📢After a long and painful wait, excited to share I’ve been awarded NSF CRII grant on understanding the dynamics of conversations with AI companion apps. Feeling super encouraged that the panel rated my proposal highly competitive! Extra grateful given how rough funding has been lately 🎉 #NSF #AI

Queen of eras, master of rights: Taylor Swift now owns all of her music, ending the music ownership fight that inspired her “Taylor’s Version” re-records.

As Trump targets elite schools, Harvard's president has a warning for universities: "We need to be firm in our commitments to what we stand for. And what we stand for … is education, pursuit of the truth, helping to educate people for better futures." See the full interview: https://n.pr/4dCUrSF

don't tell Altman, they'll start offering WaaS (witching as a service)

13/ Huge thanks to Prof. Tanu Mitra (@tanumitra.bsky.social) for this incredible opportunity and to my amazing PhD mentor, Prof. Prerna Juneja (@prerna6.bsky.social), for guiding me throughout. I have learned so much from you and your support. Thank you for introducing me to the world of research!🙌

How does YouTube’s search algorithm handle COVID🦠 misinfo in the United States🇺🇸(US) and South Africa🇿🇦(SA)? In our #icwsm '25 paper w/ @prerna6.bsky.social @tanumitra.bsky.social, we found bots in SA received significantly more misinfo in top-10 search results, which accounts for 95% of user traffic