In January, Asia Biega (MPI), Georgina Born (UCL), Mary Gray (MSR), Rida Qadri (G), and I ran a Dagstuhl Seminar bringing together folks from CS and the broader social sciences to discuss questions around AI and culture. Dagstuhl has just posted our report, 1/3 drops.dagstuhl.de/storage/04da...

Looking for PhD opportunites in #NLProc #XAI? We @copenlu.bsky.social @aicentre.dk @apepa.bsky.social are hiring for a start in Spring or Autumn 2026. 📆 Application deadline: 31 October 2025 ℹ️ Details: www.copenlu.com/news/phd-fel... 👀 Reasons to apply: www.copenlu.com/post/why-ucph/

It is PhD application season again 🍂 For those looking to do a PhD in AI, these are some useful resources 🤖: 1. Examples of statements of purpose (SOPs) for computer science PhD programs: cs-sop.org [1/4]

All of us (@kanishka.bsky.social @kmahowald.bsky.social and me) are looking for PhD students this cycle! If computational linguistics/NLP is your passion, join us at UT Austin! For my areas see jessyli.com

I've written really terrible paragraphs that have made me want to stop at 9AM in the morning.

Organizing a workshop? Checkout our compiled material for organizing one: www.bigpictureworkshop.com/open-workshop (and hopefully we'll be back for another iteration of the Big Picture next year w/ Allyson Ettinger, @norakassner.bsky.social, @sebruder.bsky.social)

New preprint on "Computational Hermeneutics," co-authored by too many people to list in one post. TL;DR: GenAI is a cultural technology, and needs to be evaluated in ways that recognize situatedness, plurality, and ambiguity as the conditions of meaning — not noise to be minimized.

Happy to share that our work on multi-modal framing analysis of news was accepted to #EMNLP2025! Understanding news output and embedded biases is especially important in today's environment and it's imperative to take a holistic look at it. Looking forward to presenting it in Suzhou!

A hearty congratulations to the LTI's @maartensap.bsky.social, who's been awarded an Okawa Research Grant for his work in his work in socially-aware artificial intelligence. lti.cmu.edu/news-and-eve...

The world is a mess. Need a laugh? Check out @ajalvero.bsky.social and my Linguistic Affordances Framework (LAF) for the social study of language technologies! Jokes aside, we hope this will help researchers make sense of social changes associated with new technologies. doi.org/10.1177/0894...

The Call for #EMNLP2025 @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social 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

The Onion used to make jokes. Now it does academic ethnography.

are there any bsky #acl2025 feed around already?

#IC2S2 was so much fun, now see you at Vienna at #aclnlp2025. Fine me around the conference or in the poster session on Wednesday at 11 talking about this work, cultural competence in LLMs, and evaluation.

Catch @shaily99.bsky.social talking about our work on research cultures at #IC2S2! She's presenting a short talk and also a poster 🌟

Research Borderlands is now on ACL anthology. aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon... Come hear me talk about it at #IC2S2 in the plenary talks tomorrow, 24 July, after the morning keynote and in the poster session after lunch. I will also be at #acl2025, presenting the poster at 11 AM on Wed, 30th July.

What are your favorite recent papers on using LMs for annotation (especially in a loop with human annotators), synthetic data for task-specific prediction, active learning, and similar? Looking for practical methods for settings where human annotations are costly. A few examples in thread ↴

Context is an overlooked aspect of language model evaluations. Check out how to incorporate context into evaluations in our TACL paper, how it changes evaluation conclusions and makes evaluation more reliable!

People applying for NLP PhDs, work with Abhilasha -- she is awesome!!

Excited to be at @ic2s2.bsky.social #ic2s22025. I will be presenting 'Research Borderlands' at the plenary lightning talks (after keynotes) on Thursday, and in the poster session afterwards. Looking forward to making new friends :D If you are interested in culture and evaluation, let's chat!!!

Lucy is a kind and patient mentor who always gives very actionable feedback both the level of technical details and conceptualization; makes for an amazing advisor. Go work with her!!

I'm sadly not at #IC2S2 😭, but I will be at #ACL2025 in Vienna ☕️ next week!! Please spread the word that I'm recruiting prospective PhD students: lucy3.notion.site/for-prospect...

Excited to be at @ic2s2.bsky.social #ic2s22025. I will be presenting 'Research Borderlands' at the plenary lightning talks (after keynotes) on Thursday, and in the poster session afterwards. Looking forward to making new friends :D If you are interested in culture and evaluation, let's chat!!!

📢 ACL 2025 this is a reminder of 🎤 #InvitedTalk by Verena Rieser from Google DeepMind "Whose Gold? Re-imagining Alignment for Truly Beneficial AI." on the technical & ethical challenges of building beneficial AI! 🤝 ⚖️ #ACL2025NLP #NLProc Find out more: 2025.aclweb.org/program/keyn...

Are you an HCI researcher from or who studies the Global Majority? Reviewed research about Global Majority for HCI venues? @farhana-shahid.bsky.social & I are conducting research on peer review experience of research by and about Global Majority. participation form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We should all just collectively take summer off and read!

New blog post alert! 🚨"What is the Hugging Face Community Building?", with @yjernite.bsky.social and Irene Soliaman The AI narrative focuses on big players, but the real story is happening in the open source AI ecosystem across 1.8M models, 450K datasets, and 560K apps, on @hf.co.

If you're at @icmlconf.bsky.social this week, come check out our poster on "Position: Evaluating Generative AI Systems Is a Social Science Measurement Challenge" presented by the amazing @afedercooper.bsky.social from 11:30am--1:30pm PDT on Weds!!! icml.cc/virtual/2025...

Ok, but why publish list of papers without links? How will I fulfill my unhealthy obsession of having a thousand tabs open that will forever languish as bookmarks. <proceeds to search every interesting title and open a few less than thousand arXiv tabs instead> #acl2025 #colm2025

COLM 2025 is now accepting applications for: Financial Assistance Application -- docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Volunteer Application -- docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Childcare Financial Assistance Application -- docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... All due by July 31

🤖 Apropos of <gestures at world>, reminder that AI-generated videos can--and ought to--minimally have visible watermarks disclosing that they are synthetic. You can do it trivially using @hf.co tools. Before sharing something synthetic, please run it through this. huggingface.co/spaces/meg/w...

Go listen to Danny present his work at #ICTIR2025!

Fun reading list from @himself.bsky.social at www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-politi... I have read a bunch of these paper, and looking forward to digging into more of them.

Do you have strong programming skills but need research experience doing meaningful & exciting CSS projects before heading off to a top graduate school for computational social science PhD? Apply now to predoc with me, @dggoldst.bsky.social @jakehofman.bsky.social www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

The sycophantic tone of ChatGPT always sounded familiar, and then I recognized where I'd heard it before: author response letters to reviewer comments. "You're exactly right, that's a great point!" "Thank you so much for this insight!" Also how it always agrees even when it contradicts itself.

🖼️ Most text-to-image models only really work in English. This limits who can use them and whose imagination they reflect. We asked: can we build a small, efficient model that understands prompts in multiple languages natively?

Main takeaway: Translation failure is an important failure mode! Your model may be having wise and intelligent thoughts all up to its last couple of layers, and then failing to communicate them in Telugu because (like me) it has tried but failed to learn Telugu.

🔈When LLMs solve tasks with a mid-to-low resource input or target language, their output quality is poor. We know that. But can we put our finger on what breaks inside the LLM? We introduce the 💥 translation barrier hypothesis 💥 for failed multilingual generation with LLMs. arxiv.org/abs/2506.22724

AI & Society faculty opportunity posted just this month with a start date of Fall 2025 and beyond: www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/57734 ‼️🐂 For "interdisciplinary scholars whose research agenda connects the study of AI with humanistic and/or social scientific line(s) of study"

🎉 Excited to announce that the 4th HCI+NLP workshop will be co-located with @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social in Suzhou, China! 🌍📍 Join us to explore the intersection of human-computer interaction and NLP. 🧵 1/

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Many are lauding the potential of ChatGPT to "help" people with their writing. Looking at writing not as a deficit to be fixed, but as a site of social interaction between writers *and* evaluators, our #facct2025 paper explores how this played out in a real life situation. arxiv.org/abs/2505.08127

Come hear much more at our paper talk tomorrow (Wednesday, 6/25) in Meta Research and Critiques, 9:12 am at New Stage A! Read the paper here: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

*Are disclosed features connected to described impacts?* Disclosed features are much less commonly described in terms of impacts the feature had on the research, which may leave a gap for readers to jump to conclusions about how the disclosed feature impacted the work.

We're happy to officially announce the location of #FAccT2026! Next year's conference will be held in Montreal, Canada 🇨🇦 Su Lin Blodgett and Zeerak Talat will be General Chairs, and Michael Madaio will be PC Chair 🎉 (thanks to MindView for the photo!)

I agree!

Hand gestures are a major mode of human communication, but they don't always translate well across cultures. New research from @akhilayerukola.bsky.social, @maartensap.bsky.social and others is aimed at giving AI systems a hand with overcoming cultural biases: lti.cmu.edu/news-and-eve...

Please stop assuming that too many em dashes means AI written. Some of us are producing grammatically incoherent work the honest way!

"Instead of reading the internet, we see it — but understand what we see less fully." One of my all-time-fav blogs! annehelen.substack.com/p/an-obituar...

WOW!