Grateful for this grant from the Huo Family Foundation! We will use causal inference and digital twins to study how social media content and platform algorithms impact young people’s mental health. Dream team with the amazing Amy Orben and @homahmrd! huofamilyfoundation.org/news…

Such exciting news, and couldn’t be happier for @SocwebGT alum @VedantNeedMoEdu!!

For the first time in its 78-year history, the World Health Assembly has called on govts to adopt national strategies on social connection. In our role advising the @WHO on a newly launched report on the topic, we provide suggestions for concrete interventions #PowerOfConnection

LIVE: @DrTedros’ remarks at the launch of the WHO Commission on Social Connection report x.com/i/broadcasts/1lDxLzyEL…

Loneliness can affect anyone, anywhere; it’s a public health issue. After year and half of work on the Technical Advisory Group of @WHO's Commission for Social Connection, couldn't be more pleased to see our report launch happening now! Tune in here: tinyurl.com/WHOSocialConnect…

Good news is sparse in these times, but couldn’t be more proud of advisee and @SocwebGT alum @kous2v for winning this year’s #ICWSM Adamic-Glance Award!! Rewards of the academic job!! Congratulations and so very well deserved @kous2v!!

Should and can we adopt a lived experience-aware approach to AI alignment? To learn why and how, please look at our new paper led by @mohit__30!

Couldn't be more proud of @_jiawei_zhou for being named a 2024 Foley Scholar! Her PhD journey has been a story of resilience and perseverence, and what a delight to see your advisees intellectually grow. At @SocwebGT we can't wait to see what's next for you!

Extended @SocwebGT members, past and present, at #cscw2024!

I am in Costa Rica and excited to present our #CSCW2024 paper on trauma-informed practices for working with youth in HCI research. @AshSoo @pamwis @munmun10 John S. Seberger, Nurun Naher. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36374…

Congratulations @jcforiest, @shravika_mittal, & @munmun10 of SocWeb on being awarded the DEI recognition at #CSCW24 - taking an inclusive definition of GBV highlights experiences of gender minorities whom face disparate risks of violence on & offline. doi.org/10.1145/3686940

Don't miss our panel on (Un)designing AI for Mental & Spiritual Wellbeing Tuesday evening at #CSCW2024, with panelists @munmun10, @diana_freed, Rev. George Handzo (a preeminent spiritual care expert with 150 papers), and myself, moderated by @JingjinLi2.

👋Excited to be at #CSCW2024! Let’s connect to discuss human-AI interaction in mental health. I'll be presenting the final piece of my dissertation on Tuesday at 2:30 in Guanacaste 2. (@munmun10 @SachinPendse @DocOTNY Hayoung, Nathaniel, and Gregory) dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36373…

I love you all so much. I will keep telling you I love you over the coming seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years.💖 On Tuesday, tears cascaded down my face as a parent and I talked on the phone and her abject fear came through as she asked, “What do we do?” with regards to her trans child possibly losing access to life-saving gender-affirming care. As I saw another parent later and she looked at me with this haunted gaze, I said, “I know,” which helped us both let the tears flow as we hugged for the first time and she said how scared she is for her queer, racially minoritized daughter. That same daughter, mom, and I processed as the daughter asked if she’s going to have to hide being queer and my heart broke further. Yet we talked through steps to keep her safe and how we’re going to be our queer selves as much as we can. The night of the election as my mom told me how terrifying it is for us to have to do this again, as we discussed the worsened rhetoric compared to last time, and she asked about my safety as a Black, queer person, I thought, “All I want is for my mom to have a calm life.” We processed and I thought, “Hold to this type of unity.” So, I promise you this: none of you is alone as we go through this. I am beside you as we process our anger, rage, sorrow, horror, despair, and the betrayal that is America in far too many ways. We process and survive together. I promise to hold our dreams of a kinder, gentler, more magical society until we’re ready to bring those dreams forth. We dream together. I am here as your Black, queer child and adolescent psychiatrist who works with minoritized kids and will keep doing so because I know I have privileges and safety where I am. We protect our communities together in the ways we can. I cherish you as we learn to embody our authenticity and show that us being our deepest selves is a gift in these times and the times to come. We exist as utterly human together. I’m here as we learn to breathe, to take the time each of us needs individually to heal. We heal together. We do this together. I love you all, you Sailor Warriors of love and justice.🌙💖🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🦄🐦‍🔥🔥🦸🏽‍♂️✊🏽

Timely #CSCW2024 SIG on an incredibly important topic — the future of conducting research with social media data. I hope if you are there, you will attend; we would love to hear from you!

Are GBV survivors' online challenges similar to offline when sharing experiences? SocWeB researchers @JCForiest, @shravika_mittal, and @munmun10 and collaborators Kirsten Bray and Anh-Ton, studied Reddit users' experiences using mixed-methods approach. See findings at #CSCW2024!

Online disclosures of sensitive life experiences can be liberating, even therapeutic. But platform design and algorithms may result in the muting of such disclosures. For gender-based violence, what can we do to prevent such harms? To know, check out our upcoming #CSCW2024 paper!

RT @mark_riedl: We kicked off day 1 of the Summit on Responsible Computing, AI, and Society today with a fantastic keynote on the future of…

Last week I attended an @WHOSTP panel on youth online safety, mental health, and pervasive data. It was held in the "Secretary of War Room." At first, the location seemed odd, but maybe youth online safety is indeed a topic that deserves to be discussed in such a room? :)

What is the best way to spend a Fall Break? For me it is being at the @WHO headquarters and working with amazing scholars, practitioners, diplomats, members of the civil society, and non-profits to chart considerations for loneliness and social connection!