auto-captioning and is censoring words & Thoughts on this? My assumption was maybe a poorly calibrated off-the-shelf bad words dictionary... 2021-04-25 18:40:04 @josephseering @morganklauss This is empirically a thing. But lots of factors here including the choices that students are making. Self-perpetuating. https://t.co/hmVnui7fuN 2021-04-25 18:27:06 @prof_anne Yes to all of this. :( Also the coaching, resources, etc. issue. It's likely that Student A has a LOT of advantages over Student B. 2021-04-25 18:25:34 @carlyanne_L YES all of this also applies to e.g. hiring. 2021-04-25 18:25:02 @bhavya_vasudeva Absolutely. This is an "all things being equal" thing but it's entirely possible even likely that student A has other advantages as well. :( 2021-04-25 18:24:14 @WriterMar I actually think that the *institution* for a phd can matter less because (not taking into account resources!) there are so many opportunities to prove yourself through publication etc. 2021-04-25 18:20:47 @morganklauss Yeah that's a whole other issue... I did a bit of a rant about this in my video on choosing which phd program to go to though possibly I'm not seen as credible on that issue since I'm at one of those silly state schools 2021-04-25 18:12:11 @EmmaBedorHiland it's more general as opposed to a specific example! 2021-04-25 18:08:36 happy sunday isn't it a beautiful day to argue with random people on tiktok about whether soap dispensers can be racist 2021-04-25 14:05:45 I know that this is just more of The World Isn't Fair in the same way that standardized tests are a garbage signal because some people can afford expensive test prep. But like, let's at least try to not read too much into these things. This is how inequities just pile on. 2021-04-25 14:02:32 "but some state schools are very prestigious!" you might say, and yes of course but not everyone just happens to grow up in Georgia like I did and be able to go "the MIT of the south" (eye roll) for free. 2021-04-25 13:58:04 It's also possible that Student A and Student B both got into an ivy, but A either (1) had money or (2) was willing to go into hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt 2021-04-25 13:55:28 This COULD mean that A was able to get into an ivy and B couldn't. But even then, what that tells me is something about them as a high school student applying to college and WHO CARES. 2021-04-25 13:54:28 I've been asked a couple of times recently how much prestige of an undergrad institution matters for PhD admissions. I can't say how much it matters to others of course, but I suspect it is TOO MUCH because where you got your undergrad degree is a GARBAGE, USELESS signal. 2021-04-23 18:37:17 @LibSkrat Those are my newest arrivals! 2021-04-23 18:10:35 Finally someone asked me directly about all the funko pops on my bookshelf. https://t.co/wbefWFhGMT 2021-04-23 17:56:17 I'm a guest of honor () at @Penguicon (scifi & 2021-04-23 14:09:18 anyone else used to carry a book with them everywhere and now you don’t because phone and now that you think about it that’s kind of sad https://t.co/Qe4n99TN1R 2021-04-23 13:50:27 @naz_andalibi I used to ALWAYS carry a book with me. Everywhere. I don't bother anymore though, which... is probably a downgrade honestly. 2021-04-21 16:31:39 @skrish2017 @CUEngineering https://t.co/axHAkpLVjH 2021-04-20 22:00:02 I just posted a listing for myself under this "find a mentor for the CI Fellows program" (and vice versa) board though I was a little bummed not to see ethics as a computer science topic area. :-\ (I listed HCI & 2021-04-20 20:43:37 @ConnorColson @CUEngineering Hmmm I'm not sure what you mean! I actually started my faculty job right after my PhD. :) 2021-04-20 20:31:02 I made a trailer for the Black Mirror Writers Room teaching exercise with some of my favorite “episodes.” Think if this goes viral I could get a consulting gig? :) https://t.co/ILcjMN2M7X https://t.co/EPclfFIGzg 2021-04-20 18:26:08 RT @mmitchell_ai: This is a big deal. While I agree with the FTC in spirit, in practice, I'm concerned there should be more attention paid… 2021-04-20 17:21:15 @naz_andalibi Yay! Is that your online communities class? I just did it in that class for the first time recently, it's actually the first time I've done it in a class of MINE that wasn't an ethics class. 2021-04-20 17:15:40 P.S. I'm going up for tenure soon. :) If you've already used this exercise in your class please consider dropping me a note or adding your class to this list! https://t.co/dINsAiHYyk 2021-04-20 17:14:01 If you're interested in hearing more about this exercise (or using it yourself!): https://t.co/BbqukaXDoN And also a recent paper that has more detail about teaching ethical speculation: https://t.co/vyTtFkpKmc 2021-04-20 17:05:56 (5) A man with a self-driving car discovers that its new algorithm is doing some really creepy research on him to make its decisions. 2021-04-20 17:05:03 (4) Facebook deploys an algorithm to create fictional news stories based on what users want to hear and a user falls down an extremist rabbit hole and tries to join a fictional militia. 2021-04-20 17:03:55 (2) Everyone is required to use a government-run matching algorithm to find romantic partners but it goes horribly wrong. (3) The government creates a sophisticated algorithm to predict death dates of its citizens 2021-04-20 17:01:16 I just ran the #BlackMirrorWritersRoom in the Introduction to Algorithms class in @CUEngineering and it went really well! Would you watch a Black Mirror episode about these algorithmic futures? 2021-04-20 02:12:34 @skairam oh that is 100% already happening 2021-04-20 01:38:29 I just referred to "the early 2000s" as "20 years ago" and died a little inside. 2021-04-19 21:30:39 @Jennife82754332 haha I noticed that too :) but in any case that was more rhetorical, I had every intention of taking the “politely correct” option! 2021-04-19 19:41:50 @ruchowdh I mean, generously, chaotic neutral :-p 2021-04-19 17:45:46 my followers are monsters :-p https://t.co/KXVnBViuoN 2021-04-19 14:11:34 @michaelzimmer @syardi @jvitak I also really like Michael's page Though if we're going to start putting this in published papers, then acknowledgments better not count towards page limits. :) 2021-04-19 14:07:07 @syardi @michaelzimmer @jvitak I can certainly imagine stronger norms than we currently do but I also have pretty strong feelings about e.g. the suggestion that I should note in every paper I publish for the rest of my career that Google once gave me $7000 https://t.co/dGD1BOEOLT 2021-04-19 12:12:40 @charliejane update: I am now almost halfway through so I know where my evenings are going this week too 2021-04-18 17:55:28 @charliejane omg I just hit chapter 7 before I started that scheduled livestream and WAS TEMPTED TO CANCEL so I could keep reading :D 2021-04-18 17:49:12 and then I pulled out how I'm planning to spend the rest of my weekend, so also ALL OF TWITTERVERSE WHO IS JUDGING MY ACADEMIC PRODUCTIVITY: I am going to be spending the rest of my day reading @charliejane's new book. https://t.co/eLhaGhiGlv 2021-04-18 17:44:27 omg someone on this stream said another youtuber gave the advice to never talk about work-life balance because phd students are expected to work constantly and WOW did I have a negative reaction to that :D 2021-04-18 17:43:08 @katypearce That is EXACTLY what I have taken away from all this too and am working on making ours more clear. (At least as much as it is possible to do given university constraints.) 2021-04-18 16:00:21 I'm about to do a livestream on YouTube if anyone is bored and wants to ask questions or chat or whatever. I suspect that with PhD admissions season mostly over there will be less people than usual. :) https://t.co/1rPMLQWsq1 2021-04-17 18:02:00 in case anyone was wondering how the semester's been going, today was the day I finally took down my christmas tree 2021-04-16 22:17:55 @buldum_ozgur If only that were true 2021-04-16 21:53:12 P.S. I am having MAJOR email guilt today. Like, earlier today I responded to an email that was asking if I could give a talk two days ago. 2021-04-16 21:26:53 when is the best time to sit down and frantically try to find the emails that you missed or forgot to respond to over the past week 2021-04-16 21:20:40 ICYMI here's my twitter thread from last week about it! https://t.co/EElD7cGo14 2021-04-16 21:20:00 I was like, why am I suddenly getting a bunch of congratulatory emails about my CAREER award that was announced last week? Oh got a nice blurb in the campus newsletter!! https://t.co/meNVKEVAvw 2021-04-16 20:36:33 I would really love to know what defines "an ethical approach to [gender] verification" via facial recognition. https://t.co/TyL0EV3JBb 2021-04-16 17:46:52 @alexhanna @linguangst NO. OMG NO. WHAT. 2021-04-16 17:22:31 @aketchum22 I don't know what you mean! 2021-04-16 17:20:00 @LibSkrat Occasionally I think I should volunteer to do a Coursera course through my university, but like... when? It's not like I have the time. :( 2021-04-16 17:11:06 Hi Twitter! People on TikTok have been asking me for suggestions for online tech ethics courses. (I assume they mean the kind that anyone can sign up for, not limited to students at a particular university.) Are there any good ones? Can I get some pointers? 2021-04-16 01:34:18 Watched this whole video (with wine) and: (a) I have 13.5k twitter followers & (b) As an internet researcher, I wish I could tell you how to fix problems alluded to here. But it's not a Twitter problem, it's a human problem. https://t.co/v56BElV3Fh 2021-04-15 23:30:48 @DavidDaly44 and here is me explaining why it's fair use in 60 seconds :) https://t.co/PJssiDswXZ 2021-04-15 23:29:46 @DavidDaly44 It's almost certainly fair use - though I guess we don't "know" because it's never been litigated. For good reason, because no one would reasonably think they could win a lawsuit. 2021-04-15 22:20:56 yessssss my work here is done https://t.co/MI2rbcx2cv 2021-04-15 22:09:06 Day 182 of capitalizing on tiktok trends to make people think about tech ethics. NO BOOKS HARMED IN THE MAKING OF THIS VIDEO I PROMISE https://t.co/Kq7FEmQH2Q https://t.co/c6RXBiydT0 2021-04-15 21:57:34 @DavidDaly44 It's totally fine for authors to have feelings about fanfiction and even request that people don't write it! But the decision whether to respect their wishes is an ethical rather than legal one. :) 2021-04-15 20:53:43 there is a famous author saying on tiktok that fanfiction is copyright infringement, should I 2021-04-15 20:25:16 @meanderingleaf haha well I did for my department, if only I had the power to kill it more widely! 2021-04-15 19:32:30 @smunson I think I will be looking at your instructions for ideas! 2021-04-15 19:29:21 @smunson oh this is great! I think a student mentioned this to me. We have a more lightweight version of this in our department that I want to be more robust next cycle. 2021-04-15 19:16:11 Also I am MORE CONVINCED THAN EVER that PhD programs should do away with required GRE scores. I personally think they're a garbage signal and can also confirm now that they cause applicants a lot of anxiety to the point where some self-select out of applying entirely. :( 2021-04-15 19:13:20 @an_average_bear Hmm. I'm not sure what I would do with that information though? I'd rather just tell them how to prepare a good application. :) And also get rid of GRE requirements because standardized tests are a garbage signal because test prep. :( 2021-04-15 18:12:17 I'm working on making some changes to our PhD application for the next cycle, in terms of providing more information about what makes a good application, and even scaffolding some good practices directly. Considering auditing your application for gatekeeping! 2021-04-15 18:09:02 Do you sometimes see a PhD application and think "wow they did everything right, clearly they have good mentorship!" If so, it's worth considering how fair these metrics are and/or whether there's a way to level the playing field by just telling applicants what they are. 2021-04-15 18:07:09 If you have a minimum GRE score or GPA listed on the application page, is that actually the case? Would you really not consider someone without those thresholds? Have you thought about how that might turn away potentially qualified applicants who have other strengths? 2021-04-15 18:04:32 Are there faculty in your department who are far more likely to take on new PhD advisees than others (because of funding, capacity, etc.) to the point where faculty mentioned in an application will have a strong impact on someone's odds of admission? 2021-04-15 16:36:03 a wellness and good scholarship reminder if a paper isn't quite ready for the #CSCW2021 deadline today, you can always submit it in July! or the #group2022 deadline is in about a month https://t.co/0LJsEhoZa1 2021-04-15 14:44:38 @chadstolper ha yeah "make some money" is one of the suggestions :) 2021-04-15 14:40:59 It's April 15, which for many is the magic day for PhD decisions! An FAQ I've been getting lately is "what should I do this summer to prepare for starting my PhD?!" My actual answer is RELAX AND ENJOY YOUR SUMMER but I do have some suggestions. #phdlife https://t.co/hzBbjkhBk3 2021-04-14 21:12:48 I actually think this is a very good example for e.g. methods coursework. https://t.co/eJ8adpqKun 2021-04-14 12:05:23 RT @_rnbrewer: Why does diversifying a sample based on race, gender, age, disability, etc. always result in reviewers asking for a comparis… 2021-04-13 19:59:03 I once said "IRBs are not the arbiters of what's ethical" on a panel and got literal applause :-p IRBs are awesome re: compliance for human subjects research regulations, but the overlap with ethics is similar to how the venn diagram of law and ethics is definitely NOT a circle. https://t.co/0qHvAD4WyJ 2021-04-13 18:52:45 @LibSkrat Yay thank you! It was such a delightful surprise to see you there! 2021-04-13 18:39:45 thread on a talk I gave this morning about needed resources for big data ethics training at universities https://t.co/2uLKeOLNb2 2021-04-13 15:24:18 RT @andrewkun: Dr. Casey Fiesler (@cfiesler) is our guest on Thursday, 11-11:30 AM EST, for this week's conversation about "HCI and the fut… 2021-04-13 02:05:11 Last year, @kathytpham spoke to a group of undergrads interested in ethics and tech at my university, and I could tell they were SO inspired by her. I can't wait to see what she does next! https://t.co/ViwG0meSv6 2021-04-13 02:03:19 @kathytpham @USDS @WhiteHouse I'm so excited for you and everyone else!! 2021-04-12 18:00:13 @TheRewiredSoul I actually keep a list of tech ethics books! https://t.co/lqjrCqnBJM 2021-04-12 17:05:40 My workspace reminder that scientists should think about whether they should. :) https://t.co/LVsD4LUkNY 2021-04-11 19:00:23 RT @niloufar_s: YOU GAVE HIM YOUR HIGHEST AWARD!! "does not reflect our views" does not cut it @TheOfficialACM . Here are my experiences… 2021-04-11 14:01:34 @tadethompson I saw a video recently where someone made a show of having a toddler throw copies of a book about racism in the garbage. (SIGH.) But like, five copies of the book. And all I could think was, I'm sure the author appreciates your purchase. :) 2021-04-11 13:24:25 As far as I can tell, the takeaway from the work is "insurance companies could use this research to greatly improve their risk prediction models! ... but also maybe they shouldn't because discrimination and privacy." 2021-04-11 13:21:20 TL I think this is a GREAT example of: "why"? Like, why even do this??? (Also this story is from 2019 and the paper isn't published.) https://t.co/ee07j7pXEu 2021-04-10 13:40:53 @nbhansen Actually if you take into account a clock stop for covid I’m going up early 2021-04-10 12:56:08 @docrod2008 I put in my materials this summer! And I feel good about it, I feel very supported by my department. :) 2021-04-10 11:59:22 You know how at stages of your life, you’re like oh wow I feel so old because suddenly all my friends are [buying houses/getting married/having kids/sending kids to college/whatever]? That’s how I feel about all the tenure announcements right now. :D Except I’m academically old. 2021-04-10 01:46:37 This. This. THIS. By the way, the same is true for PhD admissions. (I wrote about this in the context of academic jobs a few years ago re: how often "it's not you it's them": https://t.co/SMLehVXJnR ) https://t.co/K8NRQSBPje 2021-04-10 00:05:34 @DearPriya Just imagine where you might be in five years! 2021-04-09 18:28:35 @sabeti_sepehr Sure, send me an email! 2021-04-09 18:17:58 Also if anyone is working on a CAREER proposal and would like to see mine, please just email/DM me. I really want pay it forward for all of the help that I got along the way. 2021-04-09 18:12:09 Also: This would've been my same advice even if I hadn't been successful. I came away feeling as if it were one of the best things I'd ever produced. There's so much randomness in grant review that it could've easily been rejected but I still would've been proud. Keep trying 2021-04-09 18:08:47 6. Get feedback. And here is where my immense amount of gratitude comes in. A half dozen or so amazing colleagues read this proposal and I was able to make improvements based on their suggestions. But this also means I had a complete draft a month before the deadline! 2021-04-09 18:04:07 5. If you can, get a writing buddy. I honestly don't know how I would have gotten through this if @whatknows and I weren't doing it together. It was SO amazingly helpful to talk to someone going through the same thing. Also ICYMI his was funded too!! https://t.co/IVjTw0uBFg 2021-04-09 17:56:04 4. Education integration is more important in a CAREER proposal than other NSF proposals. It's not just lip service! It should go deeper than "I'll design a new class." Honestly this was my favorite part to brainstorm/design/integrate. I'm excited about it! 2021-04-09 17:53:28 3. A CAREER proposal is different than a regular grant proposal in that it is as much about YOU as a researcher as about the specific project. I found it very hard to center myself in the proposal but got some great advice from a grants specialist at @CUBoulder. 2021-04-09 17:51:05 2. Propose work you actually want to do and are excited about, not what you think is most likely to be funded. I have honestly never written a grant proposal I was as immensely excited about as this one, and that made it so much easier to write and probably showed, too. 2021-04-09 17:48:39 And now the final part of this thread, some thoughts-while-they're-fresh on writing CAREER proposals, which I promise I will expand on later. (Think anyone ever searches for "how to write a career proposal" on YouTube?) 1. Start early because it will take longer than you think. 2021-04-09 17:42:36 @nikitab @ncweaver haha he's on twitter @andruid 2021-04-09 17:14:22 I cannot adequately express my excitement in text so here it is as a TikTok trend https://t.co/ibikuaQTCu 2021-04-09 15:57:35 And though of course none of this work has been DONE yet, if you want to read more about some of the ideas behind it: https://t.co/lVd9HrzEeT 2021-04-09 15:55:39 FAQ: This funding is earmarked to support PhD students (like my early stage advisees doing tech ethics adjacent work! @LifeofNoods @shamikalashawn @KandreaWade @_jessiejsmith_ ) but if folks are seeking postdocs and my work interests you check out https://t.co/nfJvD4l7jP 2021-04-09 15:43:12 Here's the official description with a (very brief, high level!) overview of the research that my students and I will be working on. I'm really excited to have a lot of partnerships with instructors in @cuinfoscience and @CUEngineering as well as @InnovateCUBldr https://t.co/dgyWQ7SFaJ 2021-04-09 15:34:45 Current mood: I get to spend the next 5 years investigating how to best help students and practitioners be forward-thinking about ethical issues and harms in technology design, thanks to a CAREER award from @NSF. https://t.co/zhCXDIixsi 2021-04-09 00:29:18 @melstanfill Yaaaaay! Congrats!! 2021-04-08 11:57:28 @x7ion Yes, AO3 is volunteers. :) 2021-04-08 00:24:01 @jgrey_nplus1 talking about collaborations :) 2021-04-08 00:15:37 @btvsmcu I don't know if this is a real question, but if someone wants to give AO3 $100 million I'm sure they'd be thrilled to build an app. :) https://t.co/4MA1R1jYZt 2021-04-08 00:12:49 https://t.co/NfKjwZBlOr https://t.co/0TxO1B7SVh 2021-04-07 21:07:15 Also I apologize this tweet is not a lip sync. :) 2021-04-07 21:03:14 @snchancellor @aschrock I think does this! 2021-04-07 21:02:07 Check out these tech ethics adjacent books released this week! Atlas of AI by @katecrawford Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism by @jilliancyork The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope by @Greene_DM 2021-04-07 19:28:04 RT @natematias: DREAM Job alert: Director of Technology and Human Rights at @hrw https://t.co/3P3iHC8nJg 2021-04-07 02:47:38 @natematias omg 2021-04-07 02:34:41 @BlakeleyHPayne I'm not sure which is worse :-p 2021-04-07 02:31:49 @BlakeleyHPayne oh no I didn't even think to check! I was too stunned. 2021-04-07 02:28:55 @BlakeleyHPayne I just stared at it for a moment and then was grateful the form didn't force an answer to this question. 2021-04-07 02:26:42 @willmartindev hahahaha I had the same thought! 2021-04-07 02:26:25 Or Elon Musk! Elon Musk?! Are these all supposed to be good? How is this evaluated?! 2021-04-07 02:24:29 "If you fast forwarded 10 - 20 years, who would this student most closely resemble?" This is the most bizarre thing I've ever seen in a letter of recommendation form. Like... what...? What does it even mean if I say a student will grow up to be Thomas Edison or Ronald Reagan?! https://t.co/aphJLvKvGX 2021-04-06 18:17:33 I have gotten to the point in my pre-tenure life where a bunch of my friends from grad school are getting CAREER awards and it's awesome. https://t.co/KfZfy5JEbg 2021-04-06 15:36:58 @yukangyou99 Good luck!! 2021-04-06 15:28:39 @XiangLi0929 Good luck! 2021-04-06 14:31:22 Know some undergrads who might be thinking about pursuing a PhD after? This video is about things you can do while still in undergrad (or in a masters) to set yourself up well for PhD applications. https://t.co/toXOg5Qhyy 2021-04-06 13:22:11 If you're looking for postdocs, check out this program! Also if you are interested in doing work related to technology ethics/policy and/or social computing, feel free to reach out 2021-04-05 18:04:36 go watch this instead of The Social Dilemma https://t.co/gG2Cx7hkPu 2021-04-03 13:53:03 @reidpr haha he doesn't tweet anymore, especially since vine shut down 2021-04-03 00:50:12 Twitter randomly. shaming my dog, who only has 12 followers and hasn’t tweeted in six years. https://t.co/LwVJiX9CZE 2021-04-02 17:00:20 RT @annaeveryday: Happy to share a new review - "Teaching Data Ethics: Foundations and Possibilities from Engineering and Computer Science… 2021-04-02 15:55:18 On a positive note, you know your students’ names really well this semester. You just have no idea what most of them look like. https://t.co/js3VDX35VV https://t.co/zjidjKoMby 2021-04-02 12:51:52 "Why do we keep trying to solve poverty with technology? What makes us feel that we need to learn to code—or else? ... to manage the contradictions of a changing economy." Excellent premise! https://t.co/gRdl732gv5 2021-04-01 22:39:38 @asbruckman @lorenterveen mine too! :D 2021-04-01 17:43:21 @EricPSB @whatknows likely has good guidance for this 2021-04-01 17:39:25 @lorenterveen @snchancellor aw that's so nice! thanks to both of you :) I hope folks enjoyed the paper!! 2021-04-01 17:38:53 this is still maybe my favorite paper I've ever written :) https://t.co/Fkk7LtYFGE https://t.co/SjlSpZ1k6I 2021-04-01 17:37:56 RT @mco_soy_yo: Hey folks! Our 3-year STEM Cascades Research project is gearing up. We are eager to learn the many perspectives 18-24 year-… 2021-04-01 12:06:09 RT @Abebab: This is an amazing initiative for Black women in AI research, led by Black women. Apply and/or spread the word. https://t.co/2G… 2021-03-31 23:18:48 Great piece on dating site background checks from @karen_ec_levy. And of course my mind immediately went to next creepy phase: Tinder implements predictive ML. "For an extra fee we'll tell you if our algorithm thinks your match is clinically depressed." https://t.co/omlYweXHHj 2021-03-30 18:42:36 @lexlanham why do I think that’s not what you said :) 2021-03-30 18:35:37 @design_law haha I just made a tiktok about this 2021-03-30 18:30:53 @barbarawaxer If you want any other data from my analytics I'm happy to share! 2021-03-30 18:22:50 I hit 100k views on YouTube! They're not all unique of course, but that's still a LOT of people seeing my face. Also FAQ: I've made about $300 since becoming monetized in January. I've made $65 on TikTok in around the same time period. So y'know, not quitting my day job. https://t.co/3UOOBVE8y0 2021-03-30 17:24:32 ARE WE PUTTING BURRITOS ON THE BLOCKCHAIN NOW (this just came in a promotional email from chipotle with a countdown and no further information, and what is happening. why.) https://t.co/pSApqsbQfo 2021-03-30 16:12:43 @vjorgensen haha fair 2021-03-30 16:12:36 @JeremyLittau they sold out immediately :D 2021-03-30 16:05:19 omg seeing this tweet with all these ACTUAL NEWS ORGANIZATIONS with I presume REAL JOURNALISTS not knowing the difference between trademark and copyright...???? https://t.co/yGmt8AnraB 2021-03-30 16:03:06 I literally just came to @lexlanham's Twitter just to see her take on trademark infringement and "satan shoes" and she did not disappoint, but also... https://t.co/oWNNqLvxp1 2021-03-30 15:51:36 Also the list of topics here (e.g., racial justice) makes me think about- the more of a "community" something becomes, the more people talk about tough topics with each other, the harder moderation can be. Back to this piece from @heatherkelly last summer. https://t.co/uLfTHGVQNi 2021-03-30 15:43:49 I also think Pelaton fandom is a potential interesting example of @asbruckman's "Rheingold Test" for community - where community members offer material support to each other outside the defined context of the community. https://t.co/ZIZzAJob1E https://t.co/vxAaEoIw78 2021-03-30 15:39:29 A couple of months ago I chatted with @caitlindewey about Peloton fandom, and was really struck by what an interesting example of an online community it is. I keep using it as a example in my class! https://t.co/LbiMo84J7e 2021-03-30 13:28:19 @Greene_DM bonus, their opening act https://t.co/Nc5vu7ptME 2021-03-30 13:27:47 @Greene_DM https://t.co/rd190HeUyy 2021-03-29 20:03:01 @AndreaKGrover https://t.co/zBFS5TFwru 2021-03-29 19:39:14 @michaelzimmer If it's a verbatim transcript, probably not. 2021-03-29 16:21:47 On YouTube's ContentID: "It's a sledgehammer, not a scalpel." In law school I wrote a paper where I talked about the "DMCA grenade" in contrast to copyright as a sword or a shield. The problem with sledgehammers and grenades is collateral damage. https://t.co/hz0ZKbFTZJ 2021-03-29 16:04:49 RT @amyjko: This is what community organizing and activism can accomplish: not just trans-inclusive policies, but anyone-who-changes their-… 2021-03-29 13:48:54 I think it's worth pointing out that the first two comments are much more important than the third one (which is probably mostly trolling) since they're not *malicious*, it's genuine lack of knowledge and this is where ethics education in CS can intervene. 2021-03-29 13:44:47 actual comments from a recent tiktok where I said that everyone in tech should think about ethics: "Isn't that only important for UX designers?" "What ethics is there in making websites?" "ethics r dumb" 2021-03-29 13:35:00 @natematias When asked by CS depts what to do re: ethics, I tell them to hire faculty for whom computing ethics is their research area, and give them tenure. @michaelzimmer is one of very few people I can think of who are actually in this position. 2021-03-29 13:33:39 RT @natematias: The idea that ethics is not “doing computer science” persists over two decades later. We see evidence of this attitude ever… 2021-03-27 14:01:25 @mdekstrand Make coffee and THEN go off on Twitter. 2021-03-27 13:19:29 I learned about milkshake ducks because of the cat lawyer but I didn't know about cinnamon toast shrimp. I'm mostly tweeting this (an actual thing I just said to someone) in the hopes that such ridiculous sentences are of interest to internet historians. 2021-03-26 23:23:22 @jgrayatua @guzdial I find that really, really surprising. :-\ If it's helpful, this outlines some of ACM's general copyright rules about content re-use though you can see I was making an assumption about dissertations. https://t.co/IgZUsZOwH6 2021-03-26 18:05:59 RT @CSforAllNYC: Looking to interact with some incredible women changemakers? Join us at the #CSforAllNYC Women's Call to Action event on… 2021-03-26 15:48:32 @AndreaKGrover Also I am literally getting trained on an insulin pump TODAY!! 2021-03-26 15:48:01 @AndreaKGrover Marching band (cymbals) and a percussion ensemble! 2021-03-26 15:13:16 This was so nice and such a fun artifact to see. And really meaningful now that I'm doing research with intro programming classes. Also yes, my very first research project (coincidentally, given my recent T1D diagnosis) was about blood glucose meters. :) https://t.co/0gx82tWwYx 2021-03-26 15:10:20 The best thing that happened to me as an undergrad at Georgia Tech was being required to take intro programming in 2001, which I then TAed. Last week my instructor for that class saw me give a presentation at SIGCSE & 2021-03-26 14:30:43 @JeremyLittau @enwillis history profs are the highest :) https://t.co/XRkcSboezU 2021-03-26 13:55:54 @melstanfill I had a similar feeling when I first saw the finding, but then realized... for the vast majority of people I know, I have no clue about their parents' education. :) 2021-03-26 13:52:52 P.S. Since this is my thread, I'll also share: neither of my parents have grad degrees. My dad has a bachelor's degree but my mom didn't go to college despite being high school valedictorian because she couldn't afford it. But they were both very supportive of my education. 2021-03-26 13:45:36 @martyjwolf Yes! I think that's such a great program. I've just been staggered by the number of comments I've gotten on my youtube videos from folks who say they're not getting any of this information/advice anywhere else. :( 2021-03-26 13:35:31 (Also sorry if you saw this thread twice, I misspoke about a finding so reposted!) My kingdom for a way to edit tweets. :) 2021-03-26 13:33:22 @sgeobey Thank you! :) 2021-03-26 13:33:08 And second, there are so many "secrets" to the PhD application process that applicants only know if they have good mentorship or know where to look, so if you have a parent with a PhD, you might have that covered. 2021-03-26 13:33:00 Because, first, the amount of uncertainty and imposter syndrome associated with "can I do a PhD" for SO many different reasons is staggering, and I can imagine that might go away with a parent saying "I did it so so can you!" 2021-03-26 13:32:38 Finding: Professors are 25 TIMES more likely to have parents with PhDs than everyone else. (And higher for profs at elite institutions.) Based on my experience giving advice to PhD applicants, I am certain that one of the many factors at play here is even just that process. https://t.co/XQyMHVzPfJ 2021-03-26 13:26:37 @sgeobey eep that's enough of a mistake that I think I'll repost :) That's what I get for reading too quickly! 2021-03-26 12:32:53 @guzdial @jgrayatua If this is ACM (is it?) then yes this is incorrect because that’s explicitly allowed. 2021-03-25 20:47:52 this but with a kid's sandcastle shovel instead of the construction equipment https://t.co/jvixNLOCXf 2021-03-25 19:14:08 RT @alexleavitt: Want to work at the intersection of global social media and ethical tech development ? My colleagues at Facebook ar… 2021-03-25 13:23:14 @jgrey_nplus1 and also this recent paper out of my group, though it's not so much an evaluation as a discussion of practices and challenges: https://t.co/BSSBGu1OjX 2021-03-25 13:20:07 @jgrey_nplus1 this is one of my favorite meta papers on qual methods: https://t.co/9QSRgNyGmm 2021-03-25 13:11:52 @mark_riedl omg yay congrats! 2021-03-25 12:56:33 I've been yelling about this for years (I need to make this tweet a blog post) but: I often see reviewers (appropriately) say "I don't know enough about this quant method to evaluate it" but I don't think I've ever seen a reviewer say that about qual methods. 2021-03-25 12:47:07 My take on qual vs quant is: (1) nothing is "easy" to do WELL but qual and quant both have their own "easy" ways to do things BADLY (2) pick the appropriate method for RQs (3) mixed methods are cool (4) REVIEWERS NEED TO NOT ATTEMPT TO EVALUATE METHODS THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND. 2021-03-25 12:29:50 "Reporting qualitative results is much easier than reporting quantitative results, especially since you don't have to deal with any statistics." A student in my class once told me qual methods are "easy" because "it's just talking to people, anyone can do that." REALLY, CAN YOU. https://t.co/0iqOTkgkOn 2021-03-25 12:24:00 @ruchowdh 2021-03-25 01:01:47 @blackgaygemini Well this was just me talking about academic job market advice, I’d much rather talk research :) 2021-03-25 00:48:18 p.s. @blackgaygemini you popped up as the first person to like this tweet and I was just at YOUR university! 2021-03-25 00:46:49 Remote everything is so weird. Tonight at 6pm ET I spoke on a panel in Georgia, and then at 4:30pm PT I spoke on a panel in California. 2021-03-24 21:01:22 @nehakumar omg congrats!! obvious and well deserved :) 2021-03-24 20:58:09 @ravenreyamidala @anamatics yeah basically, in order to keep AO3 a strictly noncommercial space, users aren't allowed to advertise or solicit on AO3 (including posting a link to patreon) but we can't control whether they HAVE a patreon for their fanfic 2021-03-24 20:44:48 @anamatics They can always link to somewhere else that links to a patreon! 2021-03-24 20:38:17 @anamatics It’s also a TOS violation to link to them directly. 2021-03-24 20:30:40 I'm pretty honored to be a "Georgia woman in STEM" for this event tonight :) (I might be in now but my heart is in ) https://t.co/eqEaKIK2nI 2021-03-24 17:46:27 Spoiler: syllabi > Which makes it a bit ironic that the metrics that “matter” for e.g. tenure are based on citation counts. https://t.co/QKlOAW3I7c 2021-03-24 15:50:27 RT @arcticpenguin: Really great that @sigchi is crowdsourcing holidays so that when we schedule conferences we can be respectful of differe… 2021-03-24 13:52:08 @hypervisible See this is the kind of comment I’m looking for. :D 2021-03-24 13:47:52 Last comment was actually “ethics is a plague of progress, we shouldn’t waste our time on fantasy” and I had this response at the time. ‘Cause, you know, let’s waste some time please. https://t.co/ZjYFI8anSl 2021-03-24 13:25:47 There’s a current trend on TikTok to display comments on videos as inspirational quotes. These are all real, and last one is my “favorite”... https://t.co/KIMAkMTUyj https://t.co/1mwDAZy6Cg 2021-03-24 10:42:34 RT @mitchellbyars: Denny Stong, 20 Neven Stanisic, 23 Rikki Olds, 25 Tralona Bartkowiak, 49 Suzanne Fountain, 59 Teri Leiker, 51 Eric Talle… 2021-03-23 17:31:52 "The (Im)possibility of Fairness: Different Value Systems Require Different Mechanisms For Fair Decision Making" https://t.co/BHS1eq3uAv 2021-03-23 16:56:11 petition to stop using single quantitative measures for determining graduate school potential for anything https://t.co/ikZzcSyfpS 2021-03-22 23:22:45 I was gonna do some work tonight, but I'm thinking... it can wait until tomorrow. Take care out there, my friends. 2021-03-22 23:12:51 @SusanEsparza I'm ok all considered - you? < 2021-03-22 23:02:57 when I moved from Atlanta to Boulder 5 years ago a family member told me how happy they were I'd be living somewhere safer 2021-03-22 21:59:49 @jengolbeck aw thanks :) 2021-03-22 19:44:02 @jengolbeck someone recently asked me why I don't have as many followers as you and I was like idk golden retrievers? :) 2021-03-22 14:01:33 iiiiiiiiif this would have been spring break week for you in the beforetimes but instead you don't have a spring break and it's not like you wanted to travel but oh god you're burned out and boy could you have used a week without as many work obligations clap your hands 2021-03-22 13:41:42 There’s a trend on TikTok where people use this VR Beat Saber video as a beat. So here’s another bop from me on algorithmic bias. I know this is a simplistic point but omg the amount of “I never see evidence of bias!” I hear from folks with privilege... https://t.co/HBhkbpnpLM https://t.co/uyfF3XOj9j 2021-03-22 10:58:29 RT @newmedialaw: We have an exciting new CFP at @SurvSoc_Journal: "Surveillance Stories: Imagining Surveillance Futures." We're looking for… 2021-03-21 21:09:24 RT @Joey__Schafer: This TikTok from @cfiesler just made my weekend - it’s hilarious (and depressingly accurate) https://t.co/ZzQV6Pjkui 2021-03-21 21:08:33 @Joey__Schafer Ha this is the first time I know of that someone other than me has posted one of my videos to Twitter :p 2021-03-19 21:27:59 For the unaware: @ao3org is built on Rails, and now I am picturing Ms. RUBY RAILS sashaying in in her finest red dress that is practically Wanda Maximoff cosplay and Elvish script tattooed around her bicep. Her entrance line is "Y'ALL READY TO READ?" #ao3 #fanfiction https://t.co/UgHctvVzCp 2021-03-19 18:41:30 And a final thought from an audience question from a student: so how do we actually implement this in the real world? Disconnect between what we're learning in class and the power we have in industry. This is a huge challenge we need to be thinking about. 2021-03-19 18:36:00 I really support a focus on social justice in thinking about teaching ethics. I really struggle with the word "ethics" and what it captures and doesn't. I think it's useful shorthand, but I worry that some might interpret it too narrowly. 2021-03-19 18:24:55 Last paper: "Deep Tech Ethics: An Approach to Teaching Social Justice in Computer Science" by Rodrigo Ferreira & They redesigned a CS ethics class to push on "deeper" questions closely related to present issues of social justice and power. https://t.co/edN0AqQ3zI 2021-03-19 18:22:43 They also noted some inspiration in the paper I was involved in about ethics integration in an HCI class, in the suggestion for "perspectival CS" (ability to identify multiple perspectives)... which I had totally forgotten was in that paper. :) https://t.co/R54VKiEUN2 2021-03-19 18:04:24 Their roleplaying games are available for anyone to use. One is about self-driving buses, and one is about college admissions algorithms. I have used the first in classes before, and it went very well! https://t.co/OGMcNawq12 2021-03-19 18:03:14 Next up: @Ben_Rydal presenting on "Using Role-Play to Scale the Integration of Ethics Across the Computer Science Curriculum" https://t.co/5i0KbnqT29 This is also a #ResponsibleCS project! 2021-03-19 17:35:14 I'm presenting next, so feel free to live-tweet for me, or check out my slides: https://t.co/eakEEw01OC or the paper: https://t.co/E0Jr5FnrsT or this thread from earlier: https://t.co/oY64DKnird 2021-03-19 17:30:30 Paraphrased: "I don't think that a judge needs to learn how to code, but they do need to understand what the algorithm is doing"... as an argument for K-12 tech ethics education! Also: "We're not advocating for fear, we're advocating for responsibility." 2021-03-19 17:28:49 You can read the paper here: https://t.co/149hFMV0Go And check out the narratives repository here: https://t.co/OXdMhFFNfD (This project is also part of #ResponsibleCS!) 2021-03-19 17:27:03 Next up: "Computing Ethics Narratives: Teaching Computing Ethics and the Impact of Predictive Algorithms" by Beleicia Bullock et al. As part of the Computing Ethics Narratives (CEN) project, they deployed a module about predictive policing in an algorithms course. 2021-03-19 17:17:28 Yay! When asked this question, the authors said that based on their findings they would also suggest in-situ ethics learning, across the curriculum rather than just in a single standalone ethics course. :) 2021-03-19 17:12:51 ... and found that their participants could spot social implications, but frequently missed issues of systemic discrimination. But surprisingly: About half of students had never heard of these issues, which points to a gap in computing curriculum. https://t.co/gbijLXTInl 2021-03-19 17:10:07 First up: "How Students in Computing-Related Majors Distinguish Social Implications of Technology" by Diandra Prioleau et al. at University of Florida. They presented students with scenarios about AI technology (e.g. recidivism algorithms)... 2021-03-19 17:04:56 This thread is for live-tweeting the ethics session at #SIGCSE2021. FIVE papers at @SIGCSE_TS this year about ethics in computer science education! 2021-03-19 16:24:25 also ICYMI here's a blog post that summarizes a main idea of ethics integration (that ethics should be PART OF computing) combined with an idea around broadening participation from our other #sigcse2021 paper led by @BriannaDym https://t.co/ZekeHM9xS9 2021-03-19 15:58:25 @morgangames @nickblack @CUBoulder great point! 2021-03-19 15:53:59 @morgangames @nickblack @CUBoulder someone asked me recently what CS depts could do wrt ethics and I said, hire people for whom ethics is their research area and give them tenure 2021-03-19 15:50:32 And introducing... a giant spreadsheet of imperfectly organized readings from 100+ tech ethics syllabi. It's messy, but everything is THERE so while we continue to make it more useful, I wanted to go ahead and share. #sigcse2021 https://t.co/pzjoxrYDg7 2021-03-19 15:47:09 We are continuing to build out these resources more (videos, slide decks, teaching guides etc.) but for right now, you can find links to some ethics-contextualized coding assignments for introductory programming classes here: https://t.co/yM3je9ray8 2021-03-19 15:38:45 @morgangames @nickblack @CUBoulder This is a hard problem that I have ideas but not a lot of satisfying answers to yet. 2021-03-19 15:30:39 @nickblack @CUBoulder Theory is usually the course I use as an example of one where this is less important. But as a point of reference, ethics frequently isn't being included in like, machine learning classes. 2021-03-19 15:26:38 And if you are "at" @SIGCSE_TS today, please come by the "Ethics & But meanwhile... I've got some new resources for you all. 2021-03-19 15:09:47 Ethics should be part of every single computing-related class. Want to hear my case? This video essay is my plea for ethics integration, with some detail about our #ResponsibleCS efforts @CUBoulder as described in a #SIGCSE2021 paper. https://t.co/7NvX80U0ZB 2021-03-19 01:02:11 It turns out that the two papers out of my lab at #SIGCSE2021 have a common thread: let's think about what "counts" as computer science. Like ethics! And creative fandom projects! https://t.co/ZekeHM9xS9 2021-03-18 19:47:12 RT @whatknows: I am thrilled to share I was selected for an @NSF CAREER grant to launch a new phase of work on mortality + tech. Huge thank… 2021-03-18 16:04:03 last week we talked briefly about deepfake tom cruise in my online communities class & anyway then a cheerleading mom made deepfake nudes of teenagers https://t.co/OMkOLhk3un 2021-03-18 12:57:25 I haven't paid a lot of attention to substack, but this is a fascinating (as this piece puts it) "Silicon Valley slight-of-hand move." Sigh. https://t.co/D6F48H5FJL 2021-03-17 22:16:31 @asbruckman we had a snow day on monday and they canceled remote classes in additional to in-person ones, which surprised me a little 2021-03-17 22:15:39 RT @ruchowdh: Just a reminder that my team at Twitter, ML Ethics, Transparency, and Accountability (META) is hiring! Please reach out if yo… 2021-03-17 18:52:30 Congratulations to @BriannaDym, now a @cuinfoscience PhD CANDIDATE following her dissertation proposal about online fandom, participation, and empowerment. Special thanks to committee members @whatknows, @leciab, @AnaSalter & 2021-03-17 13:10:22 today’s aspirational virtual conference registration is tomorrow’s guilt over yet again not actually attending a conference on top of all your typical obligations that you didn’t feel you could cancel 2021-03-16 17:31:26 @Diyi_Yang @ChenhaoTan @PFCdgayo @mark_riedl @reddit @jasonbaumgartne oh this is a totally different question. :) IRBs are really inconsistent on this issue, so the answer to whether you need IRB approval is, you should ask them. That said, whether you need IRB approval is irrelevant to whether it's ethical or Reddit's policies. 2021-03-16 16:28:38 RT @nehakumar: You're invited to attend the next @sigchi EC #EquityTalks session on March 18th, 4-5pm GMT: Making SIGCHI Accessible. Led… 2021-03-16 16:05:56 If you are at #SIGCSE2021 this week, there's a whole session on ethics in CS education on Friday @ 1pm ET. And you can watch the video of me presenting our work on integrating ethics into intro programming now, and then I'll be doing a Q& 2021-03-16 15:48:25 my amazing colleague @ricarose is hiring a postdoc for a project on creative computational learning - come join us at @cuinfoscience! https://t.co/UwbuhqLIFz 2021-03-16 15:20:54 @mark_riedl @Diyi_Yang @reddit Reddit has an API much like Twitter (so yes, lots of academic use), though it's unclear to me whether e.g. scraping without using the API is a TOS violation or not. 2021-03-16 14:55:07 this is a video with my advice for classes in grad school (especially PhD) - not how to "succeed" (if your metric is e.g. grades) but instead, how to make the most out of them #phdlife https://t.co/NlRJXTxxsg 2021-03-15 19:26:10 @reidpr Yes and no - because being a member of ACM instead would get you the same benefit. (I think.) 2021-03-15 18:25:07 Update: Good news, you actually have until April 15 to join SIGCHI to be able to vote in the election! https://t.co/QJXlwyeKkh 2021-03-15 18:23:29 @TarletonG Thanks!! 2021-03-15 16:05:34 RT @AJLUnited: “The progress that was made in the Civil Rights era could be rolled back under the guise of machine neutrality.” —@jovialjoy… 2021-03-15 12:58:49 @carolinesinders @ruchowdh Thank you!! I've seen so many examples of this that I'm a little surprised there doesn't seem to be academic work on it yet. 2021-03-14 23:21:38 @alexhanna @pervocracy I would have been so disappointed if it wasn't there. :D 2021-03-14 23:17:09 @syardi Meanwhile there is zero evidence that moderation is politically biased. Blegh. 2021-03-14 23:12:58 @syardi There’s lots of RELEASE YOUR MODERATION GUIDELINES happening on tiktok too which is really interesting to see. :) 2021-03-14 23:09:20 @syardi I've got a little of this in something I'm working on about copyright takedowns, but expect I will hear a LOT about it when I do some tiktok work this summer. It's a massive problem there. :-\ 2021-03-14 22:57:09 @arcticpenguin @syardi @josephseering @shagunjhaver I was wondering if there's academic work that covers the phenomenon of mass reporting as a form of harassment. 2021-03-14 21:17:19 @melstanfill there will be a little bit of this in the paper I'm working on about fandom + copyright takedowns but I wish I had more data on it! 2021-03-14 19:29:41 @shagunjhaver And it’s sooooooo bad on TikTok. 2021-03-14 18:57:22 @ZeerakW @katecrawford @TarletonG thank you! 2021-03-14 18:50:06 @snchancellor @arcticpenguin @syardi @josephseering @shagunjhaver @_sgilbert_ There's also some data about this in my work about DMCA takedowns, but I can't recall research that speaks to it. (And even in this paper I'm working on it will be just a small mention.) Anyway this is also The Thing on TikTok right now. 2021-03-14 18:46:58 /cc maybe @arcticpenguin @syardi @josephseering @shagunjhaver ? 2021-03-14 18:45:46 hey content moderation researchers! any work you can point me to on mass bad faith reporting as a form of coordinated harassment? (I feel like I've seen something on this but... ) 2021-03-12 21:23:43 And I'm really excited about the future of the SIGCHI community based on this amazing slate of EC candidates. Become a member of SIGCHI by March 15 to vote! https://t.co/uCrFvVkAHl And tell your favorite community. Some of mine are #CHI2021, #CSCW2021, and #GROUP2022. 2021-03-12 21:21:32 Did you know that a @SIGCHI membership gets you: - discounts at conferences - funding opportunities - a subscription to @interactionsMag - the ability to vote in the upcoming SIGCHI elections if you're a member by March 15 - a sense of community https://t.co/8MCaHM9y84 2021-03-12 21:16:03 @DearPriya @jvitak @ISTatPENNSTATE Congratulations!!! 2021-03-12 17:01:15 @annaeveryday @SiliconFlatiron @juriscott @alexhanna ... ok so it really says something about my attention level these days that I did not know about this until this moment and I'm a fellow at SF. (I am certain this is my own fault haha.) I hope there is a future SF event with you both that means you can visit Boulder! 2021-03-11 19:22:20 Also check out rynnstar on TikTok because she is and here’s the full original song: https://t.co/HiC2Phjfos 2021-03-11 19:01:58 so apparently this is a specific thing I do now, anyone want to give me a record deal for a whole album about AI bias https://t.co/dVbaGATJgF https://t.co/pmTjHExY1U 2021-03-11 17:29:13 @imaginari_es yeah that's because the PACM issue technically came out in December! 2021-03-11 17:24:10 @imaginari_es Yes! Should be this: https://t.co/r9sZsqjVek 2021-03-11 17:16:28 Also to clarify: Who knows what January will be like, and it's likely some people may still not be able to travel even if we're able to do in-person. Though we hope that everyone with a paper will be able to attend, submitting a paper is not a promise that you'll be able to. 2021-03-11 17:11:45 where I'd really like to gooooooo in a year or soooooooo ... by the sea... https://t.co/CuYSLsbm3p 2021-03-11 17:08:25 @jvitak that was such a good question that I answered it in the thread :) 2021-03-11 17:08:09 Another FAQ: do you have examples of design fictions published at GROUP? Why yes! "Ethical Considerations for Research Involving (Speculative) Public Data": https://t.co/gZRtl9MFGM "Ad Empathy": https://t.co/S0oIxOTsCH "The Social Mile": https://t.co/sJYEVrgJ5o 2021-03-11 16:58:26 FAQs about what GROUP is: - @sigchi (HCI) conference - subject matter is collaboration, internet, social media, etc... (lots of overlap with e.g. #CSCW2021) - interdisciplinary ++ - papers are journal publications (in PACM-HCI ) - design fiction/notes also published in PACM 2021-03-11 16:54:10 Social computing/HCI peeps! #GROUP2022 is in JANUARY & Deadline for papers (published in PACM) is 5/14. Also DESIGN FICTION & Plz share! https://t.co/CdWK2jff44 2021-03-11 16:41:28 @LeaKissner @anildash @natematias @ruchowdh Thank you for these thoughts! Wonderful points and I think this is all really important. My PhD advisee @LifeofNoods were kicking around some related thoughts the other day and this is really useful context. 2021-03-11 16:20:03 @saberikhan @irrfaan that's so exciting! sadly none of my old processing projects run now haha, they were written in like 2010 2021-03-11 15:26:51 more awesome postdoc positions! https://t.co/W0vwKGVEF4 2021-03-11 15:25:12 And I barely remember but am reasonably certain: (1) this was in Processing (/cc @saberikhan :) ) (2) it was for @irrfaan's computational journalism class (3) the final product visualized supreme court decisions (overturned or confirmed) mapped to their originating state 2021-03-11 15:21:57 This fun memory just popped up on Facebook. I don’t write code much these days but I do miss the sense of accomplishment. :) https://t.co/AYma4k4miP 2021-03-11 15:09:32 @nprandchill You’re welcome and I’m so glad to have you in our scholarly community! 2021-03-11 14:48:25 @_rnbrewer Good for you! At this point I try to only write grant proposals for work that I know I am motivated enough to do at least PART of regardless, because then it's not wasted work. 2021-03-11 12:34:12 There is, however, a page for context collapse on FANLORE, which I love. @BriannaDym you might want to go add a ref to the fan privacy paper. :) https://t.co/CyyIKpOMpb 2021-03-11 12:32:45 This is totally random, but seems like something a media/comm/HCI student might want to attack for fun: there's no wikipedia page for context collapse, which seems weird. Right now there's just a paragraph under "online identity": https://t.co/Z4qEgZxo6f /cc @jvitak :) 2021-03-11 00:34:03 I've gotten a lot of messages privately saying that my videos were helpful for folks' PhD applications, but I'll share Jordan's good news as a public example. (That said, I'm pretty confident Jordan would have done just fine without my help. :D ) https://t.co/WyIdNC9rHk 2021-03-10 21:55:52 this is a opportunity to do some important work with a great scholar https://t.co/XioJXYmSuA 2021-03-10 13:20:13 @What2DoNext No rebuttal needed, the paper got in. :D 2021-03-10 13:17:09 @What2DoNext oh methodological numbers like those are in the paper, they wanted the *findings* quantified 2021-03-10 12:32:07 @What2DoNext Well this was a themstic analysis so there aren’t any numbers. :) 2021-03-10 01:06:09 @PhDLitt @AcademicChatter Don’t compare yourself to other people - remember that everyone’s research and situation is different! Also if I can cheat here’s five pieces of advice. :) https://t.co/s77WQHrLQD 2021-03-10 01:03:49 @TessTanenbaum the drawing is cute too! I aspire to get a drawing in an article someday :D 2021-03-09 21:36:28 @blakereid LOL "wrong answers only" 2021-03-09 21:24:20 Hey everyone check out all the replies on this thread!! e.g. from @richmondywong @morgangames @TechEthicist, there are some really great thoughts. 2021-03-09 21:06:22 @pujaarajan @tiktok_us @ professorcasey :) 2021-03-09 20:00:53 Also this particular problem reminded me of this tweet quoted in @schock's book. It's great that we've gotten to "blocking is an important feature!" but, you know, ::Jeff Goldblum voice:: harassers, uh, find a way. https://t.co/bJIwmuMqDQ 2021-03-09 19:38:16 @nickblack @tiktok_us Taking off your shoes is security theater. Horrible people who make it their mission to harass people online are a known quantity. 2021-03-09 19:13:29 I'd like to see @tiktok_us close this loophole. I'd also like to see all platforms do the hard work of designing for the worst possible people. Don't tell me "the risks, the misuse, we never thought about that" (to quote Zoom's CEO). Think about it. https://t.co/oUUbAvyJEZ 2021-03-09 19:06:51 This is an obvious loophole. And harassers on TikTok have figured it out and are deliberating exploiting it. I can imagine tweaks that would fix this problem - quarantined comments is one, though the easiest would just be to hide the comment from EVERYONE'S view after blocking. 2021-03-09 18:59:25 The only hope A has to get rid of, say, a death threat or [insert other horrible thing], is for others seeing the video to report it & But if A knew it was there they could just delete it! Which is obviously the right design choice to keep people safe! 2021-03-09 18:56:27 The result is that some TERRIBLE COMMENT is just sitting there on A's post. Everyone else can see it. But A doesn't even know it's there, which means they also can't DELETE or REPORT it. 2021-03-09 18:54:57 B has figured out that they can comment on A's post and then immediately block A, which then means that A can't see that comment - and in fact doesn't even know it's there since it doesn't show up in their notifications. 2021-03-09 18:53:06 TikTok has a "block" feature that works similarly to Twitter. If you block someone, you can't see them and they can't see you. This includes comments. So now we have A (person being harassed) and B (awful person who thinks it's fun to e.g. leave death threats in comments)... 2021-03-09 18:53:05 As you know, I am a fan of @tiktok_us these days, but I need to put them on blast for a bad design choice. Folks interested in content moderation/platform safety, buckle up. This is a story about bad people exploiting a loophole for harassment. We can learn from this. [Thread ] 2001-01-01 01:01:01