Voice cloning “kind of overnight, from quite technical to immediately consumer-accessible."
Ph.D. student @SBarrington_ spoke to @sciam about how to tell if a voice recording is AI-generated, and what's needed to do so.
scientificamerican.com/artic…
Join us for our SF Bay Area Alumni Chapter Holiday Meetup! - mailchi.mp/ischool/la-chapte…
Join us for our SF Bay Area Alumni Chapter Holiday Meetup! - mailchi.mp/ischool/la-chapte…
Join us for our SF Bay Area Alumni Chapter Holiday Meetup! - mailchi.mp/ischool/la-chapte…
Join the I School and @BIDS on Monday, Nov. 9, for the Cultural Analytics Series!
@mmvty and @Wouter_Haverals present "Ends of Prosody: Histories, Methods, Frictions."
🕛 12-1:30 pm
📍210 South Hall & online
bit.ly/48vH0C5
ICYMI 📰: MIDS student Rachel Avram had a paper accepted to the Journal of Safety Research, “Impacts of Vision Zero Interventions on Pedestrian Casualties in New York City: An 11-Year Staggered Difference-in-Difference Analysis.” 🚦
➡️ Read more here: on.nyc.gov/3UmLyaE
ICYMI 📰: Emeritus Prof. Michael Buckland co-authored a paper, “On information science theory,” published in the Journal of Documentation. 📚
🔗 emerald.com/jd/article-abstr…

ALT Screenshot of a conceptual paper titled 'On information science theory' published on September 23, 2026, authored by William D. Senn and Michael Keeble Buckland, from Journal of Documentation. The paper includes sections labeled Purpose, and Design/methodology/approach. The Purpose section discusses the relevance of context over information content. The Design/methodology/approach section describes an analysis involving grammatical compression and figurative language in information processes. The document includes options like Get Permissions and Citations."
Ph.D. alum @zephoria returns to UC Berkeley tomorrow!
boyd will discuss what it takes to make democracy’s data — and what those who care about data and democracy should understand about the complexities of making high-stakes data.
Register to attend:
ischool.berkeley.edu/events/…
Meet second-year MIMS student Willie Macharia! 👋💻
This summer, he was a Software Engineer Intern at AWS, where he learned "how much of engineering at that scale is about communication and writing."
ischool.berkeley.edu/news/20…
Hi Again, Seattle! Join Berkeley I School Alumni for Topgolf - mailchi.mp/ischool/seattle-8…
Don't Miss Out: Join us for our LA Alumni Chapter Holiday Meetup! - mailchi.mp/ischool/la-chapte…
ICYMI 📰: Ph.D. students @lauren_marietta and Janiya Peters received scholarships to attend the Oxford-Berkeley Summer Doctoral Program in July. 🎓
➡️ Read more here: ischool.berkeley.edu/news/20…
MIDS alumna Stephanie Andrews worked on Olladoc as a GRIL Research Fellow at Berkeley Law while finishing her master's! 🌍🎓
The free tool can translate into 55 languages and runs on a user's computer, not a public LLM.
👀 Read more here: bit.ly/4iedeGu
Introducing the I School Bellwether Council! 🌟
11 philanthropic leaders are partnering with Dean Eric Meyer to advance the School’s top priorities: faculty excellence, real-world learning, and the future of South Hall.
➡️ Read more here: bit.ly/4BAygbm
Give a warm welcome to new Bellwether Postdoc @avisokay! 📊
Adam will be working with Prof. Josh Blumenstock, studying how to measure changing populations through proxy measures.
Fun fact: he's a former professional distance runner🏃
ischool.berkeley.edu/news/20…
📲 I School Ph.D alum @danahboyd co-authored a @techreview op-ed on kids and social media bans.
Authors argue that kids getting around age gates is a signal, and that policy should focus on company data practices instead.
➡️ Read more here: bit.ly/4sjGNuV
Upcoming Events at the School of Information 📅 - mailchi.mp/ischool/upcominge…
ICYMI 📰: Ph.D. student @lauren_marietta and Prof. Diag Davenport received a Best Paper Honorable Mention for “Putting the ‘Practice’ in Critical Technical Practice: A Decision-Making Pedagogy for the Public Interest Technology Clinic.”
Read more: bit.ly/4ikNYOL







