First they came for my beloved em dash and colon, and now they’re coming for my favorite sentence structures: apparently, ‘not only… but also,’ ‘instead of,’ and ‘is not… but’ have all been condemned as AI language now...
I’m so tempted to organize my book introduction around the stories of three Wangs to connect social credit system with China’s social transformation in the 1980s, policy experimentation and admiration for U.S. systems in the 2000s, and the normalization of bureaucratic practice in the 2010s
can i just have my afternoon coffee without having people around me talking about ai please
Found a random classification gap: the “Research Article” category for CHI only appears after 2008. Before that, papers were labeled simply as “articles,” which isn’t included in the ACM Digital Library’s “content type” filter. So if you rely on that filter (like me), you may miss a lot of papers.
I used Claude for some small computational text analysis tasks, and it performed better than expected. Maybe I’m not an expert in CSS, so I can’t judge it very well, but it feels like it did a better job there than when using Claude for qualitative analysis, where it feels quite rigid
Man I do love writing STS papers. Putting "heterogeneous network" in a sentence itself make me happy.
Thrilled our paper with @zephoria.bsky.social (in the works since 2022!) is accepted at #CHI2026. In the paper, we look at how “fake” state data perform institutional work, tracing how fakeness gets produced and de/stabilized inside of the Chinese and US bureaucracy.
arxiv.org/abs/2602.10944
I spent my whole morning trying to upload a paper to arxiv is this part of the additional labor of the interdisciplinary scholarship 😮💨
I’m leading a search to hire a colleague at Northeastern.
The position is open rank, for a teaching faculty member who’ll be full-time in the Philosophy department and specializes in AI Ethics. They’d begin this coming fall semester.
Maybe I'm too woke now, but the misogyny in Two and a Half Men is really unbearable
Paper accepted!
Serving as a guest editor twice has given me a new perspective on just how broken our academic system is. Finding reviewers for certain papers has become nearly impossible nowadays.
Why is James Baldwin this good
We are looking for advanced PhD student interns! Spend 12 weeks scratching a research itch in our Cambridge Massachusetts lab. Closes January 17.
apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job/...
*Ahmed Al Ahmed
... and from ICANN, the domain was registered today. Not sure what's the point for the whole thing, but it does seem to confuse enough people. Anyway, just wanted to put a note here.
Here's the link to "The Daily." It looks real at a glance. There are few other articles covering different topics, yet all were published today. Most links on the website lead to dead ends. It's pretty obvious the whole website is built for this single article.
www.thedailyaus.world/edward-crabt...
Encountering a misinformation campaign in real time. The bystander who tackled the gunman at Bondi was identified as Ahmed el Ahmed (link below). But in almost every tweet I saw, there are people claiming the real person is "Edward Crabtree," referencing a website called "The Daily."
I still get physically ill whenever open a reviewer report with a rejection in it
FYI: law and science, political science, and sociology all still have DDRIG programs run outside of the NSF but funded by NSF. The rest of these programs unfortunately do not.
I run the political science DDRIG.
Oh, this is really bad. Without my DDRIG, I simply cannot conduct my fieldwork. This would be especially devastating for international students doing qualitative research, since there really aren’t many grants available to support us.
Northeastern University is hiring an Assistant Professor in AI Policy and Media. The tenure home would be either Communication Studies or Journalism, with a joint appointment with the policy school. Please apply and be my colleague :)
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
Always love Critics at Large but this episode is particularly superb. LOVE the ending discussion on imagination of the future.
In "Pluribus," Utopia Is...!l It's Cracked Up to Be
open.spotify.com/episode/4Pkp...
Is Pluribus an AI ethics show…?
Bad bad very bad.
A ‘Steep Decline’ in Students’ Academic Preparation at UC-San Diego Struck a Nerve www.chronicle.com/article/peop...
I will workshop my book project - an ethnography of a social credit system in China - at Harvard History, Culture, and Society Workshop 12:00 - 1:30 pm next Friday (11/21) at William James Hall 1550. Join me if you are around. Lunch will be provided!
Congratulations to the winner of 2025 @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social Book Prize
Hector Beltran's
@teflonbeltran.bsky.social
Code Work: Hacking Across US-Mexico Techno Borderlands!
@princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨
"China as an analytical lens for AI and society" by Chuncheng Liu & Zhifan Luo doi.org/10.1177/2053...
Offers a four-part framework using “China” to rethink AI, political economy, and global entanglements in critical AI studies.
Yeah to be fair I also only skim the comments - maybe they actually didn't like the paper!
