The University of Utrecht is cancelling the #webofscience and offering training sessions on #OpenAlex. https://www.uu.nl/en/news/access-to-web-of-science-will-end-on-1-january-2026 "Discontinuing Web of Science is a logical step that fits in with the UU vision on #OpenScience. Closed commercial […]

Significant layoffs at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Richland, WA) today. Hundreds of people lost their jobs and were given under 30 minutes to gather their things and be walked off the premises.

“I don’t believe HUDs are universally better than copilots! But I do believe anyone serious about designing for AI should consider non-copilot form factors that more directly extend the human mind.” From @geoffreylitt at […]

I wonder how many of my students know the true origins of the name Linux. Or, as I like to refer to it, GNU/nix v51. See: @Kierunkowy74 https://piefed.social/post/1050916

If you understand this joke, you’re my kind of people. Even better if it has you literally laughing out loud (as it did for me). From: @dustin https://linernotes.club/@dustin/114718023129759844

I'm hiring a PhD student in Copenhagen, Denmark to do #HCI research on #privacy and #interoperability in messaging apps! This is a fully funded 3-year position in the Copenhagen campus of Aalborg University. The student will join my project "mInt" (for "messaging interoperability" ;)) and will […]

Join us as a (full) Professor in Human-Computer Interaction at @TelecomParis, Institut Polytechnique de Paris! Deadline: THIS Monday, May 5th. Please share widely. Details here: https://diva.telecom-paristech.fr/jobs/prof-2025 #chi2025

What I wrote in that paper explains why I vehemently disagree with the conclusion of the opinion piece that I started this thread with: "Any solution to this problem needs to increase the pace and rigor of science to better match the pace of technology innovation." You can increase either the […]

Cars are the wrong analogy for computers. They should be more like toolboxes, kilns, assembly lines, ateliers, etc. Something that just works as-is, but that you can hone, master, refine, adapt, and otherwise appropriate to suit your own purposes.

Merry Christmas, y’all.

Teachers: do you deduct points when a student’s name is misspelled on their group’s final report?

🎵It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas🎵

At its heart, Star Trek is a utopian fantasy about a society so advanced that they are capable of holding productive meetings that last no longer than three minutes