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Last month, the Cultural Analytics Lecture series, a collab b/w @ucbids.bsky.social and the I School, kicked off w/ a lecture from @manvir.bsky.social, where he shared his findings on global patterns in music and storytelling.

Read about the event:
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November 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Prof. Deirdre Mulligan authored "Advancing Public Interest Technology in Computing: New Insights for the Community," a CRA paper exploring the current landscape of #PIT.

Read the full report a the 🔗: https://cra.org/advancing-public-interest-technology-in-computing-new-insights-for-the-community/
Advancing Public Interest Technology in Computing: New Insights for the Community
By Matt Hazenbush, Director of Communications and Member Engagement As digital systems become deeply embedded in everyday life, the computing research community is facing urgent questions about how…
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November 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
A MIMS project named FloodNavigator won the Chen Award, offering a community-based platform to report floods in Ghana.

This summer, teammates Leslie N. and Frances Brittingham traveled to the capital city of Accra to establish on-the-ground connections.
https://tinyurl.com/5fjpwe2s
Award-Winning Berkeley Team Tackles Flood Challenges in Ghana with Navigation App
This summer, Leslie Noye and Frances Brittingham (both MIMS ’25) traveled to Accra, Ghana, to establish connections with local resources for their award-winning flood platform — FloodNavigator.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:10 PM
ICYMI 📰 Lance Santana, MIMS student, participated in the 2025 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Data Science Challenge.

He developed deep learning models to detect and reconstruct occluded pedestrians and vehicles in driving scenes and achieved strong results. 👏 👏
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Mark your calendars for the Cybersecurity Capstone Showcase! Watch MICS students present their projects — culminating in the Lily L. Chang Capstone Award.

🗓️ Dec 10, 2025
⏰ 4:00–6:30 PM
💻 Online
🔗 https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/2025/cybersecurity-fall-2025-capstone-project-showcase
Cybersecurity Fall 2025 Capstone Project Showcase
Dec 10, 2025, 4:00 pm - Graduating MICS students present their cybersecurity projects. A panel of judges will select an outstanding project for the Lily L. Chang MICS Capstone Award.
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November 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
ICYMI 📰 Do people using medication abortion need more and different forms of social support?

Prof. Coye Cheshire published a Women's Reproductive Health study about the narratives of support in a Reddit-based abortion community following Dobbs in 2022.

Read the study 🔗 https://bit.ly/4oWMHzG
“Is This Normal?”: A Qualitative Exploration of Narratives of Social Support in a Reddit-Based Community for Abortion Following the Dobbs Leak in 2022
The months following the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization leak and subsequent decision in 2022, which removed federal legal protections of abortion, presented a challenging period for a...
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November 21, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Mark your calendars! 📅

Prof. Deirdre Mulligan will be on a panel at the SF AI Forum to explore how government can realize AI’s promise while safeguarding against its risks.

⏰ Dec. 17, 2025
📍 Koret Auditorium, SF Public Library

https://www.sf.gov/sf-ai-forum
November 19, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The DHS diverted thousands of federal agents from their normal duties to focus on arresting undocumented immigrants, a @nytimes.com investigation found.

“It’s heartbreaking,” Prof. Hany Farid said. Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/us/politics/dhs-agents-reassigned.html
Homeland Security Missions Falter Amid Focus on Deportations
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I School Ph.D. student Nikita Mehandru and Prof. @dbamman.bsky.social published a paper in @nature.com Scientific Reports about bioinformatics analysis with multi-sensing agents.

Congratulations! Read their research here.
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-25919-z#Sec1
BioAgents: Bridging the gap in bioinformatics analysis with multi-agent systems - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - BioAgents: Bridging the gap in bioinformatics analysis with multi-agent systems
www.nature.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Can you detect an AI deepfake? Take a quiz to find out!

I School Ph.D. student Sarah Barrington spoke with @nbcbayarea.com to discuss just how difficult it has become to distinguish between what’s real and AI-generated.

https://bit.ly/3JZZNga
Can you detect an AI deepfake? Take our quiz
Do you think you can tell the difference between a real person and an AI-generated clone? New research finds you probably can’t.
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November 14, 2025 at 11:06 PM
ICYMI 📰 Prof. Coye Cheshire published research titled "Using Natural Language Processing to Describe the Use of an Online Community for Abortion: Dynamic Topic Modeling Analysis of #Reddit Posts" in the JMIR.

Read the publication ➡️ https://infodemiology.jmir.org/2025/1/e72771
Using Natural Language Processing to Describe the Use of an Online Community for Abortion During 2022: Dynamic Topic Modeling Analysis of Reddit Posts
Background: Abortion access in the United States has been in a state of rapid change and increasing restriction since the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision from the US Supreme Court...
infodemiology.jmir.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
🚨We’re hiring for another fantastic position at the I School! 🚨

The I School invites applications for a tenure-track or tenured position (Asst/Assoc/Full Professor) in Digital Security, Safety & Trust. #academicsky

Apply by Nov 16, 2025

Please share widely.
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor - Digital Security, Safety, and Trust - School of Information
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
November 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Interested in pursuing graduate school?

Learn more about the Master of Information Management and Systems program and the Master of Computational Social Science degree programs! Pizza will be served!

📅 TODAY, 5-6 pm
📍 210 South Hall
November 12, 2025 at 10:06 PM
In an article with @kqednews.kqed.org, Prof. Hany Farid discussed a case in which a physician and activist was denied service by Waymo after being falsely labeled a "terrorist".

"...If it is only doing a simplistic name matching, this is inexcusable..." Farid said.

www.kqed.org/news/1206303...
Waymo, Alphabet Sued for Bias After AI Allegedly Mislabels SF Doctor as Terrorist | KQED
A San Francisco man is suing Alphabet and Waymo, claiming he was incorrectly flagged as a terrorist by AI, but humans at the companies wouldn’t clear his name.
www.kqed.org
November 11, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Happy Veterans Day to members of the I School community who have served the country. 🫡

Thank you for your service!
November 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Join us THIS FRIDAY for a Cultural Analytics Series lecture w/ the Berkeley Institute for Data Science!

@uvmvermont.bsky.social Prof. Peter Dodds will share his work on the essence of meaning, stories, and characters.

📅 Nov. 14, 12:15 - 1:30 pm
📍 210 South Hall, Online
🔗 https://bit.ly/43UpsO4
Telegnomics, Ousiometrics, and Archetypometrics
Nov 14, 2025, 12:15 pm - Data-driven, computational determination of the essence of meaning, stories, and characters, with Peter Dodds
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November 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
“Even if the ends are noble, they don’t justify the means.”

Prof. Hany Farid spoke to @404media.co about the discovery of child sexual abuse images in an AI dataset and why consent must remain central in AI research.

Read the full article at the 🔗 https://bit.ly/4oSzkA6
AI Dataset Containing Child Sexual Abuse Images is a Consent Issue, Hany Farid Says
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November 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
“People are making slop and watching slop.” 😵‍💫 🌀

I School professor Hany Farid tells @businessinsider.com why AI-generated pranks and deepfake videos are flooding the internet — and what that says about us.

Read the feature ⤵️
🔗 https://bit.ly/493Xwek
Hany Farid on the Rise of ‘AI Slop’ and Online Pranksters
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November 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Love this!
November 6, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Join Meredith Ringel Morris, Director for Human-AI Interaction Research at Google DeepMind, for the next Berkeley EECS Colloquium titled “HCI for AGI.”

🗓️ Nov 12, 2025 | 12:30–1:30 p.m.
📍 International House, UC Berkeley

View full event details at the 🔗 https://bit.ly/3WENPeL
HCI for AGI - EECS at Berkeley
Meredith Morris gives her talk, “HCI for AGI” on November 12, 2025. EECS Colloquium Wednesday, November 12, 2025 International House – 2299 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA 9472012:30 – 1:30 pm Meredith Mor...
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November 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
🧠 “Generative AI can summarize vast amounts of information—but it can also mirror the biases and errors in its data,” says Prof. Marti Hearst in Communications of the ACM.

Read more on the risks & realities of #AI-powered search:
➡️ https://bit.ly/3WDF6K0
Professor Marti Hearst Warns About Biases in AI-Powered Search Engines
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November 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
In an article with the @nytimes.com, Prof. Hany Farid talked about how AI is making death threats more realistic by generating images/sounds that simulate their victims in violent situations.

“From the perspective of identity, everyone’s vulnerable,” he said.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/b...
A.I. Is Making Death Threats Way More Realistic
www.nytimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
📰 ICYMI: Souradeep Das, MIMS student, won the main prize and a total prize of $12.5k at ETHDenver.

His project, Batch’d, enables reliable parallel transaction execution by grouping transactions without common state accesses. 🏆

Explore Batch'd at the 🔗: https://devfolio.co/projects/batchd-678a
Batch'd | Devfolio
Enabling reliable parallel transaction execution on the EVM
devfolio.co
November 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM
🚨We’re hiring for another fantastic position at the I School! 🚨

The I School invites applications for a tenure-track or tenured position (Asst/Assoc/Full Professor) in Digital Security, Safety & Trust. #academicsky

Apply by Nov 16, 2025

Please share widely.
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor - Digital Security, Safety, and Trust - School of Information
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
October 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
After OpenAI's Sora 2 release, experts began worrying about the impact of the app on disinformation.

“Anybody with a keyboard and internet connection will be able to create a video of anybody saying or doing anything they want," warned Prof. Hany Farid.

www.ischool.berkeley.edu/news/2025/op...
OpenAI’s Sora 2 Release Fans Disinformation Fears
Berkeley expert Hany Farid explains how Sora can be dangerous to the information ecosystem.
www.ischool.berkeley.edu
October 29, 2025 at 10:39 PM