I'm agressively recruiting students and postdocs for 2027. I've tried to outline everything on my openings page, including a university-level postdoc with a deadline in October (but info sessions next week): openings.boydgraber.org

📣 Hiring postdoc in Mechanistic Understanding of AI Reasoning 📣 ⏳ Application deadline: 30 Sep 2026 🏁 Start date: 1 Feb 2027 💼 Contract length: 2 years 🏰 Workplace: @aicentre.dk @copenlu.bsky.social ℹ️ Apply here: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI... #academicjobs #NLProc #XAI

Postdoctoral Researcher in Mechanistic Understanding of AI Reasoning

The position We are seeking to recruit a postdoctoral researcher to work on understanding the mechanisms of AI reasoning. Their core duty will be to advance our

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Applications for the 2027 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships are open! Katrin Schmelz just completed SFI’s Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowship, and she reflects on what the experience meant to her. Deadline: September 30, 2026 Requirements & application: santafe.edu/sfifellowship

💡 We're hiring for an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science Read more and apply before 11 October 👉️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

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Happening now in Silver Maple: Podcasts as Social Data: a tutorial exploring how to process podcast data, labeling, and exploring podcasts as a rich social science resource: https://lnkd.in/enYmGReE |...

Happening now in Silver Maple: Podcasts as Social Data: a tutorial exploring how to process podcast data, labeling, and exploring podcasts as a rich social science resource: https://lnkd.in/enYmGReE

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Podcasts are an important part of the media ecosystem but woefully understudied. A year ago @blitt.bsky.social, @dallascard.bsky.social and I put out SPoRC, a new dataset of 1.1M podcast episodes. Today at #IC2S2, Dallas and I led a tutorial for how you can work with SPoRC and collect your own data!

Text as Data has been a wonderful, long-running, non-archival workshop for empirical research at the intersection of AI and social science (especially work involving text). After a few years off, it will be happening again this year as a one-day event in early October!

Denis@dpeskoff.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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

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

We are aware that it is no longer possible to post Official Comments on ARR May 2026 submissions, even though the Author Reponse period runs until July 14. This is being investigated and it will be fixed. Authors do not need to submit Author-Editor Confidential Comments.

Peer review was one of the most-discussed topics at #ACL2026 . Many folks were concerned about the incredible growth in the number of ARR submissions (17K for the May26 ARR cycle 😱), and even more shocked that ~40% didn't have any authors qualified to review. What is going on?? I did some digging...

Just wrapping up my time as ACL PC when I see "ACL ARR 2026 August Program Chairs" show up unexpectedly in my OpenReview active consoles

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I'm at #ACL2026 right now and looking forward to seeing all the cool work. But a lot of NLP is also being published at other venues like NeurIPS/ICLR/COLM/etc. I was wondering to what extent researchers are shifting where they publish in the post-LLM era, so I measured it. arxiv.org/abs/2607.02416

The Future of NLP may not be at NLP Conferences: Scholarly Migration Patterns in Natural Language Processing

Natural Language Processing (NLP) has traditionally been published in its core disciplinary venues like ACL. However, advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to a blurring of the disciplinary...

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Potato 2.6.0 is out. Two things we're happy about this round: it now handles qualitative coding the way people actually work, and it got a lot better at evaluating AI agents. Still free, still open source. Have a poke around: https://huggingface.co/spaces/Blablablab/potato

Conference growth is crazy. The increase in CVPR submissions from 2025 to 2026 is roughly the same as the growth in 2026 alone from ACL (Oct+Jan) to EMNLP (May)

#CVPR2026@cvprconference.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Stats from the #CVPR2026 opening.

I'm on a new committee reviewing ARR's Responsible NLP Checklist and looking to potentially make changes. I'd love to hear others' thoughts on what is working well or needs revised, especially given it might be fresh in memory from the recent ARR cycle. 1/

📜 Some of you may have heard about the desk-rejected papers from the ACL'26/ARR Jan 2026 or October 2025 cycles because of hallucinated references. These cases were detected post-commitment. ACL Program chairs have an official statement on this: 2026.aclweb.org/acl_statement/ #ACL2026NLP #NLProc

I've been thinking a lot about what is Information Science and what a bachelors degree (BSI) should look like in the future. The substance of information science—how people seek information, how systems present it, how access changes behavior, the ethics of all of it—has never been more relevant.

Postdoc in Digital Humanities at WashU in St. Louis. Deadline is May 1. Also, St. Louis is wonderful. apply.interfolio.com/185361

Glad to see our work on optimizing system prompts out there at #ICLR2026. My favorite result is that these optimized system prompts transfer across models and across languages—easy performance gains. If you're at ICLR, @leczhang.bsky.social can give you all the details 🎉

Lechen Zhang@leczhang.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨 𝙋𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧 @ #ICLR2026 🇧🇷 🚨 Is your 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘁 actually optimal? 🚀 Catch me this Saturday (Apr 25) 3:15–5:45pm at Pavilion 3, Poster #1314 presenting 𝙎𝙋𝙍𝙄𝙂, an automatic genetic optimizer for system prompts! Come check it out and let's chat!

🗓️ The ARR March review deadline is approaching: April 20 AoE. Finishing up your review? Run it through REVAS, a peer review assistant that makes your suggestions more actionable, flags unsupported claims, and grounds your feedback in the paper. 👉 revas.mbzuai.ac.ae

REVAS — AI-Powered Peer Review Feedback for Academics

REVAS analyzes the weakness section of your peer review, scoring each paragraph on actionability, helpfulness, grounding, and verifiability.

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Great showing by Michigan NLP folks (and alumni) at Midwest Speech and Language Days this year. nlp.cs.illinois.edu/msld.html it's fun seeing papers from *ACL, NeurIPS, ICLR, COLM, Interspeech, and more all together. Lots of interesting work everywhere!!

I know there's a lot of discussion about how peer review is broken, but I've been surprised by the sheer volume of unhinged toxicity towards the PCs over the ACL delayed decisions. One example email is below and there's plenty of other examples from X/Reddit if you go looking.

This is definitely making me regret my decision to use Piazza for class communication

Ian Linkletter@linkletter.org · 5mo ago

Palantir has student data, including immigration status, from the ed tech discussion platform Piazza. Palantir paid Piazza $916,000 for access to this data. www.sec.gov/Archives/edg... I blew the whistle on this in 2016 and the CEO contacted my employer.

For #NSF and #NIH watchers, Grant Witness now has interactive data on numbers of grants and total funding obligations, broken down by institute and directorate, new awards and non-competitive renewals. The stranglehold on new awards is still a disaster. grant-witness.us/funding_curv...

It's official now -- looking forward to seeing everyone at #EACL2027 in Athens, Greece! #NLProc #EACL2026 @eaclmeeting.bsky.social

If you're reviewing ARR papers and want a tool to help you spot potential hallucinated references, I cooked this up for the ACL SACs and thought I would share it with the broader community github.com/davidjurgens...

GitHub - davidjurgens/hallucinated-reference-finder

Contribute to davidjurgens/hallucinated-reference-finder development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Great talk today by @tedunderwood.com at the UMSI computational social science / data science seminar on the need for benchmarks for measuring historical authenticity in LLM responses

To ensure compliance w peer-review policies, ICML has removed 795 reviews (1% of total) by reviewers who used LLMs when they explicitly agreed to not. Consequently, 497 papers (2% of all submissions) of these (reciprocal) reviewers have been desk rejected Details in blog post 👇

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

Potato v2.2.0 is out! The biggest release yet: 9 new annotation schemas, pluggable export system, MACE integration, 55 survey instruments, and much more. github.com/davidjurgens...