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Jessy Li @jessyjli.bsky.social · 17h

We’re hiring faculty as well! Happy to talk about it at COLM!

Kyle Mahowald (COLM 2025) @kmahowald.bsky.social · 21h

UT Austin Linguistics is hiring in computational linguistics!

Asst or Assoc.

We have a thriving group sites.utexas.edu/compling/ and a long proud history in the space. (For instance, fun fact, Jeff Elman was a UT Austin Linguistics Ph.D.)

faculty.utexas.edu/career/170793

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UT Austin Computational Linguistics Research Group – Humans processing computers processing humans processing language

sites.utexas.edu

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Dang Nguyen @divingwithorcas.bsky.social · 3h

📣 Announcing our poster session at COLM 2025:

On the Effectiveness and Generalization of Race Representations for Debiasing High-Stakes Decisions

I will talk about biases in LLMs and how to mitigate them. Come say hi!

Poster #43, 4:30 PM

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 3h

The syllabus and schedule for my fall semester quantitative literary analysis course is now online, better late than never! github.com/laurenfklein...

GitHub - laurenfklein/2025-quant-lit: Class labs for Fall 2025 ENG 385 on quantitative literary analysis

Class labs for Fall 2025 ENG 385 on quantitative literary analysis - GitHub - laurenfklein/2025-quant-lit: Class labs for Fall 2025 ENG 385 on quantitative literary analysis

github.com

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Hoyt Long @hoytlong.bsky.social · 4h

In case you missed it, this "Doing AI Differently" funding call should be of interest to humanities scholars with technical experience, computer scientists with humanities grounding, or anyone whose work spans both domains. Take a look and please consider applying! www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

Expressions of interest: artificial intelligence humanities sandpits: Canada, UK and US

AHRC and SSHRC invite expressions of interest to attend a humanities-led, interdisciplinary research sandpit looking to put humanities insights and methodologies at the heart of artificial intelligenc...

www.ukri.org

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Lucy Li @lucy3.bsky.social · 29m

tfw you have a nice text convo with someone about containers and then u realize they are talking about containers like the container store containers and u are thinking about apptainer containers

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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 20h

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

jobmarket.unibocconi.eu

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Myra Cheng @myra.bsky.social · 4d

AI always calling your ideas “fantastic” can feel inauthentic, but what are sycophancy’s deeper harms? We find that in the common use case of seeking AI advice on interpersonal situations—specifically conflicts—sycophancy makes people feel more right & less willing to apologize.

Screenshot of paper title: Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence

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Lucy Li @lucy3.bsky.social · 16h

someday i will tell stories to my students where I'm like, back in my day, we didn't have claude code "cogitating", "percolating", and "cerebrating" for us and we cuda errored all alone by ourselves and we had to walk uphills both ways to campus

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naitian @naitian.org · 20h

This is a great read that speaks to why I love the interdisciplinary work that I get to do at the I School. Every day I wake up and wonder, "what am I doing here?"

Dan Silver @dsilver432.bsky.social · 1d

Cultural cartography in sociology, literary studies, and LLMs. Plus a bit of sociology of the sociology of culture. On coding , counting, and reading, and the possibility of something else.

open.substack.com/pub/thesilve...

Between Interpretation and the Machines

Cultural cartography across literary studies, sociology, and LLMs

open.substack.com

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Lucy Li @lucy3.bsky.social · 16h

I heard from someone that getting code assistants to work on this cluster is a hurdle since we don't have lots of permissions to install things. i save this hurdle for tomorrow, but maybe i should've started with it...

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Lucy Li @lucy3.bsky.social · 16h

everything was beautiful (but slow) on my mac and now I am on an hpc cluster that I'm still getting the hang of working with... but I am getting there

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Lucy Li @lucy3.bsky.social · 17h

i spent hours today installing pytorch and then uninstalling it and then installing miniconda and then reinstalling it and then moving my huggingface cache to a new home every half hour and i can now say i have managed to run something but it is on cpu not gpu and for the life of me i

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Greg Durrett @gregdnlp.bsky.social · 1d

Find my students and collaborators at COLM this week!

Tuesday morning: @juand-r.bsky.social and @ramyanamuduri.bsky.social 's papers (find them if you missed it!)

Wednesday pm: @manyawadhwa.bsky.social 's EvalAgent

Thursday am: @anirudhkhatry.bsky.social 's CRUST-Bench oral spotlight + poster

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Jessica Vitak @vitak.bsky.social · 1d

If you're not already following @acm-cscw.bsky.social, now is the time to do so! With the online pre-conference this Friday & the main conference in 2 weeks, we are sharing lots of amazing research by CSCW authors. #cscw2025
You can also check the full program out here: programs.sigchi.org/cscw/2025

Conference Programs

programs.sigchi.org

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Marzena Karpinska ✈️ COLM'25 @markar.bsky.social · 1d

Come to talk with us today about the evaluation of long form multilingual generation at the second poster session #COLM2025

📍4:30–6:30 PM / Room 710 – Poster #8

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Jennifer Hu @ COLM (recruiting PhDs and postdocs!) @jennhu.bsky.social · 1d

At #COLM2025 and would love to chat all things cogsci, LMs, & interpretability 🍁🥯 I'm also recruiting!

👉 I'm presenting at two workshops (PragLM, Visions) on Fri

👉 Also check out "Language Models Fail to Introspect About Their Knowledge of Language" (presented by @siyuansong.bsky.social Tue 11-1)

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s a #COLM2025 feed!

Pin it 📌 to follow along with the conference this week!

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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 5d

Americans who have seen AI summaries in search results are lukewarm about their value. One-in-five say they find the information extremely or very useful, 52% say it’s somewhat useful, and 28% say it’s not too or not at all useful.

A horizontal stacked bar chart showing that 1 in 5 Americans who have seen AI summaries in search results find them extremely or very useful.

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Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · 28d

The Dept. of Psychology at the U. Wisconsin–Madison has an opening for an Assistant Professor in the area of Computational Neuroscience and/or Cognitive Science, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI).

Domain of behavior or cognition is open. Details at jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor of Psychology - 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

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Alexandra Olteanu @aolteanu.bsky.social · 8d

This was accepted to #NeurIPS 🎉🎊

TL;DR Impoverished notions of rigor can have a formative impact on AI work. We argue for a broader conception of what rigorous work should entail & go beyond methodological issues to include epistemic, normative, conceptual, reporting & interpretative considerations

Alexandra Olteanu @aolteanu.bsky.social · Jun 18

We have to talk about rigor in AI work and what it should entail. The reality is that impoverished notions of rigor do not only lead to some one-off undesirable outcomes but can have a deeply formative impact on the scientific integrity and quality of both AI research and practice 1/

Print screen of the first page of a paper pre-print titled "Rigor in AI: Doing Rigorous AI Work Requires a Broader, Responsible AI-Informed Conception of Rigor" by Olteanu et al. Paper abstract: "In AI research and practice, rigor remains largely understood in terms of methodological rigor -- such as whether mathematical, statistical, or computational methods are correctly applied. We argue that this narrow conception of rigor has contributed to the concerns raised by the responsible AI community, including overblown claims about AI capabilities. Our position is that a broader conception of what rigorous AI research and practice should entail is needed. We believe such a conception -- in addition to a more expansive understanding of (1) methodological rigor -- should include aspects related to (2) what background knowledge informs what to work on (epistemic rigor); (3) how disciplinary, community, or personal norms, standards, or beliefs influence the work (normative rigor); (4) how clearly articulated the theoretical constructs under use are (conceptual rigor); (5) what is reported and how (reporting rigor); and (6) how well-supported the inferences from existing evidence are (interpretative rigor). In doing so, we also aim to provide useful language and a framework for much-needed dialogue about the AI community's work by researchers, policymakers, journalists, and other stakeholders."

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Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 8d

Nice to see another fully open, multimodal LM released! Good license, training code, pretraining data, all here.
LLaVA-OneVision-1.5: Fully Open Framework for Democratized Multimodal Training

Slowly, the community is growing.
arxiv.org/abs/2509.236...

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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 8d

The Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre, a new world-class centre for the Arts and Humanities will open to the academic community on 13 October 2025 🏛️✨

A public cultural programme hosted by the Centre will begin in April 2026.

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View of the Great Hall, Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, University of Oxford. Photograph © Hufton + Crow

External view of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, University of Oxford. Photograph © Hufton + Crow

View of the dome in the Great Hall, Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, University of Oxford. Photograph © Hufton + Crow

View of the Sohmen Hall, Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, University of Oxford. Photograph © Hufton + Crow

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Lucy Li @lucy3.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah I think this is a good change. I wonder what happens if nobody is willing to review a paper ... maybe those papers fall to those who forgot to bid lol

Lucy Li @lucy3.bsky.social · 7d

The hyperfocus on singular papers definitely happened for me. I also had the illusion that some of the suggested papers involved topics that I haven't worked on before but I am working on right now, and I was like "how does it know??" (But maybe I am more predictable than I thought)

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Lucy Li @lucy3.bsky.social · 7d

The above is a bit vague because of character limits but also because validation looks pretty different depending on the application setting (e.g. what "dimensions" of content matter??) and what kind of data / people you have access to

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