I wrote a book on how John Kerry blew the 2004 election by catering to the right, ignoring the antiwar vote, and outhawking Bush. Twenty years later, Kamala Harris is following the same losing playbook.

I intend to hire one or two PhD students this yr. Interest in ICTD/HCI4D is on the list. Other keywords: HCI Design, Human & AI, Human & NLP, InfoVis & semiotics, Ethics, Justice, Policy, etc. Find about my research on my website, and follow UIUC grad application deadlines.

The Happy Lab is hiring multiple PhD students for Fall 2025! RT appreciated :-) We discover how human factors can 1) mitigate ML-enabled abuse (deepfakes) and 2) be harnessed with ML-powered security to create safe, human-centric systems! Find us at: happyresearchlab.com :)

New AI Snake Oil essay with Angelina Wang @angelinawang.bsky.social, Sayash Kapoor, and Solon Barocas — we analyze the UK's liver transplant matching algorithm that's been reported to make it nearly impossible for patients under 45 to get a liver. In this thread I'll summarize what we learned. aisnakeoil.com/p/does-the-uks…

The first draft of the EU's General-Purpose AI Code of Practice was just published. I was one of the vice-chairs involved in drafting it. As we've got many more drafts to go until May 2025, I'd be keen on folks' input on how it can be improved.

I am currently seeking PhD students interested in HCI system research at Purdue CIT. Purdue CIT If you are applying, please mention me in your application: purdue.edu/academics/ogsp… Apply by Dec 1st for priority consideration. The final application deadline is Feb 15th.

Tomorrow at 9am CET I'll be presenting my thesis titled: A framework for user-centered, legal-ethical collective consent models: genomic data sharing! If you'd be interested, DM me and I can send you a link to attend online!

The full book, by Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano Treré, is open access and available from the publisher MIT Press here direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monog…

Honestly… just come sit and be in solidarity with our community while we all try to figure out how to navigate what’s ahead

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As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

Submitting a benchmark to ICML Conference? Check out our NeurIPS Spotlight paper BetterBench! We outline best practices for benchmark design, implementation & reporting to help shift community norms. Be part of the change! 🙌 + Add yours to our database: betterbench.stanford.edu

Sorry you can't afford to own a home, we had to beat China in the race to develop a better plagiarism app

It's out! You can now access The Cambridge Handbook of the Law, Ethics and Policy of #AI: cambridge.org/core/books/the… 20 #openaccess chapters covering topics on AI, ethics, philosophy, legal domains & sectoral applications. Huge thanks to all the authors who made this possible!

Born #onthisday in 1868, the US sociologist + civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois. Celebrate with a look at the stunning hand-drawn "infographics" he made with his students, depicting conditions of African-American life in 1900: buff.ly/3skIOXK #otd #BlackHistoryMonth

We’ve got avian flu, measles, tuberculosis, influenza A and B, and norovirus going around in addition to COVID, without the ability to properly track it all because of the CDC information blackout. If you’re someone who set aside masking, I urge you to pick it back up.

In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded 70GBs of articles from JSTOR. He faced $1 million fine and 35 years in jail. He took his life in 2013. Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models without any punishment.

My latest for Teen Vogue explores the horrific story of popular skincare ingredient Retin-A. Before Retin-A was approved by the FDA in 1971, it was tested on hundreds of incarcerated Black people in Philadelphia without their informed consent. The survivors still bear the scars

The 2025 CSST Summer Research Institute CFP is out!  Join us in the majestic Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York, May 28-June 1. The CSST Summer Research Institute supports emerging scholars in sociotechnical research. Check out the CFP at  sociotech.net/2025-csst-summ….

The situation is rlly bad.. We're still looking for a safe apartment to rent in North Gaza Pls keep me in ur prayers during this time.. The war is worse than it’s ever been.