My finals week ended up in the labor and delivery ward, welcoming our beautiful baby boy in the world. Off in Spring for bonding time.

@apf.bsky.social you've made it to my Instagram reel scroll somehow:

As I think about the Fall intro to CS course, so much here I want to convey to students.

So many good zingers deplet.ing/the-copilot-...

If you're a grad student or an undergrad interested in research I need to you listen to me very carefully. You cannot learn to write good research papers if you do not read good research papers. Stop asking LLMs to summarize papers for you.

This is one of the worst violations of research ethics I've ever seen. Manipulating people in online communities using deception, without consent, is not "low risk" and, as evidenced by the discourse in this Reddit post, resulted in harm. Great thread from Sarah, and I have additional thoughts. 🧵

I am hoping to include ideas for class activities, and historical anecdotes with an emphasis on the Indian context. If you are teaching undergrad DM next term, and if you would be willing to stress test this text, would you please reach out? (2/3)

Shameless self back-patting: www.unco.edu/news/article...

In my case it was playing video games but guilty as charged.

first guest is @ramiismail.com, who explained why games mess up arabic and how that's both a result of and catalyst for anti-arab sentiment. we also discussed dreams on a pillow, a palestinian project he's producing on that has an “in case of our creative director getting massacred” contingency plan

I'm seeing a sudden uptick in followers today, and I don't think I've done something of note recently (unless this is just the BlueSky/X immigration). Most of you new folk are from computational social science . So..... What made you follow me?

If there's one thing I'm learning in the first year of the professor life, it's that I need to build the mental stamina for multiple class teaching days.

👋 networky people, I have created @acm-imc.bsky.social follow it for updates related to the Internet Measurement Conference conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2024/

ah just missed the top 10%

Wrote a short thing about why people should use Bluesky. Feel free to share if you think it will be persuasive! maria-antoniak.github.io/2024/08/12/n...

Big thanks to @shriram.bsky.social who was able to drop by UNC in Greeley to talk to our Math department about curriculum design and about Bootstrap. Really interesting work and certainly appreciated by our colleagues.

In an actual post on this platform, I defended my PhD. Thesis yesterday. I will be joining the Dept. of Mathematical Sciences @ University of Northern Colorado as a Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Computer Science.