Presenting 2 academic papers at #cscw2025 this week! Come say hi!

Great talking to Oliver on @aiforalltomorrows.bsky.social !! Thank you for coming on the show!

As part of the podcast @aiforalltomorrows.bsky.social I was able to talk to the AMAZING Casey Michel of the Human Rights Foundation about #democracy corruption #trump and more. Share and follow as you feel called! #ai #tech #technology open.spotify.com/show/1jeI7ID...

[Weekly tech spoken word poem] Why AI will never understand listening to Nickelback ironically wiredtospeak.substack.com/p/why-ai-wil... #HCI #AI #spokenword #poetry

UPDATE: I am the new director of @aiforalltomorrows.bsky.social - our aim is to tell the stories of people developing and using technology to serve the public good. Basically we're The Moth but for inspirational tech storytelling. Stay tuned! #hci #tech #ai #education www.youtube.com/@ai-for-all-...

This is very cool work that I got involved with at the end of my postdoc, led by the spectacular @morganklauss.bsky.social, along with @whatknows.bsky.social, @dylantdoyle.bsky.social, @diptodas.bsky.social, Katy Weathington, and Adrian Petterson

I should use Bluesky again so here’s a picture of me with Joseph Gordon-Levitt backstage at the Shared Futures AI Forum put on by @aspeninstitute.bsky.social

🎉🎉 I DID A TED TALK! 🎉🎉 Even better, it’s all about #AI and humanity (but also death and grief, if you’re into that). Please like, comment, and SHARE — both because I’m super proud of it, but also because of the algorithm (!) #HCI #computing #technology #faith youtu.be/K7b_qYCJOUw?...

A wonderful Ted talk from @dylantdoyle.bsky.social that gets at the intersection of our humanity and gen AI - how we may look for solace and how it might make us uncomfortable www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7b_...

**please share** as an early career academic, I was going to spend the next two years developing AI tools for cancer prediction. Instead, #trump + admin took my job. Regardless of #politics, why follow cruelty at the expense of #innovation? dylantdoyle.medium.com/i-am-an-ai-m... #hci #academia

I wrote a thing! Covering research on data access to medical researchers. Co-authored with @cfiesler.bsky.social @jesspater.bsky.social @whatknows.bsky.social — thanks to @theconversation.com @us.theconversation.com for the opportunity! @cuboulder.info

Do you have 30 minutes to listen to @cfiesler.bsky.social talk about #tiktok joy and tech? New pod launch!

On one hand: it’s kind of funny that a major Chinese corporation needs a publicity stunt to announce their fealty to an egotistic ‘leader of the free world.’ On the other hand, we’re all kind of screwed, huh?

Hot take, but I am beginning to think all of these Meta decisions are, uh, pretty concerning

“You know, the girl who was in here earlier had gums like raw steaks” - my dentist, right before putting a metal hook in my mouth while describing the death of her father for 15 minutes.

#tech media. I love you. But oh my god what are we doing spending our time covering this dumb saga content.techgig.com/technology/d...

Christmas dog #christmasdog

No shade to robust academic research accounts developing principles for responsible tech, but @weratedogs.com is by far my favorite Bluesky account. All the dogs are so good.

Well… that’s not good news. www.mercurynews.com/2024/12/13/o...

For a new media project I am cold-calling Governers for interviews and omg y'all this is kind of terrifying (getting some interest though!)

Behind the scenes of @whatknows.bsky.social and I’s interview with Denver 7 News about our new @digital-legacy.bsky.social Digital Legacy Clinic @cuboulder.info @cuboulder.bsky.social -a pro-bono service for everyday people to create an end-of-life data plan or manage a loved one’s data 🙌

Wednesday: “oh hey this job search thing is fun!” Thursday: fun thanksgiving no job search yay Friday: well alright, I guess I’ll submit a thing, but this kind of sucks its pretty out Saturday: I’m going to just go live in a cave next year and everything will be fine probably

From the perspective of a PhD Candidate on the academic job market. Some observations about being on the HCI/Computer Science job search in 2024. A 🧵

Why is it so hard for researchers to get timely access to death data even though it would save lives? The answer is policy, from federal/state law to rules encoded in records software, says this new article by Doyle, @cfiesler.bsky.social, Pater & @whatknows.bsky.social dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Huge thanks to Ally Cohen and The World We Are Building Podcast for having @whatknows.bsky.social and I on to discuss the @digital-legacy.bsky.social Digital Legacy Clinic! Listen to Jed say smart things about death and tech. I also say things. @colorado.edu @cuboulder.info shorturl.at/chlbk

HCI seems to be making a hard policy turn. Almost half of the jobs on the market this year are focused on policy implications of tech design. I think this is good? But I’m not sure what it means. Discuss.

Trying something new: A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?" It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social 🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...

This @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social podcast episode with @anneapplebaum.bsky.social is one of the most powerful and terrifying podcasts I have ever listened to. Folks should listen who are at all interested in the categories of fascism and autocracy open.spotify.com/episode/7yWP...

since we're giving Blue Sky another go as an alternative to the hellsite… please remember to follow, like, post and reply generously over the next while… need to keep the momentum!

Thanks for the 1k follows folks. So glad this platform has taken off and that it is turning into such a wonderful place for responsible tech conversation and collaboration! 🎉

Huge thanks to @9news.bsky.social for covering the launch of the Digital Legacy Clinic here at @cuboulder.bsky.social (and our research). Great ‘scrolling tech cuts’ of @whatknows.bsky.social 😂 youtu.be/LDmk_NQL47Y?...

Great point Evan! (Lost that in the cut for post length 😅) - yes! we are offering this as a class with the goal, in part, to train students in designing and running a 'startup' that supports the public good. Direct Link to Clinic: www.colorado.edu/center/digit...

WE HAVE LAUNCHED A NEW CLINIC FOR END-OF-LIFE TECHNOLOGY SUPPORT! Led by Dr. Jed Brubaker, our research team at CU Boulder now offers free consultation for anyone doing end-of-life planning for their own data or managing data of their loved ones. Please share! 🎉 www.colorado.edu/today/2024/1...

Awesome group of scholars and other experts on media and psychology to follow 🎉

Follow these people if you like cats and ethical science/technology 🐈🧬📲

Hi new friends/600 people who probably found me through packs! My name is Dylan and I am a public scholar focused on AI ethics and responsible tech, and a PHD candidate at @cuboulder.bsky.social working on designing tech + health, policy, and death. Hooray Bluesky and thanks for the love 🙌

I am posting on Bluesky the piece I wrote about Bluesky for the @theatlantic.bsky.social. The short version is that it seems very nice here but also it is bad that it seems nice because social media is bad and we need to abandon it. Further thoughts follow 👇 www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Doing some social computing and HCI research in Costa Rica after #cscw2024 to prepare for @acm-cscw.bsky.social in 2025

A wonderful week of presenting several papers at #CSCW2024 ! Great to see old friends and colleagues, and connect with new ones. Here’s some sweet pics of totally serious HCI research happening. See you next year at CSCW 2025!

Coming to Bluesky and connecting with one another is the most coordinated thing I have ever seen the responsible tech and HCI communities do

Excited to be presenting my second paper of the day at #CSCW2024 ! The paper is called "'I hate you. I love you. I'm sorry. I miss you.' Understanding Online Grief Expression Through Suicide Bereavement Letter-Writing Practices - 2:30PM Guanacaste 2 - see you there! dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

So demolishing the Department of Education is probably… not good for those of us with student loans, right?

Whoa! I'm presenting our paper tomorrow morning 9am at #cscw2024 called "Designing for Researcher Access in the U.S. Mortality Data Ecosystem" in which I... tell you how to design for researcher access to mortality data. Heck yeah! (co-authored w/ @cfiesler.bsky.social Jess & Jed).

Happy beginning to #cscw2024 to all of those who celebrate! @acm-cscw.bsky.social

Post-election, I’m launching a new media/podcast project interrogating the politics of technology, and masculinity/manosphere (because, like, wtf). Social computing people, who should I be talking to?? #cscw2024 @acm-cscw.bsky.social

Look at this cool Medium post that @cfiesler.bsky.social created that walks you through all the awesome papers the Info Dept at CU Boulder has this year at @acm-cscw.bsky.social #cscw2024 (I'm biased since I'm an author of a few... but still! super cool!) medium.com/@cuinfoscien...

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

These folks did a stellar job tracking rumors across platforms in an adversarial and low transparency environment. I'm extremely proud of them and the many other students, postdocs, and staff who contributed to this work. Our outputs are all collated here: uwcip.substack.com

Just published! Excited to present our paper ‘Designing for Researcher Access in the U.S. Mortality Data Ecosystem’ at #cscw2024 in Costa Rica! 5 years after COVID we take stock of the system that allows medical researchers access to data about our deaths and how to fix it dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Current job application count: 15. Number of conversations with new friends and colleagues about the job search: 40. I may not get a job, but at least I’m meeting AMAZING people 😄