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I’m thrilled to start my little book tour at the place where I wrote a good chunk of the book! 📚☕️👩‍💻

At @hcde.uw.edu, we will be hiring an Assistant or Associate Teaching Professor this coming year! Timing wise, we are hiring for a Sept. 2026 start date, but could be sooner. We are looking forward to welcoming a new colleague! Learn more and apply at apply.interfolio.com/171881

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

This polarization is going to produce some pretty dramatic statistics pretty soon.

Took myself to Cascade Pass / Sahale Arm today and it was the LITERAL BEST.

My 7yo just *asked* to go on a hike this weekend. That's it, I'm done, I will never achieve anything greater.

Pleased to have a new poem in the latest issue of @stonecoastreview.bsky.social ☄️ ⛄ www.thestonecoastreview.org/issue-23/ast...

New poem up at swwimmiami.substack.com/p/retrospect..., inspired by a recent visit to the MOMA in NYC :)

I have a little poem in here ☕

James Baldwin "Art would not be important if life were not important, life is important."

The entire Republican Party has lined up solidly behind a would-be fascist dictator with a narcissistic psychopathic personality disorder. But the real problem is that Democrats spent too long backing a president who often looked and sounded old.

An extraordinary story about how scientists in the US are afraid to speak up as the entire science research ecosystem is demolished at the hands of the Republican administration. Without our voices, how will people understand the scope and generational consequences of the ongoing destruction?

Having mastered large language models, submarine design, toilet paper supply chain logistics, trade economics, and Russian military history, I would like to explain why I think Catholics chose the wrong Pope....(1/57)

Crushing to hear of more junior colleagues in the computer science & human-computer interaction (HCI) space whose NSF CAREER grants were terminated this week. I'm hopeful that philanthropic funders can find a way to support this generation of scientists studying online manipulation, bias in AI, etc.

UPDATE: We have data on >1000 terminated #NSF grants at grant-watch.us. Thanks to all who have been contributing data the past few days. We've also added a "Reports" section with some analyses. For NSF, we see that the STEM education directorate has been absolutely pummeled.

The NYT wants you to think universities became dependent on government. This is false. The government invested in the national research infrastructure by competitive grants to universities. The taxpayers built this. It got us to the moon. Won the Cold War. Created Silicon Valley. Made the McRib.

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

This is just to say I have texted the war plans that were in the Defense Department and which you were probably saving for people with a security clearance Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold

being a white male conservative in the US is genuinely one of the easiest lives it is possible to live, and you can tell that's the case bc these morons think having someone tell you your opinions suck ass is the worst thing that could ever happen to you

"what's going on? Did you find something else to do that's not getting ready for bed?" "I just wanna make a toothpaste soup" cool cool

Kamala Harris warned us that Trump was going to do all the things that he's now doing. But she wasn't likable enough when she did it.

May someone find value in my angry feminist post-election poem, appearing today in @themarbledsigh.bsky.social 's political poetry anthology.

The state of the union is that the President is spitting in the face of the law. He is letting an unelected billionaire fire cancer researchers and wreck federal agencies like the Social Security Administration at will. I won't be attending tomorrow's Joint Address.

May someone find value in my angry feminist post-election poem, appearing today in @themarbledsigh.bsky.social 's political poetry anthology.

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In a nutshell, microtargeting “works” and can be automated through Generative AI. People do not like it but warning them does not eliminate the persuasive advantage of targeting. 17/n

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This is @kaimingcheng.bsky.social at his great talk on "User Comprehension and Comfort with Eye-Tracking and Hand-Tracking Permissions in Augmented Reality" at USEC earlier this week. Nice work!! 🎉 Check out the paper at www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/u....

The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.

A reminder that scholars who are facing harassment can find resources at researchersupport.org and should feel free to reach out via the email address listed on the “About Us” page.

We are excited to announce that IsolateGPT will appear at NDSS 25. To foster follow-up research, we release our code (github.com/llm-platform...). Also as @llamaindex.bsky.social Pack (llamahub.ai/l/llama-pack...). Lead by Yuhao Wu w/ @franziroesner.bsky.social @yoshikohno.bsky.social & Ning Zhang

We've got killer talks in the hopper for Enigma 2025 track at USENIX Security this year in Seattle! Deadline is 5 March and we'd love to have YOU up there on the dais sharing your cutting edge security knowledge

Note Fox News's choice to zoom this video in, because otherwise it's just too obvious.

8. It is difficult to overstate what a catastrophe this will be for the US research and education systems, particular in biomedical fields. It is deliberate and wanton devastation entirely out of scale with any concern about DEI activities on campuses. The goal is destroy US universities.

Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.

Cool, thanks Meta for asking for my consent for this. </sarcasm>

Maybe if I keep exercising I'll trick my body into getting out of fight or flight

Opinion | No one could’ve predicted that Trump would do this

Some people’s research will be flagged and then will move on with clarification. Other people’s research will be flagged and… it’s done. The differences in who those people are will not be random.

These words would be in pretty much any human-computer interaction grant. Or any computer science grant at all that required a broadening participation in computing plans, which is all of them. This is government censorship, full stop.

I have a new poem out in Rust & Moth -- thank you @rustandmoth.bsky.social for giving it a home! rustandmoth.com/work/face-off/

FFS did @nytpitchbot.bsky.social write this?

Opinion | The way to avoid tragedies like yesterday's crash is to use hiring practices that put only the most qualified people in important federal jobs. by Pete Hegseth and RFK Jr.

these people are segregationists and their position is that no one who isn’t a white man is qualified to do skilled work of any kind

Calling bullshit on their lies isn't censorship. Failed insurrectionists aren't heroes. Fighting racism and helping underserved communities isn't discrimination. Showing empathy isn't evil. Supporting trans kids isn't abuse. Don't accept their twisted frames as reality.

Submissions are OPEN for the Enigma track at USENIX Security 2025; submit your killer talk by 7 March 2025! https://sec25enigma.usenix.hotcrp.com/ (CFP: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity25/enigma-cfp )

Insane. *This* is how we get surpassed by China, and every other nation that funds research

There's a @mcsweeneys.net's article for that: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/is-...

1000% this. Public libraries are actually pretty radical--free to all, and based on the idea that info should be available to all. Get a library card! Use your library! Those numbers often play into their funding.