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I think that's part of the power of doing that type of memo/diary study structuring during unfolding events like this -- which is what we did in our 2024 election team! :) [thread complete lol]

I think the main thing is that the diary study could evolve based on what people submit -- the form could get updated prompts etc. AND content collection about this phenomenon would be informed by this.

2) In the form, have users give their contact info if they might be interested in having a follow up interview 3) dovetail this with content collected by researchers on Junkipedia with relevant keywords, creators etc based on form responses

I would do it a bit multi prong but a bit nitty gritty. 1) have users submit both their written comments/experiences, screenshots, AND links to content on the app where creators are folk theorizing about what is going on [researchers would save those vids] [1/n]

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New research on Twitter (right before rebranding to X) shows right leaning accounts got outsized visibility from the algorithm & suggests this bias stemmed from different content production techniques (more sensational, outrage-bait) and from direct interaction w/ the new king of the platform: Musk.

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Shobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org · 07/12/2025

STS/Communications scholar Morgan Ames (whom these authors don't cite) has repeatedly demonstrated that OLPC was ineffective at best, and harmful at worst, including in an award-winning book published in 2019. The real question is why economists don't acknowledge work in other fields.

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Morgan G. Ames : The Charisma Machine

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Nina Lutz @ninalutz.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

(Smart phone I mean! I had my razor at the same time as first card!)

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Nina Lutz @ninalutz.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Yes! I have always had one memorized as a just in case since I had my first credit card (which pre dates having my first cellphone).

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

UW CIP postdoc @mertcanbayar.bsky.social explains how a high-profile scientist's statements about the 3l/ATLAS comet harnessed uncertainty and attention dynamics, and spawned widespread speculation about an alien visitor, an "alien of the gaps" in human knowledge: www.cip.uw.edu/2025/12/03/3...

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Alien of the gaps: How 3I/ATLAS was turned into a spaceship online

When we reach the frontier of current knowledge, we’re tempted to insert a higher power into the space where answers aren’t yet satisfying for all.

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Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

A note for cognitive researchers interested in the spread of misinfo and disinfo. A lot of our research uses text-based presentation of information. Most of what people use on social media is video-based. I suspect more people watch news than read papers. Maybe we should consider this?

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Nina Lutz @ninalutz.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Academia is really just juggling lots of things and being like "Wow I'm so good at juggling!" and ignoring the fact that still means you are a clown.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Bullshit as U.S. government policy. This is the punchline from my Feb 2025 lecture. If you’re interested in understanding more about how we got here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjiG... It ends with a call to action to rage against the bullshit machine.

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A Spotlight on Rumors

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Look out for more work here! Priya is thinking more about vis practitioners, how vis can mislead, and tensions of open government datasets. I'm building more methods and ways we can safely and rigorously study participatory visual culture at the nexus of information disorder.

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And I'm just so so grateful to @katestarbird.bsky.social for supporting this work. We learned so much writing this paper that we have now applied to all of our other papers! And we would not have gotten the award without Kate's master writing touches!!!

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We then look at the journeys that these data visualizations go on -- and how they are remixed with re-creation but also how they jump platforms and are even photo-edited! It's a ride through a fun OSINT journey of how we assembled these lineages.

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This is the first empirical work to come out of my larger anti-immigrant propaganda project! We focus on what frames and claims are made in data visualizations, and how open government units and data are confused on both sides of the aisle and lose clarity and accuracy.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

It was such an honor to co-lead this paper w/ @priyadhawka.bsky.social. We do a fun mix of our research here -- looking at the visual participatory nature of data visualizations and the non-neutral underpinnings and infrastructures of the (open) data and actors behind them. (thread)

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For Seattle folks… I’m giving a talk tonight at Obec Brewery (6:30) about science funding, the history of human computer interaction, and the future of AI. I’m off the clock, so I may get a little spicier than usual. If you’re around, please come!

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Hi Seattle! Come see my talk on the history of human-computer interaction. I'll explain U.S. gov funding of science has led to many of the innovations that power our economy & shape our lives — and call out the short-sightedness & hypocrisy of efforts to defund science in this field & so many others

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Nina Lutz @ninalutz.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Happy refresh email for CSCW 2026 results for all who celebrate.

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Nina Lutz @ninalutz.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Does your work explore mis/disinformation, scams, hate speech, or other forms of harmful information online? We are convening a CSCW workshop to bring together a global community focused on information disorder. We welcome short submissions, due August 8th. cscw2025infodisorder.netlify.app

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Interesting new study from researchers at the UW Center for an Informed Public finds that AI-generated persuasive messaging (AI-Pasta) is more effective in key ways (e.g. creating a false sense of consensus) and harder to detect than traditional CopyPasta.

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Nina Lutz @ninalutz.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Join us online or in person in Bergen, Norway!

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Really excited to draw attention to this dissertation by Melinda McClure Haughey (@melm.cc‬). Melinda's research explored collaborative infrastructure for supporting the "sensemaking" work of journalists working on high-stakes, fast-paced & often data-driven beats. www.melm.cc/research/dis...

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Melinda's Dissertation: Truth-Seeking as Collaborative Work

In moments of uncertainty, journalists help the public make sense. This research shows how that work depends on expert networks and systems that too often fail when they need to move fast and what it ...

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

We’ve seen this repeatedly. QAnon. COVID denial. Election lies. War crimes denial. In each case, the problem wasn’t just what people believed, it was how those beliefs hardened into identity and made correction impossible.

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Laura Kurek @lkurek.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Does your work explore mis/disinformation, scams, hate speech, or other forms of harmful information online? We are convening a CSCW workshop to bring together a global community focused on information disorder. We welcome 2-6 page submissions, due August 1. cscw2025infodisorder.netlify.app

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Nina Lutz @ninalutz.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Trying to write about anti-immigrant visual propaganda nothing to see here.

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Joey Schafer @schafer.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

“The net effect of these technological forms has been to nudge us into seeing one another as the machines see us: fungible, expendable parcels of data open to classification and judgment.” Another fabulous blog post from @aidanwalker.bsky.social howtodothingswithmemes.substack.com/p/fossil-foo...

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fossil footprints & phone phenomenology

how production colonized play

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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Trump operates almost uniformly in the epistemology of spectacle. Entertainment. Theatrics. Images of chaos in the streets of major U.S. cities is exactly what this administration wants. It reinforces the conflation of “urban” with “violence” like this is where lawlessness reigns.

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Amy J. Ko @amyko.phd · 31/05/2025

The administration’s vision of science in America is that we do 75% less of it. That means more death, less progress, more ignorance, fewer experts, fewer educated people, all to make billionaires wealthier.

A table showing 75% cuts to senior researchers, postpone, graduate students, undergraduates, teachers, and youth.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 31/05/2025

It’s Fustilarian Friday again. This week: NSF all but abolished in the President’s proposed budget.

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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 31/05/2025

The goal is plainly and literally to cut the number of people involved in basic science in the US by 70%

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Here’s something we can all do: every time we see something about the Trump administration’s attacks on science — and the impacts of those attacks — boost it. People, and even faculty, have no idea how bad it is and how much worse it’s going to get. We need to let people know…

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Perhaps relevant as scientists weather a range of attacks, our team (led by UW research scientist Rachel Moran) published a paper describing how a slew of public records requests impacted our work & what that means for collaborative research in adversarial spaces & times: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

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And I guess the last last thing of this musing is I really recommend Becker's Sociological Work: Methods and Substance. It's been fundamental for my thoughts around methods, why I want to do research, the role research should have, etc in these...very interesting times to be trying to do research.

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I didn't have an endpoint with this per see, just musings, but I have seen so many people doubling down and being dedicated to continuing their work and standing with colleagues to support them. And I just hope that changes, for the better, how we do research as people for publics.

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I also just think this type of embedded nature will emerge from living and still doing research in this time (albeit more slowly because for some reason focus has not been on high the last few months...wonder why) -- and this will result in new bridges and methods formed.

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One thing it has me thinking on is how collaborations and data restrictions may emerge concurrently in this time and inspire new methods and a slow down of deep work with intent. I hope this time will make the research community come together to do this innovation as we support each other.