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I have spent the last 10 days unsubscribing to emails from Academia.edu and everyday I get the same emails... How do I get out of this spiral?!

Hungry mothers and dirty wards - maternity care 'much worse' than anticipated, review chief says An interim report by Baroness Amos finds poor care and dirty wards are blighting England’s maternity services.

Just the kind of news you want to hear when you are getting ready to give birth, www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Is the problem (as well as systemic) a lack of funding ? #maternitycare

Three illustrated playing cards in a small stack, each with the words “Digital violence at the top”. The top-most card reads “Online harassment: Repeated conduct that threatens, pesters, scares or abuses someone by sending degrading, offensive or insulting comments or images. Online sexual harassment mainly affects women, girls and LGBTQI individuals.” The white UNFPA logo is at the bottom.

Women and girls must be able to feel safe in all spaces:

🟠 Their home

🟠 The streets

🟠 The Internet

Join @unfpa.org to #ENDViolence online now: http://unf.pa/vir

#16Days

NEWS:
Costs of childcare is too high, better off not working and being on benefits and having kids than trying to work, work style changes after having children, feeling more pressure to work like i don't have kids, and have kids like we don't work.

I wonder why fertility rates are declining!

🏃‍➡️ Your pre-submission clarity sprint

48 hours before submission, run this:

Hour 1: Read paper aloud. Mark every stumble.
Hour 2: Fix stumbles.
Hour 3: Delete 10% of word count. (Yes, 10%. It's always possible.)
Hour 4: Read only first sentences of each paragraph. Fix broken flow.

The end of the year is disappearing quickly but also going slowly.
Is it worth making goals or priorities to end the year with?

Call for SVs - ACM CHI 2026 Who are Student Volunteers (SVs)? Student volunteers (SVs) are an essential part of CHI. They play a major role in helping the conference run smoothly, especially during the conference itself. SVs…

Become a Student Volunteer at #CHI2026!
Would you like to attend CHI 2026, be part of the conference team, and have your registration fee waived by volunteering ~20 hours?
Learn more and apply here:
🔗

You can also participate and contribute to the discourse by engaging and contributing to the living document.

Join the team 4:30pm Tuesday, October 21, in the Salong Nina room.

Attending @acm-cscw.bsky.social 2025? Join our Special Interest Group on Behind the Scenes: A SIG on Researcher Care and the Invisible Care Work. We will be envisioning how we can reimagine researcher wellbeing as a shared, community-supported practice (beyond the individual practice of self-care).

For the next six days, I'll be posting a bunch about #CSCW2025 in Bergen, Norway. I am one of the General Chairs and have been preparing this conference for the last 21 months, so it's exciting to have the event finally here!

Don't know what CSCW is? Check out cscw.acm.org

Five research questions that every scientific abstract must answer:

CONTEXT
1. Why did you do it?

PROBLEM
2. What did you do?

SOLUTION
3. How did you do it?

RESULTS
4. What did you find out?

IMPLICATIONS
5. What does it all mean?

Yes, this is a mini version of your paper.

If you are submitting papers, you (or those in your co author team) should be reviewing papers.
Louder for those in the back: IF YOU ARE SUBMITTING YOUR AUTHOR TEAM SHOULD BE REVIEWING !!

New rant: Journals that have automated emails but ignore any replies..
Yes, I know I haven't returned that review as I raised queries and need some clarification..
Yes, the proofs have not been checked as the system is not working..
Automation isn't always the answer

Love this! Let me be the annoyed lead for a while

True, but this requires additional work and more checking.. but a good suggestion! thanks, I'll put it in

How can I get through to colleagues in a non-passive-aggressive way that when we add comments to documents, the changes need to be implemented in the body of the document, not replied to in the comments!

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗔𝗻𝗲𝗲𝘀𝗵𝗮 𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝗶𝗲𝗴𝗼 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘇 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗸𝗶𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗶 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗿

With expertise ranging from digital health, system identification and acoustic levitation, our newly-promoted faculty deserve a 👏👏👏

Alt text: picture of a photograph of actors Owen Cooper and Erin O'Doherty with the latter being labelled as a teen

Amazing Erin O'Doherty being called a teen as the wonderful age of 32!
Journalism used to be a fine art now it's more careless writing we would fail an undergrad for

Remember that time 95% of Iceland’s women went on strike from their paid work and unpaid household labour and childcare?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Ic...

After a break from work, I now find myself to be a liberal user of the delete function when trying to get through 100s of emails! I love this new free me !

Listening to Japanese on stage during the closing keynote of #CHI2025 by Masako Wakamiya makes this the perfect CHI to have presented our Lost in Translation paper; questioning the centrality of English in HCI thinking and communicating about our thinking.

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching.

Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

Every head of department explaining his justification for why he hasn’t hired more women:
#CHI2025

Hi #CHI2025 please help share or take part if you are interested and qualify.

What is foreground/background contrast anyway? #CHI2025

Seeing literature reviews being published that have missed key works, what can we do? Reach out to authors/ editors?

A reminder when we use existing literature to make assertions

Men, Masculinities, and Contraception | Male Contraceptive Initiative Listening Session #1 YouTube video by Gender Equity Unit

🧵(1/2) Thanks to everyone who was able to join us last week for part one of our listening sessions, "Men, Masculinities, and Contraception," a conversation on men and boys, gender norms, and family planning.

The recording of this webinar is now live on our YouTube channel.

"No one is going to fix the world today, but we can help it be a little less broken than yesterday"

I made a site to show all the trans/queer content at #CHI2025. There are 13 papers on Monday alone! padlet.com/haimson/chi