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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Relevant and disturbing:

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Voice "cloning" is style transfer. Across three widely used systems — ElevenLabs V3, Coqui-XTTS, Chatterbox — clones don't just copy speakers, they reshape them to be warmer, more authoritative, more native English-like, and even more “humanlike”.

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Kaitlyn Zhou @kaitlynzhou.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I'll be in Barcelona next week for #CHI2026! 🇪🇸 Excited to see you all there! DM if you want to meet up and chat more!

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Carolin Holtermann @carolin-holtermann.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

🚨 New paper alert: A new generation of LLMs can now process speech natively. This could expand access for millions excluded by text interfaces, but our research shows a cost: demographic cues in speaker voice can trigger stereotypical model responses. 🎙️⚖️ Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2603.22260

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Beatrice Savoldi @bsavoldi.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

🗞️ Pick of the week @fbk-mt.bsky.social: Most LLM dev centers current adopters, so what are we missing? Worth a read! 👇https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.15951 #NLP #LLMs #HCI

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Maarten Sap @maartensap.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

🚀 Apply to CMU LTI’s Summer 2026 “Language Technology for All” internship! 🎓 Open to pre‑doctoral students new to language tech (non‑CS backgrounds welcome). 🔬 12–14 weeks in‑person in Pittsburgh — travel + stipend paid. 💸 Deadline: Feb 20, 11:59pm ET. Apply → forms.gle/cUu8g6wb27Hs...

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CMU LTI Summer 2026 Internship Program Application

We are looking for applicants for the Carnegie Mellon University Language Technology Institute's Summer 2026 "Language Technology for All" internship program. The main goal of this internship is to pr...

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Kaitlyn Zhou @kaitlynzhou.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Internship opportunity! Please share! 📣 I'm looking to hire an intern in human-centered NLP for the agents team at Together AI. Come work on frontier AI systems that tackle complex agentic tasks! Research direction is open and looking to publish in NLP and HCI venues!

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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!

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Kaitlyn Zhou @kaitlynzhou.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

As of June 2025, 66% of Americans have never used ChatGPT. Our new position paper, Attention to Non-Adopters, explores why this matters: AI research is being shaped around adopters—leaving non-adopters’ needs, and key LLM research opportunities, behind. arxiv.org/abs/2510.15951

A circular flow diagram that compares current and proposed practices for LLM development using data from adopters and non-adopters. Three gray boxes represent current practices: “R&D,” “Chat Models,” and “Adopters’ Needs and Usage Data,” connected in a clockwise loop with black arrows. A blue box labeled “Non-adopters’ Needs and Usage Data” adds a proposed feedback path, shown with blue arrows, linking non-adopter data back to R&D and adopters’ data.

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Cornell Bowers Computing and Information Science @cornellbowers.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

We are excited to welcome five new faculty members to Cornell Bowers this semester! A Big Red Bowers Welcome to Sasha Golovnev, Andrew Owens '10, David Rand '04, Benjamin Shestakofsky, and Kaitlyn Zhou. 👋 Read more: lnkd.in/ewA4U4fU

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Myra Cheng @myra.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

AI always calling your ideas “fantastic” can feel inauthentic, but what are sycophancy’s deeper harms? We find that in the common use case of seeking AI advice on interpersonal situations—specifically conflicts—sycophancy makes people feel more right & less willing to apologize.

Screenshot of paper title: Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence

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Abhilasha Ravichander @lasha.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

It is PhD application season again 🍂 For those looking to do a PhD in AI, these are some useful resources 🤖: 1. Examples of statements of purpose (SOPs) for computer science PhD programs: cs-sop.org [1/4]

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CS PhD Statements of Purpose

cs-sop.org is a platform intended to help CS PhD applicants. It hosts a database of example statements of purpose (SoP) shared by previous applicants to Computer Science PhD programs.

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Kaitlyn Zhou @kaitlynzhou.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

I'll be at COLM next week! Let me know if you want to chat! @colmweb.org @neilrathi.bsky.social will be presenting our work on multilingual overconfidence in language models and the effects on human overreliance! arxiv.org/pdf/2507.06306

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Abhilasha Ravichander @lasha.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

📣 Life update: Thrilled to announce that I’ll be starting as faculty at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems this Fall! I’ll be recruiting PhD students in the upcoming cycle, as well as research interns throughout the year: lasharavichander.github.io/contact.html

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EMNLP @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

For EMNLP 2025’s special theme of "Advancing our Reach: Interdisciplinary Recontextualization of NLP", we are organizing a panel of experts, and would like input from the community at large as we prepare. Please take a moment to fill in this survey: forms.office.com/r/pWFFA0Gss1

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 25/06/2025

New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41... We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance 1/

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Computer-vision research powers surveillance technology - Nature

An analysis of research papers and citing patents indicates the extensive ties between computer-vision research and surveillance.

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ACM FAccT @facct.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

🏆 Announcing the #FAccT2025 best paper awards! 🏆 Congratulations to all the authors of the three best papers and three honorable mention papers. Be sure to check out their presentations at the conference next week! facct-blog.github.io/2025-06-20/b...

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Announcing Best Paper Awards

The Best Paper Award Committee was chaired this year by Alex Chouldechova and included six Area Chairs. The committee selected three papers for the Best Paper Award and recognized three additional pap...

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Daniel Chechelnitsky @dchechel.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

What if AI played the role of your sassy gay bestie 🏳️‍🌈 or AAVE-speaking friend 👋🏾? You: “Can you plan a trip?” 🤖 AI: “Yasss queen! let’s werk this babe✨💅” LLMs can talk like us, but it shapes how we trust, rely on & relate to them 🧵 📣 our #FAccT2025 paper: bit.ly/3HJ6rWI [1/9]

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Myra Cheng @myra.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Do people actually like human-like LLMs? In our #ACL2025 paper HumT DumT, we find a kind of uncanny valley effect: users dislike LLM outputs that are *too human-like*. We thus develop methods to reduce human-likeness without sacrificing performance.

Screenshot of first page of the paper HumT DumT: Measuring and controlling human-like language in LLMs

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Here’s something we can all do: every time we see something about the Trump administration’s attacks on science — and the impacts of those attacks — boost it. People, and even faculty, have no idea how bad it is and how much worse it’s going to get. We need to let people know…

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Conference on Language Modeling @colmweb.org · 27/05/2025

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Vered Shwartz @veredshwartz.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

I guess that now that I have 1% of my Twitter followers follow me here 😅, I should announce it here too for those of you no longer checking Twitter: my nonfiction book, "Lost in Automatic Translation" is coming out this July: lostinautomatictranslation.com. I'm very excited to share it with you!

Book cover - Lost in Automatic Translation: Navigating Life in English in the Age of Language Technologies. By Vered Shwartz. Publisher: Cambridge University Press.

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Kaitlyn Zhou @kaitlynzhou.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Thrilled that our paper won 🏆 Best Paper Runner-Up 🏆 at #NAACL25!! Our work (REL-A.I.) introduces an evaluation framework that measures human reliance on LLMs and reveals how contextual features like anthropomorphism, subject, and user history can significantly influence user reliance behaviors.

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NAACL @naaclmeeting.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

🟢 Announcing the #NAACL2025 Award Winners! The Best Paper and Best Theme Paper winners will present at our closing session 2025.naacl.org/blog/best-pa...

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Kaitlyn Zhou @kaitlynzhou.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Life update! Excited to announce that I’ll be starting as an assistant professor at Cornell Info Sci in August 2026! I’ll be recruiting students this upcoming cycle! An abundance of thanks to all my mentors and friends who helped make this possible!!

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Chris Donahue @chrisdonahue.com · 28/03/2025

Thrilled to share that my *incoming* PhD student Yewon Kim’s work on multimodal inspiration in music AI has been recognized with a Best Paper Award at #CHI2025 🎉 Yewon really knocked it out of the park here. Can't wait to see what she does for her PhD! arxiv.org/abs/2412.18940

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Amuse: Human-AI Collaborative Songwriting with Multimodal Inspirations

Songwriting is often driven by multimodal inspirations, such as imagery, narratives, or existing music, yet songwriters remain unsupported by current music AI systems in incorporating these multimodal...

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 19/03/2025

“The attack on Columbia is a radical threat to scholarly excellence and to America’s leadership in research,” writes Princeton president Christopher L. Eisgruber. “Universities and their leaders should speak up and litigate forcefully”:

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Columbia’s Real Radical Threat Is From the Government

American universities have given the country prosperity and security. The Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom endangers all of that.

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Kelton Minor @keltonminor.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵

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Martijn Bartelds @mbartelds.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

🎙️ Speech recognition is great - if you speak the right language. Our new @stanfordnlp.bsky.social paper introduces CTC-DRO, a training method that reduces worst-language errors by up to 47.1%. Work w/ Ananjan, Moussa, @jurafsky.bsky.social, Tatsu Hashimoto and Karen Livescu. Here’s how it works 🧵

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Arresting and threatening to deport students because of their participation in political protest is the kind of action one ordinarily associates with the world’s most repressive regimes. It’s genuinely shocking that this appears to be what’s going on right here. 1/

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Myra Cheng @myra.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Check out our recent work studying anthropormophic AI!

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

I think it’s important to draw attention to small acts of courage and dissent (like this NYT ad and the message from the VT ski resort social media manager) that remind people of the range of possibilities for standing up, speaking out, and fighting back.

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Kaitlyn Zhou @kaitlynzhou.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Excited to have two papers at #NAACL2025! The first reveals how human over-reliance can be exacerbated by LLM friendliness. The second presents a novel computational method for concept tracing. Check them out! arxiv.org/pdf/2407.07950 arxiv.org/pdf/2502.05704

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Heads up for anyone who missed this: ARR has moved to 5 cycles per year and the EMNLP deadline will be in May.

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

This is part of the email sent to (I assume) all PIs on National Science Foundation grants last night.

All NSF grantees must comply with these Executive Orders, and any other relevant Executive Orders issued, by ceasing all non-compliant grant and award activities. Executive Orders are posted at https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/. In particular, this may include, but is not limited to conferences, trainings, workshops, considerations for staffing and participant selection, and any other grant activity that uses or promotes the use of DEIA principles and frameworks or violates Federal anti-discrimination laws. Please work with your institutional research office to assist you in complying with the Executive Orders. You can also direct your questions through the form on this NSF webpage.

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Jenna Russell @jennarussell.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

People often claim they know when ChatGPT wrote something, but are they as accurate as they think? Turns out that while general population is unreliable, those who frequently use ChatGPT for writing tasks can spot even "humanized" AI-generated text with near-perfect accuracy 🎯

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Holy moly. So thrilled & sincerely honored to learn that I’ve received a Presidential Early Career Award in Science & Engineering (PECASE). So thankful to my mentors, students, colleagues (and my wife!) who have supported me thru THICK & thin & made this possible. www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-up...

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President Biden Honors Nearly 400 Federally Funded Early-Career Scientists | OSTP | The White House

Today, President Biden awarded nearly 400 scientists and engineers the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outst...

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Chris Potts @cgpotts.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I've posted the practice run of my LSA keynote. My core claim is that LLMs can be useful tools for doing close linguistic analysis. I illustrate with a detailed case study, drawing on corpus evidence, targeted syntactic evaluations, and causal intervention-based analyses: youtu.be/DBorepHuKDM

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Finding linguistic structure in large language models

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Dan Jurafsky @jurafsky.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Happy New Year everyone! Jim and I just put up our January 2025 release of Speech and Language Processing! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...

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Speech and Language Processing

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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

My advisor warned me that academics trend towards bitterness. He encouraged me to intentionally resist this, remember where I came from, and never forget the privilege of getting to spend a life working with knowledge and ideas. He too said that bitterness and resentment is easy.

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Stanford NLP Group @stanfordnlp.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Natural Language Processing—artificial intelligence that uses human language—has been on a roll lately. You’ve probably noticed! So the Stanford NLP Group has been growing, and diversifying into lots of new topics, including agents, language model programs, and socially aware #NLP. nlp.stanford.edu

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Caleb Ziems @calebziems.com · 15/11/2024

I wanted to contribute to "Starter Pack Season" with one for Stanford NLP+HCI: go.bsky.app/VZBhuJ5 Here are some other great starter packs: - CSS: go.bsky.app/GoEyD7d + go.bsky.app/CYmRvcK - NLP: go.bsky.app/SngwGeS + go.bsky.app/JgneRQk - HCI: go.bsky.app/p3TLwt - Women in AI: go.bsky.app/LaGDpqg

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