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Zana Buçinca @zbucinca.bsky.social · 1d

Honored to be part of the panel on Pro-Worker AI at the launch event of MIT Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work. Looking forward to it!

MIT Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work @mitshapingwork.bsky.social · 1d

📅 Join us on 11/3 as we officially launch the Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work! The half-day event will feature a series of discussions at the intersection of technology, the future of work, and inequality. See the agenda and register: shapingwork.mit.edu/events/stone...

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MIT Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work @mitshapingwork.bsky.social · 1d

📅 Join us on 11/3 as we officially launch the Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work! The half-day event will feature a series of discussions at the intersection of technology, the future of work, and inequality. See the agenda and register: shapingwork.mit.edu/events/stone...

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Aug 12

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study

Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.

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Dean Eckles @eckles.bsky.social · Aug 6

We're recruiting a new tenure-track faculty member to MIT Sloan!
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We're looking for someone doing research in quantitative marketing, broadly considered. Faculty in our group work on economics of privacy, mathematical psych, networks, and applications of ML & AI.

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Zana Buçinca @zbucinca.bsky.social · Aug 4

Congratulations, Maria!!

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Zana Buçinca @zbucinca.bsky.social · Jul 28

I second this. Many people from my generation in Kosovo can understand/speak Spanish because we grew up with subtitled Latin American telenovelas. (That was the only type of TV that Kosovo could afford right after the war.)

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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · Jul 9

The sycophantic tone of ChatGPT always sounded familiar, and then I recognized where I'd heard it before: author response letters to reviewer comments.

"You're exactly right, that's a great point!"

"Thank you so much for this insight!"

Also how it always agrees even when it contradicts itself.

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MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) @mitiwer.bsky.social · Jun 9

You might not think that forming a committee where frontline workers can share work-related health & well-being concerns would have all that much effect on a workplace.
But it can. That’s what @elkelly.bsky.social @mitiwer.bsky.social & colleagues found in a recent study: tinyurl.com/y4pej88v

The Surprising Potential of Health and Well-Being Committees | MIT Sloan

MIT Sloan Professor Erin L. Kelly, who is Co-Director of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER), found in a recent multiyear study in e-commerce warehouses that establishing Health ...

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Zana Buçinca @zbucinca.bsky.social · Jun 3

Wohoo! Congratulations to you as well, Prof. Das Swain! Thanks for co-riding the emotional roller coaster of the job market.

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Zana Buçinca @zbucinca.bsky.social · Jun 3

Thank you, Maria!!

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · Jun 2

I really dislike this sentiment re: AI impacts on education: If an assignment can be completed by AI then it is clearly just busy work; educators need to create better assignments.

Absolutely not true. Just because AI can do something too doesn't mean that doing it doesn't have pedagogical value.

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Zana Buçinca @zbucinca.bsky.social · Jun 1

Thank you so much, Michael!!

Zana Buçinca @zbucinca.bsky.social · Jun 1

Thank you, Serena!! Can’t wait for all the events and collaborations we will cook together!

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Zana Buçinca @zbucinca.bsky.social · Jun 1

Yayyy!!!! Thank you, Arvind!! Over the moon to be joining this incredible community!

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Zana Buçinca @zbucinca.bsky.social · May 31

The academic job market has many ups and downs. I am grateful to my friends and the community who spared their time to share feedback on my statements. Special thanks to: @reniebird.bsky.social, @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social, and Liz Bondi-Kelly.

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Zana Buçinca @zbucinca.bsky.social · May 31

For every achievement, I am forever indebted to my advisor ‪@kgajos.bsky.social for his brilliance, kindness, patience and the profound impact he’s had on me as a researcher and as a human being.

I also thank Finale, Elena, Jenn, Saleema and too many mentors to list here for shaping me as a scholar

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Zana Buçinca @zbucinca.bsky.social · May 31

Thrilled to share that I’ve successfully defended my PhD dissertation and I will be joining MIT as an Assistant Professor starting Fall 2026, with a shared appointment between Sloan and EECS!

I will be recruiting 1-2 PhD students this upcoming cycle. Consider applying to MIT EECS!

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Krzysztof Gajos @kgajos.bsky.social · May 15

@zbucinca.bsky.social's new paper shows that people who receive AI decision recommendations with contrastive explanations (pick A instead of B because...) grow their skills. This important because people do not learn when AI provides conventional explanations.
iis.seas.harvard.edu/papers/bucin...