I go out of my way to avoid using the word “content” in any writing I do, and reading this makes me realise this is why!

Got a theory that we are all living through a crisis of agency, at least online. Bots, algorithms, clip armies, & the flood of AI stuff have scrambled notions of popularity, turned everything into a ‘psyop’. AI tools/ agents are reversing the fundamental human, collaborative promise of the internet

🚨 The Computation + Journalism Symposium is coming back to Evanston this fall! Get it on your calendar now for Oct 2-3, 2026. And participate: We’re soliciting contributions for research papers, workshops, and talks now through June 29. More info on the website here: www.cj2026.northwestern.edu

We have an *extremely* important announcement to make. From Wednesday, we will be launching our puffin live cam, coming to you from the Farne Islands. So you can watch puffins all day long. In celebration, please enjoy this clip of puffins being really busy for 39 seconds straight.

been thinking a lot about this 1972 Weizenbaum paper a lot lately, especially when i hear people say things like access to llms reduce inequality by leveling the playing field, solve the mental health crisis & the loneliness pandemic, etc, all of which are problems rooted in very technology itself

At #CHI2026? Check out @sachnishal.bsky.social's talk this Tuesday on how LLM-infused writing tools reshape journalists’ agency — their ability to exercise independent judgment in alignment with their values — in editorial decision making. programs.sigchi.org/chi/2026/pro...

Attending #CHI2026 in Barcelona? Do you study news and online information ecosystems in HCI? Come hang out with us at lunch! @mariannealq.bsky.social and I are hosting a meetup for folks in this research space on April 13 (Mon), 1-2.30pm! Please RSVP by April 11 (Sat): forms.gle/aKmy3pv47S5M...

I highly recommend putting this NASA #Artemis II mission livestream on and just leaving it playing as you go about your weekend. Live views of the spacecraft, occasional visualizations of the current config, views of the control room, space-ground radio audio. www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK...

the point of doing this as a phd student is not just to summarize stuff and make a knowledge map. it is actually primarily to identify your allies, foes, rivals, and to decide who you want to start beef with

📣New paper ! Designing collaborative generative AI is difficult precisely because most generative AI systems are built around efficiency, speed, and individual productivity. In our conditionally accepted #CHI26 paper, we ask: what happens when those assumptions break down?

I get again find myself in the situation of having learned things via peer reviewing papers, but double-blind doesn't let me figure out who to thank (yet!).

🎉 Thrilled to share that our paper "Reporting and Reviewing LLM-Integrated Systems in HCI: Challenges and Considerations" has been conditionally accepted to #CHI2026! A thread 🧵

"There are still plenty of places to read about literature.…But they are produced for an audience that already knows it cares....The books section of a newspaper plays an altogether different role. It does not cater to aficionados; it seeks new recruits." www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

nice concretizing of the core idea in the history of information overload: overload isn’t a matter of quantity alone, it requires a certain kind of subject to feel overwhelmed. (the early modern scholar who wants to have read every book in the library, the RSS reader who wants inbox zero)

the purpose of a first draft is to exist the purpose of a first draft is to exist the purpose of a first draft is to exist

Excited to present a new preprint with @nkgarg.bsky.social: presenting usage statistics and observational findings from Paper Skygest in the first six months of deployment! 🎉📜 arxiv.org/abs/2601.04253

Excited to announce the publication of our article "AI Unplugged: Exploring Pathways from Physical Simulation to Conceptualization of AI Reasoning Processes" in @acmtoce.bsky.social. We present 4 activities and explore how they support conceptualization of AI reasoning. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

> We archived around 86M music files, representing around 99.6% of listens. It’s a little under 300TB. This is the largest music metadata database that is publicly available. Many interesting 📊 charts on this page that can only be made by having this scale of data. annas-archive.li/blog/backing...

another example of AI as tracer dye, exposing an already existing problem (and, of course, significantly worsening it)

that doesn’t solve the issue of students, journalists, etc. finding and citing fake academic papers, of course—but truly, it’s not an LLM’s fault when professional scholars do this—they are just efficient catalysts for a chemical reaction already underway

Doing this in my head after a big meal and too much beer, so I could be off, but I think Voyager 1 will reach one (1) light day from Earth in October or November of next year, and one light day from the Sun in January 2027. 🧪 🔭

Training LLMs end to end is hard. But way more people should, and will, be doing it in the future. The @hf.co Research team is excited to share their new e-book that covers the full pipeline: · pre-training, · post-training, · infra. 200+ pages of what worked and what didn’t. ⤵️

Halloween blog post: Italian Giallo Horror Films thisismattmiller.com/post/giallo/ - Using vision language model to analyze a 70 film corpus (🧟) / 80,000 frames - Build and plot “trope clusters” across movies Probably the longest eye acting supercut you've seen: youtu.be/cGrmkOwut6k

📣 Attention science + tech journalists! Trying to keep up with the flood of research papers that come out every day? Attempting to track what research has already been covered by others, and what may benefit from deeper exploration? You are invited to participate in our research study! [1/3]

📣 Attention science + tech journalists! Trying to keep up with the flood of research papers that come out every day? Attempting to track what research has already been covered by others, and what may benefit from deeper exploration? You are invited to participate in our research study! [1/3]

One of the coolest video game preservation stories I have ever covered arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...

“Editing according to traffic is not editing; it’s engineering,” nymag.com/intelligence...

What are your favorite recent papers on using LMs for annotation (especially in a loop with human annotators), synthetic data for task-specific prediction, active learning, and similar? Looking for practical methods for settings where human annotations are costly. A few examples in thread ↴

Check out the camera-ready version of our ACL Findings paper ("Taxonomizing Representational Harms using Speech Act Theory") to learn more!!! arxiv.org/pdf/2504.00928

1. On Saturday, @mnlee.bsky.social will present our work on designing for agency in LLM-infused writing support tools for journalists at the Tools for Thought workshop. Lead author @sachnishal.bsky.social will be nearby at her own workshop on news + HCI! ai-tools-for-thought.github.io/workshop/

sometimes when i'm writing a sentence i really like it feels like i'm playing the piano

Remember this @neuripsconf.bsky.social workshop paper? We spent the past month writing a newer, better, longer version!!! You can find it online here: arxiv.org/abs/2502.00561

Holy moly. I'm trying to write an academic paper, and nearly every application I'm using is not only offering Generative AI as an option for writing, but *pushing it* -- pervading the design to the point where a simple misclick would make my content AI-generated. Here's why that's a problem. 🧵

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)

can connect playlists meant to deliver indifferent content (e.g. "bossa nova dinner") to the spurious AI-generated genres individualized for each user in Spotify Wrapped; these "genres" have no social meaning and can't be learned or shared, only experienced through more streaming

Seeing cool works on metrology and measurement modeling for NLP! So I wanted to port over the thread our ACL 2023 Findings paper (arxiv.org/abs/2305.09022) on conceptualizations of NLP tasks and measurements of performance! Work with Eric Yuan, @haldaume3.bsky.social, and Su Lin Blodgett. (1/n)

was mildly obsessed with this genre of ad all summer and took a bunch of photos for giggles. I feel they exemplify well this idea of "AI as floating signifier" from Suchman (2023), since they "suggest[s] a specific referent but work[s] to escape definition in order to maximize its suggestive power"

Feel like "fix the motion smoothing" should be replaced by "explain that ChatGPT isn't a search engine" when going home for the holidays now

PSA, your local post office probably has Ursula K LeGuin stamps or you can order them by mail.

This, from 2015, was another longread for Flavorwire, on the importance of physical media. Another ongoing hobby horse of mine! I've really just been writing and yelling about the same things for a decade!! www.flavorwire.com/535883/the-p...

The best writers in the world. go.bsky.app/8fxDPpA

I love how I just discovered I have a folder called "READ NOW!!!!" and I just scroll pass it. Untouched since October last year 🤣

Earlier this year, I decided to try tracing character journeys from each Sherlock Holmes story on London's 1893 Ordnance Survey #maps. It's great fun. As the street structure has remained largely the same, you can sometimes use ORS tools for routing between points. This one's the Red Headed League.

Have finally coded a Small Language model. Responds to any input with “wow, that’s a lot of words” and then shuts down

📣 Attention freelance science & tech journalists! 🔬🧪💻 We're recruiting participants for a study about how generative AI could reshape journalists' work. Join us for a 60-80 mins interview and share your thoughts on generative AI tools that can support pitch writing! (1/3)