ICYMI 📰 Mariah Ehmke, MIDS student, published research on work to develop a new measure of nutrition security, titled: Monitoring Nutrition Security: Perspectives from a Workshop on Nutrition Security Measurement. https://jn.nutrition.org/article/S0022-3166%2825%2900411-0/fulltext

Ph.D. student Sarah Barrington was featured in a @7news-wkbw.bsky.social article about AI voice cloning scams after a NY couple was swindled out of thousands of dollars. "These AI technologies effectively supercharge existing cybercrime capabilities," she said. www.wkbw.com/news/local-n...

ICYMI 📰 Andrew Akuaku, MIMS student, launched his first startup, Cultiflow, an AI-powered crowdfarming platform that tracks food demand and enables people to invest in crops facing supply shortages. 👏 👏 https://cultiflow.com/

As 2025 comes to an end, we'd love to wish our I School community a very happy new year! 🥰

ICYMI📰 Prof. Niloufar Salehi, Prof. Coye Cheshire, and recent Ph.D. alum Sijia Xiao had a paper accepted to CSCW 2025 titled, SnuggleSense: Empowering Online Harm Survivors Through a Structured Sensemaking Process. Read the paper here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19158

ICYMI 📰 Jennifer Zhu, lecturer, and former MIDS students Zukang Yang and Zixuan Zhu published a paper titled “CuriousLLM: Elevating Multi-Document Question Answering with LLM-Enhanced Knowledge Graph Reasoning” in NAACL 2025. https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09077

📢 Ph.D. STUDENTS 📢 The app is now open to join us for the Oxford-Berkeley Summer Doctoral Program, an opportunity for students to learn from & engage with leading academics in the field of information and internet studies! Deadline ⏰: 2/2 https://bit.ly/4p4CK2n

ICYMI 📰 Harshit Kaushi, MIMS student, was recognized with an Excellence Award by the Senior Equity Director at CME Group during his internship. He received the award after completing a project on equity markets and co-authoring a white paper scheduled for publication. 👏

Theories about chemtrails have been popular in recent years, with politicians trying to pass laws. "In these low-trust situations, it’s really a fertile ground for this type of story,” said Prof. Tim Tangherlini. @RollingStone.com

It's been an incredible year for the I School, and we're looking forward to all that 2026 has in store for us! Happy Holidays to you and your family from the UC Berkeley School of Information 💌 🫶

Festive fits, full hearts, and holiday vibes all around 🎄✨ Thanks for celebrating the holiday season with us! ❄️ Enjoy some of the photos we took during the I School Holiday Party, with more to be found here: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjCE9nB

Hyper-realistic AI videos of dead celebrities, created with apps like Sora, have spread online, prompting debate over the control of deceased people's likenesses. Prof. Hany Farid weighed in, saying "this problem will surely only get worse." @FRANCE24.com

Gov. Newsom is convening state leaders for a "California Innovation Council” to embrace responsible #AI in the government. Prof. Deirdre Mulligan has been invited to join this initiative and work towards modernizing government service delivery. More: www.ischool.berkeley.edu/news/2025/de...

📢 Ph.D. STUDENTS: The app is now open to join us for the Oxford-Berkeley Summer Doctoral Program, an opportunity for students to learn from & engage with leading academics in the field of information and internet studies! #AcademicSky Deadline ⏰: 2/2 #OIISDP #OIIBerkeleySDP
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How much would it cost to end extreme poverty? According to @vox.com, about $318 billion. “Extreme poverty exists not because it’s expensive to address, but because it is institutionally and politically difficult” to get people to care, said Prof. Josh Blumenstock.

📢 Calling I School alumni! We are thrilled to announce the launch of our official alumni chapter and affinity group gatherings in 2026. Starting location: San Francisco. Stay tuned as we add more cities and groups in the coming year! 🌁 Get involved: https://bit.ly/3MUpqjH

Deepfakes and chatbots are now good enough that many don’t trust they are interacting with real people. “As a general rule,” Prof. Hany Farid says, “this idea that you’re on a video call with somebody, so you can trust that, is over.” @Bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Berkeley wrote up our work on measuring the stories in contemporary songs and had me reflect on the origin of that work in Bruce Springsteen’s “Thunder Road”

Prof Deirdre Mulligan @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social will serve on the @governor.ca.gov's new California Innovation Council, along with other top policy, tech, and academic experts🌟

News! 📢 Excited to share that applications for #OIISDP are now open! The 2026 Summer Doctoral Programme will take place in collaboration with @berkeleyischool.bsky.social, in Oxford, 13th-24th July, 2026. Find out more apply today! www.oii.ox.ac.uk/study/summer...

A data breach of the OpenReview platform revealed identities of the anonymous reviewers for submitted papers for a prestigious conference on AI, leading to threats. “We're basically poisoning the well,” said Prof. Hany Farid to @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

A new study by @dbamman.bsky.social created a machine learning algorithm that can identify narrative storytelling elements in song lyrics. 🎵 📖 "There’s been less work on measuring narrativity or even operationalizing it within songs," said Bamman.

Congrats to @dbamman.bsky.social for being selected as a 2025 Humanities and AI Virtual Institute awardee by @schmidtsciences.bsky.social! 🏆 📺 Read more about his project, “Bridging Large-Scale Computational Analysis and the Close Viewing of Film and Television”: https://bit.ly/4q3DghQ

A picture of JD Vance allegedly arguing with his wife circulated the web. Prof. Hany Farid, after analyzing the photo, found that "facial features in the image do not match contemporaneous images of Vance." @snopes.com More: https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/12/10/vance-fight-wife-usha-restaurant/

A UC Berkeley alum claims to have written over 100 papers on AI this year. Prof. Hany Farid calls them a ‘disaster.’ Read the full article from @theguardian.com at the 🔗: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/06/ai-research-papers

Mark your calendars! 📅 Prof. Deirdre Mulligan will be on a panel at the SF AI Forum to explore how government can realize AI’s promise while safeguarding against its risks. ⏰ Dec. 17, 2025 📍 Koret Auditorium, SF Public Library https://www.sf.gov/sf-ai-forum

Prof. Hany Farid weighed in after the "Godfather of AI" said an CS degree is still valuable. He stated that the best jobs for CS graduates are not at "the usual suspects in Silicon Valley," but intersections of computing & other fields. @businessinsider.com

EVENT: Join us next Monday and Wednesday for an interactive student project exhibition of the “Theory and Practice of Tangible User Interfaces” class! 📅 December 8 & December 10 ⏰ 10:00—11:30 am 📍 202 South Hall 🔗 https://bit.ly/4q9TC95

Amidst mass tech layoffs, what will be the next hot career in an AI-driven world? Ph.D. candidate @laurenmarietta.bsky.social says we need a new generation of "advocacy technologists" who work in the public sector. Read her full Local News Matters op-ed at the 🔗 https://bit.ly/3XyqKef

TowerScout, an I School-developed #AI model adopted by the CDC, cuts cooling-tower identification time from hours to minutes. 👩‍💻 Read about how the CDC's early bets on AI are paying off: https://www.nextgov.com/artificial-intelligence/2025/12/cdc-placed-early-bets-ai-and-now-they-are-paying/409826/

Can you detect "AI video slop?" Even experts get duped, Prof. Hany Farid tells @npr.org. Take their quiz to see if you can tell the real from the fake, then read the full article for tips on how to spot the slop. 🔗: https://www.npr.org/2025/11/30/nx-s1-5610951/fake-ai-videos-slop-quiz

✨ Thank you to everyone who made #MIDSImmersion unforgettable! ✨ Our students explored AI ethics, negotiation, data storytelling, #GenAI, and more through workshops and panels with industry leaders. 📸 Photos: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjCBNSv

Mark your calendars! 📅 Prof. Deirdre Mulligan will be on a panel at the SF AI Forum to explore how government can realize AI’s promise while safeguarding against its risks. ⏰ Dec. 17, 2025 📍 Koret Auditorium, SF Public Library https://www.sf.gov/sf-ai-forum

Celebrating Thanksgiving the Hogwarts way 🪄✨ Our students put together the coziest, most magical potluck feast — from spellbinding dishes to house-pride vibes all around. Shoutout to Octavia Smith (MIMS '27) and IMSA! 🧡🤎 https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjCBNXq

Last month, the Cultural Analytics Lecture series, a collab b/w @ucbids.bsky.social and the I School, kicked off w/ a lecture from @manvir.bsky.social, where he shared his findings on global patterns in music and storytelling. Read about the event: 👇 tinyurl.com/3de3khzd

Prof. Deirdre Mulligan authored "Advancing Public Interest Technology in Computing: New Insights for the Community," a CRA paper exploring the current landscape of #PIT. Read the full report a the 🔗: https://cra.org/advancing-public-interest-technology-in-computing-new-insights-for-the-community/

A MIMS project named FloodNavigator won the Chen Award, offering a community-based platform to report floods in Ghana. This summer, teammates Leslie N. and Frances Brittingham traveled to the capital city of Accra to establish on-the-ground connections. https://tinyurl.com/5fjpwe2s

ICYMI 📰 Lance Santana, MIMS student, participated in the 2025 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Data Science Challenge. He developed deep learning models to detect and reconstruct occluded pedestrians and vehicles in driving scenes and achieved strong results. 👏 👏

Mark your calendars for the Cybersecurity Capstone Showcase! Watch MICS students present their projects — culminating in the Lily L. Chang Capstone Award. 🗓️ Dec 10, 2025 ⏰ 4:00–6:30 PM 💻 Online 🔗 https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/2025/cybersecurity-fall-2025-capstone-project-showcase

ICYMI 📰 Do people using medication abortion need more and different forms of social support? Prof. Coye Cheshire published a Women's Reproductive Health study about the narratives of support in a Reddit-based abortion community following Dobbs in 2022. Read the study 🔗 https://bit.ly/4oWMHzG

Mark your calendars! 📅 Prof. Deirdre Mulligan will be on a panel at the SF AI Forum to explore how government can realize AI’s promise while safeguarding against its risks. ⏰ Dec. 17, 2025 📍 Koret Auditorium, SF Public Library https://www.sf.gov/sf-ai-forum

The DHS diverted thousands of federal agents from their normal duties to focus on arresting undocumented immigrants, a @nytimes.com investigation found. “It’s heartbreaking,” Prof. Hany Farid said. Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/us/politics/dhs-agents-reassigned.html

I School Ph.D. student Nikita Mehandru and Prof. @dbamman.bsky.social published a paper in @nature.com Scientific Reports about bioinformatics analysis with multi-sensing agents. Congratulations! Read their research here. ⬇️ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-25919-z#Sec1

Can you detect an AI deepfake? Take a quiz to find out! I School Ph.D. student Sarah Barrington spoke with @nbcbayarea.com to discuss just how difficult it has become to distinguish between what’s real and AI-generated. https://bit.ly/3JZZNga

ICYMI 📰 Prof. Coye Cheshire published research titled "Using Natural Language Processing to Describe the Use of an Online Community for Abortion: Dynamic Topic Modeling Analysis of #Reddit Posts" in the JMIR. Read the publication ➡️ https://infodemiology.jmir.org/2025/1/e72771

🚨We’re hiring for another fantastic position at the I School! 🚨 The I School invites applications for a tenure-track or tenured position (Asst/Assoc/Full Professor) in Digital Security, Safety & Trust. #academicsky Apply by Nov 16, 2025 Please share widely.

Interested in pursuing graduate school? Learn more about the Master of Information Management and Systems program and the Master of Computational Social Science degree programs! Pizza will be served! 📅 TODAY, 5-6 pm 📍 210 South Hall

In an article with @kqednews.kqed.org, Prof. Hany Farid discussed a case in which a physician and activist was denied service by Waymo after being falsely labeled a "terrorist". "...If it is only doing a simplistic name matching, this is inexcusable..." Farid said. www.kqed.org/news/1206303...

Happy Veterans Day to members of the I School community who have served the country. 🫡 Thank you for your service!

Join us THIS FRIDAY for a Cultural Analytics Series lecture w/ the Berkeley Institute for Data Science! @uvmvermont.bsky.social Prof. Peter Dodds will share his work on the essence of meaning, stories, and characters. 📅 Nov. 14, 12:15 - 1:30 pm 📍 210 South Hall, Online 🔗 https://bit.ly/43UpsO4