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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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insidehighered.com
Career Advice | Trump Attacks Academia—and Grad Students Ask if It’s Worth Saving

It’s not just the federal government that’s telling grad students their work doesn’t matter. By Lauren Chambers and JP Flores: https://bit.ly/4wWpDnN

#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
Protesters in Washington hold signs demonstrating against cuts to scientific research. One sign in the foreground reads, "Don't bite the hand that cures you."
September 1, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Reposted by Lauren Chambers
guyintheblackhat.bsky.social
THIS
Long before the first grant was frozen, graduate students were noticing a quieter set of contradictions. They were told that teaching matters while watching excellent teachers struggle for recognition. They were encouraged to engage with the public while learning that public scholarship rarely counts toward career advancement. They were told that mentorship is central to academic culture while watching faculty who pour themselves into students get passed over for colleagues with longer publication lists. They entered science hoping to improve society and discovered that the system rewards productivity more reliably than it rewards care.
September 2, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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jpflores.rbind.io
We aren’t abandoning academia. We're asking whether academia, as currently structured, deserves our trust.

Lauren Chambers and I wrote about what it really means to “save” academia for @insidehighered.com 👇
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...

@sciforgood.bsky.social @snapcoalition.org
Grad Students Wonder if Academia Is Worth Saving (opinion)
It’s not just the federal government that’s telling grad students their work doesn’t matter.
www.insidehighered.com
September 1, 2026 at 12:23 PM
Reposted by Lauren Chambers
shahanmemon.bsky.social
Are you on academic job market for #Postdoc or #TT Assistant/Assoc. Prof/Lecturer/ #AP /Research Scholar/ #fellowship jobs for 2026-2027 in #CS/ #SocSci/ #InfoSci/ Management Science/ #Psych & similar?

Like last year, I am maintaining a list (so far ~200 positions)

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
2026-2027 Postdoc/TT/Research Scientist Positions in Information/CS/Social Science + Related Fields
docs.google.com
August 1, 2026 at 10:40 PM
laurenmarietta.bsky.social
We're having entirely too much fun. :)
oii.ox.ac.uk Oxford Internet Institute @oii.ox.ac.uk · Jul 17
The Summer Doctoral Programme, hosted by the OII with @berkeleyischool.bsky.social, is underway!

Week one saw participants presenting their doctoral research, exploring Oxford on walking tours, listening to presentations and lectures from OII faculty, and enjoying a sunny garden party.
July 22, 2026 at 12:35 PM
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paul-rottger.bsky.social
New paper w/ UK AISI:

Millions of people now use AI to help them write and communicate. In three experiments (14k participants, 3m+ human ratings) we show that AI writing assistance systematically distorts writer personas – their perceived beliefs, personality, and identity.

🧵
April 27, 2026 at 3:51 PM
laurenmarietta.bsky.social
it's the last day of #FAccT2026 in Montreal (bonjour hiii), and I'm presenting my paper with Diag Davenport on the promise of #PublicInterestTech clinics for training the next gen of critical sociotechnical thinkers.

🏆 plus we got an honorable mention!? come thru @ 10:45!
📄 tiny.cc/pit-clinics-26
screenshot of a title slide, navy background with light blue icons and white and gold text: "a decision-making pedagogy for the public interest technology clinic: putting the ‘practice’ in critical technical practice." lauren m. chambers & diag davenport, uc berkeley. facct @ montreal, june 28, 2026
June 28, 2026 at 5:30 AM
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benzevgreen.bsky.social
Super excited to share a new #FAccT2026 paper with Nel Escher and Nikola Banovic! We show that algorithm auditing policies in the US are wildly insufficient, as they don't account for how public sector algorithms actually function in practice.

dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Algorithm Auditing Policies Rest on Flawed Assumptions About Public Sector Systems | Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency
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June 26, 2026 at 2:42 PM
laurenmarietta.bsky.social
“This is the ghost at the center of our field: we keep being right, but wrong keeps winning. Being right is not the same as being enough.” #FAccT2026
abeba.blacksky.app Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · Jun 26
Charlton McIlwain makes such a poignant point at #FAccT2026: what has the decades of work that has measured, documented, & evaluated the failure and bias of AI systems done? we have known the negative impact for decades yet very little has changed
June 26, 2026 at 7:44 PM
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labortechresearchnetwork.org
ANNOUNCING OUR 2026 AWARDS! Please nominate yourself + your colleagues for our Book, Graduate Student Paper, and Social Justice Awards. More info on our website: labortechresearchnetwork.org/awards
May 1, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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distributeaid.org
🚨 Thread collecting actionable steps to help civilians in Venezuela, Venezuelan refugees fleeing to neighboring countries, and Venezuelan immigrants in the US. 🚨

✅️ Please post ideas / links, especially to local frontline groups.

❌️ Please avoid non-actions, and be cautious regarding sanctions.

👇
January 3, 2026 at 8:03 AM
laurenmarietta.bsky.social
guess the paper I'm writing based on the tabs I have open -- hard mode 😈:
1) @cfiesler.bsky.social's collection of tech ethics syllabi
2) translation of Marx as quoted, in Spanish, from Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed
3) lyrics to "Tyrone" by Erykah Badu
December 8, 2025 at 11:14 PM
laurenmarietta.bsky.social
I'm spending my PhD researching just this question of what careers in tech "for good" or "in the public interest" look like. Just published an op-ed this weekend about one option: go do tech and/or data work for a non-profit! localnewsmatters.org/2025/11/30/b...
December 3, 2025 at 2:08 AM
laurenmarietta.bsky.social
easily my favorite moment of #MozFest thus far was just listening to @schock.cc effortlessly connect the long history of globalized racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and heteropatriarchy to our current moment of AI/tech extractionism, oppression, and oligarchy 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
November 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM
laurenmarietta.bsky.social
so cool to learn that hypestudies.org exists 🚀
November 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
laurenmarietta.bsky.social
"what is an algorithm to a mother who has lost her child?"
I don't understand how @helmimouni.bsky.social and coauthors didn't win an award for this work at #CSCW2025, it's so incredibly important 🇵🇸
acm-cscw.bsky.social ACM CSCW @acm-cscw.bsky.social · Oct 12
How do activists respond when their posts vanish or views collapse overnight? A new #CSCW2025 paper maps a continuum of “algorithmic resistance,” from self-censorship to creative workarounds to policy advocacy. Read more:
The Cat Beats the Protest: Notes on Algorithmic Resistance On Social Media
You post a short video clip from the march: a teenager shoved, a chant cut short, a moment you want the world to witness. Yesterday your…
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October 21, 2025 at 10:28 AM
laurenmarietta.bsky.social
presenting my first first-author paper (!), "Beyond Big Tech: Advocacy Technologists within Mission-Driven Civil Society Organizations" at #CSCW2025 in Bergen today! my firstborn child out is in the world -- and won an impact award 🥲🏆 (!!!)

check it out: laurenmarietta.github.io/beyond-big-tech
one-page infographic PDF conveying the main takeaways from the paper, including a summary, the research questions, background, methods, results, and implications. The summary reads, "A new kind of tech worker is contributing materially to mission-driven projects from within nonprofit advocacy groups. These interdisciplinary professionals reflect shifting values and new orientations of power around tech and policy." Questions include: "(1) who are the tech experts working inside mission-driven nonprofits? (2) how do they operate in their roles? (3) what might they tell us about the shifting relationship between tech and advocacy?" Background reads "Over the past two decades, civil society, government, and academic work across domains has seen new tech initiatives - including non- computational domains such as policy. Mean-while, the techlash soured Big Tech’s public image and interest in public interest tech has grown." Methods include: "23 semi-structured video interviews, Mar-Oct 2024; recruited individuals who (1) worked for an advocacy organization and (2) had tech skills or expertise used in service of advocacy; prioritized domains which have historically not been data- or tech-oriented; reflexive thematic analysis" implications include: "(1) advocacy technologists are occupying a critical niche in advocacy work as boundary-crossers & knowledge brokers; (2) these workers reject Big Tech’s status quo as part of a broader movement (inc. labor organizing); (3) rarity of cross-disciplinary training; professional associations or ad hoc groups can offer mentors & community; (4) computational strategies bolster advocacy; critical eyes check the tech sector and its effects on society; (5) importance of studying and supporting tech workers beyond the private sector" opening slide for a conference presentation at CSCW. Includes the title, "beyond big tech: advocacy technologists in mission-driven civil society organizations," the presenter name, lauren m. chambers, and the logo for the UC Berkeley School of Information
October 20, 2025 at 10:14 AM
laurenmarietta.bsky.social
still can't get over that there's an entire session dedicated to advocacy at #CSCW2025 😍 it's gonna be HOTT
cellllla.bsky.social Cella @cellllla.bsky.social · Oct 20
👋 Hello #CSCW2025! I’ll be presenting my paper on tech worker organizing on Monday at 4:30pm in the Advocacy Work session and my dissertation work “From the Future of Work to the Future of Labor: Centering Worker Resistance in Age of AI and Automation” at the demos/posters reception! Please say hi!
cellllla.bsky.social Cella @cellllla.bsky.social · Aug 28
What can #CSCW learn from tech workers who have been involved in collective action and unionization about how to make transformative change within our field?

My new #CSCW2025 paper with Mona Wang, Anna Konvicka, and Sarah Fox seeks to answer this question.

Pre-print: arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12579
October 20, 2025 at 9:55 AM
laurenmarietta.bsky.social
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."
June 25, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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techactions.bsky.social
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
June 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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mkgerchick.bsky.social
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...
June 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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berkeleyischool.bsky.social
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
March 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Reposted by Lauren Chambers
rajiinio.bsky.social
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.
spavel.bsky.social 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. 8 135 3.8K 97K ... stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h 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 5 760 3.2K 82K stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h ... 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
December 11, 2024 at 6:51 AM
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shobitap.org
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."
December 1, 2024 at 7:00 PM
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mariannedhe.bsky.social
@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.
ufw.bsky.social 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
November 23, 2024 at 8:18 PM