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Amy Zhang
@axz.bsky.social
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Associate professor of social computing at UW CSE, leading @socialfutureslab.bsky.social

social.cs.washington.edu

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axz.bsky.social
Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social · 4d
Oh absolutely, we will anonymize all responses in any publication!

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Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social · 17d
Beautiful tree on my walk! (+ cute dog)
Bright red tree, Japanese maple White fluffy Samoyed dog in front of tree

axz.bsky.social
Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social · 18d
Well given there are like 70k? and counting feeds, I’m sure you are not alone! It’s a really interesting use case and has implications for sustainability to have that institutional backing. we will reach out!!

axz.bsky.social
Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social · 18d
Yes we will publish what we find! Although I don’t know if we’ll have the answer to that question as we’re mostly talking to feed creators and not users (unless you mean these institutions creating custom feeds? I haven’t heard much about this).

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informor.bsky.social
Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 19d
Well this is sure to be a blockbuster AI article... @jennarussell.bsky.social et al are kicking ass and taking names in journalism, both individuals and organizations.

"AI use in American newspapers is widespread, uneven, and rarely disclosed"
arxiv.org/abs/2510.18774

axz.bsky.social
Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social · 19d
It’s interesting, I feel like there are a good number of tools now for end user feed creation but I don’t know of any supporting end user content moderation/labeling.

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Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social · 19d
Hm I’m thinking about tools to help with creating, maintaining, hosting, monetizing, moderating, etc. feeds. So things like Graze and Skyfeed as examples. I think tools that generally support the feed ecosystem would also be helpful, eg feed recommenders, aggregators, broad analytics.

axz.bsky.social
Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social · 19d
We are doing a second round of research interviews with people who build feeds (or build tools to build feeds), this time focusing on questions of sustainability.
- Is this a hobby for you, or something else?
- What sustains it in your eyes?
Please fill out the form below, and we'll reach out! 🙏🙏🙏
tyzhou.bsky.social Tony Zhou @tyzhou.bsky.social · 21d
📣 Do you create custom feeds on Bluesky?
We’re researchers at the @uofwa.bsky.social @socialfutureslab.bsky.social looking to understand feed creator experiences!

Interview Details: 1 hour, $20 gift card
Sign up: forms.gle/UMNgeoVbUx3e...
Info: social.cs.washington.edu/project-page...

Reposted by Amy X. Zhang, Kate Starbird

ischool.uw.edu
University of Washington Information School @ischool.uw.edu · 19d
Members of the iSchool community and friends connected at the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (#CSCW) conference in Bergen, Norway, earlier this week. Tusen takk - thank you very much - to everyone who paused for a group photo and catch-up session! 💜
23 people pose in front of a spiral staircase and concrete wall in Bergen, Norway. 23 people pose in front of a spiral staircase and concrete wall in Bergen, Norway. Some are holding the shape of the letter "W" with their hands, a symbol for the University of Washington.

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Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social · 21d
Congrats to @galenweld.bsky.social for winning yet another paper award for his great work on measuring perceptions of community moderation at Reddit scale! #cscw2025
Galen accepting his paper award up on stage Galen at the podium in front of his title slide of his talk

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tyzhou.bsky.social
Tony Zhou @tyzhou.bsky.social · 21d
📣 Do you create custom feeds on Bluesky?
We’re researchers at the @uofwa.bsky.social @socialfutureslab.bsky.social looking to understand feed creator experiences!

Interview Details: 1 hour, $20 gift card
Sign up: forms.gle/UMNgeoVbUx3e...
Info: social.cs.washington.edu/project-page...

Reposted by Amy X. Zhang

galenweld.bsky.social
Galen Weld @ CSCW @galenweld.bsky.social · 22d
If you're at @acm-cscw.bsky.social #cscw
in Bergen, come check out our 🏆honorable mention paper today on Reddit community governance (w/
@axz.bsky.social @timalthoff.bsky.social ). 4pm in Dovregubben-2! More in thread... 🧵

Reposted by Amy X. Zhang

simonaliao.bsky.social
Simona Liao @simonaliao.bsky.social · 23d
Excited to share my first research paper on social virtual reality✨🎮 (for #cscw2025 )!

Social VR provides an immersive gaming experience that builds closer relationships. However, this same immersiveness also makes embodied harassment in social VR more traumatizing :(

Reposted by Amy X. Zhang

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Vinay Koshy @vinaykoshy.bsky.social · 23d
Just arrived in Bergen for CSCW, where I'll present Venire! Venire is a Reddit moderation tool that uses an ML model trained on mod decision histories to identify controversial cases. It preempts inconsistent decision-making by flagging these cases for multi-mod review

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

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Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social · 23d
I picked a great day to go see some baseball yesterday! There's us in the stands! GOMS 🔱
a clip from TV from the stands of the baseball game at 2-2, with me in the top left corner

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alpchi.bsky.social
AlpCHI Conference @alpchi.bsky.social · 27d
💡Submission deadline: October 20th, 2025

Beyond this year’s theme, we warmly invite all relevant research in HCI on how we design, adapt, and experience technologies within all environments!

👉 Submit here: easychair.org/my/conferenc...
📄CfP: alpchi.org/call-for-pap...

#AlpCHI2026 #HCI #CfP
Image of alpine mountains with a lake shore on the bottom. There is the AlpCHI logo overlaid and the text "Interaction in Nature, in the Wild, at the summit" and "Submission October 20th, 2025 (AoE)".

axz.bsky.social
Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social · Oct 12
To conclude, we argue for better ways for researchers to collaborate with neurodivergent users and their communities. We also suggest building social computing systems that are more spectrum-conscious and designing for double empathy rather than only on the neurodivergent side.

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Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social · Oct 12
"...This is present throughout many of these papers, from harmful generalizations about the 'problem' of disability in their introductions to the celebrations of newfound productivity irrespective of neurodivergent experiences."

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Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social · Oct 12
"...Even after filtering out hundreds of skills training games and other mainstreaming technologies, the sentiment remains clear---neurodiverse social computing research seeks to mainstream or isolate neurodivergent people to preserve existing platforms and social spaces..."

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Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social · Oct 12
"...They are purely output, expected to tolerate sensors, speak as many words as they can without acknowledgement of their content, and be productive should they appear in corporations or higher education..."

axz.bsky.social
Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social · Oct 12
"We now have a depiction of neurodivergent people in existing social computing research. Most often, they are children, and a large majority of these children are male. They are spoken for, not with..."

axz.bsky.social
Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social · Oct 12
In this work, Philip analyzed a decade of social computing research for neurodivergent people to understand how they conceptualized neurodiversity.

There were some bright spots but we see lots of room for improvement. A summary, taken directly from the paper (because Philip is a fantastic writer!):

axz.bsky.social
Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social · Oct 12
Yesterday, as part of the #CSCW2025 virtual session, Philip Baillargeon, a summer REU intern with us last year, presented his DEI Recognition award paper: Who Puts the "Social" in "Social Computing"?: Using A Neurodiversity Framing to Review Social Computing Research. dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Who Puts the
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW) have a longstanding tradition of interrogating the values that underlie systems in order to create novel and accessibl...
dl.acm.org

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bnewbold.net
bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · Oct 6
for atproto devs and protocol watchers, I published an overview of the network moderation architecture.

it tries to cover all the mod actions possible for each service type. this design has been around a while, but not well documented.

this doc is not very polished, but could clarify some details
AT Moderation Architecture | bryan newbold
The AT network is becoming more heterogeneous in practice, with independent PDS hosts, apps, and alternative bsky AppViews establishing themselves. This means that more complex inter-service moderatio...
whtwnd.com

axz.bsky.social
Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social · Oct 6
My takeaway from that convo is that AI usage has signal but is not a good proxy for paper mills, and we should be careful not to conflate it w/ legitimate usage of AI. Authors need nuanced guidance before AI attribution mandates, or there'll be low uptake due to stigma in some fields.

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Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social · Oct 6
I also briefly discussed this work for a news article from Science on AI attribution in scientific publishing: www.science.org/content/arti...
Far more authors use AI to write science papers than admit it, publisher reports
Finding highlights promise, questions about detectors of AI-generated text
www.science.org

axz.bsky.social
Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social · Oct 6
This work will appear at #colm2025! Please go and check out the poster. I will not be there sadly but several coauthors from Ai2 will be there!
axz.bsky.social Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social · Dec 3
In collab w/ Semantic Scholar, we conducted a large scale (800+) survey of researcher usage and perceptions of LLMs for science.

Major findings:
+Most are using LLMs already, mostly for writing
+LLMs seem to be a win for research equity
+But some groups, like women, have more ethical concerns too
simonaliao.bsky.social Simona Liao @simonaliao.bsky.social · Dec 2
Hi everyone, I am excited to share our large-scale survey study with 800+ researchers, which reveals researchers’ usage and perceptions of LLMs as research tools, and how the usage and perceptions differ based on demographics.

See results in comments!

🔗 Arxiv link: arxiv.org/abs/2411.05025

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theias.place
Theia Henderson @theias.place · Sep 27
I'm headed to #UIST2025 🇰🇷 to present our 🏆 Best Paper (!!!), "Graffiti: Enabling an Ecosystem of Personalized and Interoperable Social Applications"
@karger.bsky.social and David Clark
doi.org/10.1145/3746...
Graffiti: Enabling an Ecosystem of Personalized and Interoperable Social Applications | Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
doi.org

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chenhaotan.bsky.social
chenhaotan.bsky.social @chenhaotan.bsky.social · Sep 25
🚀 We’re thrilled to announce the upcoming AI & Scientific Discovery online seminar! We have an amazing lineup of speakers.

This series will dive into how AI is accelerating research, enabling breakthroughs, and shaping the future of research across disciplines.

ai-scientific-discovery.github.io

Reposted by Amy X. Zhang, Brian Keegan, Jessica Vitak

acm-cscw.bsky.social
ACM CSCW @acm-cscw.bsky.social · Sep 18
We are excited to announce CSCW's 2025's Lasting Impact Award winners. Congrats to Jill Dimond, Michaelanne Thomas, Daphne LaRose, and Amy Bruckman who will receive the award for their 2013 paper "Hollaback!: The Role of Collective Storytelling Online in a Social Movement Organization." #csccw2025