Carl @carlcolglazier@scholar.social

They should do another Indiana Jones film, but have it be about all the struggling PhD candidates who have him as an advisor.

We made a discord for CS/HCI PhD students to meet folks / socialize, and are having a social hour tonight (the 18th) at 7pm EST-whenever.

A bit last minute on hci.social but send folks our way if they are interested!

https://human-human-interaction.github.io/

Our ICWSM paper (with @axz and Tim Althoff) looks at what it actually means to make online communities "better."

Thru surveys of 6k+ redditors ✒️ , we find that while quality and variety of content are generally considered most important, and size and democracy are least important, there is immense variety in values 🌈!
▶️ no one size fits all solution! 🗜️

Moderators think democracy is less important than non-mods, and there is extra disagreement over safety.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.05835

Relatedly, can anyone point me to the paper/research I'm thinking of on the chicken egg problem of building new online communities: no one wants to join unless there are already people there?

This is a fascinating graph of American attitudes towards science from 1973-2021.
The whole thing is interesting, but look at how the divergence by party starts around 2007, then just takes off.

Source: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-being-anti-science-is-now-part-of-many-rural-americans-identity/

It was fun speaking and remotely listening in to the conversations at this CS+Law conference today: http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/events/details?eID=1924 There was even a mention of hci.social from @asb!

A "hybrid" course at #CHI2022 in which the instructor and all registered (paying) attendees were remote. Someone was guarding the door to make sure nobody snuck in to watch the Zoom session being projected to the completely empty room.

The latest Mastodon update changes the name (but not functionality) of "Direct" posts to "Mentioned people only" and rewords the warning to make the privacy implications clearer. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v3.5.2

Come meet us at CHI 2022 https://blog.communitydata.science/come-meet-us-at-chi-2022/

offensive possum

Academic and research Mastodon servers https://fediscience.org/server-list.html #OpenScience

Hey #askfediverse people who use #emacs for academic writing: What are your favourite packages, snippets, transients, hydras and the like? Anything that makes your work with #LaTeX, #BibTeX, #R, #KnitR, and the like easier or more effective? I'd love to hear them.

Boosts appreciated.

And maybe @bgcarlisle knows someone who knows someone...?

#askfedi #academia