Heard on this morning’s walk to the train, contractor to home owner: “I have to apologize for something, we’ve been using AI but…”, while gesturing at the ladder to the roof.

Disappointed to see @sound-transit.bsky.social proposing cuts to service hours in their 2027 service plan - we should be expanding, not reducing, service hours. www.soundtransit.org/system-expan...

Annual Service Plan | 2027 Service Plan | Sound Transit

Recent Link light rail openings mean there will be changes to existing ST Express bus service. Learn what these changes could look like for you.

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Very important piece by Cerin Lindgrensavage and @davidasuper.bsky.social. This behavior by the administration is not only illegal, it is anti-constitutional. thehill.com/opinion/cong...

Congress rejected some of Trump’s proposed budget cuts. OMB is making them anyway.

President Trump and the Office of Management and Budget are accused of violating the separation of powers by attempting to unilaterally withhold funds that Congress specifically appropriated.

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We are hiring an assistant professor to join @hcde.uw.edu in Autumn 2027. We welcome applications in all areas, with a focus on: (1) Environment and sustainability; (2) Civic infrastructure and society; (3) Labor and the future of work. Learn more & apply: apply.interfolio.com/188238

New paper for @acm-cscw.bsky.social, led by @cal-liang.bsky.social: "A Scoping Review of Queer Health and Well-Being Technology Research," just in time for pride month. We argue for structural approaches and four commitments for designing tech-enabled interventions. www.smunson.com/portfolio/pr...

Disastrous.

Yonah Freemark@yonahfreemark.com · 2mo ago

If it gets its way, the US House would drastically reduce funding for transit & rail systems. The House's proposed legislation—supported by GOP & Dems—would cut overall authorized transit funding by 15% compared to the current law, and reduce potential funding for projects like new lines by 45%.

In Seattle this Saturday? It’s probably going to rain. Scrap your outdoor plans and come to Rough and Tumble to hear journalist Michelle Smith (and me) discuss Tara Vanderveer, Stanford, and the history of women’s basketball, especially around the turn of the millennium. 12:30-2pm.

Members of the @acm-cscw.bsky.social community: under a week left to nominate papers for the 2026 Lasting Impact Award! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

CSCW 2026 Lasting Impact Nominations

The annual CSCW Lasting Impact Award goes to a paper that is at least 10 years old and has had an impact on CSCW as a field. Nominations are taken from the community, and a selection is made by a comm...

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This past January, we spent a 3-day weekend hiking it Death Valley National Park. It was perfect hiking weather, with many excellent sunrises and sunsets.

Death Valley in January: A 3-Day Weekend of Hiking - Shoulder Season

January is one of the best times to visit Death Valley. Here's how we filled three days with sunrise hikes, desert peaks, and unexpected water in the driest place in North America.

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HCDE students at the University of Washington are designing products, services, and organizations that put people first. It's Husky Giving Day — support them with a gift of $10, $50, or $100. Every contribution makes a difference. 🎉 @hcde.uw.edu

Human Centered Design & Engineering

Human Centered Design & Engineering prepares students to design technologies, systems, and services that improve people’s lives.

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Just posted: our August and September hike of the Tour of the Écrins (GR54) - www.shoulderseason.net/2026/04/19/t...

Tour of the Écrins (GR54) Overview & Planning - Shoulder Season

One of the finest hut-to-hut routes in the Alps: our 12-day GR54 traverse through Écrins National Park, with planning notes, refuge recommendations, and itinerary details.

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🥁🥁🥁 Newly out from us today in Science Advances: “Biased AI Writing Assistants Shift Users’ Attitudes on Societal Issues”. Large Language Models are providing users with autocomplete writing suggestions on many platforms. Could these suggestions shift users’ own attitudes? (spoiler: YES) (1/7)

Deadline Extended! The Birds of a Feather (BoF) proposal deadline has been extended by one week! More details about BoF and submission information: ih.acm.org/birds-of-a-f... New deadline: 12 March 2026 (AOE) 🔗 ih.acm.org/birds-of-a-f... @acmtochi.bsky.social @chi.acm.org @acm-cscw.bsky.social

Birds of a Feather - ACM Interactive Health 2026

Birds of a Feather enable conference attendees sharing a common interest to meet informally for 60–90 minutes of facilitated discussion during a scheduled session at the conference, without requiring ...

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Let's be clear about what the "SAVE Act" is all about, another phase of the "rigged election" strategy. Trump is exploiting the voter fraud myth he created to pass laws and enact policies that will make it harder to vote, suppress votes, cause confusion, & sow distrust democracy. Rinse. Repeat.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

Trump: "The Republicans MUST DO, with PASSION, and at the expense of everything else, THE SAVE AMERICA ACT - And not the watered down version. This is a Country Defining fight for the Soul of our Nation!"

𝙎𝙪𝙗𝙢𝙞𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙗𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠 𝙩𝙤 𝙄𝙃 ‘26 The Related Contributions track is a great way to bring your work to the Interactive Health community, break disciplinary silos, and spark new cross-disciplinary discussion. 𝘿𝙖𝙩𝙚: 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝 12𝙩𝙝, 2026 – 𝙎𝙪𝙗𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙚. @acm-dis.bsky.social

"Machine learning research is not serious research & therefore hallucinated references are not necessarily a big deal, agrees prestigious group of ML researchers" I ❤️ when the titles write themselves But seriously, I don't think there's much to debate statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/26/m...

Hard to believe whoever made this decision has tried their AI tools. Or maybe they don’t care.

The Verge@theverge.com · 7mo ago

Microsoft is closing its employee library and cutting back on subscriptions

I'm back at work! In this piece I analyze Governor Ferguson's proposed 2026 supplemental budget, which is balanced with cuts cuts cuts and a little help from the state's emergency fund and climate dollars.

The Urbanist@theurbanist.org · 7mo ago

NEW STORY // Ferguson’s 2026 Budget Queues Steep Cuts, Pushes Millionaires Tax to 2029 Story by Amy Sundberg via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2026/01/05/f...

🚨 Postdoc opening -- Come work with us at Northwestern! 🚨 This position is to work on evaluating LLMs for sociopolitical value expression: postdocs.northwestern.edu/announcement... -- Please share!

Postdoctoral Research Opportunity – Global LLM Values Benchmarking Working Group: Postdoctoral Affairs - Northwestern University

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CBITs is seeking applicants for our NIMH T32 postdoctoral fellowship to begin July 2026! Check out some of the incredible mentors you can work with and their research interests. Apps will be reviewed early December 2025! Interested? Learn more and apply: cbits.northwestern.edu/education-an...

Seattle folks: check your ballot!

The Urbanist@theurbanist.org · 9mo ago

Check your ballot. It’s possible that it’s been challenged due to leaving the ballot envelope unsigned or a signature mismatch. You can cure that with King County Elections so your ballot is counted! kingcounty.gov/en/dept/elec...

Never, ever gets old. Don't forget to put your ballot in a drop box by 8pm, Seattle (it's too late to trust your vote to the mail!).

We strongly condemn @CondéNast’s consolidation plans for Teen Vogue, a move that is clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most. More from our statement:

Join us at the UW Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. We are hiring tenure-track faculty positions. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/174303

Attention #Postdoc researchers and #PhDAward candidates: CBITs is seeking applicants for our NIMH T32 postdoctoral fellowship to begin July 2026 with training in both mental health and human computer interaction Apps will be reviewed December 2025! Learn more: cbits.northwestern.edu/education-an...

1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv. There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.

Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · last yr.

In April of 2009 I observed the Tea Party rally in Salem. As this front page story says, there were a couple hundred people there. This past weekend in Salem there were roughly 2-3000 people at the Hands Off rally. Yet the Tea Party coverage seemed to take that event far more seriously.

This should be the scandal that topples an administration, not business as usual on a slow Sunday.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 10mo ago

Exclusive: In order to deport immigrants to El Salvador’s most notorious prison, Secretary of State Marco Rubio promised President Nayib Bukele to betray arrangements protecting some U.S. informants.

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down. n.pr/3KIfcSn

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

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