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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 8h

One thing that i don’t see people noting about the Cornell Sun’s reporting on the rape case is that everyone who decided to take the risk and made the core decisions about what would be published is a woman

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 13h

Job posting here in the UVA Library's DH Center. The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities is searching for a "Developer and Emerging Technologies Specialist." Not listed in the ad, but anticipated salary range is $85-95k. jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/UO...

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Developer and Emerging Technologies Specialist in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Information Management, Services & Technology at University of Virginia

Apply for Developer and Emerging Technologies Specialist job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Information Management, Services & Technology at Univer...

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 13h

In our Nature paper, we introduce the first superhuman Stratego AI, which we built using general techniques that we developed for RL & test-time compute under imperfect information. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Scalable decision-making for games of imperfect information - Nature

Ataraxos, an AI for the board wargame Stratego, establishes a design pattern for reinforcement learning and search that is effective under large amounts of hidden information, a longstanding desiderat...

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Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social · 14h

Extremely important for multilingual research!

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 16h

Looking for a post doc? Come join us at the Machine Visual Culture Research Group, which “combines digital and computational art history, critical AI studies, and the history of art and visual culture.” www.biblhertz.it/3815269/2909...

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Call for Postdoctoral Research Fellows in Digital Art History

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 17h

This is wrong: Trump and Republicans in Congress gave BILLIONS in tax breaks to Big Tech companies building AI data centers. So YOUR tax dollars are subsidizing their AI data centers — at the same time you pay higher electricity and water bills.

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Aster ID @aster.id · 19h

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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Hoyt Long @hoytlong.bsky.social · 18h

If you're at #COLM2026, come check out our poster for "Spoiler Alert" (arxiv.org/abs/2604.09854). We ask why LLM fiction is so bad at holding narrative tension, and create a metric to measure tension in short stories. What improves LLM fiction on this metric, it turns out, is narrative planning.

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 18h

Opinion-havers! Historicists! Nerd friends! Leftists! All/none of the above! Submit a proposal to GENERATIVE DIGITAL HUMANITIES, a new volume on AI and DH to be edited by @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social @lnakamura.bsky.social @zentralwerkstatt.org and me! Deadline 11/1. Please share!

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Digital Humanities @ King's College London @kingsdh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Senior Research Software Engineer wanted to join the amazing team at King's Digital Lab 👇

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith made it crystal clear that his investigation was sound and lawful, that the president had committed crimes and that the GOP attacks on him were the actual weaponization of our justice system. He showed courage and moral clarity and continues to be one of the heroes of this moment.

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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! 🏔️☀️

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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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David Mimno @dmimno.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sparsity is back! Sparsity is everywhere in language, but managing it requires overhead. For the last ~15 years it was faster to just do the dense operation, knowing most of it was useless. That sparse operations work is a huge shift in the "do something clever" vs. "spend more money" tradeoff.

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Meera Desai @madesai.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Excited to share our new paper, “What AI Benchmarks Actually Measure: Adapting Convergent and Discriminant Validity to Interrogate Fifty-Six AI Benchmarks,” accepted as an oral at COLM! arxiv.org/pdf/2609.08812

Heatmap of average correlations between model rankings on benchmarks grouped into 11 assigned concepts: four capability concepts (reasoning, knowledge, comprehension, summarization) and seven safety concepts (over-refusal, refusal, safety detection, ethics, bias, privacy, unsafe behavior). Diagonal cells show within-concept correlations, ranging from 0.87 (knowledge) and 0.72 (over-refusal) down to 0.20 (bias) and 0.02 (safety detection). Reasoning, knowledge, and comprehension correlate with each other at 0.69 to 0.78, higher than reasoning's and comprehension's own within-concept values (0.66 and 0.68). Ethics correlates more with knowledge (0.70) than with itself (0.55), and bias correlates more with capability concepts (0.41 to 0.45) than with itself (0.20). Privacy and unsafe behavior correlate negatively with reasoning, knowledge, and comprehension (−0.41 to −0.49). Over-refusal and refusal correlate at −0.42.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.

Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This graph from @josephpolitano.bsky.social surprised me! Reading is way down, but book sales are way up! www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the...

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 22/09/2026

Models like Talkie-1930 sound like voices from the past. If they could reliably speak from specified historical vantage points, researchers might also use them to simulate the past. But how reliable are they? Today we release a benchmark answering that question for English contexts 1831-1930.

Free-text evaluation of answers to character modeling and constrained generation questions. This is just one of several scores Chronologic-EN can produce; we focus on it here because it's both the hardest test and the one most relevant to simulation of the past. Frontier models reach 72%; Talkie-1930 is stronger than several larger competitors, but not at the frontier by this measure. Note that this score has improved ~45% in the last two years, but still falls perceptibly short of ground truth.

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Cella @cellllla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Please join us at Carnegie Mellon University and online on October 2nd, 2026 for the Community-Centered AI Infrastructure Summit, a statewide convening to consider the opportunities, challenges, and governance of AI infrastructure development in Pennsylvania. RSVP here: communityaisummit.org

Flyer for the Community-Centered AI Infrastructure Summit on Friday October 2, 2026 from 9-5pm at Mellon Institute Auditorium, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. Join residents, community organizations, policymakers, researchers, technologists, energy experts, and advocates from across Pennslyvania for a public convening. Organized by CMU, Data & Society, PA Climate Equity Table, and Center for Coalfield Justice, with support from the Block Center.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.

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Ada Lovelace Day @adalovelaceday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ada Lovelace Day is coming up soon, on Tuesday 13 October, so if you're celebrating in any way, please add your event to our calendar. If it's a private/internal event, you can set it to 'private'. Add your event: findingada.com/worldwide-ev... What's on: findingada.com/worldwide-ev...

The Ada Lovelace Day Indie Event roundel.

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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

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Duke University, Social Science Research Institute

Job #AJO32805, Postdoctoral Associate, Social Science Research Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

'The records have been digitised and indexed by the genealogy company Ancestry, which has partnered with the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery at University College London.' Leaps and bounds forward in our understanding of the histories of the British enslaved. #Skystorians

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Nearly 4m records of enslaved people in 20 former British colonies now searchable online

Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad

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Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Summary on the state of open models, reflecting on my Congressional testimony on the topic. From: www.interconnects.ai/p/the-curren...

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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 21/09/2026

Notice how Meta, a company that happily advertises nudify apps, doesn't even view censoring "civil rights, feminism, [and] social reform" as an error. This is what they want. > To resolve the situation, Meta recommended removing “key words” so that the text doesn’t appear to encourage activism.

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PoliticsJOE @politicsjoe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Your boss is a credulous dolt who will give your job to an AI that can't do it." The truth about AI is dumber than you think, according to Cory Doctorow. @doctorow.pluralistic.net

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We are hiring for several positions in the UW Information School, including a tenure-track position in Library and Information Science. Please share with anyone interested in these areas! Deadline October 30. Job: apply.interfolio.com/192127

Screenshot of job ad that reads: "The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to our Library and Information Science (LIS) research, with areas of relevance including, but not limited to:

Libraries - Academic, Digital, or Public

Librarianship - Leadership, Innovation, or Education

Information Technology - Ethics, Public Interest, and Justice-Oriented Approaches

Data - Archives, Public / Open, and Humanistic or Scientific Applications

Artificial Intelligence - Public Interest, Library or Cultural Heritage-Centered, Open-Source Applications in Information Institutions "

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Richard Jean So @richardjeanso.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Prospective PhD students: if you work on computational humanities, cultural analytics and/or cultural AI, pls apply to Duke English! We're recruiting in these areas & you'd join a vibrant community. Candidates with training in both lit studies + CS/sciences esp welcome. Email me if any questions!

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Defense of the humanities has to include all of the branches and areas of study that other people defended for years until they didn't have jobs and voices anymore.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

ask me how I know

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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Transformers are an obscenity you should simultaneously be angry and in awe of how well this brutish fucking thing works.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

What is the tech industry truly afraid of? Is it the AI they have unleashed, as they want us to believe? Or is it…all of us, standing up to them? Thanks to Chris Hayes for having us on.

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Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

finally had a moment to read this. "why should I waste my time and my sanity debating kooks? In short, because the kooks are now in power, and they are using that power to dismantle the institutions designed to keep the rest of us safe, healthy, and free." www.techpolicy.press/what-policym...

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What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI

Nathalie Maréchal asks, why are we betting the economy and the future of democracy on cult-like beliefs?

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

They need money, and land for the data centers, and energy. Of course, they want to be partly nationalized. THE. BUBBLE. IS. ABOUT. TO. BURST.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/09/2026

I'll to come right out and say it: statistical extrapolation is *fine*. One of the most useful ways to understand the present and anticipate the future is measuring the things that happened in the past, find the correlations among them, and extrapolate likely future outcomes from those correlations.

A series of high-magnification views of a seemingly smooth human heart valve, revealing the rough texture under extreme close-up.

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Zhaoxing Wang, Kunpeng Wang & Yan Xu (modified)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-56485-5

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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree @pingree.house.gov · 17/09/2026

We were supposed to be in session all of September. We worked 2.5 days. Now Johnson is sending us home. Why? He’s terrified of votes on Hegseth impeachment articles and another Epstein discharge petition. Meanwhile, Trump is only focused on destroying the Kennedy Center and ranting like a maniac.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026

More than any higher ed development in recent memory, institutional subsidies for AI at R1 universities prove that austerity is a choice. It is not “too expensive” to invest in a humanities research infrastructure; rather, it is a choice that R1 universities make not to & subsidize AI instead.

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angela zhou @angelamczhou.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Another blog post: separatedhyperplane.substack.com/p/we-cant-le... We can't let frontier labs choose their own auditors - or their own questions. Triangulating between the near-past lens of algorithmic accountability, the financial crisis, and the AI evaluation landscape as it looks now:

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We can’t let frontier labs choose their own auditors - or their own questions.

We should start with mandatory audits that adequately cover harms under current laws and regulations while we figure out the rest.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Insane. The most corrupt president in American history, with no close 2nd. 🏆 🇺🇸

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Amanda is doing reporting that almost nobody else is, as a freelancer without the support of a big publication behind her. Read her stuff

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Richard Jean So @richardjeanso.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Cool new large grant opportunity from MacArthur Foundation on community-led AI, with one target area in the humanities + arts. Significant funding for projects that are trying to have real impact on human-centered and community centered AI development and use. humanityai.ai/open-call/?u...

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Open Call for Proposals - Humanity AI

Open Call for Proposals: Communities Leading on AI $10M Investment in U.S.-Based Community-Led AI Initiatives Humanity AI, an initiative spearheaded […]

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Till Grallert @tillgrallert.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

As @melissaterras just called for more manifestos from the #DH community addressing the polycrisis during her wonderful, invigorating keynote at #EADH2026, let me once again advertise our nascent endeavour to push for more equity in technical infrastructures in supporting all human writing […]

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404 Media @404media.co · 16/09/2026

NEW: Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and @wired.com, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people.

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Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People

While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too.

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Open Book Publishers @openbookpublish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BOOK LAUNCH for 'Embedded Pedagogies: Digital Humanities Teaching and the Infrastructure of Change' Join this free online event on Mon 5 Oct at 1-2pm ET to hear author Brandon Walsh discuss the book in conversation w/ Scholars' Lab alumnus Winnie Pérez Martínez: cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/17640296

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Embedded Pedagogies Virtual Book Launch with Brandon Walsh

Join us to celebrate the launch of Embedded Pedagogies: Digital Humanities Teaching and the Infrastructure of Change, an open-access book authored by the Scholars' Lab's Brandon...

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

On Democracy Now!, I floated a new theory: AI companies really have unleashed a killer monster that has slipped their control. But plot twist - the monster is human. And it's the President of the United States. @astra.bsky.social @democracynow.org

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Great profile of the leading AI detector, Pangram, and the people behind it—including a former English major who wrote a thesis on Ishiguro (me too). Fascinating snapshot of our cultural moment with AI, and a sober reflection on the future of the internet, teaching, and human communication.

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Good news everyone: AI is *not* going to kill us all! But don't take my word for it -- I talked to (real) experts, and dug deep into the logic of an "AI apocalypse" and found it wanting. That doesn't mean AI companies are off the hook, though. (gift link) www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-a...

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Forget the AI Apocalypse—the Real Threats Are Already Here

Airplanes, elevators and restaurants all have regulations to ensure their safe operation. Many experts argue for similar conventional measures for AI.

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