I curated some readings for class on "data tensions" and the list felt worth sharing. Come on a tour of datasets, books, the web, and AI with me... We'll start with this piece on the Google Books project: the hopes, dreams, disasters, and aftermath of building a public library on the internet. 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-...

Congratulations to my amazing friend Amelia Acker for her new book. This book is going to be such an important contribution. Cannot wait to read it! mitpress.mit.edu/978026255324...

🎉 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

No better time to start learning about that #AI thing everyone's talking about... 📢 I'm recruiting PhD students in Computer Science or Information Science @cornellbowers.bsky.social! If you're interested, apply to either department (yes, either program!) and list me as a potential advisor!

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!

I somehow missed that all of Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon, and Nvidia donated to the new ballroom (apparently along with Greg Brockman from OpenAI): www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...

📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd... applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome pls share with your networks

AI as governance -- @himself.bsky.social on how AI reshapes markets, bureaucracy, democracy...and culture. Very happy ot see this getting the mainstream social science treatment. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... I can't believe I missed this paper coming out!

Cornell (NYC and Ithaca) is recruiting AI postdocs, apply by Nov 20, 2025! If you're interested in working with me on technical approaches to responsible AI (e.g., personalization, fairness), please email me. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30971

This game from UChicago is incredible! It might be a bit painful to play, especially for those of us who already spend too much time on email, but the concept and execution are brilliant!

Very excited that my paper with @katakeith.bsky.social is now out in @polanalysis.bsky.social. We investigate whether LLMs actually follow the instructions/definitions provided in codebooks, propose some diagnostics, and release a new evaluation dataset. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

UMSI is running multiple searches this year, starting with the John Derby Evans Professor in Information, at the Assistant or Associate level! This is open to anyone working at the intersection of tech and society, with a closing date of Nov 1, 2025. Please share! www.si.umich.edu/people/facul...

So happy that bookmarks have finally been added!

#EMNLP2025 is offering diversity and inclusion funds for registration, caregiving, bandwidth, travel and VPN subsidies. To apply, please carefully read the requirements on this page, and follow the link that is provided there, by September 24, 2025: 2025.emnlp.org/calls/subsid...

We are trying to create a list of in-copyright novels that contain maps. If you know of some, drop them in the thread below! 🧵👇

🚨 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

✨We are thrilled to announce that over 3200 papers have been accepted to #EMNLP2025 ✨ This includes over 1800 main conference papers and over 1400 papers in findings! Congratulations to all authors!! 🎉🎉🎉

The Call for #EMNLP2025 student volunteers is out: 2025.emnlp.org/calls/volunt... Please fill out the form by 20 Sep 2026: forms.gle/qfTkVGyDitXi... For questions, you can contact emnlp2025-student-volunteer-chairs [at] googlegroups [dot] com CC @a-lauscher.bsky.social @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social

"it doesn’t take generational change for words to take on new meanings or lose old one" Analysis of more than a century’s worth of political speeches challenges theory about how linguistic usage evolves | McGill University www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/cha...

This sounds like an incredible postdoc opportunity!

Very nice coverage of our PNAS paper, by the great Philip Ball! bsky.app/profile/did:... (paper here: t.co/9rgnO77BkJ) @grvkamath.bsky.social @msonderegger.bsky.social @sivareddyg.bsky.social

Super cool work on quantifying with NLP how language evolves through generations In linguistics, the "apparent time hypothesis" famously discusses this but never empirically tests it

I am delighted to share our new #PNAS paper, with @grvkamath.bsky.social @msonderegger.bsky.social and @sivareddyg.bsky.social, on whether age matters for the adoption of new meanings. That is, as words change meaning, does the rate of adoption vary across generations? www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

On my way from the Copenhagen Pre-ACL workshop to #ACL2025 in Vienna!

For EMNLP 2025’s special theme of "Advancing our Reach: Interdisciplinary Recontextualization of NLP", we are organizing a panel of experts, and would like input from the community at large as we prepare. Please take a moment to fill in this survey: forms.office.com/r/pWFFA0Gss1

For EMNLP 2025's special theme of Advancing our Reach: Interdisciplinary Recontextualization of NLP, we are organizing a panel of experts, and would like your input! Please help us prepare by completing this survey: forms.office.com/r/pWFFA0Gss1

Notes from the #FAccT2025 town hall! Highlights: The conference was not in a hotel this year. We will close with (likely) a surplus. Please register early, it helps keep costs down! And we developed lots of new documentation for the conference this year.

Update on reviews for EMNLP, which were due on June 18th: as of today, only about 80% of reviews have been completed 😧 As a reminder, reviewers deemed "highly irresponsible" will not be able to commit their work to EMNLP, as per the updated ARR policy: aclrollingreview.org/incentives2025

Please help us spread the word! 📣 FATE is hiring a pre-doc research assistant! We're looking for candidates who will have completed their bachelor's degree (or equivalent) by summer 2025 and want to advance their research skills before applying to PhD programs.

Having trouble choosing a track for your ARR / EMNLP submissions? Take a look at this blog post for more information: 2025.emnlp.org/track-changes/

📢 Submitting to the May 19th ARR deadline? ✅ Make sure your profile is complete, including your DBLP link: aclrollingreview.org/reviewerguid... 📄 Do not forget to review: (1) Author Guidelines aclrollingreview.org/authors (2) ACL Publication policy aclweb.org/adminwiki/in... #NLProc #EMNLP25 #ARR

🚨 2nd CFP for #EMNLP2025 is out! Introducing: ✅ New submission topics 🎯 A theme track on Interdisciplinary Recontextualization of NLP 📜 Policies to penalize low-quality reviews & reward high-quality ones, with @aclrollingreview.bsky.social 📝 CFP: 2025.emnlp.org/calls/main_c... Deadline is 5/19!!

The EMNLP call for System Demonstrations has now been posted! The submission deadline is July 4th, with additional details available here: 2025.emnlp.org/calls/demos/

I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:

It is astonishing how much better the reviews for FAccT are than for ARR (at least from the sample I'm seeing): detailed, specific, engaged, in-depth, and supportive I am just so impressed with the FAccT reviewing community, and wish we could replicate that elsewhere!

Interesting example of the dynamic we wrote about in "An Archival Perspective on Pretraining Data": the needs of LLMs changes the priorities for what archival materials are considered most valuable, though potentially with a mismatch on values www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

EMNLP is currently seeking additional Senior Area Chairs (SACs). If you would like to help, please fill out this form, and share the link with others! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Other than war, few government actions will have such an obvious and direct impact on whether people live or die. The US always could and should have been doing more than it was; but cancelling these programs with no notice and no plan is outrageous and despicable. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...

ACL Rolling Review and the EMNLP PCs are seeking input on the current state of reviewing for *CL conferences. We would love to get your feedback on the current process and how it could be improved. To contribute your ideas and opinions, please follow this link! forms.office.com/r/P68uvwXYqfemn

We’ve posted a job ad to join our team at LC Labs. I am very proud and excited about the work we have planned. Please share. I’ll also mention that we are part of the legislative branch and this is a partner-supported project. www.usajobs.gov/job/832669800

The updated ARR schedule has now been posted! aclrollingreview.org/dates Feb 2025: Februrary 15 May 2025: May 19 July 2025: July 28 Oct 2025: October 6 Jan 2026: January 5

This report has a preview of the upcoming changes to the ARR cycle (not sure if these dates are confirmed or not)

Microsoft's Computational Social Science group may have the opportunity to hire one researcher Senior: 0-3 yrs post PhD jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo... Principal: 3+ yrs post PhD jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/sh... Please note: our ability to hire this season is not certain

Two tenure-track positions in AI at the School of Information Sciences, UIUC. Artificial intelligence is broadly construed here to include AI policy, governance, ethics, AI for cultural heritage, &c. Review of applications will start Jan 6th. Please RT and share! #MLSky #NeurIPS

I'm seeking a postdoc to work with me and @kenholstein.bsky.social on evaluating AI/ML decision support for human experts: statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/12/10/p... P.S. I'll be at NeurIPS Thurs-Mon. Happy to talk about this position or related mutual interests! Please repost 🙏

Check out my new piece on AI terms of use restrictions w/ Mark Lemley ( @marklemley.bsky.social ). There's been a recent stir about terms of use restrictions on AI outputs & models. We dig into the legal analysis, questioning their enforceability. Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

🎬 Coming soon to a theater near you!🍿 Film is a semiotically rich medium: meaning is conveyed through the music, visuals, language, and more. A new paper from me and @dbamman.bsky.social explores what it means to computationally study performance in film. Website: naitian.org/once-more-wi... 1/n

Do podcasts play a decisive role in politics? This fascinating new paper maps the ecosystem using a large database of podcast transcripts from 2020. My first take away: politics is dwarfed by entertainment (not unlike social media): arxiv.org/pdf/2411.07892

I'm excited to share that we've released v1.0 of our podcast corpus, SPoRC, led by my PhD student Ben Litterer! This first dataset is a slice of time, comprising over one million episodes from May and June 2020, including transcripts, diarization, and extracted audio features.