Aditya Narayan Sankaran
@callmesan.bsky.social
PhD at Telecom SudParis, Institut Polytechnique de Paris.
I research content moderation methods in low-resource code mixed languages and literary linguistic phenomena in digital humanities (CSS).
Website: callmesanfornow.github.io
I research content moderation methods in low-resource code mixed languages and literary linguistic phenomena in digital humanities (CSS).
Website: callmesanfornow.github.io
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π’ The #CHR2025 proceedings are out!
97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities π₯ Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper.
π anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
And donβt forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!
97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities π₯ Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper.
π anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
And donβt forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!
Edited by Taylor Arnold, Margherita Fantoli, and Ruben Ros
anthology.ach.org
November 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
π’ The #CHR2025 proceedings are out!
97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities π₯ Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper.
π anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
And donβt forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!
97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities π₯ Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper.
π anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
And donβt forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!
New paper @ #CHR2025!
Our work uncovers how KoreanβEnglish code-switching shapes Western success on the Billboard Hot 100 and Global 200. From gender patterns to linguistic trends, know more through the paper.
Link: anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
See you at @comphumresearch.bsky.social!
Our work uncovers how KoreanβEnglish code-switching shapes Western success on the Billboard Hot 100 and Global 200. From gender patterns to linguistic trends, know more through the paper.
Link: anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
See you at @comphumresearch.bsky.social!
Global Beats, Local Tongue: Studying Code Switching in K-pop Hits on
Billboard Charts
anthology.ach.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:30 AM
New paper @ #CHR2025!
Our work uncovers how KoreanβEnglish code-switching shapes Western success on the Billboard Hot 100 and Global 200. From gender patterns to linguistic trends, know more through the paper.
Link: anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
See you at @comphumresearch.bsky.social!
Our work uncovers how KoreanβEnglish code-switching shapes Western success on the Billboard Hot 100 and Global 200. From gender patterns to linguistic trends, know more through the paper.
Link: anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
See you at @comphumresearch.bsky.social!
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π *Call for Participation* π
Italian Conference on Computational Social Science β CS2Italy
May 19-21, 2026 in Torino, Italy
Premier venue for Computational Social Science in Italy: #sociology #polisci #economics #netsci #complexsystems ++
Submit your abstract by Jan 15: cs2italy.org
plz reshare
Italian Conference on Computational Social Science β CS2Italy
May 19-21, 2026 in Torino, Italy
Premier venue for Computational Social Science in Italy: #sociology #polisci #economics #netsci #complexsystems ++
Submit your abstract by Jan 15: cs2italy.org
plz reshare
November 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
π *Call for Participation* π
Italian Conference on Computational Social Science β CS2Italy
May 19-21, 2026 in Torino, Italy
Premier venue for Computational Social Science in Italy: #sociology #polisci #economics #netsci #complexsystems ++
Submit your abstract by Jan 15: cs2italy.org
plz reshare
Italian Conference on Computational Social Science β CS2Italy
May 19-21, 2026 in Torino, Italy
Premier venue for Computational Social Science in Italy: #sociology #polisci #economics #netsci #complexsystems ++
Submit your abstract by Jan 15: cs2italy.org
plz reshare
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We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.β
A Researcher Made an AI That Completely Breaks the Online Surveys Scientists Rely On
We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.β
www.404media.co
November 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.β
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In K-dramas, food often operates as its own kind of language β a conversational channel that runs parallel to dialogue and, at times, speaks louder than it.
www.koreaherald.com/article/1061...
www.koreaherald.com/article/1061...
November 17, 2025 at 6:54 AM
In K-dramas, food often operates as its own kind of language β a conversational channel that runs parallel to dialogue and, at times, speaks louder than it.
www.koreaherald.com/article/1061...
www.koreaherald.com/article/1061...
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Sam Altman texts Shivon Zilis
February 9, 2023
February 9, 2023
November 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Sam Altman texts Shivon Zilis
February 9, 2023
February 9, 2023
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Wrote a short piece arguing that higher ed must help steer AI. TLDR: If we outsource this to tech, we outsource our whole business. But rejectionism is basically stalling. If we want to survive, schools themselves must proactively shape AI for education & research. [1/6, unpaywalled at 5/6] +
Opinion | AI Is the Future. Higher Ed Should Shape It.
If we want to stay at the forefront of knowledge production, we must fit technology to our needs.
www.chronicle.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Wrote a short piece arguing that higher ed must help steer AI. TLDR: If we outsource this to tech, we outsource our whole business. But rejectionism is basically stalling. If we want to survive, schools themselves must proactively shape AI for education & research. [1/6, unpaywalled at 5/6] +
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Computationally, whitespace gets little attentionβitβs usually standardized or stripped.
But in poetry, whitespace matters!
Yet actually *preserving* that poetic whitespace is v tough. Its slipperiness points to bigger issues w/ text processing & LLMs.
New paper β¬οΈ aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...
But in poetry, whitespace matters!
Yet actually *preserving* that poetic whitespace is v tough. Its slipperiness points to bigger issues w/ text processing & LLMs.
New paper β¬οΈ aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...
November 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Computationally, whitespace gets little attentionβitβs usually standardized or stripped.
But in poetry, whitespace matters!
Yet actually *preserving* that poetic whitespace is v tough. Its slipperiness points to bigger issues w/ text processing & LLMs.
New paper β¬οΈ aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...
But in poetry, whitespace matters!
Yet actually *preserving* that poetic whitespace is v tough. Its slipperiness points to bigger issues w/ text processing & LLMs.
New paper β¬οΈ aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...
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Today marks the 20th anniversary of Amazon MTurk, launched on Nov 2, 2005, to pioneer βartificial artificial intelligenceβ: using 500,000 underpaid workers to annotate, review, imitate AI. What a difference 20 years makes! Today theyβre still underpaid but there are tens of millions of them.
November 2, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Today marks the 20th anniversary of Amazon MTurk, launched on Nov 2, 2005, to pioneer βartificial artificial intelligenceβ: using 500,000 underpaid workers to annotate, review, imitate AI. What a difference 20 years makes! Today theyβre still underpaid but there are tens of millions of them.
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PhD in Computational Social Sciences β CNRS, France
π Fully funded (COBCOD Project, 2025β2029)
Eligibility: Masterβs
π Deadline: 18 Nov 2025
π higherjobz.com/phd-computat...
#PhDPosition #SocialSciences #EuropeJobs #ResearchOpportunities #AcademicJobs @cnrs.fr
π Fully funded (COBCOD Project, 2025β2029)
Eligibility: Masterβs
π Deadline: 18 Nov 2025
π higherjobz.com/phd-computat...
#PhDPosition #SocialSciences #EuropeJobs #ResearchOpportunities #AcademicJobs @cnrs.fr
Fully Funded PhD in Computational Social Sciences |HigherJobz
Apply for a fully funded PhD in Computational Social Sciences at CNRS, France. Study online social dynamics and biases. Deadline: 18 Nov 2025
higherjobz.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:18 PM
PhD in Computational Social Sciences β CNRS, France
π Fully funded (COBCOD Project, 2025β2029)
Eligibility: Masterβs
π Deadline: 18 Nov 2025
π higherjobz.com/phd-computat...
#PhDPosition #SocialSciences #EuropeJobs #ResearchOpportunities #AcademicJobs @cnrs.fr
π Fully funded (COBCOD Project, 2025β2029)
Eligibility: Masterβs
π Deadline: 18 Nov 2025
π higherjobz.com/phd-computat...
#PhDPosition #SocialSciences #EuropeJobs #ResearchOpportunities #AcademicJobs @cnrs.fr
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Even though it should feel pointless to care about this as our republic crumbles but somehow this shit does still make my blood boil
www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...
www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...
a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of βSynthetic Influencersβ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service
Andreessen Horowitz is funding a company that clearly violates the inauthentic behavior policies of every major social media platform.
www.404media.co
October 25, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Even though it should feel pointless to care about this as our republic crumbles but somehow this shit does still make my blood boil
www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...
www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...
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I would gladly read a followup on this focused entirely on IRBs. I've been surprised by how often researchers say they could never got approval to run tests mimicking the sort of interventions that major platforms undertake on far larger populations as a matter of course on a daily basis.
October 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I would gladly read a followup on this focused entirely on IRBs. I've been surprised by how often researchers say they could never got approval to run tests mimicking the sort of interventions that major platforms undertake on far larger populations as a matter of course on a daily basis.
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Butter, milk, beef, chocolate and coffee are responsible for much of the UKβs food inflation, with climate change the key driver of rising grocery bills
#climatecrisis
@eciu.net
HT @carbonbrief.org
www.ft.com/content/ced8...
#climatecrisis
@eciu.net
HT @carbonbrief.org
www.ft.com/content/ced8...
Five staples fuelling UK food inflation as climate risks rise, study finds
Findings challenge narrative that food price growth is being driven by higher taxes and wage costs
www.ft.com
October 21, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Butter, milk, beef, chocolate and coffee are responsible for much of the UKβs food inflation, with climate change the key driver of rising grocery bills
#climatecrisis
@eciu.net
HT @carbonbrief.org
www.ft.com/content/ced8...
#climatecrisis
@eciu.net
HT @carbonbrief.org
www.ft.com/content/ced8...
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π«π· We are hiring π«π·
Assistant or Associate Professor Position in Computational Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social @ipparis.bsky.social
Details here (please RT)
www.shorturl.at/E57le
Assistant or Associate Professor Position in Computational Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social @ipparis.bsky.social
Details here (please RT)
www.shorturl.at/E57le
October 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
π«π· We are hiring π«π·
Assistant or Associate Professor Position in Computational Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social @ipparis.bsky.social
Details here (please RT)
www.shorturl.at/E57le
Assistant or Associate Professor Position in Computational Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social @ipparis.bsky.social
Details here (please RT)
www.shorturl.at/E57le
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#TBT #NLProc "Explaining Speech Classification Models" by Pastor et al. (2024) makes speech classification more transparent! π Their research reveals which words matter most and how tone and background noise impact decisions.
Explaining Speech Classification Models via Word-Level Audio Segments and Paralinguistic Features
Eliana Pastor, Alkis Koudounas, Giuseppe Attanasio, Dirk Hovy, Elena Baralis. Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long...
aclanthology.org
October 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Greta Thunberg: βIsraeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured meβ
β’ They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
β’ Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
β’ She was filmed while stripped naked
Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc
β’ They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
β’ Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
β’ She was filmed while stripped naked
Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc
October 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Greta Thunberg: βIsraeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured meβ
β’ They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
β’ Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
β’ She was filmed while stripped naked
Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc
β’ They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
β’ Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
β’ She was filmed while stripped naked
Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc
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"I really don't care, do you?" is now the new ethos ...
"Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World. Trump supporters are doubling down on AI sadism." gizmodo.com/fake-protest...
"Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World. Trump supporters are doubling down on AI sadism." gizmodo.com/fake-protest...
October 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
"I really don't care, do you?" is now the new ethos ...
"Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World. Trump supporters are doubling down on AI sadism." gizmodo.com/fake-protest...
"Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World. Trump supporters are doubling down on AI sadism." gizmodo.com/fake-protest...
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It's now considered controversial to fight the KKK in a video game.
October 8, 2025 at 10:18 PM
It's now considered controversial to fight the KKK in a video game.
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#survey #germany
The English version of the #ALLBUS 2023 is now published. New in '23: attitudes towards #climate change
Younger respondents are more likely to attribute climate change to human causes, whereas older ones tend to assume that natural processes and human causes have an equal influence.
The English version of the #ALLBUS 2023 is now published. New in '23: attitudes towards #climate change
Younger respondents are more likely to attribute climate change to human causes, whereas older ones tend to assume that natural processes and human causes have an equal influence.
October 9, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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Computer Science is no longer just about building systems or proving theorems--it's about observation and experiments.
In my latest blog post, I argue itβs time we had our own "Econometrics," a discipline devoted to empirical rigor.
doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/the-missin...
In my latest blog post, I argue itβs time we had our own "Econometrics," a discipline devoted to empirical rigor.
doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/the-missin...
October 5, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Computer Science is no longer just about building systems or proving theorems--it's about observation and experiments.
In my latest blog post, I argue itβs time we had our own "Econometrics," a discipline devoted to empirical rigor.
doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/the-missin...
In my latest blog post, I argue itβs time we had our own "Econometrics," a discipline devoted to empirical rigor.
doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/the-missin...
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A little proof of concept I've been working on, it's a version of Bluesky that you can run locally, even on your laptop, that pulls just the data you care about from the firehose, indexes it, and provides you an interface to view and interact with posts.
GitHub - whyrusleeping/konbini
Contribute to whyrusleeping/konbini development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
October 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
A little proof of concept I've been working on, it's a version of Bluesky that you can run locally, even on your laptop, that pulls just the data you care about from the firehose, indexes it, and provides you an interface to view and interact with posts.