Dems in ARRAY

I love how CHI reviewing guidelines specifically say "please avoid using 'you' statements" and yet I have just received the rudest fucking review from someone that uses exclusively you statements. While also asking for IRR tests and other statistics on qualitative research.

Really want to know what absolute monster decided to have chi reviews due the day after cscw ended. In other words, this final review is going to be late.

Two concert week: yes? Hell yes.

New for #cscw2025, my work with @bsemaan.bsky.social on how artists experience, and are resilient in the face of, enshittification. Curious? Read about the research on the @acm-cscw.bsky.social Medium. EXCEPTIONALLY curious? Preprint is here: ellensimpson.github.io/assets/pdf/C...

Some recent fits.

I cannot wait to read all of the political communications papers about this man and this campaign for years to come. Truly, an incredible effort.

We looked back on the "backlash" against American Eagle ads featuring Sydney Sweeney and her "great jeans." Right-wing media declared that liberals were outraged and thought the ads were racist -- even the White House joined in. If you thought that story reeked, you'll want to see what we found.

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Sure does feel good to know you got brought in last year for a job interview to make a white man without an actual degree in the damn field look good. Love that.

Somehow threaded the seasonal vaccine needle @-@

I would like to not be chi writing rn.

Writing to CHI deadlines is just a lot but hey I've made an entire monthly budget spreadsheet!

hey just an FYI: we're not yet at the part where AI companies and the state are so closely intertwined that disclosing energy usage would constitute a threat to national security or some other such bullshit, making transparency into the environmental impact of data centers all but impossible

lol have a PhD in Idaho and your ads are wild.

Dumpling shop is just straight up millennial bisexual crisis the playlist. Or, Mr Brightside is playing come get your gays.

And side note that figuring out international conference travel before your official first day on payroll makes everything so complicated. But plz look forward to me talking about enshittification in Norway this autumn!

I love how I sign up as a PC for CSCW and I get no less than 4 other hey girl hey emails about reviewing for journals in the course of a week. I always feel guilty about saying no, but I am moving across the country in 6 days, I cannot right now. I just cannot.

Get in the car losers, it’s August.

Encountering a near existential dissonance seeing articles like this next to articles about professors, teacher unions, and university admins gleefully adopting and promoting these systems.

Pokemon cards that had no business going this hard.

So I've been selling some stuff on marketplace and wow. Them: Can I do $20 for this $30 item. Me: No, $30 is firm. Them: I'll do $25, I'm also driving from Denver. Like, did you want me to cover the cost of gas? Sheesh.

Does anyone have advice about how to balance all of the emails and requests that come in prior to when you officially start a new faculty position while still working a full time postdoc gig?

Paper writing today and I got to make a bunch of unhinged tables. Love this for me.

There is something really relaxing about doing really boring and low key data work. Today I gotta go collect some stuff, write a lil parser to count it, then make a view in our database to show it off. I also have to transcribe an interview. It’s lovely and low key today.

ChatGPT has re-invented study groups.

Also to make an em dash all you have to do is put two dashes in a row in Word, and the program makes it for you. Wordpress too. Anything an LLM is doing is stolen from actual writers and I'll be damned if I'll let a plagiarism machine dictate how I use language, grammar or punctuation.

Came back to Boulder to pack up my stuff for the move in a month and I just feel so alone and so depressed. I miss feeling at home here so badly, but now I just feel displaced and uncomfortable.

AI-generated videos of fighting between Iran and Israel went viral, and people asked chatbots if they were real. "What we're seeing is AI mediating the experience of warfare," said one researcher.

University of Virginia President Resigns Under Pressure From Trump Administration www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

Planted some garden beds. They’re going to be so cool!

Gardening with my girl. 🥰

First, Israel cut Gaza’s last internet cable—blacking out 2.3 million people. Then it bombed Iran with no UN approval, no imminent threat. As eyes shift to Iran, Israel will escalate its ethnic cleansing in Gaza—and create more regional instability.

Angie at like 2 am: you’re brat. Wrapped in plastic. Please take twin peaks away from us.

Another week, another research ethics controversy. TL;DR Researchers released a public dataset of 2B+ messages from 4M+ users on 3k+ "public" Discord servers. Usernames/IDs are anonymized. But let's unpack this one... 🧵 www.404media.co/researchers-...

Never been more invested in not the USA winning the Stanley cup.

but kennedy and biden being catholic was bad because they might *checks notes* be too friendly with the pope. got it. (there’s a lot of christian nationalist stuff to unpack here including anti-catholic sentiment but also jfc this is pathetic, lindsey.)

So my takeaway from CHI's "remote" option is that I paid 300 bucks for access to a discord and a ten minute zoom presentation as it is next to impossible to participate in anything else. There's no go to this zoom and watch talks live. Just pre-recorded videos of papers that are also on the DL.

Is anyone else doing the CHI thing remotely? Wanna chat about cool papers we've seen?

This is one of the worst violations of research ethics I've ever seen. Manipulating people in online communities using deception, without consent, is not "low risk" and, as evidenced by the discourse in this Reddit post, resulted in harm. Great thread from Sarah, and I have additional thoughts. 🧵

Just Another Hour on TikTok: Reverse-engineering unique identifiers to obtain a complete slice of TikTok https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.13279

Absolutely wild that my fever dream of a paper out of my diss ended up with an honorable mention at chi. Absolutely wild.

1. What you see here is clearest illustration why things are so messed up and why it cannot get any better until this asymmetry is addressed. Put simply: the right-wing has narrative dominance. My org @mmfa.bsky.social did this study and has been sounding this alarm for years. Some thoughts...

As seen in DC’s Union station

Today at the “Stand up for Science” demonstration at the Lincoln Memorial.

No way to run a government, or any organization. This mismanagement is going to have long standing effects on organizational culture as well as the ability of governments to recruit in the long run

Like, I know so many editors and journalists and they’re so careful and thoughtful about their work. I’ve learned so much from them about using a public platform responsibly. And the NYT just straight up decided to make a power graph of which minorities and war victims are most important to them.

Vermonters go hard with the insults and “skis in jeans” is the most specially brutal Vermont insult.