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Interesting fodder for discussion while CS education folks gather at #SIGCSE2024 this week!

PCS is now open for GROUP 2025 full papers second wave submissions! Abstract and Title due: May 1, 2024. Submission due: May 8, 2024. Accepted submissions will be invited to present at the conference at Sonesta Resort, Hilton Head Island, USA, January 12-15, 2025.

After reading 700+ papers that use Reddit data, we qualitatively analyzed the < 150 that had ANY engagement with research ethics. The result is a set of recommendations for ethical considerations in researching Reddit (and other public internet content). cfiesler.medium.com/how-to-remembe…

if anyone happens to be in the market for a plaintiff… 📞

This explanation is somehow both way way too simplistic and not simplistic enough. But maybe a good place to start for folks that think LLMs are information retrieval systems… or magic. (Frozen is magic though! ❄️)

I was trying to decide whether to re-post the long thread on Threads I posted about this today here, but this one is better than mine anyway. :)

I was once starstruck by a writer at an awards event, and after chatting excitedly with him, politely introduced myself to his wife, who was standing next to him. Her name was Michelle Pfeiffer. (Also threads like this are one of the things I miss about Twitter. :) )

Since I'm getting a lot of requests to meet up FYI I am not at CHI this year. Sorry!

I appreciate the constant reminders of why I almost never open this app anymore. This is truly the stupidest timeline. techcrunch.com/2024/05/14/on-…

Jess A Satwani, Robin Burke, Dr. Casey Fiesler is no longer on here. Recommend Me? Designing Fairness Metrics with Providers facctconference.org/static/papers2… 🎆 #facct24

Congratulations to Dr. @anamatics for a successful dissertation defense! Not only was it a fascinating examination of creative labor on social media, but it has some great scholarly integration of "enshittification" that I hope to see published soon. :) /cc Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK

Congratulations to Dr. Das! This is an exciting month for defenses, more to come...

"I assume that most of us are doing research because we want to have an impact on the world, and I feel like that impact is diminished if no one knows about it outside of academia." - me!

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