NEW: Internal report reveals DHS intelligence portal was accidentally opened to tens of thousands of users for months, exposing sensitive intel about Americans. @brennancenter.org obtained the docs. @wired.com has the story. 🧵 www.wired.com/story/a-dhs-...

Tenure-track position on technology & society to be appointed to the John Derby Evans Professorship in Information at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor. www.si.umich.edu/people/facul...

University of Michigan School of Information has four faculty positions ranging from Presidential Postdoc to Full. They're all linked here. PPFP due Sep 26, the others Nov 1 or 15. www.si.umich.edu/people/facul...

The in-person program for #cscw2025 is online! View it here: cscw.acm.org/2025/index.p... The online pre-conference program will go live soon. Reminder: the early bird registration deadline is this Tuesday, September 9th.

Age verification mandates are a dream come true for Big Tech platforms, which will end up with more traffic and a whole lot more data. But these laws are a nightmare for users. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

The CDC is gutting a program that monitors foodborne illnesses. The program will now only track infections caused by two pathogens, rather than eight. Hello? How does this “Make America Healthy Again”?

#CSCW2025 registration is open! Join us in Bergen, Norway (Oct 18–22) or virtually. Early bird pricing for in-person ends Sept 2. Register now: cscw.acm.org/2025/index.p... ⬇️ A glimpse of what’s waiting for you… (1/3)

UMSI Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship. Apps due Nov 1. careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Welcome to everyone who recently found us on Bluesky! We're exactly two months out from CSCW 2025 in Bergen, Norway and there's A LOT happening behind the scenes. #cscw2025 REMINDER: Register for the conference by Sept. 2 to get the early bird rate. More info here: cscw.acm.org/2025/index.p...

Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Technology, Society, and Power at UMSI. Apps due Nov 1. www.si.umich.edu/people/facul...

Turns out many marginalized Americans are skeptical of / resistant to AI. Thanks Jared Wadley at @umichnews.bsky.social for covering our AI attitudes research! Co-authors: @naz-andalibi.bsky.social, @mayworms.info, @shoreingber.bsky.social news.umich.edu/marginalized... dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Our #FAccT2025 proceedings are out!! 🎉 Read all of the published papers here: dl.acm.org/doi/proceedi...

@shoreingber.bsky.social presents our work with @naz-andalibi.bsky.social about people’s perceptions of different types of emotion AI and potential consequences #FAccT2025 dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

And finally, "Distinguishing Emotion AI: Factors Shaping Perceptions Including Input Data, Emotion Data Recipients, and Identity," led by ‪@shoreingber.bsky.social‬ with co-author @naz-andalibi.bsky.social deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/ha... #FAccT2025

Next, a paper I led, "AI Attitudes Among Marginalized Populations in the U.S.: Nonbinary, Transgender, and Disabled Individuals Report More Negative AI Attitudes," with @mayworms.info, ‪@shoreingber.bsky.social‬, @naz-andalibi.bsky.social deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/ha... #FAccT2025

Thrilled to be at #FAccT2025 sharing the work @naz-andalibi.bsky.social and I have been developing over the past year! 🥹 Tomorrow, I'll be presenting a paper which provides empirical evidence supporting regulation of emotion AI across contexts of deployment (11:45 AM)

Texas cops tried to find an abortion patient by using data from an automatic license plate reader (ALPR), which gave them access to over 83,000 cameras across the country. The dystopian future feminists have been warning about is already here. www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

🥳🥳🥳 TENURED! This immigrant woman of color who came here with two suitcases, no money, a vague sense of wanting something different, memories, and a lot of feelings for having left behind so much and stepping into an unfamiliar world, is tenured. Grateful to those who have supported me 💙

In my research on campus sexual violence, I’d hear school officials justify looking the other way after a report of sexual assault with, “He’s no Harvey Weinstein.” Well, now folks are trying to rehabilitate Harvey Weinstein too.

Two papers from our lab at #CHI2025 this morning! "That Moment of Curiosity": Augmented Reality Face Filters for Transgender Identity Exploration, Gender Affirmation, and Radical Possibility presented by @katbamkapow.bsky.social dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... 9am in G418+G419

#CHI2025 attendees: SIGCHI CARES is available on-site and online as a resource if anyone experiences or witnesses any form of harassment, harassment, etc. You can use the listed email or directly approach any of us! Thank you 🌷

I participated in the Body politics workshop on Saturday. Shoutout to organizers and participants! And today, I will present work done with @shoreingber.bsky.social about #emotionAI across domains in the US. 2:46pm, room G302 #CHI2025

I participated in the Body politics workshop on Saturday. Shoutout to organizers and participants! And today, I will present work done with @shoreingber.bsky.social about #emotionAI across domains in the US. 2:46pm, room G302 #CHI2025

Tonight! #CHI2025 🏳️‍⚧️🌈🎉

The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988

Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems #chi2025 are now online! dl.acm.org/doi/proceedi...

Dozens of witnesses are set to take the stand in the trial, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who is scheduled to testify for seven hours. The outcome could reshape the future of Meta.

“Oura, the health technology company known for its smart ring, wants to change the way pregnancy data is collected.”

“…researchers gathered a group of roughly 200 people who had diagnosable conditions like depression and anxiety, or were at risk of developing eating disorders. Half of them worked with AI therapy bots. Compared to those that did not receive treatment, those who did showed significant improvement”

Some news many years in the making: My book EMPIRE OF AI, out May 20, is ready for pre-order at empireofai.com. It tells the inside story of OpenAI as a lens for understanding the moment we’re in: the tech elite's extraordinary seizure of power and its threat to democracy. 1/

This week, the genetic testing company 23andMe filed for bankruptcy, which means the genetic data the company collected on millions of users is now up for sale. If you do not want your data included in any potential sale, it’s a good time to ask the company to delete it.

super grateful to @julietshen.bsky.social for guest lecturing in my online communities class on trust and safety work in industry. I and the students learned a lot!

March is the #endometriosis awareness month. And, I am recruiting participants for a paid interview study about #endometriosis and technology (US focused now). 1st step is a screener; those invited to participate will be contacted directly. Screener: umich.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Pls share 💛

March is the #endometriosis awareness month. And, I am recruiting participants for a paid interview study about #endometriosis and technology (US focused now). 1st step is a screener; those invited to participate will be contacted directly. Screener: umich.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Pls share 💛

Signal is a great privacy tool, but it isn’t magic. And even if you’re not discussing war plans in your group chat, it’s a good idea to know the limits of encryption. Read our piece on what Signal can—and can’t—do for you here: www.wired.com/story/encryp...

"More than 15 million people provided the company with their DNA samples, a virtually unprecedented repository of human genetic information that could be sold in bankruptcy proceedings." How long before Musk or Thiel or the other vampires try to hoover 23andMe up? www.wsj.com/business/dna...

I am recruiting participants for a paid interview study about #endometriosis and technology (US focused now). 1st step is a screener; those invited to participate will be contacted directly. Screener: umich.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... More info: www.nazaninandalibi.net/endo-tech-st...

I am recruiting participants for a paid interview study about #endometriosis and technology (US focused now). 1st step is a screener; those invited to participate will be contacted directly. Screener: umich.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... More info: www.nazaninandalibi.net/endo-tech-st...

Not a red flag but rather a flashing billboard saying “get out now.”

“Though the AI was trained on the work done by the LIS [legal investigations support] team, it has not yet been able to replicate it. And now 10 engineers charged with developing the AI have been sacked and the fate of the project has been thrown into doubt…”

Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said. (Published March 2023 with @capitolforum.bsky.social)

As we’ve reported on sexual misconduct by OB-GYNs, we’ve learned that many women felt they didn’t know what was normal during a visit, or didn’t know what they could do to speak up. We created this guide to help fill this gap.

Tesla has recalled... every single Cybertruck. Every one they've ever sold. For a hardware issue www.carscoops.com/2025/03/tesl...

Visa holders face more risk than US citizens & permanent residents from device searches at ports of entry, Saira Hussain told @theverge.com. “If you refuse a search of your phone or your laptop, customs officers can use that to potentially revoke your visa.”

Flower arrangements (by me) in preparation for the first day of spring and the Persian new year. It was definitely not easy to get in the mood but the process of arranging is meditative for me.

Privacy is political.

Meta's strategy of "anything goes" on Instagram is simply not going to work. We've found dozens of accounts where people are stealing videos of women, face swapping AI images of women with Down Syndrome onto them, and creating OnlyFans to sell AI nudes of them www.404media.co/people-are-u...

We just added more than 200 new items to the Atlas of Surveillance, with technologies like gunshot detection and camera registries in Pennsylvania, Texas, and Georgia.

THIS. Or anywhere really aside from a dog park. Just put your dogs on leash.