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Abraham Mhaidli @abrahammhaidli.bsky.social · 12h

A new blog post with a very hot take that HCI peer reviewing should ignore storyline, significance, and contribution, and instead almost exclusively focus on rigor. Just in time for CHI reviews as well... medium.com/@abraham.mha...

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Hot Take: HCI should not value storylines, contributions, and significance

Note: The opinions in this article are from the viewpoint of someone in Human Computer Interaction fields. Other fields may already have…

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Abraham Mhaidli @abrahammhaidli.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Bit of a random ask, but does anyone work on (or know of someone who works on) issues regarding labor rights or neural rights, and wants to collaborate on a project relating to brain surveillance in the workplace?

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Trump had no choice but to act. The Iranians were just weeks away from obtaining the missing Epstein files.

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Abraham Mhaidli @abrahammhaidli.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Random question: anyone here have experience running a research hackathon and is willing to share their experience / give feedback and advice?

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

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Abraham Mhaidli @abrahammhaidli.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Now and forever, fuck US imperialism.

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Here's the reality this example illustrates: It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 29/10/2025

the amount of academic research now using llms in research (synthetic data generation, to classify, annotate, or analyse large scale data, etc) is astounding. remember, just cus use of llms in research is becoming normalised does NOT erase the fact it degrades the research & undermine your results

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Abraham Mhaidli @abrahammhaidli.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Hello! Has anyone here used tango (www.tangocard.com) to pay participants for research studies? I was curious in using it, but wanted to see if there was anyone who had used it before who could talk about their experience with it, if they'd recommend it, etc.

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Digital Rewards, Incentives & Payments Made Easy

Drive employee engagement, research participation, customer loyalty and more.

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Abraham Mhaidli @abrahammhaidli.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

The right "We care about free speech!" Also the right: "By 'free speech' we mean 'transphobia', everything else you get deported and/or arrested": www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

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US revokes six visas over Charlie Kirk death amid social media crackdown

The State Department says the US has 'no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans'.

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Abraham Mhaidli @abrahammhaidli.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Chat Control is the latest example of "But think about the children!" (BTATC) policy proposal that ends privacy as we know it. It would have an algorithm scan your messages, detect whether its illegal content, and then report it to authorities. What would actually happen: mass surveillance.

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

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Abraham Mhaidli @abrahammhaidli.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Hi all! Here again with another reading recommendation ask. As part of my course on research ethics, one of the classes will be about the ethics of AI / LLMs in research -- from using AI for writing, analyzing data, as interviewers, etc. Anyone have papers or books they'd recommend as readings?

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

I really wish world leaders had been prosecuted for the invasion of Iraq, I think the world would be an immeasurably better place if there had been consequences

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Abraham Mhaidli @abrahammhaidli.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Been a while since I posted (trying to keep off social media and such), but a reminder that Israel is committing a genocide in Palestine, enacting mass starvation on innocent civilians, all with the complicity of the west. It is sickening. Free Palestine. End imperialism. End the genocide.

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Abraham Mhaidli @abrahammhaidli.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

If you are an EU citizen, please consider signing the #StopKillingGames initiative! It would make game companies let players play games they have purchased even after official support ends. Great for game preservation and consumer rights! More info here: www.stopkillinggames.com

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VR Summit @vrsummit.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

📣 Call for Submissions: VRS Conference 2025! 🗓️ October 20–21 | 📍 Bochum, Germany 🧾 Deadlines: Talks — July 30 | Posters/VR Demos — July 30 Join us to explore cutting-edge developments in extended reality, human cognition, and health at the third edition of VRS!

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Abraham Mhaidli @abrahammhaidli.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...

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World Central Kitchen @wck.org · 07/05/2025

After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/5)

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TheDriveIn @thedrivein.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

EVERYONE, at every single step of the process, is incentivized and conditioned to care more about grades than learning. The students are no different, in this regard, than their parents or every single member of faculty.

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

One of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects. It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this. The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.

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Research at risk: Life-saving heart pumps for babies | Cornell Chronicle

After receiving a stop-work order from the federal government, the future of a device to help children with heart defects is uncertain.

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Abraham Mhaidli @abrahammhaidli.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Hi all! Im creating a course dedicated to research ethics. Topics include history of research ethics; famous case studies in unethical research (e.g., Stanford prison experiment, Tuskeegee syphyllis experiment, etc.), informed consent, etc. If anyone has readings / recs / advice, let me know!

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 27/04/2025

the zimbardo prison experimental but at massive scale with llms

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Sarah Gilbert @sarahagilbert.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988

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From the changemyview community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the changemyview community

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Abraham Mhaidli @abrahammhaidli.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

For those at #CHI2025: if anyone is feeling confused, anxious, stressed, and/or feeling feelings around travelling back to the US, you are not alone! Join us during Wednesday's lunch (G314) to vent / share tips / offer support with others going through the same fears. More information in the flyer!

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Abraham Mhaidli @abrahammhaidli.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Given the US's descent into authoritarianism and the arrest/disappearance/deportation of those speaking up for Palestinian rights, it is on all of us, particularly those with privileged/safer backgrounds (eg US citizens) to speak up against US enabled / IDF enacted war crimes. Free Palestine.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

If you're critical of the US government and you are planning to cross the US border any time soon, today is a good day to review EFF's border search pocket guide: www.eff.org/document/eff...

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EFF Border Search Pocket Guide

border-pocket-guide-2.pdf

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Abraham Mhaidli @abrahammhaidli.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Hi all! I released a guide on giving good HCI conference talks. Feel free to check out either on Medium (medium.com/@abraham.mha...) or on my website (mhaidli.github.io/blog/academi...)! Any and all feedback is welcome!

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Abraham’s Guide to Giving HCI Conference Talks

This is a guide on how to give conference talks. As someone who loves public speaking and loves giving conference talks, I was surprised by…

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon. Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵

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Abraham Mhaidli @abrahammhaidli.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Hi all! We are conducting a study looking at how software developers use ethical frameworks in their day-to-day jobs. See attached flyer for details. Please spread the word and/or consider participating if eligible!

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Since #AcademicBluesky seems to be a bigger thing now, I wanted to share my PhD admissions advice YouTube resources. Please pass this on to anyone you think it might help! Probably most useful for STEM and especially CS adjacent fields, but broadly applicable. cfiesler.medium.com/phd-admissio...

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PhD Admissions Advice

Sorry about the hidden curriculum. :(

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Richmond Wong @richmondywong.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Come work with us at Digital Media at Georgia Tech in our open rank TT call! Especially folks working in STS, media studies, media theory, game design, game studies, queer design, or interactive narrative (see the call for more specifics). Info and application here: bit.ly/GTDigitalMed...

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Eamon Duede @eduede.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

I'm seeking a postdoc to work with me at Purdue & Argonne National Lab! AI & science, philosophy of AI, automation in math/science, or philosophy of math. Philosophy appt. but not particular about disciplinary background! pls repost widely. DM me w/ questions! www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

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Post Doc Research Associate - HigherEdJobs

Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.

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Julia Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn2.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I'm sharing materials from my academic job search last year! Includes research, teaching, and diversity statements, plus my UMD cover letter and job talk slides. I applied for a mix of iSchool, data sci, CS, and linguistics positions). Feel free to share! juliamendelsohn.github.io/resources/

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resources | Julia Mendelsohn

Materials that some people might find helpful

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Abraham Mhaidli @abrahammhaidli.bsky.social · 04/04/2024

Hi all! (Unclear if this is the right place to post this BUT) I'm hiring research interns for Summer/Fall24 to work at MPI-SP in Bochum, Germany, researching the harms of emerging technologies. More information can be found at mhaidli.github.io/workingwitha.... Please share among your networks!

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