Joel Chan
joelchan86.bsky.social
Joel Chan
@joelchan86.bsky.social
Professing #hci #cognitivescience #creativity #toolsforthought #metascience at UMD iSchool and HCIL

#firstgen #immigrant (to USA from Malaysia) academic

Also following #scicomm #openscience #sts #histsci #histtech

Also on Mastodon: [email protected]
Curious how this experiment fares by the criteria laid out here: users.eecs.northwestern.edu/~jhullman/in...
October 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Reposted by Joel Chan
What matters is the relationship between your claims, evidence and inference. You probably can’t do this with p<.05, but you certainly can by holding a fernandina tortoise.
October 10, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Reposted by Joel Chan
I *literally* wrote a book about all this, and I'm just so tired. We've been trying to get people to pay attention for over ten years.
Gaming Democracy
From #Gamergate to the ongoing Big Lie, the far right has gone mainstream. In Gaming Democracy, Adrienne Massanari tracks the flames of toxicity found in the...
mitpress.mit.edu
September 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
September 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Led to them setting policy to cap submissions to… 6? Per person? And double down on prohibiting AI use in grant writing. This is all from my memory of a conversation, so cross-check as you will, but checks out and makes me … really angry.
August 30, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Uggghhhhhhh

Also just heard today abt a single NIH study section getting flooded with 91 AI-generated grant proposals from a single PI
August 28, 2025 at 11:19 PM
This looks really useful!!
July 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Reposted by Joel Chan
Seems to me it matters that we stop trying to unify science around shared immediate objectives beyond basic norms (such as honesty and integrity), and have communities locally set their priorities and actively work toward them. Such pluralism will provide fertile grounds for learning and progress.
July 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Call for papers and position statements is here, and closing this Friday July 11: human-ai-sensemaking.github.io

Please consider submitting, and share widely with your networks!
Beyond Chat: Visual Languages for Embodied Human-LLM Interaction in Sensemaking
An IEEE VL/HCC 2025 workshop
human-ai-sensemaking.github.io
July 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
At its best, this work can connect still with social-science critique in a "build from the critique" arc/cycle.

I am trying to work on this now with critiques of infrastructure reform from a social science of infrastructure perspective, and prospectively designing/building from those critiques.
July 8, 2025 at 7:40 PM