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Lucy Li
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Postdoc at UW NLP 🏔️. #NLProc, computational social science, cultural analytics, responsible AI. she/her. Previously at Berkeley, Ai2, MSR, Stanford. Incoming assistant prof at Wisconsin CS. lucy3.github.io
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Lucy Li @lucy3.bsky.social · Nov 11
It's the season for PhD apps!! 🥧 🦃 ☃️ ❄️

Apply to Wisconsin CS to research
- Societal impact of AI
- NLP ←→ CSS and cultural analytics
- Computational sociolinguistics
- Human-AI interaction
- Culturally competent and inclusive NLP
with me!

lucy3.github.io/prospective-...
A staircase in the new School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences building at Wisconsin Madison. Tan wood structures surround tapestry art and a small indoor garden. A view from above of the staircases in the Wisconsin CDIS building An shot from below of winding wooden staircases and a glass atrium rooftop. The new School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences building at Wisconsin Madison. A bicolor white cat with seal-colored markings, looking upwards with big wide dark eyes.
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tahayasseri.bsky.social
Thrilled to announce the Handbook of Computational Social Science is officially out! 956 pages, 118 authors, and truly global, interdisciplinary perspectives. Deep thanks to the contributors and anonymous reviewers who shaped this over 4 years. Buy your copy now!
@elgarpublishing.bsky.social
December 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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mariaa.bsky.social
An absolute must read if you’re working on AI and storytelling. @tuhinchakr.bsky.social is doing important work and blowing up many common assumptions about generated writing, while coming from a principled POV.
December 21, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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jonathanzong.com
I'm excited to share a complete draft syllabus for my new special topics class at CU Boulder, INFO 4871 Design for Accessibility.

data-and-design.org/classes/4871/
INFO 4871: Design for Accessibility
We are an interdisciplinary research group at the University of Colorado Boulder that uses design to understand and reimagine socio-technical systems.
data-and-design.org
December 18, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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jessicahullman.bsky.social
Many think LLM-simulated participants can transform behavioral science. But there's been a lack of accessible discussion of what it means to validate LLMs for behavioral scientists. Under what conditions can we trust LLMs to learn about human parameters? Our paper maps the validation landscape.
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December 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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jmendelsohn2.bsky.social
Consider submitting to the NLP+CSS workshop, and please share the call for papers with people who might be interested!

#PolCom #CompSocSci #ComputationalSocialScience #NLP #NLProc #langsky #polisky
nlpandcss.bsky.social nlpandcss.bsky.social @nlpandcss.bsky.social · 13d
✨The NLP+CSS workshop is returning to ACL 2026!✨

And this year, we have a new shared task with prizes!

Website/CfP: sites.google.com/site/nlpandc...
Deadlines: March 5 (direct), March 24 (pre-reviewed ARR)

#NLProc #CompSocialSci #ComputationalSocialScience #ACL2026NLP
@aclmeeting.bsky.social
NLP+CSS Workshops
https://www.pexels.com/photo/group-hand-fist-bump-1068523/
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December 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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pewresearch.org
64% of teens say they ever use an AI chatbot, including 16% who do so several times a day or almost constantly.
A bar chart showing that About 3 in 10 teens say they use AI chatbots daily
December 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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pniedent.bsky.social
We're hiring at the Associate Professor level in Social Psychology! Join us in our vibrant and wonderful department and area. Contact Markus Brauer, search committee chair, for details (markus.brauer@wisc.edu). Job ad here: shorturl.at/nnvv8
Associate Professor - 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...
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December 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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heuser.bsky.social
The relative usages of "[adjective] reading" in Anglophone literary studies journals, 1920-2020. Made for my "Prac Crit" course next term, "[Adjective] Reading". Interactive version here: public.tableau.com/views/Adject...
Line graph showing the history of different types of '[adjective] reading' in Anglophone literary studies from 1920-2020. The x-axis represents publication decades, while the y-axis shows the percent of '[adjective] reading' instances in literary studies journals as a 9-decade moving average. Multiple colored lines track various reading methodologies over time. 'Close reading' shows the most dramatic rise, peaking around 2010 at approximately 18% (33 times its 1920s usage). 'Original reading' dominated the 1920s at 7.6% but declined to 0.5% by the 2010s. Other notable methodologies include 'careful reading' (peaked 1960s), 'critical reading' (peaked 1980s), 'wide reading' (1920s), 'correct reading' (1930s), 'new reading' (1950s), 'feminist reading' (1990s), 'textual reading' (2000s), 'distant reading' (2010s), and 'nuanced reading' (2010s). Each labeled point includes the decade of peak usage, the percentage at peak, and the ratio compared to its lowest-usage decade. Data sourced from JSTOR across seven leading literary studies journals including PMLA, Critical Inquiry, New Literary History, ELH, Modern Language Review, Review of English Studies, and Modern Philology.
December 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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nsaphra.bsky.social
I keep telling this to students. If you really want to do SAE research, just find a great classic paper on topic modeling and reimplement it using SAEs. I don’t think anyone would really notice.
Interpretable Embeddings with Sparse Autoencoders: A Data Analysis Toolkit
Analyzing large-scale text corpora is a core challenge in machine learning, crucial for tasks like identifying undesirable model behaviors or biases in training data. Current methods often rely on cos...
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December 15, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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angelinawang.bsky.social
Most LLM evals use API calls or offline inference, testing models in a memory-less silo. Our new Patterns paper shows this misses how LLMs actually behave in real user interfaces, where personalization and interaction history shape responses: arxiv.org/abs/2509.19364
December 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social
The Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow to work with Andy Guess (Politics/SPIA), Brandon Stewart (Sociology), and me (CS).

puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

Please apply before Sunday, the 13th of December!
December 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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aolteanu.bsky.social
📣 It's again that time of the year 🤩 - our internship call for the FATE team @ MSR Montreal and our collaborators is now up! 🎉🎉

We are broadly looking for candidates interested in perceptions, evaluation, uses, and impacts of AI!

#FAccT #FAccT2025 #CHI2025 #NeurIPS2025 #ACL2025
December 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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rbsteed.com
Also, our team is hiring an AI Research Scientist!

www.usajobs.gov/job/851528400
December 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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schmidtsciences.bsky.social
JUST ANNOUNCED: Schmidt Sciences has awarded $11M to 23 teams globally for our Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI).

These projects bring AI to history, archaeology, literature, and film, unlocking new understandings of human culture.

Learn more: buff.ly/tvTUYwY
December 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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gautamkamath.com
Seven CEOs and one scientist (half cut out of the picture)
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20d
Time Magazine puts the "architects of AI" on its Person of the Year cover time.com/7339685/pers...
December 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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lorenverreyen.bsky.social
I just presented my podcast dataset at #CHR2025. Interested in analysing 412 days worth of podcast episodes? You can find the fully transcribed dataset here: zenodo.org/records/1746... 🎙️
December 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Paper out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com:

1) those groups (women, African Americans, lower SES, rural) that are underrepresented in science have been less trusting of science.

2) If you improve representation in science, you improve trust among those groups.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Representation in science and trust in scientists in the USA - Nature Human Behaviour
Druckman et al. document gaps in trust in scientists in the USA. People from groups less represented among scientists (for example, women and those with lower economic status) are less trusting. Incre...
www.nature.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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robvoigt.bsky.social
For everyone working on the intersections between linguistic and computational research, consider submitting to the upcoming SCiL! We're very excited that it will be co-located with ACL 2026 as a workshop, and we've also received NSF funding to help cover costs.

sites.google.com/view/scil2026
SCiL 2026
SCiL 2026 July 3rd and 4th San Diego, CA
sites.google.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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melaniemitchell.bsky.social
In the realm of science, do we want AI to replace us or to complement/augment us? @togelius.bsky.social argues compellingly for the latter.

togelius.blogspot.com/2025/12/plea...
Please, don't automate science!
I was at an event on AI for science yesterday, a panel discussion here at NeurIPS. The panelists discussed how they plan to replace humans a...
togelius.blogspot.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
lucy3.bsky.social
important questions
a screenshot of gemini chat history, where today the user prompted the model "Do you train on my inputs" and yesterday the user prompted the model "university of buffalo has got have real buffalo"
December 5, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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naitian.org
A couple years (!) in the making: we’re releasing a new corpus of embodied, collaborative problem solving dialogues. We paid 36 people to play Portal 2’s co-op mode and collected their speech + game recordings.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2512.03381
Website: berkeley-nlp.github.io/portal-dialo...

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A figure demonstrating the different aspects of the corpus described in the tweet. There is a main isomorphic 3D view of a level in the Portal 2 co-op game, with some portals, lasers, and the blue and orange players. Inset, there are first-person captures of the blue and orange player views. There is also a box containing the transcribed dialogue with timestamps and labels for the discursive acts. Finally, there is a box containing a task and a list of subtasks. Some subtasks are already crossed out, with the time that they have been completed. The last subtask ("Player 2 places portal 4 on wall 4") is marked incomplete. The dialogue is as follows: Blue: Can you put your other portal up here? (tagged as directive) Orange: Where? (tagged as request for clarification) Blue: On uh, on this wall. (tagged as directive) Blue: So that it uh points at the circle. (tagged as directive) Orange: Okay. (tagged as commit) The full list of subtasks is: Task: Redirect lasers Subtask: Player 1 places portal 1 on wall 1. (completed) Subtask: Player 1 polaces portal 2 on wall 2 or 3. (completed) Subtask: Player 2 places portal 3 opposite of portal 2. (completed) Subtask: Player 2 places portal 4 on wall 4. (incomplete)
December 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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catherinearnett.bsky.social
I’m presenting this today at 11am. Come find me at poster #1909!
catherinearnett.bsky.social Catherine Arnett @catherinearnett.bsky.social · Oct 28
Our #NeurIPS2025 paper shows that even comparable monolingual tokenizers have different compression rates across languages. But by getting rid of whitespace tokenization and using a custom vocab size for each language, we can reduce token premiums. Preprint out now!
December 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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cfiesler.bsky.social
I LOVE THIS SO MUCH.

Please please please please stop giving me news articles about blog posts about AI that include images of blue data and robot hands. betterimagesofai.org
Better Images of AI
We are a non-profit creating more realistic and inclusive images of artificial intelligence. Visit our growing repository available for anyone to use for free under CC licences, or just to use as insp...
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December 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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lucy3.bsky.social
Wisconsin-Madison CS is recruiting faculty for natural language processing!

jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor of Computer Sciences: Natural Language Processing (RISE-AI) - 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
November 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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gregdnlp.bsky.social
📢 Postdoc position 📢

I’m recruiting a postdoc for my lab at NYU! Topics include LM reasoning, creativity, limitations of scaling, AI for science, & more! Apply by Feb 1.

(Different from NYU Faculty Fellows, which are also great but less connected to my lab.)

Link in 🧵
December 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM