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Dallas Card @dallascard.bsky.social · 5d

This game from UChicago is incredible! It might be a bit painful to play, especially for those of us who already spend too much time on email, but the concept and execution are brilliant!

Dang Nguyen @divingwithorcas.bsky.social · 12d

HR Simulator™: a game where you gaslight, deflect, and “let’s circle back” your way to victory.
Every email a boss fight, every “per my last message” a critical hit… or maybe you just overplayed your hand 🫠
Can you earn Enlightened Bureaucrat status?

(link below!)

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Andy Halterman @ahalterman.bsky.social · 19d

Very excited that my paper with @katakeith.bsky.social is now out in @polanalysis.bsky.social. We investigate whether LLMs actually follow the instructions/definitions provided in codebooks, propose some diagnostics, and release a new evaluation dataset.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Codebook LLMs: Evaluating LLMs as Measurement Tools for Political Science Concepts | Political Analysis | Cambridge Core

Codebook LLMs: Evaluating LLMs as Measurement Tools for Political Science Concepts

www.cambridge.org

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Dallas Card @dallascard.bsky.social · 22d

UMSI is running multiple searches this year, starting with the John Derby Evans Professor in Information, at the Assistant or Associate level!

This is open to anyone working at the intersection of tech and society, with a closing date of Nov 1, 2025. Please share!

www.si.umich.edu/people/facul...

John Derby Evans Professorship in Information (Assistant or Associate Professor) | umsi

The University of Michigan School of Information (UMSI) invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position focusing on technology and society.

www.si.umich.edu

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Dallas Card @dallascard.bsky.social · 29d

So happy that bookmarks have finally been added!

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EMNLP @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social · Aug 29

#EMNLP2025 is offering diversity and inclusion funds for registration, caregiving, bandwidth, travel and VPN subsidies.

To apply, please carefully read the requirements on this page, and follow the link that is provided there, by September 24, 2025: 2025.emnlp.org/calls/subsid...

Call for EMNLP 2025 Diversity and Inclusion Subsidies

Official website for the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

2025.emnlp.org

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Axel Bax @axel-bax.bsky.social · Aug 28

We are trying to create a list of in-copyright novels that contain maps. If you know of some, drop them in the thread below! 🧵👇

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Dallas Card @dallascard.bsky.social · Aug 28

A borderline case might be Larson's Devil in the White City; a random find is Damascus Gate by Robert Stone

Dallas Card @dallascard.bsky.social · Aug 28

+1 to YA / fantasy: The Fifth Season trilogy by Jemisin, as someone else mentioned; Le Guin's Wizard of Earthsea series (also The Dispossessed)

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Emma Pierson @emmapierson.bsky.social · Aug 22

🚨 New postdoc position in our lab at Berkeley EECS! 🚨

(please reshare)

We seek applicants with experience in language modeling who are excited about high-impact applications in the health and social sciences!

More info in thread

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EMNLP @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social · Aug 20

✨We are thrilled to announce that over 3200 papers have been accepted to #EMNLP2025 ✨

This includes over 1800 main conference papers and over 1400 papers in findings!

Congratulations to all authors!! 🎉🎉🎉

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Dallas Card @dallascard.bsky.social · Aug 20

Congratulations!!

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EMNLP @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social · Aug 15

The Call for #EMNLP2025 student volunteers is out:
2025.emnlp.org/calls/volunt...
Please fill out the form by 20 Sep 2026: forms.gle/qfTkVGyDitXi...
For questions, you can contact emnlp2025-student-volunteer-chairs [at] googlegroups [dot] com
CC @a-lauscher.bsky.social @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social

Call for Volunteers

Official website for the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

2025.emnlp.org

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François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · Aug 7

"it doesn’t take generational change for words to take on new meanings or lose old one"

Analysis of more than a century’s worth of political speeches challenges theory about how linguistic usage evolves | McGill University www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/cha...

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Dallas Card @dallascard.bsky.social · Aug 4

This sounds like an incredible postdoc opportunity!

Antoine Bosselut @abosselut.bsky.social · Aug 4

The EPFL NLP lab is looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher on the topic of designing, training, and evaluating multilingual LLMs:

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Come join our dynamic group in beautiful Lausanne!

EPFL NLP Postdoctoral Scholar Posting - Swiss AI LLMs

The EPFL Natural Language Processing (NLP) lab is looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher candidate in the area of multilingual LLM design, training, and evaluation. This postdoctoral position is as...

docs.google.com

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Dallas Card @dallascard.bsky.social · Aug 2

Very nice coverage of our PNAS paper, by the great Philip Ball! bsky.app/profile/did:... (paper here: t.co/9rgnO77BkJ) @grvkamath.bsky.social @msonderegger.bsky.social @sivareddyg.bsky.social

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Benno Krojer @bennokrojer.bsky.social · Jul 29

Super cool work on quantifying with NLP how language evolves through generations

In linguistics, the "apparent time hypothesis" famously discusses this but never empirically tests it

Gaurav Kamath @grvkamath.bsky.social · Jul 29

Our new paper in #PNAS (bit.ly/4fcWfma) presents a surprising finding—when words change meaning, older speakers rapidly adopt the new usage; inter-generational differences are often minor.

w/ Michelle Yang, ‪@sivareddyg.bsky.social‬ , @msonderegger.bsky.social‬ and @dallascard.bsky.social‬👇(1/12)

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Dallas Card @dallascard.bsky.social · Jul 29

Thanks, that means a lot coming from you Nikhil!

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Dallas Card @dallascard.bsky.social · Jul 29

Please also check out this thread by Gauarv, which also summarizes our findings: bsky.app/profile/grvk...

Gaurav Kamath @grvkamath.bsky.social · Jul 29

Our new paper in #PNAS (bit.ly/4fcWfma) presents a surprising finding—when words change meaning, older speakers rapidly adopt the new usage; inter-generational differences are often minor.

w/ Michelle Yang, ‪@sivareddyg.bsky.social‬ , @msonderegger.bsky.social‬ and @dallascard.bsky.social‬👇(1/12)

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Dallas Card @dallascard.bsky.social · Jul 29

I'd be delighted to talk more about this, so if you're at #ACL2025, please send me a message or come say hello!

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Dallas Card @dallascard.bsky.social · Jul 29

If anyone has access to a large corpus of text spanning a long time period, with both time and speaker age, AND which includes younger speakers, we would be very interested in hearing from you!

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Dallas Card @dallascard.bsky.social · Jul 29

Moreover, we have used entirely public data, and make our replication code available, and would encourage others to build on this work. github.com/McGill-NLP/m...

GitHub - McGill-NLP/meaning-change

Contribute to McGill-NLP/meaning-change development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Dallas Card @dallascard.bsky.social · Jul 29

There are of course many limitations to this work, the most important of which is the fact that we only include speech by adults over 24 years of age. But as the first large-scale study of this phenomenon, our work helps to establish a key baseline result.

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Dallas Card @dallascard.bsky.social · Jul 29

To sum up, this means that the "apparent time hypothesis" does not apply when it comes to meaning. Unlike phonology, we cannot treat older speakers in a data sample from one point in time as representative of an earlier state of the language!

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Dallas Card @dallascard.bsky.social · Jul 29

For those words with enough mentions, we can even look at the patterns for individual speakers, further demonstrating the way speakers adapt to newer meanings of words over their lifespan.

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Dallas Card @dallascard.bsky.social · Jul 29

In other words, older adults are slightly slower than younger adults to adopt newer meanings, but only slightly. In general, adults adapt to new meanings quite quickly, as we can also see by looking at generation-wise plots.

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