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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My 👏 culture 👏 is 👏 not 👏 your 👏 costume 👏

Jordan Boyd-Graber @boydgraber.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I'm moving to Nanyang Technological University in Singapore to start a new lab! We'll still be dedicated to adversarial QA, human-computer collaboration, probabilistic modeling, and the other fun hijinx my students and I have been up to, but now (hopefully) bigger and better.

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Jordan and his daughters (faces blured) in front of Nanyang gate in Yunan garden.

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Jordan Boyd-Graber @boydgraber.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Anyone at ICML (or in Seoul) want to play against an AI in visual quiz bowl at our workshop on the 10th, lunchtime? We have AI opponents and teammates. Reply here or send me an e-mail (jbg@umiacs.umd.edu), subject "EMMQA Expo". Leads appreciated! youtu.be/VrsEn_69Nb8

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Human vs. Computer Picture Trivia Competition at ICML 2026

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Rob Patro @robp.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Some professional news: After adding use MoreResearch as _; use MoreMentoring as _; use MoreTeaching as _; use MoreService as _; the UMD trait solver has accepted the where-clause where Rob: Professor On this occasion, some thanks and some thoughts are in order! 1/5

President's letter informing promotion to the rank of Professor in the Department of Computer Science, effective July 1, 2026.

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Alexander Hoyle @alexanderhoyle.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Very delighted to announce the next step in my career! After my postdoc at ETH, I will begin a joint appointment at TU Wien and the Complexity Science Hub Vienna as an Assistant Professor in NLP. I'm so grateful to all who helped me along the way And yes, I’m hiring! Details on PhD positions below

Photo of me in front of Stephansdom looking like a big dork

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Jordan Boyd-Graber @boydgraber.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

The first deadline for submitting a paper to our workshop is today, but there are lots of opportunities to participate: submit a trivia playing robot, play yourself, or write (multimodal) questions. Please share the word! (More details/links in the first comment.)

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Jordan Boyd-Graber @boydgraber.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Can you spot when AI bluffs? Can you outguess AI or work with one to dominate trivia? Can you make an AI that can figure out tricky visual questions?

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Lorenz Meyer @thereallorenzmeyer.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Liebe Medien, ich kann die Schlagzeile "Keine Einigung zwischen USA und Dänemark" nicht mehr sehen. Wenn ein Bewaffneter eine Bank stürmt, titelt ihr doch auch nicht: "Räuber und Kassiererin finden keinen Konsens über Geldübergabe." Hört auf, imperiale Aggression als normale Diplomatie zu framen.

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Jordan Boyd-Graber @boydgraber.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Today's the deadline to apply for an AI-specific teaching track position at UMD: umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMCP/job/Uni... Please join us!

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Jordan Boyd-Graber @boydgraber.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

My students and I are presenting three papers on Monday at #ACL2025 and this thread will recap them (including their videos).

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Jordan Boyd-Graber @boydgraber.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

The precursor to this paper "The Incoherence of Coherence" had our most-watched paper video ever, so I thought we had to surpass it somehow ... so we decided to do a song parody (of Roxanne, obviously): youtu.be/87OBxEM8a9E

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ProxAnn (Sting Parody): An AI Alternative to NPMI [Research]

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Jordan Boyd-Graber @boydgraber.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

We had our first human–computer cooperative AI tournament at the UMD. Key takeaways: 1) computers are getting better at trivia 2) they still suck at calibration 3) our teaming mechanic kept the games competitive and mostly fun (at least that’s what the players said).

Human-Computer AI Collaborative Tournament Gameplay

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Jordan Boyd-Graber @boydgraber.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Today is the deadline to sign up for our Human-Computer trivia competition held on June 14, 2024 in College Park, MD. $150 prize for the team who can answer the most questions with the help of an AI.

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Jordan Boyd-Graber @boydgraber.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Do you like trivia? Can you spot when AI is feeding you BS? Or can you make AIs turn themselves inside out? Then on June 14 at College Park (or June 21 online), we have a competition for you.

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Alexander Doria @dorialexander.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

New Pleias paper: "What the HellaSwag?" HellaSwag is currently on of the most widely LLM benchmarks in the world. We introduce a new critical method to assess the validity of standard LLM evals and show it does not accurately measure common sense reasoning. arxiv.org/abs/2504.07825

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Nishant Balepur @nbalepur.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

This was a really fun paper to put together with Rachel and @boydgraber.bsky.social allowing me to vent many of my frustrations working with MCQA over the past year 😪🫡 Please check out the paper, we would love to hear your feedback! 📄👇

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William Jurayj @williamjurayj.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

🚨 You are only evaluating a slice of your test-time scaling model's performance! 🚨 📈 We consider how models’ confidence in their answers changes as test-time compute increases. Reasoning longer helps models answer more confidently! 📝: arxiv.org/abs/2502.13962

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The Map Center @mapcenter.com · 17/12/2024

Hi. I'm Andrew. I own New England's oldest map store because last year I moved across the country after an old guy retired and gave it to me Willy Wonka-style. Visit my store in Rhode Island. www.mapcenter.com

A nerd in a teal sweater holding a stack of books about railroads in front of a wall of framed maps.

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Jordan Boyd-Graber @boydgraber.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

In about half an hour, I'll be doing my annual Q&A session on grad admissions: youtube.com/live/jVjTbPH...

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Birds Are Dinosaurs @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

At its heart, Star Trek is a utopian fantasy about a society so advanced that they are capable of holding productive meetings that last no longer than three minutes

A TNG scene. We're in the Enterprise conference room, where Picard is holding a meeting with Data, Troi, and Dr Crusher. Barclay is also there, for unknown reasons. Maybe he wandered into the meeting and just sat down, and everyone was too polite to mention it. That happened to me once. I was visiting an office location I didn't normally go to and I wasn't quite sure which conference room I was supposed to be in. I walked into one and sat down and it took me five minutes to realize I was in the wrong meeting. From the perspective of the people in that room, halfway through that meeting, a stranger walked in, sat next to the boss, took notes for five minutes, then walked out without saying a word.

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Jordan Boyd-Graber @boydgraber.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I just made my way to Bluesky, so I thought it might be a good opportunity to shamelessly remind people to vote in the ACL board elections (where I'm running for an at large post on a platform of improving virtual conferences). Check your e-mail for "Reminder: ACL 2024 Elections - Please Vote".

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