iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by naitian

Ryan Williams @activationlayer.org · 24/09/2026

Going to be a blast!

011

Reposted by naitian

Laure Thompson @laurejt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Looking forward to attending!

081

Reposted by naitian

Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’ll be there!

172

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

tada2026.eventbrite.com

Text as Data 2026

A leading forum for interdisciplinary research on the study of politics, society, and culture through computational analysis of documents.

0177

Reposted by naitian

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

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

0126

naitian @naitian.org · 14/07/2026

Wheeeeee Text as Data is coming back, and will be in the Bay Area right before COLM! One-page extended abstract due on August 1 -- hope to see you all there!

0131

naitian @naitian.org · 26/06/2026

In case you missed it, the GenAI for the World workshop (co-located w/ COLM) extended submissions until 6/30 AoE! We welcome work on globalizing tasks, evaluations, and systems. All submissions are non-archival. Tracks for direct submissions or accepted COLM papers sites.google.com/view/genai4w...

000

Reposted by naitian

Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 30/04/2026

If you count the first calendar we did as the beginning of ORB, which we do, then today is our one-year anniversary of being An Actual Thing! One full ORBIT around the sun!

media.tenor.com

a computer generated image of the earth and moon in orbit

ALT: a computer generated image of the earth and moon in orbit

63811

naitian @naitian.org · 24/04/2026

vibe coding is so good for taking my horrifying jupyter notebooks and converting them into a set of self-contained scripts that are more reproducible

070

Reposted by naitian

Myra Cheng @myra.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Patrick Sui and I are hosting an #ICLR2026 social for anyone with background/interest in the humanities! Room 210, 12-1:30pm on Friday 24 April!! Humanities-adjacent, humanities-curious, everyone is welcome! Should be a fun group! :)

1217

Reposted by naitian

beth semel @bethmsemel.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

early view of my article is out! it explores the twinned ideologies of referentialism that often subtend language and "AI" and how those ideologies break apart in the R&D pipeline, where the social-pragmatic dimension of both speech + data come to the fore rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

‘Everything is a signal’: speaking circuits and noisy signs in the making of language‐oriented AI

Contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are often presumed to be capable of revealing unmediated truths about the world, including the truths language might hold, echoing the long-stan...

33210

Reposted by naitian

Jenna Russell @jennarussell.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Would you realize if the book you were reading was AI? What if it was humanized to remove AI-speak? We find that even without using stylistic cues (e.g., word choice or sentence structure) narrative choices alone give AI fiction away!

927474

Reposted by naitian

turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

my hot take is that this is a *fantastic* result & reason for optimism:

a new article from Nature called:
"Investigating the analytical robustness of the social and behavioural sciences."

highlighted section says:
"Of the reanalyses conducted, 74% reached the same conclusion as the original investigation, 24% yielded no effects or inconclusive results and 2% reported the opposite effect."

1278

Reposted by naitian

Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Join @taylor-arnold.bsky.social and me for a postdoc to expand distant viewing! 2 years. Awesome liberal arts college. Great city. Option to teach 1-2 courses a year for extra pay. Thanks to Mellon for the opportunity! Happy to answer any questions. richmond.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff_...

02720

naitian @naitian.org · 16/03/2026

every slide is a banger??

141

Reposted by naitian

nolen @itseieio.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

ssh is an obscure but widely-deployed command. It stands for Secure Snake Home and was made in the 90s to securely play snake online I made a massively multiplayer backend for it with support for thousands of concurrent snake players ssh snakes.run to join!

13579190

Reposted by naitian

Matthias Stahl @higsch.com · 23/02/2026

We visualize the Olympic medal count as Norwegian-style scarf. :) 📊 Check out how Germany looks like and generate your own scarf – including download of the knitting pattern.

99427

Reposted by naitian

MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

We were excited to host @naitian.org at today’s lab seminar for a talk on variation, semiotics, fashion, and style. A refreshing perspective at the intersection of sociolinguistics and NLP! #NLProc

093

naitian @naitian.org · 05/02/2026

ew why is claude doing that

Claude Code says that it has been Canoodling for 2 minutes and 46 seconds.

000

naitian @naitian.org · 29/01/2026

“Position paper” is just a label to make some kinds of interdisciplinary theoretical work fit into the CS publishing schema.

2113

Reposted by naitian

Winnie the Pooh (Official) @indianawalsh.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

77140064011

naitian @naitian.org · 07/01/2026

I just got back from Michigan and—

Screenshot of Apple weather app for Berkeley, CA with a warning for an “extreme cold watch”. Today shows currently mostly sunny 53 degrees with a high of 57 and low of 48.

130

naitian @naitian.org · 13/12/2025

Showing this to everyone that I meet at a conference that thinks I’m an extrovert

070

Reposted by naitian

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...

anthology.ach.org

Measuring the Stories in Contemporary Songs

14113

Reposted by naitian

Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 12/12/2025

Keeping this at hand in case I need to point to it and tap

510234

Reposted by naitian

Brett Bobley @brettbobley.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

New grant program announcement: You've heard me talk this morning about those 23 new DH awards from @schmidtsciences.bsky.social HAVI program? Well, we just announced our new RFP for 2026! Teams can be global too! Please consider applying. RFP here: www.schmidtsciences.org/opportunity/...

schmidtsciences.org

2026 Humanities and Artificial Intelligence Virtual Institute (HAVI) RFP - Schmidt Sciences

Overview [Read the full RFP] Schmidt Sciences is requesting proposals to the Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI), aimed at fostering research in the digital humanities with a particular focus ...

22216

Reposted by naitian

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

1285

Reposted by naitian

Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Awesome, the Edinburgh HCRC map task corpus 30 years later without the insane "different maps" complication. Of course, not really fully embodied, but at least spatial, and super well controlled. #AI Here's the older one: groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/maptask/ via @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social

groups.inf.ed.ac.uk

HCRC Map Task Corpus

151

Reposted by naitian

Mark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

This looks really interesting. Seems primarily targeted at cog-sci and/or linguistics research, with Portal 2 just the example problem-solving domain, but probably also of interest to game-studies and game-AI people.

14815

naitian @naitian.org · 05/12/2025

A couple years (!) in the making: we’re releasing a new corpus of embodied, collaborative problem solving dialogues. We paid 36 people to play Portal 2’s co-op mode and collected their speech + game recordings. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2512.03381 Website: berkeley-nlp.github.io/portal-dialo... 1/n

A figure demonstrating the different aspects of the corpus described in the tweet. There is a main isomorphic 3D view of a level in the Portal 2 co-op game, with some portals, lasers, and the blue and orange players. Inset, there are first-person captures of the blue and orange player views. There is also a box containing the transcribed dialogue with timestamps and labels for the discursive acts. Finally, there is a box containing a task and a list of subtasks. Some subtasks are already crossed out, with the time that they have been completed. The last subtask ("Player 2 places portal 4 on wall 4") is marked incomplete.

The dialogue is as follows:

Blue: Can you put your other portal up here? (tagged as directive)
Orange: Where? (tagged as request for clarification)
Blue: On uh, on this wall. (tagged as directive)
Blue: So that it uh points at the circle. (tagged as directive)
Orange: Okay. (tagged as commit)

The full list of subtasks is:

Task: Redirect lasers
Subtask: Player 1 places portal 1 on wall 1. (completed)
Subtask: Player 1 polaces portal 2 on wall 2 or 3. (completed)
Subtask: Player 2 places portal 3 opposite of portal 2. (completed)
Subtask: Player 2 places portal 4 on wall 4. (incomplete)

310030

naitian @naitian.org · 29/11/2025

Oh how I yearn for happier days

120

Reposted by naitian

Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 06/11/2025

Our School of Information Sciences is running four searches, and we can hire more than four candidates. Here’s the first link, for a job that might appeal to people working in history of information, history of science, or digital humanities. +

illinois.csod.com

Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Information, Culture & Society - School of Information Science

Duties & Responsibilities

410071

Reposted by naitian

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

2259

Reposted by naitian

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!

03017

Reposted by naitian

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

At this point, anyone—a university, a law firm, a corporation, a Democrat—bending the knee to Trump is doing it because they want to, not because of any political reality.

3059861562

Reposted by naitian

UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

🚨We’re hiring for another fantastic position at the I School! 🚨 The I School invites applications for a tenure-track or tenured position (Asst/Assoc/Full Professor) in Digital Security, Safety & Trust. #academicsky Apply by Nov 16, 2025 Please share widely.

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

Assistant/Associate/Full Professor - Digital Security, Safety, and Trust - School of Information

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

021

naitian @naitian.org · 29/10/2025

I'm seeing a lot of people in my circles discover the wonders of uv. If you like uv but need tools like conda that manage more than just your python dependencies, I've been using and loving pixi, which manages both pip and conda dependencies (and more!) pixi.sh/latest/

pixi.sh

Pixi by prefix.dev

Pixi Documentation — Next-gen package manager for reproducible development setups

050

Reposted by naitian

Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Very happy to announce the new Anthology for Computers and the Humanities! 🎉 Inspired by the wonderful ACL Anthology, this is an open, accessible, centralized repository for papers at different workshops, conferences, and related venues. All thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social!

04210

Reposted by naitian

Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I'm pumped about this event! I'll be at Berkeley on Friday to share new research about how people are using AI to write fiction—and what that means for the future of fiction and entertainment. You can join on Zoom, too!

1275

Reposted by naitian

UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

Assistant/Associate/Full Professor - Digital Security, Safety, and Trust - School of Information

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

032

Reposted by naitian

Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

📣 New preprint! We know humans are biased against AI-creativity. But what about LLMs, now often judging creativity in various contexts? Do they replicate, transform, or amplify this bias? We tested it. Turns out: AI is 2.5X more biased against its own work than humans. arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08831 🧵

arxiv.org

36926

Reposted by naitian

UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

📢 Tech Policy Enthusiasts: @berkeleyischool.bsky.social @goldmanschool.bsky.social , and CITRIS are partnering to host @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social's #TechPolicyWeek! Participants will attend workshops that celebrate tech policy efforts across campus. Register to attend: bit.ly/TechPolicyWeek

021

Reposted by naitian

Christian Ilbury @christianilbury.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Please share! We have a number of fully funded PhD studentships in "Designing Responsible Natural Language Processing". I'm a possible supervisor & I'd be keen to support projects on sociolinguistics-AI, e.g., accent bias in AI, language+gender/sexuality+AI. www.responsiblenlp.org

responsiblenlp.org

Our CDT is based in the Edinburgh Futures Institute – the University of Edinburgh’s brand new hub for research, innovation and teaching focused on socially just artificial intelligence and data.

02021

Reposted by naitian

shelby wilson @shheeelllbby.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

we want to publish your poetry, fiction, non-fiction, essays, graphic storytelling, and experiments that utilize the web as a medium! send your pitch to submissions@thehtml.review for the next issue of the html review thehtml.review/about

thehtml.review

the html review — about

the html review is an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web

33824

Reposted by naitian

Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Junior and senior faculty positions in computational social scientists at Bocconi, one of the world's best universiites: Assistant Prof: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu?id=841 Associate/Full Prof: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu?id=843

jobmarket.unibocconi.eu

Job Market - Bocconi University

Recruiting, Faculty, Post-doc Grant, Collaboration Contracts

02421

Reposted by naitian

Kyle Mahowald @kmahowald.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

UT Austin Linguistics is hiring in computational linguistics! Asst or Assoc. We have a thriving group sites.utexas.edu/compling/ and a long proud history in the space. (For instance, fun fact, Jeff Elman was a UT Austin Linguistics Ph.D.) faculty.utexas.edu/career/170793 🤘

sites.utexas.edu

UT Austin Computational Linguistics Research Group – Humans processing computers processing humans processing language

14126