Winter Mason

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Data Paladin. Research manager.
CompanyMeta
RoleResearch manager for the Equity and Empowerment team
"If something is free, that just means you're the product", I say, squinting mistrustfully at the Sun

🚨 🚨 🚨JOB ALERT🚨 🚨 🚨
✨Come work with me at #UCL on my #UKRIFLF

👉Research Fellow in #TechAbuse in Intimate Partner Violence (#IPV) Contexts👈

💠Full-time #research role for 30 months (!) in the first instance
💠Become part of our super supportive #Gender & #Tech Group
💠Generous perks associated with this post

🗓️Info session to meet me/team & ask questions about this role: 15 December
⏰Submission: 15 January
🏁Start: 1 May (or earlier)

➡️See JD for further details: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search-ucl-jobs/details?nPostingId=2140&nPostingTargetId=2756&id=Q1KFK026203F3VBQBLO8M8M07&LG=UK&mask=ext

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Work at UCL

Do you play videogames? @VornhagenJB is running a study on experiences empowerment and disempowerment in play. As well as helping with the study, people seem to enjoy the opportunity to spend 15mins reflecting on an interesting game experiences.

Some of you may have already done this study - you'll see when you open the link. If so thanks! And also don't do it again!

https://par.cs.aalto.fi/limesurvey/index.php/746725?lang=en

really neat academic job for a Canada Research Chair in "Technological Change for Inclusion"! https://www.sfu.ca/siat/hiring/crc.html
Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) Technological Change for Inclusion

Full-time, ongoing, faculty position.

Hey everyone, I've seen a LOT of image posts since the Twitter migration where people aren't using image descriptions at all. One of the great things of Mastodon is that it allows visually-impaired folks to participate and enjoy all your wonderful photos and (possibly cursed) memes.

There's a FANTASTIC guide here on how to write great image descriptions, so please take like 30 seconds to make sure all your media is captioned: https://uxdesign.cc/how-to-write-an-image-description-2f30d3bf5546

How to write an image description

I wrote this how-to guide with the immensely helpful counsel and insights from Bex Leon and Robin Fanning, as well as through an online…

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27 November 1937 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Ina da Costa da Fonseca, was born in Amsterdam.

In September 1942 she was deported to Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

Children at Auschwitz.
Online lesson: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN/
&
Podcast: https://anchor.fm/auschwitz-memorial/episodes/On-Auschwitz-8-Children-at-Auschwitz-e16t4gh
#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #WorldWar2 #children #Netherlands #Amsterdam

Eduexe Course

🚨The Green Web Foundation is seeking five practitioners for a *paid* part-time fellowship of 10 months for 2023 🚨

Successful fellows will deliver a project that contributes to the #digitalrights and #climatejustice movements.

https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/fellowships/

Fellowships - Green Web Foundation

Learn more about the green web fellowship and its current and past cohorts

Green Web Foundation

The computer science department at Brown University is hiring faculty in HCI this year in "Human-computer interaction, including HCI+AI, and socially-responsible computing in HCI, especially explored through multiple methodologies."

The post is here: https://cs.brown.edu/about/positions/

The department has been growing, and has had an emphasis on socially responsible computing. Brown is in Providence, a city with great lifestyle and terrific arts/food scene, and the application deadline is December 1.

Brown CS: Positions

Want to help redesign one of the most popular and widely-used tools for researchers?

Zotero is hiring a designer: https://www.zotero.org/jobs/ui_designer

Would do it if I could. Ideal for someone else who has great UX / product design chops.

Zotero | Jobs at Zotero

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.

Call for Papers – 15th ACM Web Science Conference 2023