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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · Jun 23

If you're at #FACCT2025 today, check out our AI Workers' Inquiry, where we'll have a stellar panel of workers organizing against AI and host a participatory session.

You can also participate online!

ai-workers-inquiry.github.io

AI Workers' Inquiry

AI Workers' Inquiry is a FAccT 2025 CRAFT workshop that brings together workers, organizers, and labor experts to explore how AI is transforming our workplaces and discuss strategies for collective re...

ai-workers-inquiry.github.io

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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · Jun 23

my teenagehood destroyed: pbrush now has AI support.

Screenshot of pbrush with a Copilot tab.

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Inria Paris NLP (ALMAnaCH team) @inriaparisnlp.bsky.social · Jun 18

We are delighted to announce our next seminar by Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social ‬(@univofmaryland.bsky.social, currently on sabbatical at @sorbonne-universite.fr) entitled "Fairness and Trustworthiness in Generative Al" on Friday 20th June at 11am CEST.

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Marine Carpuat @marinecarpuat.bsky.social · Jun 18

What should Machine Translation research look like in the age of multilingual LLMs?

Here’s one answer from researchers across NLP/MT, Translation Studies, and HCI.
"An Interdisciplinary Approach to Human-Centered Machine Translation"
arxiv.org/abs/2506.13468

An Interdisciplinary Approach to Human-Centered Machine Translation

Machine Translation (MT) tools are widely used today, often in contexts where professional translators are not present. Despite progress in MT technology, a gap persists between system development and...

arxiv.org

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · Jun 16

BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.

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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · Jun 10

For the EALM Workshop
"On Assessing the Political Biases of Multilingual Large Language Models" by @lernerp.bsky.social Laurène Cave, @haldaume3.bsky.social Léo Labat, Gaël Lejeune, Pierre-Antoine Lequeu, @bpiwowar.bsky.social Nazanin Shafiabadi and yvofr.bsky.social, collaborated with the STIH lab

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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · Jun 2

Thanks, David! I'm going to go delete my post (which for transparency stated full cuts to these) to try to avoid spreading incorrect info!

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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · May 31

slashing support for grad students and undergraduates by 75% is a disastrous policy for US science and competitiveness.

Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · May 30

🚨🚨 Friday night news drop from National Science Foundation!! 🧪

NSF just released its detailed budget request for next year: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

We knew it was going to be bad...and it lives up. Guts direct NSF support for a **quarter million people**

🧵 on some highlights...

Senior Researchers 60,400 --> 16,900
Other Professionals 14,400 --> 4,100
Postdoctoral Associates 5,500 --> 1,000
Graduate Students 41,500 --> 12,400
Undergraduate Students 37,300 --> 8,000
PreK-12 Teachers 42,900 --> 8,200
PreK-12 Students 128,100 --> 39,400
Total Number of People 330,100 --> 90,000

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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · May 29

Happy to see the Maryland Attorney General participating in this effort. I’ve generally been quite happy with the state and university responses to the terminations and other actions.

Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · May 28

🧪 YAASSSSS: 16 state AGs just sued NSF for its illegal changes in "agency priorities"

The broad scope would seem to not only address grant terminations...but also the underlying basis for closing programs, returning proposals without review, etc.

The filing: www.doj.state.or.us/wp-content/u...

a man wearing a hat and an orange shirt says " get her jade "

Alt: A man wearing a hat and an orange shirt says " get her jade "

media.tenor.com

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Lingjun Zhao @lingjunz.bsky.social · May 20

We introduce a super simple yet effective strategy to improve video-language alignment (+18%): add hallucination correction in your training objective👌
Excited to share our accepted paper at ACL: Can Hallucination Correction Improve Video-language Alignment?
Link: arxiv.org/abs/2502.15079

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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · Apr 30

This is an incredibly well thought out and well written statement co-signed by a large group of subreddits on the importance of academic research.

I hate how it had to come about, but love the statement.

(And yes, this is the one that I had terminated 12 days ago.)

Sarah Gilbert @sarahagilbert.bsky.social · Apr 29

A week and a half ago, my research team learned our grant was among the hundreds terminated. We were working with AH and a few other subs to build a mod tool. I was devastated.

The AH mod team rose to action to use it's platform to advocate for the pursuit of knowledge, and that gives me hope.

AskHistorians @askhistorians.bsky.social · Apr 29

AskHistorians has joined with thirty other research- and academia-focused subreddits to issue this statement condemning recent and ongoing efforts to undermine scholarly research and intellectual freedom in the United States.

Please share widely!

www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

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Sarah Gilbert @sarahagilbert.bsky.social · Apr 26

The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988

From the changemyview community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the changemyview community

tinyurl.com

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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · Apr 20

no thank goodness!

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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · Apr 19

there’s some coordination through AAUP around visas. see eg www.presidentsalliance.org/wp-content/u...

happy to see that USM (which covers UMD) signed

www.presidentsalliance.org

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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · Apr 19

thanks. my main concern at this point are students and junior faculty. working to figure out how to ensure they’re protected and supported.

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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · Apr 19

thanks i missed that

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · Apr 19

Hi Kate-- I'm really sorry to hear this. If NIH terminations are any guide, we expect NSF terminations to be chaotic, so we're trying to track them and organize the information. If don't mind, please have your team enter their grants here:

airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

And please spread the word.

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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · Apr 19

also got my first NSF grant terminated! what emoji do i put in my handle to signify this?

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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · Apr 19

I am reading this correctly right? Broadening participation at NSF may target non-protected groups but cannot target protected groups?

It’s almost as if the issue isn’t with broadening participation but rather with which groups have been designated as protected over the past 60 years.

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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · Apr 14

Oh absolutely true - just didn't brand itself (incorrectly) as RLHF :)

Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · Apr 13

Maybe worth adding: the transformer was industry playing its role in scaling up academic research.

Parallelizable attention + non-parallelizable recurrence, both from academic research, were SOTA but didn't scale. So Google did what industry does: make it scale (by trading rec. for a bag of tricks)

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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · Mar 14

I will be at IUI on 24-25 march. I'd love to meet up with folks who are interested in meeting up. DM me if that's you!

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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · Mar 13

US tech firms - IME - rely heavily on grads of higher ed in general, and US higher ed in particular...

And yet I've not heard much noise from the Pichais, Nadellas, Zuckerbergs, Cooks, Benioffs, Sus, Jassys, Huangs, etc. about attacks on higher education...

Am I missing it or does it not exist?

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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · Mar 13

Thanks for having me, it was great to visit!

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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · Mar 4

Agreed. They do add "valid/reliable" to a parenthetical later, which is along these lines. But there's also definitely stuff cut out.

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