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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 01/09/2026

Career Advice | Trump Attacks Academia—and Grad Students Ask if It’s Worth Saving It’s not just the federal government that’s telling grad students their work doesn’t matter. By Lauren Chambers and JP Flores: bit.ly/4wWpDnN #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Protesters in Washington hold signs demonstrating against cuts to scientific research. One sign in the foreground reads, "Don't bite the hand that cures you."

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jp flores (he/him) @jpflores.rbind.io · 01/09/2026

We aren’t abandoning academia. We're asking whether academia, as currently structured, deserves our trust. Lauren Chambers and I wrote about what it really means to “save” academia for @insidehighered.com 👇 www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care... @sciforgood.bsky.social @snapcoalition.org

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Grad Students Wonder if Academia Is Worth Saving (opinion)

It’s not just the federal government that’s telling grad students their work doesn’t matter.

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Are you on academic job market for #Postdoc or #TT Assistant/Assoc. Prof/Lecturer/ #AP /Research Scholar/ #fellowship jobs for 2026-2027 in #CS/ #SocSci/ #InfoSci/ Management Science/ #Psych & similar? Like last year, I am maintaining a list (so far ~200 positions) docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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2026-2027 Postdoc/TT/Research Scientist Positions in Information/CS/Social Science + Related Fields

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Lauren Chambers @laurenmarietta.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

We're having entirely too much fun. :)

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Paul Röttger @paul-rottger.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

New paper w/ UK AISI: Millions of people now use AI to help them write and communicate. In three experiments (14k participants, 3m+ human ratings) we show that AI writing assistance systematically distorts writer personas – their perceived beliefs, personality, and identity. 🧵

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Lauren Chambers @laurenmarietta.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

it's the last day of #FAccT2026 in Montreal (bonjour hiii), and I'm presenting my paper with Diag Davenport on the promise of #PublicInterestTech clinics for training the next gen of critical sociotechnical thinkers. 🏆 plus we got an honorable mention!? come thru @ 10:45! 📄 tiny.cc/pit-clinics-26

screenshot of a title slide, navy background with light blue icons and white and gold text: "a decision-making pedagogy for the public interest technology clinic: putting the ‘practice’ in critical technical practice." lauren m. chambers & diag davenport, uc berkeley. facct @ montreal, june 28, 2026

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Ben Green @benzevgreen.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Super excited to share a new #FAccT2026 paper with Nel Escher and Nikola Banovic! We show that algorithm auditing policies in the US are wildly insufficient, as they don't account for how public sector algorithms actually function in practice. dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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Algorithm Auditing Policies Rest on Flawed Assumptions About Public Sector Systems | Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

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Lauren Chambers @laurenmarietta.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

“This is the ghost at the center of our field: we keep being right, but wrong keeps winning. Being right is not the same as being enough.” #FAccT2026

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Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org · 01/05/2026

ANNOUNCING OUR 2026 AWARDS! Please nominate yourself + your colleagues for our Book, Graduate Student Paper, and Social Justice Awards. More info on our website: labortechresearchnetwork.org/awards

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Distribute Aid @distributeaid.org · 03/01/2026

🚨 Thread collecting actionable steps to help civilians in Venezuela, Venezuelan refugees fleeing to neighboring countries, and Venezuelan immigrants in the US. 🚨 ✅️ Please post ideas / links, especially to local frontline groups. ❌️ Please avoid non-actions, and be cautious regarding sanctions. 👇

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Lauren Chambers @laurenmarietta.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

guess the paper I'm writing based on the tabs I have open -- hard mode 😈: 1) @cfiesler.bsky.social's collection of tech ethics syllabi 2) translation of Marx as quoted, in Spanish, from Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed 3) lyrics to "Tyrone" by Erykah Badu

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Lauren Chambers @laurenmarietta.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

I'm spending my PhD researching just this question of what careers in tech "for good" or "in the public interest" look like. Just published an op-ed this weekend about one option: go do tech and/or data work for a non-profit! localnewsmatters.org/2025/11/30/b...

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Beyond Big Tech: Why 'advocacy technology' will be the next hot career in AI-driven world - Local News Matters

RECENTLY, IBM ANNOUNCED it will lay off thousands of employees; Amazon announced over 14,000 layoffs. Companies like Google and Microsoft have also faced

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Lauren Chambers @laurenmarietta.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

easily my favorite moment of #MozFest thus far was just listening to @schock.cc effortlessly connect the long history of globalized racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and heteropatriarchy to our current moment of AI/tech extractionism, oppression, and oligarchy 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

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Lauren Chambers @laurenmarietta.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

"what is an algorithm to a mother who has lost her child?" I don't understand how @helmimouni.bsky.social and coauthors didn't win an award for this work at #CSCW2025, it's so incredibly important 🇵🇸

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Lauren Chambers @laurenmarietta.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

presenting my first first-author paper (!), "Beyond Big Tech: Advocacy Technologists within Mission-Driven Civil Society Organizations" at #CSCW2025 in Bergen today! my firstborn child out is in the world -- and won an impact award 🥲🏆 (!!!) check it out: laurenmarietta.github.io/beyond-big-tech

one-page infographic PDF conveying the main takeaways from the paper, including a summary, the research questions, background, methods, results, and implications.

The summary reads, "A new kind of tech worker is contributing materially to mission-driven projects from within nonprofit advocacy groups. These interdisciplinary professionals reflect shifting values and new orientations of power around tech and policy."

Questions include: "(1) who are the tech experts working inside mission-driven nonprofits? (2) how do they operate in their roles? (3) what might they tell us about the shifting relationship between tech and advocacy?"

Background reads "Over the past two decades, civil society, government, and academic work across domains has seen new tech initiatives - including non- computational domains such as policy. Mean-while, the techlash soured Big Tech’s public image and interest in public interest tech has grown."

Methods include:
"23 semi-structured video interviews, Mar-Oct 2024;
recruited individuals who (1) worked for an advocacy
organization and (2) had tech skills or expertise used in service of advocacy;
prioritized domains which have historically not been data- or
tech-oriented;
reflexive thematic analysis"

implications include:
"(1) advocacy technologists are occupying a critical niche in advocacy work as boundary-crossers & knowledge brokers;
(2) these workers reject Big Tech’s status quo as part of a broader movement (inc. labor organizing);
(3) rarity of cross-disciplinary training; professional associations or ad hoc groups can offer mentors & community;
(4) computational strategies bolster advocacy; critical eyes check the tech sector and its effects on society;
(5) importance of studying and supporting tech workers beyond the private sector"

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Lauren Chambers @laurenmarietta.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

still can't get over that there's an entire session dedicated to advocacy at #CSCW2025 😍 it's gonna be HOTT

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Lauren Chambers @laurenmarietta.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

getting excited for my #FAccT2025 tutorial - today 5 pm Athens time! I'm sharing new work with @berkeleyischool.bsky.social's awesome Prof. Diag Davenport: "Public Interest Tech (PIT) Clinics as Applied Sociotechnical Pedagogy." the idea: bring real-world experience & impact into tech education 💫

title slide for tutorial presentation reading "public interest tech (pit) clinics as applied sociotechnical pedagogy: practice tutorial, FAccT 2025, Athens, Greece; by Lauren M. Chambers and Diag Davenport, UC Berkeley, June 25, 2025."

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Collective Action in Tech @techactions.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Join us at #FAccT2025 for the AI Workers’ Inquiry CRAFT workshop, where workers, organizers, and labor experts will explore how AI is transforming our workplaces and discuss strategies for collective resistance. RSVP and more info: ai-workers-inquiry.github.io

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AI WORKERS' INQUIRY

AI Workers' Inquiry is a FAccT 2025 CRAFT workshop that brings together workers, organizers, and labor experts to explore how AI is transforming our workplaces and discuss strategies for collective re...

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Marissa Kumar Gerchick @mkgerchick.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Excited to be at #FAccT2025 and honored to see our work “auditing the audits” resulting from one of the first enacted AI laws in the U.S. received an honorable mention! I’ll be presenting this work on Wednesday at 11 AM Athens time: programs.sigchi.org/facct/2025/p...

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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

With @goldmanschool.bsky.social, we're thrilled to announce the launch of the Executive Fellowship in Applied Technology Policy, a pioneering program designed to empower senior leaders at the intersection of technology and public policy. #PublicInterestTech www.ischool.berkeley.edu/news/2025/uc...

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UC Berkeley Launches Executive Fellowship in Applied Technology Policy

UC Berkeley’s School of Information and Goldman School of Public Policy proudly announce the launch of the Executive Fellowship in Applied Technology Policy, a pioneering program designed to empower s...

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Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

The really grim reality is that this is really not just about kids - there are countless adults, often adult *professionals*(doctors, lawyers, teachers(!)) that use ChatGPT this way. And I can understand why - there's no warning on the box! Few truly understand the tech's very real limitations.

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Shobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org · 01/12/2024

Fantastic piece on the history of race science: "It has become common to belittle the humanities for their irrelevance to the modern world....Yet perhaps the most important part of our method is not only to argue for better answers but also to ask whether our questions are in fact the right ones."

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Marianne Dhenin @mariannedhe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

@ufw.bsky.social posts around Thanksgiving are some of the best. These farm workers ought to be on everyone's mind at that dinner table.

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daanis @daanis.ca · 22/11/2024

Dana El Kurd created this starter pack. go.bsky.app/SNvMPk3

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I started a #NativesinSTEM starter pack. If you want to be added, tell me a little bit about yourself, including who your people are and what you study go.bsky.app/4hoZMPV @taramcallister.bsky.social I'll try to figure out how to turn this into a feed too.

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Lauren Chambers @laurenmarietta.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

does bluesky work for conferences yet...? well, I'm already having the most amazing time at the 3rd Data for Black Lives #D4BL conference in Miami. truly Yeshi Milner and Fallon Wilson made me cry during the opening keynote, sooo 🥲 plus, excited + nervous for my workshop tomorrow! come say hi!

title slide from a workshop presentation: "what can data do for advocacy? learning from public interest technologists." dated November 19, 2024. Logos for the Berkeley School of Information and Data for Black Lives

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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Reason number one thousand to never support Elon Musk: he's helping lead the charge against worker power.

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Nasser Eledroos @nasser.wiki · 13/11/2024

✨ My first starter pack! It's a WIP, I'll definitely be adding to it. But check this list out for Very Cool People who are alumni of fellowships like the Ford/Mozilla Open Web and Open Science fellowships and the Media Democracy Fund's TechExchange program (which I was part of!) go.bsky.app/MP12ryM

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Daniel Solove @daniel-solove.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Privacy Law Starter Pack Check back from time to time, as I will plan to keep this updated. And ping me if you want to be added. bsky.app/starter-pack...

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League of Women Voters of San Francisco @lwvsf.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

New to Bluesky? We've made a starter pack of news, press, media, and journalists that have a strong San Francisco beat. The list is local and probably won't include national outlets. It's a work in progress, so if there's a local outlet or journo we missed, let us know! go.bsky.app/AfazoPy

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Mina Markham @minamarkh.am · 13/11/2024

I made a Black women in tech starter pack because I couldn’t find one and it annoyed me. go.bsky.app/5upv7SQ

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Lauren Chambers @laurenmarietta.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

my cute pandemic hobby of editing wikipedia has started to feel more and more like a radical political activity as I keep reading and correcting endlessly horrible takes on Israel 🙃 like come on people, just say the word Palestine !!! not hard !!

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Lauren Chambers @laurenmarietta.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

I had the immense pleasure of watching @safiyanoble.bsky.social speak on Friday at the #PublicInterestTechnology university network summit ( #PIT-UN ), and I'm still thinking about the clarity of the diagnosis she laid out for how we got here: Tech companies have parasitized the public good. 1/n

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Lauren Chambers @laurenmarietta.bsky.social · 28/07/2023

I first heard the term "wet bulb temperature" in a @hankgreen.bsky.social tiktok two years ago, and today the wet bulb temperature in DC is 90° F 🫣☠️ living through climate apocalypse sure is fun, kids

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