@jackbandy.com and I are presenting new work on gender bias in story generation at the EvalEval workshop @ #ACL2026! We know tropes in film and TV are often implicitly gendered, i.e., nothing in the trope's description marks it as gendered, but one gender is overrepresented in creative depictions.

ABS works in baseball coz MLB recognized that if u only care about optimizing call accuracy, the tech would destroy the sport. They spent 7 years finding a solution that balance accuracy, entertainment, speed, and the art of baseball. (we wrote a FAccT paper on this: arxiv.org/abs/2605.16237)

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

New paper in #FAccT2026 by Megha Govindu, myself, Sorelle Friedler and Danaé Metaxa! Motivated by genAI’s potential involvement in media production, we leverage network measures to evaluate gender biases in LLM-generated film screenplays. Kudos to @meghag.bsky.social for leading this endeavor ✨

i’m settling in at stanford reglab this summer working on legal applications of nlp! while i’m back, would love to meet and catch up with folks in the bay👋

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...

Google AI overviews now reach over 2B users worldwide. But how reliable are they on high stakes topics - for instance, pregnancy and baby care? We have a new paper - led by Desheng Hu, now accepted at @icwsm.bsky.social - exploring that and finding many issues Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2511.12920 🧵👇

Sherry Jueyu Wu showed that when people participate in collective decision-making, they are more willing to express that the gov needs improvement. Interesting to think about in the context of participation and accountability on online platforms... 🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

had a lovely time at the News Futures workshop and my first CHI conf with some amazing folks 🌸

Excited to be presenting "LLMs in Qualitative Research: Uses, Tensions, and Intentions" with @mariannealq.bsky.social at #CHI2025 today! 🆕 paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

I'm at #CHI2025! 🇯🇵 🌸 Presenting our LBW "Traceable Texts and Their Effects". We studied how phrase-level links from AI summaries to their sources influence the reading of complex texts. 🕥 April 30 at 10:30a & 3:40p 📍North 1F Interested in text augmentation or improving source transparency? Drop by!

LLMs show a lot of utility for analyzing content at scale. Here's @stephanietwang.bsky.social's write-up for GAIN on how she and collaborators used LLMs to examine political content on TikTok: generative-ai-newsroom.com/whats-politi...

This @acm-cscw.bsky.social paper confirms the findings of the recent Nature paper on chrono feeds. Algorithmic feeds lead to more centrist, trustworthy content, but have little impact on user behavior. An independent audit of platforms w/o access to internal data! dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Last week at CSCW, Catherine Han presented our work on journalists' unmet needs for protecting against harassment online. While the work targeted Twitter/X, it surfaces several nuances in users' needs that span future platforms as well (e.g., not wanting to filter out threats or visibly block users)

spent a day in San José trying many delicious Costa Rican fruits at Mercado Borbón 😋

stopping by every coffee farm on the road is not helping my bean addiction ☕️

Pretty blown away by this paper from Piotr Sapiezynski and team at Northeastern and Princeton, presented at #CSCW2024: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... For lots of good legal and moral reasons, Facebook doesn't allow advertisers to explicitly target ads to "White Republicans" or "Black Democrats"..

hello world; participating in cscw 2024 + elections aftermath has finally convinced me to make a jump