Maria Antoniak
@mariaa.bsky.social
☀️ Assistant Professor of Computer Science at CU Boulder 👩💻 NLP, cultural analytics, narratives, online communities 🌐 https://maria-antoniak.github.io 💬 books, bikes, games, art
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Maria Antoniak
@mariaa.bsky.social
· Nov 20
some little bluesky tips 🦋
your blocks, likes, lists, and just about everything except chats are PUBLIC
you can pin custom feeds; i like quiet posters, best of follows, mutuals, mentions
if your chronological feed is overwhelming, you can make and pin make a personal list of "unmissable" people
your blocks, likes, lists, and just about everything except chats are PUBLIC
you can pin custom feeds; i like quiet posters, best of follows, mutuals, mentions
if your chronological feed is overwhelming, you can make and pin make a personal list of "unmissable" people
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The seriousness of what’s happening to university computing really isn’t braking through to the faculty like it should.
As my friend just said, “Getting the university to understand the threats not from russian cyberterrorists but rather federal investigations using subpoenas has been my main frustration.”
Because they’re putting spyware on all our computers at the moment. Which seems like fucking great timing.
Because they’re putting spyware on all our computers at the moment. Which seems like fucking great timing.
Senators Want Extremism Researchers to Surrender Documents Linked to Right-Wing Grudges
The Senate homeland security committee's chair has asked researchers to turn over troves of documents related to the January 6 attack, vaccines, and more, according to a letter reviewed by WIRED.
www.wired.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:18 AM
The seriousness of what’s happening to university computing really isn’t braking through to the faculty like it should.
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I don't have words for the sort of confused this makes me feel.
Reporter: Are you affirming that you think the president is a fascist?
Mamdani: I've spoken about --
Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
Mamdani: I've spoken about --
Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I don't have words for the sort of confused this makes me feel.
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If an international student wanted advice on what kind of activism she can safely get involved in, where might this student look for answers?
November 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
If an international student wanted advice on what kind of activism she can safely get involved in, where might this student look for answers?
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Here's a short thing on adversarial language, following yesterday's poetry news. It argues for interpretability work undertaken via literary studies and tries to acknowledge some difficulties this would entail.
For Those Who May Find Themselves on the Red Team: tylershoemaker.info/docs/shoemak...
For Those Who May Find Themselves on the Red Team: tylershoemaker.info/docs/shoemak...
November 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Here's a short thing on adversarial language, following yesterday's poetry news. It argues for interpretability work undertaken via literary studies and tries to acknowledge some difficulties this would entail.
For Those Who May Find Themselves on the Red Team: tylershoemaker.info/docs/shoemak...
For Those Who May Find Themselves on the Red Team: tylershoemaker.info/docs/shoemak...
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Sharing the slides for a talk on faculty job search
Hope it's helpful to people exploring and preparing for the process.
Feedback is welcome!
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/p7xdt...
Hope it's helpful to people exploring and preparing for the process.
Feedback is welcome!
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/p7xdt...
November 21, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Sharing the slides for a talk on faculty job search
Hope it's helpful to people exploring and preparing for the process.
Feedback is welcome!
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/p7xdt...
Hope it's helpful to people exploring and preparing for the process.
Feedback is welcome!
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/p7xdt...
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📚 MajinBook: Metadata for 500,000 books from Library Genesis & GoodReads. Huge work from Antoine Mazières, see: ⬇️ arxiv.org/abs/2511.11412
MajinBook: An open catalogue of digital world literature with likes
This data paper introduces MajinBook, an open catalogue designed to facilitate the use of shadow libraries--such as Library Genesis and Z-Library--for computational social science and cultural analyti...
arxiv.org
November 21, 2025 at 5:46 PM
📚 MajinBook: Metadata for 500,000 books from Library Genesis & GoodReads. Huge work from Antoine Mazières, see: ⬇️ arxiv.org/abs/2511.11412
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Wisconsin-Madison CS is recruiting faculty for natural language processing!
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor of Computer Sciences: Natural Language Processing (RISE-AI) - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
jobs.wisc.edu
November 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Wisconsin-Madison CS is recruiting faculty for natural language processing!
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
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AIM's 2nd round of TTK hiring - building up to 30 - is up!
📅 Ddl 12/22/25
🔬 Accessibility & Learning, plus Sustainability & Social Justice
🧑🏫 Associate/Full Prof*
🔗 umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j...
*Assistant-level candidates: apply to departments, mentioning AIM in a cover letter
📅 Ddl 12/22/25
🔬 Accessibility & Learning, plus Sustainability & Social Justice
🧑🏫 Associate/Full Prof*
🔗 umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j...
*Assistant-level candidates: apply to departments, mentioning AIM in a cover letter
Senior Tenure Track Faculty at the Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland (AIM) - Associate Professor/Professor (Open Rank Joint Appointment)
Job Description Summary Organization Summary Statement: The Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland - AIM (aim.umd.edu) - is hiring 40 faculty over the next several years, incl...
umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
AIM's 2nd round of TTK hiring - building up to 30 - is up!
📅 Ddl 12/22/25
🔬 Accessibility & Learning, plus Sustainability & Social Justice
🧑🏫 Associate/Full Prof*
🔗 umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j...
*Assistant-level candidates: apply to departments, mentioning AIM in a cover letter
📅 Ddl 12/22/25
🔬 Accessibility & Learning, plus Sustainability & Social Justice
🧑🏫 Associate/Full Prof*
🔗 umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j...
*Assistant-level candidates: apply to departments, mentioning AIM in a cover letter
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a Friday surprise! my beloved book, Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook, is now officially back in print AND ON SALE! #othernetworks if you know folks who have been trying to track down a copy, I'd love it if you'd repost shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898...
Lori Emerson - Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook. Mexican Summer & Anthology.
Buy Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook by Lori Emerson on Mexican Summer & Anthology.
shop.mexicansummer.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM
a Friday surprise! my beloved book, Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook, is now officially back in print AND ON SALE! #othernetworks if you know folks who have been trying to track down a copy, I'd love it if you'd repost shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898...
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Summary: a (rather simple) AI bot can not only successfully evade survey-level protections, it can also mimic personas accurately across questions, parse photos/videos, and infer the researcher’s hypotheses to produce data that confirms them.
The official paper link:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The official paper link:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
November 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Summary: a (rather simple) AI bot can not only successfully evade survey-level protections, it can also mimic personas accurately across questions, parse photos/videos, and infer the researcher’s hypotheses to produce data that confirms them.
The official paper link:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The official paper link:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Once again astonished that Elon is building a propaganda machine in public, saying "hello, here is my propaganda machine", and the tech community continues to use it
November 21, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Once again astonished that Elon is building a propaganda machine in public, saying "hello, here is my propaganda machine", and the tech community continues to use it
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This study show that using poems to jailbreak LLMs is... super effective? What the heck.
November 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
This study show that using poems to jailbreak LLMs is... super effective? What the heck.
Honored to be part of this initiative to explore "Humanistic AI"! Hosted at the University of Chicago and led by @hoytlong.bsky.social and Chris Kennedy, we're collaborating in a series of interdisciplinary workshops and projects to think about how the humanities can contribute to AI and vice versa.
New UChicago project explores how humanities can advance AI research
Interdisciplinary group at the Neubauer Collegium to examine what generative AI reveals about humanistic knowledge and creativity
news.uchicago.edu
November 20, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Honored to be part of this initiative to explore "Humanistic AI"! Hosted at the University of Chicago and led by @hoytlong.bsky.social and Chris Kennedy, we're collaborating in a series of interdisciplinary workshops and projects to think about how the humanities can contribute to AI and vice versa.
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Our postdoc search is open! socialmediacollective.org/2025/11/20/s...
Apply for our sociotechnical systems postdoc position, for July 2026
Microsoft Research New England is looking for a postdoctoral researcher interested in bringing sociotechnical perspectives to analyze critical issues of our time. They will join a team of social sc…
socialmediacollective.org
November 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Our postdoc search is open! socialmediacollective.org/2025/11/20/s...
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Spread the word! 📢 The FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics) group at @msftresearch.bsky.social in NYC is hiring interns and postdocs to start in summer 2026! 🎉
Apply by *December 15* for full consideration.
Apply by *December 15* for full consideration.
November 20, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Spread the word! 📢 The FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics) group at @msftresearch.bsky.social in NYC is hiring interns and postdocs to start in summer 2026! 🎉
Apply by *December 15* for full consideration.
Apply by *December 15* for full consideration.
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we released Olmo 3! lot of exciting stuff but wanna focus on:
🐟Olmo 3 32B Base, the best fully-open base model to-date, near Qwen 2.5 & Gemma 3 on diverse evals
🐠Olmo 3 32B Think, first fully-open reasoning model approaching Qwen 3 levels
🐡12 training datasets corresp to different staged training
🐟Olmo 3 32B Base, the best fully-open base model to-date, near Qwen 2.5 & Gemma 3 on diverse evals
🐠Olmo 3 32B Think, first fully-open reasoning model approaching Qwen 3 levels
🐡12 training datasets corresp to different staged training
November 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
we released Olmo 3! lot of exciting stuff but wanna focus on:
🐟Olmo 3 32B Base, the best fully-open base model to-date, near Qwen 2.5 & Gemma 3 on diverse evals
🐠Olmo 3 32B Think, first fully-open reasoning model approaching Qwen 3 levels
🐡12 training datasets corresp to different staged training
🐟Olmo 3 32B Base, the best fully-open base model to-date, near Qwen 2.5 & Gemma 3 on diverse evals
🐠Olmo 3 32B Think, first fully-open reasoning model approaching Qwen 3 levels
🐡12 training datasets corresp to different staged training
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I just spent an unreasonable amount of time turning 270k+ Steam reviews into an NLP playground.
If you’re into NLP, transformers, or real-world text messiness, the full case study is here: buthonestly.io/programming/...
#nlp #machinelearning #sentimentanalysis #emotionanalysis
If you’re into NLP, transformers, or real-world text messiness, the full case study is here: buthonestly.io/programming/...
#nlp #machinelearning #sentimentanalysis #emotionanalysis
DistilRoBERTa Emotion Analysis: NLP Case Study on Steam Reviews
How to run DistilRoBERTa emotion analysis in an NLP case study: cleaning a real Steam reviews dataset tagging moods, plotting results, and exploring sentiment.
buthonestly.io
November 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I just spent an unreasonable amount of time turning 270k+ Steam reviews into an NLP playground.
If you’re into NLP, transformers, or real-world text messiness, the full case study is here: buthonestly.io/programming/...
#nlp #machinelearning #sentimentanalysis #emotionanalysis
If you’re into NLP, transformers, or real-world text messiness, the full case study is here: buthonestly.io/programming/...
#nlp #machinelearning #sentimentanalysis #emotionanalysis
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We present Olmo 3, our next family of fully open, leading language models.
This family of 7B and 32B models represents:
1. The best 32B base model.
2. The best 7B Western thinking & instruct models.
3. The first 32B (or larger) fully open reasoning model.
This family of 7B and 32B models represents:
1. The best 32B base model.
2. The best 7B Western thinking & instruct models.
3. The first 32B (or larger) fully open reasoning model.
November 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
We present Olmo 3, our next family of fully open, leading language models.
This family of 7B and 32B models represents:
1. The best 32B base model.
2. The best 7B Western thinking & instruct models.
3. The first 32B (or larger) fully open reasoning model.
This family of 7B and 32B models represents:
1. The best 32B base model.
2. The best 7B Western thinking & instruct models.
3. The first 32B (or larger) fully open reasoning model.
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I have been feeling depressed and discouraged that this man has the power and influence he does at my school and in my profession
And I am a tenured professor at Harvard! How much more protected can I be?
Imagine how STUDENTS feel. Junior faculty. This quote nails it
And I am a tenured professor at Harvard! How much more protected can I be?
Imagine how STUDENTS feel. Junior faculty. This quote nails it
November 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I have been feeling depressed and discouraged that this man has the power and influence he does at my school and in my profession
And I am a tenured professor at Harvard! How much more protected can I be?
Imagine how STUDENTS feel. Junior faculty. This quote nails it
And I am a tenured professor at Harvard! How much more protected can I be?
Imagine how STUDENTS feel. Junior faculty. This quote nails it
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Also new in today's v1.110 release:
We’ve redesigned the “who can reply” settings to make them clearer and easier to use. You can also now save your choices as the default for future posts, giving you easier control over the conversations you start.
We’ve redesigned the “who can reply” settings to make them clearer and easier to use. You can also now save your choices as the default for future posts, giving you easier control over the conversations you start.
November 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Also new in today's v1.110 release:
We’ve redesigned the “who can reply” settings to make them clearer and easier to use. You can also now save your choices as the default for future posts, giving you easier control over the conversations you start.
We’ve redesigned the “who can reply” settings to make them clearer and easier to use. You can also now save your choices as the default for future posts, giving you easier control over the conversations you start.
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And here is the presentation I gave on networking, self-promo, and how to make the most out of a conference. Hope this helps for everyone at NeurIPS!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9hG...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9hG...
Conferencemaxxing: How to grow your profile and network as a scientist
YouTube video by Michael Saxon (NLP & Generative AI research)
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM
And here is the presentation I gave on networking, self-promo, and how to make the most out of a conference. Hope this helps for everyone at NeurIPS!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9hG...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9hG...
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Excited about my new op-ed on the observer effect in the age of LLMs and Generative AI published at @techpolicypress.bsky.social. Thanks for the amazing mentorship, @micheleweldon.bsky.social .
One reason LLMs are so popular is the promise of seemingly private, judgment-free interaction. But once users internalize that their data is being recorded, studied, or reused, it could lead to a shift in how people think, speak, and even feel when using AI, says computer scientist Koustuv Saha.
The Risks of the 'Observer Effect' from Being Watched by AI | TechPolicy.Press
Dr. Koustuv Saha says if users begin to feel their privacy is compromised, they may stop using AI in the very ways that make it useful.
www.techpolicy.press
November 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Excited about my new op-ed on the observer effect in the age of LLMs and Generative AI published at @techpolicypress.bsky.social. Thanks for the amazing mentorship, @micheleweldon.bsky.social .
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As a fan of weird but revealing benchmarks, I enjoyed this historian’s attempts to have different frontier AIs build “a full featured RPG game where you play as Henry James wandering as a flâneur at the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris.” HenryBench? open.substack.com/pub/resobscu...
How well can Gemini 3 make a Henry James simulator?
Finally, a benchmark for LLMs with real-world value
open.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:13 AM
As a fan of weird but revealing benchmarks, I enjoyed this historian’s attempts to have different frontier AIs build “a full featured RPG game where you play as Henry James wandering as a flâneur at the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris.” HenryBench? open.substack.com/pub/resobscu...
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📢 The #CHR2025 proceedings are out!
97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper.
🔗 anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!
97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper.
🔗 anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!
Edited by Taylor Arnold, Margherita Fantoli, and Ruben Ros
anthology.ach.org
November 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
📢 The #CHR2025 proceedings are out!
97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper.
🔗 anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!
97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper.
🔗 anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!
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*Tonight* at 4:30, our fall semester of Modeling Culture talks closes w/ Anna Preus. This talk draws on industry-wide publishing data to explore the output of London’s book business, emphasizing the influence of high-profile authors from colonized nations on British print in the early 20th century.
Nov 18: "Publishing Empire: Modeling Early 20th-Century British Book Culture" with Anna Preus, Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Washington. Info/RSVP:
Publishing Empire: Modeling Early 20th-Century British Book Culture
Publishing Empire: Modeling Early 20th-Century British Book Culture
cdh.princeton.edu
November 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
*Tonight* at 4:30, our fall semester of Modeling Culture talks closes w/ Anna Preus. This talk draws on industry-wide publishing data to explore the output of London’s book business, emphasizing the influence of high-profile authors from colonized nations on British print in the early 20th century.