Potato 2.6.0 is out. Two things we're happy about this round: it now handles qualitative coding the way people actually work, and it got a lot better at evaluating AI agents. Still free, still open source. Have a poke around: https://huggingface.co/spaces/Blablablab/potato

Conference growth is crazy. The increase in CVPR submissions from 2025 to 2026 is roughly the same as the growth in 2026 alone from ACL (Oct+Jan) to EMNLP (May)

I'm on a new committee reviewing ARR's Responsible NLP Checklist and looking to potentially make changes. I'd love to hear others' thoughts on what is working well or needs revised, especially given it might be fresh in memory from the recent ARR cycle. 1/

📜 Some of you may have heard about the desk-rejected papers from the ACL'26/ARR Jan 2026 or October 2025 cycles because of hallucinated references. These cases were detected post-commitment. ACL Program chairs have an official statement on this: 2026.aclweb.org/acl_statement/ #ACL2026NLP #NLProc

I've been thinking a lot about what is Information Science and what a bachelors degree (BSI) should look like in the future. The substance of information science—how people seek information, how systems present it, how access changes behavior, the ethics of all of it—has never been more relevant.

Postdoc in Digital Humanities at WashU in St. Louis. Deadline is May 1. Also, St. Louis is wonderful. apply.interfolio.com/185361

Glad to see our work on optimizing system prompts out there at #ICLR2026. My favorite result is that these optimized system prompts transfer across models and across languages—easy performance gains. If you're at ICLR, @leczhang.bsky.social can give you all the details 🎉

🗓️ The ARR March review deadline is approaching: April 20 AoE. Finishing up your review? Run it through REVAS, a peer review assistant that makes your suggestions more actionable, flags unsupported claims, and grounds your feedback in the paper. 👉 revas.mbzuai.ac.ae

Great showing by Michigan NLP folks (and alumni) at Midwest Speech and Language Days this year. nlp.cs.illinois.edu/msld.html it's fun seeing papers from *ACL, NeurIPS, ICLR, COLM, Interspeech, and more all together. Lots of interesting work everywhere!!

I know there's a lot of discussion about how peer review is broken, but I've been surprised by the sheer volume of unhinged toxicity towards the PCs over the ACL delayed decisions. One example email is below and there's plenty of other examples from X/Reddit if you go looking.

This is definitely making me regret my decision to use Piazza for class communication

For #NSF and #NIH watchers, Grant Witness now has interactive data on numbers of grants and total funding obligations, broken down by institute and directorate, new awards and non-competitive renewals. The stranglehold on new awards is still a disaster. grant-witness.us/funding_curv...

It's official now -- looking forward to seeing everyone at #EACL2027 in Athens, Greece! #NLProc #EACL2026 @eaclmeeting.bsky.social

If you're reviewing ARR papers and want a tool to help you spot potential hallucinated references, I cooked this up for the ACL SACs and thought I would share it with the broader community github.com/davidjurgens...

Great talk today by @tedunderwood.com at the UMSI computational social science / data science seminar on the need for benchmarks for measuring historical authenticity in LLM responses

To ensure compliance w peer-review policies, ICML has removed 795 reviews (1% of total) by reviewers who used LLMs when they explicitly agreed to not. Consequently, 497 papers (2% of all submissions) of these (reciprocal) reviewers have been desk rejected Details in blog post 👇

Deadline extended! Get your direct submissions in by March 8 AoE

Potato v2.2.0 is out! The biggest release yet: 9 new annotation schemas, pluggable export system, MACE integration, 55 survey instruments, and much more. github.com/davidjurgens...

Students are using AI to ask ask questions and do homework, and now professors are using AI to respond and grade (www.professorfeynman.com ). Engagement metrics and grades are way up—the dean is going to love this!

We've alllllmost gotten all the Jan26 ARR reviews in, but I'm still trying to track down new emergency reviewers for papers on the following topics: 1) agents 2) jailbreaking 3) coding 4) RL 5) reasoning 6) LLM for finance 7) AMR 8) alignment If you can review any (in next 24-48h) please DM me 🙏🙏🙏

How should AI technically and ethically adapt to who each of us are as individuals? How should we even model *identity*? Is there such as thing as too much personalization? Excited to co-organize this workshop on questions of Identity & AI. Lots of submission options, so come join the conversation

Excited to recruit a 🚨 postdoc 🚨 for projects on #AI and evolving scientific practice, norms, and impact! Interdisciplinary work across science of science, philosophy of science, math with creative Purdue/Argonne/CMU/Chicago/Princeton collaborators! *pls repost*! careers.purdue.edu/job/Postdoc-...

Deadline approaching! Identity-aware AI workshop #LREC2026 identity-aware-ai.github.io, there is time until Feb 20th to submit a short or full paper, with many non-archival options too!

This major release of my lab's annotation tool, Potato 2.0, was a long time in the making but I'm really excited by all the new features (and quality of life improvements). If you're doing data annotation of any kind, check it out. Need any other features? We'd love to hear from you too!

Internship opportunity! Please share! 📣 I'm looking to hire an intern in human-centered NLP for the agents team at Together AI. Come work on frontier AI systems that tackle complex agentic tasks! Research direction is open and looking to publish in NLP and HCI venues!

The second new class I'm teaching is a very experimental graduate level seminar in CSE: "Building Small Language Models". I taught the grad level NLP class last semester (so fun!) but students wanted more—which of these new ideas work, and which work for SLMs? jurgens.people.si.umich.edu/CSE598-004/

Excited to teach two new courses this fall. The first is an upper-div undergrad course in the School of Information on Applied GenAI. Here, we're thinking about what we can do/build/analyze/design if we treat LLMs like a powerful black box library. jurgens.people.si.umich.edu/SI405/

I've seen this message and similar echos for other writing, and I want strongly push back on this narrative. It's not that you shouldn't use ChatGPT but that you shouldn't *use ChatGPT to write it for you*. ChatGPT—and AI in general—is not a monolith. How you use it matters.

After a multi-year effort led by my brilliant PhD advisee Ruth Bagley, this exciting work documenting large-scale racial disparities in media representations of gun violence is out today in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I'm excited to announce the Call for Papers for the Social Context (SoCon) and Integrating NLP and Psychology to Study Social Interactions (NLPSI) workshop, @ LREC '26 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain! 🗓Deadline: February 16, 2026 🌐Website: socon-nlpsi.github.io 🗓Workshop: May 12, 2026

Happy new year! The AI & Scientific Discovery Seminar is returning this quarter. Last quarter was incredible, from protein design to automated bio labs. Huge thanks to all our amazing speakers and attendees 🙌 We’re kicking off Winter Quarter with an 🔥 lineup, starting in two hours! 🧵

✨The NLP+CSS workshop is returning to ACL 2026!✨ And this year, we have a new shared task with prizes! Website/CfP: sites.google.com/site/nlpandc... Deadlines: March 5 (direct), March 24 (pre-reviewed ARR) #NLProc #CompSocialSci #ComputationalSocialScience #ACL2026NLP @aclmeeting.bsky.social

Come work with @deboranozza.bsky.social, me, and the lab in Milan!

Hiring a postdoc for the Normativity Lab at Johns Hopkins (2026 start). Looking for multiagent systems expertise (RL/generative agents) + interdisciplinary background in AI and cognitive science/econ/cultural evolution. apply.interfolio.com/177701

#LREC2026 workshop: Identity-aware AI! Archival, non archival (including creative formats!) identity-aware-ai.github.io

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!

If you're interested in pursuing a PhD in #AI and/or #DataScience with me and/or my colleagues as your supervisors, apply for this fully-funded PhD scholarship at UCD School of Computer Science!

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

I've been really impressed with the presentation modalities from NotebookLM. My former student @leczhang.bsky.social used it to make this really cool illustration of our SPRIG paper arxiv.org/abs/2410.14826 and I was blown away by the layout and design. Here's the illustration of the genetic alg...

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

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-...

When we ask an LLM to “reason” about an ethical question, what kind of reasoning are we really invoking? Our #EMNLP2025 paper with Mohna Chakraborty and Lu Wang explores how value-grounded prompting can move moral reasoning beyond surface pattern-matching.

What if a single model could recognize an author's writing style no matter what language they wrote in? 🌍✍️ Our new #EMNLP2025 paper explores multilingual authorship representation, showing how training across 36 languages can sharpen stylistic signals and reduce topic bias. 👇🧵

Recruiting PhDs & postdocs for: 🤖 agents "taking over" science (hypogenic.ai and 📌) 🧪 Real scientists ➡️AI (e.g., materials, chem, physics) 📜 Theory + incentives for H-AI collab & credit (e.g., formalizing tacit knowledge) new adventures for me, 🔄 if you can! 🙌 chenhaot.com/recruiting.h...

Heading to #EMNLP2025? Interested in automatic summarization? Then come to our poster for "Unstructured Evidence Attribution for Long Context Query Focused Summarization" ! ⏰ When: Fri. Nov 7 14:00-15:30 🗺️ Where: Hall C I'm unable to attend but @iaugenstein.bsky.social will present our work!

HCAI panel is kicking off with some amazing speakers. First question is (roughly) how do we think about integrating values into AI development given the different development paces of industry and academia

Excited to be co-organiziny the HCAI’25 Symposium on Human-Centered AI! Join us today to explore responsible, human-first AI. Details: www.si.umich.edu/about-umsi/e... #HCAI25 #UMSI #HumanCenteredAI

2025 isn't over yet but it's unlikely that Twitter will see a resurgence of research discussions.

EPFL AI Center Postdocs: www.epfl.ch/research/fun... NLP Lab Postdoc: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

✈️ Visa Letter Requests for ACL 2026 If you intend to commit your paper to ACL 2026 and require an invitation letter for visa purposes, please fill out the visa request form as soon as possible. (docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...) #ARR #ACL #NLProc