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Jenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwv.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You guys, after nearly two decades of not bothering to redesign my website, I finally sat down and vibe coded myself a little website refresh (complete with modernized publications list!). It was SO FUN. The perfectionist in me went down 1000 rabbit holes along the way, but I got there. jennwv.com

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Nari Johnson @narijohnson.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

All AI evaluations embed assumptions about what "good" behavior looks like. Our #FAccT2026 paper explores how we can center the perspectives of impacted communities - specifically, subjects of AI-generated media - in designing LLM-as-a-judge evaluation rubrics.

A flyer teasing our research paper. The flyer contains a visualization of our approach: First, community members participate in creating an evaluation rubric, visualized as a list of criteria. The rubric is then given as input to an LLM judge.

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ACM FAccT @facct.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Very important updates from our #FAccT2027 Program Chairs. Our next reviewing cycle will run on a different schedule from previous years. ⚠️ Abstract Deadline: Oct 27, 2026 ⚠️ Paper Deadline: Nov 3, 2026 Please read this blog post from the PCs for more info: facct-blog.github.io/2026-06-24/s...

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Update to ACM FAccT Submission Timeline Beginning in 2027

Dear FAccT community, We are writing to share an important update to the ACM FAccT submissions timeline beginning with the 2027 conference cycle.

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ACM FAccT @facct.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

It's almost time for this year's conference! 🎉 To follow along with all things #FAccT2026, you can "pin" this feed to your homepage. It matches all uses of the hashtag, tags of @facct.bsky.social, and use of the text string "FAccT" (not case sensitive). Enjoy! bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Jenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwv.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I'll be at #FAccT2026 in Montréal this Thursday and Friday. Two papers I'm lucky to be part of are being presented. They share the common theme of human-centered evaluation of generative AI, specifically bringing stakeholder expertise into how we define and measure what these systems do...

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Jenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwv.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

At #CHI2026? Check out @sachnishal.bsky.social's talk this Tuesday on how LLM-infused writing tools reshape journalists’ agency — their ability to exercise independent judgment in alignment with their values — in editorial decision making. programs.sigchi.org/chi/2026/pro...

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Jenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwv.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Come work with me!!!!

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Hanna Wallach @hannawallach.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Microsoft Research NYC is hiring a researcher in the space of AI and society!

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ACM FAccT @facct.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Announcements for #FAccT2026! 📣 #FAccT2026 will be on June 27-30 at the Hotel Bonaventure in Montréal! Keep reading for important information about submitting papers! ⬇️ 1/n

Photo of the outside of the Hotel Bonaventure in Montreal. Cement, windows, trees, and interesting sculptures and staircases in the foreground.

Photo of the outside of the Hotel Bonaventure in Montreal. Shows the building and courtyards with trees and pathways.

Photo of the hotel gardens, with trees, fountains, and pathways.

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

I’m not very into podcasts, but I listened to this one! WiML has meant a lot to me, and it was great to get this backstory. I especially appreciated the conversation about career changes and academia vs industry.

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Jenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwv.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

In case you missed it in the flurry of NeurIPS activity, @hannawallach.bsky.social and I recorded a (video) podcast on women in ML, friendship, research, and careers.

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Jenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwv.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

On my way to San Diego for #NeurIPS and the 20th anniversary of #WiML! To celebrate, @hannawallach.bsky.social and I recorded a podcast discussing WiML’s journey, our friendship and collaborations, research we're excited about, & advice we'd give our younger selves! www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

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Ideas: Community building, machine learning, and the future of AI

As the Women in Machine Learning Workshop (WiML) marks its 20th annual gathering, cofounders, friends, and collaborators Jenn Wortman Vaughan and Hanna Wallach reflect on WiML’s evolution, navigating ...

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Jenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwv.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Our work on supporting industry computing researchers in assessing, articulating, and addressing the potential negative societal impact of their work (with @wesleydeng.bsky.social and @s010n.bsky.social) is featured in this edition of Research Focus.

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Women in Machine Learning (WiML) @wimlworkshop.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Don’t miss this podcast🎙️with @jennwv.bsky.social and @hannawallach.bsky.social! They reflect on #WiML20Years and share their journey, collaborations, and advice in a special conversation on Microsoft Research’s Ideas podcast💙

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Jenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwv.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

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Ideas: Community building, machine learning, and the future of AI

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Jenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwv.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

I'm beyond thrilled to give a keynote at the 20th WiML workshop! 😍 I've given opening remarks before, but this is my first RESEARCH talk at WiML. It's a dream. Join us! I'll talk about supporting appropriate reliance, human agency, & critical thought with GenAI. sites.google.com/wimlworkshop...

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WiML Workshop @ NeurIPS 2025 - Program

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Hanna Wallach @hannawallach.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Three exciting opportunities at @msftresearch.bsky.social in NYC!!! 🎉 Internship w/ FATE: apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job?... Internship w/ STAC on AI evaluation and measurement: apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job?... Postdoc w/ FATE: apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job?...

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Jenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwv.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Spread the word! 📢 The FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics) group at @msftresearch.bsky.social in NYC is hiring interns and postdocs to start in summer 2026! 🎉 Apply by *December 15* for full consideration.

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Jenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwv.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I was lucky to get a sneak preview of Advait’s talk and it is SO GOOD. I wish everyone building AI would watch this.

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Jenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwv.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I cannot wait to celebrate TWENTY YEARS of #WiML at #NeurIPS in San Diego this December! 🎉🥳 Fun fact: The first #WiML was held in San Diego back in 2006! ❤️ Share your memories below, and come hang out on Dec 2! I will be there! I will be speaking! And have I mentioned I AM EXCITED?!?!?!

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Jenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwv.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I’m taking a break after this year, I swear. If you are partying along the marathon route Sunday (which you should! it’s fun!), you can find us in wave 4.

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Jenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwv.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Looking for news on @msftresearch.bsky.social FATE internships & postdocs? YES, we will have positions, but bear with us — we expect postings to go up in mid-November and I will post an update here as soon as they do.

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Jenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwv.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

If you're at #CSCW2025, be sure to say hi to @wesleydeng.bsky.social! Wesley will be representing our work on assessing the potential negative societal impact of industry computing research bright and early Wednesday morning!

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ACM FAccT @facct.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

If you’re reading this post and wondering whether #FAccT2026 is the right venue for you, we strongly encourage you to submit your best work and join the community! Especially scholars and practitioners in the humanities, law, philosophy, policy, the social sciences, and more!

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Jenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwv.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

If you are at #COLM2025, come by the Workshop on the Application of LLM Explainability to Reasoning and Planning TODAY at 2:40 ET to see my talk on challenges in human-agent communication and how the interpretability community can help address them! xllm-reasoning-planning-workshop.github.io

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Website for the Workshop on the Application of LLM Explainability to Reasoning and Planning at COLM 2025

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Jenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwv.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I’ve been lucky to get the chance to work with some incredibly creative and talented undergrad researchers through this program! Help us spread the word to students who might be interested!

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Jenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwv.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Rare and exciting opportunity to join a team of world-class social scientists to study the social, political, and cultural dynamics that shape technologies and their consequences. MSR New England (our sister lab!) is an interdisciplinary environment with endless possibility for real-world impact. 👇👇

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A. Feder Cooper @afedercooper.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Feeling so excited + grateful to be representing this paper at #ICML! Please stop by to talk about how to do more valid measurement for evaling gen AI systems! Work led by the incomparable @hannawallach.bsky.social and @azjacobs.bsky.social as a part of Microsoft’s AI and Society initiative!!

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Hanna Wallach @hannawallach.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

If you're at @icmlconf.bsky.social this week, come check out our poster on "Position: Evaluating Generative AI Systems Is a Social Science Measurement Challenge" presented by the amazing @afedercooper.bsky.social from 11:30am--1:30pm PDT on Weds!!! icml.cc/virtual/2025...

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ICML Poster Position: Evaluating Generative AI Systems Is a Social Science Measurement ChallengeICML 2025

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Someone asked me today how to get better at scientific writing. I'm not the best person to ask because I find my own writing very inadequate! But the tips I thought of were: 1. Practice, and practice with co-authors who are better writers than you. Observe how they make edits and copy them. (1/n)

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NeurIPS Conference @neuripsconf.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

NeurIPS is seeking additional ethics reviewers this year. If you are able and willing to participate in the review process, please sign up at the form in the link: neurips.cc/Conferences/... Please share this call with your colleagues!

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2025 Call For Ethics Reviewers

If you are able and willing to participate in the review process, please sign up at this form. Feel free to share this call with your colleagues.

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ACM FAccT @facct.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

We're happy to officially announce the location of #FAccT2026! Next year's conference will be held in Montreal, Canada 🇨🇦 Su Lin Blodgett and Zeerak Talat will be General Chairs, and Michael Madaio will be PC Chair 🎉 (thanks to MindView for the photo!)

Photo of the Town Hall meeting at last week's conference. The audience watches as Su Lin Blodgett announces the location of next year's conference. Su Lin Blodgett and Zeerak Talat will be General Chairs, and Michael Madaio will be PC Chair.

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Ohhhh Molly Crockett‘s @mjcrockett.bsky.social keynote talk at #FAccT2025 was soo good 🔥🔥🔥 She talked about how techno-optimism is really human pessimism, how DEAD benchmarks don’t capture full human capacities and feed the hype cycle, how we need to avoid monoculture & imagine new worlds together

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Jenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwv.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I could not agree with this more. The positive energy and support we give each other keeps us going. #FAccT2025

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Jenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwv.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I love FAccT because of the people. This community is friendly, fun, and passionate about the work they do. I'm so proud and honored to have gotten to work with these particular amazing people on the #FAccT2025 program. Talia, Sina, and @shakirm.bsky.social are THE BEST.

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Jenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwv.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Grab some coffee and join us bright and early Thursday morning! 👇👇👇

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ACM FAccT @facct.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Our #FAccT2025 proceedings are out!! 🎉 Read all of the published papers here: dl.acm.org/doi/proceedi...

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Nathalie A. Smuha @nathaliesmuha.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I’m truly honored give a keynote speech at the @facct.bsky.social conference this year in Athens, on Tue 24 June. My talk will focus on the lessons we can learn from emerging AI laws, and the road and challenges ahead. Looking forward to seeing you there! Schedule: programs.sigchi.org/facct/2025

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Jenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwv.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

At #FAccT2025? Want to learn about modern synthetic data usage and its implications? Come see @shivanikapania.bsky.social present "Examining the Expanding Role of Synthetic Data Throughout the AI Development Pipeline" Thursday at 9am in AI Design & Development. programs.sigchi.org/facct/2025/p...

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ACM FAccT @facct.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Looking for posts about #FAccT2025? Check out our 🦋 custom feed 🦋 which is already lively and full of papers, events, and attendees for this year's conference in Athens! Click the pin 📌 in the upper right hand corner to keep this feed quickly accessible. bsky.app/profile/mari...

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ACM FAccT @facct.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

🏆 Announcing the #FAccT2025 best paper awards! 🏆 Congratulations to all the authors of the three best papers and three honorable mention papers. Be sure to check out their presentations at the conference next week! facct-blog.github.io/2025-06-20/b...

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Announcing Best Paper Awards

The Best Paper Award Committee was chaired this year by Alex Chouldechova and included six Area Chairs. The committee selected three papers for the Best Paper Award and recognized three additional pap...

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Zana Buçinca @zbucinca.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Thrilled to share that I’ve successfully defended my PhD dissertation and I will be joining MIT as an Assistant Professor starting Fall 2026, with a shared appointment between Sloan and EECS! I will be recruiting 1-2 PhD students this upcoming cycle. Consider applying to MIT EECS!

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NeurIPS Conference @neuripsconf.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

The NeurIPS Position Track is seeking additional reviewers this year. If you'd like to serve or nominate a colleague, please complete our nomination form! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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NeurIPS 2025 Position Paper Track Reviewer Nomination Form

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Jenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwv.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Please help us spread the word! 📣 FATE is hiring a pre-doc research assistant! We're looking for candidates who will have completed their bachelor's degree (or equivalent) by summer 2025 and want to advance their research skills before applying to PhD programs.

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Jenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwv.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Wow! The imposter account was removed within about 24 hours of me reporting it. So lovely (and surprising!) when things work.

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Jenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwv.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Hey folks! Someone has apparently created a bluesky account impersonating me — same name, same photo, similar bio. Why? I have absolutely no idea! I've reported it, but while I wait to see if the account is taken down, please be aware that it is not me.

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