“We stepped up our support for them and our entire international community through frequent email updates, online webinars and one-on-one advising.”

Tell me you’re married to a math teacher without telling me you’re married to a math teacher.

We have this cool year of democracy we’re doing here (classes, talks, community and student events). I wish we’d turn the volume up to 11 on it.

It’s cool the Russian bot accounts will tell him whether to eliminate social security.

Jack gives us the reason why decentralized protocols are attractive to SV folks:

Live footage of the chaos on the University of Michigan campus that Congress is so interested in.

Frisbees and hammocks everywhere.

Yes! :)

Paper at WWW24 led by @joshash.bsky.social: Do people sever ties to misinformation spreaders? And what predicts doing so? We tracked 900K followers of 5K health misinfo spreaders on Twitter. Misinformation ties are persistent: 99.5% of misinfo ties persist each month.

eegilbert.org/papers/www24...

Harman Kaur has a cool new experiment out about ML practitioners and interpretability tools. She finds that while they're intended to help, they can impair understanding. Practitioners spent 5x less time on task, and were 17% less accurate with access to them.

eegilbert.org/papers/kaur-...

I'm generally excited to read scholarship on online dating—but I'm especially excited to read Apryl Williams's new book, *Not My Type*. I remember that talk by OkCupid's Christian Rudder described in the Intro (excerpted below):

www.sup.org/books/extra/...

Classic

My son threw all the red pillows and beanbags into the other room to separate them from the maize and blue ones.

Last week, we organized a CCC/CRA visioning workshop on "The Future of Research on Social Technologies." It was all discussion, no panels.

CRA paid for a graphic recorder too, (!) who drew meeting topics and highlights in real time on giant pieces of paper, and now I want one all the time.

This doesn’t really capture it, but I appreciate Ann Arbor’s city planners so much in the Fall. My daily commute looks like this right now.

Our PhD students created a program to provide feedback on PhD application materials, primarily for:

BIPOC individuals
Trans*, non-binary, and LGBT+/queer communities
People with disabilities or chronic illness 
First-gen or low-income students
People from the Global South

bit.ly/UMSI-PhD-Fee...

Really enjoying the presentation of this #cscw2023 paper that takes a computer security perspective on the problem of online abuse.

arxiv.org/pdf/2301.039...

Who broke the kerning? letter-spacing on body text??

Can I help with the product roadmap:

1) Build a community-centered governance and moderation model

2) Fix the kerning

I have not been working: 17 days off camping in the mini-camper with my family, making s’mores, on our way to 5 national parks!

This is a good first post