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I get to spend the next 5 years investigating how to best help students and practitioners be forward-thinking about ethical issues and harms in technology design, thanks to a CAREER award from @NSF.
https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/2021/04/09/intervention-how-ethical-speculation-could-prevent-future-tech-trouble





I get to spend the next 5 years investigating how to best help students and practitioners be forward-thinking about ethical issues and harms in technology design, thanks to a CAREER award from @NSF.

Here's the official description with a (very brief, high level!) overview of the research that my students and I will be working on. I'm really excited to have a lot of partnerships with instructors in @cuinfoscience and @CUEngineering as well as @InnovateCUBldr

FAQ: This funding is earmarked to support PhD students (like my early stage advisees doing tech ethics adjacent work! @LifeofNoods @shamikalashawn @KandreaWade @_jessiejsmith_ ) but if folks are seeking postdocs and my work interests you check out https://cra.org/cra-ccc-announces-cifellows-2021-program/
And though of course none of this work has been DONE yet, if you want to read more about some of the ideas behind it: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3779036
I cannot adequately express my excitement in text so here it is as a TikTok trend
And now the final part of this thread, some thoughts-while-they're-fresh on writing CAREER proposals, which I promise I will expand on later. (Think anyone ever searches for "how to write a career proposal" on YouTube?)
1. Start early because it will take longer than you think.
1. Start early because it will take longer than you think.