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When it comes to social platforms, #UWAllen prof & 2025 #SloanFellow @amyxzhang.bsky.social seeks to empower users and “make our online spaces as rich and varied as our offline ones.” Learn more about her work in the @socialfutureslab.bsky.social: news.cs.washington.edu/2025/02/24/a... #UWdiscovers

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Allen School professor Amy X. Zhang receives Sloan Research Fellowship for empowering users to make ‘our online spaces as rich and varied as our offline ones’ news.cs.washington.edu/2025/02/24/a...

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Congrats to our undergrad Andre Ye for being named a Hertz Fellow finalist (and only finalist from UW)! www.hertzfoundation.org/news/52-fina...

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There's been a lot of work on "culture" in NLP, but not much agreement on what it is. A position paper by me, @dbamman.bsky.social, and @ibleaman.bsky.social on cultural NLP: what we want, what we have, and how sociocultural linguistics can clarify things. Website: naitian.org/culture-not-... 1/n

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Huge congratulations to #UWAllen professor @axz.bsky.social of @socialfutureslab.bsky.social and Ph.D. alum Lydia Chilton, professor at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social, on their selection as 2025 @sloanfoundation.bsky.social #SloanFellows in computer science! sloan.org/fellowships/... #ThisIsUW 1/2

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I am deeply honored to be named a Sloan Fellow this year. Thank you to my students, collaborators, and colleagues for making all of our work in @socialfutureslab.bsky.social possible. And thank you to the Sloan Foundation for your support of science and early career scientists in these times.

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🚨OpEd+data: Meta is out of step with public opinion🚨 Zuck cut moderation b/c he said people no longer want it. But he's wrong! We polled 1k Americans and most people, including majority of Reps: i) want content moderation ii) don't want Community Notes w/o fact-checkers thehill.com/opinion/tech...

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Hyper partisan content thrives on social media, increasing affective polarisation and poisoning political discourse. Our new paper @lewan.bsky.social, @almogsi.bsky.social, Dawn Holford, just out in @commspsychol.bsky.social, finds that inoculation interventions may help us tackle the problem. 🧵

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Today we’re confirming a few things about #ATmosphereConf * we’re going to be holding the first #atproto conference in Seattle * join us March 22nd & March 23rd Read on for some more updates.

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NEW: Bloomberg reviewed +1K hours of YouTube vids from 9 popular streamers and podcasters who cater to American men. We analyzed 2 yrs of guests and transcripts to see how they discussed political topics and understand their role as a new mainstream info hub www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

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Only fitting that my first post on #Bluesky is about the platform's massive growth. Thanks @axz.bsky.social, @meghana.bsky.social and @sal19.bsky.social for your expertise on this one!

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🤔Giving complex tasks to AI agents is easy—getting them to do exactly what you want isn’t. How can human-AI collaboration give us more reliable & steerable agents? 🍫Introducing Cocoa, our new interaction paradigm for balancing human & AI agency in complex human-AI workflows. 🧵

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Incredibly amped to co-organize this #CHI2025 workshop on the future of news and HCI 📰📺🌐 Join us in exploring how HCI can support the production, verification and dissemination of trustworthy news in a changing world! 🔗 Details: sites.google.com/view/newsfut... ⏳ Deadline: Feb 20, 2025 (AoE)

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Tomorrow at #GROUP2025, @jina.bsky.social will present a paper on her interviews with people who voluntarily respond to misinformation online and their membership in different communities dedicated to supporting this: the Twitter/X Community Notes Discord, r/QAnonCasualties, and r/vaxxhappened.

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Jigsaw has a new paper that "identifies a number of cutting-edge applications of large language models (LLMs) for online discussions, reflects on key risks to mitigate, and proposes directions for future research and investment."

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Everybody is wrong on the internet today. Meta didn't have 40,000 fact checkers, those are moderators. Fact checking wasn't biased, experiments show conservatives mostly agreed with them. Community Notes is faster and more trusted than pro checkers. www.betterconflictbulletin.org/p/meta-drops...

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Some of you following the Meta announcement today may remember that Facebook originally piloted a Community Notes-like program back in 2019! Back then it was conceived of somewhat differently, as a crowdsourced complement to scale up fact-checking. about.fb.com/news/2019/12...

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I have finally now had a “Seattle dog” (hot dog with cream cheese, onions, + all your regular add-ons), and I have to say, despite my skepticism, it was pretty delicious. The cream cheese is surprisingly tasty combined with jalapeños, sauerkraut, etc.!

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This term I'll be teaching a graduate course on Human-AI Interaction. Check out the reading list and let me know if I am missing any of your favorites: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #HAI #Human-AI #HumanComputerInteraction

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Lol lol

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RIP to Felix Hill. We overlapped at Cambridge ages ago but I remember him as an ebullient and witty conversationalist, plus kind and introspective. His blog post is relevant to anyone, even if not directly working in AI, experiencing stress from the pace of research <3 medium.com/@felixhill/2...

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Excited to continue the conversation on AI governance at the Sociotechnical AI Governance workshop at #chi2025! Come discuss research and practice spanning purely social to purely technical (+ everything in between) approaches to making AI beneficial for and representative of society. ➡️

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I made a reverse chronological feed of everyone I follow with reposts and replies removed, so only original posts and quote posts appear. There's a lot less rage bait and I enjoy this feed a lot more than the default Following feed. You can make your own using @graze.social like this.

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In 2024 we learned a lot about how AI is impacting work. People report that they're saving 30 minutes a day using AI (aka.ms/nfw2024), and randomized controlled trials reveal they’re creating 10% more documents, reading 11% fewer e-mails, and spending 4% less time on e-mail (aka.ms/productivity...).

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I've been thinking about in-context learning for nearly 3 years. While there is still plenty I don't fully understand, five papers have--to a very large extent--shaped my perspective on it, and I believe everyone should read them.

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i like both AI and end-to-end encryption. can i have them all? we try to examine this question carefully in eprint.iacr.org/2024/2086

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Happy howlidays from our two silly girls to you!

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Has anyone been watching the show Interior Chinatown? I’ve still got a few episodes left but it’s a pretty fun and wacky show. There’s a Truman Show premise but the way it plays out is very confusing (but interesting!) for keeping the story and meta-story straight.

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How might AI such as Large Language Models (LLMs) play a role in a enhancing digital public squares? How can LLMs & other technologies improve the quality of online discourse? Thread summarising a new paper exploring these questions, that I co-authored arxiv.org/abs/2412.09988 1/n

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