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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Best consideration is Mar 27, so get your postdoc applications in in the next week or so!

Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Come join TRAILS as a postdoc at UMD (and work w folks at GW, MSU & Cornell) to conduct research and scholarship focused on approaches to AI that advance trust and trustworthiness with a great group of colleagues! 🌐 go.umd.edu/trails-postd... 🗓️ Summer/Fall 2026 start

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TRAILS UMD Post Doctoral Associate Job Description - Spring 2026

Post Doctoral Associate Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law & Society February 2026 The Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law & Society (TRAILS) and the University of Maryland aim to transform the pr...

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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

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

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Senior Tenure Track Faculty at the Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland (AIM) - Associate Professor/Professor (Open Rank Joint Appointment)

Job Description Summary Organization Summary Statement: The Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland - AIM (aim.umd.edu) - is hiring 40 faculty over the next several years, incl...

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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

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Senior Tenure Track Faculty at the Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland (AIM) - Associate Professor/Professor (Open Rank Joint Appointment)

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

If you're at #FACCT2025 today, check out our AI Workers' Inquiry, where we'll have a stellar panel of workers organizing against AI and host a participatory session. You can also participate online! ai-workers-inquiry.github.io

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AI Workers' Inquiry

AI Workers' Inquiry is a FAccT 2025 CRAFT workshop that brings together workers, organizers, and labor experts to explore how AI is transforming our workplaces and discuss strategies for collective re...

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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

my teenagehood destroyed: pbrush now has AI support.

Screenshot of pbrush with a Copilot tab.

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Inria Paris NLP (ALMAnaCH team) @inriaparisnlp.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

We are delighted to announce our next seminar by Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social ‬(@univofmaryland.bsky.social, currently on sabbatical at @sorbonne-universite.fr) entitled "Fairness and Trustworthiness in Generative Al" on Friday 20th June at 11am CEST.

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Marine Carpuat @marinecarpuat.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

What should Machine Translation research look like in the age of multilingual LLMs? Here’s one answer from researchers across NLP/MT, Translation Studies, and HCI. "An Interdisciplinary Approach to Human-Centered Machine Translation" arxiv.org/abs/2506.13468

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An Interdisciplinary Approach to Human-Centered Machine Translation

Machine Translation (MT) tools are widely used today, often in contexts where professional translators are not present. Despite progress in MT technology, a gap persists between system development and...

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.

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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

For the EALM Workshop "On Assessing the Political Biases of Multilingual Large Language Models" by @lernerp.bsky.social Laurène Cave, @haldaume3.bsky.social Léo Labat, Gaël Lejeune, Pierre-Antoine Lequeu, @bpiwowar.bsky.social Nazanin Shafiabadi and yvofr.bsky.social, collaborated with the STIH lab

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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

slashing support for grad students and undergraduates by 75% is a disastrous policy for US science and competitiveness.

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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Happy to see the Maryland Attorney General participating in this effort. I’ve generally been quite happy with the state and university responses to the terminations and other actions.

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Lingjun Zhao @lingjunz.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

We introduce a super simple yet effective strategy to improve video-language alignment (+18%): add hallucination correction in your training objective👌 Excited to share our accepted paper at ACL: Can Hallucination Correction Improve Video-language Alignment? Link: arxiv.org/abs/2502.15079

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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

This is an incredibly well thought out and well written statement co-signed by a large group of subreddits on the importance of academic research. I hate how it had to come about, but love the statement. (And yes, this is the one that I had terminated 12 days ago.)

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Sarah Gilbert @sarahagilbert.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988

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From the changemyview community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the changemyview community

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Hi Kate-- I'm really sorry to hear this. If NIH terminations are any guide, we expect NSF terminations to be chaotic, so we're trying to track them and organize the information. If don't mind, please have your team enter their grants here: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... And please spread the word.

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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

also got my first NSF grant terminated! what emoji do i put in my handle to signify this?

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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

I am reading this correctly right? Broadening participation at NSF may target non-protected groups but cannot target protected groups? It’s almost as if the issue isn’t with broadening participation but rather with which groups have been designated as protected over the past 60 years.

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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I will be at IUI on 24-25 march. I'd love to meet up with folks who are interested in meeting up. DM me if that's you!

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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

US tech firms - IME - rely heavily on grads of higher ed in general, and US higher ed in particular... And yet I've not heard much noise from the Pichais, Nadellas, Zuckerbergs, Cooks, Benioffs, Sus, Jassys, Huangs, etc. about attacks on higher education... Am I missing it or does it not exist?

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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

There is a new version of the Research Plan for NIST's AI Safety Consortium (AISIC) in response to EOs. I did a diff. Out: safety, responsibility, sociotechnical, fairness, working w fed agencies, authenticating content, watermarking, RN of CBRN, autonomous replication, ctrl of physical systems >

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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

With all this uncertainty in the US science funding landscape, what I really hope is that we - as panelists who review proposals - continue to review according to what we think are the strongest proposals and do not anticipatorily comply with directions that are not *specifically* required of us.

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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

i confess i did not know this history until now

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Anne Simon 🧪🌱🐴🦠🍊🇨🇦🇺🇦 @annealiz1.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Check out my new Starter Pack of all things University of Maryland! Let me know if you are a Terp or a Terp fan and I’ll add you to the pack. #UMD #Maryland go.bsky.app/7TfyH9o

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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

at TRAILCon today, enjoying TRAILS branded Trail Mix

table with a bunch of miniature packets of trail mix with trails branding

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Paola Cascante-Bonilla @pcascanteb.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

NLI Improves Compositionality in Vision-Language Models is accepted to #ICLR2025! CECE enables interpretability and achieves significant improvements in hard compositional benchmarks without fine-tuning (e.g., Winoground, EqBen) and alignment (e.g., DrawBench, EditBench). + info: cece-vlm.github.io

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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Please join us for: AI at Work: Building and Evaluating Trust Presented by our Trustworthy AI in Law & Society (TRIALS) institute. Feb 3-4 Washington DC Open to all! Details and registration at: trails.gwu.edu/trailscon-2025 Sponsorship details at: trails.gwu.edu/media/556

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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

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Anna Rogers @annarogers.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

📢 The survey 👇 on "intelligence" & ChatGPT is open until Jan 14. All fields are welcome, but a special invitation goes to folks in Philosophy, Psychology, HCI, Cognitive Science, CSS, and AI ethics. Please repost.

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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

anyone fine tuned this multilingual yet?

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Using “government efficiency” as an excuse to replace human decision-makers with poorly designed systems will only compound AI harms, rendering opaque and uncontestable verdicts that deeply impact people’s lives, write Kevin De Liban and Alice Marwick. www.techpolicy.press/ai-cant-solv...

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AI Can’t Solve Government Waste – and May Hurt Vulnerable Americans | TechPolicy.Press

If you believe public institutions should actually serve the public, this is an unacceptable bait-and-switch, write Kevin De Liban and Alice Marwick.

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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Q: what's worse than hearing a popping sound in your finger while bouldering? A: hearing two popping sounds back to back in adjacent fingers.

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Yu Lu Liu @liuyulu.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Human-centered Evalulation and Auditing of Language models (HEAL) workshop is back for #CHI2025, with this year's special theme: “Mind the Context”! Come join us on this bridge between #HCI and #NLProc! Workshop submission deadline: Feb 17 AoE More info at heal-workshop.github.io.

The image includes a shortened call for participation that reads:
"We welcome participants who work on topics related to supporting human-centered evaluation and auditing of language models. Topics of interest include, but not limited to:
- Empirical understanding of stakeholders' needs and goals of LLM evaluation and auditing
- Human-centered evaluation and auditing methods for LLMs
- Tools, processes, and guidelines for LLM evaluation and auditing
- Discussion of regulatory measures and public policies for LLM auditing
- Ethics in LLM evaluation and auditing

Special Theme: Mind the Context. We invite authors to engage with specific contexts in LLM evaluation and auditing. This theme could involve various topics: the usage contexts of LLMs, the context of the evaluation/auditing itself, and more! The term ''context'' is purposefully left open for interpretation!

The image also includes pictures of workshop organizers, who are: Yu Lu Liu, Wesley Hanwen Deng, Michelle S. Lam, Motahhare Eslami, Juho Kim, Q. Vera Liao, Wei Xu, Jekaterina Novikova, and Ziang Xiao.

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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Premier-TACO is a Few-Shot Policy Learner: Pretraining Multitask Representation via Temporal Action-Driven Contrastive Loss We show that a carefully constructed temporal contrastive loss leads to effective, multitask RL pretraining. by Ruijie Zheng +al ICML’24 hal3.name/docs/daume24... (eos)

Whinney the Pooh meme. Top, normal "Original TACO contrastive loss for RL." Bottom, in a tuxedo, "Simple adjustment for multitask pretraining."

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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

all i want for xmas is a way to visualize text that’s not a word cloud

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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

"somehow" is doing so much work in this quote. (ALT for image: Ilya Sutskever giving a talk about pretraining; caption: "...internet. We have, but one internet. You could even go as far as to say That data is the fossil fuel of AI. It was like, created somehow. And now we use it.")

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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

please give us your stuff for nothing and we'll give you back ... our definition of "open" models.

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Nick Diakopoulos @ndiakopoulos.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

The world needs more scientists communicating with the broader public. I'm honored to be an alum of the AAAS Mass Media Fellows Program (@aaasmassmedia.bsky.social), which is now accepting applications for the its 50th(!) cohort. Apply here: massmedia.secure-platform.com/a/page/About

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Science/AAAS -

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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

HateCOT: An Explanation-Enhanced Dataset for Generalizable Offensive Speech Detection via LLMs There are lots of hate datasets with different nuances. We show how to pretrain on a COT-enhanced dataset to get great performance on data du jour. by Huy Nghiem +al EMNLP’24 hal3.name/docs/daume24... >

Meme. Happy face "Look at all these toxicity detection datasets" - Sad face "They all use different label sets"

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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

starter pack for the Computational Linguistics and Information Processing group at the University of Maryland - get all your NLP and data science here! go.bsky.app/V9qWjEi

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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Do great minds think alike? Investigating Human-AI Complementarity in QA We use item response theory to compare the capabilities of 155 people vs 70 chatbots at answering questions, teasing apart complementarities; implications for design. by Maharshi Gor +al EMNLP’24 hal3.name/docs/daume24... >

Meme of two muscular arms grasping. The first is labeled "humans" the second "AI systems" and where they grasp is labeled "item response theory."

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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

starting to feel like slack is as bad as email.

left: my slack (slack image of "Later: 28 items")
right: me (picture of zombie from 28 years later)

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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Understanding the Impacts of Language Technologies’ Performance Disparities on AAL Speakers We find AAL speakers expend significant invisible labor in order to achieve parity of outputs in LT systems; fairness measures don't capture this. by Jay Cunningham +al ACL’24 hal3.name/docs/daume24... >

Meme of playing UNO. Card says "Measure the invisible labor people exert to get ML models to achieve 'parity' ... or draw 25" and the next panel has a person holding a lot of cards.

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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Today I went to the USM Regents meeting and spoke for @uam-umd.bsky.social and in support of UMD's Graduate Labor Union, who have supermajority support and are seeking voluntary recognition. Our working conditions are learning conditions. The right is coming for us all, management must work with us.

Good morning. I am Daniel Greene, Associate Professor of Information in College Park, where I have worked for 7 years. Before that, I worked at a small startup called Microsoft. I train the data scientists who go on to firms like Lockheed or Accenture, or the feds. I am here to speak on shared governance, as the Vice President of United Academics of Maryland UMD, the union for all faculty. The CUSF survey on today's agenda today reveals broad dissatisfaction with shared governance. We push that button but nothing happens. This breeds resentment. Let me explain.
The most obvious violation of shared governance is in front of you. A supermajority of UMD graduate workers have signed union cards with the Graduate Labor Union. Earlier this year, in the Maryland Senate, our Dean of the Graduate School said that graduate workers did not want a union and when pressed about the stack of signed cards next to him replied, "I don't know how those have been presented to students." As if a supermajority of grads suffered mass delusion. Lobbying against your own employees breeds resentment.

For the sake of real shared governance, I urge UMD to recognize the graduate union. They just want to do their jobs. To afford rent, to have their visas delivered on time. You say they aren't real employees, but you're obviously hiring them to do the same work as me. From 2014 to 2022, UMD's enrollment increased 10.7%, while the amount of tenure track faculty fell 6.9% and graduate TA's rose 11%. Peer institutions from Pennsylvani to Florida to Michigan to Nebraska collectively bargain with graduate and faculty unions. Your refusal to live up to your peers' examples breeds resentment.
Fighting our unions is just one way you create resentment. When I received tenure, UMD celebrated by canceling my health insurance and my first paycheck. This happened to about 20% of promotions. Including a colleague of mine in remission from cancer who had her medical care disrupted. Exceptional for tenured faculty like me, but not for grads, hundreds of whom miss paychecks each semester. Why? Because we balanced our budget by making clerical vacancies permanent. This disrespect to payroll staff, disproportionately Black women, breeds resentment among the faculty who rely upon them.

This resentment is why, according to President Pines's climate survey, 70% of UMD faculty feel uncomfortable with the campus climate and 51%, including myself, have considered leaving UMD.
24% of faculty have experienced exclusionary conduct on campus. 36% of Black faculty. We keep one eye on the door because it's uncomfortable and nothing changes. We get a blue-ribbon committee and a slideshow.
Vice President elect JD Vance has said, "the professors are the enemy." We expect more attacks. Who knows whether the NSF will continue to fund my $3 million grant to increase Black men's participation in data science.
Right-wing activists have already targeted us, our students, and even President Pines and his family with vicious death threats. I am so sorry this happened, Dr. Pines. We want to help you build a stronger university where everyone belongs. Our grads seek union recognition to do just that. Our working conditions are students' learning conditions. We are not the enemy but, on campus, we are treated like it. Do the right thing. Bargain with grads now and faculty when we're ready. We should be able to sit down together at the same table, because if Florida or Texas are any guide they're coming for us all.

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Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Question that came up last night: Are there examples of technologies 1) that were fundamentally unreliable, & 2) where educators were expected to teach students to deal? 1) excludes calculators 2) excludes early web search (eg AV), at least in my memory To the point: should this be our job?

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Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

The really grim reality is that this is really not just about kids - there are countless adults, often adult *professionals*(doctors, lawyers, teachers(!)) that use ChatGPT this way. And I can understand why - there's no warning on the box! Few truly understand the tech's very real limitations.

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UMD Language Science Center @umd-lsc.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

We're hiring a Language Science postdoc as part of our inaugural Fellowship for Postdoctoral Scholars! Click the link in bio to apply #UniversityofMaryland

"We're Hiring! LSC Postdoc. Apply Today."

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