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Stevie Chancellor

@schancellor.bsky.social
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Assistant prof at UMN CS. Human-centered AI, online communities, risky mental health behaviors. Mom, lifter, nerd, haver of opinions.

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Stevie Chancellor @schancellor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Where's everyone who seemed to care about academic integrity a few weeks ago, with yet another revelation about data fraud for someone who's consistently been tied to retracted papers? Seems awfully strange to me...
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Stevie Chancellor @schancellor.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I have so many thoughts on last week's settlement about Meta and design. Why are these features only available to teens? Why do we have to put everything behind shitty age gating tech that doesn't actually work? Why can't we get some accountability built into legislation??? Argh!
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Michael Ann, sociotechnical femme @michaelann.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The best way to "affirm" trans identity as an ally is to provide material support. Go help your girls get healthcare, it's a million times more helpful than than being an unlimited source of "yaaaas" and "you're SO brave" in conversation.
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Stevie Chancellor @schancellor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
TIM CURRY AND DOLLY IN THE SAME WEEK I CAN'T TOLERATE THIS.
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Stevie Chancellor @schancellor.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
How does the two weeks preceding the semester feel the sprint-y-est of them all?? 💀
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Stevie Chancellor @schancellor.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I wrote a blog that's a syllabus for first year professors! What I wish I had when I started. Here's 11 books, organized by the roles profs actually do, to get you through year one. notatechdemo.substack.com/p/11-books-f...
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11 Books For Your First Year as a New Professor
The syllabus for new faculty I wish someone had handed me six weeks before I started.
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Stevie Chancellor @schancellor.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I'm missing OG Twitter and the academic conversations. LinkedIn kind of sucks for that, and Substack Notes are mostly talking to other writers, not to professors. Where do I go to hang out with my friends between conferences? Is it here?? Where is my 2026 equivalent where I post AIM away messages?
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Sarah Gilbert @sarahagilbert.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
If you're following this story in the NYT by @kashhill.bsky.social, I recommend @schancellor.bsky.social's post that breaks down why AI is bad at therapy. Pretty much everything she she warns about shows up in this story, which is heartbreaking notatechdemo.substack.com/p/why-ai-can...
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Why AI Can’t Replace Your Therapist
What happens when people turn to chatbots instead of humans for healing?
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Stevie Chancellor @schancellor.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
What is it going to take to get companies to care about this and do something? It's been a tough day reading this great report by @kashhill.bsky.social on the risks of chatbots. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...
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A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In.
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Stevie Chancellor @schancellor.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Hi friends! I've been writing about AI safety and mental health. Two articles up lately - What data about screen timers tell us about chatbot timers, and - Why chatbots can't replace your therapist. Brief 🧵to summarize, find both here - notatechdemo.substack.com
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This Is Not a Tech Demo | Stevie Chancellor | Substack
Honest takes on AI, mental health, social media, and what it means to live well. From a CS professor who studies the intersection professionally and navigates it personally. Click to read This Is Not ...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 10/08/2025
"We have Trivial Pursuit now, so if you’d just give it a try, maybe you’d realize that this vacation can still be saved. So sit down, shut up, and tell me who Gerald Ford’s vice president was."
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Can You Believe This Cabin Has Trivial Pursuit?
Kids, come quick! While this little cabin may not have Wi-Fi, TV, or even bathrooms, you know what it does have? A well-worn copy of Trivial Pursui...
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Stevie Chancellor @schancellor.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
The best place to find me now is on Substack for long-form writing! ✨📬👋 (insert self-promo emojis here) Seriously though. I started a Substack. It’s called This Is Not a Tech Demo. I'm writing about AI, mental health, social media, and how to live better with tech. 🔗 notatechdemo.substack.com
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This Is Not a Tech Demo | Stevie Chancellor | Substack
Honest takes on AI, mental health, social media, and what it means to live well. From a CS professor who studies the intersection professionally and navigates it personally. Click to read This Is Not ...
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
The thing about interdisciplinary work is everyone gets to misunderstand you from a unique angle
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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I've been working on something! It's not nearly done yet, but I thought no need to gatekeep the work in progress. This is an AI ethics "syllabus" based on a post-hoc curation of hundreds of short form videos I've made for social media, to make the content more accessible. bit.ly/ai-ethics-sy...
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AI Ethics with Professor Casey
AI Ethics with Professor Casey bit.ly/ai-ethics-syllabus For nearly five years, I've (Casey Fiesler aka Professor Casey) been creating social media content (largely on TikTok and Instagram) about art...
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Stevie Chancellor @schancellor.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
New blog (by me!) finding research identity with Agre's Critical Technical Practice: medium.com/@stevie-chan... CTP taught me my interdisciplinary #hcai work was a powerful strategy to build socially-relevant AI. I hope others embrace the cross-cutting identity as much as Agre helped me to.
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From Magic 8 Ball to Prism: Phil Agre and Critical Technical Practice
Why AI research needs people who can both build systems and critique them — a lesson from 1997 that’s still relevant
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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Tip for PhD applicants reaching out to prospective advisors: Don’t use an LLM to write these emails. It’s not a great first impression to express your admiration for a recent paper the faculty member published if that paper does not exist.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 21/05/2025
"It just really comes as a shock that such accomplished intellectuals, who’ve spent their entire careers pushing the upper bounds of human achievement, could be judgy about a machine that runs the entirety of human imagination through a shredder and glues together what comes out."
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A Company Reminder for Everyone to Talk Nicely About the Giant Plagiarism Machine
Hey team. It’s your CEO. I know your time is valuable, so I’ll cut right to the chase: It’s come to my attention that some of you have been bad-mou...
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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Another week, another research ethics controversy. TL;DR Researchers released a public dataset of 2B+ messages from 4M+ users on 3k+ "public" Discord servers. Usernames/IDs are anonymized. But let's unpack this one... 🧵 www.404media.co/researchers-...
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Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online
A Brazilian team used Discord’s API to scrape 10% of its open servers.
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The Needling @theneedling.com · 09/05/2025
ICE Deports Mariner Moose Back to Canada: tinyurl.com/vswvxhrr
ICE agents escorting Mariner Moose out of T-Mobile Park with hooves behind his back
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 06/05/2025
"Finally—finally!—we can reroute those dangerous funds from writing workshops and elementary school jazz ensembles into more important things. Like tax breaks for billionaires. And tanks."
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Phew, for a Minute There, I Thought the Arts Were Going to Get Too Much Funding
“Dozens of US arts organizations have been notified that offers of government grants have been terminated, hours after Donald Trump proposed elimin...
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Thinking about devastating cuts to NSF: US gov-funded science has been the engine upon which most of the tech wealth was generated. But the oligarchs (currently hoarding much of that $) think it’s their own brilliance & not the accident of standing close to the scientific engine that made them rich.
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Jared Moore @jaredlcm.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
🧵I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be going to @facct.bsky.social this June to present timely work on why current LLMs cannot safely **replace** therapists. We find...⤵️
A screenshot of the title of the paper, "Expressing stigma and inappropriate responses prevents LLMs from safely replacing mental health providers."
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Stevie Chancellor @schancellor.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I wrote up a take about how the Trump Administration's pressure on NIH to cute indirect costs to 15% will stifle American scientific leadership and hurt American jobs. Please share this broadly - this issue transcends my normal scientist friends. medium.com/@stevie-chan...
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Cutting Indirect Costs for Universities Hurts Americans
Or why the NIH’s proposed cut on indirect costs to 15% will cost American jobs and hamper the US’s scientific leadership.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 15/02/2025
"You want to stop, but the amount of time and energy you’ve put into this makes it hard to quit."
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Elden Ring or Tenure-Track Professor?
1. You’ve invested an enormous amount of time and energy, and you still have no idea what is happening. 2. Everybody you meet speaks in half riddle...
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Science Magazine @science.org · 10/02/2025
Breaking news: 22 states are suing to block NIH’s cutting of indirect costs. See our updated story on the Friday night news and its aftermath. scim.ag/4hTJQ6v
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NIH slashes overhead payments for research, sparking outrage and lawsuit
Move to cut indirect cost rate to 15% could cost universities billions of dollars
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 09/02/2025
Vought is giving big banks and giant corporations the green light to scam families. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has returned over $21 billion to families cheated by Wall Street. Republicans have failed to gut it in Congress and in the courts. They will fail again.
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Here are some facts about "facilities and administrative" (F&A) costs, what we in the business call "indirects" and what Musk is calling "overhead" as he tries to convince Americans with being ok with cutting billions on dollars from medical and public health research at universities & hospitals 1/
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Mark Dredze @mdredze.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Idea for GenAI app: rewrite click bait headlines to normal headlines in the browser. Input: you’ll never guess this one company organizing the best deals of the year Output: Amazon has a modest sale on phone chargers
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
An absolutely shocking timeline showing how an Alaska sexual assault defendant has been able to prevent his case from going to trial since 2014 by getting judges to approve more than 70 delays so far. @propublica.org @adn.com
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A “Horrendous” Alaska Sexual Assault Case, Delayed for a Decade
Four different judges have agreed to delay the trial more than 70 times in total. We pieced together a timeline of the delays using audio recordings and logs from every hearing.
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
same vibe
In 2011, Ramaswamy was awarded a post-graduate fellowship by the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans.[29][30] In 2023 Ramaswamy paid an editor to remove this fact from his Wikipedia entry.[31][32]
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Stevie Chancellor @schancellor.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
I'm looking forward to doing my annual review in the next two weeks - this is still the way I reflect on and set goals for the year ahead! medium.com/@stevie-chan...
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How to Reflect and Recenter with an Annual Review
I conduct an annual review of the past year to reflect, celebrate, and recenter my intentions.
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Stevie Chancellor @schancellor.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
My TEDx talk about people-centered AI and mental health is finally live! This was a really big accomplishment with a lot of work, and I'm proud of it, esp in light of conversations on social media and mental health we're having today - www.youtube.com/watch?v=H30b...
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How to create AI to improve mental health | Stevie Chancellor | TEDxMinneapolis
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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okay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Springer wrapped just dropped. My top artist is "log in via an institution to check access."
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Two stages of writing: 1) This shouldn't take too long 2) Oh no
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Stevie Chancellor @schancellor.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Sick day means I get to play with S3 and torrents. Feels like a middle school throwbacks, minus the homemade CD with a Sharpie title
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chenhaotan.bsky.social @chenhaotan.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Interested in building AI to complementing humans or understanding how AI fits with human goals? Please apply to be a postdoc UChicago DSI @dsi-uchicago.bsky.social datascience.uchicago.edu/research/pos...
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DSI Postdoctoral Scholars – DSI arrow-right-large facet-arrow-down arrow-left-smallarrow-right-large-greyarrow-right-large-yellowarrow-right-largearrow-right-long-yellowarrow-right-smallc...
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Stevie Chancellor @schancellor.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I made a starter pack for the GroupLens current faculty and students + alumni! Please reply here if I need to add you or I missed you (thanks @estellesmithphd.bsky.social and @danielrunningen.bsky.social for the idea) go.bsky.app/6AZrbC8
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Jenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwv.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
The FATE group at @msftresearch.bsky.social NYC is accepting applications for 2025 interns. 🥳🎉 For full consideration, apply by 12/18. jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo... Interested in AI evaluation? Apply for the STAC internship too! jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...
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Marissa Kumar Gerchick @mkgerchick.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
ACLU is hiring an Algorithmic Justice Fellow to work on cutting edge projects focused on digital rights! Come work with us to interrogate how automated systems are being used in high stakes areas. Please share widely! www.aclu.org/careers/appl...
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Careers at ACLU
Join our team! We’re looking for committed, passionate people for open roles at the ACLU.
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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
When I will respond to your email
Histogram peaked at 3 minutes and 2 weeks since sent
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David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
🚨Out in PNAS Nexus🚨 Content moderators can often get exposed to falsehoods In field studies with professional moderators, we show that exposure to false claims increases belief in those claims - BUT getting them to consider accuracy when exposed prevents this! academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
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Stevie Chancellor @schancellor.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The follow-energy is great, but these 30+ follower list notifications make it really hard to find friends from bots. I promise I'm not trying to side eye you!
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Discussing Bluesky migration in terms of liberal flight misses the simple fact that most people use social media for fun not influence and this platform, unlike X and cruddified Facebook, doesn’t feel like you’re wading through shit to reach your friends. It’s not that deep.
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jess reia • 何杰茜 @jhereia.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
We’re hiring at the Digital Technology for Democracy Lab: 6 postdoc fellow positions for 2 yrs in tech & democracy, broadly understood. All disciplines welcome. We sponsor visas, offer research $ and benefits. Join info sessions. Come work with me, apply by Jan 15: jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...
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Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Digital Technology for Democracy in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Research at University of Virginia
Apply for Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Digital Technology for Democracy job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Research at University of Virginia
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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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Stevie Chancellor @schancellor.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
-taptap- is this thing on? How's my outfit look for the party?
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