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Lucy Lu Wang @lucylw.bsky.social · 27d

Pls help spread the word: We are hiring! 🌲☕✨
@ischool.uw.edu is recruiting two tenure-track assistant profs in AI. Areas include human-AI collaboration, AI & society, comp social science, NLP, and AI applications.

Apply by Nov 15, 2025: apply.interfolio.com/171020

Happy to answer questions!

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Abhilasha Ravichander @lasha.bsky.social · Jul 22

📣 Life update: Thrilled to announce that I’ll be starting as faculty at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems this Fall!

I’ll be recruiting PhD students in the upcoming cycle, as well as research interns throughout the year: lasharavichander.github.io/contact.html

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Lucy Lu Wang @lucylw.bsky.social · Jul 27

En route to #ACL2025 and looking forward to seeing everyone! ✈️ 🇦🇹

@bingbingw.bsky.social is presenting two of our papers on Wednesday in the 9a LM session and 11a poster session

I’m also giving a talk at the #SDProc workshop on Thursday on translational science communication

Come say hi!

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Lucy Lu Wang @lucylw.bsky.social · Jul 27

Congratulations!!

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Lucy Lu Wang @lucylw.bsky.social · Jul 20

Even better when it’s logistic regression 🙃

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Willie Agnew @willie-agnew.bsky.social · Jun 26

Now out in Nature: we analyzed 19,000 computer vision papers and the 20,000+ patents citing them and found that most CV papers are used in surveillance enabling CV patents. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · Jun 26

Ohhhh Molly Crockett‘s @mjcrockett.bsky.social keynote talk at #FAccT2025 was soo good 🔥🔥🔥

She talked about how techno-optimism is really human pessimism, how DEAD benchmarks don’t capture full human capacities and feed the hype cycle, how we need to avoid monoculture & imagine new worlds together

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Julia Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn2.bsky.social · May 21

📣 Super excited to organize the first workshop on ✨NLP for Democracy✨ at COLM @colmweb.org!!

Check out our website: sites.google.com/andrew.cmu.e...

Call for submissions (extended abstracts) due June 19, 11:59pm AoE

#COLM2025 #LLMs #NLP #NLProc #ComputationalSocialScience

NLP 4 Democracy - COLM 2025

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Conference on Language Modeling @colmweb.org · Mar 20

A bit of a mess around the conflict of COLM with the ARR (and to lesser degree ICML) reviews release. We feel this is creating a lot of pressure and uncertainty. So, we are pushing our deadlines:

Abstracts due March 22 AoE (+48hr)
Full papers due March 28 AoE (+24hr)

Plz RT 🙏

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Maarten Sap @maartensap.bsky.social · Jan 7

CMU LTI is hosting predoc interns this summer, centered around "Language Technologies for All"! Please apply and circulate! lti.cs.cmu.edu/news-and-eve...

CMU LTI Language Technology for All Internship 2025 - Language Technologies Institute - School of Computer Science - Carnegie Mellon University

The LTI is currently seeking applicants for the summer 2025 Language Technology for All Internship

lti.cs.cmu.edu

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · Dec 3

There are already many articles for which there is more attention on Bluesky than on other comparable micro-blogging sites, meaning the academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research.

A Place of Joy.

‘A place of joy’: why scientists are joining the rush to Bluesky
Researchers say the social-media platform — an alternative to X — offers more control over the content they see and the people they engage with.: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03784-6

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UW DEOHS @uwdeohs.bsky.social · Dec 3

When DEOHS faculty Dr. Gary Franklin asked a chatbot for info on outcomes of a specific medical procedure, the bot gave an answer that cited two medical studies, neither of which existed. Franklin and @uwischool.bsky.social faculty @lucylw.bsky.social discuss AI in medicine w. @uwnews.bsky.social ⬇️

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Lucy Lu Wang @lucylw.bsky.social · Nov 22

this is great! thank you both!

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David Bamman @dbamman.bsky.social · Nov 20

The Berkeley Info School is hiring an open-rank tenure-track professor in "digital security, safety and trust". Please help get the word out, and if you're working in this space, apply! (Deadline Jan 3.) aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04668

Assistant/Associate/Full Professor - Digital Security, Safety, and Trust - School of Information

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

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Lucy Lu Wang @lucylw.bsky.social · Nov 20

Excited to join the Seattle Association for Women in Science and Puget Sound Women in Data Science tonight for “Advancing Science & Industry with GAI.” This is happening today Nov 20 at the Fred Hutch or online. Join us!

seattleawis.org/event/seattl...

Flyer advertising a panel event called “Advancing Science and Industry with Generative AI.” Join our panel of leading experts as we explore the applications of generative AI in scientific research and industry, the ethical concerns, and future directions. Below are portraits of the four participants: Alexandra Ralevski, Laura Szkolar Sienkiewicz, Lucy Lu Wang, and Robin Cosbey. The event will be 20 Nov 2024, 6PM, at the Fred Hutch & Online. The event is sponsored by the Seattle Association for Women in Science and Puget Sound Chapter of Women in Data Science World wide.

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · Nov 19

I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work with me at the University of Colorado Boulder! Looking for creative students with interests in #NLP and #CulturalAnalytics.

Boulder is a lovely college town 30 minutes from Denver and 1 hour from Rocky Mountain National Park 😎

Apply by December 15th!

A photo of Boulder, Colorado, shot from above the university campus and looking toward the Flatirons.

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brendan o’connor (going to COLM) @brenocon.bsky.social · Nov 19

We're hiring new #nlp faculty this year!

Asst or Assoc Professors in NLP at UMass CICS --
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

Details - Assistant/Associate Professor - Natural Language Processing (NLP) | Human Resources | UMass Amherst

careers.umass.edu

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ACL @aclmeeting.bsky.social · Nov 14

Hello, Computational linguistics/NLP world in Bluesky! We're creating the same accounts on other social media platforms in Bluesky! #NLProc

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Ayman @shamur.ai · Nov 18

CHI 2026 Barcelona Open Call for volunteers is Open! Please sign up to join the team! This is for organizing and technical committees (excluding subcommittee chairs and area chairs for the papers program…that comes later). Details in the submission form. www.surveymonkey.com/r/GGPYYPD

CHI 2026 Open Call for Volunteers

Take this survey powered by surveymonkey.com. Create your own surveys for free.

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ACL @aclmeeting.bsky.social · Nov 19

All the ACL chapters are here now: @aaclmeeting.bsky.social @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social @eaclmeeting.bsky.social @naaclmeeting.bsky.social #NLProc

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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · Nov 8

Taking a stand that we aren’t doing the #nlproc tag here. It’s #nlp. We used #nlproc because a decade ago the #nlp tag was full of sleazy scammers selling guides for hypnotizing women into sleeping with you.

But guess what? We won. All the sleazy scammers are doing natural language processing now.

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Jon Froehlich @jonfroehlich.bsky.social · Nov 13

Love the influx of academics to Bluesky. Will this be our new 🏠? To help grow the community, I just created an HCI+Accessibility "starter pack". Help me grow the list! Many are missing! go.bsky.app/PZxHNqP

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Lucy Lu Wang @lucylw.bsky.social · Nov 15

I appreciated the callout that half the community is based in China and travel to places like the US can be quite difficult. Now, the other half gets to experience the annoyance of visas :’)

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Isabelle Augenstein @iaugenstein.bsky.social · Nov 14

📢 📅 After a long process of soliciting & vetting bids, I'm excited that we've finally been able to reveal the location for #EMNLP2025 -- it'll be at the International Expo Centre, Suzhou, China from 5-9 November 2025. Looking forward to seeing you there!
#NLProc #EMNLP2024

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Lucy Lu Wang @lucylw.bsky.social · Nov 9

where’s belphagor?

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