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Maria Antoniak

@mariaa.bsky.social
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NLP, cultural analytics. Assistant Professor of CS at University of Colorado Boulder. Formerly Ai2, Pioneer Centre for AI, Cornell, Microsoft, Twitter. Books, bikes, games, art. maria-antoniak.github.io

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David Bamman @dbamman.bsky.social · 4h
We've been super busy the past few months getting out some research on the computational analysis of film, so I've put together a page with the highlights. people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~dbamman/fil... Some things to call out: 1/7
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Computational Analysis of Film
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A. Feder Cooper @afedercooper.bsky.social · 2h
Our large-scale study of memorization of books in open-weight LLMs (e.g., Llama, Qwen) will appear at the 2026 Conference on Language Modeling as an oral. We made a website for exploring our results on 200 books and 14 models: books-memorization.github.io
books-memorization.github.io
How much do open-weight LLMs memorize specific books?
Open-weight LLMs memorize books far more than previously believed. Memorization varies by model family, model size, and book. In extreme cases, entire books are memorized, and we can generate them eff...
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 20m
still thinking about my buddy
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Aster ID @aster.id · 7h
The modern research ecosystem of online tools and communities is controlled by for-profit companies. But we think that researchers should be the priority - not the product. So, we're announcing Aster ID: not-for-profit Atmosphere account hosting for researchers.
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Announcing Aster - a home for researchers on the open web
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 17h
Cornell Title IX is a travesty and everyone involved should be ashamed. Not just for this case, but for many, many, many others.
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 20h
I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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brendan @schlage.town · 22h
FYI for folks looking for a good substack alternative :)
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Sophie Greenwood @sjgreenwood.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you're searching for PhD opportunities, check out this feed I created using @graze.social! ➡️ bsky.app/profile/sjgr...
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YY Ahn @yyahn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
UVA School of Data Science has two open rank faculty positions open this year. Join us! - NLP: apply.interfolio.com/191213 - Data and Society: apply.interfolio.com/191214
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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 23h
Thrilled to launch DATA BY DESIGN into the world with @shannonmattern.bsky.social at P&T Knitwear in NYC on October 29th! Also feat. @chronictanvi.bsky.social and Silas Munro and maybe even an art show if we can get our acts together!
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Richard Jean So @richardjeanso.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Cool post-doc opp for recent graduates in computer science & AI from Schmidt Sciences; broad range of AI topics that intersect with comp social sci. & humanities, esp. problems with alignment, interpretability, and knowledge production. Great foundation to work with: jobs.lever.co/schmidt-enti...
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jobs - Fellow in Residence
Summary Schmidt Sciences invites recent PhD graduates in AI and computer science to apply for a 12-18 month fellows-in-residence program, with the possibility of extension to 24 months. Fellows would ...
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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I started tracking and I've spent roughly 20 hours on the phone dealing with doctor office, insurance AND pharmacy errors versus 45 minutes total of actual face to face care in the past six months. Not an exaggeration
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to join our lab in Fall 2027, through either Computer Science or Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder! Looking for people with interests in NLP plus [healthcare | literary studies | narratives | social media | etc.]. Join us! 🏔️☀️
cls-lab.com
CLS Lab — Culture, Language, & Systems | University of Colorado Boulder
The Culture, Language, & Systems Lab at CU Boulder studies the language systems that transmit and shape modern culture, from internet platforms to literary archives to language models.
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i am becoming too powerful, constantly making new little features for our #colm2026 page on lea.ac. now you can add papers to your schedule directly from people's posts!
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Interesting new venue for work on culture and AI, first set of essays already available: www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cam…
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Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society | Cambridge Core
Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society - Tobias Blanke, Georgina Born OBE FBA, Beth Coleman
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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
That's a great set of ideas, a must read for anyone starting. I think I would still do a PhD if I had to start today. I'm as excited to discover new stuff (and make cool new things) as I was when I started. Perhaps even more so now because of the complexity of what can be achieved.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Researchers find that one-time trainings about consent can actually increase perpetration. In my interviews with young men, they told me that they knew no one believed what they were saying because it hadn’t come up before—and no one actually held men accountable anyway.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For every story like the Cornell gang rape, there are thousands more that couldn’t make it into the light. I wrote about a few dozen of them at one university in On the Wrong Side. The university’s treatment of survivors is eerily similar to what Jane Doe at Cornell experienced.
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On the Wrong Side: How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence
"Bedera dispels deeply ingrained campus rape myths and puts the innate violence of the campus sexual assault reporting process into focus."--Jezebel"The book's grim conclusions are tempered with a hop...
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Really important thread. If you're disturbed by the shameful news out of Cornell, please follow @nbedera.bsky.social and read her work about Title IX and the systems at US universities that support harassers and rapists, which are not unique to Cornell. Title IX and HR are not our friends.
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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 28/09/2026
AI has now surpassed human level at inappropriately hammering an API that is not intended for bulk data transfer and bypassing whatever weak anti-scraping measures are in place to prevent this. There is nothing left unique about me.
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 28/09/2026
This is 5 months old now, but I read it carefully for the first time today, and it's impressive. They find structural fingerprints of human vs AI authorship w/ 93.2% macro-F1, and more surprisingly (for me) are able to use these structural—not stylistic—features to say *which model* wrote a story.
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
big 24 hours for me, watched practical magic for the first time and read donna haraway's "situated knowledges" for the first time
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you're attending COLM, @mariaa.bsky.social has built you an atproto app... - Build your paper schedule - See the ongoing discussion around papers and active discussions - Create and find events - COLM-specific feed Join us! lea.ac/conferences/...
Ranked list of most-discussed papers at COLM
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Isabelle Augenstein @iaugenstein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🚨 Last chance -- closing in two days: call for a postdoc position on mechanistic interpretability and AI reasoning in our @copenlu.bsky.social lab ⤵️ @aicentre.dk #NLProc #XAI #academicjobs
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Adam L @adam-lg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This place has far less robust mechanisms to fight misinfo compared to X or threads. The value of the "community notes" mechanism was the correction was *right there*, you didn't have to wade through replies/quotes to find it. Really seems like a failure for a "Twitter replacement."
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is probably a good moment to say that I'll be giving a talk at this, bringing the Shalizi-Farrell version of Gopnikism to the Plain People of the Natural Language Processing Community.
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
notifications on lea.ac are now super fast (relative to before). enjoy!
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Scott McGrath @smcgrath.phd · 28/09/2026
🧪 Conference hashtags and conversations were part of what made Science Twitter really interesting. @mariaa.bsky.social and @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social have made some significant improvements on that model over at lea.ac
lea.ac
Lea - A calmer Bluesky for researchers
A curated garden for researchers on the AT Protocol
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is a vision of how the social network embedded in bsky can make conference attendance richer. Props to @mariaa.bsky.social for the new feature
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the #colm2026 papers most discussed on bsky/atproto. i hadn't seen some of these papers!
A screenshot from Lea showing the papers for COLM 2026 ranked by their number of discussions. The top papers are:

LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate

AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance

StoryScope: Investigating idiosyncrasies in AI fiction

Ads in AI Chatbots? An Analysis of How Large Language Models Navigate Conflicts of Interest
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Jaz @jaz.sh · 27/09/2026
Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.dev
atlas.jazco.dev
Atlas
A living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours.
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
behold! #colm2026 with a new filter 👀 on lea.ac
A screenshot of Lea showing the COLM conference page with the "Papers" tab selected. The listed papers are filtered to those with authors whom I follow on Bluesky / ATProto.
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I forgot to post about this before, but lea.ac now has a "Favorite Feeds" tab where you can select from all your pinned feeds (including those you made yourself) and highlight them on your profile. Making some more updates today so lmk if you have requests!
A screenshot of Lea showing my profile page with the "Feeds" tab selected. It shows one feed under "Favorite Feeds" and then a list of all my pinned feeds that I can select from.
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Hilary Mason @hilarymason.com · 27/09/2026
There is nothing inevitable about today's GenAI companies or market or product design or power dynamics. It's based on decisions, made implicitly and explicitly, by people. To imagine a better way we must realize how arbitrary all of this is. And who it serves.
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I like this post about social media, pluralism, + cities. I don't think Reddit or Slack-like interfaces are a solution, but recreating a sense of space (neighborhoods) seems good. Maybe your network (follows, following) should constrain more of your feature access and what content you see.
aaronrosspowell.com
Social Media and Anti-Social Pluralism
Communities are different online and off, and pluralism that thrives in the real world can turn toxic in the digital world.
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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The one piece I find missing here is the throughline to authoritarianism, not just in the alignment of Silicon Valley rationalists and the right, but in the discursive terrain itself: “machine god” seems to me a direct progression of the “god emperor” mantle for Trump, which is itself derived from +
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EMNLP @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
📢 EMNLP 2026 invites applications to organize Birds-of-a-Feather sessions and Affinity Group meetings. 🗓️ Deadline: Oct 2 (AoE) 🔗 2026.emnlp.org/calls/bof/ #EMNLP2026
2026.emnlp.org
Call for Birds-of-a-Feather and Affinity Group Events
Official website for the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Who is writing in this space? I want to read!
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I get this instinct, but in the world of AI, philosophy has been privileged for a long time. These aren’t questions with final answers, and we’ve had rigorous conversations about them for thousands of years. I find going to other parts of the humanities and social sciences more practical.
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Leaflet @leaflet.pub · 25/09/2026
*PUBLISHING TOOLS ARE LEARNING TOOLS* Leaflet grew from seeds of an indie internet school and learning software…now we've come full circle! In this post: 1) ways Leaflet's useful for learning, from shared notes to syllabi to class blogs 2) how teachers & learners can get 50% off Leaflet Pro
lab.leaflet.pub
Back to School — Leaflet for Learning
Lab Notes 037: ways to use Leaflet in educational contexts, from project artifacts to syllabi to group blogs, and 50% off Leaflet Pro for teachers and learners of all kinds
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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 25/09/2026
Hey NLP enthusiasists! Check out this event supported by the ELLIS Unit Denmark: a free one-day #NLProc symposium featuring international speakers, poster presentations, and networking activities. 📍 Copenhagen 🇩🇰 📅 22 October 🔗 cphnlp.github.io
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
MySky has over 60k daily active users 👀
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
uhhhh wow
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 24/09/2026
Very worth reading. Note esp that Breen sees the likely bottleneck as access to digitized sources. I think he’s correct: there’s a lot we could do if profs had unrestricted digital access to the sources in their own libraries.
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“806 is neither villain nor hero. She’s a bear.” explore.org/meet-the-bears
explore.org
Meet The Bears of Fat Bear Week - Explore.org
Explore.org is the world's leading philanthropic live nature cam network and documentary film channel. Our mission is to champion the selfless acts of others, create a portal into the soul of humanity...
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’ll be there!
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naitian @naitian.org · 24/09/2026
If you haven't yet registered for TADA 2026 on October 5th (day before COLM), registration is open to the public! Detailed schedule forthcoming, but lots of fantastic posters and talks. We even have a second half-day of lightning talks scheduled! tada2026.eventbrite.com
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Text as Data 2026
A leading forum for interdisciplinary research on the study of politics, society, and culture through computational analysis of documents.
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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Interested in the social impact of AI? Consider applying for this new post-doc at Duke's Society-Centered AI Initiative: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32805
academicjobsonline.org
Duke University, Social Science Research Institute
Job #AJO32805, Postdoctoral Associate, Social Science Research Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
EMNLP conference page now live in Lea: lea.ac/conferences/... Papers will land as well once they're up.
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