The Science of Community track is back at FOSSY 2026! Learn more about our track and how to submit a proposal here: blog.communitydata.science/fossy-2026-c...
Join the CDSC on Nov. 7th for our next Community Dialogue!
Northwestern Student Matt Gaughan and Dr. Igor Steinmacher will discuss how FLOSS projects adapt their work processes to recruit new contributors and build the project communities that they want. Learn more and register:
We're hosting our 12th Community Dialogue on Oct. 17 from 12-2pm CT! CDSC member Hsuen-Chi (Hazel) Chiu will be joined by Professor Jasmine McNealy to discuss AI refusal and privacy. Click here to register and learn more: wiki.communitydata.science/AI_Boundarie...
What happens when we blur the boundaries of AI and friends?
Join Hseun-Chiu Chi and Jasmine McNealy for our Community Dialogue that explores how chatbots invite disclosure while raising concerns about data privacy and how some are pushing back. buff.ly/7MGytNz
The Free and Open Source Software Yearly conference (FOSSY) is back for the fourth year in a row, and we’ll be running the Science of Community track, inspired by the CDSC Science of Communit…
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Last chance to register for our 13th Science of Community Dialogue: The Impacts of Organizational Interventions in Open Source Software Engineering! Learn more register: wiki.communitydata.science/The_Impacts_...
Ran Tang just posted a recap of a workshop series at @ufowa.uw.edu that ran earlier this year on troubleshooting in computational research design by Yibin Fan. Ran's post has some great ideas for anybody who'd like to borrow the model! blog.communitydata.science/troubleshoot...
Thinking about applying to grad school? Wonder what it’s like to pursue a PhD or MS? Interested in the intersect of technology and society? CDSC is hosting a Q&A session for prospective students on Sept. 26th at 12pm CT. Learn more and register here: blog.communitydata.science/prospective-...
I'm co-organizing #CSCW NE, an in-person regional gathering for people in Northeast America, alongside some folks from Stevens, Rutgers, and Princeton. If you want to come hang out (especially if you can't make it out to the full conference in Bergen this year), RSVP at cscw-ne.hci.social!
Please read the Virtual Event Code of Conduct. We will be recording the event presentations, but not discussions.
Visualization of the messy process that turns into the polished paper. Image generated by claude.ai. This winter quarter, a small group of CDSC students at the University of Washington participated…
Thinking about applying to graduate school? Wonder what it’s like to pursue a PhD or M.S.? Interested in understanding relationships between technology and society? Curious about how to do research…
Finally blogged about my paper (led by @zarine.net) that seeks to explain why Croatian Wikipedia spent a decade captured by a cabal of political extremists and became a site for Holocaust revisionism, while other similar Wikipedia languages seemed to have fared much better. mako.cc/copyrighteou...
Finally blogged about two papers led by @kayleachampion.bsky.social that show how taboo shapes the production of knowledge on @wikipedia.org. mako.cc/copyrighteou...
It was the "not safe for work" work meeting for a couple of years. I miss it dearly.
