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J. Nathan Matias 🦣

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!

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J. Nathan Matias 🦣

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

citizensandtech.org/research/

Citizens and Technology LabResearch - Citizens and Technology LabWe seek to enable anyone to engage critically with the tech tools and platforms they use, ask questions, and get […]
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J. Nathan Matias 🦣

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.

fivethirtyeight.com/features/u

FiveThirtyEightUniversities Say They Want More Diverse Faculties. So Why Is Academia Still So White?By Sarah Frostenson
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J. Nathan Matias 🦣

This 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.

just-tech.ssrc.org/field-revie

Just TechImpact Assessment of Human-Algorithm Feedback LoopsNathan Matias and Lucas Wright survey research to demonstrate the social justice implications of adaptive algorithms and consider how we might effectively assess the impact of human-algorithm feedback.
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J. Nathan Matias 🦣

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!

View of blue skies, mountains and sweeping clouds from Mount Diablo out the window of the observation tower.
Prehispanic MX cuisine, a food truck in San Jose.
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Sasha Maslow

@natematias welcome! Is CAT lab accepting new PhD students?

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Joseph Reagle

@natematias I've been curious how instance migrations happen, but I'm still getting your posts so it seems like it works at least! I wonder if I follow your new account would I then get double (i.e. redirect) or did my follow list get updated? Will have to check.

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J. Nathan Matias 🦣

@jmreagle I believe the follow list gets updated. There’s a redirect record that propagates

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