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.

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Our paper "Misattribution Matters: Quantifying Unfairness in Authorship Attribution" got accepted to #ACL2025! @niranjanb.bsky.social @ajayp95.bsky.social Arxiv link coming hopefully soon!

This finally arrived! 🎉

Lady Gaga would do an awesome Persephone in Hadestown.

This has importance way outside CS/ML. If you ask why DOGE employees believe it’s smart to gut NSF and NIH, I’m afraid the answer is that they’ve bought a story where technical progress can proceed mostly decoupled from scientific knowledge.

Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports. A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.

As someone who writes behind a paywall, let me tell you that there is no legal entitlement to my New Scientist articles but actually there is a legal entitlement to records of federal officials acting on behalf of the American people hopefully that clears up the difference for you guys

In other news, algorithm-propagated sexism and colorism is still alive and well. (Looked up an 8-year-old old "bias" example; it's still basically the same.)

It will know where to find all the free food on campus

Finally got around to making some art for Wind and Truth, Book 5 of The Stormlight Archives! I'll spoiler this JUST in case you didn't read it yet. It's been a few months. Get to it! #cosmere #stormlightarchive #szethsonsonvallano

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Wore my new t-shirt to school yesterday.

This one hour of day seven of the presidency.

i can see how you would come to this conclusion if your job didn't require you to ever be correct

Academic friends, I know a number of queer students on the market who are looking for postdocs in Europe. If you know of any, please post them here or link me and I will repost them!

listen nobody wishes that lady wasn’t called caitlyn more than the caitlin community, but deadnaming her and misgendering her is fucking bullshit. trans rights aren’t conditional on being a good person.

I don’t really have the energy for politics right now. So I will observe without comment: Executive Order 14110 was revoked (Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence)

خوشگلای توی خونه، الآن که داره جمعیت زیاد می‌شه می‌خوام این اکانت رو بذارم انگلیسی و [عمدتاً] فاخر و بدون اسپم بمونه که‌ اون یک ذره آبروم در آکادمیا باقی بمونه :)) با اکانت جدید و غیرفاخر دنبالتون می‌کنم.

آسمان آبی داره از جهاتی بیشتر از توییتر اذیتم می‌کنه. جز چند تا روزمره‌نگاری باقی هرچی می‌بینم اخبار به‌گا رفتن آمریکا،‌ فرو کردن هوش مصنوعی در همه چیز، و در نهایت دستاوردهای متعدد آدم‌هاست.

AI and using people's data are good as long as they're American. Guns are good as long as we choose who holds them. We can have unlimited access to alcohol, but other drugs are public enemy number one.

Just a reminder of some of the context around the TikTok ban: In 2020, Trump tried to ban it via executive order a couple months after K-pop fans used it to organize fake signups to Trump’s Tulsa rally, which led him to publicly overestimate how large the crowd size would be.

Reminded me of that video of people reacting to DUI laws.

دوستم (هم سن خودم) خونهٔ خودش رو خرید 🥲

We live in the ✨ world of tomorrow ✨

📢 #nlp #jobs A postdoc for an interdisciplinary project (sociology+NLP), to work on methodology for qualitative interviews with LLMs. This is a NLP position, but some soc/psy background is a plus. Domain PI: @hjalmarcarlsen.bsky.social Apply by March 17 candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

lol, a clip of a Tesla's vision system trying to understand a train labyrinth.zone/notice/Aq5V7...

Me when I see houses burning in California: oh no. Me when I see one cat brought to a shelter with burned skin: *Ugly cries*

We need a federal data privacy law now. Or we’ll continue down the road of a piecemeal strategy of banning popular foreign apps, while the US data broker industry continues to monetize the data of all Americans, mostly without our consent or notice. #AIBillofRights

I don't know when I started getting nauseous when I am upset/angry but it fucking sucks. Maybe I should turn it into an opportunity to lose weight. 🤔

Yeah I can see those red flags. I've been using them for the circus tent I am a clown at.

I should start a gym for gay dudes and call it Build-A-Bear.

این که چرا من دوست دارم با آدم‌بزرگا معاشرت کنم که مشخصه. این که آدم‌بزرگا چرا بعضا با من معاشرت می‌کنن جای سؤاله.

Saying it now so don’t say I didn’t try warn you. I mean every word. If they come for the ADA, I am going to lose my shit. They can pry it from my COLD REYNAUD’S INFLICTED HANDS. If I die in the process I am haunting all of these bitches.

Cats are so awesome. They just go to places and be like: "hey guys what is this? An office? A bookstore? A bodega? A construction site?" And then stay and join the crew no matter the answer.

فهمیدم می‌تونم از آمازون آدامس خرسی بخرم و خیلی خوشحالم.

امروز صبح بیدار شدم و فهمیدم هیچ مانعی برای خوردن باقیماندهٔ کاری برای صبحانه ندارم.

هیجان‌زده شدم سه تا بلیط کنسرت مرجان فرساد خریدم. حالا هیچکی باهام نمیاد.

Not a merely upset stomach, but an angry one.

📢 The 7th Workshop on Narrative Understanding (WNU) will happen with #NAACL2025 and is open for submissions. 🌐: tinyurl.com/wnu25 Direct Submission: February 17 Pre-Reviewed (ARR) papers: March 10 Excited to organize this again and hope to see you in Albuquerque 🌵 early this May! #wnu2025 #NLProc

فکرکنم کم کم وقتشه بلواسکای فارسی/چرت گوییم رو از اینی که آدمای دانشگاه دنبال می‌کنن جدا کنم. :))

Post-apocalypse show pausing for the apocalypse

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Let me make your day beautiful with this Carolina Wren visiting my backyard two days ago:

What the fucking fuck

A new dawn, a golden era of boot licking before us. Unheralded, unimaginable forms of boot licking to be discovered

Unfortunately I am not much of an intellectual and I don't have a book list, but I want to share some stuff I enjoyed in 2024. Mostly games and tv shows. I will gradually add more to the list since I can't draft them. Here we go