Please welcome Google's Open Source efforts to Blue Sky at @opensource.google!

Excited about this Duke AI conference + stoked to present new work on cultural AI. Grateful this high profile conference will include humanistic perspectives. Meaning, history, aesthetics, narrative etc are a part of the society centered AI question. Glad the humanities will be a part of the convo.

I play valorant with another professor so that if we talk about grant writing during gaming sessions it can count as work

Today I made a small but momentous start to work in 2026 by changing a single number. I renamed the file “Papers to write and submit in 2025” to “Papers to write and submit in 2026”. Stay tuned for more file updates on 1st January 2027.

what if all the discussions about a research paper were centralized on a single paper page? let us know what you think!

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

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.

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/

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. 1/

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

64% of teens say they ever use an AI chatbot, including 16% who do so several times a day or almost constantly.

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 ([email protected]). Job ad here: shorturl.at/nnvv8

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...

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.

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

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!

📣 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

Also, our team is hiring an AI Research Scientist! www.usajobs.gov/job/851528400

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

Seven CEOs and one scientist (half cut out of the picture)

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... 🎙️

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...

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

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...

important questions

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... 1/n

I’m presenting this today at 11am. Come find me at poster #1909!

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

Wisconsin-Madison CS is recruiting faculty for natural language processing! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

📢 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 🧵

Would the digital humanities community like to have their own section on arxiv? Pros/cons?

🗣️ Keen to share your #DigitalHumanities research methods? Everything we publish is #DiamondOpenAccess. tinyurl.com/open-call-2025-blog 📩 Send us your proposal by: 15 February 2026 #CallForPapers

💥 Northeastern University in Boston is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Network Science & Communication! Joint appointment with Communication Studies & College of Science. Review of applications begins 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱. Please share!! northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

I'm recruiting my first group of students at TTIC! If you're interested, please apply by December 9th and mention my name in your application

Three exciting opportunities at @msftresearch.bsky.social in NYC!!! 🎉 Internship w/ FATE: apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job?... Internship w/ STAC on AI evaluation and measurement: apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job?... Postdoc w/ FATE: apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job?...

Google AI overviews now reach over 2B users worldwide. But how reliable are they on high stakes topics - for instance, pregnancy and baby care? We have a new paper - led by Desheng Hu, now accepted at @icwsm.bsky.social - exploring that and finding many issues Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2511.12920 🧵👇

Our Olmo 3 models are now available via API on @openrouter.bsky.social. Try Olmo 3-Instruct (7B) for chat & tool use, and our reasoning models Olmo-3 Think (7B & 32B) for more complex problems.

Wisconsin-Madison CS is recruiting faculty for natural language processing! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

We're hiring too! Olmo 3 was our biggest effort yet, but we're still a small team (67 authors!) compared to a lot of the big labs, which means everyone (especially interns) gets to own a major piece of the Olmo puzzle job-boards.greenhouse.io/thealleninst...

we released Olmo 3! lot of exciting stuff but wanna focus on: 🐟Olmo 3 32B Base, the best fully-open base model to-date, near Qwen 2.5 & Gemma 3 on diverse evals 🐠Olmo 3 32B Think, first fully-open reasoning model approaching Qwen 3 levels 🐡12 training datasets corresp to different staged training

Olmo 3 is out! 🤩 I am particularly excited about Olmo 3 models' precise instruction following abilities and their good generalization performance on IFBench! Lucky to have been a part of the Olmo journey for three iterations already.

We present Olmo 3, our next family of fully open, leading language models. This family of 7B and 32B models represents: 1. The best 32B base model. 2. The best 7B Western thinking & instruct models. 3. The first 32B (or larger) fully open reasoning model.

And here is the presentation I gave on networking, self-promo, and how to make the most out of a conference. Hope this helps for everyone at NeurIPS! www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9hG...

Trying an experiment in good old-fashioned blogging about papers: dallascard.github.io/granular-mat...

For undergraduates curious about complex systems research, applications are now open for the 2026 Undergraduate Complexity Research (UCR) program — a fully funded, 10-week summer research experience at the Santa Fe Institute. Apply by Jan. 14, 2026: santafe.edu/ucr

Interested in detecting influence operations on TikTok? Check this out👇 just accepted at ICWSM 2026 @icwsm.bsky.social 🚀🚀🚀

🎉 Congratulations to all #EMNLP2025 award winners 🎉 Starting with the ✨Best Paper award ✨: "Infini-gram mini: Exact n-gram Search at the Internet Scale with FM-Index" by Hao Xu, Jiacheng Liu, Yejin Choi, Noah A. Smith, and Hannaneh Hajishirzi aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m... 1/n

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-...

COLM is going to San Francisco for 2026! 🗓️Dates: October 6-9, 2026 🏨Venue: Hilton San Francisco Union Square Website and CFPs for papers and workshops coming up soon!

🌉 #EMNLP2026 will be October 24-29th in Budapest! 🌉 Thanks all for a great conference, and see you at the next one!