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Some of the best computer scientists I have met and are friends with have studied at #SharifUniversity. Today, this university is under attack by a ruthless dictatorial regime that is targeting the brightest of people. Be their voice, social awareness matters #IranProtests

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@ehsan_hoque Congratulations @ehsan_hoque! This is exciting news!

1/6) India is on fire. 7 people will die/min unless we set up hospital beds+oxygen. Sending concentrators is not sufficient. Hospital beds need that and more! So, #PoojaMalik, #NeerajGarg and I decided to set up onemorebreath.org. I will donate $20/re-tweet upto $100K

Multiple positions in research and engineering available in @MSFTResearch meaningful and high impact Human Centered AI group. See links in the thread below to apply.

@erlaxs ✂️🪦😞

@vanimt They were right next to the junk drawer scissors too. 🙄 I can only guess what the good ones were used on. Plastic clam shell? Foil cat treat pouch?

Somehow... SOMEHOW my fabric scissors ended up in the junk drawer...

Don't miss @marylgray's panel, "The Democratization of Data" at #WiDS2021 on March 8. Mary is a 2020 MacArthur Fellow whose research focuses on how people’s everyday uses of technologies transform labor, identity, and human rights. Register now: bit.ly/marygray

Please amplify: we (Microsoft & our industry partners) just launched the Indoor Location Competition 2.0 on Kaggle! First-of-its-kind large-scale benchmark dataset released. Advisory board members from top universities in US, UK, & China. Win $10k prize🏆! aka.ms/location20

Over 700,000 paintings from the Rijksmuseum are being released under Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2021/01/2…

Pionnier in #openscience for decades, @CERN has announced going farther with a new #opendate policy at the LHC, which will make data available to the extended scientific community as well as the general public #reproductibility #replication #collaboration home.cern/news/press-rel…

@GariClifford You are welcome here!

(1/3) Ruth Bader Ginsburg lived a towering life. She should be admired, remembered, and honored. It would be nice if our politics allowed even a day to pass before pouncing on the death of a patriot for political purposes.

Deadline extended (Sep 24) for submissions to #CSCW2020 virtual workshop on Interrogating Data Science. Submit work on human and social contributions to data science, critical views, data curation, and more. See website for details: sites.google.com/view/interroga…. #cscw #datascience

Amazing tip for teachers this coming week I saw on our internal school group. Tape a pencil to the back of your laptop and tip/hang a CD over the front, angled down. Instant free document camera.

@rayidghani, Sarah Stone and I look forward to welcoming KDD attendees to the social impact session at 1:30 PM today kdd.org/kdd2020/speake… @kdd_news recognizing social impact papers, DSSG lightning talks and keynote talks from Lucia Tan @ACLU and @RVaithianathan

@southerndsc @_brohrer_ @billfranksga It’s been fun to connect with everyone, thanks for tuning in, and for the questions!

A big thank you and S/O to @_brohrer_ , @vanimt , & @billfranksga for kicking off #SDSC20 today‼️🙌 Tune in right now to the Southern Data Science Conference to see the rest of our speakers for the day. #DataScience #Ethics #tech

Videos now available - your chance to catch up on any sessions that you may have missed at MSR's Frontiers in Machine Learning event last week!