iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Advait Deshmukh @advaitdeshmukh.com · 10/09/2026

1/7 In 1941, Borges imagined an impossible novel that follows all narrative branches at once. Today, we can observe chatbot users exploring narrative possibilities as they repeatedly edit story prompts. In our COLM 2026 paper, we studied this branching exploration via the WildChat dataset. 🧵

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I’m on my way to my first #IC2S2! 🌧️ I’ll be supporting presentations about computational narrative analysis by my students and mentees @teagrjohnson.bsky.social and @umagunturi1.bsky.social. If you’re interested in storytelling, pretraining data, social media, or language models, come talk to us!

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

We are in a crisis for the #EMNLP2026 round of ARR. AC desk rejects and fewer reviews per paper seem necessary to me.

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Sil Hamilton @srhm.ca · 03/07/2026

Attending #ACL? Come join us at NLP4DH 2026 on Saturday from 10am to 5pm! Great selection of papers from across the DH & NLP spectrum this year. Schedule: www.nlp4dh.com/nlp4dh-2026/...

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Boulder NLP @bouldernlp.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Boulder NLP has 19 papers accepted to #ACL2026 across the main conference, findings and workshops! 🚀 We'll be presenting work on morphology, machine translation, narratives, low-resource languages, CSS, HCI, LLMs, fairness/bias, and more. See you in San Diego! 🌊 ☀️ 🌮

List of main conference papers at ACL 2026 from Boulder NLP.

List of main conference and findings papers at ACL 2026 from Boulder NLP.

List of findings and workshop papers at ACL 2026 from Boulder NLP.

List of workshop papers at ACL 2026 from Boulder NLP.

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

What are people really doing with chatbots? 👀 Turns out that a lot of them are writing/reading various kinds of fiction, and in particular, they're generating a ton of erotica! What does this mean for the future of reading? Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2606.22748 Web Explorer: ai-fiction-wild.com

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Teagan Johnson @teagrjohnson.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

1/ LLMs learn narrative from their pretraining data but what narrative content is actually in there? It turns out narrative is wildly unevenly distributed across sources and topics. New preprint with @andrewpiper.bsky.social @elliottash.bsky.social @mariaa.bsky.social:

This image depicts the proportion of each Dolma category in the top quartile for the first three principal components.

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Teagan Johnson @teagrjohnson.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

As you may be aware, the Trump administration is planning to dismantle NCAR. I can't say enough about how pivotal NCAR is to worldwide public safety, and also to the mentorship of future scientists. Today is the NSF-imposed deadline for submitting public feedback to congresspeople (see link below).

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David Bau @davidbau.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

What should academics be doing right now? I have been writing up some thoughts on what the research says about effective action, and what universities specifically can do. davidbau.github.io/poetsandnurs... It's on GitHub. Suggestions and pull requests welcome. github.com/davidbau/poe...

Federal agents with weapons drawn, moments before murdering American citizens on the streets of Minneapolis at the dawn of 2026.

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