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Maria Antoniak

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☀️ Assistant Professor of Computer Science at CU Boulder 👩‍💻 NLP, cultural analytics, narratives, online communities 🌐 https://maria-antoniak.github.io 💬 books, bikes, games, art

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · Nov 20

some little bluesky tips 🦋

your blocks, likes, lists, and just about everything except chats are PUBLIC

you can pin custom feeds; i like quiet posters, best of follows, mutuals, mentions

if your chronological feed is overwhelming, you can make and pin make a personal list of "unmissable" people

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Kyle Lo @ COLM 2025 🍁 @kylelo.bsky.social · 7h

@josephc.bsky.social @mariaa.bsky.social and I are at poster #21

findings from large scale survey of 800 researchers on how they use LMs in their research #colm2025

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Hoyt Long @hoytlong.bsky.social · 13h

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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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 12h

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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Ramon Astudillo @ramon-astudillo.bsky.social · 1d

(repost welcome) The Generative Model Alignment team at IBM Research is looking for next summer interns! Two candidates for two topics

🍰Reinforcement Learning environments for LLMs

🐎Speculative and non-auto regressive generation for LLMs

interested/curious? DM or email [email protected]

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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 1d

It is wild that anyone out there is advocating for MORE human labor in image moderation. a friend of mine used to be a 4chan janitor. they’re dead now, but they spent the rest of their life unable to look at a child without feeling sick.

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 1d

Ugh oh no, I’m sorry! We had some really awful ARR reviewers in the last year that made me ashamed of our field :(

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 1d

Realized that I can specify case sensitivity so the string COLM is back! Also added all posts from the official conference account.

Thanks @graze.social as always for making this so easy!

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David Mimno @dmimno.bsky.social · 1d

COLM word cloud. Yoav says it’s the year of reasoning, but evaluation is also huge.

Evaluation reasoning interpretability rl in context benchmark alignment synthetic data

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Dan Goldstein @dggoldst.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 Postdoctoral Research Economist positions at Microsoft Research New England or New York City 🚨

www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

Open to PhDs in econ-related fields (e.g. quant marketing, econ-CS). Seeking those with high collaboration potential with the team: www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

American Economic Association: JOE Listings - August 1, 2025 - January 31, 2026

www.aeaweb.org

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 1d

The full announcement is now up at this link. Deadline still 31 Oct.

Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · Aug 15

Pre-announcement of a funding opportunity for "artificial intelligence humanities sandpits," supported by AHRC, EPSRC, and SSHRC. Expressions of interest by 31 Oct; up to four grants will be funded.

Pre-announcement: artificial intelligence humanities sandpits: Canada, UK and US

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

www.ukri.org

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s a #COLM2025 feed!

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

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Conference on Language Modeling @colmweb.org · 2d

My feed is on 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Can't wait to meet you all
It's C-11 hours!

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 2d

Added #COLM for the chaotic good among you

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 2d

Ok it’s updated to not include the string, and I also now allow mentions of @colmweb.org

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 2d

Note that it’s currently matching to both the string “COLM” and the hashtag #COLM2025. I underestimated how many people are posting about people named Colm! I will remove the string matching and other ideas are also welcome 🚧

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s a #COLM2025 feed!

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

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 2d

highly recommend!

Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 2d

if you'd like to hear my #othernetworks talk and/or gather virtually with likeminded people who are part of @metagov.bsky.social, please join us Wednesday Oct. 8th 10am MDT! luma.com/4kfjgd6a

Seminar: Other Networks with Dr. Lori Emerson · Zoom · Luma

For this seminar, we will welcome Dr. Lori Emerson (from the Media Studies Department at University of Colorado Boulder) to give a talk about some of her…

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Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy @princetoncitp.bsky.social · 2d

CITP is now accepting applications for the 2026–27 Fellows Program. We're looking for the following:

➡️ Postdoctoral Research Associate
➡️ Visiting Research Scholar (Visiting Professional)
➡️ Microsoft Visiting Research Scholar (Visiting Professor)

Apply online: citp.princeton.edu/news/2025/no...

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 2d

I’m in Ithaca today, on my way to give a talk at Colgate University tomorrow and then Montreal for the rest of the week for #COLM2025. The weather is *too* beautiful for this autumn road trip.

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 2d

ATProto has huge potential for supporting new ways of doing science, but to get there we need discussion & coordination spaces - we opened a new Discourse space for ATProto x Science at discourse.atprotocol.community/c/atproto-sc... 🧪
(w/ @bmann.ca @tgoerke.bsky.social )
Please join! 😄

ATProto Science

ATProto Science is about using ATProto for science applications, such as publishing, curation, data sharing or social discourse around research.

discourse.atprotocol.community

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 2d

very cozy! stanforddaily.com/2017/11/16/h...

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Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social · 2d

This work will appear at #colm2025! Please go and check out the poster. I will not be there sadly but several coauthors from Ai2 will be there!

Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social · Dec 3

In collab w/ Semantic Scholar, we conducted a large scale (800+) survey of researcher usage and perceptions of LLMs for science.

Major findings:
+Most are using LLMs already, mostly for writing
+LLMs seem to be a win for research equity
+But some groups, like women, have more ethical concerns too

Simona Liao @simonaliao.bsky.social · Dec 2

Hi everyone, I am excited to share our large-scale survey study with 800+ researchers, which reveals researchers’ usage and perceptions of LLMs as research tools, and how the usage and perceptions differ based on demographics.

See results in comments!

🔗 Arxiv link: arxiv.org/abs/2411.05025

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Ukrainska Pravda 🇺🇦 @pravda.ua · 3d

💔 Four people killed in large-scale Russian attack on Lviv Oblast

Four people killed in large-scale Russian attack on Lviv Oblast

www.pravda.com.ua

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nokanol45 @nokanol45.bsky.social · 4d

I think lack of discoverability is one of the issues. To this day there's no way for someone using the app to know a labeler exists unless someone links to it. It's the reason I made the Labeler Explorer feed, and even though it's literally just one line of regex it's my most liked feed

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you!!