Elinor🎗️
@elinorpd.bsky.social
MIT // researching fairness, equity, & pluralistic alignment in LLMs
previously @ MIT media lab, mila / mcgill
i like language and dogs and plants and ultimate frisbee and baking and sunsets
https://elinorp-d.github.io
previously @ MIT media lab, mila / mcgill
i like language and dogs and plants and ultimate frisbee and baking and sunsets
https://elinorp-d.github.io
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What makes dialogue 💬 constructive 🫂?
We address this question in our #EMNLP2025 paper investigating how **responsivity** can characterize conversation quality ✨
Brandon Roy will be presenting our work (Oral) on Nov 7, Room A109 at 10:30.
🧵👇
https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.1798/
We address this question in our #EMNLP2025 paper investigating how **responsivity** can characterize conversation quality ✨
Brandon Roy will be presenting our work (Oral) on Nov 7, Room A109 at 10:30.
🧵👇
https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.1798/
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Thoughtful (as always) blog post from Nicholas Carlini. "Are large language models worth it?" A nice read giving his perspective on risks of ML models.
Post: nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2025...
For people who prefer, this is the video of the talk from @colmweb.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=PngH...
Post: nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2025...
For people who prefer, this is the video of the talk from @colmweb.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=PngH...
November 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Thoughtful (as always) blog post from Nicholas Carlini. "Are large language models worth it?" A nice read giving his perspective on risks of ML models.
Post: nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2025...
For people who prefer, this is the video of the talk from @colmweb.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=PngH...
Post: nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2025...
For people who prefer, this is the video of the talk from @colmweb.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=PngH...
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Extremely thrilled to talk about our new paper: "Who Evaluates AI’s Social Impacts? Mapping Coverage And Gaps In First And Third Party Evaluations".
This is the first big project output from the
@eval-eval.bsky.social coalition! Thread below:
This is the first big project output from the
@eval-eval.bsky.social coalition! Thread below:
November 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Extremely thrilled to talk about our new paper: "Who Evaluates AI’s Social Impacts? Mapping Coverage And Gaps In First And Third Party Evaluations".
This is the first big project output from the
@eval-eval.bsky.social coalition! Thread below:
This is the first big project output from the
@eval-eval.bsky.social coalition! Thread below:
Congratulations @sivareddyg.bsky.social ! 🥳 Incredibly well deserved!!
Congratulations to @sivareddyg.bsky.social, Core Academic Member at Mila, who has received the prestigious Outstanding Early Career Computer Science Researcher Award from CS-Can|Info-Can. mila.quebec/en/news/siva...
November 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Congratulations @sivareddyg.bsky.social ! 🥳 Incredibly well deserved!!
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We're excited to announce that the website and registration for IC2S2 2026 (July 28-31) will launch in early December! The Vermont Complex Systems Institute @vcsi.bsky.social at the University of Vermont will be hosting IC2S2 in 2026: youtube.com/watch?v=p412S4GnPkc&feature=youtu.be
IC2S2 2026 | Burlington, Vermont
YouTube video by UVM Office of Research
youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM
We're excited to announce that the website and registration for IC2S2 2026 (July 28-31) will launch in early December! The Vermont Complex Systems Institute @vcsi.bsky.social at the University of Vermont will be hosting IC2S2 in 2026: youtube.com/watch?v=p412S4GnPkc&feature=youtu.be
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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-...
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-...
November 11, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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-...
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-...
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It’s grad school application season, and I wanted to give some public advice.
Caveats:
-*-*-*-*
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
Caveats:
-*-*-*-*
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
November 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
It’s grad school application season, and I wanted to give some public advice.
Caveats:
-*-*-*-*
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
Caveats:
-*-*-*-*
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
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🧵Excited to present our work at #EMNLP2025 “Analyzing Dialectal Biases in LLMs for Knowledge and Reasoning Benchmarks”!
Paper 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2510.00962
w/ Eileen Pan, Skyler Seto, @allisonkoe.bsky.social @maartjeterhoeve.bsky.social
Paper 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2510.00962
w/ Eileen Pan, Skyler Seto, @allisonkoe.bsky.social @maartjeterhoeve.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 12:08 AM
🧵Excited to present our work at #EMNLP2025 “Analyzing Dialectal Biases in LLMs for Knowledge and Reasoning Benchmarks”!
Paper 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2510.00962
w/ Eileen Pan, Skyler Seto, @allisonkoe.bsky.social @maartjeterhoeve.bsky.social
Paper 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2510.00962
w/ Eileen Pan, Skyler Seto, @allisonkoe.bsky.social @maartjeterhoeve.bsky.social
it's crazy how typos are impossible to catch until *after* you submit a paper, after which they become glaringly noticeable
November 6, 2025 at 1:23 AM
it's crazy how typos are impossible to catch until *after* you submit a paper, after which they become glaringly noticeable
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Which, whose, and how much knowledge do LLMs represent?
I'm excited to share our preprint answering these questions:
"Epistemic Diversity and Knowledge Collapse in Large Language Models"
📄Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04226
💻Code: github.com/dwright37/ll...
1/10
I'm excited to share our preprint answering these questions:
"Epistemic Diversity and Knowledge Collapse in Large Language Models"
📄Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04226
💻Code: github.com/dwright37/ll...
1/10
October 13, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Which, whose, and how much knowledge do LLMs represent?
I'm excited to share our preprint answering these questions:
"Epistemic Diversity and Knowledge Collapse in Large Language Models"
📄Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04226
💻Code: github.com/dwright37/ll...
1/10
I'm excited to share our preprint answering these questions:
"Epistemic Diversity and Knowledge Collapse in Large Language Models"
📄Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04226
💻Code: github.com/dwright37/ll...
1/10
What makes dialogue 💬 constructive 🫂?
We address this question in our #EMNLP2025 paper investigating how **responsivity** can characterize conversation quality ✨
Brandon Roy will be presenting our work (Oral) on Nov 7, Room A109 at 10:30.
🧵👇
https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.1798/
We address this question in our #EMNLP2025 paper investigating how **responsivity** can characterize conversation quality ✨
Brandon Roy will be presenting our work (Oral) on Nov 7, Room A109 at 10:30.
🧵👇
https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.1798/
November 3, 2025 at 10:41 PM
What makes dialogue 💬 constructive 🫂?
We address this question in our #EMNLP2025 paper investigating how **responsivity** can characterize conversation quality ✨
Brandon Roy will be presenting our work (Oral) on Nov 7, Room A109 at 10:30.
🧵👇
https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.1798/
We address this question in our #EMNLP2025 paper investigating how **responsivity** can characterize conversation quality ✨
Brandon Roy will be presenting our work (Oral) on Nov 7, Room A109 at 10:30.
🧵👇
https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.1798/
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Great piece by @natolambert.bsky.social on the current state of human exhaustion in the AI world. Makes this important point:
October 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Great piece by @natolambert.bsky.social on the current state of human exhaustion in the AI world. Makes this important point:
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This paper underscores how “misinformation” is not easily operationalized as single pieces of factually untrue content, but often takes shape through the motivated amplification of specific evidence (often true evidence) that serves to build and reinforce misleading frames.
October 22, 2025 at 11:37 AM
This paper underscores how “misinformation” is not easily operationalized as single pieces of factually untrue content, but often takes shape through the motivated amplification of specific evidence (often true evidence) that serves to build and reinforce misleading frames.
Really proud bc I finished my first crochet sweater! It’s pretty cool wearing something you made by hand, every single stitch, mistakes and all
October 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Really proud bc I finished my first crochet sweater! It’s pretty cool wearing something you made by hand, every single stitch, mistakes and all
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MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...
Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart
orgchart.mit.edu
October 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...
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Hello #COLM2025! Excited to be kicking off the NLP4Democracy workshop this morning. We are in 520E (behind A/B/C) - check out our amazing program! sites.google.com/andrew.cmu.e...
NLP 4 Democracy - COLM 2025
sites.google.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Hello #COLM2025! Excited to be kicking off the NLP4Democracy workshop this morning. We are in 520E (behind A/B/C) - check out our amazing program! sites.google.com/andrew.cmu.e...
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💡We kicked off the SoLaR workshop at #COLM2025 with a great opinion talk by @michelleding.bsky.social & Jo Gasior Kavishe (joint work with @victorojewale.bsky.social and
@geomblog.bsky.social
) on "Testing LLMs in a sandbox isn't responsible. Focusing on community use and needs is."
@geomblog.bsky.social
) on "Testing LLMs in a sandbox isn't responsible. Focusing on community use and needs is."
October 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
💡We kicked off the SoLaR workshop at #COLM2025 with a great opinion talk by @michelleding.bsky.social & Jo Gasior Kavishe (joint work with @victorojewale.bsky.social and
@geomblog.bsky.social
) on "Testing LLMs in a sandbox isn't responsible. Focusing on community use and needs is."
@geomblog.bsky.social
) on "Testing LLMs in a sandbox isn't responsible. Focusing on community use and needs is."
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Hi #COLM2025! 🇨🇦 I will be presenting a talk on the importance of community-driven LLM evaluations based on an opinion abstract I wrote with Jo Kavishe, @victorojewale.bsky.social and @geomblog.bsky.social tomorrow at 9:30am in 524b for solar-colm.github.io
Hope to see you there!
Hope to see you there!
Third Workshop on Socially Responsible Language Modelling Research (SoLaR) 2025
COLM 2025 in-person Workshop, October 10th at the Palais des Congrès in Montreal, Canada
solar-colm.github.io
October 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Hi #COLM2025! 🇨🇦 I will be presenting a talk on the importance of community-driven LLM evaluations based on an opinion abstract I wrote with Jo Kavishe, @victorojewale.bsky.social and @geomblog.bsky.social tomorrow at 9:30am in 524b for solar-colm.github.io
Hope to see you there!
Hope to see you there!
Important keynote by Nicholas Carlini with important calls to action for the research community!
Ty for the helpful summary @mariaa.bsky.social
Ty for the helpful summary @mariaa.bsky.social
"What problems you're scared of depend on how good you think the LLMs will get"
"Please be willing to change your mind."
"This is COLM. We made the models, it's our job to fix it. How are you going to change your research agenda?"
#COLM2025
"Please be willing to change your mind."
"This is COLM. We made the models, it's our job to fix it. How are you going to change your research agenda?"
#COLM2025
October 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Important keynote by Nicholas Carlini with important calls to action for the research community!
Ty for the helpful summary @mariaa.bsky.social
Ty for the helpful summary @mariaa.bsky.social
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COLM word cloud. Yoav says it’s the year of reasoning, but evaluation is also huge.
October 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
COLM word cloud. Yoav says it’s the year of reasoning, but evaluation is also huge.
I’m at #COLM2025! Would love to chat about anything related to pluralistic alignment, fairness evaluations, societal impacts of LLMs, etc 😊
You can also find me at the NLP4Democracy workshop giving a talk about my work analyzing democratic deliberation with LLMs Oct 10th!
You can also find me at the NLP4Democracy workshop giving a talk about my work analyzing democratic deliberation with LLMs Oct 10th!
October 7, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I’m at #COLM2025! Would love to chat about anything related to pluralistic alignment, fairness evaluations, societal impacts of LLMs, etc 😊
You can also find me at the NLP4Democracy workshop giving a talk about my work analyzing democratic deliberation with LLMs Oct 10th!
You can also find me at the NLP4Democracy workshop giving a talk about my work analyzing democratic deliberation with LLMs Oct 10th!
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Alright the evening sky, you’re utterly wondrous and fantastical, we get it, geez
October 6, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Alright the evening sky, you’re utterly wondrous and fantastical, we get it, geez
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October 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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I will be at #COLM2025 this week, and would love to connect with folks interested in applications (and critiques) of language modeling in social science research!
And join us for the NLP4Democracy workshop on Friday!
sites.google.com/andrew.cmu.e...
#NLP #NLProc #LLM #ComputationalSocialScience
And join us for the NLP4Democracy workshop on Friday!
sites.google.com/andrew.cmu.e...
#NLP #NLProc #LLM #ComputationalSocialScience
NLP 4 Democracy - COLM 2025
sites.google.com
October 6, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I will be at #COLM2025 this week, and would love to connect with folks interested in applications (and critiques) of language modeling in social science research!
And join us for the NLP4Democracy workshop on Friday!
sites.google.com/andrew.cmu.e...
#NLP #NLProc #LLM #ComputationalSocialScience
And join us for the NLP4Democracy workshop on Friday!
sites.google.com/andrew.cmu.e...
#NLP #NLProc #LLM #ComputationalSocialScience