Maria Antoniak

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

We have a new paper in Science Advances proposing a simple test for bias:

Is the same person treated differently when their race is perceived differently?

Specifically, we study: is the same driver likelier to be searched by police when they are perceived as Hispanic rather than white?

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In this paper, we investigate how well media frames generalize across different media landscapes. The 15 MFC frames remain broadly applicable, but requires revisions of the guidelines to adapt to the local context.

More on aclanthology.org/2025.starsem...

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?...

I think it's ok to blame the authors for not citing any related work or collaborating with any experts (if that's what they did, I haven't read the whole paper yet). That's on them, not anyone else, it's ok to leave the blame there IMO.

The seriousness of what’s happening to university computing really isn’t braking through to the faculty like it should.

I don't have words for the sort of confused this makes me feel.

If an international student wanted advice on what kind of activism she can safely get involved in, where might this student look for answers?

Here's a short thing on adversarial language, following yesterday's poetry news. It argues for interpretability work undertaken via literary studies and tries to acknowledge some difficulties this would entail.

For Those Who May Find Themselves on the Red Team: tylershoemaker.info/docs/shoemak...

The rating and title of an Amazon book review. The user assigned four stars and titled the review “Too much poetry. Too many characters.”

That’s a very persuasive pitch and it’s in my cart! Also saw this gem of a review on Amazon which further convinced me.

Sharing the slides for a talk on faculty job search

Hope it's helpful to people exploring and preparing for the process.

Feedback is welcome!

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/p7xdt...

MajinBook: An open catalogue of digital world literature with likes This data paper introduces MajinBook, an open catalogue designed to facilitate the use of shadow libraries--such as Library Genesis and Z-Library--for computational social science and cultural analyti...

📚 MajinBook: Metadata for 500,000 books from Library Genesis & GoodReads. Huge work from Antoine Mazières, see: ⬇️ arxiv.org/abs/2511.11412

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...

Wisconsin-Madison CS is recruiting faculty for natural language processing!

jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

AIM's 2nd round of TTK hiring - building up to 30 - is up!

📅 Ddl 12/22/25
🔬 Accessibility & Learning, plus Sustainability & Social Justice
🧑‍🏫 Associate/Full Prof*
🔗 umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j...

*Assistant-level candidates: apply to departments, mentioning AIM in a cover letter

Lori Emerson - Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook. Mexican Summer & Anthology. Buy Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook by Lori Emerson on Mexican Summer & Anthology.

a Friday surprise! my beloved book, Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook, is now officially back in print AND ON SALE! #othernetworks if you know folks who have been trying to track down a copy, I'd love it if you'd repost shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898...

Summary: a (rather simple) AI bot can not only successfully evade survey-level protections, it can also mimic personas accurately across questions, parse photos/videos, and infer the researcher’s hypotheses to produce data that confirms them.

The official paper link:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Once again astonished that Elon is building a propaganda machine in public, saying "hello, here is my propaganda machine", and the tech community continues to use it

This study show that using poems to jailbreak LLMs is... super effective? What the heck.

New UChicago project explores how humanities can advance AI research Interdisciplinary group at the Neubauer Collegium to examine what generative AI reveals about humanistic knowledge and creativity

Honored to be part of this initiative to explore "Humanistic AI"! Hosted at the University of Chicago and led by @hoytlong.bsky.social and Chris Kennedy, we're collaborating in a series of interdisciplinary workshops and projects to think about how the humanities can contribute to AI and vice versa.

Apply for our sociotechnical systems postdoc position, for July 2026 Microsoft Research New England is looking for a postdoctoral researcher interested in bringing sociotechnical perspectives to analyze critical issues of our time. They will join a team of social sc…

Our postdoc search is open! socialmediacollective.org/2025/11/20/s...

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.

we released Olmo 3! lot of exciting stuff but wanna focus on:

🐟Olmo 3 32B Base, the best fully-open base model to-date, near Qwen 2.5 & Gemma 3 on diverse evals
🐠Olmo 3 32B Think, first fully-open reasoning model approaching Qwen 3 levels
🐡12 training datasets corresp to different staged training

DistilRoBERTa Emotion Analysis: NLP Case Study on Steam Reviews How to run DistilRoBERTa emotion analysis in an NLP case study: cleaning a real Steam reviews dataset tagging moods, plotting results, and exploring sentiment.

I just spent an unreasonable amount of time turning 270k+ Steam reviews into an NLP playground.

If you’re into NLP, transformers, or real-world text messiness, the full case study is here: buthonestly.io/programming/...

#nlp #machinelearning #sentimentanalysis #emotionanalysis

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.

I have been feeling depressed and discouraged that this man has the power and influence he does at my school and in my profession

And I am a tenured professor at Harvard! How much more protected can I be?

Imagine how STUDENTS feel. Junior faculty. This quote nails it

A before and after comparison showing the updated "who can reply" settings for posts, including the new "Save these options for next time" checkbox.

Also new in today's v1.110 release:

We’ve redesigned the “who can reply” settings to make them clearer and easier to use. You can also now save your choices as the default for future posts, giving you easier control over the conversations you start.

YouTube video by Michael Saxon (NLP & Generative AI research) Conferencemaxxing: How to grow your profile and network as a scientist

And here is the presentation I gave on networking, self-promo, and how to make the most out of a conference. Hope this helps for everyone at NeurIPS!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9hG...

Excited about my new op-ed on the observer effect in the age of LLMs and Generative AI published at @techpolicypress.bsky.social. Thanks for the amazing mentorship, @micheleweldon.bsky.social .

How well can Gemini 3 make a Henry James simulator? Finally, a benchmark for LLMs with real-world value

As a fan of weird but revealing benchmarks, I enjoyed this historian’s attempts to have different frontier AIs build “a full featured RPG game where you play as Henry James wandering as a flâneur at the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris.” HenryBench? open.substack.com/pub/resobscu...

Edited by Taylor Arnold, Margherita Fantoli, and Ruben Ros

📢 The #CHR2025 proceedings are out!

97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper.

🔗 anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...

And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!