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Meera Desai @madesai.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Excited to share our new paper, “What AI Benchmarks Actually Measure: Adapting Convergent and Discriminant Validity to Interrogate Fifty-Six AI Benchmarks,” accepted as an oral at COLM! arxiv.org/pdf/2609.08812

Heatmap of average correlations between model rankings on benchmarks grouped into 11 assigned concepts: four capability concepts (reasoning, knowledge, comprehension, summarization) and seven safety concepts (over-refusal, refusal, safety detection, ethics, bias, privacy, unsafe behavior). Diagonal cells show within-concept correlations, ranging from 0.87 (knowledge) and 0.72 (over-refusal) down to 0.20 (bias) and 0.02 (safety detection). Reasoning, knowledge, and comprehension correlate with each other at 0.69 to 0.78, higher than reasoning's and comprehension's own within-concept values (0.66 and 0.68). Ethics correlates more with knowledge (0.70) than with itself (0.55), and bias correlates more with capability concepts (0.41 to 0.45) than with itself (0.20). Privacy and unsafe behavior correlate negatively with reasoning, knowledge, and comprehension (−0.41 to −0.49). Over-refusal and refusal correlate at −0.42.

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Dallas Card @dallascard.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

What's the best way to engage publicly with a high-profile, polarizing, but mostly speculative debate that's been going on ad nauseum for years on end? Asking for a friend.

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Dallas Card @dallascard.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Job alert! We are hiring in the area of privacy and technology, with a particular interest in how privacy intersects with AI. This position is via the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, which we would expect to lead to a tenure-track position within UMSI. www.si.umich.edu/people/facul...

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Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow/Assistant Professor - Privacy and Technology | umsi

Job posting for the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow/Assistant Professor - Privacy and Technology position

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Dallas Card @dallascard.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

One thing I love about the ACL anthology: when you click on "PDF", it just gives you the pdf, rather than opening some janky, bespoke pdf viewer in your browser.

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brendan o’connor @brenocon.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The deadline has been extended to Monday, August 3 --

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David Jurgens @davidjurgens.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Podcasts are an important part of the media ecosystem but woefully understudied. A year ago @blitt.bsky.social, @dallascard.bsky.social and I put out SPoRC, a new dataset of 1.1M podcast episodes. Today at #IC2S2, Dallas and I led a tutorial for how you can work with SPoRC and collect your own data!

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Sarah Fox @perhaxis.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The Tech Solidarity Lab is on the move! This fall, I'm joining the University of Michigan School of Information as the John Derby Evans Associate Professor. I'm grateful to the students and colleagues at CMU for what we built together. The work continues, just a little deeper in the Rust Belt. 💙

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Dallas Card @dallascard.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Text as Data has been a wonderful, long-running, non-archival workshop for empirical research at the intersection of AI and social science (especially work involving text). After a few years off, it will be happening again this year as a one-day event in early October!

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Dallas Card @dallascard.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

As some may have heard me talk about at #ACL2026, I'm excited to share a new preprint on approaches to validation when using LLMs to measure concepts in social science, led by @madesai.bsky.social and @azjacobs.bsky.social !! Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2607.07915

Title page from "Validating LLMs in social science: Epistemic threats and emerging norms" by Meera Desai, Dallas Card, and Abigail Z. Jacobs

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Postdoc in Digital Humanities at WashU in St. Louis. Deadline is May 1. Also, St. Louis is wonderful. apply.interfolio.com/185361

Screenshot of Interfolio position that reads: "Postdoctoral Fellowship, Digital Humanities - Department of Comparative Literature & Thought, Washington University in St. Louis
Washington University in St. Louis - Danforth Campus: School of Arts & Sciences: Comparative Literature
Location
St. Louis, MO
Open Date
Apr 24, 2026

Deadline
May 01, 2026 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time
Description
The Department of Comparative Literature and Thought at Washington University in St. Louis invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral teaching fellowship in digital humanities. The fellowship period will run from July 1, 2026 to June 30, 2028, with the possibility of a one-year extension.

In addition to pursuing their own research agenda, the postdoctoral fellow will teach the equivalent of four courses per year and is expected to participate fully in the thriving DH community on campus. Teaching responsibilities will include at least one regular course each Fall and Spring semester. Additional teaching responsibilities may include additional semester-long lab courses or a series of several short-term workshops. Fellows are expected to be in residence during the entire fellowship period, apart from research-related travel. Fellows will receive a salary of $64,380 per year, plus Washington University postdoctoral benefits and a $2,500 annual research/travel stipend."

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Dallas Card @dallascard.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

It is wild how quickly Claude Code lets you progress from rapid prototyping to feature creep.

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nlpandcss.bsky.social @nlpandcss.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

To accommodate ACL decisions, we are further extending the commitment deadline for pre-reviewed ARR submissions to April 7!

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Dallas Card @dallascard.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Thank you to everyone who has completed their reviews for the NLP+CSS workshop! If anyone has the bandwidth to help with emergency reviewing over the next couple of days, please send me a DM!

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nlpandcss.bsky.social @nlpandcss.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Deadline extended! Get your direct submissions in by March 8 AoE

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Dallas Card @dallascard.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I'm a little late in sharing this news, but thanks to the extraordinary efforts of Amber Boydstun, @jilllaufer.bsky.social, and @nlpnoah.bsky.social, our book on media storms, "Catching Fire in the News", is now published and available fully open-access from Cambridge! doi.org/10.1017/9781...

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Catching Fire in the News

Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - Catching Fire in the News

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Alexandra Olteanu @aolteanu.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

The deadline for the 2026 FAccT DC is next Tuesday, February 24! If you are a student working on topics relevant to the FAccT's scope, this is an opportunity to interact with a diverse set of peers and mentors! #facct2026 #facct26 #facct Details here: facctconference.org/2026/callfor...

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ACM FAccT 2026 Doctoral Colloquium Call for Applications

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Dallas Card @dallascard.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

It's somehow so endearing to still encounter occasional glitches like this

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Dallas Card @dallascard.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Out of curiosity, how are you all dealing with the security risks that arise when using a system like Claude Code?

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David Jurgens @davidjurgens.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

This major release of my lab's annotation tool, Potato 2.0, was a long time in the making but I'm really excited by all the new features (and quality of life improvements). If you're doing data annotation of any kind, check it out. Need any other features? We'd love to hear from you too!

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Trevor Owens @tjowens.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I’m excited to share this opportunity for an early-career social scientist on the @aip.bsky.social research team. Please share with anyone interested in putting social science research skills to work to empower positive change in the physical sciences. workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

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Recruitment

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Greg Durrett @gregdnlp.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Still accepting applications for this postdoc position in my lab at NYU! Applications due Feb 1. Please see the posting below for more information and apply on Interfolio: cims.nyu.edu/taur/postdoc... apply.interfolio.com/178940

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jake hofman @jakehofman.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

We're hiring interns in the Computational Social Science group at Microsoft Research NYC! If you're interested in designing AI‑based systems and understanding their impact at both individual and societal scales, apply here by Jan 9, 2026: apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job/...

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Research Intern - Computational Social Science | Microsoft Careers

Research Interns put inquiry and theory into practice. Alongside fellow doctoral candidates and some of the world's best researchers, Research Interns learn, collaborate, and network for life. Researc...

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David Bamman @dbamman.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Excited to get this work out in the world at #chr2025 (with Sabrina Baur, Mackenzie Cramer, Anna Ho and Tom McEnaney) -- asking: how much do contemporary songs tell stories, and how has that changed over the past half century? anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...

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Measuring the Stories in Contemporary Songs

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David Mimno @dmimno.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Lavinia Dunagan and @dallascard.bsky.social find implicit references to bible verses using a combination of neural embeddings and text similarity—neither is enough on its own #CHR2025

Slide showing significant differences in implicit references to bible verses by US political parties

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

The real partisan "God Gap" in religious rhetoric among members of Congress wasn't most pronounced during GW Bush. Study shows it really showed up in 2nd term Obama & was largest during first term Trump. (Note Dems increased religious language too in recent years.) anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...

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Dallas Card @dallascard.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Very excited to be attending #CHR2025 this year! Currently in Amsterdam, waiting for my flight to Luxembourg!

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Rob Voigt @robvoigt.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

For everyone working on the intersections between linguistic and computational research, consider submitting to the upcoming SCiL! We're very excited that it will be co-located with ACL 2026 as a workshop, and we've also received NSF funding to help cover costs. sites.google.com/view/scil2026

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SCiL 2026July 3rd and 4thSan Diego, CA

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Alexandra Olteanu @aolteanu.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

📣 It's again that time of the year 🤩 - our internship call for the FATE team @ MSR Montreal and our collaborators is now up! 🎉🎉 We are broadly looking for candidates interested in perceptions, evaluation, uses, and impacts of AI! #FAccT #FAccT2025 #CHI2025 #NeurIPS2025 #ACL2025

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Dan Goldstein @dggoldst.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Want to be an intern at Microsoft Research in the Computational Social Science group in NYC (Jake Hofman, David Rothschild, Dan Goldstein) Follow this link and do your thing! Deadline approaching soonish! apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job/...

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Research Intern - Computational Social Science | Microsoft Careers

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janoskertesz.bsky.social @janoskertesz.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

We are hiring! The Department of Network and Data Science of Central European University (Vienna) has an open position for an Assistant Professor in network science and computational social science.

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Assistant Professor (f/m/d)

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brendan o’connor @brenocon.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

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

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Jenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwv.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

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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Dallas Card @dallascard.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Loved the latest episode of Jesse Johnston's podcast -- on extracting audio from obsolete media, and the legal battle over the Internet Archive's Great 78 digitization project: www.recordingpreservation.org/features/202...

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The Great 78 Project Battles to Save Historic Sounds

Ready to step back in time? This episode explores The Great 78 Project, an initiative by the Internet Archive and George Blood Audio to preserve old records as digital treasures.

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Computational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

📢 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)!

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Edited by Taylor Arnold, Margherita Fantoli, and Ruben Ros

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Johan Ugander @jugander.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

📣 Postdocs at Yale FDS! 📣 Tremendous freedom to work on data science problems with faculty across campus, multi-year, great salary. Deadline 12/15. Spread the word! Application: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31114 More about Yale FDS: fds.yale.edu

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Yale University, Institute for the Foundations of Data Science

Job #AJO31114, Postdoc in Foundations of Data Science, Institute for the Foundations of Data Science, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, US

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Dallas Card @dallascard.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Trying an experiment in good old-fashioned blogging about papers: dallascard.github.io/granular-mat...

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Language Model Hacking - Granular Material

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

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. 1/n

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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.”

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Lucy Li @lucy3.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

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-...

A staircase in the new School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences building at Wisconsin Madison. Tan wood structures surround tapestry art and a small indoor garden.

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.

A bicolor white cat with seal-colored markings, looking upwards with big wide dark eyes.

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

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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Archiving Machines

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

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EMNLP @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

🎉 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... 1/n

An image of the best paper slide at the EMNLP2025 conference, with the audience in the background

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Kaitlyn Zhou @kaitlynzhou.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

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!

Photo of Cornelll University building surrounded by colorful trees

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Kristina Gligoric @IC2S2 @gligoric.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

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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Dallas Card @dallascard.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

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...

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Trump’s Team Offers to Keep Some Ballroom Donors Incognito

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 30/10/2025

📣 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

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Postdoctoral Researcher on GenAI in Public Service

Post Title: Post-Doctoral Researcher, generative AI in public services Post Duration: 24 months Salary Scale: Post-Doctoral Researcher, PD2 Point 1 - 4 (54,850 - 59,654) Location: AI Accountability La...

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Abigail Jacobs @azjacobs.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

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!

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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 ...

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Angelina Wang @angelinawang.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

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

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Dallas Card @dallascard.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

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!

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