If you are a prof, please include something on your website about whether you'd like to be emailed by prospective students & whether you're recruiting this cycle. Emailing norms differ across disciplines and countries, and applicants may ignore website info, but some clarity on your end is helpful.

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Our paper "Misattribution Matters: Quantifying Unfairness in Authorship Attribution" got accepted to #ACL2025! @niranjanb.bsky.social @ajayp95.bsky.social Arxiv link coming hopefully soon!

This finally arrived! 🎉

Lady Gaga would do an awesome Persephone in Hadestown.

This has importance way outside CS/ML. If you ask why DOGE employees believe it’s smart to gut NSF and NIH, I’m afraid the answer is that they’ve bought a story where technical progress can proceed mostly decoupled from scientific knowledge.

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · last yr.

After a short era in which people questioned the value of academia in ML, its value is more obvious than ever. Big labs stopped publishing the minute commercial incentives showed up and are relentlessly focused on a singular vision of scaling. Academia is a meaningful complement, bringing... 1/2

Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports. A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.

As someone who writes behind a paywall, let me tell you that there is no legal entitlement to my New Scientist articles but actually there is a legal entitlement to records of federal officials acting on behalf of the American people hopefully that clears up the difference for you guys

In other news, algorithm-propagated sexism and colorism is still alive and well. (Looked up an 8-year-old old "bias" example; it's still basically the same.)

It will know where to find all the free food on campus

Finally got around to making some art for Wind and Truth, Book 5 of The Stormlight Archives! I'll spoiler this JUST in case you didn't read it yet. It's been a few months. Get to it! #cosmere #stormlightarchive #szethsonsonvallano

Financial Assistance applications are now open! If you face financial barriers to attending ICLR 2025, we encourage you to apply. The program offers prepay and reimbursement options. Applications are due March 2nd with decisions announced March 9th. iclr.cc/Conferences/...

Wore my new t-shirt to school yesterday.

This one hour of day seven of the presidency.

i can see how you would come to this conclusion if your job didn't require you to ever be correct

Academic friends, I know a number of queer students on the market who are looking for postdocs in Europe. If you know of any, please post them here or link me and I will repost them!

listen nobody wishes that lady wasn’t called caitlyn more than the caitlin community, but deadnaming her and misgendering her is fucking bullshit. trans rights aren’t conditional on being a good person.

I don’t really have the energy for politics right now. So I will observe without comment: Executive Order 14110 was revoked (Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence)

خوشگلای توی خونه، الآن که داره جمعیت زیاد می‌شه می‌خوام این اکانت رو بذارم انگلیسی و [عمدتاً] فاخر و بدون اسپم بمونه که‌ اون یک ذره آبروم در آکادمیا باقی بمونه :)) با اکانت جدید و غیرفاخر دنبالتون می‌کنم.

آسمان آبی داره از جهاتی بیشتر از توییتر اذیتم می‌کنه. جز چند تا روزمره‌نگاری باقی هرچی می‌بینم اخبار به‌گا رفتن آمریکا،‌ فرو کردن هوش مصنوعی در همه چیز، و در نهایت دستاوردهای متعدد آدم‌هاست.

AI and using people's data are good as long as they're American. Guns are good as long as we choose who holds them. We can have unlimited access to alcohol, but other drugs are public enemy number one.

Adam Kinzinger@adamkinzinger.substack.com · 2y ago

There is a reason TikTok is so good at figuring out what you want to see, and why it’s better than everything else: it’s a weapon, and the best weapon is one you don’t know exists, or worse, one you think you can’t live without

Just a reminder of some of the context around the TikTok ban: In 2020, Trump tried to ban it via executive order a couple months after K-pop fans used it to organize fake signups to Trump’s Tulsa rally, which led him to publicly overestimate how large the crowd size would be.

Reminded me of that video of people reacting to DUI laws.

actioncookbook@actioncookbook.com · 2y ago

Every generation will, in their own time, see something they loved—something that shaped their generation’s culture—be banned. For Gen Z, that’s TikTok. For Millennials, it was original FourLoko. For Baby Boomers, leaded gasoline.

دوستم (هم سن خودم) خونهٔ خودش رو خرید 🥲

We live in the ✨ world of tomorrow ✨

📢 #nlp #jobs A postdoc for an interdisciplinary project (sociology+NLP), to work on methodology for qualitative interviews with LLMs. This is a NLP position, but some soc/psy background is a plus. Domain PI: @hjalmarcarlsen.bsky.social Apply by March 17 candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Postdoc position in Scaling Up Qualitative Interviews with Large Language Models at IT University of Copenhagen

The IT University of Copenhagen invites highly motivated candidates to apply for a postdoc position. The earliest possible starting date is 1 May 2025. The IT U

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lol, a clip of a Tesla's vision system trying to understand a train labyrinth.zone/notice/Aq5V7...

Me when I see houses burning in California: oh no. Me when I see one cat brought to a shelter with burned skin: *Ugly cries*