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Information Science at CU Boulder
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Department of Information Science at @colorado.edu

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Information science is the study of the relationships between people, places and technology.

Our interdisciplinary approach—drawing on social science, computer science and the humanities—prepares students for a future characterized by new ways of working, communicating and creating.
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Introducing the Visual Evidence Lab, an interdisciplinary research hub for scholars, judges, attorneys, forensic experts, media makers, journalists, and human rights practitioners, advancing equitable and responsible technology in the pursuit of justice: www.colorado.edu/lab/visualev...
October 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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The Information Science department at CU Boulder will be hiring a new tenure-track faculty member in environmental justice and information/technology. Check out the job description below:

Applications are due on December 1, 2025!

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Assistant Professor in Environmental Justice and Information/Technology
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October 3, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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New for #cscw2025, my work with @bsemaan.bsky.social on how artists experience, and are resilient in the face of, enshittification.

Curious? Read about the research on the @acm-cscw.bsky.social Medium.
EXCEPTIONALLY curious? Preprint is here: ellensimpson.github.io/assets/pdf/C...
October 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The Information Science department at CU Boulder will be hiring a new tenure-track faculty member in environmental justice and information/technology. Check out the job description below:

Applications are due on December 1, 2025!

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Assistant Professor in Environmental Justice and Information/Technology
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October 3, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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My department @cuboulder.info is hiring a TT assistant professor in the area of environmental justice!

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Please share and encourage candidates to apply!
Assistant Professor in Environmental Justice and Information/Technology
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September 25, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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There is so much godforsaken news every day, but the tiniest bit of good news was that I was awarded tenure and promoted to associate professor at @colorado.edu! connections.cu.edu/stories/tenu...
Tenure list: June 2025
The CU Board of Regents on June 4 approved 96 tenure awards. CU Boulder Effective Aug. 14, 2025 Awards of tenure: Katherine Laura Bos Alexander, Associate Professor, Asian Languages and Civilizations,...
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June 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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🎉🎉 I DID A TED TALK! 🎉🎉

Even better, it’s all about #AI and humanity (but also death and grief, if you’re into that). Please like, comment, and SHARE — both because I’m super proud of it, but also because of the algorithm (!) #HCI #computing #technology #faith

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Griefbots and the New Afterlife: How AI is Changing the Ways We Mourn | Dylan Thomas Doyle | TEDxCU
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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May 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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NEW Blog Post! Check out how CITP researchers are making real-world impact on the side of workers. Read "Revolutionizing Rideshare: Researchers Develop FairFare App to Empower Workers" 🔻

🙌 @andresmh.com @samanthadalal.bsky.social @dana.witchy.business

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Revolutionizing Rideshare: Researchers Develop FairFare App to Empower Workers - CITP Blog
On February 1, 2025, Colorado’s Transportation Network Transparency Bill (SB24-075) took effect. CITP scholars, along with their colleagues, played a key role in supporting advocacy around the bill by...
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March 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Got around to pushing all my @cuboulder.info Web Data Science @jupyter.org notebooks to @github.com

Enjoy! github.com/cuinfoscienc...
March 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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The CU Boulder Media Studies Department is hiring an Assistant Teaching Professor! We’re seeking candidates with expertise in global media, screen cultures, and digital production cultures. jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
Assistant Teaching Professor of Media Studies
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January 21, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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This is a good example where the "feel" of data can really vary by a simple chart change - from pie chart to bar graph.

While the 🥧 pie chart looks like 3 roughly-equal groups of people, the "didn't vote" group jumps out in a 📊 bar graph

Same data plotted below: barvpie.netlify.app?numbers=31.5...
December 22, 2024 at 1:39 AM
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After moving from Bucknell to CU, folks often ask me "why switch to R1?"

But in the background, I also weighed teaching-track + liberal arts offers. I hope this conversation about shifting careers + a value-centered job search resonates with some

changingacademiclife.captivate.fm/episode/evan...
Evan Peck on considered choices and career moves: from liberals arts to a research uni (CAL114, S6E8) - Changing Academic Life
What factors to consider when making a career move? Evan Peck shares his considered career path move from a liberal arts to a research uni.
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December 11, 2024 at 5:00 PM
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A write-up on our #NeurIPS2024 work on the challenges curators face trying to curate fair ML datasets. For those attending NeurIPS, @dorazhao.bsky.social will be presenting this work as an oral on December 13 :)
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Exploring the Challenges of Fair Dataset Curation: Insights from NeurIPS 2024 – Sony AI
Sony AI’s paper accepted at NeurIPS 2024,
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December 5, 2024 at 3:58 PM
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And as background for this, some of the findings from @brianckeegan.com's and my NSF funded work on Twitter-Mastodon migration with @mattnicholson.bsky.social @blakeley.bsky.social & @jojuliz.bsky.social are described here: medium.com/cuinfoscienc...
An Exploration of the Twitter to Mastodon Migration
Survey Results from Current and Former Twitter and Mastodon Users
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December 5, 2024 at 4:29 PM
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I wrote for @us.theconversation.com about how I see Bluesky's recent growth in the context of research on social media migration!

I don't think folks here necessarily WANT a "new Twitter," but that Bluesky has the potential to recapture some of what people liked. theconversation.com/bluesky-isnt...
Bluesky isn’t the ‘new Twitter,’ but its resemblance to the old one is drawing millions of new users
Bluesky, the microblogging alternative to X, is having a moment. A social media researcher explains why people are flocking to it – and why it isn’t likely to recapture the early days of Twitter.
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December 5, 2024 at 4:26 PM
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Excited to announce our new project and grant: “DIY Commemoration of the Dead”, a Discovery Project funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC) 🎉⚰️

Led by experts from #unimelbourne, @ox.ac.uk, and @cuboulder.info. Details in the thread.

#deathcare #deathpositive #deathsky #griefsky #research
December 5, 2024 at 12:01 AM
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New ✍️ from @sarialtschuler.bsky.social, Ian Huntington, @laurenfklein.bsky.social, and me!

An interdisciplinary reflection in The Lancet on the shifting narrative roles of clinicians amidst increased use of automated medical scribes and increased patient access to notes.

#nlp #mlsky #healthcare
December 2, 2024 at 9:07 AM
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Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon.

Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵
First dataset for the new @huggingface.bsky.social @bsky.app community organisation: one-million-bluesky-posts 🦋

📊 1M public posts from Bluesky's firehose API
🔍 Includes text, metadata, and language predictions
🔬 Perfect to experiment with using ML for Bluesky 🤗

huggingface.co/datasets/blu...
bluesky-community/one-million-bluesky-posts · Datasets at Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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November 27, 2024 at 3:31 PM
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Huge thanks to Ally Cohen and The World We Are Building Podcast for having @whatknows.bsky.social and I on to discuss the @digital-legacy.bsky.social Digital Legacy Clinic! Listen to Jed say smart things about death and tech. I also say things. @colorado.edu @cuboulder.info shorturl.at/chlbk
Jed Brubaker & Dylan Thomas-Doyle: Data After Death
The World We Are Building · Episode
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November 26, 2024 at 7:18 PM
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👋 We're just ramping up our lab that focuses on data equity and access. More soon, but until then...

📊❤️ Our group is growing! PhD apps due Dec. 1st: vis.community

👉 Follow PhD student @fridamudsam.bsky.social & PI @peck.phd

🏔️🦬 Follow our dept @cuboulder.info
PhD Recruitment
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November 24, 2024 at 6:42 PM
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Welcome to the official account for the University of Colorado Boulder, aka CU Boulder, in @bsky.app! We are excited to be here. Stay tuned... 💛🖤
November 22, 2024 at 9:27 PM
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My favorite slide from a talk I gave this week about the launch of the Digital Legacy Clinic (@digital-legacy.bsky.social) at @cuboulder.info. I wasn’t certain if I had done enough research, but a year ago Liz Gerber gave me the right push at the right time. Grateful for her support! #digitallegacy
November 21, 2024 at 11:23 PM
We are hiring two instructors for 2025–2026!

The first role is a one-year position with an opportunity for renewal.

Teaching undergraduate core and elective courses in computational and quantitative methods.

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Instructor - Information Science (One-year appointment)
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November 21, 2024 at 7:42 PM
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The Department of Media Studies at CU Boulder is hiring! We’re seeking an open-rank scholar with a critical, interdisciplinary approach to media, culture, and the environment.

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Professor in Environmental Media Studies
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November 20, 2024 at 4:06 PM
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Trying something new:
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"

It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social

🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...
November 20, 2024 at 5:09 PM