Interested in accessibility, visualization, or data ethics? I'm looking for Ph.D. students to join @data-and-design.org at CU Boulder Info Sci in Fall 2026. data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd

be my colleague! information science at CU Boulder is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in environmental justice. jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

A new microsite dropped. Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers. Which of you did this c'mon, hilarious. buff.ly/Qc4gp7x

BIG NEWS! We've updated the website of the Open Visualization Academy, where you can see all its contributors: openvisualizationacademy.org This is the announcement in our newsletter: openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/we-re-back... #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVis 📊 1/x

🪶 #EMNLP2025 is currently seeking applications for Birds-of-a-Feather and Affinity Group Events, as additional networking opportunities for EMNLP participants. 🪶 Please see this page and submit your application before 26 September, 2025 11:59pm (AoE): 2025.emnlp.org/calls/bof/

🚨 Are you looking for a PhD in #NLProc dealing with #LLMs? 🎉 Good news: I am hiring! 🎉 The position is part of the “Contested Climate Futures" project. 🌱🌍 You will focus on developing next-generation AI methods🤖 to analyze climate-related concepts in content—including texts, images, and videos.

"AI slop" seems to be everywhere, but what exactly makes text feel like "slop"? In our new work (w/ @tuhinchakr.bsky.social, Diego Garcia-Olano, @byron.bsky.social ) we provide a systematic attempt at measuring AI "slop" in text! arxiv.org/abs/2509.19163 🧵 (1/7)

If you are a prof, please include something on your website about whether you'd like to be emailed by prospective students & whether you're recruiting this cycle. Emailing norms differ across disciplines and countries, and applicants may ignore website info, but some clarity on your end is helpful.

New preprint! Crowdsourced Context Systems (CCS) like X's and Meta's Community Notes are popping up on various social media platforms. How can we better understand, critique, and design such systems?

CSCW is experimenting with a rolling format! We still need an Editor-in-Chief for the "Mixed Methods" Track, preferably a full professor or research manager in industry from the Global South. Let @eegilbert.org and I know if you know someone good. #CSCW #CSCW-Rolling medium.com/acm-cscw/csc...

A few days ago, amidst everything else, I pressed send on the book I've been working on (and off) for over a decade. It's still a long way from finished, but the final phase has begun. Watch for DATA BY DESIGN: FROM THE HISTORY OF VISUALIZATION TO THE FUTURE WE NEED in print and online in Fall 2026!

Come work with us at Georgia Tech! We're hiring assistant professors in multiple areas! (Oct 27 deadline). There's 2 within the Digital Media program: 1) Assistant Professor of Digital Media: Digital Representation in Science and Technology Studies: careers.hprod.onehcm.usg.edu/psc/careers/...

Social media feeds today are optimized for engagement, often leading to misalignment between users' intentions and technology use. In a new paper, we introduce Bonsai, a tool to create feeds based on stated preferences, rather than predicted engagement. arxiv.org/abs/2509.10776

LLM agents are optimized for thumbs-up instant gratification. RLHF -> sycophancy We propose human agency as a new alignment target in HumanAgencyBench, made possible by AI simulation/evals. We find e.g., Claude most supports agency but also most tries to steer user values 👇 arxiv.org/abs/2509.08494

I've been testing the accuracy of LLMs in transcribing printed and handwritten historical texts stored as images. I put together a corpus of 400 pages from the Library of Congress. Current leader is GPT4.1-mini, which at 11 cents per 1K pages, is also the cheapest option. github.com/nealcaren/In...

I am recruiting (Canadian🇨🇦) graduate students at York University for Fall 2026 in Social and Personality Psychology! If you are interested in misinformation, political polarization, and/or computational social science, I'd love to hear from you. Feel free to reach out with any questions.

Some of you might remember that in 2017 I created a crowdsourced spreadsheet of tech ethics syllabi. It still exists! And there are presumably many more such classes now, so considering adding to it! cfiesler.medium.com/tech-ethics-...

Crunching away on a paper for #CHI2026 about online communities, moderation, or sociolinguistics? You may be want to check out recent work led by @galenweld.bsky.social on predicting SOVC within subreddits based on the style and structure of conversations. arxiv.org/abs/2508.08596

We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗ 📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**. Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825

FYI: We are hiring a 3-year research postdoc at @camdighum.bsky.social to study AI and the future of creativity. Application deadline Sep 21; more info below. Please circulate / apply! www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/r...

lately i've been trying this thing where instead of saying I'll get something done by the time i expect it to be done, I add another day (or more) to the ETA and this has improved my quality of life so much

We’re hiring @ucdavis.bsky.social Comm! TT Asst Prof in Mediated Interpersonal Communication. Our dept blends behavioral, biological & computational strengths at one of the most interdisciplinary campuses anywhere. Apps due Oct 15. Glad to chat recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07289

🚀 New in the Ai2 Playground: side-by-side comparison is live. Compare two Ai2 models with the same prompt and see the results next to each other. ⚖️🆚

#EMNLP2025 is offering Virtual Registration Subsidies for those who would otherwise be unable to attend. Note that these are only available for participants who are NOT registering any paper. To apply, please read the details here, and fill out the linked form: 2025.emnlp.org/calls/virtua...

A big thank you to the #CHR2025 reviewers who have already submitted their reviews - your time and effort are much appreciated! 🙏 Still working on yours? This is a friendly reminder to please submit your reviews before Monday, September 8, 2025 (midnight).

Learned a ton working on this survey. Hope it's helpful for you too, check it out! Feedback welcome 🙏 kennethmarino.com/computeruse/...

I'm excited cause I'm teaching/coordinating a new unique class, where we teach new PhD students all the "soft" skills of research, incl. ideation, reviewing, presenting, interviewing, advising, etc. Each lecture is taught by a different LTI prof! It takes a village! maartensap.com/11705/Fall20...

Today I'm looking for cultural analytics papers that incorporate *both* vision and language. Any favorites? I'll put a couple of mine below to start! ↳

Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...

Well, this is a big deal in my neck of the woods. If you typically applied to NSF EDU AISL, CSforAll, DRK-12, TD, or CORE, this is your new opportunity. Proposals accepted at any time. Expected awards up to $750k for up to 3 years. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Study media studies and emerging technologies? 📣 Join us at Richmond! 📣 Areas of focus might include but are not limited to algorithms, AI, infrastructure, extended reality, information science, platform studies, and game studies. Please help speed the word!

🚨 New postdoc position in our lab at Berkeley EECS! 🚨 (please reshare) We seek applicants with experience in language modeling who are excited about high-impact applications in the health and social sciences! More info in thread 1/3

people on my linkedin feed are posting screenshots of EMNLP paper acceptances with interesting paper titles, but the papers are not online yet for me to read 🥲 write ur camera readies so i can read them

The 2025-2026 #academic job market season is upon us. Here are some resources and #job postings for #faculty and #postdoc positions for those in Information/Computer/Social Sciences, and related fields. Will update the list as more #jobs are posted. 🧵(0/n) #AcademicChatter

New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College apply.interfolio.com/172357 Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!

📢 Don’t miss the first articles from CHR’s themed issue, Expanding the Toolkit: Large Language Models in Humanities Research! Read the issue #openaccess here: 📚 cup.org/4lvH2Ow #computationalhumanities #CHR @comphumresearch.bsky.social @nolauren.bsky.social @folgertk.bsky.social

The @acm-cscw.bsky.social Starter Pack is growing ahead of #CSCW2025 ! (go.bsky.app/SPumuMT) 🔥 A warm welcome to all of our new members 🔥: @imanm02.bsky.social @jesanovi.bsky.social @shadinz.bsky.social @jaytee-ess.bsky.social @jaewonk.bsky.social @sypark9.bsky.social New member thread 1/x

Pro research tip: to support your collaborator who is typing on a shared doc, you should make ur presence known by having your text cursor always follow theirs, and every once in awhile attempt to finish the sentence they’re currently writing follow me for more pro tips 💕

I expect to see more research coming up in the next year or so related to the use of AI as "engagement bait", or the use of AI to get people to buy products, use a service, or stick around for longer

Collaborate with researchers globally. Chart your transdisciplinary path. Apply to SFI's 2026 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships. Competitive pay, research funds, and generous benefits to become a leader in transdisciplinary research. Deadline: Oct 1, 2025 Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship

my new chapter "Language, Variation, and Change" has many things going for it, including but absolutely not limited to - my home accent - syntactic examples - Moby Dick, of course - a massively oversimplified history of sociolinguistics Read it here: repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150...

A nice discovery today: #ic2s2 keynotes are on Youtube! In particular, I think the papers listed by @lauraknelson.bsky.social in her keynote could form a great list for a CSS reading group. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXYg...

Happy #InternationalCatDay! 🐈

Claude 4 Sonnet in Cursor just LOVES giving itself evaluations like OUTSTANDING and PERFECT when it's done implementing something. Complete with effusive details of everything it's achieved. For features it writes bugs into, it simply grades them: WORKING

I just moved and Toast discovered a love for rolling in bathtubs; she had never seen one before now. She also figured out how to open new types of doors, and so my cat-proofing battle continues.

it would be fun to watch my friends in a competition where they have to assemble an entire Ikea showroom within a fixed amount of time (with allen wrenches and paper instructions ofc)

totally unbiased opinion here 😄 but NLP + comp social science (broadly defined) is one of the coolest and most fun communities at *ACL conferences #ACL2025