dana calacci 🦋 @dana.witchy.business
@dcalacci
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at the blue place now. workers, AI, surveillance, cities, weird & queer. asst. prof @ISTatPENNSTATE previously postdoc at @princetonCITP | she/her 🏳️⚧️
State College, PA
Joined April 2012
ty sandy! 🙏 as a new prof at penn state, i'm trying to build something different: a lab that does research and builds tools *with* communities, rather than studying them from afar (1/?).
📶signal boost: Dr. Dana Calacci (@dcalacci - recent grad from MIT Connection Science) has an opening for Ph.D. students to join her in building their lab at Penn State IST. Learn more on her site:
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for anyone who is interested: you can also just apply to the PhD program. If you aren't sure if you'd make it through an admissions committee, send me a note:
are you at #CSCW24 ?? are you NOT a phd student??? do you want to be?? if you want to do a weird phd that spans community research, tool-building, policy, and computational social science, COME TALK TO ME PLEASE I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO RECRUIT STUDENTS.
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crowdsourcing data? use our survey questions! help understand how people want their data to be used & shared. led by @AlexandraBerke.
. @alexandraberke's great talk on crowdsourcing 5 years of Amazon purchase data from 5,000+ U.S. users, finding the "privacy paradox". Great replicable methodology: #cscw2024 work together with @RobertMahari @alex_pentland @Larson_MIT @dcalacci
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RT @nstlgiaxpress: Does anyone ever think about how aesthetic it is that humans drink water to survive? Like, this clear, 0 cal, smooth liq….
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the gender in these is wild.
Ask ChatGPT . “based on what you know about me. draw a picture of what you think my current life looks like” . past your responses below. thanks again @mreflow & @danshipper.
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incredible things happening here
“Claude, I need you to test the most critical issue in the world - what, exactly is a soup compared to a sauce or a drink. You must come up with careful edge cases and test them.”. It was all going well until it considered the Ramen Problem. The final diagram is pretty amazing.
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are you at #CSCW24 ?? are you NOT a phd student??? do you want to be?? if you want to do a weird phd that spans community research, tool-building, policy, and computational social science, COME TALK TO ME PLEASE I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO RECRUIT STUDENTS.
looking for students who want to:.🛠️ build tools that aim to help people challenge power and imagine new futures.🤝 do fieldwork & collaborate directly with workers + communities .🔬 learn to mix methods (quant/qual) fearlessly.🔥 get spicy with critique.
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wow the body really does keep the score huh.
We think that all memory is stored in the brain. But our study published today in @NatureComms shows that all cells—even kidney cells—can count, detect patterns, store memories, and do so similarly to brain cells. My first (co)corresponding author paper!🧵
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oh boy. this is a very sweeping decision. seems like some of the argument rests on the likelihood that a model regurgitates copyrighted content, something that strikes me as basically impossible to measure.
She says: 1) facts on which LLMs train are not copyrightable; 2) #GenAI models synthesize, not copy; 3) datasets they're trained on are vast so no one work is ever likely to be "plagiarized;" 4) "regurgitation" by an early LLM version is irrelevant if current versions won't! Wow!.
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RT @godlovesgoths: When I was a teenager we had Tegan and Sara who explicitly never used pronouns in their songs, as to not alienate listen….
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absolutely the median voter:.
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PA’s online voter registration tool didn’t work for PA voters with an out of state license until OCTOBER. i tried to register, but an esoteric spec meant it didn’t accept signature pics taken with basically any modern camera, including smartphones. @nassereledroos wrote it up:.
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samantha is one of the sharpest people i know and has been immensely crucial to our projects w/ gig workers! hire her!!!!.
Hi friends! I’m on the academic job market this year :) I’m a critical participatory design researcher who builds pathways for communities to participate in the design, monitoring, and reg of workplace tech. Please lmk if there are positions you think I’d be a good fit for <3.
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