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What Puerto Rico Reveals About the Hidden Architecture of Child Safety

November 2025

How can we continue designing online safety policies for a digital world that doesn’t exist, one where every child has […]

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How can Public Involvement Improve the Science of AI? New in PNAS

November 2025

In the spring of 2024, the California Nurses Association picketed outside Kaiser San Francisco Medical center to draw attention to […]

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Brian Levine and Joanne Pasquarelli from the University of Massachusetts, Loyd Richardson from Protect Children, and Clay Shields from Georgetown University

The Human Cost of Anonymous Communication

October 2025

What is the human cost of encrypted communications? At the 2025 Trust and Safety Research Conference at Stanford University, one […]

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A box and pointer diagram showing the components of the CivilServant system. Components are divided into problem scoping & study design, data collection & storage, experiment deployment & management, and results analysis & reporting. Shows interaction with reddit, twitter, lumen, and 3rd-party moderation tools.

CivilServant: Citizen Science for Online Communities

October 2025

Moderators of online communities, often volunteers, work hard to protect their communities from harassment, misinformation, trolls, and other online harms. But which policies and procedures actually work?

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Protecting Fundamental Rights with the Science of Civil Liberties

July 2025

When leaders of a large immigrant church in Boston stood in front of their congregation on January 26, they noticed […]

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Studying & Stewarding Digital Environments with Participatory Science

June 2025

Participatory/community/citizen science has transformed how scientists think about discovery, re-orienting the scientific endeavor toward collaboration with the people of the […]

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Scott Loarie, Executive Director of iNaturalist, presenting at the 2025 CAPS meeting, in front of a screen with photos of people collecting images.

For Fun, Science, and Action: Scott Loarie on iNaturalist

May 2025

How can people who might not see themselves as scientists have fun while contributing to science and making a difference […]

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A large collection of cars, buses, cabs, and pedestrians are stuck in a traffic jam that stretches in multiple directions at an intersection in New York City.

Fixing the Traffic Jam in the Science of Technology Safety

April 2025

Why does it take so long for science to spot harmful technology products and support the search for safer alternatives? […]

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AI Digital Safety & Puerto Rican Youth

April 2025

When Setzer Garcia started interacting with the Character.AI chatbot in 2023, just after his 14th birthday, his mother, Megan, thought […]

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Embodying Stories for Resisting Technology: Anti-Colonial Approaches to Human-Computer Interaction

April 2025

How can we create interactive narratives that foster a liberatory approach to current and potential sociotechnical systems? What are the […]

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