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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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Stevie Chancellor @schancellor.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Cheers in 9.8% MN state income tax for top earners!

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Stevie Chancellor @schancellor.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

You also cool with mostly normal but has a few beige flags? I love a good, personality-enriching beige flag.

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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 · 26/08/2026

That is so fucking metal, I love it.

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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 · 25/08/2026

WHAT? This was there a week ago! Looks like it was taken our forcefully?

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Stevie Chancellor @schancellor.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Guess you better never squat again! It's all over! :)

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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 literally just discovered a good Mutuals feed, and I think this is the antidote to my issues with Bluesky.

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Stevie Chancellor @schancellor.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Still rocking my "But Her Emails" hat, exposing the hypocrisy of this whole situation....

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Stevie Chancellor @schancellor.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I'm trying to unfollow all the news accounts that are clogging my feed. I want more human content, not news!

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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

AI systems need more robust crisis detection protocols, discourage delusional and harmful thinking, and refuse to give advice on how to harm themselves, period. Adam deserved better than platitudes about the imperfections of AI and safeguards failing.

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Stevie Chancellor @schancellor.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

I've spent over a decade studying severe mental illness, AI, and social media. These risks were documented as early as 2016 in my own work about severe mental illness, social media, and algorithms! Since 2016! We knew that AI systems could propagate this.

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Stevie Chancellor @schancellor.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

It's heartbreaking doing research on the abstract risks of algorithms, social media, and AI - I've been doing that for years. But it's a whole other level of upsetting to see them manifest in real time.

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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

8) Want more details on our FAccT paper? Find it here: github.com/jlcmoore/llm... And join me on my substack to follow along! notatechdemo.substack.com

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GitHub - jlcmoore/llms-as-therapists

Contribute to jlcmoore/llms-as-therapists development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Stevie Chancellor @schancellor.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

7) This blog post summarizes our recent FAccT paper about mental health, chatbot safety, and therapeutic practices. But, I also reflect on my decade in therapy and what I've learned. It's not safe and not ready for replacing a therapist - it can't replace the messy process of healing.

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Stevie Chancellor @schancellor.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

6) And last week, I posted about why AI can't replace your therapist. notatechdemo.substack.com/p/why-ai-can... The results are concerning: chatbots gave bridge heights to suicidal users and confirmed peoples' delusions. Chatbots also miss the human connection and vulnerability for progress.

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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 · 12/08/2025

5) So, in short - I'm skeptical. We're asking people to self-regulate something they don't understand. By the time someone is having a delusional conversation with a chatbot... a skippable timer isn't going to help. That's like jumping in front of a boulder rushing down a hill.

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Stevie Chancellor @schancellor.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

4) But I did a study in 2016 about skippable nudges like this on Instagram and dangerous mental health communities. Content on hashtags with the skippable nudges of graphic content had more dangerous mental health content go up over time.

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Stevie Chancellor @schancellor.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

3) I dive into the meta-analysis of why screen timers have very small effects mental health or other measures of well-being. Truly, use time is a very imprecise measure of what it means to "use" tech. Maybe AI would be different, and timers with skip-thru to chat options would work.

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Stevie Chancellor @schancellor.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

2) First, fresh up this week - do gentle timers get people to stop using ChatGPT in unsafe ways? notatechdemo.substack.com/p/will-timer... OpenAI released a timer/nudge feature to stop long sessions. They say it was to support more compassionate use. But is that the case?

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Will Timers Really Save Us from Runaway AI Use? What the Science Says

What screen timer research shows about AI safety and ChatGPT’s latest features.

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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

My first welcome post went live yesterday. 🎉🎉🎉 If you're interested in research-backed takes on AI, practical productivity ideas, or just want to follow along as I figure out Substack, I'd love to have you come join

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Stevie Chancellor @schancellor.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Here's what you'll get - ➡️ Cautiously optimistic takes on AI ➡️ Ideas on how we can fix social media to support mental health ➡️ Behind-the-scenes of how to be a writer/professor ➡️ Honest thoughts about building technology that actually helps humans instead of being over-hyped

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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

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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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Stevie Chancellor @schancellor.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

No way! Agre is so good. If you enjoy his writing style, Computation and Human Experience is dense and GREAT. But not a starting piece of his, hah.

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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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Stevie Chancellor @schancellor.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Why is there no :slams head into the desk: emoji. Seriously, though - a major issue is the collection/public dissemination, amplification of "false privacy" claims, and contextual mismatch of the intentions of Discord communities and the release of the dataset without guards on who may access it.

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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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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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