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🧵 At #EMNLP2026 in Budapest, I’ll be presenting our Main conference paper tomorrow: 🗓️ Monday, 26 October 16:45–18:15 📌 Hall H | Session E Poster Session 9 Beyond Good Intentions: When Does the Framing of Multilingual and Low-Resource #NLP Research Become a Caricature? 1/8

Going to be a blast!

I’ll be there!

If you haven't yet registered for TADA 2026 on October 5th (day before COLM), registration is open to the public! Detailed schedule forthcoming, but lots of fantastic posters and talks. We even have a second half-day of lightning talks scheduled! tada2026.eventbrite.com

The deadline has been extended to Monday, August 3 --

Wheeeeee Text as Data is coming back, and will be in the Bay Area right before COLM! One-page extended abstract due on August 1 -- hope to see you all there!

In case you missed it, the GenAI for the World workshop (co-located w/ COLM) extended submissions until 6/30 AoE! We welcome work on globalizing tasks, evaluations, and systems. All submissions are non-archival. Tracks for direct submissions or accepted COLM papers sites.google.com/view/genai4w...

If you count the first calendar we did as the beginning of ORB, which we do, then today is our one-year anniversary of being An Actual Thing! One full ORBIT around the sun!

vibe coding is so good for taking my horrifying jupyter notebooks and converting them into a set of self-contained scripts that are more reproducible

Patrick Sui and I are hosting an #ICLR2026 social for anyone with background/interest in the humanities! Room 210, 12-1:30pm on Friday 24 April!! Humanities-adjacent, humanities-curious, everyone is welcome! Should be a fun group! :)

Would you realize if the book you were reading was AI? What if it was humanized to remove AI-speak? We find that even without using stylistic cues (e.g., word choice or sentence structure) narrative choices alone give AI fiction away!

my hot take is that this is a *fantastic* result & reason for optimism:

Join @taylor-arnold.bsky.social and me for a postdoc to expand distant viewing! 2 years. Awesome liberal arts college. Great city. Option to teach 1-2 courses a year for extra pay. Thanks to Mellon for the opportunity! Happy to answer any questions. richmond.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff_...

every slide is a banger??

ssh is an obscure but widely-deployed command. It stands for Secure Snake Home and was made in the 90s to securely play snake online I made a massively multiplayer backend for it with support for thousands of concurrent snake players ssh snakes.run to join!

We visualize the Olympic medal count as Norwegian-style scarf. :) 📊 Check out how Germany looks like and generate your own scarf – including download of the knitting pattern.

We were excited to host @naitian.org at today’s lab seminar for a talk on variation, semiotics, fashion, and style. A refreshing perspective at the intersection of sociolinguistics and NLP! #NLProc

ew why is claude doing that

we got you 😭 www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

I just got back from Michigan and—

Showing this to everyone that I meet at a conference that thinks I’m an extrovert

Excited to get this work out in the world at #chr2025 (with Sabrina Baur, Mackenzie Cramer, Anna Ho and Tom McEnaney) -- asking: how much do contemporary songs tell stories, and how has that changed over the past half century? anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...

Keeping this at hand in case I need to point to it and tap

New grant program announcement: You've heard me talk this morning about those 23 new DH awards from @schmidtsciences.bsky.social HAVI program? Well, we just announced our new RFP for 2026! Teams can be global too! Please consider applying. RFP here: www.schmidtsciences.org/opportunity/...

Lavinia Dunagan and @dallascard.bsky.social find implicit references to bible verses using a combination of neural embeddings and text similarity—neither is enough on its own #CHR2025

Awesome, the Edinburgh HCRC map task corpus 30 years later without the insane "different maps" complication. Of course, not really fully embodied, but at least spatial, and super well controlled. #AI Here's the older one: groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/maptask/ via @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social

This looks really interesting. Seems primarily targeted at cog-sci and/or linguistics research, with Portal 2 just the example problem-solving domain, but probably also of interest to game-studies and game-AI people.

Oh how I yearn for happier days

Our School of Information Sciences is running four searches, and we can hire more than four candidates. Here’s the first link, for a job that might appeal to people working in history of information, history of science, or digital humanities. +

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I'm recruiting multiple PhD students for Fall 2026 in Computer Science at @hopkinsengineer.bsky.social 🍂 Apply to work on AI for social sciences/human behavior, social NLP, and LLMs for real-world applied domains you're passionate about! Learn more at kristinagligoric.com & help spread the word!

At this point, anyone—a university, a law firm, a corporation, a Democrat—bending the knee to Trump is doing it because they want to, not because of any political reality.

🚨We’re hiring for another fantastic position at the I School! 🚨 The I School invites applications for a tenure-track or tenured position (Asst/Assoc/Full Professor) in Digital Security, Safety & Trust. #academicsky Apply by Nov 16, 2025 Please share widely.

I'm seeing a lot of people in my circles discover the wonders of uv. If you like uv but need tools like conda that manage more than just your python dependencies, I've been using and loving pixi, which manages both pip and conda dependencies (and more!) pixi.sh/latest/

Very happy to announce the new Anthology for Computers and the Humanities! 🎉 Inspired by the wonderful ACL Anthology, this is an open, accessible, centralized repository for papers at different workshops, conferences, and related venues. All thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social!

I'm pumped about this event! I'll be at Berkeley on Friday to share new research about how people are using AI to write fiction—and what that means for the future of fiction and entertainment. You can join on Zoom, too!

🚨We’re hiring for another fantastic position at the I School! 🚨 The I School invites applications for a tenure-track or tenured position (Asst/Assoc/Full Professor) in Digital Security, Safety & Trust. #academicsky Apply by Nov 16, 2025 Please share widely.