I love this! Maybe they should design a product :)

After today's drive between Toronto and East Lansing... I wish there was option to toggle weather radar on and off over Google Maps. Would it lessen the amount of snow? No, but it would be nice to know how how many lake effect bands one must conquer.

#Commsky Doctoral students! Consider applying for the Doctoral Consortium. Ideal timing is students at the proposal stage (does not need to be defended).

Attention graduate students! The 15th annual Communication & Technology / Mobile Doctoral Consortium is now accepting student proposals to participate at #ICA26 in Cape Town. Proposals are due 2 Feb. Please read the requirements closely. sites.google.com/view/2026ica...

Gina Neff @ginasue.bsky.social : What the CSCW community is well positioned to do:

*recognize work of negotiating innovation
*prepare people for increased capacity
*map institutional constraints
*co-create social structures that bring people together

#cscw2025

Present here in this meaningful place in Dresden with @mcewan.bsky.social

It's difficult to understate the extent to which various aspects of society require the provision of accurate, trustworthy social data. Even private data collections rely heavily on government statistical agencies for calibration. The dangers of politicization here are far-reaching.

That's some early dibs

In Northern Michigan at the moment and it's been smoky for days. Might be psychosomatic but I keep smelling smoke when no one near has a campfire lit. Gorgeous sunsets though.

Which is exactly how probing effect works in human to human comm. The answered probe causes the liar to seem more believable to the sender.
Seems out humans apply these same heuristics to non-human communicators.

I would rather have a million "Hey Prof!" e-mails than any more LLM generated slop.

One is the amount of coffee I need to be functional enough to make my second cup.

Inside the digital publishing industry, which I try to monitor closely, this is the big news. By Julia Alexander at Puck.

So excited for you! Enjoy Boston!

Ontario parents, pay attention to this: underfunding our universities means there may not be a spot for your kid when it’s time for them to go. We have the *lowest* per capita support of any province!!

archive.ph/4qD1H

Computer-vision research powers surveillance technology - Nature An analysis of research papers and citing patents indicates the extensive ties between computer-vision research and surveillance.

New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance

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We have one system here that is built on a very old database system. Every so often a grad student encounters it for the first time and wonders why it hasn't been updated. The answer is because it works. It's fine, leave it alone

We Are Civic Media - Northwestern University Press A discipline-crossing introduction to civic media via accounts from grassroots practitioners   “Civic media” is the use of contemporary technologies to...

Confirmed. Out this fall. Preorder now. nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014906...

Scholars at a conference panel presentation

Thanks #ica25 for a very thoughtful panel thinking about how GenAI influences the research process.

Please join us for the Communication & Technology Reception Fri Jun 13 at 6pm in Centennial F (Regency 3). #ICA25

Please join us for the Communication & Technology Reception Fri Jun 13 at 6pm in Centennial F (Regency 3). #ICA25

Kicking off #ICA25 with the 14th @icacat.bsky.social/Mobile Doctoral Consortium! Hoping to see some #commsky connections via the #ICA25 ( #ICA2025? Although I think the short version is preferred).

Married to an ICU nurse and I don't know how he does it

Can you spot fake news videos? Google's new AI tool makes it harder to know what's real | CBC News Google's new AI video tool, Veo 3, is designed to be astonishingly realistic, generating its own dialogue, sound effects and soundtracks. Some AI experts say that level of technology is unsettling and...

"59% of people no longer fully trusting political news online" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... You can find out more about this stat in our new public report on "The State of Generative AI Use in Canada 2025: Exploring Public Attitudes and Adoption Trends" socialmedialab.ca/2025/04/08/n...

Welp. At least let me know when you're here. I can point you to the nearest pharmacy.

Oh I love this. Thanks for sharing!

I am one of these immigrants!

My @iccit-utm.bsky.social colleague Brett Caraway will be on TVO tonight discussing data, surveillance and the U.S. border.

Includes fireside chat with @sunjooahn.bsky.social and VR demos following the talk!

Work Study Program - University Registrar's Office Work Study Program The Work Study program offers part-time, paid on-campus employment to eligible undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Toronto. The program provides students with a...

Calling all @uoft.bsky.social students! SRI is hiring a #WorkStudy Digital Content Coordinator.

Learn more about the role and apply through the CLNx portal: www.registrar.utoronto.ca/finances-and...

#UofT #studentjob #studentwork