People often pitch AI as unprecedented. But what if we already have the organizational tools to evaluate & negotiate its use? Our new book Auditing AI opens in the 1980s with the story of the US Network for Organ Sharing how how they test & decide on their algorithms direct.mit.edu/books/book/6...

As of this morning I am officially "Dad, did they have traffic lights when you were younger?" years old. It feels bad.

My son's first teeball practice* is in a batting cage built in the back of a liquor store because it's still might snow in late April. It will be cut short for the Sabres game. g/l finding something more Buffalo than this. *(why are we having a practice for teeball?)

New #FAccT2026 paper with Su Lin Blodgett and @ninamarkl.bsky.social on the ideological work performed by discourses that sell the capabilities of generative AI products tisjune.github.io/papers/facct...

The English book is out! 🎉 🥳 Happy and proud that the English version of our book is presented today at the Global Progressive Mobilisation meeting in Barcelona! "The Open Future and Its Enemies: How we can Protect Free Society from AI Dictatorship" @paulnemitz.bsky.social #OpenFuture #Democracy

🚨NEW ESSAY ALERT🚨Broken Connections: Fieldnotes from the Old Internet. The most personal thing I've written in years. I trace my history with internet communities & online relationships & how much of that is now gone. And a lot about LiveJournal. Open Access! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Quite coincidentally, I just sent this paper to all of the students in my lab this morning!

I have been thinking for the last few years about ideologies and how they emerge in text. This paper, with @davidlazer.bsky.social and Kim Williams, reflects some of those thoughts, and how I think we can improve and expand on how we operationalize ideology in discourse. arxiv.org/abs/2603.18945

One of the benefits of writing a paper with only senior co-authors is that I do not have to avoid the satisfaction of informing this reviewer that this is not what the E stands for in EMNLP

I've tried to spell accommodate like, maybe, 1000 times in my life and never once have I done it correctly

Consider submitting an ICWSM workshop proposal! It’s a great opportunity to create space for discussions around emerging research threads, new methods, or even old but exciting topics. Deadline: Jan 30.

Extended deadline for the ICWSM/JQD Global Initiative. (Ask your friends) to submit a 2-page proposal by Jan. 23. A free trip to ICWSM'27 in (TBD) and mentorship on your paper submission!

Child 1: I am sad, I will cry and seek comfort Child 2: I am sad, I will cry and then try to hit you Child 3, this morning: I am sad, I will not cry but will somehow find a metal wrench and throw it at you

New paper (**w/ several brilliant folks looking for PhD positions!**) We look at attitudes towards doing social justice work in 500 students taking a first-year seminar class about computing, and qualitatively assess reasons for (not) wanting to do justice work. dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....

🌍 Are you new to @icwsm.bsky.social or JQD:DM and based in a low- or middle-income country? 💡 Submit a project idea, get matched with a mentor, present virtually at ICWSM'26, and prepare a submission for Sept 2026! 📢 Call icwsm.org/2026/submit.... 🚀 Apply by Jan 15 forms.gle/A9GkJboP7qi3...

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

every now and then I stumble on a place like r/slowcooking where people just all out stan each others slow cooker recipes and it temporarily restores my faith in humanity and the internet

🌍 Are you new to @icwsm.bsky.social or JQD:DM and based in a low- or middle-income country? 💡 Submit a project idea, get matched with a mentor, present virtually at ICWSM'26, and prepare a submission for Sept 2026! 📢 Call icwsm.org/2026/submit.... 🚀 Apply by Jan 15 forms.gle/A9GkJboP7qi3...

“The Post has a content partnership with OpenAI.” Check our article instead, which uses conversations not individually chosen for public sharing, actually describes our methods and data, and finds quite different distributions for how people use ChatGPT and personal info disclosed in their chats.

Come be my boss! The new AI & Society Dept., focusing on critical and community-driven approaches to AI, is looking for our first permanent chair. Please feel free to reach out with questions! www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/58816 [Plz repost]

the key to good writing: 1. Decide 1-3 days before the deadline to rewrite the intro 2. End up drafting the leading phrase "At it's core, human communication is about..." 3. Question life choices

What are your favorite recent papers on using LMs for annotation (especially in a loop with human annotators), synthetic data for task-specific prediction, active learning, and similar? Looking for practical methods for settings where human annotations are costly. A few examples in thread ↴

Do not let any LLM serve as a form of epistemic grounding for society.

ICYMI, our DomainDemo dataset, which describes how different demographic groups share domains on Twitter, is now available to download! 📄 Data descriptor: doi.org/10.1038/s415... 📈 Interactive app to explore the data: domaindemo.info 💽 Dataset: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Reposting for the #ic2s2 crowd!

UB's new Department of AI and Society is hiring faculty across ranks (Assistant, Associate, Full Professor). We’re looking for transdisciplinary scholars interested in building AI by society, for society. Start dates begin Fall 2025. More info: www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/57734

Only problem with the baby starting to sleep through the night is that I need to find a new excuse to justify my caffeine intake now

So ICWSM concluded today and it was a blast, was a great honor to attend @icwsm.bsky.social at Copenhagen and present my work with @kennyjoseph.bsky.social and other colleagues. The paper link is here : ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...,

How information sharing in social media has slowly shifted from public posting to private channels. Strong empirical evidence from Facebook by the one and only Kiran Garimella. DETOX #ICWSM.

In our new paper (w/ @jongreen.bsky.social , @davidlazer.bsky.social, & Philip Resnik), now up in Nature Human Behaviour (nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02223-4), we argue that this tension really speaks to a broader misconceptualization of what misinformation is and how it works.

UB is starting an AI and Society Department. The first job positing is for a postdoc position (F26 or S27 start). engineering.buffalo.edu/home/researc... Please reach out if you have questions!

Got this written up, fwiw. Initial takeaways for us - lots of fanfiction and male dominance-centered relationships (e.g. arranged marriages) to roleplay where user is not the dominant male. Longer term, it is interesting to consider what c.ai means for user-gen content. arxiv.org/pdf/2505.13354

Sending this out again for anyone in Pittsburgh who lost their NEA grant last week, or is fighting for their NSF money, or who is being RIF'd from their fed job, or who wants to tell an investigative journalist anything, really. You can be anonymized and you will be protected.

I spend a lot of time disparaging those who are failing us in this moment - but today I want to shine a light on all of those who are helping to make the threats to science and universities legible for other scientists and the public🧪 1/

New paper out in Nature Communications 📌 @anetilab.bsky.social members @lgajo.bsky.social and @johanneswachs.bsky.social with @loreb92.bsky.social and Federico Battiston explore "The dynamics of leadership and success in software development teams" 👾 Link to paper ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 New paper out in @journalqd.bsky.social! 🚨 How do different social media platforms connect to each other? In our latest study, we propose that social media can be understood as a system made up of differentiated yet interconnected platforms, shaped by how users share information. #socialmedia🧵

🎉 Acceptance notifications have been sent—congratulations to all the authors! 🔥 If you are a student, be sure to check out the #ICWSM 2025 Student Travel Grant 📅 Deadline: Mar 31, 2025 🔎Details: www.icwsm.org/2025/attend/... ✍️Application form: aaaiforms.wufoo.com/forms/m1xp8i...

Congrats to ADL, AJC and the other mainstream Jewish orgs content to sit back while a fascist delivers antisemitic smears against the most prominent Jew in American government

Learning your one kid dodged pink eye and can go to daycare so you uncancel your meetings only to be called 20 minutes later by the nurse to pick up one of your other kids

A colleague is looking for technical folks to review papers for a special issue in the Journal of Social Work Research on Social Work and AI. Chance to do some interdisciplinary dialogue in an important area! Fill out this google form if you're interested: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Who won the Trump/Vance/Zelensky Oval Office shouting match? We asked three Russian bots in an X comment thread.

Rufo straight up admits that the entire framing of being against "cancel culture" was BS and they just wanted to be the ones doing the "canceling." Every radical centrist who was just asking questions in the Atlantic played their useful idiot role in bringing this to fruition.

The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place): 1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."

I'm joining Binghamton University School of Computing as an assistant professor this Sep. I'm recruiting two PhD students to work on topics related to AI and information ecosystem. If you are interested in joining me, send your CV and a short statement of purpose to my email [email protected]

8/8. So, if you’re feeling down about these attacks, I understand—I feel that way too. But just remember that they’re not attacking because your work doesn’t matter; they’re attacking *precisely* because it does. So, get some rest, connect with your people, and keep doing it.

Tech bros cheering on the cuts to grant funding built businesses and wealth on the back of decades of university R&D work. Much of that knowledge was given away to the public. This is basic pulling-up-the-ladder nonsense via rewriting history. They owe the public, not the other way around.

If you're an NSF PI like me, you might be wondering: Will my grant be suspended or terminated next week? A few key things to know: First off, remember that NSF is **congressionally mandated** to evaluate broader impacts. And laws like CHIPS and Science supersede EOs. But also... 🧵 thread

Worried about a fascist takeover? This sheet-pan paella will make you feel like you’re in 1930s Spain.

Saw a car that had an "I brake for wildlife" bumper sticker and I am just wondering what they think the rest of us are doing