Congratulations to @anjalief.bsky.social, @gligoric.bsky.social, @ghadfield.bsky.social, Chien-Ming Huang, @tiziano.bsky.social, and Tianmin Shu on winning 2026 @jhu.edu Discovery Awards! Learn more about their proposed projects below:

CS faculty receive 2026 Johns Hopkins Discovery Awards

Winning projects—chosen from 324 proposals—will accelerate the research of 132 individuals from across the university.

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Attending #IC2S2!! Will be co-organizing a tutorial on Simulating Human Survey Responses with Large Language Models, today at 1.15PM, and presenting on Friday in the Understanding Large Language Models session, 10.45AM. Looking forward to catching up with old friends and meeting new ones!!

Join us on Tuesday 1.15pm! 🙌🏻

Georg Ahnert @IC2S2@ahnert.eurosky.social · 2w ago

Excited to present a tutorial on simulating survey responses with LLMs at @ic2s2.bsky.social next week! ✨ 👉 central themes: analytic flexibility & hybrid samples with @gligoric.bsky.social, @indiiigo.bsky.social, @maximiliankreutner.bsky.social, @jrupprec.bsky.social, and @mstrohm.bsky.social – 🧵

Excited to present a tutorial on simulating survey responses with LLMs at @ic2s2.bsky.social next week! ✨ 👉 central themes: analytic flexibility & hybrid samples with @gligoric.bsky.social, @indiiigo.bsky.social, @maximiliankreutner.bsky.social, @jrupprec.bsky.social, and @mstrohm.bsky.social – 🧵

P-hacking is a long-standing problem in science, and LLMs make it worse: as tools for annotation or LLM-as-a-judge, they allow tuning parameters until a desired result appears. We propose a way to mitigate this problem, and conduct a preregistered study of its effectiveness! arxiv.org/abs/2606.27687

Sharing this opportunity from the National Cancer Institute: The NCI Data Jamboree: Enhancing Data Sharing and Utility to Advance Cancer Research is happening November 16–18, 2026, at the NIH Neuroscience Center in Rockville, MD. events.cancer.gov/nci/datajamb...

Johns Hopkins Data Science and AI Institute is hiring Postdoctoral Fellows (Deadline Jan 23rd, 2026)! 💫 Reach out and apply if you're interested in working with me! I'm especially excited to work with postdocs on AI for social sciences/human behavior, social NLP, and LLMs.

Johns Hopkins Data Science and AI Institute@hopkinsdsai.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Join us in advancing data science and AI research! The Johns Hopkins Data Science and AI Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is now accepting applications for the 2026–2027 academic year. Apply now! Deadline: Jan 23, 2026. Details and apply: apply.interfolio.com/179059

Our new article in @science.org enables social media reranking outside of platforms' walled gardens. We add an LLM-powered reranking of highly polarizing political content into N=1256 participants' feeds. Downranking cools tensions with the opposite party—but upranking inflames them.

I'm recruiting multiple PhD students for Fall 2026 in Computer Science at @hopkinsengineer.bsky.social 🍂 Apply to work on AI for social sciences/human behavior, social NLP, and LLMs for real-world applied domains you're passionate about! Learn more at kristinagligoric.com & help spread the word!

The Department of Computer Science is pleased to welcome nine new tenure-track faculty to its ranks this academic year! Featuring @anandbhattad.bsky.social, @uthsav.bsky.social, @gligoric.bsky.social, @murat-kocaoglu.bsky.social, @tiziano.bsky.social, and more:

Nine new tenure-track faculty join Johns Hopkins Computer Science

Their research spans social computing and human-computer interaction to the theoretical foundations and real-world applications of machine learning models.

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My latest with @techpolicypress.bsky.social piece on a key theme from the @techimpactpolicy.bsky.social's Trust and Research Conference. Includes @dwillner.bsky.social's keynote and presentations from @gligoric.bsky.social, @thejusticecollab.bsky.social's Matthew Katsaros and more.

Justin Hendrix@justinhendrix.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Platforms are accelerating the transition to AI for content moderation, laying off trust and safety workers and outsourced moderators in favor of automated systems, writes Tim Bernard. The practice raises a host of questions, some of which are now being studied both in universities and in industry.

The debate over “LLMs as annotators” feels familiar: excitement, backlash, and anxiety about bad science. My take in a new blogpost is that LLMs don’t break measurement; they expose how fragile it already was. doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/labeling-d...

Labeling Data with Language Models: Trick or Treat?

Large language models are now labeling data for us.

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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

As of June 2025, 66% of Americans have never used ChatGPT. Our new position paper, Attention to Non-Adopters, explores why this matters: AI research is being shaped around adopters—leaving non-adopters’ needs, and key LLM research opportunities, behind. arxiv.org/abs/2510.15951

Tutorial Day kicks off tomorrow! Which sessions are you going to attend? 📚 Check the lineup and share your picks. #ic2s2 #tutorials

Excited to co-organize the Bridging Human and LLM Annotations for Social Science tutorial at #ic2s2 tomorrow! Join us at 1:30pm CEST to learn how to combine Qualtrics+Prolific, MTurk, & LLMs for automated annotation and valid estimates. Code&materials: github.com/kristinaglig...

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!

I'm at #NAACL2025 & would love to chat! On Thu, I'll be presenting our paper on LLM annotations for valid estimates in social science (oral talk @ 4pm, CSS session) 📝 Paper: aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-l... *New* 🧪 tutorial (LLMs + Prolific data collection): github.com/kristinaglig...

🤖🍲 What can LLMs do for sustainable food? 🤖🍲 We collaborated with domain experts (food scientists and chefs) to define a typology of food design and prediction tasks. LLMs can assist in food and menu development, saving food scientists' time and reducing emissions! URL: bit.ly/3ERJbUV

Our new piece in Nature Machine Intelligence: LLMs are replacing human participants, but can they simulate diverse respondents? Surveys use representative sampling for a reason, and our work shows how LLM training prevents accurate simulation of different human identities.

Research in @science.org showing structures in whale song thought to be uniquely human! Why? We think cultural learning! Led by @inbalarnon.bsky.social with @simonkirby.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social @clairenea.bsky.social @emma-carroll.bsky.social and me! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Severance is back. Inject that show straight into my veins

Whoa! When a large language of life model generates a protein equivalent to ~500 million years of evolution. @science.org science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Simulating 500 million years of evolution with a language model

More than three billion years of evolution have produced an image of biology encoded into the space of natural proteins. Here we show that language models trained at scale on evolutionary data can gen...

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Look who I saw on my morning walk. Western Blue Bird, San Francisco

1/🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 In what is likely the most fun study of my PhD, I am excited to share new work with @natematias.bsky.social about what makes news headlines most effective at grabbing reader attention. Let’s dive in to the science behind clickbait 🧵👇

This was such an interesting exploratory study — in particular, what struck me was the racial divide in neighbourhoods that have more information-seeking behavior vs more advertising posts.

Ross Dahlke@rossdahlke.bsky.social · 2y ago

Fascinating look at the demographic correlates of neighborhoods and their online communities on Nextdoor by Tao & @mariannealq.bsky.social doi.org/10.1145/3678...

I am about three quarters of the way through this excellent podcast series by @paulmmcooper.bsky.social which looks "at the collapse of a different civilization each episode," and asks" "What did they have in common? Why did they fall? And what did it feel like to watch it happen?" 1/2 ​

Fall of Civilizations Podcast

A podcast that explores the collapse of different societies through history.

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the crucial first step in fighting anthropomorphization of DL systems is to find an easier to write and pronounce word than anthropomorphizing.

Natural Language Processing—artificial intelligence that uses human language—has been on a roll lately. You’ve probably noticed! So the Stanford NLP Group has been growing, and diversifying into lots of new topics, including agents, language model programs, and socially aware #NLP. nlp.stanford.edu

Check out our new paper on social determinants of on-campus food choice, now out in @pnasnexus.org! academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

PNAS Nexus@pnasnexus.org · 2y ago

To nudge people to eat better, it helps to understand what shapes food choices. A study of 18 million purchases at a canteen at @icepfl.bsky.social shows that after a person selects an item, the next person in line is more likely to choose the same item. PNAS Nexus: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ad...