Thrilled to share that I am joining UC Berkeley as an Assistant Professor in the School of Information! I start in Fall 2027, and I am recruiting PhD students this cycle. List me in your application if you want to work with me! More on what I'm looking for (and a form to indicate interest) 🧵

What’s in, or what isn’t in, a close-up? Kinolab is working with computer scientist @dbamman.bsky.social (UC Berkeley, School of Information) and other collaborators this year to optimize analytical AI for film and media research, bridging the gap between distant and close viewing practices. 📉🎥👀

📢 CfP for #CHR2027 is out! Submissions on all aspects of computational humanities research welcome; all details available here: 2027.computational-humanities-research.org/cfp/ And yes, CHR2027 will take place a little later than usual. So you *could* start later… but we suggest starting now!

This has been a desideratum since the day we first published this model -- I'm so happy Patrick figured this out!

Patrick J. Burns@diyclassics.bsky.social · 5mo ago

So many of you have asked—happy to announce... Latin BERT v1 now available on HuggingFace 📦 Model: huggingface.co/latincy/lati... 📝 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2009.10053 Original weights, experimental repackaging—leave issues/etc. in the HF discussions #nlproc #digiclass cc: @dbamman.bsky.social

Read about @guhrs.bsky.social: www.ischool.berkeley.edu/news/2026/po...

Postdoctoral Scholar Svenja Guhr Focuses on Computational Literary Studies at the I School

In September 2025, Svenja Guhr (she/her) began her position as a Bellwether Postdoctoral Scholar, working alongside School of Information Professor David Bamman. We spoke to Guhr about her current res...

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Models are now expert math solvers, and so AI for math education is receiving increasing attention. Our new preprint evaluates 11 VLMs on our QA benchmark, DrawEduMath. We highlight a startling gap: models perform less well on inputs from K-12 students who need more help. 🧵

Just a testimonial: potato 1.0 is amazing and I use it all the time for annotation. Excited to see what’s in 2.0!

David Jurgens@davidjurgens.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This major release of my lab's annotation tool, Potato 2.0, was a long time in the making but I'm really excited by all the new features (and quality of life improvements). If you're doing data annotation of any kind, check it out. Need any other features? We'd love to hear from you too!

New paper to appear at EACL 2026 main conference, and it's now up on arxiv: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.17536. The character limit here is insane, so I'll let the screenshots speak for themselves. We put together a new dataset for conversational role attribution & thread disentanglement.

That DHS/ICE and anyone up or down the chain could describe this murder victim as a “domestic terrorist” is utter depravity.

Ohai@bop.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Can you add this one? www.reddit.com/r/law/commen...

I used to be astonished that John Keats wrote everything by 26yo (and still am) but now newly in awe to learn that late Beatles (“let it be” etc) were 29?!

This program brought together such a wonderful group of ~30 PhD students for two weeks at Berkeley last year with backgrounds in sociology, information, law, computer science and more — same idea but in Oxford next summer; apply by Feb 2 if you’re looking to make connections across fields

UC Berkeley School of Information@berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📢 Ph.D. STUDENTS: The app is now open to join us for the Oxford-Berkeley Summer Doctoral Program, an opportunity for students to learn from & engage with leading academics in the field of information and internet studies! #AcademicSky Deadline ⏰: 2/2 #OIISDP #OIIBerkeleySDP
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📢 Ph.D. STUDENTS: The app is now open to join us for the Oxford-Berkeley Summer Doctoral Program, an opportunity for students to learn from & engage with leading academics in the field of information and internet studies! #AcademicSky Deadline ⏰: 2/2 #OIISDP #OIIBerkeleySDP
https://bit.ly/4p4CK2n

Oxford Internet Institute – UC Berkeley School of Information Summer Doctoral Program

The UC Berkeley School of Information is partnering with the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) to bring the OII Summer Doctoral Programme (SDP) to Berkeley. It will be held at Berkeley and Oxford in alternating years, beginning at Berkeley in 2025, and br...

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Berkeley wrote up our work on measuring the stories in contemporary songs and had me reflect on the origin of that work in Bruce Springsteen’s “Thunder Road”

UC Berkeley School of Information@berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 8mo ago

A new study by @dbamman.bsky.social created a machine learning algorithm that can identify narrative storytelling elements in song lyrics. 🎵 📖 "There’s been less work on measuring narrativity or even operationalizing it within songs," said Bamman.

Excited to get this work out in the world at #chr2025 (with Sabrina Baur, Mackenzie Cramer, Anna Ho and Tom McEnaney) -- asking: how much do contemporary songs tell stories, and how has that changed over the past half century? anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...

New grant program announcement: You've heard me talk this morning about those 23 new DH awards from @schmidtsciences.bsky.social HAVI program? Well, we just announced our new RFP for 2026! Teams can be global too! Please consider applying. RFP here: www.schmidtsciences.org/opportunity/...

2026 Humanities and Artificial Intelligence Virtual Institute (HAVI) RFP - Schmidt Sciences

Overview  [Read the full RFP] Schmidt Sciences is requesting proposals to the Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI), aimed at fostering research in the digital humanities with a particular focus ...

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En route to #CHR2025 in Luxembourg — looking forward to seeing people there!

📢 The #CHR2025 proceedings are out! 97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper. 🔗 anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0... And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!

Edited by Taylor Arnold, Margherita Fantoli, and Ruben Ros

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It's the season for PhD apps!! 🥧 🦃 ☃️ ❄️ Apply to Wisconsin CS to research - Societal impact of AI - NLP ←→ CSS and cultural analytics - Computational sociolinguistics - Human-AI interaction - Culturally competent and inclusive NLP with me! lucy3.github.io/prospective-...

why intern at Ai2? 🐟interns own major parts of our model development, sometimes even leading whole projects 🐡we're committed to open science & actively help our interns publish their work reach out if u wanna build open language models together 🤝 links 👇

The UC Berkeley School of Information is hiring an assistant professor in the broad field of Information--including areas of info seeking/retrieval, digital humanities, cultural analytics, info viz, & philosophy of information (among others). Deadline Nov 1! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05014

Assistant Professor - Information - School of Information

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Trying to keep my professional chill but I’m SO excited Carnegie Mellon is launching a cluster hire in computational humanities—MULTIPLE JOBS! 1. Asst Teaching Track Prof in Computational Humanities - apply.interfolio.com/173622 2. Asst Tenure Track Prof in CH - apply.interfolio.com/173626

Unfortunately, I expect that the fact they won a pretty resounding fair use victory is going to be lost in much of the coverage. They lost on downloading & storing the LibGen dataset (straight infringement!), but the act of training on copyrighted material (+ making their own ebooks) was a win.

Will Oremus@willoremus.com · 11mo ago

Breaking: In landmark agreement, AI firm Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion to settle a copyright lawsuit brought by book authors and publishers. Story to follow.

This is such a pity -- "Push It" has, hands down, the greatest hook of all time (and the original version is now only available on youtube?) www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCad...

Salt-N-Pepa - Push It (Official Music Video)

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Public Knowledge@publicknowledge.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Iconic artists Salt-N-Pepa are suing their label for pulling their top songs from streaming and withholding rights to their music. Unfortunately, the music industry has a long history of shady practices that we need Congress to put an end to. Learn more at publicknowledge.org/DarkLaw @mrose.ink

I realized recently that in 10 years of teaching I don't think I've ever asked students to pay for a textbook for a class -- largely due to these excellent draft chapters of Jurafsky & Martin.

Dan Jurafsky@jurafsky.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...

Berkeley Sociology is hiring faculty! Sept 1 application deadline. Two positions: (1) open area junior search. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05013, (2) associate or full professor in Anti-Black Racism and Social Inclusion aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05012 Please help spread the word!

Assistant Professor - Open Field - Sociology

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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I'm thrilled to be doing an oral presentation on "Culture is not Trivia" at #ACL2025 next Wednesday 7/30, as well as participating in the human-centered NLP panel afterwards! (thanks also @lauraknelson.bsky.social for the shoutout in her #ic2s2 keynote today!) aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon...

One of the fun parts of policy work is that you have a handful of extremely important, esoteric, but load-bearing legal concepts (like fair use) that only ever make it into public consciousness when they're being targeted for destruction, and public opinion about them is entirely outcome-dependent.

Creative people and people of good will who are allies and advocates for creativity need to come to grips with the fact that AI training is generally fair use for the same deep reasons that critique, parody, teaching, scholarship, and other daily creative practices are fair use.

Go to WI and work with Lucy! And stay for the farmer's market, memorial union, orpheum, willy st coop, chocolate shoppe, american players theater, and the million other things that make Madison an amazing place to live. PhD app deadline in December.

Lucy Li@lucy3.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm sadly not at #IC2S2 😭, but I will be at #ACL2025 in Vienna ☕️ next week!! Please spread the word that I'm recruiting prospective PhD students: lucy3.notion.site/for-prospect...

I’m a week late with my #thanksbrett but just want to add my appreciation too — in thinking of all the careers that ODH has given space to and supported (including my own), words can’t suffice. @brettbobley.bsky.social maybe at least it’s now permitted to let us buy you a beer.

Jennifer Serventi@jenserventi.bsky.social · last yr.

*sigh* It's too soon, but on the day of his retirement from public service, I think that it's important to recognize the contributions of Brett Bobley to the work of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the field. #ThanksBrett for your leadership, your good cheer & your home-baked goods.