Aniello De Santo
@anids.bsky.social
The mystery of the Universe is its comprehensibility. Computational psycholinguist, I guess, but not a professional account. he\him (pfp cc. Dustin Nguyen)
Italy just voted to end mail-ballots for Italians residing abroad so I guess now I am tied to TWO countries I have no representation power in 🙃
January 10, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Italy just voted to end mail-ballots for Italians residing abroad so I guess now I am tied to TWO countries I have no representation power in 🙃
If as a reviewer you write a sentence like “ I question why the authors did X” it would be nice if you could follow it up with what exactly you question about it, especially if X was justified by like 10 references and 2 full paragraphs of rationale 🙃
January 9, 2026 at 9:16 PM
If as a reviewer you write a sentence like “ I question why the authors did X” it would be nice if you could follow it up with what exactly you question about it, especially if X was justified by like 10 references and 2 full paragraphs of rationale 🙃
After a week of classes my students already understand that I am the kind of prof who appreciates references to Avatar The last Airbender in their assignments. success.
January 8, 2026 at 11:29 PM
After a week of classes my students already understand that I am the kind of prof who appreciates references to Avatar The last Airbender in their assignments. success.
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Logging off to lie in bed dissociating for a while and I invite you all to join me
January 8, 2026 at 12:28 AM
Logging off to lie in bed dissociating for a while and I invite you all to join me
Was a bit demotivated today but I got to chat about some cool sentence processing results with a friend and I got excited again
January 6, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Was a bit demotivated today but I got to chat about some cool sentence processing results with a friend and I got excited again
🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃
help, my university has released new guidance on LLM use for students and i don't want to have yet another reason to YELL AT THEM
January 5, 2026 at 4:54 PM
🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃
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My talk on the limitations of algorithmic fairness is now online! youtu.be/YjZ4s3nqxbs?...
I had the privilege of delivering my first talk at @princetoncitp.bsky.social today.
January 4, 2026 at 9:13 PM
My talk on the limitations of algorithmic fairness is now online! youtu.be/YjZ4s3nqxbs?...
One canvas page up, one more to go
January 3, 2026 at 5:34 PM
One canvas page up, one more to go
Woke up early thinking I’d be productive (semester starts Monday 😭😭) and then <waves around>
January 3, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Woke up early thinking I’d be productive (semester starts Monday 😭😭) and then <waves around>
6am flights always seem like a good idea until you have to wake up for them
December 31, 2025 at 2:04 AM
6am flights always seem like a good idea until you have to wake up for them
🔥 well-thought, theoretically grounded models >>>>>>> trendy uninterpretable forest killers
We wrote a thing -- showing you don't need LLMs to model language production dynamics like the tendency for speakers to reduce predictable words. All you have to do is better model how speech rate varies depending on where a word is and how long the utterance is. arxiv.org/abs/2512.23659
Less is more: Probabilistic reduction is best explained by small-scale predictability measures
The primary research questions of this paper center on defining the amount of context that is necessary and/or appropriate when investigating the relationship between language model probabilities and ...
arxiv.org
December 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
🔥 well-thought, theoretically grounded models >>>>>>> trendy uninterpretable forest killers
I love caldarroste, deeply missed in cold SLC
December 29, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I love caldarroste, deeply missed in cold SLC
In better news, a new season of culinary class wars is out
December 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
In better news, a new season of culinary class wars is out
My partner, after a dinner with my parents: “I had never had a dinner like this”
Me <puzzled>: “uh, like what? Chaotic?”
My partners: “No like, Just cheese” 😂😂😂
Me <puzzled>: “uh, like what? Chaotic?”
My partners: “No like, Just cheese” 😂😂😂
December 29, 2025 at 9:55 AM
My partner, after a dinner with my parents: “I had never had a dinner like this”
Me <puzzled>: “uh, like what? Chaotic?”
My partners: “No like, Just cheese” 😂😂😂
Me <puzzled>: “uh, like what? Chaotic?”
My partners: “No like, Just cheese” 😂😂😂
I feel some people missed that modern minimalism is a lexicalized approach where the lexicon IS the grammar? Like, there haven’t been “rules” for like, 50?
December 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I feel some people missed that modern minimalism is a lexicalized approach where the lexicon IS the grammar? Like, there haven’t been “rules” for like, 50?
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It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.
"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction."
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books
We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.
www.publicbooks.org
December 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.
In Italy for Christmas. Me: “do you wanna go for a walk?”
My partner, looking confused and embracing Americanness “a walk?! To where?!?”
My partner, looking confused and embracing Americanness “a walk?! To where?!?”
December 26, 2025 at 10:27 AM
In Italy for Christmas. Me: “do you wanna go for a walk?”
My partner, looking confused and embracing Americanness “a walk?! To where?!?”
My partner, looking confused and embracing Americanness “a walk?! To where?!?”
20kgs of potatoes have been cut and cooked (not eaten yet)
December 25, 2025 at 11:47 AM
20kgs of potatoes have been cut and cooked (not eaten yet)
Mandatory syllabi posted, time for Italian food coms until the 26th
December 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Mandatory syllabi posted, time for Italian food coms until the 26th
I ate too many Nutella-bollen (no regrets)
December 20, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I ate too many Nutella-bollen (no regrets)
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out now! the Crip Linguistics Reader has some really important stuff in it, and I hope every linguist will engage and find something to take away from this volume
December 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
out now! the Crip Linguistics Reader has some really important stuff in it, and I hope every linguist will engage and find something to take away from this volume
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there is no shortage of "the ai does not and cannot do the thing these companies say it does" stories and none of it seems to be hurting their valuation or the rate at which organizations adopt them, there are so many better ways for us to get our schadenfreude than this
December 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
there is no shortage of "the ai does not and cannot do the thing these companies say it does" stories and none of it seems to be hurting their valuation or the rate at which organizations adopt them, there are so many better ways for us to get our schadenfreude than this
I feel that as a field we should stop abusing the term “explanatory power”
December 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I feel that as a field we should stop abusing the term “explanatory power”
Putting this great paper by @olivia.science back on the timeline just cuz philpapers.org/archive/ERSP...
philpapers.org
December 16, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Putting this great paper by @olivia.science back on the timeline just cuz philpapers.org/archive/ERSP...
Again I wanna say that parsers from the 80s could “generate tree diagrams” for sentences so… YAWNs and eyerolls
December 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Again I wanna say that parsers from the 80s could “generate tree diagrams” for sentences so… YAWNs and eyerolls