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Hannah BW @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

just posted a new paper, How Tech Took Over, to SSRN. It's about how decades of legal and policy interventions made the tech industry an essential partner in public governance. I map the kinds of functions tech cos are performing today, and I argue that their activities are salient to con law.

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How Tech Took Over

Technology firms play key roles in public governance. Their products enable forms of reasoning and data processing that modern agencies must use. Their data per

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Sarah Brayne, Sarah Lageson and Karen Levy have a nice paper on “surveillance deputies.” Ring wants to deputize your pet dog. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Surveillance deputies: When ordinary people surveil for the state | Law & Society Review | Cambridge Core

Surveillance deputies: When ordinary people surveil for the state - Volume 57 Issue 4

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travis lloyd (træve) @travislloydphd.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

"Community Notes" are reshaping how millions encounter information on social media--but what makes them work (or not)? We term these "Crowdsourced Context Systems" (CCS) and introduce a framework for designing and evaluating them in a new #CHI26 paper 🧵

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Karen Levy @karenlevy.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Interesting new statistical analysis, again confirming that mandatory electronic monitoring in trucking—ostensibly a safety measure—led to *increased* accident and fatality rates after implementation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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The unintended consequences of monitoring technologies: Evidence from the Electronic Logging Device mandate

The electronic logging device (ELD) final rule was passed in 2015 and implemented in phases over the course of four years. The mandate required that m…

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UC Berkeley Labor Center @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

AI in the workplace isn’t just automation. Workers report discrimination, intensified workloads, and even automated firing. New state policies aim to center workers, write Mishal Khan and Annette Bernhardt from our Technology and Work Program. www.techpolicy.press/evaluating-t...

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Evaluating Trends and Challenges in State Regulation of Workplace Technologies | TechPolicy.Press

The 2025 US state legislative session has been something of a watershed moment for tech and work policy, write Mishal Khan and Annette Bernhardt.

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Another great issue from the @contexts.org crew! Check out @kaareeenah.bsky.social's review of @karenlevy.bsky.social's Data Driven and Madison Van Oort's Worn Out! - journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.... - I really appreciate the part on moving from an either/or to a both/and approach to organizing.

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Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

I used to focus on left versus right. Now I’m much more worried about the money at the top. But while it might seem strange to say it, I think this is a hopeful way of looking at the world that opens the door to coalitions that seemed impossible before. My first for the @newrepublic.com:

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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

If your community is thinking about Community Notes, we have some notes to guide your Community Notes thinking right here. #CommunityNotes

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travis lloyd (træve) @travislloydphd.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

New preprint! Crowdsourced Context Systems (CCS) like X's and Meta's Community Notes are popping up on various social media platforms. How can we better understand, critique, and design such systems?

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Nikhil Garg @nkgarg.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

New piece, out in the Sigecom Exchanges! It's my first solo-author piece, and the closest thing I've written to being my "manifesto." #econsky #ecsky arxiv.org/abs/2507.03600

Screenshot of paper abstract, with text: "A core ethos of the Economics and Computation (EconCS) community is that people have complex private preferences and information of which the central planner is unaware, but which an appropriately designed mechanism can uncover to improve collective decisionmaking. This ethos underlies the community’s largest deployed success stories, from stable matching systems to participatory budgeting. I ask: is this choice and information aggregation “worth it”? In particular, I discuss how such systems induce heterogeneous participation: those already relatively advantaged are, empirically, more able to pay time costs and navigate administrative burdens imposed by the mechanisms. I draw on three case studies, including my own work – complex democratic mechanisms, resident crowdsourcing, and school matching. I end with lessons for practice and research, challenging the community to help reduce participation heterogeneity and design and deploy mechanisms that meet a “best of both worlds” north star: use preferences and information from those who choose to participate, but provide a “sufficient” quality of service to those who do not."

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Pegah Moradi @pegahmoradi.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

For @thehill.com, I wrote about what the Biden-Trump autopen controversy can tell us about automation, AI, and trust: thehill.com/opinion/whit...

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Marianne Aubin Le Quéré @mariannealq.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

It's finally public! 🎉 Excited to announce I'll be joining UIUC's iSchool as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2026. My lab will focus on AI information ecosystems, computational social science, and social computing. I will start recruiting PhD students this cycle, so please reach out if interested.

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Karen Levy @karenlevy.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

This is a great interview with a real one: a wonderful peek into the brain of @pegahmoradi.bsky.social and her work on automation and labor!

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Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

For your enjoyment: here is Secretary of Education Linda McMahon talking about implementing AI in schools, but pronouncing it "A1," as in "A1 Steak Sauce" www.youtube.com/live/lxrg28z...

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Emma Harvey @emmharv.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

✨New Work✨ by me, @allisonkoe.bsky.social, and @kizilcec.bsky.social forthcoming at #CHI2025: "Don't Forget the Teachers": Towards an Educator-Centered Understanding of Harms from Large Language Models in Education 🔗: arxiv.org/pdf/2502.14592

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Title: “Don’t Forget the Teachers”: Towards an Educator-Centered Understanding of Harms from Large Language Models in Education

Authors: Emma Harvey, Allison Koenecke, Rene Kizilcec

Abstract: Education technologies (edtech) are increasingly incorporating new features built on LLMs, with the goals of enriching the processes of teaching and learning and ultimately improving learning outcomes. However, it is still too early to understand the potential downstream impacts of LLM-based edtech. Prior attempts to map the risks of LLMs have not been tailored to education specifically, even though it is a unique domain in many respects: from its population (students are often children, who can be especially impacted by technology) to its goals (providing the ‘correct’ answer may be less important than understanding how to arrive at an answer) to its implications for higher-order skills that generalize across contexts (e.g. critical thinking and collaboration). We conducted semi-structured interviews with six edtech providers representing leaders in the K-12 space, as well as a diverse group of 23 educators with varying levels of experience with LLM-based edtech. Through a thematic analysis, we explored how each group is anticipating, observing, and accounting for potential harms from LLMs in education. We find that, while edtech providers focus primarily on mitigating technical harms, i.e. those that can be measured based solely on LLM outputs themselves, educators are more concerned about harms that result from the broader impacts of LLMs, i.e. those that require observation of interactions between students, educators, school systems, and edtech to measure. Overall, we (1) develop an education-specific overview of potential harms from LLMs, (2) highlight gaps between conceptions of harm by edtech providers and those by educators, and (3) make recommendations to facilitate the centering of educators in the design and development of edtech tools.

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Karen Levy @karenlevy.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Absolutely adore the idea that someone would confuse Deloitte with Deee-lite

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Pegah Moradi @pegahmoradi.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

this is literally my superbowl

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Pegah Moradi @pegahmoradi.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

The Heritage Foundation-backed "Oversight Project" pointing out that Biden used an autopen to sign a number of documents *would* be damning...if it wasn't the case that nearly every president since JFK has done the same

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Nikhil Garg @nkgarg.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...

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Sophie Greenwood @sjgreenwood.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Please repost to get the word out! @nkgarg.bsky.social and I are excited to present a personalized feed for academics! It shows posts about papers from accounts you’re following bsky.app/profile/pape...

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Pegah Moradi @pegahmoradi.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

My paper (with @karenlevy.bsky.social and Cristobal Cheyre!) on how self-checkout deepens these relational demands for cashiers is forthcoming in @acm-cscw.bsky.social 2025 :) 🔗 Link here: arxiv.org/pdf/2401.00205

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Pegah Moradi @pegahmoradi.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I spoke with @annlarson.bsky.social about how store tech can increase demands on frontline retail workers, for her latest in The Nation! Workers often have to make shoppers feel better when store tech frustrates or confuses them, making retail work more socially and relationally demanding:

Text from article: Automation may also have unintended social consequences. Pegah Moradi, a PhD candidate and researcher in Information Science at Cornell University, studies automation in retail. “When [an electronic shelf label] breaks down in the store,” she explained, “the worker has to repair the system even if they don’t have the technical expertise. The customer becomes frustrated: There is no price available, or why has the price changed? The burden falls on the employee to alleviate the tension of that situation.” The technology may put employees in the position of performing what Moradi calls “relationship management,” adding social pressure to service jobs but without additional pay or training.

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Emma Pierson @emmapierson.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Our article on using LLMs to promote health equity is out in New England Journal of Medicine AI! 85% of equity-related LLM papers focus on *harms*. But also vital are the equity-related *opportunities* LLMs create: detecting bias, extracting structured data, and improving access to health info.

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Allison Koenecke @allisonkoe.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

📢Announcing 1-day CHI 2025 workshop: Speech AI for All! We’ll discuss challenges & impacts of inclusive speech tech for people with speech diversities, connecting researchers, practitioners, policymakers, & community members. 🎉Apply to join us: speechai4all.org

Banner for CHI 2025 workshop with text: "Speech AI for All: Promoting Accessibility, Fairness, Inclusivity, and Equity"

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Arvind Narayanan @randomwalker.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

📢 📢 Come join our vibrant interdisciplinary group of about 40 scholars at the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy working to understand and improve the relationship between technology and society. We are looking at all levels: 🧵

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Aditya Vashistha @imadityav.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

An exciting opportunity for PhD students to spend a summer at our campus in NYC and be part of our new Security, Trust, and Safety (SETS) Initiative! Deadline: January 21, 2025.

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Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

As part of a major new initiative in interdisciplinary data science, Princeton has an open rank faculty search. The Department of Sociology is participating. Application review begins Dec 1: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

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Karen Levy @karenlevy.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

Hey! Cornell Information Science is hiring! Tenure-track hires at all levels in Ithaca, focusing on qual/interpretive methods, CSS/quant approaches, study/design of human/AI interactions. Happy to chat or answer any questions I can! Review starts 11/10: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28405

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Cornell University, Information Science

Full service online faculty recruitment and application management system for academic institutions worldwide. We offer unique solutions tailored for academic communities.

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Karen Levy @karenlevy.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

Yesssss! Working with two of my faves on this was a huge treat. So happy it's out!

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Salomé Viljoen @salome.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

Me and @amandaparsons.bsky.social in the @lpeblog.bsky.social today doing some *light* value theory to discuss the complex and messy ways that companies go about cultivating data's use value (prediction value) and converting it (or not!) into wealth (and power) -- and why all this matters legally

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Allison Koenecke @allisonkoe.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

Faculty searches at Cornell InfoSci! 1. Human-AI interaction, esp. builders/designers (Ithaca): academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25656 2. Ethics/law/policy, incl. technical approaches (NYC): academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25657 3. Lecturers in any area (Ithaca): academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25658

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