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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 1d

Junior and senior faculty positions in computational social scientists at Bocconi, one of the world's best universiites: Assistant Prof: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu?id=841
Associate/Full Prof: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu?id=843

Job Market - Bocconi University

Recruiting, Faculty, Post-doc Grant, Collaboration Contracts

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Gabriella Lapesa @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social · 6d

Join our Computational Social Science department at GESIS! PhD position in Research Software Engineering!

Sebastian Stier @sebstier.bsky.social · 6d

📢 We're hiring a Doctoral Student in Research Software Engineering for Digital Behavioral Data!
Work at the intersection of computer science and social science, develop innovative tools, and pursue your doctoral degree with us.

👉 Apply here: www.gesis.org/en/institute...

Details

GESIS Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften

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David Bamman @dbamman.bsky.social · 15d

The UC Berkeley School of Information is hiring an assistant professor in the broad field of Information--including areas of info seeking/retrieval, digital humanities, cultural analytics, info viz, & philosophy of information (among others). Deadline Nov 1! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05014

Assistant Professor - Information - School of Information

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Sarita @saritas.bsky.social · 23d

John Derby Evans Professorship in Information (Assistant or Associate Professor) at UMSI. Apps due Nov 1. 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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Morteza Dehghani @mdehghani.bsky.social · Sep 8

Come work with us at USC! We're hiring an NSF-funded Postdoc for the Everyday Respect Project. 🤖

You'll work directly with me, Ben Graham, and Shri Narayanan, using cutting-edge AI to analyze police body-worn camera footage to improve police-community relations.

Postdoctoral Scholar - Research Associate at USC

Learn more about applying for Postdoctoral Scholar - Research Associate at USC

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Sarita @saritas.bsky.social · Aug 28

UMSI Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship. Apps due Nov 1. careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

UMSI Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship | U-M Careers

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David Jurgens @davidjurgens.bsky.social · Aug 28

so if you're interested in joining a vibrant community of scholars, consider applying careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

UMSI Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship | U-M Careers

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David Jurgens @davidjurgens.bsky.social · Aug 28

Interesting in being a future faculty member at UMSI? We're recruiting for the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP) this year, which is a two-year postdoc with an opportunity to convert to faculty at the end (several current faculty were PPFP fellows!). The deadline is a month away...

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Dan Jurafsky @jurafsky.bsky.social · Aug 24

Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...

Speech and Language Processing

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Dustin Wright @dustinbwright.com · Aug 25

🎉 Our work on attribution in summarization is now accepted to #EMNLP2025 main! 🎉

"Unstructured Evidence Attribution for Long Context Query Focused Summarization"

w/ @zainmujahid.me , Lu Wang, @iaugenstein.bsky.social , and @davidjurgens.bsky.social

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Jon Brennan @jonrbrennan.bsky.social · Aug 15

Another job here at Michigan - this one in Linguistics! Part of a cluster of hires with a focus on Cognitive Science and AI. Happy to chat to interested folks. apply.interfolio.com/171006

Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio

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Data Science Hamburg Group @ds-hamburg.bsky.social · Jul 29

Wondering what makes each of us unique and how AI should handle human diversity? 🤔

We're organizing Identity-Aware AI workshop at #ECAI2025 Bologna on Oct 25.

Deadline: Aug 22
Website: identity-aware-ai.github.io

Identity-Aware AI Workshop announcement. Co-located with ECAI 2025 in Bologna on October 25, with submission deadline August 22. Topics include: Methods for effective, fair, and inclusive AI; Critiques of AI on the exclusion of identities; Methods for detecting and controlling bias; Perspectivist approaches to AI. Submission types: Long papers (8 pages), Short papers (4 pages), Extended abstracts, Mixed-media submissions (videos, blogs, codebase, artworks). For details, visit: identity-aware-ai.github.io

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ACL @aclmeeting.bsky.social · Jul 30

Best Resource Paper (1/2) #ACL2025NLP

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David Jurgens @davidjurgens.bsky.social · Jul 27

Feel free to reach out on BlueSky or email if you want to connect (I'm terrible at checking Whova)

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David Jurgens @davidjurgens.bsky.social · Jul 27

I'll be at #ACL2025 with a variety of papers on podcasts, linguistic accommodation, whether papers cite accurately, multilingual morals, demographically-prompted LLMs, how tokenization affects style recognition, and new multilingual data for author attribution. Looking forward to catching up!

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David Jurgens @davidjurgens.bsky.social · Jul 25

Michigan allows it and I haven't heard of any issues from the sponsored research office about the terms

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David Jurgens @davidjurgens.bsky.social · Jul 22

She also had a cool recent paper on this topic too dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....

How Scientists Use Large Language Models to Program | Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.

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David Jurgens @davidjurgens.bsky.social · Jul 22

There's also an opt-in raffle for five $100 cash awards. Scientists from any research area, career track, or stage (including student research assistants) are invited. If you want to share your experiences umich.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Scientists who Program Survey

A survey for scientists who program and their experience with development practices and generative AI code tools.

umich.qualtrics.com

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David Jurgens @davidjurgens.bsky.social · Jul 22

Do you using GenAI to help code? My colleague Elle O'Brien is running a study to answer questions about your programming practices and tool usage, including experiences with AI code assistants. The survey is anonymous and should take no more than 10-15 minutes to complete.

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Lucy Li @lucy3.bsky.social · Jul 22

I'm sadly not at #IC2S2 😭, but I will be at #ACL2025 in Vienna ☕️ next week!!

Please spread the word that I'm recruiting prospective PhD students: lucy3.notion.site/for-prospect...

For Prospective PhD Students

I’m recruiting PhD students who will begin their degree in Fall 2026! I am an incoming assistant professor at Wisconsin-Madison’s Computer Sciences department, and my research focuses on natural langu...

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Dustin Wright @dustinbwright.com · Jul 21

Open PhD positions in Denmark! daracademy.dk/fellowship/f...

If you want to apply to work with me and Johannes Bjerva at @aau.dk Copenhagen, I'll be at @ic2s2.bsky.social this week and @aclmeeting.bsky.social next week! DM me if you'd like to meet :)

Dara

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David Jurgens @davidjurgens.bsky.social · Jul 20

There are a bunch of other interesting experiments in the paper too. I'll be around ACL too so come chat with any of us

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David Jurgens @davidjurgens.bsky.social · Jul 20

This isn't to say that some future model can't learn these preferences BUT it strongly suggests that we need to be more careful when when trying to model different sources of systematic rating variance. If we hadn't also tested annotator variance we would have incorrectly thought demographics helped

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David Jurgens @davidjurgens.bsky.social · Jul 20

... it turns out LLMs are mostly treating demographic combinations as annotators' IDs and just learning individual preferences. These are useful too and just leaning annotator preferences does equally as well as using demographics. But adding demographics with annotator IDs didn't help at all!

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David Jurgens @davidjurgens.bsky.social · Jul 20

This paper was such a fun collaboration—and a surprising result. I fully expected we could train LLMs to learn demographic preferences in ratings but

Matthias Orlikowski @morlikow.bsky.social · Jul 20

I will be at #acl2025 to present "Beyond Demographics: Fine-tuning Large Language Models to Predict Individuals’ Subjective Text Perceptions" ✨

Huge thank you to my collaborators Jiaxin Pei @paul-rottger.bsky.social Philipp Cimiano @davidjurgens.bsky.social @dirkhovy.bsky.social 🍰

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Picture of Matthias Orlikowski presenting a poster on the paper titled "Beyond Demographics: Fine-tuning Large Language Models to Predict Individuals’ Subjective Text Perceptions". The poster is similar to the one that will be presented at ACL 2025, showing a number of figures about the key results.

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