CREATE alum & UW Medicine postdoc Emma McDonnell shares the concerns of so many in accessibility research. “We’re seeing delays in rewards, in next year’s funding.” She noted the toll may also be seen 10-20 years down the road, when needed scientific discoveries don’t materialize. bit.ly/4jnZ4S3

🌐 Bluesky, the decentralized social media platform, surpasses 32 million users as individuals seek alternatives to traditional networks. Insights: https://tinyurl.com/2bn3ywfa

"You Were Not Supposed to Message It Through" - Marsh Family parody of the Bee Gees on #Signalgate www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPfw...

Did not have “get attacked by evil thunderstorm radar bunny” on the docket tonight.

NEW BOMBSHELL REPORTING FROM DER SPIEGEL Mobile numbers, email addresses and even some passwords belonging to top Trump officials including Mike Waltz, Pete Hegseth, and Tulsi Gabbard have been found online, revealing an additional grave, previously unknown security breach at the highest levels. 1/

Museums and libraries are the main places where members of the public engage in lifelong learning outside of any formal school. Call your legislators. Tell them to protect library funding. bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/a...

"It begs plenty of questions, incl who those core values belong to, what those core values are, and who is included among the referenced Americans." How The Institute for Museum and Library Services has become a propaganda machine and other book censorship news. bookriot.com/imls-propaga...

Looks like a cool game! Can't wait to play :)

Really looking forward to this exciting conference!

I'm at #SIGCSE2025 and the opening keynote by @ceciliaaragon.bsky.social reminds us of "Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine" (published in 1958) and what it can help us understand about AI and education & learning today.

Look at this! Plane has to take off after landing to avoid hitting another plane! And Trump is firing FAA workers.

Such an honor to be in the company of these amazing folks! Congrats to all!

I've been thinking about this poem by Langston Hughes recently and although it was published in 1931, it remains relevant as ever. #books #reading #booksky #poetry

We're cooking up a new episode of the #HCAI podcast. In the meantime, make sure to listen to our previous episodes, like this one with Ricardo Baeza-Yates on Eearth-centered AI hcai.se/podcast/24-0... #artificialintelligence #greenAI #humancenteredai #humancenteredartificialintelligence

I cannot begin to express how excited and proud I am that #CSCW is finally coming to Latin America and what better country than Costa Rica 🇨🇷 to host #CSCW2024! Hopefully other #SIGCHI conferences will be held in new locations, especially in the Southern Hemisphere. #PuraVida

(Reposting with ALT Text) Just how wet around Seattle this week? There's 3 storms lurking out there: This weekend, mid week and next weekend. GFS is more robust than Euro for Seattle rain but this is just for the first two storms. #wawx #wxsky #orwx

Wednesday, at CSCW: @mlam.bsky.social and Chenyan Jia present their Best Paper award winner, "Embedding Democratic Values into Social Media AIs via Societal Objective Functions" hai.stanford.edu/news/buildin...

Bit of a rare warning around here: "Waves can run up significantly farther on a beach than normal, including over rocks and jetties. Sneaker waves can suddenly knock people off of their feet and quickly pull them into the frigid ocean which may lead to serious injury or drowning." #wawx #orwx

I am proud because this break I really wanted to do a lot of writing. And I did! ✅ solo CSCW paper draft ✅ contributed to a FAccT paper ✅ contributed to a journal paper ✅ almost done with a DIS paper draft! Also I wrote a reflection about my first quarter at UW: ninalutz.medium.com/reflections-...

📌 New post from our team at CIP! A resurfacing election rumor about non-citizen voting is using a highly contested, peer-reviewed research to endorse distrust in the election process. It is important to consider the potential impact of bad science on the credibility of rumoring.

Rumoring around Hurricane Helene has been intense. In this rapid analysis, we describe rumors we've seen (& expect to continue to see) related to the election — from wild conspiracy theories to genuine confusion about how displaced people will be able to vote. uwcip.substack.com/p/making-sen...

BREAKING NEWS 🚨: Who supplied information to X users during the Trump assassination attempts? Our latest report dives deep into this and discovers that the news supply on X is becoming oligarchical, where few prominent accounts dominate the news supply and shape the discourse in key events.

Just published a Nature comment highlighting a few of the rumors our UW team expects to see going into the Nov 5 election — from rumors that falsely frame election errors as impactful and intentional to rumors about "non citizen voters" and "suspicious behaviors". www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Awesome work by the brilliant @ninalutz.bsky.social

There's at least a few blips in the long range that are picking up another atmospheric river-type storm midweek. 12Z/18Z GFS was like :O for rain amounts over multiple days but it's not yet a consistent signal to put too much faith in it yet. But something we'll watch. #wawx

When life gets bumpy, take a cue from the lumpfish—they’re literally built for it! 💙 Living up to its name, this quirky creature is covered in lumps, bumps, and ridges, with a row of larger bumps along its sides and a massive, meaty mohawk formed by its thick skin.

Join us on Twitch: www.twitch.tv/montereyaq Or YouTube: youtube.com/live/h6VIMHK...

How? Here's a great place to start. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

My twitter account has been closed and locked since November 2022, but I had left the posts up until now. I just deleted the entire thing in 15 minutes, thanks to a great script from Luca Hammer: github.com/lucahammer/t... Thanks to @amyhoy.bsky.social and @thomasfuchs.at for steering me there.

Tonight's reading is from Jon Kleinberg and Manish Raghavan. Elegant mathematical modeling to look at what happens when two decision-makers use the same more accurate algorithm instead of different less-accurate ones. tl;dr — surprisingly, almost paradoxically, bad things.

Welcome to everyone arriving from Twitter or elsewhere. I've been overwhelmed by the volume in the last few days and simply haven't been able to screen for old mutuals etc., so I'm sorry if I haven't followed back. If we know one another, feel free to drop me a DM and let me know you're here.