Eric Gilbert @eegilbert.org · 01/12/2025I really love living in a city that plows the river path a day after a snow storm #a2council 0110
Eric Gilbert @eegilbert.org · 09/04/2025“We stepped up our support for them and our entire international community through frequent email updates, online webinars and one-on-one advising.” 150
Eric Gilbert @eegilbert.org · 15/03/2025Tell me you’re married to a math teacher without telling me you’re married to a math teacher. 090
Eric Gilbert @eegilbert.org · 13/03/2025We have this cool year of democracy we’re doing here (classes, talks, community and student events). I wish we’d turn the volume up to 11 on it. 050
Eric Gilbert @eegilbert.org · 13/11/2024It’s cool the Russian bot accounts will tell him whether to eliminate social security. 030
Eric Gilbert @eegilbert.org · 09/05/2024Jack gives us the reason why decentralized protocols are attractive to SV folks: 010
Eric Gilbert @eegilbert.org · 30/04/2024Live footage of the chaos on the University of Michigan campus that Congress is so interested in. Frisbees and hammocks everywhere. 110
Eric Gilbert @eegilbert.org · 28/02/2024Paper at WWW24 led by @joshash.bsky.social: Do people sever ties to misinformation spreaders? And what predicts doing so? We tracked 900K followers of 5K health misinfo spreaders on Twitter. Misinformation ties are persistent: 99.5% of misinfo ties persist each month. eegilbert.org/papers/www24... 265
Eric Gilbert @eegilbert.org · 13/02/2024Harman Kaur has a cool new experiment out about ML practitioners and interpretability tools. She finds that while they're intended to help, they can impair understanding. Practitioners spent 5x less time on task, and were 17% less accurate with access to them. eegilbert.org/papers/kaur-... 010
Eric Gilbert @eegilbert.org · 07/02/2024I'm generally excited to read scholarship on online dating—but I'm especially excited to read Apryl Williams's new book, *Not My Type*. I remember that talk by OkCupid's Christian Rudder described in the Intro (excerpted below): www.sup.org/books/extra/... 110
Eric Gilbert @eegilbert.org · 25/11/2023My son threw all the red pillows and beanbags into the other room to separate them from the maize and blue ones. 030
Eric Gilbert @eegilbert.org · 08/11/2023Last week, we organized a CCC/CRA visioning workshop on "The Future of Research on Social Technologies." It was all discussion, no panels. CRA paid for a graphic recorder too, (!) who drew meeting topics and highlights in real time on giant pieces of paper, and now I want one all the time. 031
Eric Gilbert @eegilbert.org · 01/11/2023This doesn’t really capture it, but I appreciate Ann Arbor’s city planners so much in the Fall. My daily commute looks like this right now. 0151
Eric Gilbert @eegilbert.org · 31/10/2023Our PhD students created a program to provide feedback on PhD application materials, primarily for: BIPOC individuals Trans*, non-binary, and LGBT+/queer communities People with disabilities or chronic illness First-gen or low-income students People from the Global South bit.ly/UMSI-PhD-Fee... 033
Eric Gilbert @eegilbert.org · 17/10/2023Really enjoying the presentation of this #cscw2023 paper that takes a computer security perspective on the problem of online abuse. arxiv.org/pdf/2301.039... 010
Eric Gilbert @eegilbert.org · 27/06/2023Who broke the kerning? letter-spacing on body text?? Can I help with the product roadmap: 1) Build a community-centered governance and moderation model 2) Fix the kerning 220
Eric Gilbert @eegilbert.org · 26/06/2023I have not been working: 17 days off camping in the mini-camper with my family, making s’mores, on our way to 5 national parks! This is a good first post 2140
![Flier that has a title that reads, “Want feedback on your Ph.D. application to the University of Michigan School of Information?” It then has text that asks, “What is the UMSI PhD Application Feedback Program?” Below that is a list describing the program. It says, the program is “Student run, and not formally affiliated with the University of Michigan”, “Aims to support underrepresented students, though open to all”, is “Accepting application materials on a rolling basis until November 15th at 11:59pm EST”, and “Offers one round of feedback on Ph.D. application materials from current Ph.D. student”. It then says that if you are interested in participating, to please fill out this form at http://bit.ly/UMSI-PhD-Feedback. It then says that if you have any questions, to contact please reach out to Wells Santo at ephemera[at]umich[dot]edu and/or Rahaf Alharbi at rmalharb[at]umich[dot]edu. The flier has images of people on laptops, reading books and writing in journals.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ukr4oseksf7tv2vbrvqdgvg4/bafkreibruqy7nank425pxrej6zoaudpjql2pv7wgwygxyq5xccfnw2bvqa)
