Proud advisor moment - when your PhD student Nuredin Ali is at #FAccT2024 and killing it in his CRAFT session😭

Saw my first Cybertruck in the wild

Well, thank you very much ICWSM, I'm flattered!! This is making my FOMO of missing all the spring conferences even worse 😅 (thanks to Jackie Chan for the photo!)

What about NEVER? I thought it's self-evident why LLMs shouldn't speak for people (esp those voices not best represented by Wiki/Reddit/etc data). Am I too naive? nngroup.com/articles/synth…

Friends at #DIS2024! Evey will present our paper on a lit review about how we center victims in the design of tech for anti-harassment. So proud of this PhD student led team from my time at Northwestern - this paper won an Honorable Mention! Read more here dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114…

"none of Sonia’s founders have backgrounds in psychology"... the hubris of Computer Scientists to keep building mental health tools without insights from doctors, therapists, and people with mental illness techcrunch.com/2024/06/26/son…

Reminder: Appalachia is full of beautiful people and they don't deserve the stereotypes that are about to be thrown their way.

🇬🇷 #FAccT25 will be happening in Athens, Greece! The GCs (myself included) are looking for PhD students interested in paid RA positions helping organize the conference—in particular looking for students located in Athens. If this is you, please send me an email 🙏🏽

Twitter just activated a setting by default for everyone that gives them the right to use your data to train grok. They never announced it. You can disable this using the web but it's hidden. You can't disable using the mobile app Direct link: x.com/settings/grok_…

Are you an academic interested in working with Reddit data for your research? I'm excited to announce that we've just opened up applications to participate in a Beta program for Reddit's new Reddit for Researchers data offering! To learn more: reddit.com/r/reddit4resea…

Vice President Kamala Harris has chosen Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, a former high school teacher and National Guard member, as her running mate. Walz brings Midwestern appeal to the Democratic ticket and a plain-spoken way of talking about Donald Trump. nyti.ms/4fxJx12

Upcoming #NLProc conference deadlines post-#ACL2024 / #ACL2024NLP ! - #EMNLP2024, Miami: ARR Commit by Aug 20 🌴 - #COLING2025, Abu Dhabi: Submit by Sep 16 🕌 - #ICLR2025, Singapore: Oct 1 🌏 - #NAACL2025, Albuquerque: ARR Oct 15 🌵 - #ACL2025, Vienna: ARR Dec 15 🎻

The internet is becoming awash in AI-made words and image. And they're increasingly likely to be used by AI in the future, leading to worse results. Here’s a look at what happens when a system is trained on its own output, over and over again. nyti.ms/471kCip

Life update: I started a new job as a TT professor in computer science at Vassar College. I start teaching next week. I'm really excited :)

Excited to launch UMN's Human-Centered Computing Seminar this Fall with an awesome list of internal & external speakers joining us weekly on Fridays! Starting us off are these wonderful senior faculty, sharing the history of HCC in our dept. Full list: cse.umn.edu/cs/2024-human-…