Ana Marasović
@anamarasovic.bsky.social
Asst prof @ University of Utah · NLP · she/her 🇭🇷
One more CoLM meta-review to write, yay... ...the last paper's reviews+discussion contain about **16,000 words** and the paper is a borderline, RIP
How uninformed you have to be to suggest this prompt... “Create a research grant proposal focusing on [topic]. Align it with [funding agency] guidelines (linked) and ensure the proposal includes a robust literature review, detailed methods section [...]” academy.openai.com/public/clubs...
Prompt Pack for Faculty - Resource | OpenAI Academy
Ready-to-use prompt examples to maximize the benefits of ChatGPT Edu in teaching and research.
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Why is 4 still the minimum number of papers one can sign up to review for ARR??
Is it just me or Claude chat interface is really buggy these days?
For a recent lab meeting, I wrote up a grab bag of ways to think about your development as a researcher during a PhD: emerge-lab.github.io/papers/an-un... Sharing in case folks find it useful or have feedback!
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Been less than a year since I started my lab at @utah.edu and we already have a ton of new stuff that I can’t wait to talk about soon. I’ll start today by sharing that our updated Computer Use Survey blog has been accepted to ICLR Blogposts 2026. iclr-blogposts.github.io/2026/blog/20...
Great test for anyone learning mech interp is reading Nikankin et al's "Arithmetic Without Algorithms" which uses activation patching / circuits, probing, logit lens, describing max activating examples.. If you you follow along while reading, you'll realize you know a lot! arxiv.org/abs/2410.21272
Arithmetic Without Algorithms: Language Models Solve Math With a Bag of Heuristics
Do large language models (LLMs) solve reasoning tasks by learning robust generalizable algorithms, or do they memorize training data? To investigate this question, we use arithmetic reasoning as a rep...
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Getting sick in the middle of the semester, like catching a flu, makes every next week of the semester progressively worse. Will I ever catch up 😭
I know grant writing is supposed to be miserable. Maybe once I've written a few and had them all rejected I will agree. But it's kind of my favorite genre to write currently? It's pure optimism! These are my hopes for the future! My favorite ideas! Untainted by messy and limited results!
Somehow before becoming a prof I came away with the impression that grant writing was an annoying task profs have to do, and yes, more rejection sucks, but it is wonderful to start new collaborations with super smart people, brainstorm hard, and think on a larger scale than next few papers
It's so depressing to see 20-30K papers submitted to every top ML conference
We are hiring in AI and NLP at Utah! Please apply if interested and share with folks you know are looking for faculty positions, especially if they like to ski, hike, climb, or bike! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/190...
Assistant Professor for The Kahlert School of Computing
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💫 On the heels of announcing 12 new faculty fellows last week, SCI's One-U Responsible AI Initiative is excited to add three new postdoctoral fellows to its team next year: rai.utah.edu/postdocs-dec...
New Postdocs Will Advance Tutor Chatbots, Bionic Hands, and Understanding of Pollution’s Impact on Reproductive Health - One-U Responsible AI Initiative
December 10, 2025 Mingjia Hu Mentors: One-U RAI faculty fellow Chenglu Li, assistant professor, Department of Educational Psychology; One-U RAI faculty fellow Ana Marasović, assistant...
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KSL TV @ksl.com interviewed the members of my research group who recently discovered a rare piece of computing history: an old tape that might contain UNIX V4. ksltv.com/science-tech...
University of Utah team discovers rare computer relic
A research team at the University of Utah uncovered a rare piece of computing history.
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📣 Meet the 12 new faculty fellows joining SCI’s One-U Responsible AI Initiative. These professors are advancing AI research to solve real-world challenges, from protecting the West’s water supply to improving medical care to embedding ethics in AI education. bit.ly/rai-fac-26
One-U RAI Welcomes 12 New Faculty Fellows Driving Responsible AI Across Disciplines - One-U Responsible AI Initiative
December 1, 2025 The University of Utah One-U Responsible Artificial Intelligence Initiative (One-U RAI) at the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute has named 12...
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Is it me or more reviewers are -strongly- opinionated about how you paper should be written? I feel like my responses in the past year or two are turning into arguments about why my writing is just fine
Current ChatGPT response format is such an eyesore, what’s up with all the lists and emojis
Luca Guadagnino making an OpenAI movie, what's happening 👀👀
I didn't submit to ICLR, but I'm pretty sure next week I'll see similar quality issues in ARR I feel like execs of major ML/AI conferences from ICLR/NeurIPS/ICML/AAAI, ACL/EMNLP, to CVPR should sit together and figure out a whole new strategy moving forward like 👇
Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 9mo agoSort of starting to believe that we really do need academic metrics that punish publishing too much
When your husband is also an academic, so when you can't get him on a phone you shoot an email and it works every time 😂💀
We're surveying researchers about name changes in academic publishing. If you've changed your name and dealt with updating publications, we want to hear your experience. Any reason counts: transition, marriage, cultural reasons, etc. forms.cloud.microsoft/e/E0XXBmZdEP
*Urgently* looking for emergency reviewers for the ARR October Interpretability track 🙏🙏 ReSkies much appreciated