Excited to see @aoir.bsky.social conducting a multilingual conference! I hope this can provide a model for others like @facct.bsky.social and @4sweb.bsky.social!
October 15, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Excited to see @aoir.bsky.social conducting a multilingual conference! I hope this can provide a model for others like @facct.bsky.social and @4sweb.bsky.social!
Academic books are notorious for boring endings, but @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social hit it out of the park! The last chapter of #TheAICon is full of actionable (pro-labor!) steps for standing up to Big Tech's hype.
Fight silliness with silliness!
Fight silliness with silliness!
September 2, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Academic books are notorious for boring endings, but @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social hit it out of the park! The last chapter of #TheAICon is full of actionable (pro-labor!) steps for standing up to Big Tech's hype.
Fight silliness with silliness!
Fight silliness with silliness!
A reminder to @aaup.org faculty to be allies to your grad student worker unions! It has been devastating to see @stanford.edu "justice-oriented" aaup faculty and deans complaining about and belittling union movements on campus.
I'm proud that @aaup.org has been on the front lines fighting this administration's abuses. Trump is, indeed, an aggressively anti-labor president, despite the "workers party now" bs.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Opinion | Trump Is Wiping Out Unions. Why Are They So Quiet?
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM
A reminder to @aaup.org faculty to be allies to your grad student worker unions! It has been devastating to see @stanford.edu "justice-oriented" aaup faculty and deans complaining about and belittling union movements on campus.
I am so excited to host a panel with @ajalvero.bsky.social at #4S2025! If you're around next Saturday, join us for discipline-blending sessions and conversation under the theme of "Writing Things Down: Textual Technologies and their Consequences." @4sweb.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I am so excited to host a panel with @ajalvero.bsky.social at #4S2025! If you're around next Saturday, join us for discipline-blending sessions and conversation under the theme of "Writing Things Down: Textual Technologies and their Consequences." @4sweb.bsky.social
An #AI story: While going through #TSA at @flysfo.bsky.social I noticed that the facial recognition was not working on the Black man in front of me. The agent asked him again and again to get closer.
August 23, 2025 at 8:43 PM
An #AI story: While going through #TSA at @flysfo.bsky.social I noticed that the facial recognition was not working on the Black man in front of me. The agent asked him again and again to get closer.
The world is a mess. Need a laugh? Check out @ajalvero.bsky.social and my Linguistic Affordances Framework (LAF) for the social study of language technologies! Jokes aside, we hope this will help researchers make sense of social changes associated with new technologies.
doi.org/10.1177/0894...
doi.org/10.1177/0894...
Linguistic Affordances Framework: A Linguistic-Sociological Approach for the Social Study of Language Technology - Haley Lepp, AJ Alvero, 2025
This paper describes a three-part framework to study how language technologies elucidate and shape linguistic relations in society. Reframing a mountain of evid...
doi.org
August 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The world is a mess. Need a laugh? Check out @ajalvero.bsky.social and my Linguistic Affordances Framework (LAF) for the social study of language technologies! Jokes aside, we hope this will help researchers make sense of social changes associated with new technologies.
doi.org/10.1177/0894...
doi.org/10.1177/0894...
Grateful to @stanfordhai.bsky.social and @facct.bsky.social for highlighting our work!
Stanford researchers found that bias against non-native speakers persists even when AI tools are used, highlighting the ongoing challenges of language discrimination in academic publishing. hai.stanford.edu/news/how-lan...
How Language Bias Persists in Scientific Publishing Despite AI Tools | Stanford HAI
Stanford researchers highlight the ongoing challenges of language discrimination in academic publishing, revealing that AI tools may not be the solution for non-native speakers.
hai.stanford.edu
June 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Grateful to @stanfordhai.bsky.social and @facct.bsky.social for highlighting our work!
Reposted by Haley L.
New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance
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We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance
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Computer-vision research powers surveillance technology - Nature
An analysis of research papers and citing patents indicates the extensive ties between computer-vision research and surveillance.
www.nature.com
June 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance
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We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance
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Reposted by Haley L.
Professor Thomas Dee analyzed attendance data from five school districts in the southern Central Valley and found a spike in daily absences this past January and February. These districts, which serve over 100,000 students, saw considerable jumps in all age groups. stanford.io/3HVr6Hb
#EduSky
#EduSky
June 23, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Professor Thomas Dee analyzed attendance data from five school districts in the southern Central Valley and found a spike in daily absences this past January and February. These districts, which serve over 100,000 students, saw considerable jumps in all age groups. stanford.io/3HVr6Hb
#EduSky
#EduSky
Reposted by Haley L.
"Today nearly all states that have sales taxes offer data centers exemptions on computers, wires, air-conditioning units and, in some cases, even the energy required to keep it all running." www.cnbc.com/2025/06/20/t...
In race to attract data centers, states can forfeit hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue to tech companies
Amazon, Meta and Google are among the beneficiaries of state tax exemptions for data centers that help power AI.
www.cnbc.com
June 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
"Today nearly all states that have sales taxes offer data centers exemptions on computers, wires, air-conditioning units and, in some cases, even the energy required to keep it all running." www.cnbc.com/2025/06/20/t...
thanks Shaily!!
Go checkout Haley's paper that won best paper!!
On language ideologies in peer-review and use of LLMs for "polishing" writing. Important work, and such a good read!
"You Cannot Sound Like GPT": Signs of language discrimination and resistance in computer science publishing"
arxiv.org/abs/2505.08127
On language ideologies in peer-review and use of LLMs for "polishing" writing. Important work, and such a good read!
"You Cannot Sound Like GPT": Signs of language discrimination and resistance in computer science publishing"
arxiv.org/abs/2505.08127
June 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
thanks Shaily!!
Flattered and shocked for our paper to receive the #facct2025 best paper award.
🏆 Announcing the #FAccT2025 best paper awards! 🏆
Congratulations to all the authors of the three best papers and three honorable mention papers.
Be sure to check out their presentations at the conference next week!
facct-blog.github.io/2025-06-20/b...
Congratulations to all the authors of the three best papers and three honorable mention papers.
Be sure to check out their presentations at the conference next week!
facct-blog.github.io/2025-06-20/b...
Announcing Best Paper Awards
The Best Paper Award Committee was chaired this year by Alex Chouldechova and included six Area Chairs. The committee selected three papers for the Best Paper Award and recognized three additional pap...
facct-blog.github.io
June 21, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Flattered and shocked for our paper to receive the #facct2025 best paper award.
Brilliant presentation by @sepehrvakil.bsky.social and Mahdi Ganjavi on their new @mitpress.bsky.social book about engineering activism during the Iranian revolution. They close with this picture and caption: "faculty resists against state control over the campus"
May 30, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Brilliant presentation by @sepehrvakil.bsky.social and Mahdi Ganjavi on their new @mitpress.bsky.social book about engineering activism during the Iranian revolution. They close with this picture and caption: "faculty resists against state control over the campus"
Many are lauding the potential of ChatGPT to "help" people with their writing. Looking at writing not as a deficit to be fixed, but as a site of social interaction between writers *and* evaluators, our #facct2025 paper explores how this played out in a real life situation. arxiv.org/abs/2505.08127
"You Cannot Sound Like GPT": Signs of language discrimination and resistance in computer science publishing
LLMs have been celebrated for their potential to help multilingual scientists publish their research. Rather than interpret LLMs as a solution, we hypothesize their adoption can be an indicator of exi...
arxiv.org
May 14, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Many are lauding the potential of ChatGPT to "help" people with their writing. Looking at writing not as a deficit to be fixed, but as a site of social interaction between writers *and* evaluators, our #facct2025 paper explores how this played out in a real life situation. arxiv.org/abs/2505.08127