Cecilia Aragon
@ceciliaaragon.bsky.social
U Washington professor, pilot, entrepreneur, speaker & author: HUMAN-CENTERED DATA SCIENCE (2022), FLYING FREE (2020), SECRET GARDEN (2019). Co-founder & CTO of startup. #cscw #hci #hcai #HamlineMFAC CeciliaAragonAuthor.com faculty.washington.edu/aragon
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CREATE alum & UW Medicine postdoc Emma McDonnell shares the concerns of so many in accessibility research. “We’re seeing delays in rewards, in next year’s funding.” She noted the toll may also be seen 10-20 years down the road, when needed scientific discoveries don’t materialize.
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Trump’s research cuts threaten to set off wave of university brain drain • Washington State Standard
COMMENTARY | Young researchers are wondering if they will be able to build careers in a nation led by anti-science, anti-DEI politicians.
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April 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
CREATE alum & UW Medicine postdoc Emma McDonnell shares the concerns of so many in accessibility research. “We’re seeing delays in rewards, in next year’s funding.” She noted the toll may also be seen 10-20 years down the road, when needed scientific discoveries don’t materialize.
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🌐 Bluesky, the decentralized social media platform, surpasses 32 million users as individuals seek alternatives to traditional networks. Insights: https://tinyurl.com/2bn3ywfa
April 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
🌐 Bluesky, the decentralized social media platform, surpasses 32 million users as individuals seek alternatives to traditional networks. Insights: https://tinyurl.com/2bn3ywfa
"You Were Not Supposed to Message It Through" - Marsh Family parody of the Bee Gees on #Signalgate www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPfw...
"You Were Not Supposed to Message It Through" - Marsh Family parody of the Bee Gees on #Signalgate
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March 29, 2025 at 4:54 AM
"You Were Not Supposed to Message It Through" - Marsh Family parody of the Bee Gees on #Signalgate www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPfw...
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Did not have “get attacked by evil thunderstorm radar bunny” on the docket tonight.
March 27, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Did not have “get attacked by evil thunderstorm radar bunny” on the docket tonight.
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BREAKING: A high level information security source inside the Department of Defense says they were ordered by political appointees to ignore information security regulations and install Signal on government phones for senior leaders.
EXCLUSIVE: DOD has deployed Signal on government devices overriding their own policy
A high level source in DOD has confirmed that they were ordered to approve installation of Signal on government devices by Trump officials last month
fpwellman.substack.com
March 26, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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NEW BOMBSHELL REPORTING FROM DER SPIEGEL
Mobile numbers, email addresses and even some passwords belonging to top Trump officials including Mike Waltz, Pete Hegseth, and Tulsi Gabbard have been found online, revealing an additional grave, previously unknown security breach at the highest levels. 1/
Mobile numbers, email addresses and even some passwords belonging to top Trump officials including Mike Waltz, Pete Hegseth, and Tulsi Gabbard have been found online, revealing an additional grave, previously unknown security breach at the highest levels. 1/
Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online
Donald Trump's most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including ...
www.spiegel.de
March 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM
NEW BOMBSHELL REPORTING FROM DER SPIEGEL
Mobile numbers, email addresses and even some passwords belonging to top Trump officials including Mike Waltz, Pete Hegseth, and Tulsi Gabbard have been found online, revealing an additional grave, previously unknown security breach at the highest levels. 1/
Mobile numbers, email addresses and even some passwords belonging to top Trump officials including Mike Waltz, Pete Hegseth, and Tulsi Gabbard have been found online, revealing an additional grave, previously unknown security breach at the highest levels. 1/
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Museums and libraries are the main places where members of the public engage in lifelong learning outside of any formal school.
Call your legislators. Tell them to protect library funding. bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/a...
Call your legislators. Tell them to protect library funding. bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/a...
Library Advocates Rally as Trump Targets Federal Funding (Gift Article)
An executive order has demanded that the Institute for Museum and Library Services be eliminated to the maximum extent allowed by law.
www.nytimes.com
March 25, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Museums and libraries are the main places where members of the public engage in lifelong learning outside of any formal school.
Call your legislators. Tell them to protect library funding. bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/a...
Call your legislators. Tell them to protect library funding. bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/a...
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"It begs plenty of questions, incl who those core values belong to, what those core values are, and who is included among the referenced Americans."
How The Institute for Museum and Library Services has become a propaganda machine and other book censorship news.
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How The Institute for Museum and Library Services has become a propaganda machine and other book censorship news.
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The Institute for Museum and Library Services Is Now a Propaganda Machine: Book Censorship News, March 21, 2025
DOGE didn't dismantle the only federal agency supporting public libraries. It was instead turned into a propaganda machine. That, plus this week's book censorship news.
bookriot.com
March 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
"It begs plenty of questions, incl who those core values belong to, what those core values are, and who is included among the referenced Americans."
How The Institute for Museum and Library Services has become a propaganda machine and other book censorship news.
bookriot.com/imls-propaga...
How The Institute for Museum and Library Services has become a propaganda machine and other book censorship news.
bookriot.com/imls-propaga...
Looks like a cool game! Can't wait to play :)
Prepping a couple sets of cards so we can run some demo play at Phenomenal Games in lindenwold this Friday. We hope to see you there. #cardgames #kickstarter #cooperative #womeninstem
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March 18, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Looks like a cool game! Can't wait to play :)
Really looking forward to this exciting conference!
If you're in or around Charlotte in the first week of April, maybe come check out the Analytics Frontiers Conference. There's a wide array of speakers line up, including Dr. @ceciliaaragon.bsky.social , Professor and Director of the Human-Centered Data Science Lab at the University of Washington:
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Why Attend AFC? Sponsored by UNC Charlotte, the Analytics Frontiers Conference is the largest data science conference in the region, attracting over 500 thought leaders, scientists, and business execu...
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March 18, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Really looking forward to this exciting conference!
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I'm at #SIGCSE2025 and the opening keynote by @ceciliaaragon.bsky.social reminds us of "Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine" (published in 1958) and what it can help us understand about AI and education & learning today.
February 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I'm at #SIGCSE2025 and the opening keynote by @ceciliaaragon.bsky.social reminds us of "Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine" (published in 1958) and what it can help us understand about AI and education & learning today.
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Look at this!
Plane has to take off after landing to avoid hitting another plane!
And Trump is firing FAA workers.
Plane has to take off after landing to avoid hitting another plane!
And Trump is firing FAA workers.
BREAKING: Inches from complete disaster. What is happening at the FAA?
February 26, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Look at this!
Plane has to take off after landing to avoid hitting another plane!
And Trump is firing FAA workers.
Plane has to take off after landing to avoid hitting another plane!
And Trump is firing FAA workers.
Such an honor to be in the company of these amazing folks! Congrats to all!
🎉 We're delighted to announce the recipients of the 2025 ACM SIGCHI Awards! Congratulations to these incredible awardees!
February 26, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Such an honor to be in the company of these amazing folks! Congrats to all!
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We're cooking up a new episode of the #HCAI podcast. In the meantime, make sure to listen to our previous episodes, like this one with Ricardo Baeza-Yates on Eearth-centered AI hcai.se/podcast/24-0...
#artificialintelligence #greenAI #humancenteredai #humancenteredartificialintelligence
#artificialintelligence #greenAI #humancenteredai #humancenteredartificialintelligence
November 19, 2024 at 9:39 AM
We're cooking up a new episode of the #HCAI podcast. In the meantime, make sure to listen to our previous episodes, like this one with Ricardo Baeza-Yates on Eearth-centered AI hcai.se/podcast/24-0...
#artificialintelligence #greenAI #humancenteredai #humancenteredartificialintelligence
#artificialintelligence #greenAI #humancenteredai #humancenteredartificialintelligence
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I cannot begin to express how excited and proud I am that #CSCW is finally coming to Latin America and what better country than Costa Rica 🇨🇷 to host #CSCW2024! Hopefully other #SIGCHI conferences will be held in new locations, especially in the Southern Hemisphere. #PuraVida
November 16, 2024 at 1:46 AM
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Wednesday, at CSCW: @mlam.bsky.social and Chenyan Jia present their Best Paper award winner, "Embedding Democratic Values into Social Media AIs via Societal Objective Functions"
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Building a Social Media Algorithm That Actually Promotes Societal Values
A Stanford research team shows that building democratic values into a feed-ranking algorithm reduces partisan animosity.
hai.stanford.edu
November 12, 2024 at 8:32 PM
Wednesday, at CSCW: @mlam.bsky.social and Chenyan Jia present their Best Paper award winner, "Embedding Democratic Values into Social Media AIs via Societal Objective Functions"
hai.stanford.edu/news/buildin...
hai.stanford.edu/news/buildin...
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Bit of a rare warning around here: "Waves can run up significantly farther on a beach than normal, including over rocks and jetties. Sneaker waves can suddenly knock people off of their feet and quickly pull them into the frigid ocean which may lead to serious injury or drowning." #wawx #orwx
PQR issues Beach Hazard Statement for South Washington Coast [WA] till Nov 15, 7:00 PM PST link
November 15, 2024 at 5:54 PM
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I am proud because this break I really wanted to do a lot of writing. And I did!
✅ solo CSCW paper draft
✅ contributed to a FAccT paper
✅ contributed to a journal paper
✅ almost done with a DIS paper draft!
Also I wrote a reflection about my first quarter at UW:
ninalutz.medium.com/reflections-...
✅ solo CSCW paper draft
✅ contributed to a FAccT paper
✅ contributed to a journal paper
✅ almost done with a DIS paper draft!
Also I wrote a reflection about my first quarter at UW:
ninalutz.medium.com/reflections-...
Reflections on PhD Quarter 1/N
I started my PhD this fall which was equally terrifying and exciting and fun and exhausting and just…all the feels.
ninalutz.medium.com
December 27, 2023 at 12:17 AM
I am proud because this break I really wanted to do a lot of writing. And I did!
✅ solo CSCW paper draft
✅ contributed to a FAccT paper
✅ contributed to a journal paper
✅ almost done with a DIS paper draft!
Also I wrote a reflection about my first quarter at UW:
ninalutz.medium.com/reflections-...
✅ solo CSCW paper draft
✅ contributed to a FAccT paper
✅ contributed to a journal paper
✅ almost done with a DIS paper draft!
Also I wrote a reflection about my first quarter at UW:
ninalutz.medium.com/reflections-...
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📌 New post from our team at CIP!
A resurfacing election rumor about non-citizen voting is using a highly contested, peer-reviewed research to endorse distrust in the election process.
It is important to consider the potential impact of bad science on the credibility of rumoring.
A resurfacing election rumor about non-citizen voting is using a highly contested, peer-reviewed research to endorse distrust in the election process.
It is important to consider the potential impact of bad science on the credibility of rumoring.
New "rapid" analysis from our CIP Election Research (ER) team: www.cip.uw.edu/2024/06/20/r...
We explain how a flawed research paper has repeatedly catalyzed a misleading rumor about non-citizen voting. This rumor resurfaced in 2024 on a website dedicated to "facts" & spread widely on social media.
We explain how a flawed research paper has repeatedly catalyzed a misleading rumor about non-citizen voting. This rumor resurfaced in 2024 on a website dedicated to "facts" & spread widely on social media.
The anatomy of a resurging rumor stemming from peer-reviewed research that non-citizens vote in U.S. elections
Using peer-reviewed research in misleading ways will likely re-emerge in the 2024 election or future election cycles.
www.cip.uw.edu
June 21, 2024 at 4:51 PM
📌 New post from our team at CIP!
A resurfacing election rumor about non-citizen voting is using a highly contested, peer-reviewed research to endorse distrust in the election process.
It is important to consider the potential impact of bad science on the credibility of rumoring.
A resurfacing election rumor about non-citizen voting is using a highly contested, peer-reviewed research to endorse distrust in the election process.
It is important to consider the potential impact of bad science on the credibility of rumoring.
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Rumoring around Hurricane Helene has been intense. In this rapid analysis, we describe rumors we've seen (& expect to continue to see) related to the election — from wild conspiracy theories to genuine confusion about how displaced people will be able to vote. uwcip.substack.com/p/making-sen...
Making Sense of Election Rumors Emerging From Hurricane Helene
Rapid Research Analysis
uwcip.substack.com
October 9, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Rumoring around Hurricane Helene has been intense. In this rapid analysis, we describe rumors we've seen (& expect to continue to see) related to the election — from wild conspiracy theories to genuine confusion about how displaced people will be able to vote. uwcip.substack.com/p/making-sen...
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BREAKING NEWS 🚨: Who supplied information to X users during the Trump assassination attempts?
Our latest report dives deep into this and discovers that the news supply on X is becoming oligarchical, where few prominent accounts dominate the news supply and shape the discourse in key events.
Our latest report dives deep into this and discovers that the news supply on X is becoming oligarchical, where few prominent accounts dominate the news supply and shape the discourse in key events.
Breaking News in the Hands of a Few: Newsbrokering on X During the Trump Assassination Attempts
Research Report
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October 14, 2024 at 10:32 PM
BREAKING NEWS 🚨: Who supplied information to X users during the Trump assassination attempts?
Our latest report dives deep into this and discovers that the news supply on X is becoming oligarchical, where few prominent accounts dominate the news supply and shape the discourse in key events.
Our latest report dives deep into this and discovers that the news supply on X is becoming oligarchical, where few prominent accounts dominate the news supply and shape the discourse in key events.