Can public involvement in AI evaluation improve the science? Or does it compromise quality, speed, cost? In @pnas.org, Megan Price & I summarize challenges of AI evaluation, review strengths/weaknesses, & suggest how participatory methods can improve the science of AI www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Want to catch up on the latest developments at CSCW? Curious about the budget, rolling deadlines, or volunteering? We've posted a blog with responses to the Q&A at the #cscw2025 town hall session, held during the conference. Read more here: medium.com/@acm-cscw/cs...

About f*ing time. wapo.st/4p28Dci

With the #chi2026 reviews coming out, I am posting my regular reminder to folks who do qualitative research. I have been curating a document with common critiques of qual research and how to respond. Check it out and add your own examples! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Wait, do most people have fungi friends? Am I missing out because I *don't* have a fungi friend? Where do I find a fungi friend -- should I just wander through the woods until I see someone?

Gina Neff @ginasue.bsky.social : What the CSCW community is well positioned to do: *recognize work of negotiating innovation *prepare people for increased capacity *map institutional constraints *co-create social structures that bring people together #cscw2025

Gina Neff @ginasue.bsky.social : Innovation isn't disruption, it's negotiation. How do you make room for negotiating innovation? Reconsider team environment and team structure. Add more time and space to figure out what works--and what doesn't. #cscw2025

Gina Neff @ginasue.bsky.social shares her research on the evolution of technology and how it is shaping AI and the future of work. #cscw2025

Not only is General Chair @vitak.bsky.social running #CSCW2025 with Fabiano Pinatti, but she also gave a talk on research about helping incidental users navigate privacy risks in smart environments.

👋🏽 It's the final day of #CSCW2025! Gina Neff, Professor of Responsible AI at Queen Mary University London will be giving the closing keynote: 🎤 "Negotiating Innovation: What Construction's Digital Transformation Can Teach Us About AI and the Future of Work" 🕠 4:30pm 📍Peer Gynt-salen

Our team presented five papers at the CSCW (computer supported cooperative work and social computing) conference this week in Bergen, Norway. (CSCW is an ACM conference and a “home conference” for my team.) I’m going to share a few highlights in a thread here.

Big congrats to Jill Diamond, Michaelanne Thomas, Daphne LaRose, and @asbruckman.bsky.social for winning the Lasting Impact Award for their 2013 paper Hollaback on the power of narrative. #cscw2025

It's the final day of #cscw2025! I can't believe how quickly the last week has gone by, but I'm feeling very energized by this community, and I'm especially looking forward to Gina Neff (@ginasue.bsky.social) giving the closing keynote this afternoon.

Let’s put CSCW on the map 🗺️ if you’re attending #CSCW2025, be sure to connect with someone new and interact with our Community Art Installation, located in the coffee area on the first floor 😊 A great way to meet someone new and find a CSCW connection from across the globe! 🌍 @acm-cscw.bsky.social

Tomorrow at #cscw2025, I'll be briefly taking off my General Chair hat to present a paper led by my student Sunyup Park on smart tech/incidental use/privacy. Read more about the paper here (it's open access!): dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... Session: Perspectives on Data Privacy Wed 14:30, Dovregubben-1

Amy Bruckman (@asbruckman.bsky.social) is sharing updates on CSCW's shift to rolling deadlines. You can read more about the process and apply to be on the editorial board here: Read more details about rolling and apply to be on the editorial board: medium.com/acm-cscw/csc... #cscw2025

@cfiesler.bsky.social, @vitak.bsky.social and I have another column in the @acm-sigchi.bsky.social newsletter on behalf of the SIGCHI Research Ethics Committee: "The Ethics of Consent: Reflecting on the Case of r/ChangeMyView" sigchi.org/news/newslet...

What an amazing group of people I've had the privilege to work with over the last year+! I am so grateful to all the organizing committee, and especially my co-chair Fabiano Pinatti. #cscw2025

We’re getting a fun history of the “European” CSCW (not a place but a state of mind) from one of the original CSCW researchers, Dr. Kari Kuutti. #cscw2025

👋🏽 Welcome to day 3 of #CSCW2025 and the first day of the full conference program! To get into the venue, use the door marked on the map below — walk past reception (resepsjon) and around the corner to the Peer Gynt sign / red carpet to pick up your badge. If you're a student, bring your student ID.

It’s Day 3 of #cscw2025 and things are really heating up. Our opening plenary and keynote is this morning at 9am CET, followed by a full day of paper presentations and our poster/demo reception this evening. Time to get excited!

Welcome to Day 2 of #cscw2025! We have six workshops and the doctoral consortium running today. You can also come by to pick up your name badge before the rush tomorrow. See the full program here: programs.sigchi.org/cscw/2025

For #cscw2025, we have literally rolled out the red carpet for you! Can’t wait to see many of you in Bergen.

Exciting news! Just in time for the start of #cscw2025, the new issue of PACM HCI is out, featuring 400+ articles accepted at CSCW. All should be free to view now and many are open access. dl.acm.org/toc/pacmhci/...

CSCW 2025 is underway in Bergen, Norway! 🇳🇴 Grateful to our Organizing Committee: catch them here and say Hi as you meet them: cscw.acm.org/2025/index.p... Conference info: cscw.acm.org/2025/ Guides + paper highlights: medium.com/acm-cscw Share your experience with #CSCW2025

We've created a custom feed for #cscw2025 content. To add this feed to your Bluesky account, go here (bsky.app/profile/acm-...) and click on the thumbtack on the right to add it (image 1). It will then it to your home page. You'll then see it appear as a tab next to discover and following (image 2).

It's Day 1 of the #cscw2025 main conference -- welcome to everyone joining us today for one of our seven workshops at the Grieghallen! See the full program here: programs.sigchi.org/cscw/2025/pr...

For the next six days, I'll be posting a bunch about #CSCW2025 in Bergen, Norway. I am one of the General Chairs and have been preparing this conference for the last 21 months, so it's exciting to have the event finally here! Don't know what CSCW is? Check out cscw.acm.org

If you need a little pick-me-up today, this story really hit me in the feels. Such a wonderful idea from Lego.

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

🎇 #CSCW2025 is almost here! The virtual pre-conference is this Friday, Oct. 10th, and the main in-person conference is from Oct. 18-22nd. The program for the pre- & main conference events are online, including abstracts, author info, and awards winners.  programs.sigchi.org/cscw/2025

If you're not already following @acm-cscw.bsky.social, now is the time to do so! With the online pre-conference this Friday & the main conference in 2 weeks, we are sharing lots of amazing research by CSCW authors. #cscw2025 You can also check the full program out here: programs.sigchi.org/cscw/2025

Happening today on campus and over Zoom!

Some problems have simple solutions. This new “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” is one. The answer is simply saying no. Simple does not mean easy. But Brown, Dartmouth, MIT, Vanderbilt, Univ of AZ, UPenn, USC, UT Austin & UVA must understand what they’ll lose if they sign on.

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

Join us at 12:30pm ET, 9/25 , in IRB4105 or Zoom for our BBL speaker series. We'll hear from Yuexing Hao on "Outlining the Borders for LLM Applications in Patient Education: Developing an Expert-in-the-Loop LLM-Powered Chatbot for Prostate Cancer Patient Education" hcil.umd.edu/bbl-speaker-series/

I'm teaching a proseminar this semester for new PhD students. We're reading @jessicacalarco.com's great book, "A Field Guide to Grad School" & we're talking about academic jargon tomorrow. What's some academic jargon you took a long time to understand? Any weird jargon I should share with students?

Thinking about attending #CSCW2025 in picturesque Bergen, Norway? Register soon before rates go up on October 1st! We have reserved rooms at the nearby Hotel Zander K. Reserve by September 25th for the special rate of US$164 /night. cscw.acm.org/2025/index.php/registration/

This year, #cscw2025 is holding an online pre-conference on October 9 (CET) to give authors who can't travel to Norway a chance to present their work. The program for this event is now live and features 70+ papers -- check it out here: cscw.acm.org/2025/index.p...

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/

We are excited to announce CSCW's 2025's Lasting Impact Award winners. Congrats to Jill Dimond, Michaelanne Thomas, Daphne LaRose, and Amy Bruckman who will receive the award for their 2013 paper "Hollaback!: The Role of Collective Storytelling Online in a Social Movement Organization." #csccw2025

We're excited to share more information on the planned shift to rolling deadlines for CSCW papers, slated to begin in 2026. Read more here: medium.com/acm-cscw/csc... Thanks to Amy Bruckman (@asbruckman.bsky.social) and Eric Gilbert (@eegilbert.org) for leading this change!

Thinking about applying to grad school? Wonder what it’s like to pursue a PhD or MS? Interested in the intersect of technology and society? CDSC is hosting a Q&A session for prospective students on Sept. 26th at 12pm CT. Learn more and register here: blog.communitydata.science/prospective-...

You heard it here first (maybe): The CAT/Mobile doctoral consortium will officially be happening again at #ica26 in Cape Town! Are you dissertating? Consider applying for mentorship from top scholars in comm tech / mobile.

Job alert! 🌸🏔️ The UW iSchool is hiring for *two* TT faculty positions, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence, broadly defined. It's pretty here! Applications due November 15th 2025 (priority deadline). Link: apply.interfolio.com/171020

Tenured Associate Professor/Professor position in Human-Centered AI: AI Privacy and Ethics at UMSI. Apps due Nov 15. www.si.umich.edu/people/facul...