About to set out for Day 5, the last day. Five miles from Aberaeron to Llanarchaeron and back, but only a mile of that needed to reach 65 miles! Set to be heatwave today, but will be finished well before the heat of the day sets in. www.justgiving.com/page/alan-di...

Excited to present our paper "Accidental Spreaders: How Different Roles Interact During Misinformation Discussions" at #ECSCW at @newcastleuni.bsky.social in July. Written with @docwarner.bsky.social, Lynne Coventry and @martacecchinato.bsky.social - read it here: dl.eusset.eu/items/9e3b2c...

Submit to the 👥 Doctoral Consortium 📚 for #CSCW2025! 📆 Deadline: May 9th, 23:59 AOE. 📍 The DC will on October 19th in Bergen, Norway. The DC provides a forum for promising PhD students to present and develop their dissertation research. More details at the link below ⤵️ cscw.acm.org/2025/index.p...

Watch my recent talk at Cambridge, "Downvoted to Oblivion: Censorship in Online, LGBTQ+ Communities," here: www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/sec...

Consider submitting a paper to the 15th Int. Workshop on Socio-Technical Aspects in Security (STAST) Affiliated with EuroS&P (stast.uni.lu). Deadline 13 March 2025 (AoE). STAST intends to stimulate an exchange of ideas on systems that are secure in the world where they interact with users.

After many requests, we have extended abstract/paper submission deadlines by a few days ! Abstract by March 3 and full papers by March 6. Full information here: worma.gitlab.io/2025/ (w/ @simone-aonzo.bsky.social and Vera Rimmer)

Reminder: STAST EuroS&P workshop submission deadline is 13 March 2025.

Consider submitting a paper to the 15th Int. Workshop on Socio-Technical Aspects in Security (STAST) Affiliated with EuroS&P (stast.uni.lu). Deadline 13 March 2025 (AoE). STAST intends to stimulate an exchange of ideas on systems that are secure in the world where they interact with users.

📣Our paper: “‘Edit: I’m sorry for being offensive, this is getting downvoted and i feel terrible’: Implicit Social Norms as Governance in Identity-Based Communities” just got accepted to #CSCW2025 @acm-cscw.bsky.social @docwarner.bsky.social! Pre-print here: discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

I'm not a robot, just a human giving free labour at significant environmental cost "512 billion reCAPTCHAv2 sessions ... translates into at least $6.1 billion USD in free wages, [consuming] about 7.5 million kWhs ... corresponding to 7.5 million pounds of CO2" arxiv.org/pdf/2311.10911

I am recruiting 2 PhD students and 2-3 masters students to join my group at UAlberta in Fall 2025! PhD: I'm looking for people who are either, (1) Background in HCI and interest in privacy research (2) Background in cryptography or systems security Application FAQ bkacsmar.github.io//advising/

It's nearing the end of the semester, and here is an easy teaching exercise related to technology ethics that I think makes a fun wrap-up. This document has the "assignment" version, but often I just do this whole thing as an in-class activity. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Our research group just landed on Bluesky!

interesting freak out going on here spending all this time building sandcastles then thinking the sea was just a flaw in the experimental procedures h/t @murraygoulden.bsky.social www.slate.com/articles/hea...

Check out our new article in ACM interactions: Scent and Space: Navigating Smell Interactions in 🏙️Public, 🏠Private, and 🥽Virtual Spaces doi.org/10.1145/3696... Insights: → Scent's ability to evoke memories and emotions offers opportunities to deepen connections 🧵(1/2)

Our #HCI lab is now also on Bluesky 😊🦝

Very excited to hear Ding discuss her work on #responsibleAI today at Bristol Interaction Group's online HCI seminar BIG TALK. All welcome at 2pm GMT, see you there! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1060412194...

Hi all! For those who don’t know me, I’m a digital health and care CDT student at the university of bristol looking at sexual reproductive health in cystic fibrosis taking an HCI approach to my research. I’m currently a year and a bit in ☺️

I hope there’s a CSCW/social media/internet researcher doing a study on Bluesky’s “Starter Pack” feature! (Social network analysis? Its affordances? How people rhetorically talk about them? So many directions!)

look at this great photos of CMU folks at #cscw2024

More starter pack follows 💙

Casey’s videos are an incredible resource to anyone applying for PhDs (esp #HCI ones)! Idk if I would be in a PhD program without them

Increased NI hike consequences: www.heraldscotland.com/news/2473192... People will lose jobs, and it isn't likely to be those at the top!

I'm excited to be co-chairing CSCW 2025 (@acm-cscw.bsky.social) with Fabiano Pinatti. Please follow CSCW here on Bluesky and/or on Mastodon (hci.social/@cscw), as we will no longer post to Twitter. #cscw2025 Here's a pic of some of the amazing 2025 organizing committee!

🔴 Fully funded studentship for (UK or international) PhD students to join my research team at Oxford. AI fairness, HCI, privacy, policy. We study the impact of data-centric technologies on society, and independently evaluate algorithms and human-AI interactions. Please kindly repost and share!

Bluesky stuns in new App Store ranking

Finally getting on 🦋 for #CSCW2024! If you’re working on online communities, collective action, or TikTok, I would love to chat! I’ll be presenting a poster on Tuesday morning on media narratives of youth online safety.

This paper argues that online spaces become ghost towns because it's too easy to lurk without contributing, and that asking people to regularly re-commit—or the incoming messages start getting muted—reverses the trend. arxiv.org/abs/2410.23267 It works! #cscw2024 paper by @popowski.bsky.social .

Come join my research lab in CS@Mines and pioneer a ✨✨brand new field ✨✨for #HCI in online spiritual care! I am looking for an excellent PhD student for Fall 2025. Find me at #CSCW2024 to introduce yourself in-person. I’d love to meet you! (See topics in my reply thread.) 1/4

Trying to put together an #HCI corner of Bluesky. I've just put together a feed that tracks HCI-related posts based on certain keywords. Still new and growing, but hoping it'll help us find each other here. bsky.app/profile/did:... Let me know if you have any keyword suggestions!

Giving bluesky a go for CSCW! I'll present work with @informor.bsky.social where we experimentally compare the impact and perceptions of local online groups vs local media. TLDR; local online groups are highly followed, but perceived as lower quality than local media dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Excited that @zephoria.bsky.social is coming to Edinburgh for a talk in Critical Data Studies at @UoE_EFI on Nov 18th. Co-hosted with @braiduk.bsky.social Here Be Dragons: The Challenges of Pursuing Responsible AI www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/here-be-dr...

We're accepting applications for legal fellows! If you care about digital rights and are looking for an organization to host your externally-funded post-law school fellowship, apply now. There are just two days left!

I can highly recommend applying to this if you are interested in perusing an interdisciplinary PhD around the use of AI technologies in policing. Great supervision team with potential to conduct highly impactful research! 🔬

Next we’ll be insisting on a special Brexit USB-UK cable… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We all laughed at Apple Maps for having errors, but Google Maps now straight up lies to you… for pennies. I’ve switched.

Calling all science/tech folks: Do you have thoughts about xkcd? Parker Bach & I are trying to understand the role that xkcd plays in the scientific/technical community. Will you share your thoughts? forms.office.com/pages/respon... And since we are doing a snowball sample, please pass the word!

Recruiting 3-year Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Law for our Responsible AI UK Keystone project 'PROBabLE Futures-Probabilistic AI Systems in Law Enforcement Futures'. Application deadline 2 October work4.northumbria.ac.uk#en/sites/CX_...

. @ctmccartney.bsky.social and I at the Responsible AI UK all-hands meeting in Cardiff talking about the PROBabLE Futures keystone project & finding out more about other projects and research

Deadline extended to June 7 for the Privacy, Safety, and Trust in Mobile Health Apps a PETS'24 Workshop (hybrid). Please consider submitting a short 2-3 page position paper. sites.google.com/view/trusted...

3 years ago we lost Beans to brain cancer on Christmas Eve. She was just a sweet and innocent baby, eager to trust the world. But faced the bottomless suffering of childhood cancer. Please consider honoring her this Christmas w/a donation to Dana-Farber. danafarber.jimmyfund.org/site/TR?fr_i...