David Mimno
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He teaches information science at Cornell.
http://mimno.infosci.cornell.edu
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Optimist: AI has achieved human level performance! Realist: “AI” is a collection of brittle hacks that, under very specific circumstances, mimic the surface level of human intelligence Pessimist: AI HAS achieved human level performance
about 1 year ago
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For any lovers of Aeschylus in Greek, we are looking for people to evaluate literal translations and glosses produced by Gemini 3. The data is here:
github.com/gregorycrane...
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GRC_misc/aesch/AeschTBTrans at main · gregorycrane/GRC_misc
Contribute to gregorycrane/GRC_misc development by creating an account on GitHub.
https://github.com/gregorycrane/GRC_misc/tree/main/aesch/AeschTBTrans
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Fernando Diaz
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even so, "user engagement" has forms tied to task success, to entertainment, to social connection, to habit, and to compulsion. collapsing them into a single scalar metric hides important differences in what users actually want from these systems. 25/26
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brendan o’connor
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Here at UMass Amherst CICS, we’re searching for TT faculty in NLP – see the link from
www.cics.umass.edu/about/employ...
I’m happy to answer questions of course, too!
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Faculty Positions
Open tenure-track and teaching faculty positions in computer science and informatics at the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences
https://www.cics.umass.edu/about/employment/faculty-positions
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David Smith
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A student is working on detecting gaps in text transcriptions. Does anyone in
#DigiClass
or beyond know of open transcriptions of ancient Greek inscriptions, in EpiDoc or otherwise, similar to
papyri.info
? I've worked with literary texts and papyri, but I'm stumped on this.
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https://papyri.info
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Kate Starbird
4 days ago
The UW Center for an Informed Public is looking for postdocs (for 2026-2028) from across diverse disciplines whose research sheds light on the challenges of our modern information environment, promotes civic health, and/or helps people/communities navigate online spaces:
apply.interfolio.com/177901
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I just read this in English (The master of the Day of Judgment) and it was excellent. I’m guessing Eco liked it too. I can’t find an online copy of the German (1921), does anyone know a source? (CW self harm)
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4 days ago
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Hanna Wallach
4 days ago
Three exciting opportunities at
@msftresearch.bsky.social
in NYC!!! 🎉 Internship w/ FATE:
apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job?...
Internship w/ STAC on AI evaluation and measurement:
apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job?...
Postdoc w/ FATE:
apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job?...
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In chapter 9 of
#ComputationalHumanities
, Ben Schmidt goes back to a previous computational turn (and backlash) in digital history in "The Lessons of Time on the Cross"
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
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Computational Humanities | Debates in the Digital Humanities
Bringing together leading experts from across North America and Europe, _Computational Humanities_ redirects debates around computation and humanities digital scholarship from dualistic arguments to n...
https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/computational-humanities
4 days ago
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Lucy Li
7 days ago
Wisconsin-Madison CS is recruiting faculty for natural language processing!
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant Professor of Computer Sciences: Natural Language Processing (RISE-AI) - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
https://jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assistant-professor-of-computer-sciences-natural-language-processing-rise-ai-madison-wisconsin-united-states
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The second half of
#ComputationalHumanities
("asking about") starts with
@roopikarisam.bsky.social
on the multiple, overlapping challenges faced in computational ethnic studies, and concrete suggestions for how everyone can help reduce them!
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
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Computational Humanities | Debates in the Digital Humanities
Bringing together leading experts from across North America and Europe, _Computational Humanities_ redirects debates around computation and humanities digital scholarship from dualistic arguments to n...
https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/computational-humanities
7 days ago
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Jenn Wortman Vaughan
8 days ago
Spread the word! 📢 The FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics) group at
@msftresearch.bsky.social
in NYC is hiring interns and postdocs to start in summer 2026! 🎉 Apply by *December 15* for full consideration.
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Nathan Lambert
8 days ago
We present Olmo 3, our next family of fully open, leading language models. This family of 7B and 32B models represents: 1. The best 32B base model. 2. The best 7B Western thinking & instruct models. 3. The first 32B (or larger) fully open reasoning model.
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In Chapter 7 of
#ComputationalHumanities
, Crystal Eddins asks whether archives created for the purpose of enslaving and dehumanizing can be used to humanize and liberate. Can we reclaim records -- and the people memorialized in them -- digitally?
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
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Computational Humanities | Debates in the Digital Humanities
Bringing together leading experts from across North America and Europe, _Computational Humanities_ redirects debates around computation and humanities digital scholarship from dualistic arguments to n...
https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/computational-humanities
9 days ago
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Isabel Silva Corpus
10 days ago
Had a great time at CODE@MIT this weekend, and wanted to highlight a few (of the many) cool talks!
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“Let’s make the axe for the frozen sea inside us step by step”
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11 days ago
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Mor Naaman
14 days ago
Calling NYC parents -- after years of requests we finally offer a summer high school program on campus.
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Computational Humanities Research
14 days ago
🗓️ The
#CHR2025
programme is online! Browse what’s on the menu here:
2025.computational-humanities-research.org/programme/
Proceedings are coming soon as well. Don’t forget: registration closes on 20 November!
#computationalhumanitiesresearch
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David Rand
14 days ago
🚨Out in PNAS🚨 Examining news on 7 platforms: 1)Right-leaning platforms=lower quality news 2)Echo-platforms: Right-leaning news gets more engagement on right-leaning platforms, vice-versa for left-leaning 3)Low-quality news gets more engagement EVERYWHERE - even BlueSky!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Lucy Li
17 days ago
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-...
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Our libraries are cutting staff so that Elsevier can have its 32% profit margin
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15 days ago
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In Chap 6 of
#ComputationalHumanities
,
@kmcdono.bsky.social
argues in "Maps as Data" that we can go beyond close reading for maps just like we can for text. How can we search over the built and natural environment, and over scales and time?
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
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Computational Humanities | Debates in the Digital Humanities
Bringing together leading experts from across North America and Europe, _Computational Humanities_ redirects debates around computation and humanities digital scholarship from dualistic arguments to n...
https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/computational-humanities
15 days ago
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UC Berkeley School of Information
15 days ago
🚨We’re hiring for another fantastic position at the I School! 🚨 The I School invites applications for a tenure-track or tenured position (Asst/Assoc/Full Professor) in Digital Security, Safety & Trust.
#academicsky
Apply by Nov 16, 2025 Please share widely.
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Assistant/Associate/Full Professor - Digital Security, Safety, and Trust - School of Information
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05145
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Alexios Mantzarlis
15 days ago
Per
@cj-robinson.bsky.social
on CJR, just eight AI Note Contributors on X now make up about 5-10% of all helpful notes on a given day.
www.cjr.org/analysis/x-t...
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Maria Leonor Pacheco
16 days ago
I need an emergency reviewer for a paper in semantic similarity and embedding model interpretability, please let me know if you can help!
#NLProc
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Chap 5 of
#ComputationalHumanities
by Fabian Offert and Peter Bell is about image generation, cultural heritage, and what it means to fill in the gaps between images. It was done before diffusion models were big, but still has enduring insights!
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
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Computational Humanities | Debates in the Digital Humanities
Bringing together leading experts from across North America and Europe, _Computational Humanities_ redirects debates around computation and humanities digital scholarship from dualistic arguments to n...
https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/computational-humanities
16 days ago
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David Veevers
16 days ago
Can anyone recommend a good text / source for sea monsters and imagined marine life in early modern period? Niche request. Cheers!
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Martin Tutek
17 days ago
*Urgently* looking for emergency reviewers for the ARR October Interpretability track 🙏🙏 ReSkies much appreciated
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The basic problem is that the amount of money at stake in government decisions is vastly more than the amount of money it takes to influence those decisions
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In Chap 4 of
#ComputationalHumanities
, Crystal Hall proposes parallax (looking at the same thing from two different angles) as a metaphor for how to interpret computational approaches. Tool variability can be a problem, but with intention it can be powerful!
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
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Computational Humanities | Debates in the Digital Humanities
Bringing together leading experts from across North America and Europe, _Computational Humanities_ redirects debates around computation and humanities digital scholarship from dualistic arguments to n...
https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/computational-humanities
21 days ago
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Kate Donahue
22 days ago
I’m recruiting students this upcoming cycle at UIUC! I’m excited about Qs on societal impact of AI, especially human-AI collaboration, multi-agent interactions, incentives in data sharing, and AI policy/regulation (all from both a theoretical and applied lens). Apply through CS & select my name!
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Ryan Cordell
22 days ago
Job alert!
@ischoolui.bsky.social
is hiring in 4 areas this year Early literacies:
illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Information behavior/HCI/UX:
illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Information, Culture & Society:
illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Open IS:
illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
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Kaitlyn Zhou
22 days ago
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!
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Allison Koenecke
23 days ago
It was fantastic to collaborate across Cornell and Apple for our EMNLP paper auditing LLMs for dialectal biases in multiple choice benchmark datasets:
arxiv.org/abs/2510.00962
. Anna
@annaseogyeongchoi.bsky.social
(who's on the job market this year!) did a great job presenting this work today!
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Kristina Gligoric
23 days ago
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!
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Kate Starbird
24 days ago
Perhaps relevant today, a framework for understanding how many election rumors mislead.
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Happy broken pumpkins in the gorge season to all who celebrate!! 🎃 🌊
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It's great to see the
#computationalhumanities
DDH volume getting attention! We start with two essays about interpretation. In Chap 1, Hannah Ringler distinguishes tools and interpretations, asking with vs asking about.
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
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Computational Humanities | Debates in the Digital Humanities
Bringing together leading experts from across North America and Europe, _Computational Humanities_ redirects debates around computation and humanities digital scholarship from dualistic arguments to n...
https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/computational-humanities
24 days ago
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Adam L
25 days ago
This essay from
@bschmidt.bsky.social
on how history rejected computational methods, & so "quantitative history" ended up in the social sciences, & "digital humanities" in literature, with no historians doing computational work, is fascinating, & worth a read:
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/computa...
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"Computational Humanities is far more than a collection of essays; it is a meticulously curated critical tool kit." This is exactly what we were going for!
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
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Tim Kellogg
28 days ago
Huggingface: The secret to training an LLM a huge (v huge) blog post describing every detail of training SmoLM and what our takes to train a high performance LLM
huggingface.co/spaces/Huggi...
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The Smol Training Playbook: The Secrets to Building World-Class LLMs - a Hugging Face Space by HuggingFaceTB
Discover amazing ML apps made by the community
https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceTB/smol-training-playbook#introduction
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Ryan J. Gallagher
28 days ago
People three hops away in your social network are people you don't know - Your friends' friends' parents - Your partner's parents' friends - Your boss's kid's teachers - Your friend's doctor's parents - Your ex's partner's colleague List goes on and on for why this is terrible criteria
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Chaucer Doth Tweet
30 days ago
Clicke "like" on my workes, ye mightye, and subscrybe.
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Jenn Wortman Vaughan
about 1 month ago
Looking for news on
@msftresearch.bsky.social
FATE internships & postdocs? YES, we will have positions, but bear with us — we expect postings to go up in mid-November and I will post an update here as soon as they do.
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The point of grokipedia is to produce vast volumes of apparently high-quality open-licensed tokens to be scooped up by LLM trainers, not to be read by humans, right?
about 1 month ago
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Angelina Wang
about 1 month ago
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
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Cornell University, Empire AI Fellows Program
Job #AJO30971, Postdoctoral Fellow, Empire AI Fellows Program, Cornell University, New York, New York, US
https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30971
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Cornell Information Science is hiring a Teaching Professor! Apply this week for full consideration:
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30763
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Cornell University, Information Science
Job #AJO30763, 2025-2026 CORNELL INFORMATION SCIENCE FULL-TIME TEACHING FACULTY SEARCH (OPEN-RANK TEACHING PROFESSOR), ITHACA CAMPUS , Information Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30763
about 1 month ago
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Your regular reminder that NSF is required by US law to support increasing the participation of historically less represented groups in science and technology fields
about 1 month ago
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William J.B. Mattingly
about 1 month ago
Does anyone have a dataset of 1,000 + pages of handwritten text on Transkribus that they want to use for finetuning a VLM? If so, please let me know. This would be for any language and any script.
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UC Berkeley School of Information
about 1 month ago
❗REMINDER: The I School is hiring❗We are looking for an Assistant Professor of Information who can address key questions about metadata, information systems, and more.
#AcademicSky
The final review date is Nov. 1. We look forward to reading your applications!
https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05014
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Assistant Professor - Information - School of Information
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05014
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Binghamton/Endicott was a tech hub in the past, and could be again
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