☀️ For the 2nd year in a row, I had the honor of serving as Student Volunteer Co-Chair, leading an incredible team of over 200 SVs at @chi.acm.org My heartfelt thanks go out to our SVs, the true MVPs who work tirelessly behind the scenes. We hope all attendees had a wonderful conference!

Finally, we also had a paper with collaborator @tskuo.bsky.social at CMU on enabling collective design of community bots via a system that surfaces provocative hypothetical cases as a way to stress-test and iterate on bot policy: arxiv.org/abs/2509.25492

🔮 How can we empower online communities to design AI agents tailored to their unique needs and norms? In our #CHI2026 paper, we introduce #Botender, a system that enables collaborative design of AI agents through 🔥case-based provocation🔥

This is such a beautiful piece by @liao.shen-yi.org abt media portrayals of Taiwan + how Taiwan is constructed in political / intellectual discourse. Pocketing it to periodically send to people, esp those who want to talk to me about Thailand :) liao.shen-yi.org/posts/stop-m...

CSCW folks, I wanted to highlight how excited and proud I am to see work from our community (dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/..., CSCW '24 best paper winner led by @jiachenyan.bsky.social and @mlam.bsky.social) grow and expand ambition into this Science paper. CSCW has a ton to offer the world.

Really excited about this 🔔new paper🔔 where we had a chance to leverage Change.org 's staggered rollout of a "write with AI" tool to causally (aka "once and for all") measure the impact of such tools on global platform outcomes. Summary: with AI, petition length ⬆️, homogeneity ⬆️, Outcomes ⬇️. More:

X turned on account location, and immediately turned it off again--because it showed that your "farmer in Michigan" is really a paid troll in Bangladesh. We need a social network that shows where content is from. asbruckman.medium.com/x-added-acco... With cites to @katestarbird.bsky.social

The UW Center for an Informed Public is looking for postdocs (for 2026-2028) from across diverse disciplines whose research sheds light on the challenges of our modern information environment, promotes civic health, and/or helps people/communities navigate online spaces: apply.interfolio.com/177901

Just arrived in Bergen for CSCW, where I'll present Venire! Venire is a Reddit moderation tool that uses an ML model trained on mod decision histories to identify controversial cases. It preempts inconsistent decision-making by flagging these cases for multi-mod review dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

I'm excited to serve as an SV co-chair for #CHI2026! Interested in joining us? Apply now to become an SV! It's a fantastic opportunity to make new friends and help create an unforgettable @chi.acm.org experience. Check out the application link below:

I'm headed to #UIST2025 🇰🇷 to present our 🏆 Best Paper (!!!), "Graffiti: Enabling an Ecosystem of Personalized and Interoperable Social Applications" @karger.bsky.social and David Clark doi.org/10.1145/3746...

LLM safety work often reasons over high-level policies (be helpful & polite), but must tackle on-the-ground cases (unsolicited money advice when stocks are mentioned). This can feel like driving on an unfamiliar road guided by a generic driver’s manual instead of a map. We introduce: Policy Maps 🗺️

🌟 If you’re applying to CMU SCS PhD programs, and come from a background that would bring additional dimensions to the CMU community, our PhD students are here to help! Apply to the Graduate Applicant Support Program by Oct 13 to receive feedback on your application materials:

Social media feeds today are optimized for engagement, often leading to misalignment between users' intentions and technology use. In a new paper, we introduce Bonsai, a tool to create feeds based on stated preferences, rather than predicted engagement. arxiv.org/abs/2509.10776

Crunching away on a paper for #CHI2026 about online communities, moderation, or sociolinguistics? You may be want to check out recent work led by @galenweld.bsky.social on predicting SOVC within subreddits based on the style and structure of conversations. arxiv.org/abs/2508.08596

The @acm-cscw.bsky.social Starter Pack is growing ahead of #CSCW2025 ! (go.bsky.app/SPumuMT) 🔥 A warm welcome to all of our new members 🔥: @imanm02.bsky.social @jesanovi.bsky.social @shadinz.bsky.social @jaytee-ess.bsky.social @jaewonk.bsky.social @sypark9.bsky.social New member thread 1/x

We are organizing a workshop on Algorithmic Collective Action at NeurIPS this year. As AI continues to concentrate power, we will meet in San Diego (Dec 6 or 7) for critical conversations on user coordination, labor, data protection, and community advocacy. Submissions due August 22. #NeurIPS2025

Last day of #ACL2025NLP but there's still lots to do: attend the #WikiNLP workshop, where we explore how NLP and wikipedia can help each other! We have amazing keynotes, discussions with Wikipedia editors, a panel + posters! Details: meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NLP_for... Join us in room 2.31!

My team is organizing a workshop on information disorder at the CSCW conference (Oct 18, Bergen, Norway). We aim to convene scholars committed to understanding mis & disinfo, scams, online hate, etc. Applicants should submit 2-6 page position papers by Aug 1: cscw2025infodisorder.netlify.app

Prompting is our most successful tool for exploring LLMs, but the term evokes eye-rolls and grimaces from scientists. Why? Because prompting as scientific inquiry has become conflated with prompt engineering. This is holding us back. 🧵and new paper with @ari-holtzman.bsky.social .

Thrilled to share that I’ve successfully defended my PhD dissertation and I will be joining MIT as an Assistant Professor starting Fall 2026, with a shared appointment between Sloan and EECS! I will be recruiting 1-2 PhD students this upcoming cycle. Consider applying to MIT EECS!

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-...

🚀 Curious about research on @wikipedia.org and @wikimediafoundation.org projects? Join us at #WikiWorkshop2025, May 21–22 (virtual)! 🔹 46 research talks 🔹 Live Q&A + networking Free registration: pretix.eu/wikimedia/wi...

Somewhat oddly, the Trump regime's initial moves to cut science funding went very broad. This is catalyzing solidarity & advocacy around the value of science (see comms featuring cancer cures & tech innovation). But their next move may be to try to drive a wedge b/w "good science" & "bad science".

Groups use processes to make decisions. But normal people with no training will usually run a bad process. When you just perform how you think meetings are supposed to work, without training, your meetings will be boring or bad. AND, big secret: when everyone's trained, meetings feel good.

Serving as the Student Volunteer Co-Chair at #CHI2025 @chi.acm.org has been an incredible experience! A huge thank you to the 200 student volunteers who worked tirelessly behind the scenes to help make the conference a success. Looking forward to seeing you all next year in Barcelona!

☀️ Our amazing team of student volunteers is all set and excited for the conference kickoff! #CHI2025

@kjfeng.me and @rockpang.bsky.social are kicking off the panel on sociotechnical AI governance! #CHI2025

📢📢📢 Second for Contributions! Join us at the 2nd WikiNLP Workshop on NLP for Wikipedia, co-located with #ACL2025 in Vienna. We welcome both in-person and virtual attendees, and have both archival and non-archival tracks! 🗓️ deadline: April 30 Details: meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NLP_for...

I would love to never see the phrase "little is known about" in a paper ever again. (1) Most of the time the authors are far more confident about that statement than they should be. (2) There are lots of things we know little about because no one cares. Just not knowing isn't a good motivation.

Do you make custom feeds on Bluesky? We'd love to hear about your experiences as part of a research project at @uofwa.bsky.social @socialfutureslab.bsky.social ! Come chat with us for 45 mins and get $20 gift card. Express your interest here: forms.gle/CtoZTwCovTv8....

AI research often aims to generate Wikipedia-like content, but Wikipedia’s success lies in the underlying processes and infrastructures that enable human collaboration. Rather than just mimicking content, we should use AI to support human collaboration. Our Wikibench paper is one such example:

"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order." Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist

Check out our latest work on steerable alignment! We improve on a typical in-context learning approach with semantic retrieval by proposing metrics that instead select examples that best exemplify a group's shared values, enabling inference-time alignment to a particular group. ➡️

In-context learning can be an effective way to conduct value alignment of LLMs through examples, but when there are multiple pluralistic groups, are the best examples for one group also the ones for another? We explore this in our paper 🌟SPICA🌟 (🧵1/9)

How can we help communities collaboratively shape policies that impact them? In our #CHI2025 paper, we present PolicyCraft, a system that supports ✨collaborative policy design✨ through case-grounded deliberation. (🧵/11)

Book announcement: with Melissa Valentine, we are publishing "Flash Teams: Leading the Future of AI-Enhanced, On-Demand Work." It's a leadership book synthesizing a decade of Stanford research on how computing, online platforms, and AI reshape teamwork. Coming October from @mitpress.bsky.social!

I’m honored to receive the Presidential Fellowship from @carnegiemellon.bsky.social's K&L Gates Initiative and to speak at next week's GenAI conference! I'll share how we build systems that empower people to shape AI through collaborative, deliberative, and democratic processes.

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

Deadline for the 🎙️Speech AI For All workshop💬 extended to Feb 28. Time to get your submissions in! #CHI2025 Paper submissions are recommended, but optional. Don't let that stop you from applying :) Application: forms.gle/sJ93X9oZm3Tr... Info: speechai4all.org

Amy has been my academic role model and inspiration! Huge congrats! 🥳

🚨Trapped by infinite scroll & autoplay on social media? Our TOCHI paper introduces a system that reduces distraction by 4x by suppressing these and other dark patterns. Purpose Mode: Reducing Distraction through Toggling ACDPs on Social Media Web Sites 📝 hankhplee.com/papers/purpo...

@wikipedia.org is vital for #NLP, yet little research contributes back to the Wikimedia community. To bridge this gap, we are organizing #WikiNLP to advance both. w/ Isaac Johnson (@wikimediafoundation.org) @akhilarora.bsky.social @frimelle.bsky.social @tiziano.bsky.social @indiiigo.bsky.social

📣Announcing MLDPR 2025, an @iclr-conf.bsky.social workshop on data and benchmarking practices in ML! 🔗 mldpr2025.com 📭accepting submissions related to: ▫️data curation ▫️FAIR datasets ▫️ML data repositories ▫️reproducibility ▫️holistic benchmarking

In Taiwan, years back, some civic hackers created the Gov0 campaign (or g0v) in which they got the domain name g0v.tw (it's a zero in the middle) and created alternatives to every gov website of what they would do if they were in charge. Anyone could see the plans by replacing the o with the 0.

Today we’re confirming a few things about #ATmosphereConf * we’re going to be holding the first #atproto conference in Seattle * join us March 22nd & March 23rd Read on for some more updates.

Somehow only just became aware of LlooM, a toolkit that uses a combination of clustering and prompts to extract concepts and describe custom datasets — similar to a topic model. Looks nice, with lots of documentation and open colab notebooks! Has anyone used it? stanfordhci.github.io/lloom/about/

🤔Giving complex tasks to AI agents is easy—getting them to do exactly what you want isn’t. How can human-AI collaboration give us more reliable & steerable agents? 🍫Introducing Cocoa, our new interaction paradigm for balancing human & AI agency in complex human-AI workflows. 🧵

Incredibly amped to co-organize this #CHI2025 workshop on the future of news and HCI 📰📺🌐 Join us in exploring how HCI can support the production, verification and dissemination of trustworthy news in a changing world! 🔗 Details: sites.google.com/view/newsfut... ⏳ Deadline: Feb 20, 2025 (AoE)

Excited to co-organize this #CHI2025 workshop on Tools for Thought! 🎉 Join us in exploring how Generative AI can understand, protect, and augment human cognition. Submit your work to help shape this critical conversation! 🔗 Details & Submission: aka.ms/toolsforthou... ⏳ Deadline: Feb 13, 2025 (AoE)