Briana Bettin, PhD ✨

Logo for the RESPECT Conference. It depicts a connected letter R and C shape, with these figures outlined and incorporating a central line in them, giving the appearance of a two lane road with a centerline. The connection where the visual of the "C" begins has only the center line connecting the two shapes, creating a visual link between the two elements while not fully connecting them. "RESPECT Conference" is written underneath.

📣 Call for Submissions! 📣

🌟 The SIGCSE 2026 Doctoral Consortium @ ACM RESPECT is coming! Doctoral students working @ comp ed & BPC intersections: come grow with peers & mentors 🌻 #RESPECT2026

Interested? Know someone who might be? 👀

Apply by April 1st! 📅 Details: respect.acm.org/2026/index.p...

"I think refusing is actually the more hopeful, expansive vision of the future than the one that is telling us that the future is already settled and decided. That's my daring idea. Just say no."

Screenshot of a paper entry: Fictional Failures and Real-World Lessons: Ethical Speculation Through Design Fiction on Emotional Support Conversational AI Authors: Faye Kollig, Jessica Pater, Fayika Farhat Nova, Casey Fiesler (There are tabs with "abstract" and "summary" and "summary" is selected.)

The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.

Oh double the good news today, and even more well deserved flowers to wonderful folks!! 💐🎉

Congrats @shanibphd.bsky.social !! So glad to see such amazing folks getting recognized 💖

What well deserved flowers and good news to see today, oh my gosh!! 💐🎉

Congrats congrats congrats @drnickiw.bsky.social - you are amazing! 💝

#respect2026 | ACM RESPECT Conference The theme for #RESPECT2026 is Equity-focused CS Education: Honoring the Plurality of our Community. What does "Plurality" mean to you? More conference details to come!

I'm so excited about the theme for RESPECT this year - I hope you'll be able to join us! 💖

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#respect2026 | ACM RESPECT Conference We're pleased to announce that the ACM Conference on Research in Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT) will take place June 8–11, 2026 in Chicago, IL. ...

Save the date - join me and an AMAZING community of scholars at RESPECT 2026! 😍 🌟

I'll be chairing the Doctoral Consortium again this year, so if you have students who might be interested - start thinking about getting them to apply, and stay tuned! 👀

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THIS! I'm trying to figure out how I would even notify my students (no courselist email set up) if we need a plan B for assignments.

Andddd I had the Ethics students email me their participation activities instead, to which one said "I pity whoever has an ACTUAL question for you in email today" 💀

Too many students are asking themselves "what do I need to do to get an A?" instead of "what can I learn from this course?" But they're pulled in 20 different directions and distracted, so...

Also should not be lost on anyone that EVERYONE is exhausted: students and faculty.

An image of Kirby eating half a rectangle labeled "Frame F". Next to Kirby is a pink box labeled: Kirby. K is happening. That's why they're saying F. In that box is the text: OTHER THINGS ARE POSSIBLE.

all of Possible Futures is basically

Give folks their flowers

No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier

"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

READING RAINBOW AHHHH!!! 📚🌈
What great news on a Monday.🥹

And Mychal seems like such a fabulous fit for this - how exciting! 🎉

I want our young people to know that there is a path forward, that a better world is possible. I don't want them to give up, to become cynical. They deserve to be young and full of optimism. They are owed a world that supports and sustains optimism.

Something I see often in defenders of "AI" in the classroom (especially those who discuss "responsible" uses) is that, in using LLMs and then "critiquing" its output, we can then teach students to become more AI literate.

This irks me to no end.

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I know my position within the academy is different. I’m keenly aware. I know what the attacks on HE look like and that we are in no way suited to defend them. I’ve tried to hold my mule. But this? This makes me want to pop out so badly.

You don’t have an ethical responsibility to use A.I.

A great read today!! 💖

"To resist is to live imaginatively, and to be imaginative is to be curious."

my daughter came home from her first day of 10th grade and said that her history teacher told her that if she refuses to use AI for assignments, she has to cite her sources.

i asked how she’d cite it if she used AI, and she said, that’s not required.

i’m still internally fuming up about this.

writing is thinking, drawing is thinking, telling stories is thinking.

i understand the earnest impulse to get rid of "the boring stuff", but even the boring stuff is thinking.

depriving yourself of time to think about things is sad, but depriving kids of time to think about things is just cruel.

Also, no one starts off knowing how to draw well.
YOU HAVE TO DRAW BADLY FIRST TO GET BETTER.
You have to draw daily, badly, before you ever get better.
And its fun, sometimes, and painful, sometimes.
Why are we teaching our students that none of this matters because "the machine will do it"

What gets me here is that "hallucination" implies a discrete error. But in fact the system is doing exactly the same thing it does when it gives a correct answer. The distinction between right and wrong is entirely down to the user's critical wherewithal - the very thing being corrupted

Are you in Human Factors/Psychology and Looking for a new position? | Briana Bettin Are you in Human Factors/Psychology and Looking for a new position? Come work with us at Michigan Tech!! 💛🐺🖤 The Department of Psychology and Human Factors at Michigan Technological University invit...

Are you in Human Factors/Psychology and Looking for a new position? Come work with us at Michigan Tech!! 💛🐺🖤

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"These are the times to grow our souls. Each of us is called upon to embrace the conviction that despite the powers and principalities bent on commodifying all our human relationships, we have the power within us to create the world anew." - Grace Lee Boggs

My adviser's retirement party was filled with SO much care and joy - it was wonderful to be part of. AND I got to make art for it! 💖

The weather has been lovely. In the last 48 hours I saw baby ducklings, a turtle, and deer. I can hear the birds singing happily. 💝

What has brought you joy lately?

Good things are still possible. In spite of every horrible thing.

I like an unoptimized life. I like to meander. love to dilly dally. to wander. a bitch loves to peruse. I don’t need you to make things faster, I’m trying to slow down

A headline from The Times, with Nick Clegg saying that requiring permission from copyright holders to train AI on their word would 'kill' the AI industry. Boo fecking hoo.

My plans for a major retail emporium are being threatend by wholesalers who won't let me steal the stock.

i think that people are confusing "the LLM contains ground truths about the world" with "the LLM contains contingent truths about language which are a low-dimensional map of certain known ground truths about the world."

*stares in Octavia Butler*

'It's happening anyway' is so frustrating to run up against.

"What will this make you complicit in?" is a question I'm holding with every collaboration now.

#LavarBurton #savesesamestreet #Blacksky