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Lauren Chambers

@laurenmarietta.bsky.social

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still chasing the high that was space tw*tter circa 2018 💔 year 5 phd studying advocacy technology at @berkeleyischool.bsky.social formerly @aclum.bsky.social🗽, @stsci.edu 🛰️ laurenmarietta.github.io

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Lauren Chambers @laurenmarietta.bsky.social · Nov 10

I had the immense pleasure of watching @safiyanoble.bsky.social speak on Friday at the #PublicInterestTechnology university network summit ( #PIT-UN ), and I'm still thinking about the clarity of the diagnosis she laid out for how we got here:

Tech companies have parasitized the public good. 1/n

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Lauren Chambers @laurenmarietta.bsky.social · Jun 25

getting excited for my #FAccT2025 tutorial - today 5 pm Athens time!

I'm sharing new work with @berkeleyischool.bsky.social's awesome Prof. Diag Davenport: "Public Interest Tech (PIT) Clinics as Applied Sociotechnical Pedagogy."

the idea: bring real-world experience & impact into tech education 💫

title slide for tutorial presentation reading "public interest tech (pit) clinics as applied sociotechnical pedagogy: practice tutorial, FAccT 2025, Athens, Greece; by Lauren M. Chambers and Diag Davenport, UC Berkeley, June 25, 2025."

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Collective Action in Tech @techactions.bsky.social · Jun 9

Join us at #FAccT2025 for the AI Workers’ Inquiry CRAFT workshop, where workers, organizers, and labor experts will explore how AI is transforming our workplaces and discuss strategies for collective resistance. RSVP and more info: ai-workers-inquiry.github.io

AI WORKERS' INQUIRY

AI Workers' Inquiry is a FAccT 2025 CRAFT workshop that brings together workers, organizers, and labor experts to explore how AI is transforming our workplaces and discuss strategies for collective re...

ai-workers-inquiry.github.io

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Marissa Kumar Gerchick @mkgerchick.bsky.social · Jun 21

Excited to be at #FAccT2025 and honored to see our work “auditing the audits” resulting from one of the first enacted AI laws in the U.S. received an honorable mention! I’ll be presenting this work on Wednesday at 11 AM Athens time: programs.sigchi.org/facct/2025/p...

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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · Mar 5

With @goldmanschool.bsky.social, we're thrilled to announce the launch of the Executive Fellowship in Applied Technology Policy, a pioneering program designed to empower senior leaders at the intersection of technology and public policy. #PublicInterestTech
www.ischool.berkeley.edu/news/2025/uc...

UC Berkeley Launches Executive Fellowship in Applied Technology Policy

UC Berkeley’s School of Information and Goldman School of Public Policy proudly announce the launch of the Executive Fellowship in Applied Technology Policy, a pioneering program designed to empower s...

www.ischool.berkeley.edu

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Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social · Dec 11

The really grim reality is that this is really not just about kids - there are countless adults, often adult *professionals*(doctors, lawyers, teachers(!)) that use ChatGPT this way. And I can understand why - there's no warning on the box! Few truly understand the tech's very real limitations.

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · Jul 6

Well this is grim

weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt

and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here"

the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine

with the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world

but with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED

this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me.

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he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood

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it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors

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Lauren Chambers @laurenmarietta.bsky.social · Dec 2

Thank you for the heads up! Just reported and blocked 🫡

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Shobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org · Dec 1

Fantastic piece on the history of race science: "It has become common to belittle the humanities for their irrelevance to the modern world....Yet perhaps the most important part of our method is not only to argue for better answers but also to ask whether our questions are in fact the right ones."

Spooooky Suman Seth @alltoosuman.bsky.social · Nov 29

Hello All, I have an essay out in the LA Review of Books, on ‘The Politics of Pigmentation.’

lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

Huge thanks to @emilam.bsky.social, John Jackson Jr, Bill Jordan, and the Cornell STS group for comments.

The Politics of Pigmentation | Los Angeles Review of Books

In the sixth essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Suman Seth explores the anti-history of the evolution of whiteness.

lareviewofbooks.org

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Marianne Dhenin @mariannedhe.bsky.social · Nov 23

@ufw.bsky.social posts around Thanksgiving are some of the best. These farm workers ought to be on everyone's mind at that dinner table.

United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · Nov 23

Parsley can be used to season your Thanksgiving stuffing and soup. Vicente and his coworkers are hard at work harvesting the crop. They tell us the repetitive work is very hard on the body and takes skill to do at the rapid pace needed. #WeFeedYou

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daanis @daanis.ca · Nov 22

Dana El Kurd created this starter pack.

go.bsky.app/SNvMPk3

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · Nov 17

I started a #NativesinSTEM starter pack. If you want to be added, tell me a little bit about yourself, including who your people are and what you study

go.bsky.app/4hoZMPV

@taramcallister.bsky.social I'll try to figure out how to turn this into a feed too.

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Lauren Chambers @laurenmarietta.bsky.social · Nov 19

does bluesky work for conferences yet...?

well, I'm already having the most amazing time at the 3rd Data for Black Lives #D4BL conference in Miami. truly Yeshi Milner and Fallon Wilson made me cry during the opening keynote, sooo 🥲

plus, excited + nervous for my workshop tomorrow! come say hi!

title slide from a workshop presentation: "what can data do for advocacy? learning from public interest technologists." dated November 19, 2024. Logos for the Berkeley School of Information and Data for Black Lives

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Read the book Starting Somewhere @jphillll.bsky.social · Nov 18

Reason number one thousand to never support Elon Musk: he's helping lead the charge against worker power.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · Nov 18

Today, attorneys for SpaceX and Amazon are arguing before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that the National Labor Relations Board is unconstitutional.

Both companies had been found in violation of workers' rights by the NLRB.

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Lauren Chambers @laurenmarietta.bsky.social · Nov 18

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Lauren Chambers @laurenmarietta.bsky.social · Nov 18

AYYYYYYYYYY

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Nasser @nasser.wiki · Nov 13

✨ My first starter pack! It's a WIP, I'll definitely be adding to it.

But check this list out for Very Cool People who are alumni of fellowships like the Ford/Mozilla Open Web and Open Science fellowships and the Media Democracy Fund's TechExchange program (which I was part of!) go.bsky.app/MP12ryM

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Daniel Solove @daniel-solove.bsky.social · Nov 14

Privacy Law Starter Pack

Check back from time to time, as I will plan to keep this updated. And ping me if you want to be added.

bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Lauren Chambers @laurenmarietta.bsky.social · Nov 15

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League of Women Voters of San Francisco @lwvsf.bsky.social · Nov 12

New to Bluesky? We've made a starter pack of news, press, media, and journalists that have a strong San Francisco beat. The list is local and probably won't include national outlets.

It's a work in progress, so if there's a local outlet or journo we missed, let us know! go.bsky.app/AfazoPy

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Cameo Wood 🔛 Pagecraft 🔛 Stowe Story Lab @cameowood.com · Nov 11

SF Friends - Here’s a great starter pack of SF news outlets and journalists! go.bsky.app/UM68SJF

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Lauren Chambers @laurenmarietta.bsky.social · Nov 15

Dr. Raven the Science Maven @ravenscimaven.bsky.social · Nov 14

We had to make a form to handle the incoming responses. Here it is. Share it. Our immediate needs are marketing experts, 5th grade teachers, app developers, and grantwriters/fundraisers. An IP attorney as well. We've made great progress. We have 67 days.

Communications Working Group Interest Form

Please click the link to complete this form.

form.jotform.com

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Mina Markham @minamarkh.am · Nov 13

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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Lauren Chambers @laurenmarietta.bsky.social · Nov 12

my cute pandemic hobby of editing wikipedia has started to feel more and more like a radical political activity as I keep reading and correcting endlessly horrible takes on Israel 🙃 like come on people, just say the word Palestine !!! not hard !!

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · Nov 11

Local woman stays just informed enough to be angry and sad all the time

ST. JOHN’S -- Local marketing consultant Ashley McEwan is focusing on her own emotional well-being by reading precisely enough news to be filled with pervasive existential dread at all times.

thebeaverton.com

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Lauren Chambers @laurenmarietta.bsky.social · Nov 10

would love to be included if there's room for a phd student! still working out the details but definitely studying PIT :)

Lauren Chambers @laurenmarietta.bsky.social · Nov 10

It's not clear how long we can persevere like this. Programs are being cancelled, people are burning out.

But, in @safiyanoble.bsky.social's words, #PublicInterestTech has nothing more to lose over the next four years. 🤷🏽‍♀️

No better time to strap in, dream big, push hard, and build.
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