Tanu Mitra gave an invited keynote talk at the FEVER workshop (Fact Extraction and VERification) at ACL 2022. Her talk was titled, “Problematic Information on Social Media Platforms: Understanding and Countering.”
Jevin West gave an invited lecture at the annual conference for the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (ASGCT). There he talked about misinformation in science.
Alannah Oleson, Benjamin Xie, Jean Salac, Jayne Everson, Migumi Kivuva, and Amy J. Ko had a paper conditionally accepted to ICER 2022 titled, "A Decade of Demographics in Computing Education Research: A Critical Review of Trends in Collection, Reporting, and Use."
Benjamin Xie, Alannah Oleson, Jayne Everson, and Amy J. Ko had a paper accepted to CSCW 2022 titled, "Surfacing Equity Issues in Large Computing Courses with Peer-Ranked, Demographically-Labeled Student Feedback."
Benjamin Xie accepted a position as an Embedded EthiCS Fellow at Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) and Center for Ethics in Society, starting in the fall. Benji's Stanford profile and email.
Jevin West was a guest on Thursday at the Center for Inquiry for their Skeptical Inquirer weekly online live event to talk about digital snake oil and how to spot quantitive misinformation.
Alexis Hiniker and Amanda Baughan were interviewed by UW News about their CHI 22 paper: “‘I don’t even remember what I read’: People enter a ‘dissociative state’ when using social media.” Mingrui Ray Zhang, Raveena Rao, Kai Lukoff, Anastasia Schaadhardt, and Lisa D Butler are co-authors of the paper.