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I think you're right, although I also cynically expect that a unique first author requirement would lead to a lot of fake first authors (depending on the venue) 😅

Whose Language Counts as High Quality? Measuring Language Ideologies in Text Data Selection Suchin Gururangan, Dallas Card, Sarah Dreier, Emily Gade, Leroy Wang, Zeyu Wang, Luke Zettlemoyer, Noah A. Smith. Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing...

I'll also selfishly highlight my own earlier work on quality filtering: aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-m...

Measuring diversity in Hollywood through the large-scale computational analysis of film | PNAS Movies are a massively popular and influential form of media, but their computational study at scale has largely been off-limits to researchers in ...

Excellent thread! This also reminds me of David Bamman's work on films as data, which, if I understand correctly, you *are* legally allowed to use for research, as long as you own and retain a physical copy, and as long as you don't enjoy watching it : )

www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria “Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”

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.

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I wonder what would happen if a major conference made a rule that each author is only allowed to submit one paper per cycle? Obviously total submissions would be much smaller, and many papers would be redirected elsewhere, but could they convince people to only send their best work?

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A view from above of the staircases in the Wisconsin CDIS building

An shot from below of winding wooden staircases and a glass atrium rooftop. The new School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences building at Wisconsin Madison.

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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-...

Archiving Machines Archiving Machines advances our understanding of memory, information, and data by charting the struggle between the computing technologies that archive data ...

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...

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🎉 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...

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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!

Trump’s Team Offers to Keep Some Ballroom Donors Incognito

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 Political scientists have had remarkably little to say about artificial intelligence (AI), perhaps because they are dissuaded by its technical complexity and by current debates about whether AI might ...

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! 🧵👇

A borderline case might be Larson's Devil in the White City; a random find is Damascus Gate by Robert Stone

+1 to YA / fantasy: The Fifth Season trilogy by Jemisin, as someone else mentioned; Le Guin's Wizard of Earthsea series (also The Dispossessed)

🚨 New postdoc position in our lab at Berkeley EECS! 🚨

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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

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✨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!! 🎉🎉🎉

Congratulations!!

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
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"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