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Hi folks! I'm a Guatemalan-American professor at Cornell who does community science for a safer, fairer, more understanding internet. 
If you are interested in the CS and social science of digital social environments, algorithms, digital inclusion, virtue/ethics, & tech accountability, CAT Lab is your team!
(new instance, new #introduction)
CAT Lab at Cornell has worked alongside communities on Reddit, Wikipedia, Twitter, & FB on:
- harassment prevention
- volunteer moderation
- algorithm auditing
- uncovering discrimination
- expanding diversity
- measuring moderator burnout
- spreading gratitude
- strikes against tech firms
- ethics of community/citizen science online
- software for industry-independent research
Our vision is a world where digital power is guided by evidence & accountable to the public
CAT Lab works to grow knowledge by changing who gets to create knowledge. That's why we do community/citizen science.
We also need to change things inside academia. In my graduating year, only 24/1592 of new CS or IS PhDs in the US and Canada were Latinx. Only 9 were Black. 
The result? Science gets a very skewed picture of the world.
That's why I collaborate on projects to make academia a place where people from marginalized communities can thrive.
@natematias@social.coopThis year, I'm at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford working on the problem of runaway disasters in human/algorithm behavior.
Lucas Wright and I have written here about the stakes for social justice and the challenge of governing them.
https://just-tech.ssrc.org/field-reviews/impact-assessment-of-human-algorithm-feedback-loops/
I'm also trying to enjoy as much Bay Area Latin-American food as possible while listening to great audiobooks and seeing beautiful views on long bicycle rides.
Suggestions welcome!
