Pls help spread the word: We are hiring! 🌲☕✨ @ischool.uw.edu is recruiting two tenure-track assistant profs in AI. Areas include human-AI collaboration, AI & society, comp social science, NLP, and AI applications. Apply by Nov 15, 2025: apply.interfolio.com/171020 Happy to answer questions!

📣 Life update: Thrilled to announce that I’ll be starting as faculty at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems this Fall! I’ll be recruiting PhD students in the upcoming cycle, as well as research interns throughout the year: lasharavichander.github.io/contact.html

En route to #ACL2025 and looking forward to seeing everyone! ✈️ 🇦🇹 @bingbingw.bsky.social is presenting two of our papers on Wednesday in the 9a LM session and 11a poster session I’m also giving a talk at the #SDProc workshop on Thursday on translational science communication Come say hi!

Now out in Nature: we analyzed 19,000 computer vision papers and the 20,000+ patents citing them and found that most CV papers are used in surveillance enabling CV patents. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Ohhhh Molly Crockett‘s @mjcrockett.bsky.social keynote talk at #FAccT2025 was soo good 🔥🔥🔥 She talked about how techno-optimism is really human pessimism, how DEAD benchmarks don’t capture full human capacities and feed the hype cycle, how we need to avoid monoculture & imagine new worlds together

📣 Super excited to organize the first workshop on ✨NLP for Democracy✨ at COLM @colmweb.org!! Check out our website: sites.google.com/andrew.cmu.e... Call for submissions (extended abstracts) due June 19, 11:59pm AoE #COLM2025 #LLMs #NLP #NLProc #ComputationalSocialScience

A bit of a mess around the conflict of COLM with the ARR (and to lesser degree ICML) reviews release. We feel this is creating a lot of pressure and uncertainty. So, we are pushing our deadlines: Abstracts due March 22 AoE (+48hr) Full papers due March 28 AoE (+24hr) Plz RT 🙏

CMU LTI is hosting predoc interns this summer, centered around "Language Technologies for All"! Please apply and circulate! lti.cs.cmu.edu/news-and-eve...

There are already many articles for which there is more attention on Bluesky than on other comparable micro-blogging sites, meaning the academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research. A Place of Joy.

When DEOHS faculty Dr. Gary Franklin asked a chatbot for info on outcomes of a specific medical procedure, the bot gave an answer that cited two medical studies, neither of which existed. Franklin and @uwischool.bsky.social faculty @lucylw.bsky.social discuss AI in medicine w. @uwnews.bsky.social ⬇️

The Berkeley Info School is hiring an open-rank tenure-track professor in "digital security, safety and trust". Please help get the word out, and if you're working in this space, apply! (Deadline Jan 3.) aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04668

Excited to join the Seattle Association for Women in Science and Puget Sound Women in Data Science tonight for “Advancing Science & Industry with GAI.” This is happening today Nov 20 at the Fred Hutch or online. Join us! seattleawis.org/event/seattl...

I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work with me at the University of Colorado Boulder! Looking for creative students with interests in #NLP and #CulturalAnalytics. Boulder is a lovely college town 30 minutes from Denver and 1 hour from Rocky Mountain National Park 😎 Apply by December 15th!

We're hiring new #nlp faculty this year! Asst or Assoc Professors in NLP at UMass CICS -- careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

Hello, Computational linguistics/NLP world in Bluesky! We're creating the same accounts on other social media platforms in Bluesky! #NLProc

CHI 2026 Barcelona Open Call for volunteers is Open! Please sign up to join the team! This is for organizing and technical committees (excluding subcommittee chairs and area chairs for the papers program…that comes later). Details in the submission form. www.surveymonkey.com/r/GGPYYPD

All the ACL chapters are here now: @aaclmeeting.bsky.social @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social @eaclmeeting.bsky.social @naaclmeeting.bsky.social #NLProc

Taking a stand that we aren’t doing the #nlproc tag here. It’s #nlp. We used #nlproc because a decade ago the #nlp tag was full of sleazy scammers selling guides for hypnotizing women into sleeping with you. But guess what? We won. All the sleazy scammers are doing natural language processing now.

Love the influx of academics to Bluesky. Will this be our new 🏠? To help grow the community, I just created an HCI+Accessibility "starter pack". Help me grow the list! Many are missing! go.bsky.app/PZxHNqP

📢 📅 After a long process of soliciting & vetting bids, I'm excited that we've finally been able to reveal the location for #EMNLP2025 -- it'll be at the International Expo Centre, Suzhou, China from 5-9 November 2025. Looking forward to seeing you there! #NLProc #EMNLP2024

(1/n) I’m also excited to be heading to #emnlp2024 next week! Looking forward to catch up with old friends and new acquaintances. Several students and collaborators will be presenting work 🧵

New here? Interested in AI/ML? Check out these great starter packs! AI: go.bsky.app/SipA7it RL: go.bsky.app/3WPHcHg Women in AI: go.bsky.app/LaGDpqg NLP: go.bsky.app/SngwGeS AI and news: go.bsky.app/5sFqVNS You can also search all starter packs here: blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

A starter pack for #NLP #NLProc researchers! 🎉 go.bsky.app/SngwGeS

Jobs! Multiple tenure track positions in science of science and related fields at the University of Arizona’s College of Information. Info & apply here: arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

I really hope this does not become a bsky trend but I've seen it more than once now: please do not use alt text for links! 1) I can't click it 2) text to speech reads every. single. character in that URL. why are you subjecting me to this. This is not intended to be a fun lil extra flavour text box

From the good folks at LogicMag: What is a Language Model and why should I care? logicmag.io/policy/what-...

Something I haven’t see before: UW fountain is an ice skating rink

beginning the long journey to singapore for #emnlp2023 …looking forward to clearer skies

Please RT! We are investigating barriers NLP researchers face in using large language models (LLMs), as well as their conceptualization & theories of democratization of LLMs. We invite NLP practitioners to fill out our survey: forms.gle/VHzZQ3cSrcpk... w/ @zeerak.bsky.social,@dippedrusk.bsky.social

the harper’s cover story really got to me; wound up being fiction but stoked some deep fears about truth in the current/post?-wikipedia era

We're hiring at Associate prof level in the iSchool at UW-Madison. Topics are broad in Info Sci, can include ML/AI/NLP. We are as a dept always interested in "human factors" of information, computational social science, computational humanities. Energy around ?s of labor, youth, elderly lately.

trying to vote today but envelopes have been pre-sealed from sitting in the mailbox in the rain. this is the most seattle thing I’ve ever experienced 🌧️😩 #disenfranchisedbyrain

So proud to be part of this team! The AAMC did a fantastic job putting visuals to our guiding principles for the use of NLP in maternal health

going on vacation means 2x stress the week before 😔

time to put fenders back on the bikes #seattle

there’s a rumor among my friends that iphones use ML to make moon pics look good…i took a photo to verify 😏

we are recruiting a teaching track assistant professor in data science at UW iSchool: https://ischool.uw.edu/about/jobs/faculty/assistant-professor-teaching-track-data-science ping me if you're interested in the opportunity or have questions about the position

guess which way we went

my tomatoes love me

awful :(

post-conf island life is ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

blueish skies over dubrovnik today

@pfrazee.com bug report: if i add a link card, the card itself is not scrollable so i can’t edit my post e.g. the entire region between post button and keyboard is stuck

@bnewbold.bsky.team called me in the middle of the day to tell me that @dril.bsky.social is now on bluesky 🥹

fixed to handle ppl who follow A Lot more than 500 users

Campus is picturesque today

bagel days

First sign of spring

I still feel betrayed that there is an emoji for chess♟️but not go/weiqi ⚫️⚪️⚫️⚪️

shirts that go hard