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Today is my first day as an Assistant Professor at @IllinoisCS. I am so fortunate and excited to advance computing education research alongside incredible and supportive colleagues. It's a little 🌽-y to say, but this is a dream come true.

Are you interested in a career in computing education research? I’m recruiting PhD students! (And maybe a postdoc if it’s the right fit.) Learn more here: medium.com/@katieirenec/o…

I am laid off from Microsoft Research MTL. It hasn't quite sunk in, but it has hit my confidence to lose the job I started a little over a year ago after PhD. I loved the people around me. I would have liked to reflect more, but amidst the uncertainties, I need a new job. #opentowork

Yes! We recently increased graduate student stipends significantly at @IllinoisCS. It involved many rounds of discussions and hard work to pay our students more, with a healthy and sustainable financial plan and funding model. Very happy that everything works out!

Community-based social media sites rely on volunteer moderators to create rules for user groups. Typically though, no formal systems ensure community support for these rules. Can users & mods agree on moderation policies and practices? tinyurl.com/reddit-rules-c… #CSCW2023

The 5/11-16 ACM ACM CHI Conference 2024 conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, the premier international conference of HCI, features 54 University of Illinois authored papers. Great job, #ILLINOIS! 🔸🔹

Blog post coming, but thanks so much to Eshwar Chandrasekharan for a fantastic keynote at our Frontiers in Online Community Research Symposium at Purdue!

A few weeks ago we had our lab retreat at Purdue and organized a public-facing symposium. It was great! We had panels and presentations by @diana_zulli Marcus Mann aaron shaw Benjamin Mako Hill🦈 sohyeon hwang carl colglazier Kaylea Champion about the cutting edge of online community research.

The grand finale of the event was a fantastic keynote by Eshwar Chandrasekharan on some of the really great work his lab is doing. A blog post about the event is up at blog.communitydata.science/symposium-on-o…

Do Reddit moderators use positive feedback to reward good contributions? Charlotte Lambert, Frederick Choi, and Eshwar Chandrasekharan find out in a new #CSCW2024 paper exploring the role of positive reinforcement in moderation through a survey of moderators: tinyurl.com/yc746xjc-cscw2…

Excited to attend #CSCW2024! Learn more about our work on measuring epistemic trust, presented by Dominic in session 2e, and the role of positive reinforcement in online moderation, presented by Charlotte Lambert in session 3d, on Tuesday 🤙

Cool works! Charlotte Lambert is also presenting posters on her dissertation research and preliminary insights into the impact positive reinforcement (Reddit golds) on social media #CSCW2024 Eshwar Chandrasekharan

UIUC at #CSCW24 💙🧡 @IllinoisCDS iSchool at Illinois Karrie Karahalios Eshwar Chandrasekharan Yun Huang, PhD Charlotte Lambert Zihan Liu

Q: Are fine-tuned SLMs better than LLMs at identifying online content that violate community norms?🤖⚖️ A: Yes! Find out more in our #NAACL2025 paper co-lead by Agam Goyal and Xianyang Zhan, in collaboration with Yilun Chen and Koustuv Saha 📄 arxiv.org/pdf/2410.13155