the amount of academic research now using llms in research (synthetic data generation, to classify, annotate, or analyse large scale data, etc) is astounding. remember, just cus use of llms in research is becoming normalised does NOT erase the fact it degrades the research & undermine your results

Hello! Has anyone here used tango (www.tangocard.com) to pay participants for research studies? I was curious in using it, but wanted to see if there was anyone who had used it before who could talk about their experience with it, if they'd recommend it, etc.

@abrahammhaidli.bsky.social giving useful advice @vrsummit.bsky.social

The right "We care about free speech!" Also the right: "By 'free speech' we mean 'transphobia', everything else you get deported and/or arrested": www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

Chat Control is the latest example of "But think about the children!" (BTATC) policy proposal that ends privacy as we know it. It would have an algorithm scan your messages, detect whether its illegal content, and then report it to authorities. What would actually happen: mass surveillance.

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Hi all! Here again with another reading recommendation ask. As part of my course on research ethics, one of the classes will be about the ethics of AI / LLMs in research -- from using AI for writing, analyzing data, as interviewers, etc. Anyone have papers or books they'd recommend as readings?

I really wish world leaders had been prosecuted for the invasion of Iraq, I think the world would be an immeasurably better place if there had been consequences

Been a while since I posted (trying to keep off social media and such), but a reminder that Israel is committing a genocide in Palestine, enacting mass starvation on innocent civilians, all with the complicity of the west. It is sickening. Free Palestine. End imperialism. End the genocide.

If you are an EU citizen, please consider signing the #StopKillingGames initiative! It would make game companies let players play games they have purchased even after official support ends. Great for game preservation and consumer rights! More info here: www.stopkillinggames.com

📣 Call for Submissions: VRS Conference 2025! 🗓️ October 20–21 | 📍 Bochum, Germany 🧾 Deadlines: Talks — July 30 | Posters/VR Demos — July 30 Join us to explore cutting-edge developments in extended reality, human cognition, and health at the third edition of VRS!

After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/5)

EVERYONE, at every single step of the process, is incentivized and conditioned to care more about grades than learning. The students are no different, in this regard, than their parents or every single member of faculty.

One of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects. It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this. The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.

Hi all! Im creating a course dedicated to research ethics. Topics include history of research ethics; famous case studies in unethical research (e.g., Stanford prison experiment, Tuskeegee syphyllis experiment, etc.), informed consent, etc. If anyone has readings / recs / advice, let me know!

the zimbardo prison experimental but at massive scale with llms

The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988

For those at #CHI2025: if anyone is feeling confused, anxious, stressed, and/or feeling feelings around travelling back to the US, you are not alone! Join us during Wednesday's lunch (G314) to vent / share tips / offer support with others going through the same fears. More information in the flyer!

Given the US's descent into authoritarianism and the arrest/disappearance/deportation of those speaking up for Palestinian rights, it is on all of us, particularly those with privileged/safer backgrounds (eg US citizens) to speak up against US enabled / IDF enacted war crimes. Free Palestine.

If you're critical of the US government and you are planning to cross the US border any time soon, today is a good day to review EFF's border search pocket guide: www.eff.org/document/eff...

Hi all! I released a guide on giving good HCI conference talks. Feel free to check out either on Medium (medium.com/@abraham.mha...) or on my website (mhaidli.github.io/blog/academi...)! Any and all feedback is welcome!

Hi all! I wrote a blog post on how to give good feedback on an academic HCI paper. Feel free to check it out! medium.com/@abraham.mha...

Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon. Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵

Hi all! We are conducting a study looking at how software developers use ethical frameworks in their day-to-day jobs. See attached flyer for details. Please spread the word and/or consider participating if eligible!

Since #AcademicBluesky seems to be a bigger thing now, I wanted to share my PhD admissions advice YouTube resources. Please pass this on to anyone you think it might help! Probably most useful for STEM and especially CS adjacent fields, but broadly applicable. cfiesler.medium.com/phd-admissio...

Come work with us at Digital Media at Georgia Tech in our open rank TT call! Especially folks working in STS, media studies, media theory, game design, game studies, queer design, or interactive narrative (see the call for more specifics). Info and application here: bit.ly/GTDigitalMed...

I'm seeking a postdoc to work with me at Purdue & Argonne National Lab! AI & science, philosophy of AI, automation in math/science, or philosophy of math. Philosophy appt. but not particular about disciplinary background! pls repost widely. DM me w/ questions! www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

I'm sharing materials from my academic job search last year! Includes research, teaching, and diversity statements, plus my UMD cover letter and job talk slides. I applied for a mix of iSchool, data sci, CS, and linguistics positions). Feel free to share! juliamendelsohn.github.io/resources/

Hi all! (Unclear if this is the right place to post this BUT) I'm hiring research interns for Summer/Fall24 to work at MPI-SP in Bochum, Germany, researching the harms of emerging technologies. More information can be found at mhaidli.github.io/workingwitha.... Please share among your networks!