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Maria De-Arteaga

@mariadearteaga.bsky.social
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Associate Professor, ESADE | PhD, Machine Learning & Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon | Previously FAccT EC | Algorithmic fairness, human-AI collab | 🇨🇴 💚 she/her/ella.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
BREAKING NYT: Federal agents around the country were told in recent days that the FBI would no longer investigate confrontations with immigration agents — cases that sometimes yield evidence that could be used to prosecute DHS agents implicated in violent encounters.
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Federal Agents Were Told FBI Will No Longer Investigate ICE Confrontations
Senior officials deny such a change is in the works, despite guidance shared with agents around the country in recent days.
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Maria De-Arteaga @mariadearteaga.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
AI has really improved my productivity when emailing. I used to obsess over well-drafted emails. Now I write and hit send. Was there a typo? An awkward sentence construction borrowed from Spanish? Did I again misuse prepositions? Enjoy this evidently human-written correspondence, dear reader!!
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Maria De-Arteaga @mariadearteaga.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
What I read is that for this new era of segregation the government wants to impose citizenship verification to access certain parts of the internet. And then use that data to further extend the surveillance state. They thought Anthropic would do the first step. www.anthropic.com/news/fable-m...
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Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
The US government has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States.
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Megan Zahneis @mzahneis.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Half of surveyed Texas Tech faculty changed course content on their own after the chancellor's memos restricting teaching on race, gender, and sexuality. More than half say they're now looking for other jobs as a result of the memos. #HigherEd @chronicle.com www.chronicle.com/article/half...
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Half of Surveyed Faculty at Texas Tech Say They Altered Course Content Without Being Asked To
The findings of an unscientific, faculty-conducted survey suggested that new policies on teaching about race and sex have changed university instruction.
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Adrienne Williams Boyarin @aboyarin.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
UVic Humanities is hiring a Research Chair in AI and Cultural Change — focused on justice-centered, critical, humanist approaches to AI and related technologies. Check it out and distribute widely (deadline Aug 28). www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...
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HUMS 250-110 - Faculty & staff - University of Victoria
Inspired by and honouring place, we are a community-minded, globally engaged university where we transform ideas into meaningful impact.
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Maria De-Arteaga @mariadearteaga.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
In early 2025 I was serving on an NSF review panel and a (more obscure) version of (2) was communicated to us. I asked whether a grant with great reviews could be killed on political grounds, and I was told a version of “it’s not your job to know that”. I refused to waste my labor legitimizing that.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
Mia Valentina Paz Faria
A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas 
Detained for 70 days

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by 
@micarosenberg
 et al for ProPublica:
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Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Will be live this morning at 8:45am ET talking with @maxmmiller.bsky.social about the big business of deportations. YT link in reply.
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I am so tired of all the things that we said would happen, and were routinely ignored or dismissed by tech bros and neoliberals for saying would happen, continuing to happen, in exactly the way that we said they would happen.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars
A masked ICE officials with a 5 year old child
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Wolfie Christl @wchr.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
"Le Monde was able to pinpoint the identities, home addresses and daily routines of several dozen people working for sensitive official entities" including French intel, military, nuclear weapon bases, power plants. Digital advertising is a security threat, exhibit X. www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/ar...
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How French spies, police and military personnel are betrayed by advertising data
Using easily accessible advertising data, Le Monde was able to pinpoint the identities, home addresses and daily routines of several dozen people working for sensitive official entities.
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Maria De-Arteaga @mariadearteaga.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
We are hiring! Come join me and my wonderful colleagues in Barcelona ✨ Consider applying to our (open rank!) position: esadefaculty.teamtailor.com/jobs/6884903... If you are more practice-oriented, mixing research, teaching, and industry, consider this: esadefaculty.teamtailor.com/jobs/6885260...
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Artificial Intelligence (Research-Track) - ESADE Faculty Positions
Please, see information on the position below.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
We've found DHS is giving local cops a new facial recognition app to find immigrants. Point camera at face, tells the cop to detain person or not. The app is available on Google's Play Store. Google took down apps that report ICE sightings but now hosts this app www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...
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DHS Gives Local Cops a Facial Recognition App To Find Immigrants
The app, called Mobile Identify and available on the Google Play Store, is specifically for local and regional law enforcement agencies working with ICE on immigration enforcement.
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ACM FAccT @facct.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
We’re excited to release the Call for Papers for #FAccT2026 which will be held in Montreal, Canada in June 2026! Abstracts are due on January 8th, papers due on January 13th. Call for Papers: facctconference.org/2026/cfp Important info in thread →
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ACM FAccT - 2026 CFP
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 10/10/2025
aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
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Maria De-Arteaga @mariadearteaga.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Heading to AIES in a few weeks, looking forward to catching up with familiar faces and meeting new ones!
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Maria De-Arteaga @mariadearteaga.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Big personal news: my family and I decided to leave the US and we are starting a new chapter in Europe. I am looking forward to building a new home in Barcelona, where I will join ESADE as a tenured Associate Professor this Fall.
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
What’s a technology that you think is overhyped?

I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry.

Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto.

It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
“Since AFP was founded in 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, some have been injured, others taken prisoner. But none of us remember witnessing colleagues die of hunger". 🚨🧵
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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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Maria De-Arteaga @mariadearteaga.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
The end of #FAccT2025 marks the end of my 3-year term as FAccT EC, which followed a 2-year term as DEI Chair. It has been an honor to serve this community and watch it mature.
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Maria De-Arteaga @mariadearteaga.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
What a fantastic conference #FAccT2025! Very grateful to @metaxa.net @asiabiega.bsky.social and @sciorestis.bsky.social for their stellar job as GCs, and @jennwv.bsky.social @shakirm.bsky.social Sina Fazelpour and Talia Gillis for putting together a great program as PCs!
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Maria De-Arteaga @mariadearteaga.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Having a lot of FOMO not being able to be in person at #FAccT2025 but enjoying the virtual transmission 💻. Tomorrow Jakob will be presenting our paper "Perils of Label Indeterminacy: A Case Study on Prediction of Neurological Recovery After Cardiac Arrest".
screenshot of title and authors (Jakob Schoeffer, Maria De-Arteaga, Jonathan Elmer)
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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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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...
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Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
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Maria De-Arteaga @mariadearteaga.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Targeted ads these days:
An ad by the university of Helsinki that reads "Freedom to think | academic careers. Join us in Finland..."
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Maria De-Arteaga @mariadearteaga.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
"I am haunted because I am a mother" This piece captures what reading Gaza news feels like as a mother. It is worth stopping whatever you are doing and taking a moment to sob; "The parents are cognizant that what they have endured is too much for the rest of us to passively consider."
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ACLU @aclu.org · 11/03/2025
The unlawful detention of Mahmoud Khalil is one of the most extreme threats to free speech in 50 years. Trump is sending a message that people who speak out will be punished — but we have a message for him, too. We'll see you in court.
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Opinion | This Is the Greatest Threat to Free Speech Since the Red Scare
Mahmoud Khalil’s detention is a frightening sign of an authoritarian slide.
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Rebekah Tromble @rebekahtromble.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Excellent statement from Nature’s editorial board. The last section on “How to respond” is the most important. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere
US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.
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Juan David Gutiérrez @juandgut.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
At U. Andes we are about to launch “Systems of Public Algorithms”, a platform that has 3 online repositories: 1️⃣ +600 AI systems in the public sector in LAC. 2️⃣ +300 regulatory projects and regulations on AI in LAC. 3️⃣ Almost 400 automated decision-making systems in the public sector in Colombia.
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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
There is a new version of the Research Plan for NIST's AI Safety Consortium (AISIC) in response to EOs. I did a diff. Out: safety, responsibility, sociotechnical, fairness, working w fed agencies, authenticating content, watermarking, RN of CBRN, autonomous replication, ctrl of physical systems >
Page one of diff.Page 2 of diff.Page 3 of diff.
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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...
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The foundations of America’s prosperity are being dismantled
Federal scientists warn that Americans could feel the effects of the new administration's devastating cuts for decades to come
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ACM FAccT @facct.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
We’ve confirmed the #FAccT2025 venue! We’re so excited to welcome you all on June 23-26 to the Athens Conservatoire in the heart of downtown Athens! 🦉🇬🇷🌊🏛️ www.athensconservatoire.gr/en-venuehire/
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ATHENS CONSERVATOIRE ARTS CENTRE | Venue Hire - ΩΔΕΙΟΝ ΑΘΗΝΩΝ
Στο εμβληματικό κτίριο του Ωδείου Αθηνών παρέχεται η δυνατότητα διοργάνωσης πολιτιστικών δράσεων, συνεδρίων, εταιρικών και κοινωνικών εκδηλώσεων.
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ACM FAccT @facct.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Calling all graduate students! The #FAccT2025 call is out for our Doctoral Colloquium. Join us for connections, support, potential mentorship, etc. Apply by February 12! facctconference.org/2025/callfordc
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ACM FAccT 2025 Doctoral Colloquium Call for Applications
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Maria De-Arteaga @mariadearteaga.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Meta's decision will have big implications beyond Facebook-mediated effects. In LatAm, for instance, Meta's fact-checking program indirectly supports many forms of essential journalism, as it constitutes a revenue source for some journalistic platforms scrambling for survival in the new media age.
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ACM FAccT @facct.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Reminder: The #FAccT2025 submission deadlines are roughly one month away! Abstracts are due January 15th and full papers on January 22nd. See the full CfP here: facctconference.org/2025/cfp
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ACM FAccT - 2025 CFP
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Maria De-Arteaga @mariadearteaga.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
We're hiring a fully-funded Ph.D. student in Use-Inspired AI @ UT Austin starting Fall 2025! Join us to work on impactful AI/ML research addressing real-world challenges. Learn more & apply: t.co/OPrxO3yMhf
t.co
http://tinyurl.com/use-inspired-ai-f25
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Maria De-Arteaga @mariadearteaga.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Very excited that my first post gets to be a celebration of my first graduating PhD student, Soumyajit Gupta (co-advised with the fabulous Matt Lease). Today, Soumya successfully defended his thesis "Toxic Language and Target Detection under Sparsity by Modeling Group-Specific Representations"! 🎓🎉
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