Sachita Nishal (on the job market!)
@sachnishal.bsky.social
HCI PhD @ Northwestern. I design human-centered AI tool to support science communication + study how AI tools might reshape people’s values, practices, relationships. she/her.
nishalsach.github.io
nishalsach.github.io
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📣 Attention science + tech journalists!
Trying to keep up with the flood of research papers that come out every day? Attempting to track what research has already been covered by others, and what may benefit from deeper exploration?
You are invited to participate in our research study!
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Trying to keep up with the flood of research papers that come out every day? Attempting to track what research has already been covered by others, and what may benefit from deeper exploration?
You are invited to participate in our research study!
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Training LLMs end to end is hard. But way more people should, and will, be doing it in the future.
The @hf.co Research team is excited to share their new e-book that covers the full pipeline:
· pre-training,
· post-training,
· infra.
200+ pages of what worked and what didn’t. ⤵️
The @hf.co Research team is excited to share their new e-book that covers the full pipeline:
· pre-training,
· post-training,
· infra.
200+ pages of what worked and what didn’t. ⤵️
November 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Training LLMs end to end is hard. But way more people should, and will, be doing it in the future.
The @hf.co Research team is excited to share their new e-book that covers the full pipeline:
· pre-training,
· post-training,
· infra.
200+ pages of what worked and what didn’t. ⤵️
The @hf.co Research team is excited to share their new e-book that covers the full pipeline:
· pre-training,
· post-training,
· infra.
200+ pages of what worked and what didn’t. ⤵️
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Halloween blog post: Italian Giallo Horror Films
thisismattmiller.com/post/giallo/
- Using vision language model to analyze a 70 film corpus (🧟) / 80,000 frames
- Build and plot “trope clusters” across movies
Probably the longest eye acting supercut you've seen: youtu.be/cGrmkOwut6k
thisismattmiller.com/post/giallo/
- Using vision language model to analyze a 70 film corpus (🧟) / 80,000 frames
- Build and plot “trope clusters” across movies
Probably the longest eye acting supercut you've seen: youtu.be/cGrmkOwut6k
Giallo
Using a vision language model to analyze Italian Giallo films
thisismattmiller.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Halloween blog post: Italian Giallo Horror Films
thisismattmiller.com/post/giallo/
- Using vision language model to analyze a 70 film corpus (🧟) / 80,000 frames
- Build and plot “trope clusters” across movies
Probably the longest eye acting supercut you've seen: youtu.be/cGrmkOwut6k
thisismattmiller.com/post/giallo/
- Using vision language model to analyze a 70 film corpus (🧟) / 80,000 frames
- Build and plot “trope clusters” across movies
Probably the longest eye acting supercut you've seen: youtu.be/cGrmkOwut6k
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📣 Attention science + tech journalists!
Trying to keep up with the flood of research papers that come out every day? Attempting to track what research has already been covered by others, and what may benefit from deeper exploration?
You are invited to participate in our research study!
[1/3]
Trying to keep up with the flood of research papers that come out every day? Attempting to track what research has already been covered by others, and what may benefit from deeper exploration?
You are invited to participate in our research study!
[1/3]
October 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
📣 Attention science + tech journalists!
Trying to keep up with the flood of research papers that come out every day? Attempting to track what research has already been covered by others, and what may benefit from deeper exploration?
You are invited to participate in our research study!
[1/3]
Trying to keep up with the flood of research papers that come out every day? Attempting to track what research has already been covered by others, and what may benefit from deeper exploration?
You are invited to participate in our research study!
[1/3]
📣 Attention science + tech journalists!
Trying to keep up with the flood of research papers that come out every day? Attempting to track what research has already been covered by others, and what may benefit from deeper exploration?
You are invited to participate in our research study!
[1/3]
Trying to keep up with the flood of research papers that come out every day? Attempting to track what research has already been covered by others, and what may benefit from deeper exploration?
You are invited to participate in our research study!
[1/3]
October 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
📣 Attention science + tech journalists!
Trying to keep up with the flood of research papers that come out every day? Attempting to track what research has already been covered by others, and what may benefit from deeper exploration?
You are invited to participate in our research study!
[1/3]
Trying to keep up with the flood of research papers that come out every day? Attempting to track what research has already been covered by others, and what may benefit from deeper exploration?
You are invited to participate in our research study!
[1/3]
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One of the coolest video game preservation stories I have ever covered arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...
All 54 lost clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity
Finding working copies of the last few titles was an “especially cursed” journey.
arstechnica.com
September 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
One of the coolest video game preservation stories I have ever covered arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...
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What are your favorite recent papers on using LMs for annotation (especially in a loop with human annotators), synthetic data for task-specific prediction, active learning, and similar?
Looking for practical methods for settings where human annotations are costly.
A few examples in thread ↴
Looking for practical methods for settings where human annotations are costly.
A few examples in thread ↴
July 23, 2025 at 8:10 AM
What are your favorite recent papers on using LMs for annotation (especially in a loop with human annotators), synthetic data for task-specific prediction, active learning, and similar?
Looking for practical methods for settings where human annotations are costly.
A few examples in thread ↴
Looking for practical methods for settings where human annotations are costly.
A few examples in thread ↴
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Check out the camera-ready version of our ACL Findings paper ("Taxonomizing Representational Harms using Speech Act Theory") to learn more!!! arxiv.org/pdf/2504.00928
arxiv.org
June 16, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Check out the camera-ready version of our ACL Findings paper ("Taxonomizing Representational Harms using Speech Act Theory") to learn more!!! arxiv.org/pdf/2504.00928
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1. On Saturday, @mnlee.bsky.social will present our work on designing for agency in LLM-infused writing support tools for journalists at the Tools for Thought workshop.
Lead author @sachnishal.bsky.social will be nearby at her own workshop on news + HCI!
ai-tools-for-thought.github.io/workshop/
Lead author @sachnishal.bsky.social will be nearby at her own workshop on news + HCI!
ai-tools-for-thought.github.io/workshop/
April 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
1. On Saturday, @mnlee.bsky.social will present our work on designing for agency in LLM-infused writing support tools for journalists at the Tools for Thought workshop.
Lead author @sachnishal.bsky.social will be nearby at her own workshop on news + HCI!
ai-tools-for-thought.github.io/workshop/
Lead author @sachnishal.bsky.social will be nearby at her own workshop on news + HCI!
ai-tools-for-thought.github.io/workshop/
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sometimes when i'm writing a sentence i really like it feels like i'm playing the piano
February 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
sometimes when i'm writing a sentence i really like it feels like i'm playing the piano
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Remember this @neuripsconf.bsky.social workshop paper? We spent the past month writing a newer, better, longer version!!! You can find it online here: arxiv.org/abs/2502.00561
February 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Remember this @neuripsconf.bsky.social workshop paper? We spent the past month writing a newer, better, longer version!!! You can find it online here: arxiv.org/abs/2502.00561
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Holy moly. I'm trying to write an academic paper, and nearly every application I'm using is not only offering Generative AI as an option for writing, but *pushing it* -- pervading the design to the point where a simple misclick would make my content AI-generated. Here's why that's a problem. 🧵
January 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Holy moly. I'm trying to write an academic paper, and nearly every application I'm using is not only offering Generative AI as an option for writing, but *pushing it* -- pervading the design to the point where a simple misclick would make my content AI-generated. Here's why that's a problem. 🧵
Incredibly amped to co-organize this #CHI2025 workshop on the future of news and HCI 📰📺🌐 Join us in exploring how HCI can support the production, verification and dissemination of trustworthy news in a changing world!
🔗 Details: sites.google.com/view/newsfut...
⏳ Deadline: Feb 20, 2025 (AoE)
🔗 Details: sites.google.com/view/newsfut...
⏳ Deadline: Feb 20, 2025 (AoE)
News Futures @ CHI 2025
Welcome to the News Futures Workshop @ CHI 2025!
The ways in which news is produced and consumed is constantly reshaped by technological change—today, this takes the form of AI integration in newsroom...
sites.google.com
January 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Incredibly amped to co-organize this #CHI2025 workshop on the future of news and HCI 📰📺🌐 Join us in exploring how HCI can support the production, verification and dissemination of trustworthy news in a changing world!
🔗 Details: sites.google.com/view/newsfut...
⏳ Deadline: Feb 20, 2025 (AoE)
🔗 Details: sites.google.com/view/newsfut...
⏳ Deadline: Feb 20, 2025 (AoE)
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can connect playlists meant to deliver indifferent content (e.g. "bossa nova dinner") to the spurious AI-generated genres individualized for each user in Spotify Wrapped; these "genres" have no social meaning and can't be learned or shared, only experienced through more streaming
December 20, 2024 at 3:49 PM
can connect playlists meant to deliver indifferent content (e.g. "bossa nova dinner") to the spurious AI-generated genres individualized for each user in Spotify Wrapped; these "genres" have no social meaning and can't be learned or shared, only experienced through more streaming
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Seeing cool works on metrology and measurement modeling for NLP!
So I wanted to port over the thread our ACL 2023 Findings paper (arxiv.org/abs/2305.09022) on conceptualizations of NLP tasks and measurements of performance! Work with Eric Yuan, @haldaume3.bsky.social, and Su Lin Blodgett. (1/n)
So I wanted to port over the thread our ACL 2023 Findings paper (arxiv.org/abs/2305.09022) on conceptualizations of NLP tasks and measurements of performance! Work with Eric Yuan, @haldaume3.bsky.social, and Su Lin Blodgett. (1/n)
It Takes Two to Tango: Navigating Conceptualizations of NLP Tasks and Measurements of Performance
Progress in NLP is increasingly measured through benchmarks; hence, contextualizing progress requires understanding when and why practitioners may disagree about the validity of benchmarks. We develop...
arxiv.org
December 4, 2024 at 6:37 PM
Seeing cool works on metrology and measurement modeling for NLP!
So I wanted to port over the thread our ACL 2023 Findings paper (arxiv.org/abs/2305.09022) on conceptualizations of NLP tasks and measurements of performance! Work with Eric Yuan, @haldaume3.bsky.social, and Su Lin Blodgett. (1/n)
So I wanted to port over the thread our ACL 2023 Findings paper (arxiv.org/abs/2305.09022) on conceptualizations of NLP tasks and measurements of performance! Work with Eric Yuan, @haldaume3.bsky.social, and Su Lin Blodgett. (1/n)
was mildly obsessed with this genre of ad all summer and took a bunch of photos for giggles. I feel they exemplify well this idea of "AI as floating signifier" from Suchman (2023), since they "suggest[s] a specific referent but work[s] to escape definition in order to maximize its suggestive power"
December 7, 2024 at 5:24 AM
was mildly obsessed with this genre of ad all summer and took a bunch of photos for giggles. I feel they exemplify well this idea of "AI as floating signifier" from Suchman (2023), since they "suggest[s] a specific referent but work[s] to escape definition in order to maximize its suggestive power"
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Feel like "fix the motion smoothing" should be replaced by "explain that ChatGPT isn't a search engine" when going home for the holidays now
December 4, 2024 at 3:28 PM
Feel like "fix the motion smoothing" should be replaced by "explain that ChatGPT isn't a search engine" when going home for the holidays now
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PSA, your local post office probably has Ursula K LeGuin stamps or you can order them by mail.
December 4, 2024 at 4:15 PM
PSA, your local post office probably has Ursula K LeGuin stamps or you can order them by mail.
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This, from 2015, was another longread for Flavorwire, on the importance of physical media. Another ongoing hobby horse of mine! I've really just been writing and yelling about the same things for a decade!! www.flavorwire.com/535883/the-p...
The Premature Death of Physical Media — and the Cult Home Video Labels Keeping It Alive
Matt Desiderio isn’t sure how he feels about me taking photos of his movie collection. It’s not that he isn’t proud of it — quite the contrary. Falling off the shelves in his living room, carrying ove...
www.flavorwire.com
November 22, 2024 at 9:21 PM
This, from 2015, was another longread for Flavorwire, on the importance of physical media. Another ongoing hobby horse of mine! I've really just been writing and yelling about the same things for a decade!! www.flavorwire.com/535883/the-p...
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November 15, 2024 at 12:53 AM
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I love how I just discovered I have a folder called "READ NOW!!!!" and I just scroll pass it. Untouched since October last year 🤣
November 13, 2024 at 11:31 PM
I love how I just discovered I have a folder called "READ NOW!!!!" and I just scroll pass it. Untouched since October last year 🤣
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Earlier this year, I decided to try tracing character journeys from each Sherlock Holmes story on London's 1893 Ordnance Survey #maps. It's great fun. As the street structure has remained largely the same, you can sometimes use ORS tools for routing between points. This one's the Red Headed League.
November 8, 2024 at 1:50 PM
Earlier this year, I decided to try tracing character journeys from each Sherlock Holmes story on London's 1893 Ordnance Survey #maps. It's great fun. As the street structure has remained largely the same, you can sometimes use ORS tools for routing between points. This one's the Red Headed League.