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

📢 New paper where we evaluate the process of how researchers edit AI-generated scientific text by analyzing the entire editing trajectories instead of just the final edit. we study: what kind of edits they make and when, how does it change the quality of text, and a lot more 👇

@patqdasilva.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚩 AI-assisted scientific writing faces increasing scrutiny Can human or LLM editing fix it? 👇 240k edits on scientific abstracts expose LLM writing flaws, and show that human editing fails to fix them cc Sanchaita Hazra, Doeun Lee, @shocheen.bsky.social, Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder 🧵

New preprint and dataset, work led by talented PhD student Jonathan Ivey! There's lots of interest in using LLMs to conduct qualitative interviews, but we don't know if they work because we don't know what makes "good" interview. We analyze 16,940 responses across 343 interviews and find:

Deadline extended! Get your direct submissions in by March 8 AoE

@nlpandcss.bsky.social · 8mo ago

✨The NLP+CSS workshop is returning to ACL 2026!✨ And this year, we have a new shared task with prizes! Website/CfP: sites.google.com/site/nlpandc... Deadlines: March 5 (direct), March 24 (pre-reviewed ARR) #NLProc #CompSocialSci #ComputationalSocialScience #ACL2026NLP @aclmeeting.bsky.social

Hiring a postdoc for the Normativity Lab at Johns Hopkins (2026 start). Looking for multiagent systems expertise (RL/generative agents) + interdisciplinary background in AI and cognitive science/econ/cultural evolution. apply.interfolio.com/177701

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/...

The next edition of the NLP+CSS will be at ACL 2026! It includes an open-ended shared task (work with the Opioid Industry Documents Archive) with travel grants as prizes!

@nlpandcss.bsky.social · 8mo ago

✨The NLP+CSS workshop is returning to ACL 2026!✨ And this year, we have a new shared task with prizes! Website/CfP: sites.google.com/site/nlpandc... Deadlines: March 5 (direct), March 24 (pre-reviewed ARR) #NLProc #CompSocialSci #ComputationalSocialScience #ACL2026NLP @aclmeeting.bsky.social

For the last decade, the pervasive spread of bullshit & manipulation of online platforms have been widely recognized societal concerns. Now non US citizens studying those subjects can be labeled “censors” & denied visas or deported from the US. Censorship, indeed. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Exclusive: Trump administration orders enhanced vetting for applicants of H-1B visa

An internal State Department memo said that anyone involved in "censorship" of free speech should be considered for rejection.

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New paper in Science: In a platform-independent field experiment, we show that reranking content expressing antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity in social media feeds alters affective polarization. 🧵

Led by @stolenpyjak.bsky.social, we built a user-friendly python package for generating and evaluating privacy-preserving synthetic data! See details in our EMNLP Demo paper:

Krithika Ramesh@stolenpyjak.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🚀 SynthTextEval, our open-source toolkit for generating and evaluating synthetic text data for high-stakes domains, will be featured at EMNLP 2025 as a system demonstration! GitHub: github.com/kr-ramesh/sy... Paper 📝: aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-d... #EMNLP2025 #EMNLP #SyntheticData

Considering a PhD in NLP/Speech? 🤔 Need guidance with your application materials? @jhuclsp is offering a student-run application mentoring program for prospective applicants from underrepresented backgrounds. 📝 Learn more & apply: forms.gle/PMWByc6J3vD... 📅 Deadline: Nov 20

check out our new EMNLP paper on privacy-preserving synthetic data generation - excellent work by PhD student @zihaozhao.bsky.social !

Zihao Zhao@zihaozhao.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🚀 Text anonymization is hard; DP often hurts utility. We use entity-aware control codes + either ICL (with bad-token blocking) or prefix-tuning w/ masking to get strong privacy–utility tradeoffs on legal & clinical data, outperforming DP-SGD in practice (EMNLP 2025). www.arxiv.org/abs/2509.25729

There is time to urge a change to the current #GRFP solicitation ( #NSF 25-547 ): reverse the eligibility restrictions and ensure applicants (including 2nd year PhD students) have a fair chance in the competition. Feel free to sign and share this open petition: laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/

Our COLM preprint is up! arxiv.org/abs/2507.15715 tldr: we deployed a RAG slack bot and invited astronomers to use it. Through analyzing their usage and conducting follow-up interviews, we recommend better ways to build benchmarks for evaluating AI for astronomy (or science more generally)

I'm super excited to welcome these amazing colleagues!

Kristina Gligoric @IC2S2@gligoric.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm excited to announce that I’ll be joining the Computer Science department at Johns Hopkins as an Assistant Professor this Fall! I’ll be working on large language models, computational social science, and AI & society—and will be recruiting PhD students. Apply to work with me!

This framing is all wrong Our international students are not a “crucial funding source” They are our STUDENTS They are the reason we EXIST We teach STUDENTS

Prof Dynarski@dynarski.bsky.social · last yr.

Lordy I hate these people www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

Thanks for this nice summary of our recent EMNLP paper! Work with @smfsamir.bsky.social and others at @tsvetshop.bsky.social

JHU Computer Science@jhucompsci.bsky.social · 2y ago

A new tool analyzes and addresses cultural disparities across language versions in @wikipedia.bsky.social’s content, paving the way for more balanced information. Learn more:

I'm super excited about this program and happy to connect if you're interested in working with me through it!

Mark Dredze@mdredze.bsky.social · 2y ago

Postdoc opportunities! The Johns Hopkins Data Science and AI Institute has a new postdoc program! We’re looking for candidates across data science and AI, including science, health, medicine, the humanities, engineering, policy, and ethics. Spread the word and apply! ai.jhu.edu/postdoctoral...

📣 Call for #ICWSM2024 workshop proposals! icwsm.org/2024/index.h... All web + social media topics are welcome! Especially emerging approaches and task areas, bridging gaps between the social sciences and computing, and elucidating results of exploratory research. Due Jan. 12!