Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 25/08/2026We are running a UIST workshop on revibing--the idea that technical HCI papers can be reconstructed from the paper itself. We're interested in the implications for evaluation, research, and education. Join us! revibe-hci.github.io 040
Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 11/08/2026I wrote a post about the emergence of AI-native students who do their research using GenAI tools. I think that there are some real risks to job prospects and the likely changes in their fields. 1378
Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 28/07/2026Before: Claude feeds human ADHD. Now: Claude gets ADHD... "You're right — I got pulled into the distractor-similarity bug report and never actually shipped the color feature, I only did the palette research. Let me finish it now." (after I told it that it didn't finish what I asked for) 121
Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 11/06/2026Claude/Cursor/whatever for the win when you want to demo something to a student but the applet/website doesn't work any more. Today's demo: stochastic resonance (cond.org/stochres/)cond.orgStochastic Resonance — Visual Perception Demo 040
Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 09/06/2026if elections only reported the results once all the counts were in, what would the "elections are rigged" people complain about next? 020
Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 25/05/2026Maybe obvious, but working theory: The number of times a paper has been rejected is ~the difference between the latest model version and the llm model used in the paper 110
Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 17/04/2026crazy idea of the day: treat LLM computes like a resource (e.g., gas) and tax their use. 120
Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 08/04/2026How many homepages that were never ever going to change are now updated thanks to vibe coding? ✋ 2101
Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 11/02/2026Almost a year to the day since I last posted this. An admonishment by Mao's government to the China's statisticians on the need for "statistics with particular Party character." (Chinese newspaper in '61) 000
Reposted by Eytan AdarAlberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 30/01/2026The Open Visualization Academy (OVA) IS LIVE! openvisualizationacademy.org Thread follows #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization 8239106
Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 29/01/2026Can someone explain to me the objections to the arxiv survey paper thing? I get that it might be a biased, and maybe not grounded in data, but what's the actual/perceived benefit for posting on arxiv vs... I don't know... anywhere else? Is it citations? visibility? genuinely curious... 100
Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 03/12/2025Coining a new phrase: "Great Pacific Paper Patch." Definition: The growing collection of rejected papers floating from conference to conference and clogging up the knowledge ocean. :) 0111
Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 29/10/2025When reacting to some kind of new (manufactured) scandal every day, the press forgets they can come back the next day and say: you didn't know about it yesterday, but you've had a day to think about this, what's your reaction? 040
Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 23/09/2025Fun paper from a recent project with UMich alumni Tenghao Ji. Can we pick better images for Wikipedia articles? Given all the choices in the Wikipedia Commons, which image is best as an "instructional aid?" (1/5) 191
Reposted by Eytan AdarSarita @saritas.bsky.social · 15/09/2025John Derby Evans Professorship in Information (Assistant or Associate Professor) at UMSI. Apps due Nov 1. www.si.umich.edu/people/facul...si.umich.eduJohn Derby Evans Professorship in Information (Assistant or Associate Professor) | umsiThe University of Michigan School of Information (UMSI) invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position focusing on technology and society. 012
Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 23/08/2025We need something more technical sounding than "co-evolution" to describe this... RHLAF: reinforcing human learning through AI feedback? HAAF: human adaptation through AI feedback? :) 1111
Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 17/07/2025I'm very curious... Are cheese curlers often used in the bathtub? Was the art director like, "how do I show that our cheese curler is rust proof?" 030
Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 01/07/2025If you depend on EMNLP/ARR for your publishing or for hiring/promotion, I feel bad for you. 220
Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 23/06/2025I'm not sure who recommended it to me, but let me pass it on since it was a fun read: "Get the Picture" by Bianca Bosker 030
Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 04/05/2025Who knew... Claude can be funny... ;) Real researchers don't use LLMs: claude.ai/share/91111e...claude.aiClaudeTalk with Claude, an AI assistant from Anthropic 000
Reposted by Eytan AdarJessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Decision-making studies appear in HCI, vis, & increasingly AI/ML, but how “good decision” is defined is often ad-hoc My #CHI2025 talk today will answer Qs like: What's a decision problem? What's the best possible performance on a decision problem? What minimum info must participants be given? 1/2 2609
Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 09/04/2025I occasionally watch this couple doing a massive rebuild on their house. It's interesting how much they use/trust ChatGPT: youtu.be/KEgQO6ynJWE?.... Guess this is the new post-search world, but I'm waiting for the episode where they figure out it gave them bad advice on something critical.youtu.bethey messed up our windows and.. just watch the ending (ep. 60)YouTube video by Jenna Phipps 020
Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 08/02/2025We need to stop talking about indirects as: oh, I need $100k for research, but we charge the government $155k so I can give $55k to my institution for whatever. 1/2 160
Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 23/01/2025The new administration is just crazy. What other organization achieves the same policy effect no matter who gets hired? They can bring in the super strategic or super incompetent and the results (at least short term) are the same. 040
Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 03/01/2025Well, at least I'll have finished one book in 2025. Recommended if you like board games and/or artifacts of social life. www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...goodreads.comThe Game Changers: How Playing Games Changed the World …Why is playing games a universal human instinct?Why did… 030
Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 29/12/2024Consider a fictional graduate student brain N, and a scientist Q who wishes to use N in their research pipeline (e.g. for analysis and/or interpretation). Functionally, N is not fully understood by Q. Is it acceptable to use N? To be clear, there's a difference, but not sure it's "understanding." 160
Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 12/12/2024Google easter egg made me think I was having a vertigo episode. Very tipsy. Very funny. 050
Reposted by Eytan AdarFarnaz Jahanbakhsh @farnazj.bsky.social · 10/12/2024📢📢I'm recruiting PhD students for Fall 2025 to join my research lab at the University of Michigan! Interested in doing research in social computing systems? Consider applying! 📢📢 Application deadline: Dec 15 cse.engin.umich.edu/academics/gr...cse.engin.umich.eduGraduate Admissions | Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan 0126
Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 08/12/2024If you like Wordle, let me recommend Typeset (dvc.games/products/typ...). You can try the digital variant here: mxjasperbeatrix.itch.io/typeset but I like the physical version (easier to play with others).dvc.gamesTYPESETTYPESET is a love letter to the creativity and fluidity of words, as well as printmaking and typesetting tradition. Simply put: Place letters in order from left to right, using vowels as needed, to tr... 0133
Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 13/11/2024FWIW, blueark.app worked well. $5 to copy my tweet history over. Not sure *my* tweets were worth that... But that's not their fault. 2102
Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 24/10/2024The regulation of AI debate feels like that scene out of Contact where the government panel tells Jodie Foster's character that she can't go meet the aliens because she doesn't represent humanity. But then some crazy billionaire is like, whatevs... 050
Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 16/10/2024What happens when everyone in the conference is trying to get at the proceedings #UIST2024 020
Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 14/10/2024Hotels that don't reset alarm clocks between guests deserve a special place in hell. 020
Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 01/10/2024Speaking of CHI reviewing, anyone want to pay for my services in review matchmaking? I'm starting a consulting business: CHI Yenta. 010
Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 08/07/2024I understand "after hours" access door; Or after hours "access" door; Or after hours access "door." But why "after hours access door?" Famous quote by LS&A? 030
Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 22/05/2024Economists: Deeply offended at a paper showing the job market is sensitive to retweets. Also economists: Colluding and gossiping on the econ. job markets rumors board. 120
Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 21/05/2024I wrote up some thoughts about the challenges of grants during the AI Summer. And some possible ways of addressing these when writing an applied AI proposal 1/n 110
Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 21/05/2024Wrote up some thoughts... medium.com/p/62bd7414be74medium.comApplied AI Grants in the AI SummerPerhaps you’ve had this experience at a conference over the last year or two? You listen to an applied AI project that uses some relatively… 000
Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 16/04/2024Sad end to a beautiful building. Picture from last summer. www.cnn.com/2024/04/16/style/copenh… 020
Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 22/03/2024If you work with #p5js, #processing or any similar generative art programming language, please help with our research project by filling out this short survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf…docs.google.comsurvey on generative procedural art with generative AI as...You are invited to participate in a research study about ... 000
Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 19/03/2024Academic twitter right now. (FWIW, I am sorry for all who aren't getting in where you want. I know it's hard.) 000
Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 21/11/2023When I was at PARC, there were a bunch of extropians. I don't know why, but EA types remind me of them. 000
Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 08/11/2023Semantic scholar usually gives me good recommendations, but sometimes it has funny suggestions. Many years ago I studied web rings (don't worry about it, most of you are too young). I can only guess that is why it recommended:... 100
Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 08/11/2023Among various searches at UMSI, we're hiring for someone working at the intersection of AI and science & society. Consider applying! www.si.umich.edu/people/facul...si.umich.eduTenure-Track or Tenured Faculty in AI for Science and Society | umsiUMSI seeks a qualified tenure-track assistant, associate, or full professor in the field of AI for Science and Society. 051
Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 30/10/2023sheesh... hiring... we're hiring! I should not post from my phone! There will be no hitting! twitter.com/eytanadar/status/171909…twitter.comx.com 000
Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 11/09/2023Best part: the completely understated description... www.zillow.com/homedetails/9554-Fow…zillow.comAccess to this page has been deniedpx-captcha 100
Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 15/08/2023Sara (@dubadar) was just on live Australian TV talking about her lab's new dementia and pollution study! The kids and I watched it from downstairs 100
