Best consideration is Mar 27, so get your postdoc applications in in the next week or so!

Hal Daumé III@haldaume3.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Come join TRAILS as a postdoc at UMD (and work w folks at GW, MSU & Cornell) to conduct research and scholarship focused on approaches to AI that advance trust and trustworthiness with a great group of colleagues! 🌐 go.umd.edu/trails-postd... 🗓️ Summer/Fall 2026 start

Come join TRAILS as a postdoc at UMD (and work w folks at GW, MSU & Cornell) to conduct research and scholarship focused on approaches to AI that advance trust and trustworthiness with a great group of colleagues! 🌐 go.umd.edu/trails-postd... 🗓️ Summer/Fall 2026 start

TRAILS UMD Post Doctoral Associate Job Description - Spring 2026

Post Doctoral Associate Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law & Society February 2026 The Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law & Society (TRAILS) and the University of Maryland aim to transform the pr...

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AIM's 2nd round of TTK hiring - building up to 30 - is up! 📅 Ddl 12/22/25 🔬 Accessibility & Learning, plus Sustainability & Social Justice 🧑‍🏫 Associate/Full Prof* 🔗 umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j... *Assistant-level candidates: apply to departments, mentioning AIM in a cover letter

AIM's 2nd round of TTK hiring - building up to 30 - is up! 📅 Ddl 12/22/25 🔬 Accessibility & Learning, plus Sustainability & Social Justice 🧑‍🏫 Associate/Full Prof* 🔗 umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j... *Assistant-level candidates: apply to departments, mentioning AIM in a cover letter

If you're at #FACCT2025 today, check out our AI Workers' Inquiry, where we'll have a stellar panel of workers organizing against AI and host a participatory session. You can also participate online! ai-workers-inquiry.github.io

AI Workers' Inquiry

AI Workers' Inquiry is a FAccT 2025 CRAFT workshop that brings together workers, organizers, and labor experts to explore how AI is transforming our workplaces and discuss strategies for collective re...

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my teenagehood destroyed: pbrush now has AI support.

We are delighted to announce our next seminar by Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social ‬(@univofmaryland.bsky.social, currently on sabbatical at @sorbonne-universite.fr) entitled "Fairness and Trustworthiness in Generative Al" on Friday 20th June at 11am CEST.

What should Machine Translation research look like in the age of multilingual LLMs? Here’s one answer from researchers across NLP/MT, Translation Studies, and HCI. "An Interdisciplinary Approach to Human-Centered Machine Translation" arxiv.org/abs/2506.13468

An Interdisciplinary Approach to Human-Centered Machine Translation

Machine Translation (MT) tools are widely used today, often in contexts where professional translators are not present. Despite progress in MT technology, a gap persists between system development and...

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BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.

For the EALM Workshop "On Assessing the Political Biases of Multilingual Large Language Models" by @lernerp.bsky.social Laurène Cave, @haldaume3.bsky.social Léo Labat, Gaël Lejeune, Pierre-Antoine Lequeu, @bpiwowar.bsky.social Nazanin Shafiabadi and yvofr.bsky.social, collaborated with the STIH lab

slashing support for grad students and undergraduates by 75% is a disastrous policy for US science and competitiveness.

Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈@davidimiller.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨🚨 Friday night news drop from National Science Foundation!! 🧪 NSF just released its detailed budget request for next year: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF... We knew it was going to be bad...and it lives up. Guts direct NSF support for a **quarter million people** 🧵 on some highlights...

Happy to see the Maryland Attorney General participating in this effort. I’ve generally been quite happy with the state and university responses to the terminations and other actions.

Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈@davidimiller.bsky.social · last yr.

🧪 YAASSSSS: 16 state AGs just sued NSF for its illegal changes in "agency priorities" The broad scope would seem to not only address grant terminations...but also the underlying basis for closing programs, returning proposals without review, etc. The filing: www.doj.state.or.us/wp-content/u...

We introduce a super simple yet effective strategy to improve video-language alignment (+18%): add hallucination correction in your training objective👌 Excited to share our accepted paper at ACL: Can Hallucination Correction Improve Video-language Alignment? Link: arxiv.org/abs/2502.15079

This is an incredibly well thought out and well written statement co-signed by a large group of subreddits on the importance of academic research. I hate how it had to come about, but love the statement. (And yes, this is the one that I had terminated 12 days ago.)

Sarah Gilbert@sarahagilbert.bsky.social · last yr.

A week and a half ago, my research team learned our grant was among the hundreds terminated. We were working with AH and a few other subs to build a mod tool. I was devastated. The AH mod team rose to action to use it's platform to advocate for the pursuit of knowledge, and that gives me hope.

The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988

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Hi Kate-- I'm really sorry to hear this. If NIH terminations are any guide, we expect NSF terminations to be chaotic, so we're trying to track them and organize the information. If don't mind, please have your team enter their grants here: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... And please spread the word.

also got my first NSF grant terminated! what emoji do i put in my handle to signify this?

I am reading this correctly right? Broadening participation at NSF may target non-protected groups but cannot target protected groups? It’s almost as if the issue isn’t with broadening participation but rather with which groups have been designated as protected over the past 60 years.

I will be at IUI on 24-25 march. I'd love to meet up with folks who are interested in meeting up. DM me if that's you!

US tech firms - IME - rely heavily on grads of higher ed in general, and US higher ed in particular... And yet I've not heard much noise from the Pichais, Nadellas, Zuckerbergs, Cooks, Benioffs, Sus, Jassys, Huangs, etc. about attacks on higher education... Am I missing it or does it not exist?

There is a new version of the Research Plan for NIST's AI Safety Consortium (AISIC) in response to EOs. I did a diff. Out: safety, responsibility, sociotechnical, fairness, working w fed agencies, authenticating content, watermarking, RN of CBRN, autonomous replication, ctrl of physical systems >

With all this uncertainty in the US science funding landscape, what I really hope is that we - as panelists who review proposals - continue to review according to what we think are the strongest proposals and do not anticipatorily comply with directions that are not *specifically* required of us.

i confess i did not know this history until now

Darby Saxbe@darbysaxbe.bsky.social · last yr.

In 1980, a bipartisan Congress passed the Science and Engineering Equal Opportunities Act of 1980, which authorized the National Science Foundation “to promote the full use of human resources in science and technology through a comprehensive & continuing program to increase substantially

Check out my new Starter Pack of all things University of Maryland! Let me know if you are a Terp or a Terp fan and I’ll add you to the pack. #UMD #Maryland go.bsky.app/7TfyH9o

at TRAILCon today, enjoying TRAILS branded Trail Mix

NLI Improves Compositionality in Vision-Language Models is accepted to #ICLR2025! CECE enables interpretability and achieves significant improvements in hard compositional benchmarks without fine-tuning (e.g., Winoground, EqBen) and alignment (e.g., DrawBench, EditBench). + info: cece-vlm.github.io

Please join us for: AI at Work: Building and Evaluating Trust Presented by our Trustworthy AI in Law & Society (TRIALS) institute. Feb 3-4 Washington DC Open to all! Details and registration at: trails.gwu.edu/trailscon-2025 Sponsorship details at: trails.gwu.edu/media/556

Please join us for: AI at Work: Building and Evaluating Trust Presented by our Trustworthy AI in Law & Society (TRIALS) institute. Feb 3-4 Washington DC Open to all! Details and registration at: trails.gwu.edu/trailscon-2025 Sponsorship details at: trails.gwu.edu/media/556

📢 The survey 👇 on "intelligence" & ChatGPT is open until Jan 14. All fields are welcome, but a special invitation goes to folks in Philosophy, Psychology, HCI, Cognitive Science, CSS, and AI ethics. Please repost.

Bertram Højer@brtrm.bsky.social · 2y ago

What do YOU mean by "intelligence", and does ChatGPT fit your definition? We collected the major criteria used in CogSci and other fields, and designed a survey to find out! Access link: www.survey-xact.dk/collect Code: 4S7V-SN4M-S536 Time: 5-10 mins