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Magical lunch gathering of my PhD students that are at #chi2024 this year … past and present - Katherine Song, Sunyoung Kim Sunyoung Kim, Hila Mor @_hila_mor, and Sarah Sterman I feel so privileged to have been able to collaborate with them during their brilliant careers 🎉

Regents just approved UC Berkeley’s new Innovation Hub development. Go Bears. news.berkeley.edu/2024/05/16/bak…

Amazing opportunity to join us at the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation at UC Berkeley as the Director of Academic Affairs. Help lead the overall academic mission in Design@Jacobs including our flagship MDes program. Search for position #69535 ASAP! shorturl.at/dULNk

Congrats to the Amazing Katherine Song on completing her Thesis Defense talk. One step closer to a signed dissertation ...

What a delightful lunch with Austin Henderson with his incredibly deep historical storytelling of the inventive spirit and creative personalities of some of the earliest research efforts and thinking around HCI and Design from 1960's 70's and beyond! 🙏 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_He…

PhD Thesis signed! 🎉 Very excited to be the first to introduce you to Dr. Katherine Song! So proud of the work she has done and feel privileged she came to Berkeley to work with me over the past 5 years. Dr. Song will be an Assistant Professor at TU Delft in the Fall! Congrats!

Amazing Faculty Position here at UC Berkeley! ⚡️Very short application window (16 Sept!!!) Apply now and spread the word – Assistant/Associate/Full Professor - Cluster Hire in Artificial Intelligence, Inequality, and Society eecs.berkeley.edu/connect/facult…

Dream Job Announcement – Associate Provost for the Berkeley Space Center • spacecenter.berkeley.edu/home • Full-time faculty director position with an underlying tenured professorial appointment. Interested candidates can view more information and apply here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04440

Come join us next month at Maker Faire 18-20 Oct! We'll have all the latest and greatest from the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation at UC Berkeley makerfaire.com/maker/entry/76…

Finally found time to process my image capture of Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) from over a month ago. This is more of a tight shot of the coma clipping much of the impressive tail. 30 min of image integration. Enjoy

Excited to be invited to give the next BayCHI talk on Tue 10 Dec 7:30pm at OtherLab in SF. Come join us for a fun event! ⚡️ baychi.org/calendar/20241…

TONIGHT - join me at the OtherLab in SF for a talk as part of the BayCHI series - Plastic Dynamism: Encountering and Designing with Emerging Technologies baychi.org/calendar/20241…

Captured the stunning occultation of Mars by the Moon tonight.Mars disappeared behind the Moon and reappeared a litter over an hour later. This is image when Mars reappeared – Mars appears at the top of the Moon as a small red dot!

Clear skies last week captured this image of the Crab Nebula (M1). This is the aftermath of a supernovae from not so long ago in 1054 when there was a daytime visible “star” from the explosion … at the time called a “guest star”! 3 hours image integration in narrowband Ha O3 S2

Super excited about Berkeley Center for New Media’s big 20 year two-day celebration that kicks off tomorrow! 🎉⚡️🤖 see you all there 😎 bcnm.berkeley.edu/events/6293/20…

Magnificent 7 ⚡️ — Watch out! 7 of the most awesome researchers and 7 of my former and current PhD students gathered for a magical dinner in Berkeley - Vivian Chan. Hila Mor, (me), Laura Devendorf (adopted 😎), Molly Nicolas, Christie Dierk, Kevin Tian, Cesar Torres

Do not miss the 2025 International Symposium on Academic Makerspaces ISAM this summer 6-8 Aug at UC Berkeley ⚡️ submissions for papers, posters, and demos isam2025.hemi-makers.org

Still playing with toys 🤖 MIT Technology Review Article with a few quotes from me about my own Armatron toy robot tinyurl.com/bdfdhz8a

Amazing Career Opportunity here at UC Berkeley! Come be the Associate Director for the incredible Berkeley Center for New Media!!! careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucb/EMPLOY…

So excited to be hosting the International Symposium on Academic Makerspaces (ISAM) at UC Berkeley this week August 6-8, 2025! Don't miss all the discussions, debates, keynotes, fun, and magic 😉☀️😎🤖 isam2025.hemi-makers.org