it's been a long time coming, but i'm happy to share that my latest creative project is finally here... @anisota.net is an experimental social client (and game!) for Bluesky and the AT Protocol i built it for me because i'm kinda weird and needed an equally weird way to experience social media 🕯️

Beautiful tree on my walk! (+ cute dog)

Well this is sure to be a blockbuster AI article... @jennarussell.bsky.social et al are kicking ass and taking names in journalism, both individuals and organizations. "AI use in American newspapers is widespread, uneven, and rarely disclosed" arxiv.org/abs/2510.18774

We are doing a second round of research interviews with people who build feeds (or build tools to build feeds), this time focusing on questions of sustainability. - Is this a hobby for you, or something else? - What sustains it in your eyes? Please fill out the form below, and we'll reach out! 🙏🙏🙏

Members of the iSchool community and friends connected at the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (#CSCW) conference in Bergen, Norway, earlier this week. Tusen takk - thank you very much - to everyone who paused for a group photo and catch-up session! 💜

Congrats to @galenweld.bsky.social for winning yet another paper award for his great work on measuring perceptions of community moderation at Reddit scale! #cscw2025

If you're at @acm-cscw.bsky.social #cscw in Bergen, come check out our 🏆honorable mention paper today on Reddit community governance (w/ @axz.bsky.social @timalthoff.bsky.social ). 4pm in Dovregubben-2! More in thread... 🧵

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/...

Excited to share my first research paper on social virtual reality✨🎮 (for #cscw2025 )! Social VR provides an immersive gaming experience that builds closer relationships. However, this same immersiveness also makes embodied harassment in social VR more traumatizing :(

I picked a great day to go see some baseball yesterday! There's us in the stands! GOMS 🔱

💡Submission deadline: October 20th, 2025 Beyond this year’s theme, we warmly invite all relevant research in HCI on how we design, adapt, and experience technologies within all environments! 👉 Submit here: easychair.org/my/conferenc... 📄CfP: alpchi.org/call-for-pap... #AlpCHI2026 #HCI #CfP

Yesterday, as part of the #CSCW2025 virtual session, Philip Baillargeon, a summer REU intern with us last year, presented his DEI Recognition award paper: Who Puts the "Social" in "Social Computing"?: Using A Neurodiversity Framing to Review Social Computing Research. dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

for atproto devs and protocol watchers, I published an overview of the network moderation architecture. it tries to cover all the mod actions possible for each service type. this design has been around a while, but not well documented. this doc is not very polished, but could clarify some details

This work will appear at #colm2025! Please go and check out the poster. I will not be there sadly but several coauthors from Ai2 will be there!

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...

🚀 We’re thrilled to announce the upcoming AI & Scientific Discovery online seminar! We have an amazing lineup of speakers. This series will dive into how AI is accelerating research, enabling breakthroughs, and shaping the future of research across disciplines. ai-scientific-discovery.github.io

At @hcde.uw.edu, we will be hiring an Assistant or Associate Teaching Professor this coming year! Timing wise, we are hiring for a Sept. 2026 start date, but could be sooner. We are looking forward to welcoming a new colleague! Learn more and apply at apply.interfolio.com/171881

We are excited to announce CSCW's 2025's Lasting Impact Award winners. Congrats to Jill Dimond, Michaelanne Thomas, Daphne LaRose, and Amy Bruckman who will receive the award for their 2013 paper "Hollaback!: The Role of Collective Storytelling Online in a Social Movement Organization." #csccw2025

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

"Perhaps over the longer term, we will need some hybrid of computer science and social science that is the equivalent of economics, political science and sociology." Yes, I agree!

📣 Yale workshop, Oct 16-17! 📣 How could/should content ranking work? What's new in content moderation? How can platforms promote civility? Hosted by Yale's Institute for Foundations of Data Science (FDS). Great speakers! Submit posters by 9/22! Spread the word! yalefds.swoogo.com/socialalgori...

I am recruiting PhD students this year! Our research group is holding an info session in a few weeks - details are at blog.communitydata.science/prospective-... , including a sign-up link.

Some nice coverage of our paper (and award) from ICWSM back in June. Big congrats to @lleibm.bsky.social on his successful first author paper, and big things to @timalthoff.bsky.social and @axz.bsky.social for their support as always!

Some notes on what I found interesting about this study + reflections: - writers set boundaries on how they used AI to maintain their values; however, these changed over time as they saw how good models could be, or they'd pull back frm overuse. boundary erosion or renegotiation?

Just cited for a submission going in this week. Awesome work. I’m really fascinated about preservation of voice and values while using llms. This was a great glimpse into that.

earlier this summer I published my first paper of my phd! ✨ a qualitative study on how creative writers are using AI in their writing and what their strategies were in order to align with their personal writing values

Job alert! 🌸🏔️ The UW iSchool is hiring for *two* TT faculty positions, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence, broadly defined. It's pretty here! Applications due November 15th 2025 (priority deadline). Link: apply.interfolio.com/171020

I traded in my title from asst. to asst. (aka I have tenure!) 😜 The last 5 years have been a roller coaster, and I have so many mentors, students, collaborators to thank ❤️ I hope our work at the @socialfutureslab.bsky.social has at some point been interesting, inspiring, informative, etc. for you.

Wonder why Claude decided to report users to the authorities? It might be because its constitution says Claude should choose responses in the long-term interest of humanity! But what if we could leverage computational and legal tools to "debug" or "lint" AI rules/laws for ambiguity? 🧵!

I am in (for the very first time) Taiwan!!! I've been wanting to come here ever since CSCW 2022 was supposed to be here and then went remote last-minute due to COVID restrictions at the time. Let me know if you have any unusual/random/out-of-the-way recommendations!

#UWAllen’s @edlazowska.bsky.social ‬has been a fixture on the WA innovation scene longer than Microsoft. After nearly half a century as UW educator, researcher & local tech champion, he’s logging off from official duties—but not shutting it down just yet. #UWserves www.geekwire.com/2025/after-4...

📢 New paper, published by @knightcolumbia.org We often talk about AI agents augmenting vs. automating work, but how exactly can different configurations of human-agent interaction look like? We introduce a 5-level framework for AI agent autonomy to unpack this. 🧵👇

In an essay for our AI & Democratic Freedoms series, @kjfeng.me, @axz.bsky.social (both of @socialfutureslab.bsky.social), & David W. McDonald outline a framework for levels of #AI agent autonomy that can be used to support the responsible deployment of AI agents. knightcolumbia.org/content/leve...

If you're at #ICWSM, be sure to swing by the spotlight session after lunch to check our our work on Reddit rules with @axz.bsky.social , @timalthoff.bsky.social and Leon Leibmann! Leon is presenting an analysis of 68k rules across 5 yrs, connecting them to important community outcomes. 

Super surprised and honored to receive the single Best Paper award at #ICWSM this year (out of 138 papers) for my work with @lleibm.bsky.social, @axz.bsky.social, @timalthoff.bsky.social on Reddit Rules! bsky.app/profile/gale...

Check out this paper being presented at #FAccT2025 in the "Normative Challenges to AI" session on Wed at 11! Teanna is a rising star in the field of data ethics - she's just wrapping up her first year of PhD but it's already her 2nd paper at FAccT!

This upcoming #FAccT2025 paper was w/ an amazing duo of undergrads @andreiskiii.bsky.social @andrewshawuw.bsky.social & deeply fuses philosophy with human-AI interaction design. "Unsettling the hegemony of intention" indeed! 😛 It also won the undergrad thesis award at UW 🏅 arxiv.org/abs/2502.15242

Excellent story in @theverge.com today on the impact of AI-Mediated Communication. Quotes me but the best line is the closer from the writer, Sara Parker.

NEW! ✨️African Data Ethics: A Discursive Framework for Black Decolonial Data Science✨️ is a theorectical knowledge contribution that presents one of the first collations of African data ethics perspectives for the pluralistic AI ethics community.

What are the African values and ethical theories that can inform responsible data science practices in Africa?...We conduct a thematic analysis [and]...derived an ethical framework consisting of six major principles rooted in the realities of data science work in Africa arxiv.org/html/2502.16...

Peony season is best season (also overlaps with lychee season 😍)

I saw Nils Frahm for the first time last night at the Paramount, and it was mindblowingly good. There were two standing ovations! If curious, I found an online recording of his concerts which is pretty similar to what we saw (tho better live of course): www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPPz...

I enjoyed reading and providing some feedback on this report. It's got a lot of practical, common sense ideas and recommendations for addressing online abuse by looking at solutions to spam - give it a read!

"Our results suggest that a social media message would have to be sent by more than 47 constituents for it to exceed the value of a single face-to-face meeting." academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...

I discovered something called drip dashi while I was in Japan (which is exactly what it sounds like), and it is blowing my mind! I brought some packets to enjoy at home but they're about to be gone and I can't seem to get it in the US 😩 shimantodomeki.localinfo.jp/shopItems/23...

🤖LLMs are being integrated everywhere, but how do we ensure they're delivering meaningful user experiences? In our #chi2025 paper, we empower designers to think about this via 🎨designerly adaptation🎨 of LLMs and built a Figma widget to help! 📜 arxiv.org/abs/2401.09051 🧵👇

See our upcoming work at #chi2025 on RAG-based techniques for contextualizing AI generations into a group setting by leveraging the group’s history! ⬇️

Putting it out there - I'll be headed to #chi2025 next week but will only be around Sat night - Mon night if you'd like to catch up! In particular, I'm interested in chatting with potential post-docs in the areas of AI and social media governance + human-AI agent / team-AI interaction. Email/DM me!

Another fantastic paper focused on the safety experiences of young users, led by Jina Yoon and collaborating with @axz.bsky.social, will be presented at CSCW 2025. joseph.seering.org/papers/Yoon_...