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I'm recruiting a PhD student or two this cycle. If you're passionate about using research to improve computing education, maybe that's you. Learn more about my group here: medium.com/@katieirenec/o… (from 2022, but still accurate) and here: trailslab.web.illinois.edu

Thank you so much to you and all the amazing participants for such fruitful discussions. Looking forward to continuing these conversations and this work! 😊 #CSCW2024 #PosiTech

Ben and I will be presenting today in Session 2d! Excited to participate!

Stigma emerges and evolves across interactions. Find Zhaoyuan "Nick" Su to learn more about “stigma work.” And he is on the job market!! #CSCW2024

Amna Batool just did a great presentation about gender based journey of Afghan Refugees in the US. Expanding sociotechnical adaptation framework is very cool in trust & safety!

Thank you! I’m so grateful to Ben for being a gracious and brilliant collaborator. He is the heart of this project and while he would absolutely have been able to do this work without me, I would not have been able to do this without him. Thank you Ben Ben Z. Zhang 🩷

💡 UMSI PhD candidates Cassidy Pyle and Ben Zefeng Zhang at ACM CSCW 2024 presenting new research: "'I Am Constantly in This Dilemma': How Migrant Technology Professionals Perceive Social Media Recommendation Algorithms" 🔗 dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114… Oliver Haimson

Can social media provide a lens🔍 into different careers? Shanley's will be giving her first #CSCW2024 presentation on this topic on Wednesday! 👏👏 I wasn't able to travel, so if you are attending please go and cheer her on!

Fall 2024/2025 PhD Applicants: 💸💸 don’t let the application fees bother you! check out this amazing resource on fee waivers: github.com/KaiserWhoLearn…

‼️New pub alert‼️ Woke up to see this out today in Social Media+Society! In this study, we seek to understand disclosure among those with intersecting stigmas in Mumbai. This work also brought me to India last year where I finally got to meet our wonderful collaborators in-person!

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"Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them." — Assata Shakur

Two of the biggest pushers of the “DEI hysteria” were Vivek and Elon. And they (along with others) made people actually believe that there was this wave of Black people who were getting jobs that we didn’t deserve. It was never true. Statistically other groups benefitted FAR more

Dummy they have been doing that. But you people call it DEI and want to get rid of programs such as that… Have you not heard of Black Girls Code, Black Boys Code, Dream Hustle Code, etc ?? Microsoft even at one point had a small program called ManCode where they would go