Abraham Mhaidli
@abrahammhaidli.bsky.social
Researcher studying harms of emerging technologies at Max Planck Institute for Security and privacy
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Given the US's descent into authoritarianism and the arrest/disappearance/deportation of those speaking up for Palestinian rights, it is on all of us, particularly those with privileged/safer backgrounds (eg US citizens) to speak up against US enabled / IDF enacted war crimes.
Free Palestine.
Free Palestine.
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the amount of academic research now using llms in research (synthetic data generation, to classify, annotate, or analyse large scale data, etc) is astounding. remember, just cus use of llms in research is becoming normalised does NOT erase the fact it degrades the research & undermine your results
October 29, 2025 at 5:11 PM
the amount of academic research now using llms in research (synthetic data generation, to classify, annotate, or analyse large scale data, etc) is astounding. remember, just cus use of llms in research is becoming normalised does NOT erase the fact it degrades the research & undermine your results
Hello! Has anyone here used tango (www.tangocard.com) to pay participants for research studies? I was curious in using it, but wanted to see if there was anyone who had used it before who could talk about their experience with it, if they'd recommend it, etc.
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October 23, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Hello! Has anyone here used tango (www.tangocard.com) to pay participants for research studies? I was curious in using it, but wanted to see if there was anyone who had used it before who could talk about their experience with it, if they'd recommend it, etc.
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@abrahammhaidli.bsky.social giving useful advice @vrsummit.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
@abrahammhaidli.bsky.social giving useful advice @vrsummit.bsky.social
The right "We care about free speech!"
Also the right: "By 'free speech' we mean 'transphobia', everything else you get deported and/or arrested": www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
Also the right: "By 'free speech' we mean 'transphobia', everything else you get deported and/or arrested": www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
US revokes six visas over Charlie Kirk death amid social media crackdown
The State Department says the US has 'no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans'.
www.aljazeera.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:48 AM
The right "We care about free speech!"
Also the right: "By 'free speech' we mean 'transphobia', everything else you get deported and/or arrested": www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
Also the right: "By 'free speech' we mean 'transphobia', everything else you get deported and/or arrested": www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
Chat Control is the latest example of "But think about the children!" (BTATC) policy proposal that ends privacy as we know it. It would have an algorithm scan your messages, detect whether its illegal content, and then report it to authorities. What would actually happen: mass surveillance.
October 6, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Chat Control is the latest example of "But think about the children!" (BTATC) policy proposal that ends privacy as we know it. It would have an algorithm scan your messages, detect whether its illegal content, and then report it to authorities. What would actually happen: mass surveillance.
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📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
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October 6, 2025 at 6:46 AM
📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
Hi all! Here again with another reading recommendation ask. As part of my course on research ethics, one of the classes will be about the ethics of AI / LLMs in research -- from using AI for writing, analyzing data, as interviewers, etc. Anyone have papers or books they'd recommend as readings?
August 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Hi all! Here again with another reading recommendation ask. As part of my course on research ethics, one of the classes will be about the ethics of AI / LLMs in research -- from using AI for writing, analyzing data, as interviewers, etc. Anyone have papers or books they'd recommend as readings?
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I really wish world leaders had been prosecuted for the invasion of Iraq, I think the world would be an immeasurably better place if there had been consequences
July 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I really wish world leaders had been prosecuted for the invasion of Iraq, I think the world would be an immeasurably better place if there had been consequences
Been a while since I posted (trying to keep off social media and such), but a reminder that Israel is committing a genocide in Palestine, enacting mass starvation on innocent civilians, all with the complicity of the west. It is sickening.
Free Palestine. End imperialism. End the genocide.
Free Palestine. End imperialism. End the genocide.
July 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Been a while since I posted (trying to keep off social media and such), but a reminder that Israel is committing a genocide in Palestine, enacting mass starvation on innocent civilians, all with the complicity of the west. It is sickening.
Free Palestine. End imperialism. End the genocide.
Free Palestine. End imperialism. End the genocide.
If you are an EU citizen, please consider signing the #StopKillingGames initiative! It would make game companies let players play games they have purchased even after official support ends. Great for game preservation and consumer rights! More info here: www.stopkillinggames.com
July 2, 2025 at 9:51 AM
If you are an EU citizen, please consider signing the #StopKillingGames initiative! It would make game companies let players play games they have purchased even after official support ends. Great for game preservation and consumer rights! More info here: www.stopkillinggames.com
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📣 Call for Submissions: VRS Conference 2025!
🗓️ October 20–21 | 📍 Bochum, Germany
🧾 Deadlines: Talks — July 30 | Posters/VR Demos — July 30
Join us to explore cutting-edge developments in extended reality, human cognition, and health at the third edition of VRS!
🗓️ October 20–21 | 📍 Bochum, Germany
🧾 Deadlines: Talks — July 30 | Posters/VR Demos — July 30
Join us to explore cutting-edge developments in extended reality, human cognition, and health at the third edition of VRS!
June 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
📣 Call for Submissions: VRS Conference 2025!
🗓️ October 20–21 | 📍 Bochum, Germany
🧾 Deadlines: Talks — July 30 | Posters/VR Demos — July 30
Join us to explore cutting-edge developments in extended reality, human cognition, and health at the third edition of VRS!
🗓️ October 20–21 | 📍 Bochum, Germany
🧾 Deadlines: Talks — July 30 | Posters/VR Demos — July 30
Join us to explore cutting-edge developments in extended reality, human cognition, and health at the third edition of VRS!
June 6, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/5)
May 7, 2025 at 5:56 PM
After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/5)
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EVERYONE, at every single step of the process, is incentivized and conditioned to care more about grades than learning.
The students are no different, in this regard, than their parents or every single member of faculty.
The students are no different, in this regard, than their parents or every single member of faculty.
May 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
EVERYONE, at every single step of the process, is incentivized and conditioned to care more about grades than learning.
The students are no different, in this regard, than their parents or every single member of faculty.
The students are no different, in this regard, than their parents or every single member of faculty.
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One of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects.
It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this.
The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.
It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this.
The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.
Research at risk: Life-saving heart pumps for babies | Cornell Chronicle
After receiving a stop-work order from the federal government, the future of a device to help children with heart defects is uncertain.
news.cornell.edu
May 7, 2025 at 11:56 AM
One of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects.
It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this.
The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.
It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this.
The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.
Hi all! Im creating a course dedicated to research ethics. Topics include history of research ethics; famous case studies in unethical research (e.g., Stanford prison experiment, Tuskeegee syphyllis experiment, etc.), informed consent, etc. If anyone has readings / recs / advice, let me know!
May 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Hi all! Im creating a course dedicated to research ethics. Topics include history of research ethics; famous case studies in unethical research (e.g., Stanford prison experiment, Tuskeegee syphyllis experiment, etc.), informed consent, etc. If anyone has readings / recs / advice, let me know!
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the zimbardo prison experimental but at massive scale with llms
The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988
From the changemyview community on Reddit
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April 27, 2025 at 11:59 AM
the zimbardo prison experimental but at massive scale with llms
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The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988
From the changemyview community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the changemyview community
tinyurl.com
April 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988
For those at #CHI2025: if anyone is feeling confused, anxious, stressed, and/or feeling feelings around travelling back to the US, you are not alone! Join us during Wednesday's lunch (G314) to vent / share tips / offer support with others going through the same fears. More information in the flyer!
April 27, 2025 at 11:06 AM
For those at #CHI2025: if anyone is feeling confused, anxious, stressed, and/or feeling feelings around travelling back to the US, you are not alone! Join us during Wednesday's lunch (G314) to vent / share tips / offer support with others going through the same fears. More information in the flyer!
Given the US's descent into authoritarianism and the arrest/disappearance/deportation of those speaking up for Palestinian rights, it is on all of us, particularly those with privileged/safer backgrounds (eg US citizens) to speak up against US enabled / IDF enacted war crimes.
Free Palestine.
Free Palestine.
March 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Given the US's descent into authoritarianism and the arrest/disappearance/deportation of those speaking up for Palestinian rights, it is on all of us, particularly those with privileged/safer backgrounds (eg US citizens) to speak up against US enabled / IDF enacted war crimes.
Free Palestine.
Free Palestine.
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If you're critical of the US government and you are planning to cross the US border any time soon, today is a good day to review EFF's border search pocket guide: www.eff.org/document/eff...
EFF Border Search Pocket Guide
border-pocket-guide-2.pdf
www.eff.org
March 19, 2025 at 7:46 PM
If you're critical of the US government and you are planning to cross the US border any time soon, today is a good day to review EFF's border search pocket guide: www.eff.org/document/eff...
Hi all! I released a guide on giving good HCI conference talks. Feel free to check out either on Medium (medium.com/@abraham.mha...) or on my website (mhaidli.github.io/blog/academi...)! Any and all feedback is welcome!
Abraham’s Guide to Giving HCI Conference Talks
This is a guide on how to give conference talks. As someone who loves public speaking and loves giving conference talks, I was surprised by…
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January 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Hi all! I released a guide on giving good HCI conference talks. Feel free to check out either on Medium (medium.com/@abraham.mha...) or on my website (mhaidli.github.io/blog/academi...)! Any and all feedback is welcome!
Hi all! I wrote a blog post on how to give good feedback on an academic HCI paper. Feel free to check it out! medium.com/@abraham.mha...
How to give good feedback on an HCI paper
One thing that was done in my alma matter, and which I try emulating in academic spaces I am in, is a paper swap session. Different people…
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January 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Hi all! I wrote a blog post on how to give good feedback on an academic HCI paper. Feel free to check it out! medium.com/@abraham.mha...