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Nate Fast @natefast.bsky.social · Jun 4

Congratulations to each of the honorees and their advisors!

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Nate Fast @natefast.bsky.social · Jun 4

Learn more about their dissertation topics here:
psychoftech.substack.com/p/congratula...

Congratulations to the 2025 Psychology of Technology Dissertation Award Winners

We are thrilled to now announce this year's award winners and honorable mentions, who were selected from our most competitive pool of applicants ever

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Nate Fast @natefast.bsky.social · Jun 4

Winners: Benjamin Lira Luttges @lirabenjamin.bsky.social sky.social, Dan-Mircea Mirea @danmirea.bsky.social, Luisa Fassi @fassiluisa.bsky.social

Honorable mentions: Claire E. Robertson @crobertson500.bsky.social, Thomas Scheurer‬, Michael Geers @michaelgeers.bsky.social

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Nate Fast @natefast.bsky.social · Jun 4

The six outstanding scholars we acknowledge below have produced work with significant implications for how we understand technology's impact on human cognition, mental health, and decision-making.

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Nate Fast @natefast.bsky.social · Jun 4

We're excited to announce the 2025 Psychology of Technology Dissertation Award winners! Please join us in congratulating them!

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Shannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social · Dec 5

We asked people in 8 countries 🇦🇷🇧🇷🇩🇪🇯🇵🇪🇸🇰🇷🇬🇧🇺🇸 how they use platforms and their views on platform governance, privacy, & misinformation. We find overall platform ambivalence - people use platforms for news & info about politics, but they're also skeptical of the information they see there. 1/

Waqas Ejaz @waqasejaz.bsky.social · Nov 28

📢In our new report, co-authored with @richardfletcher.bsky.social, @rasmuskleis.bsky.social, & @shannimcg.bsky.social, we examine how people in🇦🇷🇧🇷🇩🇪🇯🇵🇪🇸🇰🇷🇬🇧🇺🇸 use platforms and their views on platform governance, privacy, & misinformation.

We find evidence of ‘platform ambivalence’, and a lot more (1/5).

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Nate Fast @natefast.bsky.social · Dec 4

Link to pdf: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zotvy...

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Nate Fast @natefast.bsky.social · Dec 4

Happy to share this piece I wrote for the SF Chronicle on how we can have more productive, respectful political conversations. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Yes, Americans are divided. But it doesn’t have to be this way

Under the right conditions, we are surprisingly capable of communicating and co-existing across difference.

www.sfchronicle.com

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Nate Fast @natefast.bsky.social · Nov 15

This is a thoughtful thread, thanks

Eli Pariser @eli.bsky.social · Nov 15

I started a collective document of the best post-election reads (link at the end of the thread). Here’s what I’ve found most illuminating. I’m curious how these working thoughts resonate with others and what you think I’m most missing:

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William J. Brady @williambrady.bsky.social · Nov 12

@elijfinkel.bsky.social and @nourkteily.bsky.social are hiring a postdoc for their new Center for Enlightened Disagreement: facultyrecruiting.northwestern.edu/apply/MjI3Nw==

Come join an amazing group of interdisciplinary researchers at Northwestern U, Kellogg School of Management!

Northwestern Faculty Search -

facultyrecruiting.northwestern.edu

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · Nov 10

Looking for people to follow? Here’s a directory of 4,500 starter packs which you can search by keyword! blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

All - Bluesky Directory

A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.

blueskydirectory.com

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New_ Public @newpublic.org · Nov 12

Welcome new followers! If you're new to us, we're a nonprofit R&D lab trying to reimagine social media. We think every community in America deserves a healthy digital public space.

More on our three main focuses below!

New_ Public

We are researchers, engineers, designers, and community leaders working together to create digital public spaces where people can thrive and connect.

newpublic.org

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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · Nov 12

Now anyone in LA can hail a Waymo robotaxi

Waymo has opened its robotaxi service to everyone in Los Angeles, sunsetting a waitlist that had grown to 300,000 people. The Alphabet-backed company said starting Tuesday anyone can download the Waymo One app to hail a ride in its service area, which is…

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · Nov 9

Really fantastic paper led by Zarine Kharazian about governance capture within self-governing communities, featuring a case study of the Croatian language Wikipedia community. Zarine will be presenting at CSCW this week.

Zarine Kharazian @zarine.net · Nov 9

i guess "governance capture" may be kind of relevant these days... i'll be at CSCW this week presenting our paper with @mako.cc and @katestarbird.bsky.social exploring why some self-governing online communities are more vulnerable to capture than others: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Governance Capture in a Self-Governing Community: A Qualitative Comparison of the Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, and Serbo-Croatian Wikipedias | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

What types of governance arrangements make some self-governed online groups more vulnerable to disinformation campaigns? We present a qualitative comparative analysis of the Croatian and Serbian Wikip...

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David Lazer @davidlazer.bsky.social · Nov 12

New job post at Northeastern! on AI governance. Hope to have some CSS applicants.

northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Full Professor in AI Governance

About the Opportunity The College of Social Sciences and Humanities and its nine tenure units are the home of the Experiential Liberal Arts. Through its research, teaching, and engagement missions, th...

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Nate Fast @natefast.bsky.social · Nov 12

Ten charts showing tech diffusion by @azeem.bsky.social GenAI adoption is off to a faster start than the internet and computers (Fig 4)
www.exponentialview.co/p/10-charts-...

🔮 Ten charts to understand the Exponential Age

This week marks the 500th edition of the Sunday newsletter.

www.exponentialview.co

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