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Jonathan K. Kummerfeld @jkkummerfeld.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We are recruiting postdocs in AI at Sydney! This is through the new Centre for Sustainability, AI and Life Sciences, with flexibility to work with a range of academics. Please share with any students you know who are close to graduation! usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...

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Research Fellow

Full time, 2 year fixed term position. Located on the Camperdown Campus, University of Sydney Opportunity to contribute to the recently established Centre for Sustainability, AI and Life Sciences (SAI...

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Denis @dpeskoff.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Do you work across computational methods, social sciences, and the humanities? Submit to Text as Data 2026! 📄 One-page submissions 🔓 Non-archival ⏰ Due August 1 📍 October 5 @UCBerkeley tada2026.org

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Tina Law @tinalaw.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Excited to share my new piece on AI policy in @contexts.org! In my 2024 article with Leslie McCall, we identified two emerging approaches to AI policymaking focused on safety vs. equity. Here, I discuss the rise of a third approach focused on hegemony and its implications. doi.org/10.1177/1536...

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Rob Voigt @robvoigt.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Jennifer Eberhardt and I have a piece out today in Vital City explaining our recent report with the NYPD Monitor and arguing for greater use of AI and computational tools for analysis of police body camera footage to build accountability and trust. www.vitalcitynyc.org/use-ai-to-an...

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Use AI to Analyze Bodyworn Camera Footage

Police departments should harness the tech to improve accountability and training.

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Nick Camp @ncamp.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

New report led by @robvoigt.bsky.social analyzing NYPD body cam footage. As part of the federal monitorship of the NYPD, we analyze language in over 6,000 BWC recordings to identify under-documented stops and how officers request consent to search. (1/6)

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Rob Voigt @robvoigt.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

SCiL is co-located with ACL as a workshop this year: we're welcoming ACL authors of papers with strong linguistic relevance to join us for an additional non-archival poster presentation to share their work with the linguistically-minded SCiL audience. If this is you, consider submitting here!

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SCiL 2026 ACL Crossover Event Submissions

The 2026 Meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL, https://sites.google.com/view/scil2026) is co-located as an official workshop with the Association for Computational Linguistics (...

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

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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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David Jurgens @davidjurgens.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

The second new class I'm teaching is a very experimental graduate level seminar in CSE: "Building Small Language Models". I taught the grad level NLP class last semester (so fun!) but students wanted more—which of these new ideas work, and which work for SLMs? jurgens.people.si.umich.edu/CSE598-004/

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CSE 598-004 - Building Small Language Models

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Rob Voigt @robvoigt.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

After a multi-year effort led by my brilliant PhD advisee Ruth Bagley, this exciting work documenting large-scale racial disparities in media representations of gun violence is out today in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Rob Voigt @robvoigt.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Very excited this work is out, many great chapters including a version of the fantastic MA thesis work of my former student Michael Senko (msenko1.github.io)!

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De Gruyter Brill Linguistics @dgb-linguistics.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

💪 Congratulations to @burscott.bsky.social and Francesca Vigo on the publication of their impressive collection! 👉 Details here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111351568/html#overview @montreallx.bsky.social @kleonichka.bsky.social @helensauntson.bsky.social @robvoigt.bsky.social

Book cover of the collection entitled 'Battlefield Linguistics: Queer, Trans, and Feminist Interventions in Linguistics and Discursive Change', edited by Scott Burnett and Francesca Vigo.

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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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Jennifer Hu @jennhu.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

New work to appear @ TACL! Language models (LMs) are remarkably good at generating novel well-formed sentences, leading to claims that they have mastered grammar. Yet they often assign higher probability to ungrammatical strings than to grammatical strings. How can both things be true? 🧵👇

Screenshot of a figure with two panels, labeled (a) and (b). The caption reads: "Figure 1: (a) Illustration of messages (left) and strings (right) in toy domain. Blue = grammatical strings. Red = ungrammatical strings. (b) Surprisal (negative log probability) assigned to toy strings by GPT-2."

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Katie Franich @kfran.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Tenure-track phonology position at UChicago!

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

UC Davis is looking to appoint a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Gender recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07293

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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Sociology of Gender

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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Dan Jurafsky @jurafsky.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...

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Speech and Language Processing

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Qingcheng Zeng @qcznlp.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Four papers accepted at the #EMNLP2025 main conference! 1️⃣ Thinking Out Loud: Do Reasoning Models Know When They’re Right? 2️⃣ Seeing is Believing, but How Much? A Comprehensive Analysis of Verbalized Calibration in Vision-Language Models In these two papers, we look into...

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

“A woman using a public voice is in trouble.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u...

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Robin Lakoff, Expert on Language and Gender, Is Dead at 82

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Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 15/08/2025

UMich Ling is hiring for a cluster hire position in AI and Linguistics! Come work in a fabulous department with great grad students, supportive colleagues, and one overly school-spirited nut who will tell you where all the fun stuff is on campus. apply.interfolio.com/171006

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Qingcheng Zeng @qcznlp.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

I just gave a virtual presentation at ACL 2025 on our work about the production–interpretation asymmetry in reference processing in LLMs. If you’re into computational psycholinguistics or the LLMs x cognitive science space, give it a read! aclanthology.org/2025.acl-sho... @robvoigt.bsky.social

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Leveraging Human Production-Interpretation Asymmetries to Test LLM Cognitive Plausibility

Suet-Ying Lam, Qingcheng Zeng, Jingyi Wu, Rob Voigt. Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers). 2025.

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Tal Linzen @tallinzen.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

I'm hiring at least one post-doc! We're interested in creating language models that process language more like humans than mainstream LLMs do, through architectural modifications and interpretability-style steering. Express interest here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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NYU LLM + cognitive science post-doc interest form

Tal Linzen's group at NYU is hiring a post-doc! We're interested in creating language models that process language more like humans than mainstream LLMs do, through architectural modifications and int...

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Michael Bang Petersen @m-b-petersen.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

This statement from the NSF is insane. Science is, in essence, designed to separate the true from the false. Understanding how falsehoods spread is key to the scientific endeavor. It is not a violation of free speech to be proven wrong.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

🚨Our paper `Reclaiming AI as a theoretical tool for cognitive science' is now forthcoming in the journal Computational Brain & Behaviour. (Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...) Below a thread summary 🧵1/n #metatheory #AGI #AIhype #cogsci #theoreticalpsych #criticalAIliteracy

The idea that human cognition is, or can be understood as, a form of computation is a useful conceptual tool for cognitive science. It was a foundational assumption during the birth of cognitive science as a multidisciplinary field, with Artificial Intelligence (AI) as one of its contributing fields. One conception of Al in this context is as a provider of computational tools (frameworks, concepts, formalisms, models, proofs, simulations, etc.) that support theory building in cognitive science. The contemporary field of Al, however, has taken the theoretical possibility of explaining human cognition as a form of computation to imply the practical feasibility of realising human(-like or -level) cognition in factual computational systems; and, the field frames this realisation as a short-term inevitability. Yet, as we formally prove herein, creating systems with human(-like or -level) cognition is intrinsically computationally intractable.

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Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Cory Booker has taken the Senate floor and plans to filibuster as long as he’s physically able to protest the complete disregard for the rule of law by Trump and Musk. Watch here: www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

The Shame of Columbia: violating academic freedom “Not even during the communist witch hunts of the early 1950s did a university agree to put an entire academic department under special oversight because of what its faculty researched or taught.” open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

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The shame of Columbia University

In surrendering to Trump, it's opening all universities to Trump's tyranny

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AAUP @aaup.org · 22/03/2025

Columbia University has failed to defend academic freedom & freedom of speech & allowed a great institution to be bullied & extorted into submission by an administration hellbent on contorting higher education to their will. The AAUP condemns this capitulation. We can & must fight back.

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Columbia Concedes to Trump’s Demands After Federal Funds Are Stripped

The administration has moved to cut $400 million in federal funding to the university without changes to its policies and rules.

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Zeerak Talat زیرک طلعت (they/them) @zeerak.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Looking for a PhD student to come work with me on the ethical implications of NLP from September! Please share widely and point any interesting students my way! 😊

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Nick Camp @ncamp.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Taser was a weapon company. Then it was a body camera company. Now it’s a body camera data company. @robvoigt.bsky.social and I look at some of the promises and challenges of applying natural language processing to BWC footage in a new article (1/5) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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steven t. piantadosi @spiantado.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Wonderful explainer on indirect costs by Dick Aslin open.substack.com/pub/dickasli...

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Are we paying too much for biomedical research?

Trump's attack on NIH

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 28/01/2025

Major news: Donald Trump has just issued a trans military ban, with much of the details left to Hegseth. It states that being trans is incompatible with "an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle" I know many military trans people who have served admirably for decades. Shameful.

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Nikhil Garg @nkgarg.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Postdoctoral position at @cornelluniversity.bsky.social, "from all areas of research that advance the state of the art in data science and the health sciences, extending the reach of data-driven research into novel medical application domains" Happy to chat! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29529

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Jack Grieve @jwgrieve.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

New paper out today in Frontiers in AI! The sociolinguistic foundations of language modelling We argue sociolinguistics provides a foundation for understanding LLMs and addressing many challenges www.frontiersin.org/journals/art... doi.org/10.3389/frai... techxplore.com/news/2025-01...

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Frontiers | The sociolinguistic foundations of language modeling

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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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Anne H. Charity Hudley @acharityhudley.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Our Summer 2025 Internship applications are now open! Note that positions are now open for high school through doctoral students! All applications are due February 15, 2025, by 5 pm PST. All materials should be sent to Ms. Mia Harris at miaharris@stanford.edu badlab.stanford.edu/summer-inter...

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Jessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I'm seeking a postdoc to work with me and @kenholstein.bsky.social on evaluating AI/ML decision support for human experts: statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/12/10/p... P.S. I'll be at NeurIPS Thurs-Mon. Happy to talk about this position or related mutual interests! Please repost 🙏

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Postdoc position at Northwestern on evaluating AI/ML decision support | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

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Morteza Dehghani @mdehghani.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Excited to share that our work on using AI to analyze police body camera footage was featured in Scientific American! We're using multi-perspective, multi-modal, models to better understand police interactions and identify areas for improvement. www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-a...

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AI Analysis of Body Camera Videos Offers a Data-Driven Approach to Police Reform

Examining body camera videos at scale reveals racial differences in how police treat drivers during traffic stops—and what corrective programs really work

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Rob Voigt @robvoigt.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

looking forward to seeing folks at EMNLP, do say hi! unfortunately I have to be a day late, arriving tomorrow, but my fantastic student Qingcheng Zeng will be presenting this afternoon at the CSS poster session 4-5:30 on making adaptive semantic axes for social science purposes - check it out!

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Rob Voigt @robvoigt.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

I am looking for a postdoc in social understanding and multimodal modeling of interaction! See more information here (sites.northwestern.edu/lingmechlab/...) and feel free to reach out with questions!

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Join the Lab – LingMechLab

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